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  • Genesis of the Shakespearean Works
    Peter D Matthews
    This book is the result of fourteen years research scrutinizing thousands of historical documents. Dr Matthews reveals never before seen facts regarding the earliest quartos and the first folio – even new research into the leather cover of the Bodleian first folio and how that particular copy came into the possession of the Turbutt family.Dr Matthews has forensically dated the ...
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    77,90 €

  • A life of William Shakespeare
    Sidney Lee
    'A Life of William Shakespeare' by Sidney Lee is a comprehensive biography of the legendary playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Published in 1898, this book delves into the life and times of Shakespeare, exploring his upbringing, education, family life, career, and enduring legacy. Sidney Lee, a renowned literary critic and biographer, meticulously researched Shakespeare’s...
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    16,10 €

  • Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe
    What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanctioned and institutional forms of stage censorship in the late twentieth century, the prevalence of authoritarian and populist politics, and the escalation of so-called ’culture wars’, in what ways and to what extent does stage censor...
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    50,61 €

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre
    Christie Carson
    This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres for the performance of Shakespeare in North America. In English-speaking Canada, the Festival has become the unofficial national theatre, drawing both praise and criticism. Dividing its history into three distinct periods, the volume begins with the foundation of...
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    50,99 €

  • Antony and Cleopatra
    Carol Chillington Rutter
    This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present. It observes the choices that actors, directors, designers, musicians and adapters have made each time they have brought the play’s thoughts on power, race, masculinity, regime change, exoticism, love, dotage and delinquency into alignment with a new pres...
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    43,86 €

  • The Merchant of Venice
    Boika Sokolova / Kirilka Stavreva
    Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva’s second edition of the stage history of The Merchant of Venice interweaves into the chronology of James Bulman’s first edition richly contextualised chapters on Max Reinhardt, Peter Zadek, and the first production of the play in Mandatory Palestine, directed by Leopold Jessner. While the focus of the book is on post-1990s productions across ...
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    43,71 €

  • David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer
    Anne Lake Prescott
    For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her passion has always been the invisible bridge across the Channel: the complex of relations, literary and political, between Bri...
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    43,83 €

  • Thierry and Theodoret
    Domenico Lovascio
    Enthusiastically praised by Charles Lamb and A. C. Swinburne but unjustly neglected since the early twentieth century, Thierry and Theodoret dramatizes events from medieval French history. With its disenchanted depiction of royalty, its eerie instability in terms of genre, and its black comic overtones, Thierry and Theodoret strikes as a distinctive specimen of tragic drama in ...
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    54,15 €

  • Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance
    Linda Phyllis Austern
    Originally published in 1992, Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance is the first book-length study to examine the Elizabethan and Jacobean children’s drama, not only from a musicological perspective, but also drawing on the histories of literature, culture, and the theater. ...
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    56,32 €

  • Jungian Shakespeare
    Joel Crichton
    Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within three plays from different times in Shakespeare’s career through a Jungian framework. ...
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    63,65 €

  • The Battle Over Shakespeare’s Identity
    Geir Uthaug
    How can anyone doubt that the world’s greatest playwright wrote the plays attributed to him? William Shakespeare’s name is found on the title pages, in appraisals and on his monumental tomb. Nonetheless, doubt has been cast on the Bard’s authorship. Running the risk of branding as enthusiasts and worse, these skeptics tirelessly promote their cause. The battle over Shakespea...
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    73,52 €

  • A Promise n’ A Shield
    Mike Roulette
    In a world scarred by conflict, where innocence is too often lost to the fires of war, one man’s impossible oath becomes the fragile bridge between despair and hope.Major Moris, a battle worn officer of the French Foreign Legion, has spent a lifetime navigating the dust choked frontiers of Africa. He has witnessed humanity at its darkest, and yet, again and again, he chooses to...
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    36,10 €

  • Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature
    Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understanding of both. ...
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    82,41 €

  • Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage
    Katja Pilhuj
    Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage explores the ways in which mapmakers, playwrights, and audiences in early modern England could, following their queen’s example, use the ideas of geography, or ’world-writing’, to reshape the symbolic import of the female body and territory to create new identities. ...
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    82,59 €

  • Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England
    Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to produce new understandings of the history and design of early modern English drama. ...
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    82,32 €

  • Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque
    Gary Waller
    Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque focuses mainly on Shakespeare’s late (or later) works, those written from around 1607. It sets both poetry and plays within the emerging culture of the baroque, the term defined not merely by stylistic features but by the underlying ideological ’structure of feeling’ of baroque culture in early modern England. ...
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    82,84 €

  • Der Dialog als Duell
    Selina Seibel
    Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmals die Transposition des Duells in den dramatischen Dialog bei Pierre Corneille. Sie verfolgt zwei Ziele: Zum einen werden die kulturhistorischen Voraussetzungen und mentalitätsgeschichtlichen Entwicklungen in den Blick genommen, die in der Gesellschaft des siècle classique zur Rhetorisierung des Duells führen und auf Corneilles Theaterpr...
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    102,98 €

  • The Mystical Art of Shakespeare Volume III
    Kenneth K. C. Chan
    Shakespeare’s plays are poetical masterpieces that not only mesmerize us with their lyrical beauty but also convey sage messages critically important to humanity. This means that Shakespeare is a greater literary genius than previously thought, and his plays more profound than previously imagined.The Mystical Art of Shakespeare Volume III explains how Shakespeare meticulously c...
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    13,68 €

  • The Panacea Review
    John Moran
    The Panacea Review is a literary journal with a special focus on ephemera: letters, diaries, notes, and all the flotsam and jetsam that rarely leaves the drawer. The second issue features work from Padgett Powell, Mary Ruefle, Avi Loeb, Matthew Gasda, Daniel Wilson, Charlie Sterchi, Mitchell Galloway, Ari Moline, Daisy Cashin, Noah Kumin, Tom Ianelli, Sam Frank Jr., Grace H. Zh...
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    17,73 €

  • Masquing Blackness in The Tempest
    Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy
    Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized examination of the mechanics of blackness in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. ...
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    77,71 €

  • Performing Visible Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays
    Patricia Lennox
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    27,81 €

  • Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare
    Chahra Beloufa
    Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics of thanking as a significant speech act in Shakespearean plays. ...
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    76,07 €

  • The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024
    This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton’s legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton’s most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624). The book offers an assessment of the place of Middleton’s drama in culture, criticism, and education today. ...
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    75,97 €

  • The Shakespearean International Yearbook
    The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s work and his time. ...
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    76,10 €

  • Prefaces to Terence’s Comedies and Plautus’s Comedies
    Lawrence Echard
    Prefaces to Terence’s Comedies and Plautus’s Comedies presents Lawrence Echard’s early modern introductions to the dramatic works of two foundational Roman playwrights. These prefaces offer historical background, literary analysis, and interpretive framing that guided English readers’ engagement with Latin comedy during the 17th and 18th centuries. Echard contextualizes Plautus...
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    10,43 €

  • The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction
    Graham Wolfe
    What roles has theatre played in novels, and what happens to novels when they collaborate with theatre? This Companion’s thirty chapters explore the remarkable array of novelists who have entered theatre through their fiction, setting stages on their pages and casting actors, directors and playwrights as their characters. ...
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    92,92 €

  • Xueqin and Xakespeare
    Judith Forsyth
    This book offers a detailed consideration of the iconic five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin, translated into English as The Story of the Stone, when read through William Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, A Tragedy in five Acts. ...
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    82,54 €

  • Performing Shakespeare on an Endangered Planet
    Elizabeth Freestone / Katherine Steele Brokaw
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    26,53 €

  • Shakespeare Legally Speaking
    Thomas W. Thrash
    Drawing upon his five decades of experience in the legal profession and an abiding love of Shakespeare, United States District Judge Thomas W. Thrash has written this lively and informative book about the law in Shakespeare’s plays.Shakespeare was not a lawyer, but, as Shakespeare: Legally Speaking demonstrates, he knew much about the law, and this is evidenced in his plays. Al...
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    28,19 €

  • Bare Ruined Choirs
    Lisa Hopkins
    The book discusses the demarcation of secular and sacred territory in early modern English drama. It focuses primarily on four plays, Thorney Abbey, A Knack to Know a Knave, A Shoemaker a Gentleman and The Lovesick King, but puts these in dialogue with Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Doctor Faustus. ...
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    35,47 €


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