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Shakespeare's Alternative Tales by Leah Scragg
Booksplease Price: $71.74A knowledge of the history and evolution of the tales on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of his plays is essential for the understanding of his work. In re-telling a particular story, a... -
Mother Bombie: John Lyly by Leah Scragg
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.14Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly's comedies in its urban setting and focus upon middle and lower class concerns. The play turns on the tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four... -
Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning by Leah Scragg 9780333414040
Booksplease Price: $193.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333414040Author Leah ScraggFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint -
Love'S Metamorphosis: John Lyly by Leah Scragg
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.14First performed in the 1580s, Love's Metamorphosis is widely regarded as the most elegantly structured of Lyly's plays. The plot looks back to the account of Erisichthon's punishment for the... -
The Woman in the Moon: By John Lyly by Leah Scragg 9780719072451
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $40.36His last known work and the only one to be written primarily in verse, The Woman in the Moon is among Lyly's most entertaining plays. Turning upon the construction of the female character, it has... -
Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments by Leah Scragg 9781526109484
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.04Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress entertainments focuses on a group of entertainments... -
Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments by Leah Scragg 9781526109477
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $157.92Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress entertainments focuses on a group of entertainments... -
Pap with an Hatchet by John Lyly: An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition Leah Scragg 9780719087387
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $129.38The first fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of Lyly's Pap with an Hatchet, this volume in the Revels Plays Companion Library series opens a window on the most neglected item in the Lylian... -
Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning: An Introduction to the Study of Shakespeare's Dramatic Structures by Leah Scragg 9780582229303
Booksplease Price: $121.59In this useful guide, Leah Scragg indicates some of the ways in which meaning is generated in Shakespearian drama and the kinds of approaches that might lead to a fuller understanding of the plays... -
Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England John Lyly: An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition by Leah Scragg 9780719064593
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.72John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England, created a literary sensation in their own age, and had a profound influence on Elizabethan prose. This modern-spelling edition of... -
Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640 by David M. Bergeron
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $49.43Through an investigation of the dedications and addresses from various printed plays of the English Renaissance, the author recuperates the richness of these prefaces and connects them to the... -
Galatea by John Lyly
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.87Devised as an entertainment for a Tudor monarch, Galatea might be seen, paradoxically, as a parable for our time. Inhabiting a world engaged in a process of change, the characters find themselves... -
Shakespeare's Problem Plays: All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida by Simon Barker 9780333654286
Booksplease Price: $62.06This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of contemporary critical readings of Shakespeare's three 'problem plays': All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Trolius and Cressida. ...