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  • Tennyson's Rapture

    Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue

    by Cornelia D. J. Pearsall ...
    In the wake of the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, the subject of In Memoriam, Alfred Tennyson wrote a range of intricately connected poems, many of which feature pivotal scenes of rapture, or being carried away. This book explores Tennyson's representation of rapture as a radical mechanism of transformation-theological, social, political, or personal-and as a figure for critical ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

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    Poet & Spy

    by Park Honan ...
    Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Time Regained

    by Marcel Proust ...
    In this literary work (published posthumously in 1927) Marcel Proust is dying. He looks at the photographs of his youth and brings them to mind at that time. He remembers his mistresses and is aware of the transition from the great war reach society as a whole. The memories move freely back and forth in time: we find Proust in various historical periods that interacts with Odette, with the ... Read more

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  • Poetics

    by Aristotle ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of imaginative writing, including poetry, drama, and fiction. For Aristotle, the art of representation ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • Freshwater: a comedy by Virginia Woolf (1923 & 1935 Version) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Bloomsbury Farce of Victorian Art, Biography, and Female Eccentricity

    by Virginia Woolf, Cora Tallowmere ...
    Freshwater: A Comedy presents Virginia Woolf's playful dramatization of the Victorian artistic circle gathered around her great-aunt, the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, on the Isle of Wight. In both the 1923 and revised 1935 versions, Woolf transforms family legend, aesthetic debate, and theatrical farce into a compact comic experiment. Its witty dialogue, exaggerated characterization, and ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson

    Edited by Sandra G. Shannon, Sandra L. Richards ...
    Series Book 140 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance ... Read more

    $53.57 CAD

  • Cleopatra

    I Am Fire and Air

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Series series Shakespeare's Personalities
    From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra—one of the Bard’s most riveting and memorable female characters—in “a masterfully perceptive reading of this seductive play’s endless wonders” (*Kirkus Reviews*).**Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history—and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Strangeness of Tragedy

    by Paul Hammond ...
    This book reads tragedy as a genre in which the protagonist is estranged from the world around him, and, displaced in time, space, and language, comes to inhabit a milieu which is no longer shared by other characters. This alienation from others also entails a decomposition of the integrity of the individual, which is often seen in tragedy's uncertainty about the protagonists' autonomy: do they ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Beginning

    by Mr David Eldridge ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    You didn't fancy it then?Fancy what?Getting in the taxi.No.Every story starts somewhere.It's the early hours of the morning and Danny's the last straggler at Laura's party. The flat's in a mess. And so are they. One more drink?David Eldridge (Market Boy, The Knot of the Heart, In Basildon) returns to the National Theatre with a sharp and astute two-hander that takes an intimate look at the first ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker

    by Sophie Bush, Sarah Sigal, Roger Hodgman, Debby Turner ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker offers the first comprehensive overview of Wertenbaker's playwriting career which spans more than thirty years of stage plays. It considers the contexts of their initial productions by a range of companies and institutions, including the Royal Court, the Arcola and the Women's Theatre Group. While examining all of Wertenbaker's original stage works, Sophie ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

    Edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight ...
    More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with private and civic hosts, and at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Samuel Beckett

    Anatomy of a Literary Revolution

    by Pascale Casanova ...
    In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett’s work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett’s reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he instigated. Reintroducing the historical into the heart of this body of work, Casanova provides an arresting portrait of Beckett as radically subversive—doing for writing what Kandinsky did ... Read more

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