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Reconsidering National Plays in Europe by Suze Van Der Poll 9783030092030
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.76This volume frames the concept of a national play. By analysing a number of European case studies, it addresses the following question: Which play could be regarded as a country's national play, and... -
Volume 12, Tome III: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art: Sweden and Norway by Jon Stewart
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists. This use can be traced in the work... -
Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature by Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez 9781501384912
Booksplease Price: £31.86Breaking with linearity – the ruling narrative model in the Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world – many 20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms. Juan Luis Toribio... -
Reconsidering National Plays in Europe by Suze Van Der Poll 9783319753331
Booksplease Price: £111.17This volume frames the concept of a national play. By analysing a number of European case studies, it addresses the following question: Which play could be regarded as a country's national play, and... -
Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes by Albert Rothenberg
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses,"Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions-outstanding creativity and psychosis-could coexist in the same individual... -
The Common Years by Jilly Cooper
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73During the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the effects of the... -
Ocean 9788793659827
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05A visual voyage through the enigmatic ocean, where science meets art and where myth meets reality We know more about the surface of Mars than we do about our planet's oceans. And yet the ocean... -
Plays by Lars Noren: Blood and War by Lars Noren 9781884092893
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £12.11Lars Noren, generally considered Sweden's greatest playwright since August Strindberg, has written about 75 plays. While they are regularly performed in Nordic and European countries and have been... -
Three Danish Comedies Johan Ludvig Heiberg 9781840020601
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Includes the plays No, Jeppe of the Hill and The Scatterbrain Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791-1860) and Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) were two of the very few dramatists for whom Henrik Ibsen professed... -
Picturing Ourselves: Photography and Autobiography by Linda Rugg
Booksplease Price: £28.55Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple... -
Picturing Ourselves: Photography and Autobiography by Linda Rugg 9780226731469
Booksplease Price: £92.71Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple... -
Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life by Alisa Zhulina 9780810146341
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Reads canonical works of modern drama in relation to the economic ideas of their era Emerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and wider socioeconomic changes, modern drama enacted vital... -
Broken by Karin Fossum 9780099565536
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A writer wakes one night to find a strange man in her bedroom. He is a character she has invented, but not yet used, and so desperate is he to have his story told that he has resorted to breaking... -
Out of Inferno: Strindberg's Reawakening as an Artist by Harry G. Carlson 9780295975641
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.91In 1897 August Strindberg, almost fifty years old, embarked on one of the great comebacks in the history of literature. For six years he had lived as an exile in Germany, Austria, and France. Though... -
The Wolf: From the author of the Richard & Judy bestseller I’m Travelling Alone by Samuel Bjork 9781529177152
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money money' Sunday Express'Written in Bjork's habitual cool prose, it's an absorbing, twisty novel' Sunday Times'Her name is Mia Kruger, and it is she who makes this... -
![Enquist Four Plays: v.1: "Night of the Tribades"; "Hour of the Lynx"; "Rain Snakes"; "The Image Makers" by Per Olov Enquist 9780413772008](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5293217/5370477/9780413772008__44602.1724910445.jpg?c=1 "Enquist Four Plays: v.1: "Night of the Tribades"; "Hour of the Lynx"; "Rain Snakes"; "The Image Makers" by Per Olov Enquist 9780413772008")
Enquist Four Plays: v.1: "Night of the Tribades"; "Hour of the Lynx"; "Rain Snakes"; "The Image Makers" by Per Olov Enquist 9780413772008
Booksplease Price: £24.96The first collection by Sweden's foremost contemporary playwright NIGHT OF THE TRIBADES (1975) centres around the triangular relationship between August Strindberg, the actress Marie Caroline David... -
![Marber Plays: v. 1: "After Miss Julie"; "Closer"; "Dealer's Choice" by Patrick Marber 9780413774279](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5452573/5529831/9780413774279__37372.1725375464.jpg?c=1 "Marber Plays: v. 1: "After Miss Julie"; "Closer"; "Dealer's Choice" by Patrick Marber 9780413774279")
Marber Plays: v. 1: "After Miss Julie"; "Closer"; "Dealer's Choice" by Patrick Marber 9780413774279
Booksplease Price: £25.46Marber Plays: 1 brings together three of this award-winning playwright's first plays produced at the National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse, London. Dealer's Choice premiered at the Royal National... -
Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele by Bengt Jangfeldt 9781784537586
Booksplease Price: £28.87Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele' tells for the first time the riveting life-story of an extraordinary individual, who came to define the times he lived in. The precociously bright son of a... -
Strindberg and the Poetry of Myth by Harry G. Carlson 9780520364134
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.96Strindberg and the Poetry of Myth by Harry G. Carlson offers a bold reappraisal of August Strindberg, situating him not only as Sweden's national author and Ibsen's chief rival on the world stage but... -
Strindberg and the Poetry of Myth by Harry G. Carlson 9780520321137
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29Strindberg and the Poetry of Myth by Harry G. Carlson offers a bold reappraisal of August Strindberg, situating him not only as Sweden's national author and Ibsen's chief rival on the world stage but... -
Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele by Bengt Jangfeldt 9781845117207
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.56"Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele" tells for the first time the riveting life-story of an extraordinary individual, who came to define the times he lived in.The precociously bright son of a... -
Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum 9780099535843
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water in the middle of the night. But only two... -
Calling out for You by Karin Fossum 9780099565499
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride... -
Forays into Swedish Poetry by Lars Gustafsson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56When poet/critic Lars Gustafsson was the editor of Bonniers Litterara Magasin, he was bombarded with the question, "What makes a good poem?" Forays into Swedish Poetry is his answer.The fifteen poems... -
Strindberg and Modernist Theatre: Post-Inferno Drama on the Stage by Frederick J. Marker 9780521623773
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £54.26Despite the profound influence exerted by August Strindberg on the development of modernist theatre and drama, the myth persisted that his plays - particularly such later works as A Dream Play, To... -
Ann Charlotte Leffler and Modernist Drama: True Women and New Women on the Fin-de-siecle Scandinavian Stage by Lynn R. Wilkinson 9781860570841
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.97Anne Charlotte Leffler (1849-1892) was the most important European woman playwright of the last decades of the nineteenth century and together with Ibsen and Strindberg one of the Scandinavian... -
I'm Travelling Alone: (Munch and Krüger Book 1) by Samuel Bjork 9780552173360
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.67A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Terrific . . . Intelligent and gripping' The Times'Tense, thrilling and genuinely scary' Heat'The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation'... -
![The Son by Jo Nesbo 9780099582144 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9645885/10662605/9780099582144__90072.1781269426.jpg?c=1 "The Son by Jo Nesbo 9780099582144 [USED COPY]")
The Son by Jo Nesbo 9780099582144 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.40*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 60 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE*'A tense, violent and hugely absorbing walk on the murky side of Oslo' Sunday MirrorSonny's on the run.Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the... -
The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy by Martin Puchner 9780199730322
Booksplease Price: £47.61Most philosophy makes little mention of the theater except to denounce it as a place of illusion and moral decay. The theater has tended to respond in kind by steering away from philosophy, driven by... -
The Portable Chekhov by Anton Chekhov 9780140150353
Booksplease Price: £19.65Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is... -
The Dolls by Ursula Scavenius
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62In the four stories that make up The Dolls, characters are plagued by unexplained illnesses and oblique, human-made disasters and environmental losses. A big sister descends into the family basement... -
![I'm Travelling Alone: (Munch and Kruger Book 1) by Samuel Bjork 9780552170901 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9647857/10664577/9780552170901__71139.1781271083.jpg?c=1 "I'm Travelling Alone: (Munch and Kruger Book 1) by Samuel Bjork 9780552170901 [USED COPY]")
I'm Travelling Alone: (Munch and Kruger Book 1) by Samuel Bjork 9780552170901 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Terrific . . . Intelligent and gripping' The Times'Tense, thrilling and genuinely scary' Heat'The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation'... -
The Antipodes by Annie Baker
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.79A group of people sit around a table theorising, categorising and telling stories. Their real purpose is never quite clear, but they continue on, searching for the monstrous. Part satire, part... -
Yeats and European Drama by Michael McAteer
Booksplease Price: £32.12Michael McAteer examines the plays of W. B. Yeats, considering their place in European theatre during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This original study considers the relationship... -
The Brightening Air Conor McPherson 9781839044199
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42How much of living is really just forgetting? The family home is more than merely a building. It can be a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or even magic. ... -
Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance by Freddie Rokem
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking... -
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Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance by Freddie Rokem 9780804763493 [USED COPY]
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £1.06The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking... -
Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 9781852249977
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Poet, novelist, and philosopher Lars Gustafsson (1936-2016) was one of Europe's leading literary figures. Much of his writing is concerned with the search for moral consciousness and the relationship... -
Strindberg on Drama and Theatre by Birgitta Steene
Booksplease Price: £37.99Sweden's August Strindberg (1849-1912) has long been recognised as one of the leading dramatists around the turn of the last century. His electrifying theatre work resonated with the public in his... -
Joanne by Deborah Bruce
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.42Five characters share a common thread: Joanne. But it's not about her. It's about Stella, whose tomorrow is as far away as winter from summer. It's the way Grace finds her song on the footpath...