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Essays on The Glass Menagerie: Truth in the Pleasant Disguise of Illusion Tania Chakravertty 9781032823874
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.00This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America’s greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwright’s deep indebtedness to the Southern... -
Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre by Thomas Fahy
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66The first collection on this important topic, Captive Audience examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre. Beginning with an... -
The Run of the House by Wyatt Prunty 9780801846267
Booksplease Price: €24.35In his latest book of poems, Wyatt Pruncy finds beauty, violence, mystery, and humour in a variety of public and private worlds. Wyatt Prunty's previous collections of poems, "The Times Between, What... -
Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre by Thomas Fahy 9780415762588
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.33The first collection on this important topic, Captive Audience examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre. Beginning with an... -
Charleston: A Novel by Margaret Bradham Thornton 9780062332523
Booksplease Price: €19.93A gifted writer makes her fiction debut with this lyrical and haunting story of missed chances and enduring love, set against the backdrop of high society Charleston, which probes the eternal... -
Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama by David Palmer 9781474276924
Booksplease Price: €114.66This 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... -
Razzle Dazzle 'Em: New Yorker Profiles of Show-Biz Legends John Lahr 9781848227330
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €24.70In Razzle Dazzle 'Em, John Lahr, the lead theatre critic for The New Yorker for 21 years and a multi-award-winning biographer, captures the essence of some of Hollywood's most influential actors and... -
Charleston: A Novel by Margaret Bradham Thornton 9780062332530
Booksplease Price: €14.02A gifted writer makes her fiction debut with this lyrical and haunting story of missed chances and enduring love, set against the backdrop of high society Charleston, which probes the eternal... -
Plays: The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their... -
A House in Sicily by Daphne Phelps 9780786707942
Booksplease Price: €19.74This is the captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful house in Sicily." For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne... -
In the Twilight by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58In the Twilight, the third collection of short stories compiled by Anton Chekhov himself, was his first major success and won him the prestigious Pushkin Prize when it was published in 1888. This... -
Drummer Boy Willie McGee, Civil War Hero and Fraud by Thomas Fox 9780786432899
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €23.31On December 7, 1864, just one week after the bloody battle of Franklin, Tennessee, William McGee, a drummer boy from Newark, New Jersey, was credited with leading a Federal force to a decisive... -
The Authorised Kate Bane by Ella Hickson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.10A painfully comic excavation of a family history that asks if there is an authorised version of the past - or just the one we can live with. Kate Bane returns home to her parents for a winter... -
Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century by Mark Lilly 9780814750711
Booksplease Price: €107.78Mainstream academic criticism has usually failed to engage gay work without distorting or ignoring its most central features. In gay men's writing, tenderness lies side by side with rage, and... -
Gay Artists In Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy by Michael S. Sherry 9781469628417
Booksplease Price: €46.93Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-twentieth-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel... -
William Inge and the Subversion of Gender: Rewriting Stereotypes in the Plays, Novels, and Screenplays by Jeff Johnson 9780786420629
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.98Inspired by a meeting with Tennessee Williams, American playwright William Inge found success early, winning a Pulitzer for drama and an Academy Award for best screenplay. His small-town... -
Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia Peter Schmitz 9781955041379
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €27.26A collection of stories and fascinating facets of theater history in Philadelphia._x000D_ _x000D_ From the founding of The Walnut Street Theatre and the beginning of the American circus to the world... -
Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 by Michael P. Bibler 9780813927916
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €69.58Finally breaking through heterosexual cliches of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty 'Jezebels', ""Cotton's Queer Relations"" exposes the queer... -
Making Theatre: From Text to Performance by Peter Mudford 9780485121582
Booksplease Price: €54.44This reality of a play is in its performance. Making Theatre focusses on the process by which performance is realised, analysing three major areas: 'Words' and the interpretation of the text;... -
Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century by Mark Lilly 9780814750810
Booksplease Price: €36.63Mainstream academic criticism has usually failed to engage gay work without distorting or ignoring its most central features. In gay men's writing, tenderness lies side by side with rage, and... -
Faces Mohamed Choukri 9781647124779
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €18.89The first English translation of one of the novels that helped change modern Arab literature Mohamed Choukri, one of the most important writers of modern Moroccan literature, grew up in extreme... -
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D' by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina 9781250325747
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.89From the elegant to the entitled, from royalty to the financially ruined, everyone who wanted to be seen - or just to gawk - at the hottest restaurants in New York City came to places Michael... -
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1940s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Felicia Hardison Londre 9781350215450
Booksplease Price: €41.46The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a... -
Booked: A Traveler's Guide to Literary Locations Around the World by Richard Kreitner
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.30A must-have for every fan of literature, Booked inspires readers to follow in their favorite characters footsteps by visiting the real-life locations portrayed in beloved novels including the... -
Understanding David Mamet: With a New Preface by Brenda Murphy
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74A new preface covers Mamet's most recent plays and nonfiction writingUnderstanding David Mamet analyzes the broad range of David Mamet's plays and places them in the context of his career as a... -
I Will Be Cleopatra: An Actress's Journey by Zoe Caldwell 9780393323603
RRP: €22.02Booksplease Price: €18.52This is a riveting account of a determined yet modest woman who became one of the leading classical and Broadway actors of our time, working with such luminaries as Paul Robeson, Laurence Olivier,... -
Modern Monologues: v.2: Women by Michael Earley 9780413672209
Booksplease Price: €24.93The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre - and the plays most constantly performed are represented in this unique collection. Playwrights include: Ayckbourn, Bond, Beckett,... -
Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 by Patrick Lonergan 9781474262644
Booksplease Price: €102.85Drawing on major new archival discoveries and recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an innovative, highly readable and informative account of Irish drama and theatre since 1950. The book focuses... -
Edward Albee by Toby Zinman 9780472069194
Booksplease Price: €25.67A theater lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most important living playwrightsEdward Albee was a giant in American theater, in the same pantheon with Arthur Miller, Eugene... -
Edward Albee by Toby Zinman 9780472099191
Booksplease Price: €88.23A theater lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most important living playwrightsEdward Albee was a giant in American theater, in the same pantheon with Arthur Miller, Eugene... -
Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration by Michal Choinski 9780807172988
Booksplease Price: €54.95In Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration, Micha? Choi?ski confronts the often paradoxical and excessive elements of southern literature, focusing on dominant narrative modes and... -
Vanishing Acts: Theater Since the Sixties by Gordon Rogoff 9780300087772
Booksplease Price: €39.28In this outstanding collection of critical writings, some published here for the first time, Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theater in America over the past forty years. His view of modern... -
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 9780349010342
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Remember you must die.Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle to receive insinuating anonymous phone calls. Neither she, nor her friends, wish to be reminded of their mortality, and their... -
The Kiss and Other Stories: New Translation Anton Chekhov 9781847494191
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58While at a party organized by the local landowner for the officers of his brigade, the shy and awkward Ryabovich is suddenly kissed by an unknown woman in a dark room. This unexpected, electrifying... -
Kiss and Tell: Selected Stories by John Sam Jones 9781913640460
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €8.34These sensual stories by prize-winning author John Sam Jones reveal lucid prose and complex lives. Moving through city steam rooms, rugged North Wales mountains and estuaries facing other places... -
After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama by Patrick Maley 9780813942995
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €53.98Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that... -
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Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity by Robert J. Corber 9780822319566 [USED COPY]
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €10.71Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert... -
Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity by Robert J. Corber 9780822319641
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert... -
Three Birds by Janice Okoh
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.66A startling and darkly comic drama about childhood, family and fantasy. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize 2011. Siblings Tiana, Tionne and Tanika have found themselves home alone. Tiana's keeping it... -
The Basset Hound Owner's Survival Guide by Diane Morgan 9780876050187
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €24.38The Basset Hound Owner's Survival Guide will delight every Basset Hound aficionado with its light-hearted look at this quirky breed of dog. Filled with charming stories, photos and drawings of...