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Children's Literature by Carrie Hintz 9781138667945
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $142.40Children's Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children's literature that presents its competing histories, its... -
Temporalities by Russell West-Pavlov
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $30.37Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art... -
Temporalities by Russell West-Pavlov 9780415520737
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $142.40Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art... -
The Merchant Of Venice: Third Series by William Shakespeare
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.96The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The play was described as a comedy in the First Folio... -
The Merchant Of Venice: Third Series by William Shakespeare 9781903436806
Booksplease Price: $104.14The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The play was described as a comedy in the First Folio... -
Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies by Dennis Austin Britton
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $58.17This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about what should be counted as sources in Shakespeare studies. The essays demonstrate that source study... -
Trauma Lucy Bond (University of Westminster, UK) 9780415540414
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $142.40Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of the... -
Chinese Big Business in Indonesia: The State of Capital by Christian Chua
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $70.92The disintegration of Indonesia's New Order regime in 1998 and the fall of Soeharto put an end to the crude forms of centralised authoritarianism and economic protectionism that allowed large Chinese... -
Trauma Lucy Bond (University of Westminster, UK) 9780415540421
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $30.37Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of the... -
Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange: Early Modern to Present by Enza De Francisci
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78This interdisciplinary, transhistorical collection brings together international scholars from English literature, Italian studies, performance history, and comparative literature to offer new... -
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre by Naomi Conn Liebler 9780415131834
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy is a unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Naomi Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Coriolanus and... -
Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Third Edition by Jonathan Dollimore 9780230243132
Booksplease Price: $47.50When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with compelling... -
Performing the Renaissance Body: Essays on Drama, Law, and Representation by Sidia Fiorato 9783110462593
RRP: $155.45Booksplease Price: $105.75In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal codification. Due to its ambivalent expressive... -
Why Shakespeare? by Catherine Belsey 9781403993205
Booksplease Price: $34.70Why is Shakespeare as highly regarded now as he ever has been? This book's answer to this question counters claims that Shakespeare's iconic status is no more than an accident of history. The plays,... -
The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare by Martin Coyle 9780333668986
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $35.90This collection of essays is aimed at students who are working on The Merchant of Venice and who are looking for new ways of thinking about the play and new ways of thinking about their own practice... -
Presentist Shakespeares by Hugh Grady
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Presentist Shakespeares is the first extended study of the principles and practice of 'presentism', a critical movement that takes account of the never-ending dialogue between past and present.In... -
Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic by Dale Townshend 9781316619674
Booksplease Price: $41.43This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823). While... -
King Henry V: A Critical Reader by Line Cottegnies 9781350164796
Booksplease Price: $40.66Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading... -
Shakespeare's Englishes: Against Englishness by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton 9781108493734
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $115.70Whose English is 'true' English? What is its relation to the national character? These were urgent questions in Shakespeare's England just as questions of language and identity are today. Through... -
Shakespeare's Englishes: Against Englishness by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
Booksplease Price: $41.43Whose English is 'true' English? What is its relation to the national character? These were urgent questions in Shakespeare's England just as questions of language and identity are today. Through... -
The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama by Lorna Hutson 9780199691487
Booksplease Price: $74.74The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive... -
Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson by Bill Angus 9781474415118
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $116.87Explores disturbing connections between authors and informers revealed in the metadrama of Shakespeare and Jonson Have you ever wondered what was really going on in the inner-plays, secret... -
Shakespeare and Venice Graham Holderness 9781138251502
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $67.65Shakespeare and Venice is the first book length study to describe and chronicle the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages and has persisted in fiction and film to the present day... -
Shakespeare's Comedies: All That Matters Michael Scott 9781444189957
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75In Shakespeare's Comedies: All That Matters, Mike Scott explores and explains the secrets that have made Shakespeare's comedies so enduring that they continue to be performed, watched and studied by... -
Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage by B. Reynolds 9781349542642
Booksplease Price: $59.70To 'rematerialize' in the sense of Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage is not to recover a lost material infrastructure, as Marx spoke of, nor... -
Reading Shakespeare's Mind by Steve Sohmer 9781526138071
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $25.21This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerous characters and events were drawn from the author's... -
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England by Stephen J. Greenblatt 9780198122272
Booksplease Price: $62.71Stephen Greenblatt has been at the centre of a major shift in literary interpretation towards a critical method that places cultural creation in history. In this book - a sustained and powerful... -
Reading Shakespeare's Mind by Steve Sohmer
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerous characters and events were drawn from the author's... -
The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre by Susan Zimmerman
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $39.00Now available in paperback, The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English... -
Marlowe and Shakespeare: The Critical Rivalry by Robert Sawyer 9781349952267
Booksplease Price: $144.39Instead of asserting any alleged rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare, Sawyer examines the literary reception of the two when the writers are placed in tandem during critical discourse or artistic... -
Hamlet's Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England by Andras Kisery 9780198822264
Booksplease Price: $45.86Hamlet's Moment identifies a turning point in the history of English drama and early modern political culture: the moment when the business of politics became a matter of dramatic representation... -
Hamlet's Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England by Andr^D'as Kis^D'ery 9780198746201
Booksplease Price: $151.86Hamlet's Moment identifies a turning point in the history of English drama and early modern political culture: the moment when the business of politics became a matter of dramatic representation... -
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard
Booksplease Price: $40.54Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to... -
Voices and Books in the English Renaissance by Jennifer Richards 9780192882240
Booksplease Price: $40.54Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice- or performance-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader, who... -
Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading by Jennifer C. Richardson 9780198809067
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $95.81Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice- or performance-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader, who... -
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard 9780198793113
Booksplease Price: $135.41Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to...