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  • Text & Presentation, 2019
    Amy Muse
    This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis. Featuring some of the best work from the 2019 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, this book engages audiences with new research on contemporary and classic drama, performance studies, scenic design and adaptati...
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    94,06 €

  • Shakespeare’s cinema of love
    R S White / R. S. White
    Shakespeare’s cinema of love addresses the question, how much has Shakespeare influenced modern film genres? Convincing arguments are made for the links between his comedies of love and genres such as ’screwball’ comedy, musicals, romantic comedy and tragic love films. ...
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    36,90 €

  • Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama
    The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasis on multitemporality, the intersections of biblical narrative and performance, and the strategies employed by playwrights to rework and adapt the biblical source material in Catholic, Protestant and Jewish culture. ...
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    157,12 €

  • The Man, Shakespeare - And his Tragic Life Story
    Frank Harris
    'The Man, Shakespeare - And his Tragic Life Story' is a 1909 work by Frank Harris that explores the character of Shakespeare by analysing that of his most notable characters. This fascinating volume offers a unique insight into the world-famous playwright, constituting a must-read for fans of Shakespeare’s timeless work. Contents include: 'Hamlet: Romeo-Jaques', 'Hamlet-Macbeth...
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    29,56 €

  • Finding Shakespeare in America
    Colleen Sehy
    Americans have embraced William Shakespeare for more than 250 years. Finding Shakespeare in America celebrates this long-standing love affair with the Bard by bringing together hundreds of Shakespeare-related attractions across the United States in a single guidebook that makes it easy to explore and celebrate Shakespeare’s remarkable American legacy. You’ll find: More than 2...
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    19,35 €

  • William Shakespeare’s Sonnet Philosophy, Volume 3
    Roger Peters
    William Shakespeare’s Sonnet Philosophy Volume 3 (Second Edition 2019) considers Shakespeare’s plays and poems from the vantage of his 1609 Sonnet philosophy. The nine plays and poems illustrate the ubiquity of his nature-based philosophy from its early articulation in the long poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece before considering a play of his own devising Love’s Labour’s Lost...
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    32,27 €

  • William Shakespeare’s Sonnet Philosophy, Volume 3
    Roger Peters
    William Shakespeare’s Sonnet Philosophy Volume 3 (Second Edition 2019) considers Shakespeare’s plays and poems from the vantage of his 1609 Sonnet philosophy. The nine plays and poems illustrate the ubiquity of his nature-based philosophy from its early articulation in the long poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece before considering a play of his own devising Love’s Labour’s Lost...
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    30,30 €

  • Shakespeare the Truth other Greats
    William (Billy) McIntyre
    Do you want to know?: Shakespeare's personal secret found out after 400 years How to put the head of a 30-year-old on a teenager So many other things about life and living from golf to violin playing Yes? Then you need to read 'Shakespeare the Truth other Greats: The Common Denominator: Innate Intellect'. You may be wondering what Shakespeare, golf and playing...
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    6,62 €

  • Shakespeare - And His Love - A Play in Four Acts and an Epilogue
    Frank Harris
    'Shakespeare and his Love' is a play in four acts by Frank Harris, first published in 1910. The play represents a retelling of Shakespeare’s ’tragic life-story’ as imagined by Harris, including how he met and fell for the Dark Lady, Mary Fitton, who instead fell in love with his patron, William Herbert. It delineates his consequent tormented and jealousy, and his eventual retir...
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    22,30 €

  • 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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    157,15 €

  • George Farquhar
    David Roberts
    George Farquhar (1677-1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux’ Stratagem, are still regularly performed today. Yet aspects of Farquhar’s biography, and in particular his Irish roots and family life, have remained obscure. This is the first study to treat Farquhar’s works as do...
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    55,05 €

  • The Drama and Theatre of Sarah Ruhl
    Amy Muse
    Sarah Ruhl is one of the most highly-acclaimed and frequently-produced American playwrights of the 21st century. Author of eighteen plays and the essay collection 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write, she has won a MacArthur 'Genius' Grant and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, been nominated for a Tony Award for In the Next Room or the vibrator play and twice been ...
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    55,07 €

  • Thousand Times More Fair, A
    Kenji Yoshino
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    16,24 €

  • 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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    61,55 €

  • 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
    William Shakespeare wrote during a great age of exploration, of not only England but around the globe. The locales featured in the playwright’s works are crucial to the drama that unfolds in each of his plays. Though England figures in many of his works, his vision encompassed countries all over Europe-from Shylock’s house in The Merchant of Venice to Kronberg castle in Hamlet....
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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
    Terrence McNally’s canon of plays, books for musicals and opera libretti possesses such a breadth of subject matter and diversity of dramatic modes that critics have had difficulty assessing his accomplishment. This book is the first critical study to identify the four major stages of McNally’s development in terms of his understanding of how theater helps the modern person tra...
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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 €


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