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Hamlet by John Russell Brown 9781403920928
Booksplease Price: £24.92The commentary at the centre of this groundbreaking introduction alerts the reader to what happens on stage during a performance by showing what the text requires from actors and the choices they are... -
Studying Shakespeare by John Russell Brown 9780333319413
Booksplease Price: £34.47Part of the Casebook Series, this book examines how Shakespeare can best be studied and provides a discussion about method and an account of the critical approaches in use from Shakespeare's time to... -
King Lear by John Russell Brown 9781403986894
Booksplease Price: £23.49An introductory guide to King Lear in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of... -
Designers' Shakespeare John Russell Brown 9780415525077
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Theatre Design involves everything seen on stage: not only scenery but costumes, wigs, makeup, properties, lighting, sound, even the shape and material of the stage itself. Designers' Shakespeare... -
William Shakespeare by John Russell Brown 9780333639221
Booksplease Price: £40.38Written for performance, Shakespeare's plays are very different texts from any intended for a reader with book in hand and they require a different kind of attention. John Russell Brown's latest book... -
Focus on Macbeth John Russell Brown 9780415612173
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 1982.Macbeth exercises a strange influence over readers and theatre audiences: the words of the text offer no easy clue to meaning or significance and in dramatic structure the... -
King Lear by John Russell Brown 9781403986887
Booksplease Price: £71.55An introductory guide to King Lear in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of... -
Shakespeare and his Comedies by John Russell Brown 9780415850582
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59First published in 1957. This edition reprints the second edition of 1962.The originality, vitality and variety of Shakespeare's comedies do not suggest a writer at ease with a formula which works to... -
Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two by John Russell Brown 9781557830494
Booksplease Price: £13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557830494Author John Russell BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprin -
Shakespeare's Plays in Performance by John Russell Brown 9781557831361
Booksplease Price: £16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557831361Author John Russell BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprin -
Studying Shakespeare in Performance by John Russell Brown 9780230273740
Booksplease Price: £37.81John Russell Brown is arguably the most influential scholar in the field of Shakespeare in performance. This collection brings together and makes accessible his most important writings across the... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre by John Russell Brown
RRP: £29.49Booksplease Price: £23.46Authoritative and wide-ranging, this absorbing account of the history of theatre draws on the latest scholarly research to describe and celebrate theatre's greatest achievemenst over 4,500 years,... -
Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra by John Russell Brown 9780333533604
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.52This revision of the successful Casebook first published in 1968, brings the book up-to-date for the 1990's, both with new criticism and with reviews of new productions. The detailed 'Critical... -
The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare by John Russell Brown
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.64The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of theatre's most... -
Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event by John Russell Brown 9780333801321
Booksplease Price: £39.39In his latest book, John Russell Brown offers a new and revealing way of reading and studying Shakespeare's plays, focusing on what a play does for an audience, as well as what its text says. By... -
The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare by John Russell Brown 9780415483018
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare is a window onto how today's actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare's plays. The process of acting is notoriously hard to... -
Shakespeare Dancing: A Theatrical Study of the Plays by John Russell Brown 9781403941961
Booksplease Price: £40.38The Dancing of the title was in Shakespeare's mind as he wrote: a physical and active imagination. This book studies its operation in his most frequently performed texts and encourages readers to... -
New Sites For Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia John Russell Brown 9780415194501
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83In the course of exploring the theatrical cultures of South and East Asia, eminent Shakespeareanist John Russell Brown developed some remarkable theories about the nature of performance, the state of... -
Marlowe: Tamburlaine, Edward II and The Jew of Malta by John Russell Brown 9780333283646
Booksplease Price: £35.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333283646Format PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher < -
Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television: An outline for the student by John Russell Brown 9781032505015
Booksplease Price: £110.39First published in 1971, Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television is concerned with the nature of theatre as a subject for study and the ways of studying it. All its contributors have... -
Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television: An outline for the student by John Russell Brown 9781032505022
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.79First published in 1971, Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television is concerned with the nature of theatre as a subject for study and the ways of studying it. All its contributors have... -
Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing and As You Like It by John Russell Brown 9780333194218
Booksplease Price: £35.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333194218Author NA NAFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint -
A.C. Bradley on Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Concise Edition and Reassessment by John Russell Brown 9780230007550
Booksplease Price: £39.80This guide helps students navigate A.C. Bradley's classic text, while providing an important commentary on the value of Bradley's approach and how it can be adapted to present-day interests. John... -
The Duchess of Malfi: By John Webster John Brown 9780719075186
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.47More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an improved, accessible and throughly up-to-date edition. Starting with... -
Shakespeare: Richard II by Nicholas Brooke 9780333039373
Booksplease Price: £33.49This critical volume offers an invaluable selection of early criticism and modern commentaries by Richard D. Altick, E.M.W. Tillyard, M.C. Bradbrook, Brents Sterling, E.H. Kantorowicz, J.A. Bryant... -
The White Devil: By John Webster by John Brown
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.94In this study of sexual and political intrigue, a fascinating but dangerous woman consents to the murder of her ineffectual husband. Her defence against the charge of adultery transforms the lurid... -
Shakespeare and Audience in Practice by Stephen Purcell 9780230364035
Booksplease Price: £91.39What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespearean play? What makes them respond in the ways that they do? This book examines a wide range of theatrical productions to explore the practice of being a... -
Shakespeare's Theatre by Peter Thomson
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Reviews of the First Edition`...valuable and enjoyable reading for all studying Shakespeare's plays.'Following in the patternestablished by John Russell Brown for the excellent series (Theatre and... -
Julius Caesar Paul Sugarman 9781493057023
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.98Curating material from Applause's Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two by John Russell Brown, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends by Neil Freeman, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First... -
The Tempest Paul Sugarman 9781493057108
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.04Curating material from Applause's Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two by John Russell Brown, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends by Neil Freeman, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First... -
Othello Paul Sugarman 9781493057061
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.91Curating material from Applause's Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two by John Russell Brown, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends by Neil Freeman, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First... -
Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre by P. Edmondson 9780230218673
Booksplease Price: £95.49A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Leading performance critics dismantle Shakespeare's texts, identifying theatrical cues in... -
Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre by P. Edmondson 9780230218680
Booksplease Price: £31.86A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Leading performance critics dismantle Shakespeare's texts, identifying theatrical cues in... -
The Duchess of Malfi: By John Webster (Revels Student Editions) by John Brown
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.94More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchesss of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the often... -
Shakespeare and Political Theatre in Practice by Andrew James Hartley 9780230370074
Booksplease Price: £29.55What makes a Shakespeare production political? Can Shakespeare's plays ever be truly radical?Revealing the unspoken politics of Shakespeare's plays on stage, Andrew Hartley examines their nature,... -
Shakespeare and Political Theatre in Practice by Andrew James Hartley 9780230370067
Booksplease Price: £91.39What makes a Shakespeare production political? Can Shakespeare's plays ever be truly radical?Revealing the unspoken politics of Shakespeare's plays on stage, Andrew Hartley examines their nature,... -
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Applause Shakespeare Workbook by Paul Sugarman 9781493057085
Booksplease Price: £16.21Curating material from Applause's Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First Folio Editions, we've created the... -
Macbeth: Applause Shakespeare Workbook by Paul Sugarman 9781493057047
Booksplease Price: £16.21Curating material from Applause's Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First Folio Editions, we've created the... -
Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage by Takashi Sasayama 9780521470438
Booksplease Price: £107.47In this book, originally published in 1999, leading Shakespeare scholars from Japan and the West broke new ground by studying the interaction of Japanese and Western conceptions of Shakespeare, and... -
What is Theatre?: An Introduction and Exploration by John Brown
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £55.10This major introductory textbook is from one of the leading educators working in theatre today. What Is Theatre? will make its reader a better playgoer, responding more fully to performance, with a...