Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books
Edinburgh University Press Second Death
Book SynopsisSecond Death seeks to revitalise our understanding of the soul as a philosophically profound, theoretically radical, and ultimately and counterintuitively theatrically realised concept.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Book SynopsisShakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic' introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Book SynopsisShakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Spectacular Science Technology and Superstition
Book SynopsisTo the readers who ask themselves: `What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included such various intellectual pursuits as history, poetry, occultism and philosophy.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Spectacular Science Technology and Superstition
Book SynopsisTo the readers who ask themselves: 'What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included such various intellectual pursuits as history, poetry, occultism and philosophy.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Conceiving Desire
Book SynopsisDrawing from cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Gillian Knoll traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors motion, space and creativity that shape desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Fugitive Politics
Book SynopsisThomas P. Anderson explores how the parameters of contemporary radical politics take shape in 'Coriolanus', 'King John', 'Henry V', 'Titus Andronicus', 'The Winter's Tale' and 'Julius Caesar'.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and
Book SynopsisHave you ever wondered what was really going on in the inner-plays, secret overhearing, and tacit observations of early modern drama? Taking on the shadowy figure of the early modern informer, this book argues that far more than mere artistic experimentation is happening here.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and Judgment
Book SynopsisShakespeare and Judgment' gathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare's career.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Shakespearean Inside
Book SynopsisThe Shakespearean Inside' is a study of all soliloquies and solo asides (dubbed insides for short) in Shakespeare's complete plays.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Moral Compass
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking study fearlessly combines latest research in evolutionary psychology, historical scholarship and philosophy to answer a question that has eluded critics for centuries: what is Shakespeare's moral vision?
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press FaceToFace in Shakespearean Drama
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare in the North
Book SynopsisThis exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays.Trade Review"In Charlotte Bront 's Shirley, the ruthless mill owner learns his disastrous industrial strategy from Coriolanus. The excellent contributors to Shakespeare in the North expand this fruitfully antagonistic relationship, placing England's national poet to the north of traditional Shakrespeare centres of culture and replacing Stratford, London, Arden and Windsor with Blackpool, Edinburgh, Northumberland and Tyneside." -Emma Smith, University of Oxford
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Gertrude Steins Transmasculinity
Book SynopsisThis book argues that Gertrude Stein's gender can best be described as 'transmasculine'
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Sensation Drama 1860 1880
Book SynopsisThis pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century.
£117.00
Edinburgh University Press Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the
Book SynopsisThis book discovers within early modern revenge tragedy the surprising shaping presence of a wide array of classical philosophies not commonly affiliated with the genre.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Chaste Value
Book SynopsisChaste Value 'reassesses chastity's significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage's production of early capitalist subjectivity and social difference.
£27.90
Edinburgh University Press The Federal Theatre Project 19351939
Book SynopsisThis book presents a comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP by drawing and exposing further links between American modernism and its European counterparts.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Creative Involution
Book Synopsis''Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze' focuses on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21st centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Renaissance Personhood
Book SynopsisUnfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Body Parts
Book SynopsisThis book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare's history plays.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Body Parts
Book SynopsisThis book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare's history plays.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Is Shylock Jewish
Book SynopsisIs Shylock Jewish' studies Shakespeare's extensive use of stories from the Hebrew Bible in 'The Merchant of Venice', and argues that Shylock and his daughter Jessica draw on recognizably Jewish ways of engaging with those narratives throughout the play.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press VolponeS Bastards
Book SynopsisThrough studying Volpone's three bastard children, this book discusses how Jonson's comedies are built upon the tension between death, castration and nothingness on one hand, and the comic slippage of identities in the city on the other.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama
Book SynopsisThis revised edition examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the Renaissance preoccupation with cosmetics.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama
Book SynopsisThis revised edition examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the Renaissance preoccupation with cosmetics.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Reading the Road from Shakespeare to Bunyan
Book SynopsisThis book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature
Book SynopsisTraces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society.Trade Review"A probing study of criminal law, punishment, and the narratives that seek to justify or challenge them. Hudson considers crimes such as perjury and counterfeiting, which raise questions about invention and imagination, and examines them in relation to a wide range of legal, literary, and theological works that pose similar questions." -Simon Stern, University of Toronto
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Russian Futurist Theatre
Book SynopsisRussian Futurist Theatre exploresis the first book to comprehensively uncover the Russian futurist theatre in all its virtuosity and diversity.
£33.30
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism.
£153.00
Edinburgh University Press Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature
Book SynopsisExamines literary engagement with immateriality since the ?material turn? in early modern studiesProvides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine, and theologyEmploys an innovative organization around three major areas in which problem of immaterial was particularly pitched: Ontology, Theology, and Psychology (or Being, Believing, and Thinking)Includes wide-ranging references to early modern literary, philosophical, and theological textsDemonstrates how innovations in natural philosophy influenced thought about the natural world and how it was portrayed in literatureEngages with current early modern scholarship in the areas of material culture, cognitive literary studies, and phenomenologyImmateriality and Early Modern English Literature explores how early modern writers responded to rapidly shifting ideas about the interrelation of their natural and spiritual worlds. It provides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine and theology. Building on the importance of addressing material culture in order to understand early modern literature, Knapp demonstrates how the literary imagination was shaped by changing attitudes toward the immaterial realm.
£27.90
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and Montaigne
Book SynopsisIntroduces and explores a wide range of fresh approaches to comparative study of Shakespeare and Montaigne.Trade Review"Describing books as 'this world's theatre', Montaigne admitted his curiosity to read and thereby 'discover and know the mind of my authors'. This book's dynamic discoveries about the shared literary, historical and psychological sympathies of Shakespeare and Montaigne illuminates the mind and work of both. It is a field-changing collection. " -Emma Smith, University of Oxford
£28.49
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Essays
Book SynopsisThrough sustained close-readings of Montaigne's essays and Shakespeare's plays, Platt explores both authors' approaches to self, knowledge and form that stress fractures, interruptions and alternatives.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press The SpeechGesture Complex
Book SynopsisThis study examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Irish Studies Now
Book SynopsisThis volume reflects on the pressing questions for Irish literary studies now. Contributors challenge assumptions within the field, seek to displace the canon, and define alternative paths. The collection reflects on where we have come from and the development of Irish studies both in the Irish University Review and internationally.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press King Lear After Auschwitz
Book SynopsisProvides the first dedicated study on appropriations of King Lear in British playwriting of the post-war, developing valuable new perspectives on the legacy of Shakespeare in post-war drama and culture.
£23.39
Edinburgh University Press The Gentle Shepherd
Book SynopsisThe first full and consistent edition of Allan Ramsay's most influential text, The Gentle Shepherd.
£139.50
Edinburgh University Press Living with Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThisbook examines the 100 or so families who lived in Shakespeare'sparish and demonstrates how their interests, work and connections formed part of the background environment that Shakespeare probably borrowed from as he reworked existing stories.
£28.50
Edinburgh University Press Variable Objects
Book SynopsisDrawing on new materialism and object-oriented ontology, Variable Objects proposes that Shakespeare is a vibrant object replete with a variable energy that accounts for its infinite meaning-making capacity.Trade Review"This extraordinary collection will have a profound impact on Shakespeare and appropriation studies. Using object-oriented methodology, the authors develop a speculative approach that refigures Shakespeare as a vibrant, multifarious thing" that actively participates in the creation of limitless interpretations and appropriations. The volume opens up new possibilities for the field. "" -Lisa S. Starks, University of South Florida
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Performing Conversion
Book SynopsisThis volume asks, how did theatrical practice shape the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe?
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Performing Conversion
Book SynopsisThis volume asks, how did theatrical practice shape the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe?
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Samuel Beckett and Translation
Book SynopsisProvides valuable insight into one of the most exciting developments in Beckett Studies in recent years.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Reanimating Shakespeares Othello in PostRacial
Book SynopsisTraces the history of Othello's contemporary citations, adaptations, and appropriations across genres?Trade Review"Brilliant, stunning and illuminating, Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America provides vital interventions in Shakespeare studies and adaptation studies. Corredera's argumentation and prose are clear, compelling and very convincing. You will never read or see Othello in the same way again. A must read for all scholars and students of Shakespeare!" -Ayanna Thompson, Arizona State University
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare
Book SynopsisAnalyses how far Shakespeare succeeds in reconciling two polarised areas in the early modern period: sexual desire, or will, and idealised approaches to romantic love.Trade Review"Joan Lord Hall opens a kaleidoscope in this riveting book, which combines sharp historical focus with a vista onto the endlessly moveable erotic possibilities in the poems and plays. This is a true labour of love, the distillation of a lifetime thinking through Shakespeare in his time and our own." -Richard Wilson, Kingston University
£27.90
