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Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times by Patrick Reilly 9781433124228
RRP: $89.98Booksplease Price: $80.07Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague and the constructs of destiny deadly disease... -
AIDS-Trauma and Politics: American Literature and the Search for a Witness by Aimee Pozorski 9781498568081
Booksplease Price: $110.49AIDS-Trauma and Politics considers American literary representations of the social and political silence surrounding the AIDS crisis in the U.S. in the 1980s. The book offers close readings of such... -
The Influence of Mysticism on 20th Century British and American Literature by David Garrett Izzo 9780786441068
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50This volume discusses the relationships between the philosophy of Mysticism, which traces its lineage back into prehistory, with that of the world of more traditional philosophy and literature... -
Fifty Key Figures in Queer US Theatre Jimmy A. Noriega 9781032067964
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.04Whether creating Broadway musicals, experimental dramas, or outrageous comedies, the performers, directors, playwrights, designers, and producers profiled in this collection have contributed to the... -
American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives by Nelson Pressley 9781137437051
Booksplease Price: $118.85Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production... -
Buzz Buzz! Playwrights, Actors and Directors at the National Theatre by Jonathan Croall 9781408105207
Booksplease Price: $35.58Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteen years with leading directors, actors and writers at the National Theatre, Buzz Buzz! is a fantastic compendium that offers... -
Reimagining the Jews of Ireland: Historiography, Identity and Representation by Eamon Maher 9781800790834
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $47.02"This collection marks the coming of age of Irish Jewish Studies. Beautifully curated by Zuleika Rodgers and Natalie Wynn, it brings together the best of recent scholarship, covering history,... -
Text & Presentation, 2016 by Graley Herren 9781476663357
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $51.06Bringing together some of the best work from the 2016 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this collection of essays presents the latest research in comparative drama, performance and... -
Contemporary American Playwrights by Christopher Bigsby 9780521661089
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $121.79Christopher Bigsby explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights: John Guare (House of Blue Leaves), Tina Howe (Museum and Approaching Zanzibar), Pulitzer Prize and Tony... -
Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature by Mary Beth Rose 9783319404530
Booksplease Price: $97.78This book explores the inconsistent literary representations of motherhood in diverse texts ranging from the fourth to the twentieth centuries. Mary Beth Rose unearths plots startling in their... -
Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing by Dean J. Franco 9780813925608
Booksplease Price: $29.01In ""Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing"", Dean J. Franco offers a comparative approach to ethnic literature that begins by accounting for the... -
Michael Gambon: A Life in Acting by Mel Gussow 9781557836441
Booksplease Price: $24.01This is the first book devoted to the actor who has created a judicious blend of high-definition performances on the British stage and a wide range of award-winning television and film roles. ENew... -
Playwriting: The Structure of Action by Sam Smiley 9780300107241
Booksplease Price: $30.19A classic guide to dramatic writing now revised and expanded for a new generation of playwrights and screenwriters This practical guide provides the principles of dramatic writing. Playwrights and... -
Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America" by Allen J. Frantzen 9780226260914
Booksplease Price: $119.42This study challenges the long-held belief that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of homosexuality developed only late in the medieval period... -
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Before the Closet: Same-sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America" by Allen J. Frantzen
Booksplease Price: $36.83This study challenges the long-held belief that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of homosexuality developed only late in the medieval period... -
Britain and the Holocaust: Remembering and Representing War and Genocide by Caroline Sharples 9781349468560
Booksplease Price: $59.70How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials of... -
Contemporary American Playwrights by Christopher Bigsby
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $54.77Christopher Bigsby explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights: John Guare (House of Blue Leaves), Tina Howe (Museum and Approaching Zanzibar), Pulitzer Prize and Tony... -
Not Here, Not Now, Not That!: Protest over Art and Culture in America Steven J. Tepper 9780226792873
Booksplease Price: $43.49In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it... -
Staging the End of the World: Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis by Brian Kulick 9781350309913
Booksplease Price: $91.45This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. Since its inception, theatre has staged the fall of empires, floods, doomsdays, shipwrecks, earthquakes,... -
Violence in American Drama: Essays on Its Staging, Meanings and Effects by Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz 9780786463930
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $43.83This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity,... -
Looking Into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography by Arnold Aronson 9780472098880
Booksplease Price: $97.07Theater is, first and foremost, a visual art; Looking Into the Abyss examines the ways in which the visual theater affects our understanding of the dramatic event. Arnold Aronson, an internationally... -
Looking into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography by Arnold Philip Aronson 9780472068883
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $31.14Theater is, first and foremost, a visual art; Looking Into the Abyss examines the ways in which the visual theater affects our understanding of the dramatic event. Arnold Aronson, an internationally... -
The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities by Robert McRuer 9780814755549
Booksplease Price: $116.84Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots ushered in the contemporary gay liberation movement, overt representations of same-sex desire in American literature and the arts were few and far between. Even in the... -
Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage: Theory in the Body by Fiona Harris Ramsby 9780367680428
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Through a fusion of narrative and analysis, Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage examines how theater can enact critical discourse analysis and how micro-instances of iniquitous language use... -
Not Here, Not Now, Not That!: Protest Over Art and Culture in America by Steven J. Tepper 9780226792866
Booksplease Price: $126.70In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it... -
The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches by Donald Bloxham 9780719037795
Booksplease Price: $30.37Despite the massive literature on the Holocaust, our understanding of it has traditionally been influenced by rather unsophisticated early perspectives and silences. This book summarises and... -
Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond: Salesmen, Sluggers, and Big Daddies by Claire Gleitman 9781350271111
Booksplease Price: $123.18This study examines the anxious male breadwinner as he is incarnated in Arthur Miller's most celebrated plays and as he resurfaces in different guises throughout American drama, from the 1950s to the... -
Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America by Deborah R. Geis 9780472066230
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $31.14Tony Kushner's complex and demanding play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes has been the most talked about, analyzed, and celebrated play of the decade. The critic Harold Bloom has... -
Double Agents: Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens by Erin G. Carlston 9780231136723
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $125.84Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring... -
Double Agents: Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens by Erin G. Carlston 9780231136730
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $34.48Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring... -
Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theatre and Gender by Alisa Solomon
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Re-Dressing the Canon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis... -
Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Anti-Semitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present by Milton Shain 9781431433582
Booksplease Price: $26.30In the third volume of Milton Shain's history of antisemitism in South Africa, he traces and unpacks hostile attitudes towards Jews and irrational fantasies that accompany them in apartheid and... -
Angels in America at the British National Theatre: Premiere, Revival and Transatlantic Legacy, 1993-2018 by Emily Garside 9781476675473
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $52.21Angels in America was one of the most significant pieces of American theatre in the 20th Century. Much has been written on Tony Kushner's epic drama. However, the National Theatre of Great... -
Cornish Studies Volume 15 by Philip Payton 9780859898089
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.38The fifteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. About the AuthorPhilip Payton... -
Theatre and Moral Order by M. Scott Phillips 9780817354572
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29This is a scholarly journal of the largest regional theatre organization in the U.S. The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal ""Theatre Symposium"" investigate how,... -
The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights by Philip C. Kolin 9780786434756
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was never shy about drawing on his personal and family drama for stage material. This collection of 15 essays examines how... -
The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment by Todd McGowan 9780791459683
Booksplease Price: $33.63Winner of the 2004 Gary Olson Award for best book in cultural theory presented by JACExploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the work of such... -
Cornish Studies Volume 16 by Philip Payton 9780859898362
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.38The sixteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. About the AuthorPhilip Payton... -
Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales and Legends: Essays on Recent Plays by Verna A Foster 9780786465125
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $33.35These new essays explore the ways in which contemporary dramatists have retold or otherwise made use of myths, fairy tales and legends from a variety of cultures, including Greek, West African,... -
Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama by David Palmer 9781474276924
Booksplease Price: $124.29This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of...