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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • The English Renaissance and the Far East
    Adele Lee
    The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters is an original and timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China, and Japan. It challenges accepted, Anglocentric models of East-West relations and offers a radical reconceptualization of the English Renaissance, suggesting it was not so different from current developments in an increasingly ...
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    54,31 €

  • 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 €

  • Chinese Drama and Society
    Teresa Chi-Ching Sun
    This book traces the entrance of Western stage drama into China and the initial reception it received from Chinese intellectuals. Form the introduction of Western literature and dramatic concepts to China in the early twentieth century to the Chinese national theatre movement and renovation of Beijing opera, specific and social cultural conditions ushered the literature created...
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    42,45 €

  • Stoicism as Performance in Much Ado About Nothing
    Donovan Sherman
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    22,56 €

  • Haunting History Onstage
    Regina Buccola
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    22,40 €

  • 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 in the Light
    Paul Menzer
    Shakespeare in the Light convenes an accomplished group of scholars, actors, and teachers to celebrate the legacy of renowned Shakespearean and co-founder of the American Shakespeare Center, Ralph Alan Cohen. Each contributor pivots off a production at the ASC’s Blackfriars Playhouse to explore Cohen’s abiding passion, the performance of the plays of William Shakespeare under t...
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    129,41 €

  • 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 €

  • Elizabethan Narrative Poems
    Tracing the development of narrative verse in London’s literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complex...
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    153,84 €

  • Terence Rattigan
    Peter Wolfe
    The theatrical world Terence Rattigan built is vital but disturbing and uniquely constructed. His sentences are not impacted or fractured, and his plots usually obey a linear time sequence. Yet his realism isn’t all that real. Though sentence by sentence, his dialogue sounds natural, the creative pulse behind it is idiosyncratic and self-lacerating. As a gay man writing at a ti...
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    122,53 €

  • Titus Andronicus
    Michael D. Friedman / Michael DFriedman / Michael Friedman
    The second edition of Friedman’s stage history of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009, identifying four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches. ...
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    36,55 €

  • Shakespeare and Commemoration
    Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world author. As the contributors of this collection demonstrate, the phenomenon of commemoration has no single approach, as it occurs on many levels, has a long history, and is highly unpredictable in its manifestations. With an international focus and a ...
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    184,36 €

  • Shakespeare and the Arab World
    Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. In addition to Egyptian and Palestinian theatre, the contributors to this collection examine everything from an Omani performan...
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    203,14 €

  • Shakespeare and the Arab World
    Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. In addition to Egyptian and Palestinian theatre, the contributors to this collection examine everything from an Omani performan...
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    31,31 €

  • England in the Age of Shakespeare
    Jeremy Black
    How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy ...
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    27,83 €

  • Illyria in Shakespeare’s England
    Lea Puljcan Juric
    Illyria in Shakespeare’s England is the first extended study of the eastern Adriatic region, often referred to in the Renaissance by its Graeco-Roman name 'Illyria,' in early modern English writing and political thought. At first glance the absence of earlier studies may not be surprising: that area may seem significant only to critics pursuing certain specialized questions abo...
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    156,04 €

  • Shakespeare and Stratford
    Katherine Scheil
    As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife. The essays in this volume consider the various manifestations of the physical and metaphorical town on the Avon, across ti...
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    184,56 €

  • Shakespeare and Stratford
    Katherine Scheil
    As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife. The essays in this volume consider the various manifestations of the physical and metaphorical town on the Avon, across ti...
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    32,10 €

  • Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy
    Richard F. Hardin / Richard FHardin / Thomas Cragin
    The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus’s lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy and to new thinking about its art and potential. This book aims to define the unique contribution of Plautus, detached from his fellow Roman dramatist Terence, and seen in the cont...
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    54,53 €

  • Images in an Antique Book
    Vivienne Robertson
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    27,75 €

  • Coriolanus
    Robert Ormsby
    A study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare’s final Roman play ...
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    36,71 €

  • Staging the revolution
    Rachel Willie
    Seeks to reassess the dramatic output of the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration; a period that has often been marginalised by specialists of both Renaissance and Restoration drama. ...
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    36,90 €

  • Theory for Theatre Studies
    Susan Bennett
    Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Addressing sound across history and through progressive developments in relevant technologies, the volume opens up the study of theatrical production and live performance to understand conceptual and pragmatic concerns about the sonic. By ...
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    95,58 €

  • Julius Caesar
    Andrew Hartley / Andrew James Hartley
    Presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen ...
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    36,83 €

  • William Shakespeare’s Sonnet Philosophy, Volume 4
    Roger Peters
    William Shakespeare’s Sonnet Philosophy Volume 4 (Second Edition 2019 Part 1 explains how the combination of the logic behind Charles Darwin’s biology, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s language philosophy, Stephane Mallarmé’s symbolic poetry, and Marcel Duchamp’s mythic logic of art each provide a component that Shakespeare’s comprehensive and consistent philosophy coordinates and complet...
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    23,15 €