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  • Macbeth
    Macbeth is Book One in the eight-book series called Shakespeare At Home. Carmen Khan and Jack Armstrong, in their thirty years at The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, havecreated dozens of Shakespeare productions.  Time and again they have seen that, although there are already several major editions of these luminous classics in print, each with its own valuable contribution t...
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    20,87 €

  • ROMEO AND JULIET
    Evelyn Samuel
    STUDY GUIDE on Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIETThis GUIDE is a MUST for ALL students to achieve TOP grades in English LITERATURENEW unique Literature Study Guide Made Super Super Easy on Shakespeare’s renowned play Romeo and Juliet.Its unique structure with detailed explanations next to the text, Characters, Themes, Exam questions will ensure TOP grades. ...
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    26,23 €

  • Serial Shakespeare
    Elisabeth Bronfen
    This book explores Shakespeare’s presence in the American cultural imaginary at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It traces how his texts are disseminated and reassembled in contemporary TV shows such as The Wire, Deadwood, Westworld, House of Cards and The Americans. ...
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    157,34 €

  • The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism
    Evelyn Gajowski
    The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticismis a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character stud...
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    258,15 €

  • The First English Translations of Molière
    Suzanne Jones
    As the most successful comic dramatist at the court of Louis XIV, Molière was certainly known to his London counterparts. During his early acting years in a touring troupe, the English theatres had been closed by the Civil Wars, but after 1660 viable plays were in great demand, and Molière was translated almost at once. Dryden, Behn, Fielding and many others took him up. All th...
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    132,94 €

  • Adapting the Canon
    Adapting the Canon brings together some of the most recent and exciting research in the growing field of adaptation studies, charting the passage of canonical texts across time, cultures and different media. Spanning several Humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume explore key questions about what adaptation means for the canonical work, focusing on texts adapted to an...
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    132,67 €

  • Estudios sobre Celestina: De la 'sotil invención' a la imprenta
    José Luis Canet Vallés
    Catorce artículos dedicados al estudio de una de las obras canónicas de la literatura española, 'Celestina', elaborados por el estudioso y especialista en la materia José Luis Canet. Estos trabajos se dividen en seis secciones que muestran los ámbitos de estudio que han guiado sus investigaciones celestinescas: la 'Comedia de Calisto y Melibea' y la imprenta, así como la tarea ...
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    24,50 €

  • 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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    143,49 €

  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    Evelyn Samuel
    STUDY GUIDE on Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROLThis GUIDE is a MUST for ALL students to achieve TOP grades in English LITERATURENEW unique literature Study Guide on Priestley’s play An Inspector CallsUnique structure with detailed explanation next to textIn depth identification of language devices, exploration of themes, characters analysis, exam style questionsA MUST for ALL student...
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    26,19 €

  • The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger
    Andy Amato
    While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is the first to read these two influential figures alongside one another, and to reveal how they can help us develop a creative and contemplative sense of ethics, or an ’ethical imagination’. Following the increased interest in reading Shakespeare philosophically, it s...
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    54,87 €

  • Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre
    ’Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre’ examines Tagore’s plays from the viewpoint of Indian dramatic/performance traditions, locating him as a playwright, performer and director in the panoramic continuum of Indian dramatic/performance traditions. ...
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    180,42 €

  • Bacon And Shakespeare
    Albert Frederick Calvert
    Bacon And ShakespeareThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tool...
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    14,61 €

  • AN INSPECTOR CALLS MADE SUPER SUPER EASY
    Evelyn Samuel
    STUDY GUIDE on Priestley’s AN INSPECTOR CALLSThis GUIDE is a MUST for ALL students to achieve TOP grades in English LITERATURENEW unique Literature Study Guide Made Super Super Easy on Priestley’s renowned play An Inspector Calls.Its unique structure with detailed explanations next to the text, Characters, Themes, Exam questions will ensure TOP grades. Sample essays and languag...
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    26,04 €

  • Staging Habla de Negros
    Nicholas R. Jones / R. Jones Nicholas / RJones Nicholas
    An interdisciplinary exploration of white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s. ...
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    50,08 €

  • Antony and Cleopatra
    Carol Chillington Rutter
    This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play’s themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy? Comedy? Farce? Rutter shows it’s all three. ...
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    156,92 €

  • 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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    180,64 €

  • The Gap in Shakespeare
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    The first purpose of this book is to provide new readings of many of Shakespeare’s major plays, unhampered by bardolatry and, so far as possible, by critical preconceptions. Among the interpretations is an argument that contradictions found in Othello emerge ultimately from Shakespeare’s inability to portray a developing heterosexual relationship in any of his plays; that King ...
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    39,24 €

  • The Gap in Shakespeare
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    The first purpose of this book is to provide new readings of many of Shakespeare’s major plays, unhampered by bardolatry and, so far as possible, by critical preconceptions. Among the interpretations is an argument that contradictions found in Othello emerge ultimately from Shakespeare’s inability to portray a developing heterosexual relationship in any of his plays; that King ...
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    22,14 €

  • Performing Shakespeare’s Women
    Paige Martin Reynolds
    Shakespeare’s women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare’s works often find themselves ’playing dead.’ But what does it mean to ’play dead’, particularly for women actors, whose bodies become scrutinized and anatomized by audiences and fellow actors who ’grossly gape on’? In what ways does playing ...
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    55,19 €

  • The Shakespeare Hut
    Ailsa Grant Ferguson
    This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in 1916, the Hut was to be the only built memorial to mark Shakespeare’s Tercentenary in the midst of war. With a purpose-built performance space, its tiny stage hosted the biggest theatri...
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    54,83 €

  • Shakespeare / Sense
    Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores the senses in his literary craft, his fictional worlds, and his stagecraft. 15 substantial new essays by leading Shakespeareans working in sensory studies and related disciplines interr...
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    258,10 €

  • The Life Of Timon Of Athens
    William Shakespeare
    The Life Of Timon Of AthensThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-settin...
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    13,15 €

  • UPSTAGED BY PEACOCKS
    Wendy Macfee
      “Don’t look at them, look at me,” a peacock seemed to be saying as he posed magnificently between the audience and the Shakespearean play being performed by Theatre Set-Up in the open air at Trevarno, Cornwall, effectively upstaging it. “I am really worth looking at!” Fed up with the noise that was disturbing his rest in the tree above the play, his was a deliberate attempt t...
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    14,16 €

  • 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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    157,31 €

  • Shakespeare
    Fiona Banks
    Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences brings together the voices of those who make productions of Shakespeare come to life. It shines a spotlight on the relationship between actors and audiences and explores the interplay that makes each performance unique. We know much about theatre in Shakespeare’s time but very little about the audiences who attended his plays. Even today the au...
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    54,77 €

  • Samuel Beckett and trauma
    Samuel Beckett and trauma, the collection of eight essays by leading academics, broadens and enriches the present fields of both trauma studies and Beckett studies by illuminating the uniqueness of the trauma in Beckett’s work in relation to historical contexts. It also provides new perspectives for discussing trauma and literature more generally. ...
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    37,10 €

  • Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
    Rhodri Lewis
    An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare’s HamletHamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare’s engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern England and Europe, Rhodri Lewis reveals a Hamlet unseen for centuries: an innovative, coherent, and exhilaratingly bleak trag...
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    39,88 €

  • How Science Proved Edward De Vere Was William Shakespeare
    David L Roper
    This book describes in detail the ground-breaking discovery concerning William Shakespeare’s real identity, which has been the subject of a recent scientific investigation. Its conclusive result appears in this updated second edition of How Science Proved Edward de Vere was William Shakespeare, by providing irrefutable proof that the 17th Earl of Oxford himself, admitted to hav...
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    22,87 €

  • Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
    This volume considers classical mythology in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The eleven essays approach tropes and figures from multiple perspectives: genre, gender, translation, classical reception and history. ...
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    36,68 €

  • MACBETH
    Evelyn Samuel
    STUDY GUIDE on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.This GUIDE is a MUST for ALL students to achieve TOP grades in English LITERATURENEW unique literature Study Guide on Shakespeare’s play MacbethUnique 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 Sh...
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    24,67 €