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  • Shakespeare: The Basics

    by Sean McEvoy ...
    Series series The Basics
    Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare’s plays, Sean McEvoy considers the language, cultural contexts and modern interpretations.This essential guide to a range of contemporary Shakespearean criticism explores and unpacks the different dramatic genres in which he wrote – comedy, history, tragedy and ... Read more

    Was $42.99 CAD Now $37.09 CAD

  • Tragedy: The Basics

    by Sean McEvoy ...
    Series series The Basics
    Tragedy: The Basics is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy. A comprehensive guide for anyone undertaking a study of the genre, it provides a chronological overview and history of tragic theory. Covering tragedy from the classics to the present day, it explains the contextual and theoretical issues which affect the interpretation of tragedy, examining popularly studied key ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Theatrical Unrest

    Ten Riots in the History of the Stage, 1601-2004

    by Sean McEvoy ...
    Shortlisted for the 2017 Theatre Book PrizeWhat is it about theatre, compared to other kinds of cultural representation, which provokes such a powerful reaction? Theatrical Unrest tells the compelling tales of ten riots whose cause lies on stage. It looks at the intensity and evanescence of the live event and asks whether theatre shares its unrepeatable quality with history.Tracing episodes of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth

    by Sean McEvoy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth’s ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • William Shakespeare's Hamlet

    A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

    Edited by Sean McEvoy ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world since it was first performed, fascinating generations of audiences and critics alike.Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's remarkable play offers:extensive introductory comment ... Read more

    Was $46.99 CAD Now $41.21 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Literature Review Audiobook

    Six Steps to Success

    by Lawrence A. Machi, Brenda T. McEvoy ...
    Narrated by Sean Thomas Simmons ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 8 min

    From daunting to doable in six stepsThe process of literature search and composing a formal literature review can be intimidating. But masters and doctoral candidates in Education and related fields have found academic argumentation to be seamlessly intuitive with the six-step process pioneered by this book. This updated third edition features a wealth of all-new content including:A flowchart that ... Read more

    $45.28 CAD

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edited by Claire McEachern ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction

    by Michael Scott ...
    Your complete introduction to ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare has been hailed as one of the greatest thinkers of all time, one of the world's finest artists, poets and dramatists.Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction introduces and explains the plays by looking at how they work, taking you on a journey through the genres of comedy, history and tragedy. The best known and most popular plays are ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • William Shakespeare

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

    by Emma Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD