Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Hardback. Explores the sociohistorical implications of Christian and pagan representations of evil and the theatrical creativity that occultism has engendered. By examining examples of astronomy, exorcism, witchcraft, hauntings, and voodoo in prominent plays, this book explores American and European perceptions of occultism. Series: Studies in Romance Languages. Num Pages: 336 pages, 33 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813123622
- ISBN
- 9780813123622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.09
€ 39.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; VXFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 261 x 37. Weight in Grams: 854.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ibis Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892542161
- ISBN
- 9780892542161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.51
€ 32.99
€ 30.51
Paperback. A collection of twenty-five essays which explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space. It examines the settings in which plays were acted; and juxtaposes the theater with such contemporary subcultures as the church, the city, and the court. Editor(s): Cox, John D.; Kastan, David Scott. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102438
- ISBN
- 9780231102438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.74€ 40.61
€ 51.74
€ 40.61
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691644431
- ISBN
- 9780691644431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.62
€ 164.62
Paperback. Masques of difference' presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson, which reflect the royal court's self-representation as moral and just, in contrast to stylised images of chaotically (and exotically) 'othered' groups: Africans, the Irish, witches, and the homoeroticised figure of the Gypsy. Editor(s): McDermott, Kristen. Series Editor(s): Bevington, David. Series: Revels Student Editions. Num Pages: 224 pages, Halftones, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780719057540
- ISBN
- 9780719057540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.30
€ 22.30
Paperback. David Rush offers a guide to interpreting drama in A Student Guide to Play Analysis. Rush emphasizes the importance of students developing insights of their own. He describes the essential difference between a story and a play, outlines four ways of looking at plays, and then takes up the typical structural devices of a well-made play. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809326099
- ISBN
- 9780809326099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.87
€ 56.87
Paperback. Marking a central moment in late-Victorian literature, not only for its wit but also for its role in the shift from a Victorian to a modern consciousness, this play began its career as a biting satire directed at the very audience who received it so delightedly. Editor(s): Gladden, Samuel Lyndon. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551116945
- ISBN
- 9781551116945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.85
€ 24.85
Paperback. The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character Editor(s): Edelman, Charles. Series: Revels Plays Companion Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 154 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719085642
- ISBN
- 9780719085642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.93
€ 32.93
Hardback. An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern performance practice negotiates the possibilities for staging these characters who refuse to conform to standards of acceptable behaviour for women, but are among Shakespeare's bravest, wisest and most vivid creations. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348097
- ISBN
- 9780230348097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.96€ 90.31
€ 91.96
€ 90.31
Hardcover. Elizabethan playwrights and players not only routinely handled entrances and exits on the Shakespearean stage, but they also used them to bring about various effects. The author's findings provide means by which to recover effects and meanings that the original audience would have appreciated. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333984062
- ISBN
- 9780333984062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.96€ 113.48
€ 114.96
€ 113.48
Paperback. Considers how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video. Addressing the interplay between the discourses of Shakespeare criticism, film studies, performance studies and cultural studies, the text considers a range of questions about spectatorship, originality and popular culture. Editor(s): Boose, Lynda E.; Burt, Richard. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; APFA; DSGS; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415165853
- ISBN
- 9780415165853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.53
€ 53.53
Paperback. What can the printed texts of plays from Shakespeare's time say about performance? How have printed plays been read and interpreted? This collection, now available in paperback, considers the evidence of early modern printed plays and their histories of production and reception, from early performance to the psychology of Hamlet. Editor(s): Holland, Peter; Orgel, Stephen. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230210134
- ISBN
- 9780230210134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.22€ 63.07
€ 63.22
€ 63.07
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 439.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138167155
- ISBN
- 9781138167155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.19
€ 180.19
Hardback. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 639.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138142152
- ISBN
- 9781138142152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.85
€ 165.85
Hardback. Editor(s): Brater, Enoch. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Edition
- Student
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472514974
- ISBN
- 9781472514974
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.15
€ 118.15
Paperback. Offers a study of one of the controversial and talented playwrights of recent times. In this title, the author's survey includes a biography, analysis of Sarah Kane's work, and interviews with Kane and those who helped to put her work on stage. It is suitable for the student and theatregoer. Editor(s): Roberts, Philip; Boon, Richard. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571229611
- ISBN
- 9780571229611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.48
€ 12.99
€ 9.48
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Elibron Classics series
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393930771
- ISBN
- 9780393930771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.91
€ 16.99
€ 15.91
Paperback. From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing (working with actors and technicians, when to listen to the experts, how to cope with rehearsals), this book provides a complete primer to the art of playwriting. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AN; CFG; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571215102
- ISBN
- 9780571215102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.39
€ 12.99
€ 9.39
Sean O'Casey: Critical Guide / Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gun...
Professor Christopher Murray
Paperback. One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes in detail the principal themes and styles of the work of Sean O'Casey. It also places it in the context of modern theatre, and includes a select bibliography. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 113 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571197804
- ISBN
- 9780571197804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.56
€ 19.99
€ 12.56
Paperback. Sanders sheds fresh light on how drama shapes understandings of space and place in the seventeenth century. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 b/w illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107463349
- ISBN
- 9781107463349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.12
€ 35.12