Literary Theory

Part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times...

From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified...

Provides illuminating answers to many questions: why did Sophocles develop character-drawing? How and why does it differ from that of Aeschylus? Why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and...

Sir John Falstaff is, without doubt, a rogue. True, he is fat, jolly, and in a way lovable, but he is still a rogue. His men rob and plunder the...

Offering a political critique of Shakespeare's writings and the uses they are put to, these essays suggest that the activity of criticism is itself a site for political intervention.

This third book in a new series of magazine-style reviews of the performing arts, presents an introduction to the writers who are helping to shape the future of the British...

This text focuses on the cross-cultural experience, arguing that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions, and reinscribes stage aliens such as Jews, Moors, Amazons, and gypsies and thus interrogates a Eurocentric perspective and...

This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting...

What can the printed texts of plays from Shakespeare's time say about performance? How have printed plays been read and interpreted? This collection of essays considers the evidence of early...

A gripping narrative history of Spain's most brilliant and troubled literary family--a tale about the making of art, myth, and legacy--set against the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War and...

Now a mother herself, Harrison has written a memoir about the ties that bind mothers to their children - and the forces that can drive them apart. She reveals the...

Containing many paintings, and a collection of his words on love, this title is aimed at lovers of Shakespeare and to also people in love.

Author: Kenneth MuirBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some yellowing on blockThis compelling Shakespearean drama, Troilus And Cressida, presents a cynical and...

beaurocrats who blocked him at every turn, and after a hopelessly unsuccessful marriage he was murdered in a dual aged 37.

Author: J. O. BaileyBinding: HardbackPublished: THE ODYSSEY PRESS INC NEW YORKCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Foxing on block, binding fadedBritish Plays Of The Nineteenth Century: An Anthology To...

Author: Jack Bedson And Julian CroftBinding: PaperbackPublished: Centre For Australian Language and Literary Studies, University of New England, Armidale, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as...

Author: Jan Needle And Peter ThomsonBinding: HardbackPublished: The University of Chicago Press, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Folding on back of dust jacketThis insightful volume presents a...

Author: Mordecai GorelikBinding: HardbackPublished: Samuel French, 1947Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Clear cover over DJ. Wear and fading to DJ. Light chipping...

Author: James SutherlandBinding: PaperbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageJames Sutherland's Restoration Tragedies presents a scholarly examination of the...

Author: F. R. LeavisBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cambridge at the University Press, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis collection presents a rigorous examination of...

Author: V. J. ScattergoodBinding: PaperbackPublished: Blandford Press, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly work uncovers the intricate connections between the political...

Author: Brigitte GrothumBinding: PaperbackPublished: Blandford, London, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerUnknown

Author: Harold Bloom (Editor)Binding: HardbackPublished: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis academic collection presents a comprehensive overview of critical perspectives on the...

Author: James Branch CabellBinding: HardbackPublished: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1925Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Yellowed on block, faded along spineBeyond Life by James Branch Cabell presents...

Author: Clive JamesBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton , 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsVisions Before Midnight presents a collection of incisive and often humorous essays on television...

Author: F. W. J. HemmingsBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1953Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work chronicles the life and literary contributions of the influential French novelist...

Author: Robert WeimannBinding: PaperbackPublished: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image'Shakespeare And The Popular Tradition In The Theater:...

Author: J. A. V. ChappleBinding: PaperbackPublished: Blandford Press, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis academic work examines the intricate relationship between factual reporting and creative expression in literature...

Author: Justin Wintle And Emma FisherBinding: HardbackPublished: Paddington Press Ltd, 1974Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markings'The Pied Pipers: Interviews With The Influential...

Author: Margery M. MorganBinding: PaperbackPublished: Methuen & Co, 1972Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis academic work presents a comprehensive analysis of George...

Author: Leslie ReesBinding: HardbackPublished: ANGUS AND ROBERTSON, 1953Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsTowards An Australian Drama chronicles the compelling development of theatrical arts in Australia, presenting a comprehensive overview...

Author: P. W. K. StoneBinding: HardbackPublished: Scolar Press, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis academic work meticulously chronicles the complex evolution of William Shakespeare's King Lear,...

Author: Richard GilmanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Da Capo Press, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageRichard Gilman's The Making Of Modern Drama chronicles...

Author: Franklin D. ReeveBinding: PaperbackPublished: Pegasus, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageContemporary Russian Drama presents a comprehensive overview of the...

Author: Marvin T. HerrickBinding: PaperbackPublished: University of Illinois Press, 1950Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageComic Theory In The Sixteenth Century...

Author: Lord RoseberyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1921Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerMiscellanies; Literary & Historical presents a...

Author: Jay B. HubbellBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsAmerican Life in Literature, edited by Jay...

Author: Peter DavisonBinding: HardbackPublished: Barnes & Noble, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis academic work, Popular Appeal In English Drama To 1850, meticulously chronicles the evolution of...

Author: Brian GibbonsBinding: HardbackPublished: Rupert Hart-Davis., 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBrian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy presents a scholarly examination of a...

Includes the plays Sladek and A Sexual Congress plus an introduction by Penny Black Set in the inter-war period of raging inflation in Germany, these two plays portray the losers...

Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands - written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission...

The 1590s were black years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a...

Limited stock available, purchase direct from Currency Press. The prominence and vehemence of public debate about Hannie Rayson's Two Brothers has renewed the public interest in the power of contemporary...

Illustrated with over 60 archival photographs, many not previously published.<

An interpretative and critical analysis of the work of Stephen Sewell, an Australian playwright. The book is aimed primarily at students but should also be of value to those in...