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

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  • The Precious Gem of Hidden Literature
    Ryan Murtha
    Contemporaries of English polymath Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) eulogized him as ''a muse more choice than the nine muses'' who ''showered the age with frequent volumes'' and ''filled the world with works''; ''the very nerve of genius, the marrow of persuasion, the golden stream of eloquence, the precious gem of hidden literature.'' Orthodox scholars credit Bacon with a substa...
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    16,79 €

  • The Precious Gem of Hidden Literature
    Ryan Murtha
    Contemporaries of English polymath Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) eulogized him as ''a muse more choice than the nine muses'' who ''showered the age with frequent volumes'' and ''filled the world with works''; ''the very nerve of genius, the marrow of persuasion, the golden stream of eloquence, the precious gem of hidden literature.'' Orthodox scholars credit Bacon with a substa...
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    27,42 €

  • Writings on Art and Poetical Theory
    Fernando Pessoa
    Writings on Art and Poetical Theory contains a selection of Fernando Pessoa’s writings (or those of his heteronyms) on art and poetical theory, originally written in English. In Pessoa’s oeuvre one finds not only literary and fictional works but also a multiplicity of theoretical texts on the most diverse subjects concerning artistic movements, literature, and writers.In this b...
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    15,98 €

  • Queering Lorca’s Duende
    Miguel García
    Much literature and scholarship has been devoted to the works by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), one of the greatest Spanish poets and playwrights of the twentieth century. In addition to the multifaceted nature of his artistic production and his canonical status, the interest in Lorca has expanded in a global way due to the mysteries surrounding his death and to his identif...
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    139,22 €

  • When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre
    Edwin Wong / Gabriel Jason Dean / Nicholas Dunn & Emily McClain
    Creators, Innovators, and Theatremakers:Defy the Smallness of the StageWith the Greatness of Your DaringWong’s first book upended tragic literary theory by arguing that risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. It also launched an international playwriting competition (risktheatre.com). His second book expands on how chance directs the action, both on and off the stage.Inside...
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    26,57 €

  • When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre
    Edwin Wong / Gabriel Jason Dean / Nicholas Dunn & Emily McClain
    Creators, Innovators, and Theatremakers:Defy the Smallness of the StageWith the Greatness of Your DaringWong’s first book upended tragic literary theory by arguing that risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. It also launched an international playwriting competition (risktheatre.com). His second book expands on how chance directs the action, both on and off the stage.Inside...
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    35,02 €

  • Bloody, Bold and Resolute
    Judy Darby
    After many years experience as a teacher and examiner, Judy Darby decided to write the book she wished she could find for her students. Careful explanation and analysis will guide the student safely through each scene of the play, with a thorough examination of significant speeches, characters and themes. This is a book for both the confident and less confident alike as it expl...
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    15,59 €

  • Shakespeare and the supernatural
    This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches. ...
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    29,34 €

  • Poetics, Performance and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy
    Lucy Rayfield
    There is nothing funny about comedy in Renaissance France. Comic theatre in the sixteenth century was employed, primarily, as a tool for teaching Latin; it was also judged to be a canny means of enriching and elevating one’s national literature and language. Increasingly, comedy was transformed into a political and polemical weapon, capable not only of resisting the influx into...
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    139,04 €

  • Geometry and Jean Genet
    Joanne Brueton
    Though notorious for his visceral, affective, and politically incendiary writing, Jean Genet also had a surprising penchant for the abstract language of geometry. Points, lines, obliques, grids and circles emerge in his texts as shapes that plot a map of subjectivity that he endlessly tries to navigate. However, Genet’s geometry is neither a flat nor vapid representation of spa...
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    139,19 €

  • Viral Shakespeare
    Pascale Aebischer
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    24,12 €

  • Curtains of Light
    George Toles
    Provides a new way of thinking about film’s relation to theatre. ...
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    43,16 €

  • King Lear
    William Shakespeare
    King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear relinquishes his power and land to two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane and a proscribed crux of political machinations. King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. His eldest daugh...
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    13,36 €

  • Twelfth Night
    William Shakespeare
    Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601-1602 as a Twelfth Night’s entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Twelfth Night is a fast-paced romantic comedy with several interwoven plots of romance, mistaken ...
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    10,86 €

  • Titus Andronicus
    William Shakespeare
    Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593, probably in collaboration with George Peele. The main themes in Titus Andronicus are the cycle of revenge, masculine and feminine honor, and Romans and barbarians. The cycle of revenge: Titus Andronicus demonstrates the futile and cyclical nature of vengeance, the pursuit o...
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    12,26 €

  • As You Like It
    William Shakespeare
    As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play’s first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. Rosalind and her cousin escape into the forest and find Orlando, Rosalind’s love. Disguised as a boy shepherd,...
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    12,26 €

  • The Taming of The Shrew
    William Shakespeare
    The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. She behaves unpleasantly to him but he pretends not to notice. ...
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    12,14 €

  • The Comedy of Errors
    William Shakespeare
    The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare’s early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. After both being separated from their twins in a shipwreck, Antiholes and his slave Dromio go to Ephesus to find them. The other set of twins li...
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    10,86 €

  • Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare’s longest play, with 29,551 words. The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet’s uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks reve...
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    13,32 €

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    William Shakespeare
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as part of the Macmillan Modern Shakespeare Series, is a large format illustrated text which is an ideal and easy introduction to Shakespeare’s plays. The dominant theme in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is love, a subject to which Shakespeare returns constantly in his comedies. Shakespeare explores how people tend to fall in love with those who appear bea...
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    10,60 €

  • Othello
    William Shakespeare
    Othello is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, probably in 1603, set in the contemporary Ottoman-Venetian War fought for the control of the Island of Cyprus, since 1489 a possession of the Venetian Republic. The port city of Famagusta finally fell to the Ottomans in 1571 after a protracted siege. The play is set in motion when Othello, a heroic black general in the servic...
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    13,37 €

  • The Tempest
    William Shakespeare
    The Tempest is a play by English playwright William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610-1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone. The Tempest is a play about magic, betrayal, love and forgiveness. It is set on an island somewhere near Italy where Prospero, the one-time Duke of Milan, and his beautiful daughter, Miranda, live with a sprite cal...
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    10,72 €

  • Julius Caesar
    William Shakespeare
    The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599. Although the play is named Julius Caesar, Brutus speaks more than four times as many lines as the title character, and the central psychological drama of the play focuses on Brutus. Julius Caesar is a tragedy, as it tells the story of an honourable hero who makes several c...
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    12,11 €

  • Sonnets
    William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare’s sonnet was first published in 1609. Its structure and form are a typical example of the Shakespearean sonnet. This sonnet attempts to define love, by telling both what it is and is not. In the first quatrain, the speaker says that love-' the marriage of true minds'-is perfect and unchanging; it does not 'admit impediments,' and it does not change when it f...
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    10,72 €

  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
    William Shakespeare
    The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. Falstaff decides to fix his financial woe by seducing the wives of two wealthy merchants. The wives find he sent them identical letters and take revenge by playing tricks on Falstaff wh...
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    12,14 €

  • Cymbeline
    William Shakespeare
    Cymbeline, also known as The Tragedies of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Canoelike. King Cymbeline of Britain banishes his daughter Innogen’s husband, who then makes a bet on Innogen’s fidelity. Innogen is accu...
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    13,32 €

  • Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy
    Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy is an international collection of fresh digital approaches for teaching Shakespeare. It describes 15 methodologies, resources and tools recently developed, updated and used by a diverse range of contributors in Great Britain, Australia, Asia and the United States. Contributors explore how these digital resources meet classroom needs and help fac...
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    115,18 €

  • Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies
    Grant W. Smith / Grant WSmith
    ’Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies’ presents a comprehensive study of names in Shakespeare’s comedies. Although names are used in daily speech as simple designators, often with minimal regard for semantic or phonological suggestiveness, their coinage is always based on analogy. They are words (i.e., signs) borrowed from previous referents and contexts, and applied to...
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    76,98 €

  • 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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    144,38 €

  • Shakespeare and the denial of territory
    Pascale Drouet
    This book examines three Shakespeare plays in which abusive banishment participates in a dialectics of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation (King Richard II, King Lear and Coriolanus). It draws on analyses by French philosophers (notably Deleuze and Foucault), so as to understand strategies of resistance when one is denied one’s territory. ...
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    145,08 €


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