Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books
Parlor Press Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955
£25.00
Ave Maria University Press Shakespeare the Papist
Book SynopsisShakespeare, who wrote at the beginning of the long period in which the Catholic faith as violently suppressed in the British Isles, has long enjoyed an iconic status. Some readers have interpreted him as an early agnostic, expressing modern angst about whether anything exists besides ""this mortal coil"" that seems to be merely ""full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."" In recent years, however, thanks largely to the work of Peter Milward, close study of Shakespeare's plays has raised the question: Was Shakespeare in fact a believing Catholic? To this question, which radically changes the way that Shakespeare's plays should be read, Milward here offers, in his definitive study of the topic, a resounding ""Yes.
£17.95
Ave Maria University Press Jacobean Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe eminent Shakespeare scholar Peter Milward, S.J. here presents an analysis of Shakespeare’s late plays that is both accessible to beginners and beneficial to seasoned scholars.
£23.70
Ave Maria University Press Elizabethan Shakespeare
Book SynopsisTo know Shakespeare is to know his plays, not just one by one but all together—or what T. S. Eliot calls ""the pattern in his carpet”.
£28.45
Summit University Press,U.S. The Shakespeare Code
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£17.95
World Wisdom Books Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Bible: A Spiritual
Book SynopsisThe extent to which Shakespeare derived the inspiration for his plays and Sonnets from the Bible has sparked debate for centuries. This book gives an examination of Shakespeare's Sonnets, identifying their underlying spiritual themes at the religious and scriptural levels of interpretation.
£25.50
Cornell University Press Visioning Eternity: Aesthetics, Politics, and
Book SynopsisIn one of the more remarkable public events of the Tokugawa world, the shogun responded to a deepening crisis in 1840s by sponsoring a huge, "once-in-a-generation" noh performance—the largest performance ever held. This is the first Western language book on Edo period noh and its use by the shogun, an essential addition to the scholarship in Japanese theater and the cultural history of early modern Japan.
£84.00
For Beginners Shakespeare for Beginners
Book SynopsisDespite the reshifting of values that has affected every aspect of life in the 21st century, William Shakespeare still stands as the greatest writer the English language has ever produced. Even so, many people have never read him. If you have never read the Bard-or if you''ve tried and given up in frustration-you need SHAKESPEARE FOR BEGINNERS.Author Brandon Toropov opens with the observation that Shakespeare''s genius is not in his (or England''s) history, it''s in his words, most notably, his plays-in his brilliant stories, unforgettable characters, and the impossible beauty of his language. So SHAKESPEARE FOR BEGINNERS skips the historical foreplay and goes straight to Shakespeare''s plays. The book offers clear, concise descriptions and plot summaries of each play; it lists key phrases and important themes, explains the main ideas behind each work and features excerpt of important passages (with explanatory notes on tough words.) And it is the only ''entry level'' book available outside Great Britain that covers all of Shakespeare''s plays.
£12.34
Arc Medieval Press Shakespeare and Superheroes
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£70.00
Clemson University Digital Press Rewriting The Hour-Glass: A Play Written in Prose
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£104.02
Ugly Duckling Presse Invisible Horizon: A Religious Pamphlet
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£9.50
City of Light Publishing Shakespeares Goddess
Book SynopsisIn our culture, Shakespeare's works are classics and his characters have achieved mythical status. But what did William Shakespeare consider to be the great myths and classics? And who were the empowering role models for his bold and unforgettable heroines? In plays and poems throughout his career, Shakespeare explored many facets of the divine feminine, including Greek and Roman goddesseshe nearly deified Queen Elizabeth. His characters frequently refer to classical goddesses, some plays feature literal appearances of goddesses onstage, and the goddess of love starred in his epic poem Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare's Goddess explores the poet's many representations of the divine feminine, as a pantheon of individual deities, and also as diverse manifestations of a single, multifaceted goddess. This thoroughly researched sequel to Supernatural Shakespeare: Magic and Ritual in Merry Old England will appeal to scholars, but its playful and engaging tone also makes it accessible to anyone
£17.05
Crown Publishing Group (NY) Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold: Classic Love Poems
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£14.40
Otago University Press Floating Islanders: Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa
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£21.60
Public Park Publishing Ethan Frome
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£15.57
Hachette Livre - BNF Études Sur Molière: Le Tartuffe (Éd.1877)
£12.00
Larousse Le Jeu De L'amour Et Du Hasard
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£6.52
Les Belles Lettres La Principessa Filosofa O Sia Il Controveleno /
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£60.80
Les Belles Lettres Dramaturgie de Hambourg
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£43.70
Les Belles Lettres Ecrits Sur Le Theatre
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£43.70
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet: Tome II
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£72.20
Classiques Garnier La Musique Au Defi Du Drame: Berlioz Et
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£59.85
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet
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£70.30
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet: Comedies
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£82.65
Classiques Garnier Theatre de la Foire: Theatre de la Foire
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£72.20
Classiques Garnier Le Theatre Italien. Tome II - Volume I
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£59.85
Classiques Garnier Le Theatre Italien. Tome II - Volume II
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£49.00
Classiques Garnier Andre Gide Et Le Theatre: Un Parcours a Retracer
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£46.00
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet
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£65.55
Classiques Garnier Jeux Et Theatre
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£68.00
Classiques Garnier Tartuffe, Ou l'Imposteur
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£25.69
Classiques Garnier Relire Cyrano de Bergerac
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£48.27
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet. Tome IV: Tragi-Comedies
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£65.92
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet
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£71.80
Classiques Garnier Reparer Une Maison de Poupee d'Ibsen ?:
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£76.24
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet
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£82.06
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet. Tome I: Tragedies
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£63.65
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet. Tome I
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£34.00
Brepols N.V. This Earthly Stage: World and Stage in Late
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£43.35
Brepols N.V. The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality,
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£96.01
Classiques Garnier Recueil General de Moralites Dexpression
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£64.38
Classiques Garnier Drames Et Pieces Historiques: Tome II - Fedora,
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£68.00
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet. Tome III
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£54.15
Classiques Garnier Le Theatre En Liberte: Victor Hugo Et La Scene
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£72.20
Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet
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£57.00
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Performance and Spectatorship in Edwardian Art
Book SynopsisThis book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship. It argues that we need to expand the range of texts we think of as art writing, and features a diverse array of critical and fictional works, often including texts that are otherwise absent from art-historical study. Multi-disciplinary in scope, this book proposes a methodology for analyzing the aesthetic encounter within and through art writing, adapting and reworking a form of phenomenological-semiotic analysis found conventionally in performance studies. It focuses on moments where theories of spectatorship meet practice, moving between the varied spaces of Edwardian art viewing, from the critical text, to the lecture hall, the West End theatre and gallery, middle-class home, and fictional novel. It contributes to a rethinking of Edwardian culture by exploring the intriguing heterogeneity and self-consciousness of viewing practices in a period more commonly associated with the emergence of formalism.Table of Contents1. Introduction: An Invitation.- 2. Characterising the Viewer.- 3. Spectatorship and Ekphrasis.- 4. Staging Spectatorship.- 5. Staging Art.- 6. Domesticity, Decoration and Role Play.- 7. Conclusion.
£40.49
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and
Book SynopsisThis book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and 2016. Combining historical analysis with insights into current practice, Memorialising Shakespeare covers Shakespeare commemoration in China, Ukraine, Egypt, and France, as well as Great Britain and the United States. Chapter authors discuss a broad range of commemorative activities—from pageants, dance, dramatic performances, and sculpture, to conferences, exhibitions, and more private acts of engagement, such as reading and diary writing. Themes covered include Shakespeare’s role in the formation of cultural memory and national and global identities, as well as Shakespeare’s relationship to decolonisation and race. A significant feature of the book is the inclusion of chapters from organisers of recent Shakespeare commemoration events, reflecting on their own practice. Together, the chapters in Memorialising Shakespeare show what has been at stake when communities, identity groups, and institutions have come together to commemorate Shakespeare.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Memorialising Shakespeare, Memorialising Ourselves; Monika Smialkowska and Edmund G. C. King.- 2. From Common Reader to Canon: Memorialising the Shakespeare-Reading Soldier during the First World War; Edmund G. C. King.- 3. A Greenwich Night’s Dream: Shakespeare, Empire, and the Royal Navy in Post-Armistice Britain; Kurt Schreyer.- 4. Culture and Colonialism: The 1916 Tercentenary in Egypt; Karma Sami and Monika Smialkowska.- 5. Divergence and Convergence: The ‘Universal’ versus the National Bard; Irena R. Makaryk.- 6. French Shakespeare: From Victor Hugo to Patrice Chéreau; Dominique Goy-Blanquet.- 7. Canonising Cleopatra? Shakespeare400 and the Library, Lovers, and Saints of Alexandria; Katherine Hennessey.- 8. Citizen of the world, or citizen of nowhere? Shakespeare Lives in China in 2016; Duncan Lees.- 9. Commemorating Shakespeare through Dance and Music, 1964–2016; Elizabeth Klett.- 10. Curating Shakespeare in the North; Adam Hansen.- 11. ‘The Conceit of This Inconstant Stay’: Exhibiting Shakespeares in Eugene, Oregon; Lara Bovilsky.- 12. Afterword; Ton Hoenselaars.
£89.99
Springer International Publishing AG Bernard Shaw: Reimagining Women and Ireland,
Book SynopsisShaw emerged as a playwright in the politically charged environment of 1892, for both female suffrage and Irish independence. His plays quickly advocated for societal changes with regard to women’s roles, while expanding this advocacy into considerations of Ireland. Shaw’s engagement with marriage and union as a personal contract with nationhood have never before been considered as a methodology with which to view his work. This book demonstrates that Shaw was deeply engaged with and committed to the Irish question and to social and gender issues.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Women, Nation, Enablement, and the Irish Question2. The Opposing Strata of Feminism: Widowers’ Houses and Mrs Warren’s Profession3. The Marriage of Change: Candida & Getting Married4. John Bull, Nora Reilly and the Garden City: A Match Made in Heaven5. The Wild West Meets the West End
£89.99
