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

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  • What Is Shakespeare?
    Ted van Griethuysen
    At the heart of this book written by the renowned American actor, Ted van Griethuysen, is a fundamental idea: Shakespeare is only what he says and how he says it. How he says it, of course, is poetry, and what poetry is, why we need it, is central to an actor’s study of Shakespeare. An actor must do two things at once (1) honor the poetry, and (2) sound like a human being talki...
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    24,97 €

  • Shakespeare’s World
    John Pendergast
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    87,56 €

  • Franz Grillparzer’s Dramatic Heroines
    Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz
    Franz Grillparzer’s (1791-1872) heroines – Sappho, Medea and Libussa among them – have engaged and intrigued audiences and readers since the nineteenth century. In his study of Grillparzer’s works, Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz examines these figures in the context of both Grillparzer’s wide-ranging intellectual interests – European and world history, social contract theory, and K...
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    17,43 €

  • 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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    157,26 €

  • Foucault’s theatres
    This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy ’theatrically’, contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought. ...
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    145,02 €

  • Off the Page
    Tom Lavazzi
    OFF THE PAGE blends lyric, theoretic/philosophic, autobiographical, and documentary forms of writing, and then plays on these forms in the arrangement, structure, and visual appearance of the text while also extending this textual performance 'off the page' into multimedia mise en scène. The book's approach to literary and cultural criticism is based on a synthesis ...
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    101,04 €

  • English literary afterlives
    Elisabeth Chaghafi
    English Literary Afterlives is a study about the ways in which readers and publishers reshaped (or even created) early modern authorial careers in the wake of the authors’ deaths. Through a series of case-studies it presents a counter-narrative to the established idea of authorial self-fashioning. ...
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    157,64 €

  • Conversations with Neil Simon
    Neil Simon (1927-2018) began as a writer for some of the leading comedians of the day--including Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Phil Silvers, and Jerry Lewis--and he wrote for fabled television programs alongside a group of writers that included Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, Michael Stewart, and Sid Caesar. After television, Simon embarked on a playwriting career. In th...
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    42,71 €

  • The Theatre of August Wilson
    Alan Nadel
    The first comprehensive study of August Wilson’s drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson’s ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson’s life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides fresh, coherent, detailed readings of each play, well-situated in the extant scholars...
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    34,16 €

  • Off the Page
    Tom Lavazzi
    OFF THE PAGE blends lyric, theoretic/philosophic, autobiographical, and documentary forms of writing, and then plays on these forms in the arrangement, structure, and visual appearance of the text while also extending this textual performance ‘off the page’ into multimedia mise en scène. The book’s approach to literary and cultural criticism is based on a synthesis of tendencie...
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    44,90 €

  • New Places
    New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity documents and analyses the different ways in which a range of innovative projects take Shakespeare out into the world beyond education and the theatre. Mixing critical reflection on the social value of Shakespeare with new creative work in different forms and idioms, the volume triumphantly shows that Shakespeare can make a real cont...
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    57,28 €

  • Foucault’s theatres
    This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy ’theatrically’, contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought. ...
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    31,95 €

  • All the World’s a Stage
    Joseph Rosenblum
    This volume identifies and delineates all of the locations in Shakespeare's works—not just countries and cities, but homes, streets, and exotic locales in which all of the action takes place—from Hamlet’s castle in Denmark to Petruchio’s house in The Taming of the Shrew. ...
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    118,82 €

  • Precarious spectatorship
    Sam Haddow
    This book is about the ways in which western spectators are bombarded with ’emergencies’ by our press and political institutions. It examines the effect that this has on us and how theatre and performance can try to counteract that effect. ...
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    157,64 €

  • The Theater of Terrence McNally
    Raymond-Jean Frontain
    Surveying the entirety of McNally’s works, including the most important of McNally’s still unpublished works, this book positions McNally at the forefront of contemporary American writers—in particular, gay writers—treating the issues of suffering, loss, spiritual renewal, and forgiveness. ...
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    156,24 €

  • Early Modern Culture
    Founded in 2000 by David Siar and Crystal Bartolovich, Early Modern Culture strives to create something like the active and on-going inquiry of a good seminar. Hence, the journal publishes works-in-progress by major scholars in early modern studies, along with a set of responses from readers. This particular volume contains papers from the seminar on First-Generation Shakespear...
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    33,10 €

  • Shakespeare’s Artists
    B. J. Sokol
    This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare’s plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence Shakespeare’s work throughout his career. It also uncovers unexpected aspects of an enthusiastic Elizabethan consumption of artworks, an enthusiasm that had significant bearing on the quite...
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    57,17 €

  • The English Renaissance and the Far East
    Adele Lee
    This book offers a timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China, and Japan, past and present. It challenges Edward Said’s model of East/West relations and offers a radical reconceptualization of the English Renaissance by suggesting it was not so different from the increasingly Sinocentric world we currently inhabit. ...
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    54,31 €

  • Shakespeare and Creative Criticism
    What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critically engage with Shakespeare. Creative writing, demonstrated in a series of essays, reflections, stories and scenes, operates as a vehicle for exploring and articulating critical and theor...
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    163,44 €

  • Shakespeare and Creative Criticism
    What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critically engage with Shakespeare. Creative writing, demonstrated in a series of essays, reflections, stories and scenes, operates as a vehicle for exploring and articulating critical and theor...
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    33,65 €

  • Shakespeare and the Ethics of War
    Patrick Gray
    How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past. Through his haunting depiction of historical bloodshed, including the Trojan War, the fall of the Roman Republic, and the Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare illuminates more recent political vio...
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    163,54 €

  • Shakespeare and the Ethics of War
    Patrick Gray
    How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past. Through his haunting depiction of historical bloodshed, including the Trojan War, the fall of the Roman Republic, and the Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare illuminates more recent political vio...
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    33,76 €

  • As You Like It
    Robert Shaughnessy
    A detailed account of the performance history of As You Like It through the modern period, focusing on landmark stage and film productions. ...
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    36,98 €

  • Much Ado About Nothing
    William Shakespeare
    Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623.By means of "noting" (which, in Shakespeare's day, sounded similar to "nothing" as in the play's title, and which means gossip, rumour, and overhearin...
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    12,46 €

  • Chinese Drama and Society
    Teresa Chi-Ching Sun
    This book contends that the evolution of modern literary stage drama was an important aspect of the Chinese intellectual movement, transforming stage shows into messengers of social change, and instigated renovation of Chinese drama. ...
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    42,45 €

  • Stoicism as Performance in Much Ado About Nothing
    Donovan Sherman
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    21,17 €

  • Haunting History Onstage
    Regina Buccola
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    21,02 €

  • Othello's Island 1
    Selected papers from the first seven Othello's Island Conferences held in Nicosia, Cyprus on medieval and early modern studies, held at the Centre for Visual Arts and Research (CVAR) annually between 2013 and 2019. Edited by Jane Chick of the University of East Anglia, and Michael Paraskos, of Imperial College London, the volume covers diverse topics, ranging from non-figur...
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    26,56 €

  • Shakespeare Scholars in Conversation
    Michael P. Jensen
     Twenty-four of today’s most prominent Shakespeare scholars discuss the best-known works in Shakespeare studies, along with some nearly forgotten classics that deserve fresh appraisal. An extensive bibliography provides a reading list of the most important works in the field. A filmography then lists the most important Shakespeare films, along with the films that influence...
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    57,31 €

  • Shakespeare in the Light
    Paul Menzer
    Shakespeare in the Light convenes an accomplished group of scholars, actors, and teachers to celebrate the legacy of American Shakespeare Center’s founder, Ralph Alan Cohen. Each essay pivots off a production at the ASC’s Blackfriars Playhouse to explore the performance of Shakespeare’s plays under their original theatrical conditions. ...
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    129,41 €


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