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King Lear by Kiernan Ryan 9780333555309
Booksplease Price: €40.27Looks at the diversity of the latest feminist, post-structuralist and new historicist accounts of "King Lear". The contributors include Stephen Greenblatt, Terry Eagleton, Annabel Patterson and... -
Shakespeare's Comedies by Kiernan Ryan 9780333599310
Booksplease Price: €122.70In this groundbreaking book one of the most original and compelling voices in contemporary Shakespeare criticism undertakes a detailed study of the ten extraordinary comedies Shakespeare wrote during... -
Shakespeare's Comedies by Kiernan Ryan 9780333599327
Booksplease Price: €41.46In this groundbreaking book one of the most original and compelling voices in contemporary Shakespeare criticism undertakes a detailed study of the ten extraordinary comedies Shakespeare wrote during... -
Shakespeare: The Last Plays by Kiernan Ryan 9780582275737
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €62.20This is the first collection of criticism on Shakespeare's romances to register the impact of modern literary theory on interpretations of these plays. Kiernan Ryan brings together the most important... -
Shakespearean Tragedy by Professor Kiernan Ryan 9781472586995
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €91.40This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare's... -
Shakespearean Tragedy by Professor Kiernan Ryan 9781472586988
Booksplease Price: €29.61This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare's... -
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: A Reader by Kiernan Ryan 9780340614587
Booksplease Price: €34.37New Historicism and Cultural Materialism have become two of the most powerful and appealing movements in modern criticism. Their conquest of Renaissance studies has escalated into global... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9780141396460
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94'The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world' Percy Bysshe ShelleyShakespeare's bleak and brutal tragedy begins when an ageing king, seeking a successor, rejects the young... -
Shakespeare in French Theory: King of Shadows Richard Wilson 9780415421652
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is frequently being questioned, Richard Wilson makes a compelling case for French Theory in Shakespeare Studies. Written in two parts, the first... -
Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis Philip Armstrong 9780415207225
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66The link between psychoanalysis as a mode of interpretation and Shakespeare's works is well known. But rather than merely putting Shakespeare on the couch, Philip Armstrong focuses on the complex and... -
Ian McEwan's Enduring Love: A Routledge Study Guide by Peter Childs 9780415345590
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled... -
Why Shakespeare? by Catherine Belsey 9781403993205
Booksplease Price: €32.01Why is Shakespeare as highly regarded now as he ever has been? This book's answer to this question counters claims that Shakespeare's iconic status is no more than an accident of history. The plays,... -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9780141396507
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94'The Mona Lisa of literature' T. S. EliotIn Shakespeare's verbally dazzling and eternally enigmatic exploration of conscience, madness and the nature of humanity, a young prince meets his father's... -
The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare by Martin Coyle 9780333668986
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €33.12This collection of essays is aimed at students who are working on The Merchant of Venice and who are looking for new ways of thinking about the play and new ways of thinking about their own practice... -
Presentist Shakespeares by Hugh Grady
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Presentist Shakespeares is the first extended study of the principles and practice of 'presentism', a critical movement that takes account of the never-ending dialogue between past and present.In... -
William Shakespeare Complete Works The Comedies: Based on the First Folio of James Heminges and Henry Condell William Shakespeare 9781835622520
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.55Based also on the new proofread and copy edited text of bestselling 2011 Flame Tree Illustrated Shakespeare, The Comedies sits alongside The Histories and The Tragedies to create a delightful... -
On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare's Drama by Sophie Battell 9781474475686
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €102.57In this critical analysis, Sophie E. Battell examines hospitality in Shakespeare's plays. By drawing on literary theory, modern philosophy, and anthropology as well as early modern scientific and... -
Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Third Edition by Jonathan Dollimore 9780230243132
Booksplease Price: €43.82When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with compelling... -
Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture Catherine Belsey (University of Wales College of Cardiff) 9780631168140
RRP: €46.35Booksplease Price: €44.17In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction - including poetry, drama and film - is paradoxically... -
Shakespeare Thinking by Philip Davis 9780826486950
Booksplease Price: €33.19"Shakespeare Now!" is a series of short books of truly vital literary scholarship, each with its own distinctive form. "Shakespeare Now!" recaptures the excitement of Shakespeare; it doesn't assume... -
'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye by Brian Vickers 9780521120357
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €47.02'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare addresses the fundamental issue of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In recent years his authorship has been claimed for two poems, the lyric... -
The Demonic: Literature and Experience by Ewan Fernie
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what we're not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open...