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  • Conversations with Beth Henley
    Jackson R Bryer
    With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always original, usually darkly comic, and often experimental. In these interviews, Henley speaks of the plays, from her early crowd...
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    20,95 €

  • The Wound That Will Never Heal
    Paul Brian Heise
    Paul Heise’s The Wound That Will Never Heal is an original allegorical reading of Richard Wagner’s epic music drama The Ring of the Nibelung. The product of 50 years of scholarship, Heise challenges the standard view that Wagner merely dramatized the conflict between love and power and demonstrates instead that the composer’s greatest work is an allegory exploring humanity’s lo...
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    55,56 €

  • Beckett’s afterlives
    Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett’s oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Beckett’s work in a constantly changing world. ...
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    169,50 €

  • Stages of Theater
    James R. Russo
    Stages of Theater: The Dramatic Criticism of Stanley Kauffmann, 1951-2006 is a collection of 100 pieces of dramatic criticism by the late Stanley Kauffmann (1916-2013). Kauffmann’s creative life spanned seven decades: starting in 1951 and continuing until 2013, he was a drama (and film) critic for the New Republic, the New York Times, and Saturday Review. He was also an actor, ...
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    20,18 €

  • Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature
    Nicholas Taylor-Collins
    Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as ’dismemorial’, the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which contemporary Ireland draws on Shakespeare’s England. ...
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    157,01 €

  • The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain / El teatro de España del siglo XXI
    Identifying, naming, and belonging lend a sense of rational order, a feeling of rootedness within specific societies and eras, yet that order may collapse and threaten to undermine the predictability that ensures stability. As Spain enters only its fifth decade as a fully democratic nation, the country’s identity is unfocused and disorganized as it continues to reckon with its ...
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    61,58 €

  • The Hero’s Journey in Film
    Richard Dance
    The Hero’s Journey in Film interprets twelve Hollywood movies in a mythical context, using Joseph Campbell’s model of the hero’s journey: Departure-Initiation-Return. It also weaves in concepts from the related fields of archetypal psychology and perennial philosophy. The book is highly useful . . .As a text for teaching classes on the hero’s journey model, appropriate for adva...
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    18,26 €

  • Conversations with Terrence McNally
    Raymond-Jean Frontain
    Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the 'Golden Age' of Broadway and the start of the Off Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938-2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic. He quickly recognized, however, that one is more likely to change people’s minds by first changing their hearts, and--in outra...
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    21,12 €

  • 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 into ...
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    23,35 €

  • 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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    18,69 €

  • Tales From Shakespeare
    Charles Lamb / Mary Lamb
    Charles and Mary Lamb, two English siblings, published the children’s book Tales from Shakespeare in 1807. The comedies were told by Mary Lamb and the tragedies by Charles. All of the Roman plays were excluded, and the historical stories they chose to recount were altered.It’s claimed that dialogue has been used far too frequently for young readers who aren’t used to reading or...
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    27,79 €

  • Staging the Soul
    Eugenio Refini
    As per William Shakespeare, ’all the world’s a stage’. But what if the human soul was a stage too? What if the stage of the world and the stage of the soul coincided? And what if the soul was also the main character of the play? These questions are at the core of this study, which explores pedagogical uses of allegorical drama in Italy in the decades around 1600, with a focus o...
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    138,90 €

  • Shakespeare’s tutor
    Darren Freebury-Jones
    Shakespeare’s tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd defines Thomas Kyd’s dramatic canon and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeare’s drama. Groundbreaking in its implications for our understanding of Shakespeare’s dramatic development, the book aims to revolutionise our understanding of the early modern canon. ...
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    145,09 €

  • Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos
    Kinga Földváry
    The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical Hollywood era to contemporary blockbuster cinema. Its genre-based analyses revisit old favourites and rediscover long-forgotten treasures of film history, taking adaptation studies in a new direction. ...
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    35,30 €

  • Christian Shakespeare
    Christian Shakespeare? The question was put to each contributor to this collection of essays. They received no further guidance about how to understand the question nor how to shape their responses. No particular theoretical approach, no shared definition of the question was required or encouraged. Rather, they were free to join, in whatever way they thought useful, the extensi...
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    61,61 €

  • Shakespeare’s Imagery and What it Tells Us
    Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
    This is a study of the poet based on evidence drawn from the whole of Shakespeare’s images, collected, sorted, and examined. Studied thus, they bring us much closer to Shakespeare himself than had hitherto been possible. ...
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    16,62 €

  • The Diverse Authorship of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
    Kenneth Farnol
    It is proposed that William Shakespeare did not write all of the sonnets bearing his name. This strictly independent publication compares and discusses all 154 ’Shakespeare’s’ Sonnets with some remarkable findings. There are many valid reasons to question the authorship of ’Shakespeare’s’ Sonnets. They are clearly Satirical, Aristocratic or Political and were self-evidently nev...
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    29,64 €

  • Yeats and Revisionism
    Daniel O’Hara
    The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years, even as it opens the prospects for the future of critical reading of ...
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    180,39 €

  • The Influence of José da Silva Lisboa’s Journalism on the Independence of Brazil (1821-1822)
    Guilherme Celestino
    This work analyses the influence of the publications from 1821-1822 written by José da Silva Lisboa, the future Viscount of Cairu, on the events that led to the independence of Brazil in 1822. ...
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    180,24 €

  • Mayorga, razón para las sinrazones
    José María Caso
    Mayorga, razón para las sinrazones. Referentes, lecturas escénicas y diatriba sobre la literatura en español es un acercamiento a la obra del dramaturgo madrileño, académico, profesor y premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras de 2022. El trabajo, concebido como un mecano inestable de letras, palabras y piezas variables e intercambiables, incluye entrevistas, críticas y crónic...
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    16,00 €

  • 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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    42,63 €

  • Classical Comedy 1508-1786
    Richard Andrews
    We may recognize similarities between comedies by Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni and Beaumarchais; but it is not fully appreciated that these playwrights belong to a single continuous genre of comedy inspired by Plautus and Terence. In fact comedies which we can call Classical were first composed by Humanists such as Ludovico Ariosto; and their format was quickly taken up by improv...
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    138,66 €

  • Uruguayan Theatre in Translation
    Sophie Stevens
    Uruguayan theatre is receiving increased attention in the UK and, having contributed new translations and scholarship to this field, Sophie Stevens here examines Uruguayan theatre in motion, through translation, as an innovative and creative way of engaging with national theatre. Focussing on six major plays and playwrights with international appeal and significance, although t...
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    139,10 €

  • Grand-Guignolesque
    Grand-Guignolesque explores the continuing influence and legacy of the infamous Parisian theatre of horror. The volume consists of a critical introduction along with thirteen previously unpublished scripts of classic Grand-Guignol and modern horror plays, each with its own contextualizing preface. ...
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    45,56 €

  • Grand-Guignolesque
    Grand-Guignolesque explores the continuing influence and legacy of the infamous Parisian theatre of horror. The volume consists of a critical introduction along with thirteen previously unpublished scripts of classic Grand-Guignol and modern horror plays, each with its own contextualizing preface. ...
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    116,76 €

  • Three sixteenth-century dietaries
    Joan Fitzpatrick
    Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern edition of three of the most important dietaries of the time - with the texts offering advice on the best ways to maintain well-being. ...
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    35,27 €

  • Shakespeare’s 'The Comedy of Errors'
    Arthur Asa Berger
    Arthur Asa Berger’s Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors uses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most interesting comedies. ...
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    36,05 €

  • Attack of the Monster Musical
    Adam Abraham
    How many hit musicals are based on films that were shot in two days at a budget of $30,000? The answer is one: Little Shop of Horrors. Roger Corman’s monster movie opened in 1960, played the midnight circuit, and then disappeared from view. Two decades later, Little Shop of Horrors opened Off-Broadway and became a surprise success.Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural Histo...
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    95,48 €

  • Romeo and Juliet
    James Anthony / William Shakespeare
    Tackling Romeo and Juliet? Easily understand every line and quickly master Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of young love and family feuding.Does Shakespeare’s 400-year-old language often leave you confused? Do you wish there was an easier way to get to the heart of the story without tedious cross-referencing? Award-winning Shakespearean author James Anthony unlocks each line of R...
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    9,88 €

  • Last Scene of All
    Jessica Goodman
    Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any stage death is also a non-ending: just one in a series of repeated (re)presentations, by an actor who will live (and die) again. Spanning six centuries and seven countries, this study considers how different dramatic authors have ...
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    139,12 €


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