Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
hardcover. A fully illustrated study of Shakespeare's awareness of traditions in visual art and their presence in his plays and poems. Num Pages: 333 pages, 83 b/w illus. 29 colour illus. BIC Classification: ABA; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 196 x 24. Weight in Grams: 932.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107029958
- ISBN
- 9781107029958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.41
€ 108.41
Paperback. This is a concise handbook full of playwrighting experience. Spencer presents a coherent way of thinking about playwriting that addresses the important principles of structure, includes writing exercises that build upon one another, and trouble-shoots recurrent problems that playwrights face. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 374
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571199914
- ISBN
- 9780571199914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.26
€ 25.99
€ 17.26
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198399025
- ISBN
- 9780198399025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.98
€ 14.98
Hardcover. This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research. Editor(s): Bennett, Susan; Polito, Mary. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; AMG; ANF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320162
- ISBN
- 9781137320162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Paperback. This book, now in paperback with a new preface, examines art and performance practices emerging from a more technological world. They are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores their aesthetic theorisation and analyses other approaches, including those offered by research into neuroesthetics. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; ANS; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230293649
- ISBN
- 9780230293649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.36
€ 63.36
Paperback. This guide focuses on Shakespeare's "King Lear", it includes a linking narrative which puts the critical extracts in context, highlights the important concepts, explains shifts in critical thinking, and looks to the writer's place in the canon. It is part of a series designed for students. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1997th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781874166719
- ISBN
- 9781874166719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.79
€ 35.79
Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism Drama and Performanc. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSG; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474424462
- ISBN
- 9781474424462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.68€ 105.07
€ 110.68
€ 105.07
Paperback. Between 1890 and 1918, over 125 plays by 70 dramatists were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer. This book analyzes the issues dramatized in those plays which reveal Americans to have been 'dis/contented' citizens, conflicted by the demands of a dynamically changing nation. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032966
- ISBN
- 9781137032966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.48
€ 63.48
Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSG; GBCS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403977656
- ISBN
- 9781403977656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316749
- ISBN
- 9780822316749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.25
€ 33.99
€ 30.25
Hardback. Examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. This book also demonstrates the importance of gender, kinship, and sexuality to the making of democratic civic ideology. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSG; JFC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115832
- ISBN
- 9780691115832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.89€ 64.49
€ 83.89
€ 64.49
Hardback. Num Pages: 237 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 515.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874137958
- ISBN
- 9780874137958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.86
€ 117.86
Paperback. This book explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English culture within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology. Num Pages: 288 pages, None. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748633630
- ISBN
- 9780748633630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.74
€ 41.99
€ 36.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFD; APTD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Delta
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780440504900
- ISBN
- 9780440504900
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.77
€ 18.99
€ 13.77
Hardback. This is an investigation of Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. He was allied to other artists of the 1890s in his fascination with the biblical dancer Salome and in his preoccupation with things Japanese, particularly Noh theatre with its central dance. Num Pages: 385 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; ASD; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 651.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 385
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333604984
- ISBN
- 9780333604984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.48
€ 187.48
Paperback. Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137564320
- ISBN
- 9781137564320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.48
€ 63.48
Paperback. This book provides an introductory perspective on its subject together with detailed studies of the major non-Shakespearean tragedies. It assumes that the central and most disturbing insights of the plays were expressed in terms of the thought patterns of the time. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333463659
- ISBN
- 9780333463659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.62
€ 69.62
Paperback. 'York Notes' offer an approach to English literature that aims to fully reflect student needs. They are filled with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH; DSG. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 7. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Pearson York Notes
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582784246
- ISBN
- 9780582784246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.20
€ 11.20
Hardcover. Mendel's Theatre offers a new way of thinking about early twentieth-century American drama by uncovering the rich convergence of heredity theory, the American eugenics movement, and innovative modern drama from the 1890s to 1930. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615854
- ISBN
- 9780230615854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.25€ 45.66
€ 51.25
€ 45.66
Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 263 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AH; DNF; DSBB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754351
- ISBN
- 9780838754351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.83
€ 125.83