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Boastful Chef(2000) WILKINS, JOHN (SENIOR LECTURER IN CLASSICS, SENIOR LECTURER IN CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)This is a book about Greek culture. It explains why Greek comedy picked out food in particular as a cultural marker. Hundreds of comic fragments are quoted in translation. The development of comedy is explored together with comic creativity as poets soughVezava: Trda405,33 € -
J. M. Synge(2021) HEWITT, SEA¡N (GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND FELLOW, SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK)A thorough re-assessment of one of Ireland's major playwrights, J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Using much previously-undiscussed archival material, the book takes each of Synge's plays and prose works, tracing his journey from an early Romanticism to a later, moVezava: Trda159,60 € -
Honore de Balzac(2022) BROOKS, PETER (STERLING PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE EMERITUS, YALE UNIVERSITY)A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.Vezava: Trda38,00 € -
Shakespeare's First Folio(2018) SMITH, EMMA (FELLOW AND TUTOR IN ENGLISH, FELLOW AND TUTOR IN ENGLISH, HERTFORD COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Just a few hundred copies of the 1623 edition of Shakespeare's collected plays exist, making it one of the most sought-after publications in history. Emma Smith explores the First Folio's post-publication life, the stories of individual copies, and the waVezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Shakespeare's Comedies(2016) VAN ES, BART (FELLOW AND UNIVERSITY LECTURER, ST CATHERINE'S COLLEGE, OXFORD)In this Very Short Introduction Bart Van Es analyses Shakespeare's comedic plays, picking out the family resemblances across these works. He considers their shared themes such as confusion and cross dressing, misguided love, twins and substitutions, and eVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
William Shakespeare(2015) WELLS, STANLEY (HONORARY PRESIDENT, THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST)In this new offering from Stanley Wells comes an exploration of one of the world's greatest dramatists: William Shakespeare. Written with enthusiasm and flair, Wells looks at both the world Shakespeare lived in and all of his major works, to show how andVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde(2018) WILDE, OSCARServing prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A savage indictment of society, and testimony to private sufferings, his prison writings illuminated by Nicholas Frankel's notes reveaVezava: Mehka31,76 € -
Marginalized(2021) KAYSER, CASEYDrama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in receive less recognition than their male counterparts. Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, arguing that representations ofVezava: Mehka62,29 € -
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Upstart Crow(2018) ELTON, BEN"This does indeed deserve comparisons with Blackadder" Radio Times"A knockabout, well-researched take on the working and domestic life of Shakespeare."Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
British Black and Asian Shakespeareans(2022) ROGERS, DR JAMI (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UK)Vezava: Mehka55,58 €











