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

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  • Hamlet Translations
    This interdisciplinary collection discusses how Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been translated into different languages and cultures at various historical moments and for different purposes: performance, reading, artistic experimentation, language-learning, nation-building and personal identity-formation. There are many Hamlets, and rather than straightforward replicas of the origina...
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    138,87 €

  • HAMLET
    Evelyn Samuel
    STUDY GUIDE on Shakespeare’s HAMLET.This GUIDE is a MUST for ALL students to achieve TOP grades in English LITERATURENEW unique literature Study Guide on Shakespeare’s play HamletUnique structure with detailed explanation next to textIn depth identification of language devices, exploration of themes, characters analysis, exam style questionsA MUST for ALL students studying Shak...
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    26,31 €

  • Culinary Shakespeare
    David B Goldstein
    Eating and drinking—vital to all human beings—were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culinary Shakespeare, the first collection devoted solely to the study of food and drink in Shakespeare’s plays, reframes questions about cuisine, eating, and meals in early modern drama. As a result, Shakespearean scenes that have long been identified as important an...
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    49,89 €

  • Childhood in Contemporary Performance of Shakespeare
    Gemma Miller
    Child characters feature more numerously and prominently in the Shakespearean canon than in that of any other early modern playwright. Focusing on stage and film productions from the past four decades, this study addresses how Shakespeare’s child characters are reflected, refracted and reinterpreted in performance. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates clo...
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    51,10 €

  • Hamlet
    James Anthony / William Shakespeare
    HAMLET: SHAKESPEARE RETOLDShakespeare’s 400-year-old language can be tough to understand...but, with Shakespeare Retold, it’s easy!Written line-by-line in the same iambic pentameter versification of the originals, it offers a contemporary interpretation of the Bard’s lines in the same form and pacing.Quickly understand each character, each plot twist, each convoluted phrase, ea...
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    11,29 €

  • Julius Caesar
    James Anthony / William Shakespeare
    JULIUS CAESAR: SHAKESPEARE RETOLDShakespeare’s 400-year-old language can be tough to understand...but, with Shakespeare Retold, it’s easy!Written line-by-line in the same iambic pentameter versification of the originals, it offers a contemporary interpretation of the Bard’s lines in the same form and pacing.Quickly understand each character, each plot twist, each convoluted phr...
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    10,05 €

  • Twelfth Night
    James Anthony / William Shakespeare
    TWELFTH NIGHT: SHAKESPEARE RETOLDShakespeare’s 400-year-old language can be tough to understand...but, with Shakespeare Retold, it’s easy!Written line-by-line in the same iambic pentameter versification of the originals, it offers a contemporary interpretation of the Bard’s lines in the same form and pacing.Quickly understand each character, each plot twist, each convoluted phr...
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    10,06 €

  • Macbeth
    James Anthony / William Shakespeare
    MACBETH: SHAKESPEARE RETOLDShakespeare’s 400-year-old language can be tough to understand...but, with Shakespeare Retold, it’s easy!Written line-by-line in the same iambic pentameter versification of the originals, it offers a contemporary interpretation of the Bard’s lines in the same form and pacing.Quickly understand each character, each plot twist, each convoluted phrase, e...
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    10,08 €

  • Notes on Shakespeare - Lectures by Coleridge
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the English Romantic Movement. He was also a member of the famous Lake Poets, together with William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. Coleridge had a significant influence on the the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and American Transcendentalism in general, and played a...
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    22,01 €

  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets Among His Private Friends
    William Shakespeare
    Intended for all readers, an exciting, innovative approach to Shakespeare’s Sonnets.'His sugared Sonnets among his private friends.' That’s how Shakespeare’s Sonnets were described in the only contemporary reference to them. This brings up the image of a talented, young poet-with a penchant for irreverent fun-getting together with friends to read his new sonnet cycle. Numerous ...
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    23,07 €

  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets Among His Private Friends
    Carl D. Atkins / Carl DAtkins / William Shakespeare
    An exciting, innovative approach to reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets!'His sugared Sonnets among his private friends.' That’s how Shakespeare’s Sonnets were described in the only contemporary reference to them. This brings up the image of a talented, young poet-with a penchant for irreverent fun-getting together with friends to read his new sonnet cycle. Numerous sonnet cycles were...
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    18,16 €

  • Conversations with Sam Shepard
    Jackson R Bryer
    A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musi...
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    157,99 €

  • Conversations with Sam Shepard
    Jackson R Bryer
    A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musi...
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    42,53 €

  • The Wound That Will Never Heal
    Paul Heise
    Paul Brian 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. Heise challenges the standard view that Wagner merely dramatizes the conflict between love and power and demonstrates instead that his greatest work is an allegory exploring humanity’s longing for transcendent value and that quest’s...
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    139,35 €

  • How to Think like Shakespeare
    Scott Newstok
    A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfullyHow to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration of the craft of thought—one that demonstrates what we’ve lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it. In fourteen brief chapters that draw from Shakespeare’s world...
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    19,91 €

  • Tragicomedy
    Brean Hammond
    This succinct authoritative book offers readers an overview of the origins, characteristics, and changing status of tragicomedy from the 17th century to the present. It explores the work of some of the key English and Irish playwrights associated with the form, the influence of Italian and Spanish theorist-playwrights and the importance of translations of Pierre Corneille’s Le ...
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    86,27 €

  • Marginalized
    Casey Kayser
    In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, author Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, making the argument that...
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    142,38 €

  • Marginalized
    Casey Kayser
    In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, author Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, making the argument that...
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    42,98 €

  • From Mimesis to Interculturalism
    Graham Ley / Graham Prof. Ley
    From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed critique of theatrical theory from its origins in Greek antiquity to the present day. ...
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    41,60 €

  • Shake-speare
    Chris Summers
    Over the course of literary history there have been many instances of ghost writing between husband and wife, where the wife has been the genius while the husband takes the kudos for any success. A recent film, The Wife, is but one instance of how a wife may allow her husband to take the credit for her genius. In this book you will find the greatest instance of a wife sacrifici...
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    12,27 €

  • Beyond The Borders Of Fear
    Harry Dobermann
    Beyond The Borders of Fear brings together a selection of writings on film, TV and books, including the controversial article 'The Destiny of Dr Who: An Adventure in Time and Trainspotting.' From the cold war science fiction of ’The Net’ (1953) to the conspiracy thriller ’Spyship’ (1983), the collection visits the Bitter Harvest of Patrick Hamilton, a lost thriller by Gerry And...
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    15,51 €

  • The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams
    Laura Michiels
    Tennessee Williams’ characters set the stage for their own dramas. Blanche DuBois (A Streetcar Named Desire), arrived at her sister’s apartment with an entire trunk of costumes and props. Amanda Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie) directed her son on how to eat and tries to make her daughter act like a Southern Belle. This book argues for the persistence of one metatheatrical ...
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    93,89 €

  • Shakespeare in Tune with the Symphony of Nature in a Single Note
    Christopher Eriksson
    This introductory paper provides supportive evidence that the Shakespeare plays were written during periods of profound harmony when the Divine or Infinite Mind resonated with that of the author to be born in him as the 'fair youth' and 'the better part of me' of the Sonnets, as originally proposed by R.M. Bucke. ...
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    9,96 €

  • Old Fortunatus
    David McInnis
    Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker’s Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition makes Dekker’s neglected stage romance newly available. ...
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    36,83 €

  • Great Stage of Fools
    Peter J. Leithart / Peter JLeithart
    This book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and three comedies (Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice), paying particular attention to biblical imagery and theological themes of the plays. ...
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    25,92 €

  • Curtains of Light
    George Toles
    Provides a new way of thinking about film’s relation to theatre. ...
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    121,56 €

  • Macbeth, Macbeth
    Ewan Fernie / Simon Palfrey
    ’A miracle, an instant classic.’ Slavoj Zizek, philosopherThe tragedy is done, the tyrant Macbeth dead. The time is free. But for how long? As Macduff pursues dreams of national revival, smaller lives are seeding. In the ruins of Dunsinane, the Porter tries to keep his three young boys safe from the nightmare of history. In a nunnery deep in Birnam Wood, a girl attempts to forg...
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    17,73 €

  • Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
    Megan G. Leitch / Megan GLeitch / 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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    157,16 €

  • Towards a Civic Theatre
    Dan Hutton
    Full of ideas and provocations from a range of theatre practitioners, and drawing on examples from inside and outside of the performing arts, Towards a Civic Theatre makes the case for a new kind of theatre fit for purpose in an already tumultuous twenty-first century. ...
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    14,50 €

  • The Playboy of the Western World
    John Millington Synge
    When young Christy Mahon flees from his family’s farm and tells the townspeople he killed his father, they respond in a way he did not expect. After an intense fight with his father, young Christy Mahon flees from his family’s farm to tell the townspeople what he had done. When Christy claims that he killed his own father, the townspeople are surprisingly more interested in the...
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    6,76 €


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