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

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  • Christian Shakespeare
    Christian Shakespeare? The question was put to each contributor to this collection of essays. They received no further guidance about how to understand the question nor how to shape their responses. No particular theoretical approach, no shared definition of the question was required or encouraged. Rather, they were free to join, in whatever way they thought useful, the extensi...
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    61,61 €

  • Shakespeare’s Imagery and What it Tells Us
    Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
    This is a study of the poet based on evidence drawn from the whole of Shakespeare’s images, collected, sorted, and examined. Studied thus, they bring us much closer to Shakespeare himself than had hitherto been possible. ...
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    16,62 €

  • The Diverse Authorship of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
    Kenneth Farnol
    It is proposed that William Shakespeare did not write all of the sonnets bearing his name. This strictly independent publication compares and discusses all 154 ’Shakespeare’s’ Sonnets with some remarkable findings. There are many valid reasons to question the authorship of ’Shakespeare’s’ Sonnets. They are clearly Satirical, Aristocratic or Political and were self-evidently nev...
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    29,64 €

  • Yeats and Revisionism
    Daniel O’Hara
    The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years, even as it opens the prospects for the future of critical reading of ...
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    180,39 €

  • The Influence of José da Silva Lisboa’s Journalism on the Independence of Brazil (1821-1822)
    Guilherme Celestino
    This work analyses the influence of the publications from 1821-1822 written by José da Silva Lisboa, the future Viscount of Cairu, on the events that led to the independence of Brazil in 1822. ...
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    180,24 €

  • Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700
    Scott Oldenburg
    A narrative of Elizabethan London through the eyes of William Muggins, an impoverished silk-weaver who wrote poetry about the plague, motherhood, childrearing, poverty, and the responsibility individuals have to one another. ...
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    42,63 €

  • Classical Comedy 1508-1786
    Richard Andrews
    We may recognize similarities between comedies by Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni and Beaumarchais; but it is not fully appreciated that these playwrights belong to a single continuous genre of comedy inspired by Plautus and Terence. In fact comedies which we can call Classical were first composed by Humanists such as Ludovico Ariosto; and their format was quickly taken up by improv...
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    138,66 €

  • Uruguayan Theatre in Translation
    Sophie Stevens
    Uruguayan theatre is receiving increased attention in the UK and, having contributed new translations and scholarship to this field, Sophie Stevens here examines Uruguayan theatre in motion, through translation, as an innovative and creative way of engaging with national theatre. Focussing on six major plays and playwrights with international appeal and significance, although t...
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    139,10 €

  • Grand-Guignolesque
    Grand-Guignolesque explores the continuing influence and legacy of the infamous Parisian theatre of horror. The volume consists of a critical introduction along with thirteen previously unpublished scripts of classic Grand-Guignol and modern horror plays, each with its own contextualizing preface. ...
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    45,56 €

  • Grand-Guignolesque
    Grand-Guignolesque explores the continuing influence and legacy of the infamous Parisian theatre of horror. The volume consists of a critical introduction along with thirteen previously unpublished scripts of classic Grand-Guignol and modern horror plays, each with its own contextualizing preface. ...
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    116,76 €

  • Three sixteenth-century dietaries
    Joan Fitzpatrick
    Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern edition of three of the most important dietaries of the time - with the texts offering advice on the best ways to maintain well-being. ...
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    35,27 €

  • Shakespeare’s 'The Comedy of Errors'
    Arthur Asa Berger
    Arthur Asa Berger’s Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors uses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most interesting comedies. ...
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    36,05 €

  • Attack of the Monster Musical
    Adam Abraham
    How many hit musicals are based on films that were shot in two days at a budget of $30,000? The answer is one: Little Shop of Horrors. Roger Corman’s monster movie opened in 1960, played the midnight circuit, and then disappeared from view. Two decades later, Little Shop of Horrors opened Off-Broadway and became a surprise success.Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural Histo...
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    95,48 €

  • Romeo and Juliet
    James Anthony / William Shakespeare
    Tackling Romeo and Juliet? Easily understand every line and quickly master Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of young love and family feuding.Does Shakespeare’s 400-year-old language often leave you confused? Do you wish there was an easier way to get to the heart of the story without tedious cross-referencing? Award-winning Shakespearean author James Anthony unlocks each line of R...
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    9,88 €

  • Last Scene of All
    Jessica Goodman
    Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any stage death is also a non-ending: just one in a series of repeated (re)presentations, by an actor who will live (and die) again. Spanning six centuries and seven countries, this study considers how different dramatic authors have ...
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    139,12 €

  • The Experience of Colour in Lorca’s Theatre
    Jade Boyd
    Federico Garcia Lorca’s (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect of his craft, particularly in terms of colour’s psychological, bodily and material agency. Breaking away from scholarly preoccupations with Lorca’s sexuality, with the division of his work along temporal and stylistic lines, and with colour symbolism, Jade Boyd’s read...
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    119,80 €

  • Three Midwestern Playwrights
    Marcia Noe
    In the early 1900s, three small-town midwestern playwrights helped shepherd American theatre into the modern era. Together, they created the renowned Provincetown Players collective, which not only launched many careers but also had the power to affect US social, cultural, and political beliefs.The philosophical and political orientations of Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Su...
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    27,34 €

  • Shakespeare and Reception Theory
    Nigel Wood
    Arden Shakespeare and Theoryprovides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies in recent years, as well as those that are emerging at the present moment. Each volume provides:· a clear definition of a particular theory;· a survey of its major theorists and critics;· an analysis of its significance in Shakespeare st...
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    51,27 €

  • Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama
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    35,56 €

  • The Theatre of Fake News
    James Moran
    This book examines the topic of ’fake news’ through the lens of theatre and drama, looking at the way in which issues of audience, authorship, and accuracy are intertwined. ...
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    28,30 €

  • Hyde Park
    Eugene Giddens
    Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into the shifting nature of the genre and early modern conceptions of London and courtship. ...
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    145,33 €

  • Shakespeare’s Sceptered Isle
    Brian Carroll
    This work searches Shakespeare’s history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of Shakespeare’s history plays are not principally the plots or 'facts' of the dramas but the attitudes and imaginings they elicited in audiences. Reading Shakespeare through the lens of national identity is a study almost as old as ...
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    93,89 €

  • Forgiving the Gift
    Sean Lawrence
    Forgiving the Gift challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges, negotiations, and circulations. Lawrence reads plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as informed by an early modern belief in the possibility and even necessity of radical generosity, of gifts that break the cycle of economy and self-interest.The prologue reads Marlowe’s Dr. ...
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    51,44 €

  • Residual Figuration in Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti
    Li Lin
    In 1945, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) brought back to Paris six matchboxes filled with the work of his war years: minute figurines that crumbled upon a single touch. Around this time, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-89) began writing plays, first Eleutheria and then Waiting for Godot. When they came together in 1961 to collaborate on a re-staging of Godot, ...
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    139,52 €

  • Pygmalion
    George Bernard Shaw
    Pygmalion’s audiences in 1914 were both enthralled and scandalized by it. In addition to being a razor-sharp critique of the British class system and a declaration of Shaw’s feminist beliefs, this fantastically funny retelling of the traditional story of the sculptor who falls in love with his ideal female statue. My Fair Lady, the musical version of one of Bernard Shaw’s most ...
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    16,74 €

  • Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve
    Maximillian E Novak / Maximillian E. Novak
    Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve is a study of the political and social milieu that informs William Congreve’s writings. The book attempts to read Congreve’s plays and his novella, Incognita, against the political and social upheaval of the period initiated by the rebellion of 1688. ...
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    57,88 €

  • The Merchant of Venice
    James Anthony / William Shakespeare
    Tackling The Merchant of Venice? Easily understand every line and quickly master Shakespeare’s tale of love and revenge. Does Shakespeare’s 400-year-old language often leave you confused? Do you wish there was an easier way to get to the heart of the story without tedious cross-referencing? Award-winning Shakespearean author James Anthony unlocks each line of The Merchant of Ve...
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    10,03 €

  • Beckett and media
    This collection of essays stages a dialogue between leading Beckett scholars and media theorists and offers the first sustained critical enquiry into Beckett as a media artist and his intermedial work. ...
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    42,97 €

  • Chartist drama
    Gregory Vargo
    This volume opens a window onto a unique culture of politicised working-class drama by offering four plays that highlight the diversity of Chartist performance: a verse tragedy concerning the Newport rising; a Gothic melodrama; a frequently reenacted treason trial; and a Romantic-era history play. ...
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    35,64 €

  • John Fletcher’s Rome
    Domenico Lovascio
    Examines Fletcher’s Roman plays and identifies disorientation as the unifying principle of his portrayal of imperial Rome. The book sheds new light on his intellectual life by arguing that his dramatization of Rome exudes a sense of scepticism over the authority of Roman models resulting from his irreverent approach to the classics. ...
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    145,15 €


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