Catálogo de libros: Estudios literarios: obras de teatro y dramaturgos

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  • Shakespeare’s resources
    John Drakakis
    A challenging re-appraisal of the ways in which we have conceived of ’source’ study in relation to Shakespeare. By combining a theoretical and a practical approach this study challenges existing shibboleths and proposes new ways of conceiving the relations between Texts (oral and literary) and their antecedents. ...
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    43,62 €

  • The Alternation & The Confusion
    Harald Osel
    The Alternation and The Confusion are two German plays that until now have not been published. Printed in English and German, the plays are a tribute to their late writer, Gerhard Waizmann.The Alternation' A play about a seemingly idealistic poet who wants to overthrow the dictator, Terra the Supreme Wise. As the play progresses it becomes apparent the poet is only presenting h...
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    19,08 €

  • Poison on the early modern English stage
    This book explores some of the many instances of poisoning in early modern plays. It considers the practical, legal and epistemological aspects of poison plays and analyses the cultural work they perform, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender and humans’ relationship to the environment. ...
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    157,09 €

  • A Secret Book
    Timothy Horan
    This book explores the supernatural and prophetic elements within Shakespeare’s ten plays of English history: King John, Richard II, Henry IV (Parts One and Two), Henry V, Henry VI (Parts One, Two and Three), Richard III, and Henry VIII. Treating each as a form of nonfiction, it analyzes these plays and their prophecies through the lens of free will or fate, demonstrating ho...
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    93,92 €

  • Mimetic Depth in Hamlet
    Rune Myrland
    Mimetic Depth in Hamlet reconstructs the theory of character and the perspectives on interpretation inherent in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. More than 400 years after the play was written, its ideas are still novel, and they belong at the center of contemporary discussions about how human behavior and intelligence work.The book argues that Shakespeare had a conceptual ...
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    12,19 €

  • Mimetic Depth in Hamlet
    Rune Myrland
    Mimetic Depth in Hamlet reconstructs the theory of character and the perspectives on interpretation inherent in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. More than 400 years after the play was written, its ideas are still novel, and they belong at the center of contemporary discussions about how human behavior and intelligence work.The book argues that Shakespeare had a conceptual ...
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    19,65 €

  • Women on the Yiddish Stage
    The integration of women into public Jewish performance (Yiddish-language theater by 1877 and Hebrew-language theater by about 1918) was a revolution in modern Jewish culture. While a great deal of seasoned Yiddish-speaking male talent preexisted theater in the form of cantors, choristers, and tavern singers, East European Jewish women had no experience participating in public ...
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    129,64 €

  • Shakespeare’s Last Laugh
    Mark E Alcamo
    This is the true enough story of how Shakespeare and the players got in a world of trouble for portraying a distant relative of one of the nobility as a low-life reprobate knight onstage. The players made every effort to appease the offended family but they just wouldn’t let it go, and they made sure the players paid the price for their indiscretion. Eventually the actor who pl...
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    14,26 €

  • Sagittae Angelorum
    Dominic Nootebos / Jeremy Joosten
    Sagittae Angelorum, ''arrows of angels,'' offers a collection of literary works in poetry, short stories, and drama by four innovative authors--Jeremy Joosten, Joelle Joosten, Dominic Nootebos, and Lucas Smith. Jeremy Joosten engages his readers by creating narratives with animal and nature metaphors. The reader/listener cannot escape his call to existential reflection on life ...
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    12,28 €

  • Sagittae Angelorum
    Dominic Nootebos / Jeremy Joosten
    Sagittae Angelorum, ''arrows of angels,'' offers a collection of literary works in poetry, short stories, and drama by four innovative authors--Jeremy Joosten, Joelle Joosten, Dominic Nootebos, and Lucas Smith. Jeremy Joosten engages his readers by creating narratives with animal and nature metaphors. The reader/listener cannot escape his call to existential reflection on life ...
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    24,76 €

  • Sound effects
    Laura Jayne Wright
    Blending theatre history and sensory studies this book recaptures the sound of early modern drama, acknowledging its intangibility while attempting to both describe those sounds heard on the stage and to try and identify those sound’s effects on the playgoers. ...
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    157,37 €

  • CRISIS
    Carol Rocamora
    This new book by Dr Carol Rocamora (New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts) explores the courageous playwrights of the world who used the stage as a platform to address crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. From Bertolt Brecht to present day playwrights, Carol Rocamora discusses how theatre has addressed crises from World War II to the present, including war, apartheid...
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    30,41 €

  • CRISIS
    Carol Rocamora
    This new book by Dr Carol Rocamora (New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts) explores the courageous playwrights of the world who used the stage as a platform to address crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. From Bertolt Brecht to present day playwrights, Carol Rocamora discusses how theatre has addressed crises from World War II to the present, including war, apartheid...
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    17,37 €

  • Frog Story and Other Plays
    Ramesh Panigrahi / Ramesh Prasad Panigrahi
    These randomly selected 7 plays would transport the readers beyond their trite mundane existence to seven different transcendental terrains-sometimes illusively comic and farcical to unexpected depths of fantasy and the uncanny. The plays included in this volume arel Frog story l Waiting for the Bus l A Play about a Play l Forty Minutes l All by Accidents l The Elephant in the ...
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    23,10 €

  • Shakespeare’s First Folio Ultimate
    William Shakespeare
    The First Folio, published in 1623 by Shakespeare’s colleagues, was the first complete and faithful publication of plays by the Bard. As the pages were printed, they were checked for errors, and if any were found, they were corrected. But the pages with errors were not thrown away; instead, they were kept and used, which means that no volumes of the First Folio are perfect, and...
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    88,69 €

  • Theatre as Alter/'Native' in Derek Walcott
    Nirjhar Sarkar
    ’Theatre as Alter/'Native' in Derek Walcott’ attempts a close and detailed politico-aesthetic analysis of his major plays. At the core of this book lies the attempt to answer the question of how postcolonial artists and intellectuals have dared to imagine radically different ways of living in the face of oppositional, binary choices. And as the title suggests, Walcott’s plays c...
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    41,01 €

  • Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
    Megan G. Leitch / Megan Leitch
    This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet. ...
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    44,11 €

  • Conversations with Beth Henley
    Jackson R Bryer
    With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always original, usually darkly comic, and often experimental. In these interviews, Henley speaks of the plays, from her early crowd...
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    20,95 €

  • The Wound That Will Never Heal
    Paul Brian Heise
    Paul Heise’s The Wound That Will Never Heal is an original allegorical reading of Richard Wagner’s epic music drama The Ring of the Nibelung. The product of 50 years of scholarship, Heise challenges the standard view that Wagner merely dramatized the conflict between love and power and demonstrates instead that the composer’s greatest work is an allegory exploring humanity’s lo...
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    55,56 €

  • Beckett’s afterlives
    Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett’s oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Beckett’s work in a constantly changing world. ...
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    169,50 €

  • Stages of Theater
    James R. Russo
    Stages of Theater: The Dramatic Criticism of Stanley Kauffmann, 1951-2006 is a collection of 100 pieces of dramatic criticism by the late Stanley Kauffmann (1916-2013). Kauffmann’s creative life spanned seven decades: starting in 1951 and continuing until 2013, he was a drama (and film) critic for the New Republic, the New York Times, and Saturday Review. He was also an actor, ...
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    20,18 €

  • Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature
    Nicholas Taylor-Collins
    Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as ’dismemorial’, the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which contemporary Ireland draws on Shakespeare’s England. ...
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    157,01 €

  • The Hero’s Journey in Film
    Richard Dance
    The Hero’s Journey in Film interprets twelve Hollywood movies in a mythical context, using Joseph Campbell’s model of the hero’s journey: Departure-Initiation-Return. It also weaves in concepts from the related fields of archetypal psychology and perennial philosophy. The book is highly useful . . .As a text for teaching classes on the hero’s journey model, appropriate for adva...
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    18,26 €

  • Conversations with Terrence McNally
    Raymond-Jean Frontain
    Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the 'Golden Age' of Broadway and the start of the Off Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938-2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic. He quickly recognized, however, that one is more likely to change people’s minds by first changing their hearts, and--in outra...
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    21,12 €

  • Adapting the Canon
    Adapting the Canon brings together some of the most recent and exciting research in the growing field of adaptation studies, charting the passage of canonical texts across time, cultures and different media. Spanning several Humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume explore key questions about what adaptation means for the canonical work, focusing on texts adapted into ...
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    23,35 €

  • The First English Translations of Molière
    Suzanne Jones
    As the most successful comic dramatist at the court of Louis XIV, Molière was certainly known to his London counterparts. During his early acting years in a touring troupe, the English theatres had been closed by the Civil Wars, but after 1660 viable plays were in great demand, and Molière was translated almost at once. Dryden, Behn, Fielding and many others took him up. All th...
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    18,69 €

  • Tales From Shakespeare
    Charles Lamb / Mary Lamb
    Charles and Mary Lamb, two English siblings, published the children’s book Tales from Shakespeare in 1807. The comedies were told by Mary Lamb and the tragedies by Charles. All of the Roman plays were excluded, and the historical stories they chose to recount were altered.It’s claimed that dialogue has been used far too frequently for young readers who aren’t used to reading or...
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    27,79 €

  • Staging the Soul
    Eugenio Refini
    As per William Shakespeare, ’all the world’s a stage’. But what if the human soul was a stage too? What if the stage of the world and the stage of the soul coincided? And what if the soul was also the main character of the play? These questions are at the core of this study, which explores pedagogical uses of allegorical drama in Italy in the decades around 1600, with a focus o...
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    138,90 €

  • Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos
    Kinga Földváry
    The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical Hollywood era to contemporary blockbuster cinema. Its genre-based analyses revisit old favourites and rediscover long-forgotten treasures of film history, taking adaptation studies in a new direction. ...
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    35,30 €

  • Shakespeare’s tutor
    Darren Freebury-Jones
    Shakespeare’s tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd defines Thomas Kyd’s dramatic canon and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeare’s drama. Groundbreaking in its implications for our understanding of Shakespeare’s dramatic development, the book aims to revolutionise our understanding of the early modern canon. ...
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    145,09 €


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