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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Appreciating Shakespeare
    Gideon Rappaport
    Appreciating Shakespeare makes easily available the essential tools for understanding and enjoying Shakespeare’s plays and poems, which means experiencing the deep and thrilling meanings of his works.Part 1 offers the background knowledge--about Shakespeare’s life, language, poetic and dramatic techniques, theatrical context, and historical and cultural background--that help yo...
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    17,31 €

  • The Woman’s Part
    Jo Gatford
    Using a combination of original prose and erasure poetry, The Woman’s Part reimagines the lives and desires of Shakespeare’s women - their unspoken opinions, perspectives, and unwritten endings. Each piece is accompanied by an erasure poem made from one of the character’s speeches. Gatford says of her chapbook, 'My aim with this collection was not necessarily to make a grand st...
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    9,79 €

  • Conversations with Terrence McNally (Hardback)
    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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    158,49 €

  • 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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    43,02 €

  • Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare
    Grace McCarthy
    This volume synthesizes Laura Mulvey’s male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s stare into a new critical lens, the filmic stare, in order to understand and analyze the visual construction of disability in adaptations of Shakespearean drama. ...
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    69,46 €

  • Shakespeare and Celebrity Cultures
    Jennifer Holl
    This book argues that Shakespeare and various cultures of celebrity have enjoyed a ceaselessly adaptive, symbiotic relationship since the final decade of the sixteenth century, through which each entity has contributed to the vitality and adaptability of the other. ...
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    65,31 €

  • Shakespeare’s Sublime Pathos
    Jonathan P. A. Sell
    Shakespeare’s Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity. ...
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    69,16 €

  • Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos
    Jonathan P. A. Sell
    Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answer to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity. ...
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    69,06 €

  • 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 €

  • Tombs in Shakespearean Drama
    H. Austin Whitver
    This project explores the rhetorical deployment of tombs and monuments on the early modern stage, demonstrating their historiographic power and mythmaking potential. ...
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    214,06 €

  • Fascinating Rhythms
    John Drakakis
    As one of the most adventurous critics of his generation, Terence Hawkes’s contributions to the study of Shakespeare and the development of literary and cultural theory have been immense. This vibrant read is for anyone interested in Hawkes’s unique blend of literary and cultural theory, criticism, Shakespeare studies, and Presentism. ...
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    65,37 €

  • Plays of Our Own
    Willy Conley
    Plays of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an eclectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing writers. These writers have made major, positive contributions to world drama or Deaf theatre arts. ...
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    58,72 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Seeing Shakespeare’s Style
    Douglas Bruster
    Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally. ...
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    213,71 €

  • Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity
    Shawn Smith
    This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience’s most common responses to tragic drama in the theater. ...
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    81,88 €

  • 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 €

  • Shakespeare in the Present
    Philip Goldfarb Styrt
    Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare’s plays to post-Trump America. ...
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    82,09 €

  • Drama, Politics, and Evolution
    Bruce McConachie
    This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species’ history. Our genetic and cultural evolution during the Pleistocene Epoch bestowed a wide range of predispositions on our species that continue to shape t...
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    146,10 €

  • 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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    25,95 €

  • The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte
    John Rudlin
    The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outside Italy into popular forms which bear little resemblance to the original. The book follows the Masks of Arlecchino, Pedrolino and Pulcinella as they gradually migrate and mutate into Harlequin, Mr. Punch and seaside Pierrot troupes. What happened to Pantalon...
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    156,94 €


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