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Tragedy by John Drakakis 9780582209978
Booksplease Price: £59.34This wide-ranging and unique collection of documents on one of the most enduring of literary genres, Tragedy, offers a radical revaluation of its significance in the light of the critical attention... -
Tragedy John Drakakis 9781032013800
Booksplease Price: £20.99Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined... -
Shakespeare's Resources by John Drakakis
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Geoffrey Bullough's The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeare's plays with a series of texts on which they were thought... -
Gothic Shakespeares by John Drakakis
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare's plays are full of ghosts,... -
Tragedy by John Drakakis 9781032013855
Booksplease Price: £110.39Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined... -
British Radio Drama by John Drakakis
Booksplease Price: £32.12There has been little serious attempt in Britain to deal critically and historically with the subject of radio drama. This volume of essays concentrates upon a small group of influential writers who... -
Alternative Shakespeares by John Drakakis 9780415287234
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work centred on the quasi-sacred figure of Shakespeare. In Alternative Shakespeares,... -
Antony and Cleopatra by John Drakakis 9780333555323
Booksplease Price: £33.49A wide-ranging selection from the most recent criticism of Antony and Cleopatra, beginning with seminal work from the 1950s onwards, and culminating in a series of radical reappraisals of the play's... -
Macbeth: A Critical Reader by John Drakakis
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.58ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading... -
Antony and Cleopatra by John Drakakis 9780333555316
Booksplease Price: £102.21A wide-ranging selection from the most recent criticism of Antony and Cleopatra, beginning with seminal work from the 1950s onwards, and culminating in a series of radical reappraisals of the play's... -
Shakespeare's Resources by John Drakakis 9781526174529
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Geoffrey Bullough's The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeare's plays with a series of texts on which they were thought... -
Macbeth: A Critical Reader by John Drakakis 9780567640796
Booksplease Price: £95.49ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading... -
Fascinating Rhythms: Shakespeare, Theory, Culture, and the Legacy of Terence Hawkes John Drakakis 9780367768140
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99As one of the most adventurous literary and cultural critics of his generation, Terence Hawkes' contributions to the study of Shakespeare and the development of literary and cultural theory have been... -
Grotesque by Justin Edwards 9780415519090
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural... -
Epic by Paul Innes 9780415587389
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39This student guidebook offers a clear introduction to an often complex and unwieldy area of literary studies. Tracing epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary... -
Spatiality by Dr. Robert T. Tally 9780415664394
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and... -
Epic by Paul Innes
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This student guidebook offers a clear introduction to an often complex and unwieldy area of literary studies. Tracing epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary... -
Fantasy by Lucie Armitt 9781138676916
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Fantasy provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the study of this fascinating field. Covering literature, film, television, ballet, light opera and visual art and featuring a historical... -
Fairy Tale by Andrew Teverson 9780415616065
Booksplease Price: £26.09This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It: explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genreassesses the various... -
The Sublime by Philip Shaw 9781138859647
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet... -
Fairy Tale by Andrew Teverson
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It: explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genreassesses the various... -
Fantasy Lucie Armitt 9781138677029
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Fantasy provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the study of this fascinating field. Covering literature, film, television, ballet, light opera and visual art and featuring a historical... -
Pastoral by Terry Gifford 9781138124837
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.69Updated throughout, this new edition provides a clear and invaluable introduction to the study of pastoral. Terry Gifford traces the history of the genre from its classical origins through to... -
Modernism Peter Childs 9781138931626
Booksplease Price: £26.09Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what... -
Reception by Ika Willis
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Reception introduces students and academics alike to the study of the way in which texts are received by readers, viewers, and audiences. Organized conceptually and thematically, this book provides a... -
Spatiality by Dr. Robert T. Tally
Booksplease Price: £26.09Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and... -
Colonialism/Postcolonialism Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 9781138807181
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies.This new edition includes a new... -
Race Martin Orkin 9781138904699
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Race offers a compelling introduction to the study of ideas related to race throughout history. Its breadth of coverage, both geographically and temporally, provides readers with an expansive, global... -
Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba 9781138807174
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies.This new edition includes a new... -
Magic(al) Realism by Maggie Ann Bowers
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Bestselling novels by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a multitude of others have enchanted us by blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Their genre of writing has... -
Comedy Andrew Stott 9780415854191
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49This new edition of Andrew Stott's Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as focusing on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies,... -
Comedy by Andrew Stott
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.05This new edition of Andrew Stott's Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as focusing on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies,... -
Pastoral Terry Gifford (University of Chicester, UK) 9781138124844
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Updated throughout, this new edition provides a clear and invaluable introduction to the study of pastoral. Terry Gifford traces the history of the genre from its classical origins through to... -
Magic(al) Realism by Maggie Ann Bowers 9780415268547
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Bestselling novels by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a multitude of others have enchanted us by blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Their genre of writing has... -
Grotesque by Justin Edwards
Booksplease Price: £26.09Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural... -
Temporalities by Russell West-Pavlov
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art... -
Temporalities by Russell West-Pavlov 9780415520737
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art... -
The Merchant Of Venice: Third Series by William Shakespeare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The play was described as a comedy in the First Folio... -
Children's Literature Carrie Hintz 9781138667952
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Children's Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children's literature that presents its competing histories, its... -
Children's Literature by Carrie Hintz 9781138667945
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Children's Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children's literature that presents its competing histories, its...