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Lincoln and Shakespeare by Michael Anderegg 9780700632657
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Lincoln Prize Finalist It was the measure of Shakespeare's poetic greatness, an early commentator remarked, that he thoroughly blended the ideal with the practical or realistic. "If this be so,"... -
Edwin Booth: A Bio-Bibliography by L. Terry Oggel 9780313261954
Booksplease Price: £66.27Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Edwin Booth: A Biography and Performance History by Arthur W. Bloom 9781476681269
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.99The great nineteenth-century stage actor Edwin Booth began his long career in 1849 as a young teenager, following in his father's footsteps. This biography traces his life and career as a tragic... -
Shakespeare's Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice: as Produced by Edwin Booth by Shakespeare Shakespeare 9780461486872
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461486872Author Shakespeare ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 110 -
Between Actor and Critic: Selected Letters of Edwin Booth and William Winter by Daniel J. Watermeier 9780691620480
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.43Sarah Bernhardt, London, his own acting--Edwin Booth commented on these and hundreds of other subjects in letters to William Winter, friend of twenty years and drama critic for the New York Tribune... -
William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook Sean McEvoy 9780415314329
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £90.68William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world... -
William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook Sean McEvoy (Varndean College, Brighton, UK and Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9780415314336
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.57William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world... -
Americans on Shakespeare, 1776-1914 Peter Rawlings 9781138324466
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Published in 1999. Shakespeare is 'the great author of America' declared James Fenimore Cooper in 1828. The ambiguous resonance of this claim is fully borne out in this collection of writings on... -
Shylock on the Stage by Toby Lelyveld
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Originally published in 1961, this book is a study of the ways actors since the time of Shakespeare have portrayed the character of Shylock. A pioneering work in the study of performance history as... -
The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever... -
The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus 9780691210186
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the outsized attention they receive? Sharon Marcus... -
Othello: Critical Essays Susan Snyder 9781138854949
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Originally published in 1988. Selections here are organised chronologically looking at both theatrical commentary and literary criticism. The organisation brings out the shifts in emphasis as each... -
Macbeth: Critical Essays by Samuel Schoenbaum 9781138887770
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Originally published in 1991. Collecting together commentary and critique on 'the Scottish play', this book showcases varied discussions of the text and the theatrical productions. From Samuel... -
Storied & Scandalous Kansas City: A History of Corruption, Mischief and a Whole Lot of Booze by Karla Deel 9781493042432
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44A toast to the wild parties, the wicked deeds, the streets and the characters who colored Kansas City history. Welcome to Kansas City-the best town this side of Hell. The Paris of the Plains. Home... -
Edwin Forrest: A Biography and Performance History by Arthur W. Bloom 9781476677545
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.28Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century. His advocacy of American, and specifically Jacksonian, themes made him popular in New York's Bowery Theatre. His rivalry... -
José Ferrer: Success and Survival by Mike Peros 9781496816627
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29Jose Ferrer (1912-1992) became the first Puerto Rican actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for the 1950 film version of Cyrano de Bergerac.His portrayal of the lovelorn poet/swordsman had... -
Renegades, Showmen and Angels: A Theatrical History of Fort Worth, 1873-2001 by Jan L. Jones 9780875653181
Booksplease Price: £30.68Jan L. Jones' second volume on Fort Worth's theatrical heritage presents for the first time a richly illustrated, comprehensive history of the showmen, performers, theaters, and events that shaped... -
Charlotte Cushman: A Biography and Performance History by Arthur W. Bloom
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.78Charlotte Cushman, one of the great actors of 19th century American theatre, was a lesbian who kept her identity hidden by focusing her career on male characters (Romeo, Claude Melnotte, Wolsey),... -
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Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells 9780198703297 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £2.71Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing... -
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.01Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing... -
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells 9780198769729
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £11.78Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing... -
What I Didn't See by Karen Joy Fowler 9781931520485
Booksplease Price: £12.35World Fantasy Award Winner Shirley Jackson Awards shortlist Locus Award shortlist Story Prize Notable Books Frank O'Connor Award longlist "Beautifully written and subtly discomforting stories...