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  • Old Fortunatus
    David McInnis
    Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker’s Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition makes Dekker’s neglected stage romance newly available. ...
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    36,83 €

  • Curtains of Light
    George Toles
    Provides a new way of thinking about film’s relation to theatre. ...
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    121,56 €

  • Great Stage of Fools
    Peter J. Leithart / Peter JLeithart
    This book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and three comedies (Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice), paying particular attention to biblical imagery and theological themes of the plays. ...
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    25,92 €

  • Macbeth, Macbeth
    Ewan Fernie / Simon Palfrey
    ’A miracle, an instant classic.’ Slavoj Zizek, philosopherThe tragedy is done, the tyrant Macbeth dead. The time is free. But for how long? As Macduff pursues dreams of national revival, smaller lives are seeding. In the ruins of Dunsinane, the Porter tries to keep his three young boys safe from the nightmare of history. In a nunnery deep in Birnam Wood, a girl attempts to forg...
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    17,73 €

  • Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
    Megan G. Leitch / Megan GLeitch / Megan Leitch
    This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet. ...
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    157,16 €

  • Towards a Civic Theatre
    Dan Hutton
    Full of ideas and provocations from a range of theatre practitioners, and drawing on examples from inside and outside of the performing arts, Towards a Civic Theatre makes the case for a new kind of theatre fit for purpose in an already tumultuous twenty-first century. ...
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    14,50 €

  • The Playboy of the Western World
    John Millington Synge
    When young Christy Mahon flees from his family’s farm and tells the townspeople he killed his father, they respond in a way he did not expect. After an intense fight with his father, young Christy Mahon flees from his family’s farm to tell the townspeople what he had done. When Christy claims that he killed his own father, the townspeople are surprisingly more interested in the...
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    6,76 €

  • Cuerpo herido
    Nathán Grinberg-Zylberbaum
    Años de salir y entrar a una prisión del cuerpo. Por momentos, el dolor rompe las formas, establece su grito. En otros, se le acepta, se habla de Dios, de un torbellino. Un ruego y una especie de Job pregunta sobre aquello que Miguel Hernández llamaba las tres heridas. Nathan Grinberg, aquel joven pasante, ha atravesado los límites con un esfuerzo a veces incomprensible y desde...
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    16,07 €

  • Retreat to Victory in 1915
    Nancy Cramer
    The reduced Serbian army of 300,000 who fought the Austrians, Germans, and Bulgarians in 1915 retreated across the Albania mountains to be rescued by Allied ships. Then they went to Greece where they helped bring the war to an end. Historical stories, interviews with descendants of survivors, and fictional stories based on true facts. Illustrated with 95 photos, drawings, and m...
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    13,05 €

  • OTHELLO
    Evelyn Samuel
    STUDY GUIDE on Shakespeare’s Othello.This GUIDE is a MUST for ALL students to achieve TOP grades in English LITERATURENEW unique literature Study Guide on Shakespeare’s play OthelloUnique structure with detailed explanation next to textIn depth identification of language devices, exploration of themes, characters analysis, exam style questionsA MUST for ALL students studying Sh...
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    26,05 €

  • Thomas Heywood and the classical tradition
    This collection offers a groundbreaking study of Thomas Heywood’s fascinatingly individual engagement with the classics across his writing career. It considers the wide diversity of genres to which he contributed, including dramas, translations, compendia, and iconographical designs, and attends to the shaping role of classics in his authorial self-fashioning and idiosyncratic ...
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    156,92 €

  • Five Elizabethan progress entertainments
    Leah Scragg
    A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity. ...
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    28,87 €

  • The Sacred Wood
    T S Eliot / T. S. Eliot
    The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920) is a collection of essays by T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot is primarily recognized as one of the twentieth century’s leading English poets, he was also a prolific and highly influential literary critic. This collection, which includes essays on Algernon Charles Swinburne, Hamlet, William Blake, and Dante, is central to Eliot’s...
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    9,10 €

  • Thomas North’s 1555 Travel Journal
    Dennis McCarthy / June Schlueter
    Thomas North’s 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare makes available a little known early modern journal kept by a member of Queen Mary’s delegation to Rome, its purpose to win papal approval of England’s return to Roman Catholicism. The book provides details of the six-month journey, a discussion of the manuscript, and an identification of the twenty-year-old Thomas N...
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    135,83 €

  • Images of the Muslim Woman in Early Modern English Drama
    Öz Öktem
    Early modern scholarship often reads the dramatic representations of the Muslim woman in the light of postcolonial identity politics, which sees an organic relationship between the West’s historical domination of the East and the Western discourse on the East. This book problematizes the above trajectory by arguing that the assumption of a power relation between a dominating We...
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    129,33 €

  • Another Day’s Begun
    Howard Sherman
    A work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vintage slice of early 20th Century Americana, rather than being fully appreciated for its complex and eternal themes and its deceptively simple form. This unique and timely book shines a light on the play’s continued impact in the 21st century and makes a case fo...
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    121,49 €

  • 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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    156,97 €

  • Macbeth
    Macbeth is Book One in the eight-book series called Shakespeare At Home. Carmen Khan and Jack Armstrong, in their thirty years at The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, havecreated dozens of Shakespeare productions.  Time and again they have seen that, although there are already several major editions of these luminous classics in print, each with its own valuable contribution t...
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    20,87 €

  • ROMEO AND JULIET
    Evelyn Samuel
    STUDY GUIDE on Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIETThis GUIDE is a MUST for ALL students to achieve TOP grades in English LITERATURENEW unique Literature Study Guide Made Super Super Easy on Shakespeare’s renowned play Romeo and Juliet.Its unique structure with detailed explanations next to the text, Characters, Themes, Exam questions will ensure TOP grades. ...
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    26,23 €

  • Serial Shakespeare
    Elisabeth Bronfen
    This book explores Shakespeare’s presence in the American cultural imaginary at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It traces how his texts are disseminated and reassembled in contemporary TV shows such as The Wire, Deadwood, Westworld, House of Cards and The Americans. ...
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    157,34 €

  • The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism
    Evelyn Gajowski
    The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticismis a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character stud...
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    258,15 €

  • 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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    132,94 €

  • 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 to an...
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    132,67 €

  • Estudios sobre Celestina: De la 'sotil invención' a la imprenta
    José Luis Canet Vallés
    Catorce artículos dedicados al estudio de una de las obras canónicas de la literatura española, 'Celestina', elaborados por el estudioso y especialista en la materia José Luis Canet. Estos trabajos se dividen en seis secciones que muestran los ámbitos de estudio que han guiado sus investigaciones celestinescas: la 'Comedia de Calisto y Melibea' y la imprenta, así como la tarea ...
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    24,50 €

  • 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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    143,49 €

  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    Evelyn Samuel
    STUDY GUIDE on Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROLThis GUIDE is a MUST for ALL students to achieve TOP grades in English LITERATURENEW unique literature Study Guide on Priestley’s play An Inspector CallsUnique structure with detailed explanation next to textIn depth identification of language devices, exploration of themes, characters analysis, exam style questionsA MUST for ALL student...
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    26,19 €

  • The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger
    Andy Amato
    While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is the first to read these two influential figures alongside one another, and to reveal how they can help us develop a creative and contemplative sense of ethics, or an ’ethical imagination’. Following the increased interest in reading Shakespeare philosophically, it s...
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    54,87 €

  • Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre
    ’Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre’ examines Tagore’s plays from the viewpoint of Indian dramatic/performance traditions, locating him as a playwright, performer and director in the panoramic continuum of Indian dramatic/performance traditions. ...
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    180,42 €

  • Bacon And Shakespeare
    Albert Frederick Calvert
    Bacon And ShakespeareThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tool...
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    14,61 €

  • Staging Habla de Negros
    Nicholas R. Jones / R. Jones Nicholas / RJones Nicholas
    An interdisciplinary exploration of white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s. ...
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    50,08 €


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