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Shakespeare's Comedy of Love by Alexander Leggatt
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $111.17First published in 1987. This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their... -
King Lear Alexander Leggatt 9780719062254
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $41.03This updated and expanded analysis of King Lear in performance includes new chapters on the television version of the Royal National Theatre production directed by Richard Eyre and starring Ian Holm;... -
Jacobean Public Theatre by Alexander Leggatt 9780415755030
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $91.37Jacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. It relates this drama to the popular culutre of the day... -
Citizen Comedy in the Age of Shakespeare by Alexander Leggatt
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67This is the first book to survey comprehensively the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean citizen comedy. Most studies of the period focus on major authors; this one follows recurring themes and motifs,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy by Alexander Leggatt 9780521770446
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $199.50First published in 2001, this is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring... -
Introduction to English Renaissance Comedy by Alexander Leggatt 9780719049651
Booksplease Price: $40.38Introduction to English Renaissance comedy provides a comprehensive introduction to Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline comedy, covering both public and private theatres, emphasising the eclectic,... -
Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity by Alexander Leggatt 9780521846240
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $171.61Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity traces the linked themes of violation and identity through seven Shakespearean tragedies, beginning with the rape of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus. The... -
Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity by Alexander Leggatt 9780521608633
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $86.06Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity traces the linked themes of violation and identity through seven Shakespearean tragedies, beginning with the rape of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus. The... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy by Alexander Leggatt 9780521779425
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $48.13First published in 2001, this is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring... -
Ben Jonson: His Vision and His Art by Alexander Leggatt
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $53.63While most critical writing on Jonson concentrates on the plays, poems or masques seen in isolation, this title, first published in 1981, ranges across the genres to explore Jonson's vision as a... -
English Stage Comedy 1490-1990 Alexander Leggatt 9780415189378
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78First published in 2004. English stage comedy has weathered centuries of social and theatrical change. How did it survive? English Stage Comedy 1490-1990 is a unique and beautifully written study of... -
Shakespeare's Political Drama: The History Plays and the Roman Plays by Alexander Leggatt
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58There is political interest everywhere in Shakespeare. Macbeth and Hamlet are concerned with kingship, Measure for Measure with law, The Tempest with power. Shakespeare is consistently interested in... -
William Shakespeare's Macbeth: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Alexander Leggatt
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $175.94William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a timeless tale of love, greed and power, which has given rise to heated debates around such issues as the representation of gender roles, political violence and the... -
English Drama: Shakespeare to the Restoration 1590-1660 by Alexander Leggatt 9780582493117
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $115.69The most important period in the history of English drama is revealed in Alexander Leggatt's challenging account. The author considers English drama from the beginning of Shakespeare's career to the... -
Ben Jonson: His Vision and His Art by Alexander Leggatt 9781138235342
Booksplease Price: $206.75While most critical writing on Jonson concentrates on the plays, poems or masques seen in isolation, this title, first published in 1981, ranges across the genres to explore Jonson's vision as a... -
How to Get a First: The Essential Guide to Academic Success by Thomas Dixon 9780415317337
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $58.78In this informative guide, Thomas Dixon argues that you do not have to be a genius to get a first at university. He sets out to de-mystify first-class degrees in the arts, humanities and social... -
All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9780521535151
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $20.24The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays... -
All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9780521827935
RRP: $132.30Booksplease Price: $123.56The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays... -
Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson 9780713674279
Booksplease Price: $36.10Early modern London - too foggy and Protestant to have a carnival - offered its inhabitants commercial events during which to indulge their need for bodily delights and festival exuberance. The fair... -
Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama by Peter Saccio 9780195123197
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $29.93Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of... -
Service and Dependency in Shakespeare's Plays by Judith Weil 9780521844055
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $179.05This is an unusual study of the nature of service and other types of dependency and patronage in Shakespeare's drama. By considering the close associations of service with childhood or youth,... -
Extraordinary Actors: Essays on Popular Performers by Dr. Jane Milling 9780859897358
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $130.77Dangerous, outrageous, comic and committed, the extraordinary performers collected here have altered the history of popular entertainment in America and Europe. Some have rarely had their story told,... -
The Roaring Girl: A Norton Critical Edition by Thomas Middleton 9780393932775
Booksplease Price: $43.37This Norton Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's The Roaring Girl is based on the text from English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. It is accompanied by generous... -
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare 9781982156893
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.40The authoritative edition of Titus Andronicus from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Titus Andronicus is the earliest... -
Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.50The authoritative edition of Henry IV, Part 1 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. Family relationships are at the...