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Literary studies: plays & playwrights

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Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Paperback. In these brief, readable, and insightful essays, Fr. Milward delves into the poetry of Hopkins and his central ideas on God the Trinity, the self, nature and people. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Ave Maria University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
n
Condition
New
SKU
V9781932589214
ISBN
9781932589214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.68

Paperback. Presents a study of Shakespeare's intellectual preoccupations. This book offers guidance to Shakespeare's plays and sheds light on questions that engrossed Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity and relation, the proper status of imagination, and ethics and subjectivity. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300136296
ISBN
9780300136296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.83

Paperback. Series: Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary S. Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
98
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906075125
ISBN
9781906075125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.90

Paperback. The Windy Side of Care - A Reading of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing". Series: Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary S. 75 pages. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (XR) Revision / study guides. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 8. Weight: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange
Number of pages
75
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906075019
ISBN
9781906075019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.92

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Pari Publishing Italy
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9788895604015
ISBN
9788895604015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.14

Paperback. This collection of essays offers a vital contribution to this critical debate, and examines its wider implications for how we conceive of Shakespeare and his works. Editor(s): Meek, Richard; Rickard, Jane; Wilson, Richard. Num Pages: 277 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719085611
ISBN
9780719085611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.65

Paperback. In this Very Short Introduction Bart Van Es analyses Shakespeare's comedic plays, picking out the family resemblances across these works. He considers their shared themes such as confusion and cross dressing, misguided love, twins and substitutions, and explores the bard's verbal artistry and wit. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 6 to 8 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198723356
ISBN
9780198723356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.59

Paperback. William Shakespeare's plays are a guide to how individuals react to the competing pressures of statecraft and personal ambition, fear and love. This book not only considers these "cases" in the plays themselves, but also in the sources available to Shakespeare - the techniques Shakespeare used to transform history into drama. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826418807
ISBN
9780826418807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.30

Paperback. This books chronicles the ingenious ways of dying in Shakespeare, from suicide to murder, and from workaday dagger to baroque pie recipe. Illustrated with contemporary images, it establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking about early modern death. Num Pages: 192 pages, 80 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 210. .
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851242474
ISBN
9781851242474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.04

Paperback. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes - the absolute authority claimed for God over the world, for the holy scriptures over the faithful, monarchs over subjects, fathers over wives and children, men over women. This book shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolute claims and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 202. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes - the absolute authority claimed for God over the world, for the holy scriptures over the faithful, monarchs over subjects, fathers over wives and children, men over women. This book shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolute claims and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 148 x 216 x 10. Weight: 202.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
164
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226306674
ISBN
9780226306674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.87

Hardcover. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes-of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. Greenblatt shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226306667
ISBN
9780226306667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816641499
ISBN
9780816641499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.10

Paperback. Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works and their relationship to their political and cultural context. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories. Editor(s): Cavanagh, Dermot; Hampton-Reeves, Stuart; Longstaffe, Stephen. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719070754
ISBN
9780719070754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.91

Hardcover. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516. Rethinking Historicism. 256 pages. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 19. Weight: 520.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748646135
ISBN
9780748646135
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.57

Paperback. Shakespeare's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size nuggets of inspiration and wisdom from the greatest writer in the English language and the most popular playwright across the globe. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 110 x 127 x 29. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
William Collins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0015266
ISBN
9780007954858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 382 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 857.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691645612
ISBN
9780691645612
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.99

Hardback. Current date of publication from iPage.IngramContent.com. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691638751
ISBN
9780691638751
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.80

Paperback. Current date of publication from iPage.IngramContent.com. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691610672
ISBN
9780691610672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.32

Paperback. A poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. It offers a survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
363
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520076426
ISBN
9780520076426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.65

Paperback. Suggesting that textual mediators have a positive rather than negative role, this book argues that any reader of Shakespeare, scholar, student, or general reader, approaches Shakespeare through edited versions that have a relationship to what Shakespeare may actually have intended and written. Series: Shakespeare Now!. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826489968
ISBN
9780826489968
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.18

Paperback. This work explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking - especially rumour, slander, insult, vituperation and curse - and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226309897
ISBN
9780226309897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.94

Paperback. Editor(s): Woudhuysen, H. R.; Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 616 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
Arden Shakespeare
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Third
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903436875
ISBN
9781903436875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. Shakespeare's work is once again seen as a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226060415
ISBN
9780226060415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.28

Paperback. Offers an introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays. This title provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It suitable for those studying Shakespeare. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826493064
ISBN
9780826493064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.23

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