Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Paperback. This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346759
- ISBN
- 9781137346759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.11
€ 63.11
Hardcover. Olympe de Gouges has been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being mentioned solely for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and [the female] Citizen. This book uncovers her radical views of the self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of increasing female agency and decreasing the entitlements of aristocratic males. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346452
- ISBN
- 9781137346452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.40
€ 63.40
Hardcover. Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and audiences to reconsider and problematize more conventional studies of his plays. Num Pages: 111 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345349
- ISBN
- 9781137345349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Hardcover. This book offers a close philosophical reading of King Lear and Timon of Athens which provides insights into the groundbreaking ontological discourse on poverty and money. Analysis of the discourse of poverty and the critique of money helps to read Shakespeare philosophically and opens new reflections on central questions of our own time. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137335357
- ISBN
- 9781137335357
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Hardcover. Examining the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, this book argues that Greene's plays are innovative in their use of spectacle. Its most striking feature is the use of the one-to-one analogies between Greene's drama and modern cinema, in order to explore the plays' stage effects. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332394
- ISBN
- 9781137332394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.73
€ 64.73
Hardcover. This study emerges from an interdisciplinary conversation about the theory of translation and the role of foreign language in fiction and society. By analyzing Shakespeare's treatment of France, Saenger interrogates the cognitive borders of England - a border that was more dependent on languages and ideas than it was on governments and shorelines. Num Pages: 238 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327826
- ISBN
- 9781137327826
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.36
€ 65.36
Hardcover. What is dramatic romance? Scholars have long turned to Shakespeare's biography to answer this question, marking his 'late plays' as the beginning and end of the dramatic romance. This book identifies an earlier history for this genre, revealing how stage romances imaginatively expanded audience interest in England's emerging global economy. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322708
- ISBN
- 9781137322708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. 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: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320858
- ISBN
- 9781137320858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, Essif examines two dozen post-1960 works representing some of the most innovative dramaturgy of the last half century, including works by Gatti, Obaldia, Cixous, Koltes, and Vinaver. Num Pages: 367 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299024
- ISBN
- 9781137299024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.48
€ 65.48
Hardcover. Drawing on the later writings of Martin Heidegger, the book traces the correspondence between the philosopher's concept of technology and Shakespeare's poetics of human and natural productivity in the Sonnets. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137287175
- ISBN
- 9781137287175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Hardcover. Women are at the center of American theatre and have the potential to shape the cultural imagination of theatre-goers as a complex new era unfolds. Sarah Ruhl, one of the twenty-first century's most honored playwrights, is read in concert with her contemporaries whose writing also wrestles with the vexing issues facing Americans in the new century. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137287106
- ISBN
- 9781137287106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.85€ 44.92
€ 50.85
€ 44.92
Hardcover. This study concerns itself with a now-forgotten religious group, Spiritualists, and how their ensuing discussions of Shakespeare's meaning, his writing practices, his possible collaborations, and the supposed purity and/or corruption of his texts anticipated, accompanied, or silhouetted similar debates in Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137282200
- ISBN
- 9781137282200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Hardcover. Samuel Beckett's work is deeply concerned with physical contact - remembered, half-remembered, or imagined. Applying the philosophical writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Merleau-Ponty that feature sensation, this study examines how Beckett's later work dramatizes moments of contact between self and self, self and world, and self and other. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137276988
- ISBN
- 9781137276988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardcover. Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sovereign power against itself to engineer new forms of selfhood and relationality that escape the orbit of the nation-state. It is these new experiences that the book terms 'the life of the flesh'. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137275004
- ISBN
- 9781137275004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Paperback. Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus, The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling, this book reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era, and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the twentieth- and twenty-first century stages. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274717
- ISBN
- 9781137274717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.34
€ 63.34
Paperback. Friel is widely recognised as Ireland's leading playwright but through the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has also made a major impact on world theatre. This study draws on the Friel Archive in the National Library of Ireland to deepen our understanding of how his plays were developed. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274694
- ISBN
- 9781137274694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.48
€ 63.48
Paperback. This innovative collection with essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars, now in paperback for the first time, reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting exchange between text, body and technology. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274687
- ISBN
- 9781137274687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Hardcover. From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ANB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270627
- ISBN
- 9781137270627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.85€ 45.20
€ 50.85
€ 45.20
Paperback. What's the worst thing you can do to Shakespeare? The answer is simple: don't read him. To that end, Richard Burt and Julian Yates embark on a project of un/reading the Bard, turning the conventional challenges into a roadmap for textual analysis and a thorough reconsideration of the plays in light of their absorption into global culture. Num Pages: 178 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270498
- ISBN
- 9781137270498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.08
€ 63.08
Hardcover. What's the worst thing you can do to Shakespeare? The answer is simple: don't read him. To that end, Richard Burt and Julian Yates embark on a project of un/reading the Bard, turning the conventional challenges into a roadmap for textual analysis and a thorough reconsideration of the plays in light of their absorption into global culture. Num Pages: 178 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270481
- ISBN
- 9781137270481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.98
€ 63.98
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137035356
- ISBN
- 9781137035356
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
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. This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns a longstanding notion about theatrical phenomenology in this period. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 311 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030047
- ISBN
- 9781137030047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Hardcover. This book is a post-1989 interpretation of The Tempest that reaches new conclusions about how to teach about the play's setting, Caliban, and its New World-utopian politics. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137021793
- ISBN
- 9781137021793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31