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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “john drakakis”
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  • Tragedy

    by John Drakakis ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history.Tragedy offers a concise history of tragedy tracing its evolution through key plays, prose, poetry and philosophical dimensions. John Drakakis examines a ... Read more

    Was $30.99 USD Now $26.99 USD

  • Shakespearean Tragedy

    by John Drakakis ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a whole. Each piece has been carefully chosen as a key intervention in its own right and as a representative of an influential critical approach to the genre. The collection as a whole, therefore, provides both a guide and explanation to the various ways in which contemporary criticism has ... Read more

    Was $84.99 USD Now $75.99 USD

  • Fascinating Rhythms

    Shakespeare, Theory, Culture, and the Legacy of Terence Hawkes

    Edited by John Drakakis ...
    As one of the most adventurous literary and cultural critics of his generation, Terence Hawkes’ contributions to the study of Shakespeare and the development of literary and cultural theory have been immense. His work has been instrumental in effecting a radical shift in the study of Shakespeare and of literary studies.This collection of essays by some of his closest colleagues, friends, peers, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Alternative Shakespeares

    Edited by John Drakakis ...
    Series series New Accents
    When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work centred on the quasi-sacred figure of Shakespeare. In Alternative Shakespeares, John Drakakis brought together key essays by founding figures in this movement to remake Shakespeare studies.A new afterword by Robert Weimann outlines the extraordinary impact of Alternative ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Gothic Shakespeares

    Edited by John Drakakis, Dale Townshend ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare’s plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties which many writers in the Gothic mode have since emulated, adapted and appropriated.The contributors to this volume consider:Shakespeare’s ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Shakespeare Studies

    Volume 51

    by James R. Siemon, Diana E. Henderson, J.F. Bernard, Beatrice Bradley, Christie Carson, Christopher D'addario, John Drakakis, Evyan Dale Gainey, Martin Harries0, Brooke Harvey1, Jill Ingram2, Yu Jin Ko3, Hannah Korell4, Unhae Park Langis5, Anna Lewton-Brain6, Julia Reinhhard Lupton7, Jenny C. Mann8, Gail Kern Paster9, Laurence Senelick0, Laura Seymour1, Justin P. Shaw2, Bailey Sincox3, Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.4, Nicholas Utzig5, Denise A. Walen6, Paul Yachnin7, John Yargo8, Laurie Maguire9 ...
    Series series Shakespeare Studies
    Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual and artistic contexts that extend well beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. In addition to ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Macbeth: A Critical Reader

    by Professor John Drakakis, Dr Dale Townshend ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research.Key features include:Essays on ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • A Future for Criticism

    by Catherine Belsey ...
    A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism.Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for critical practice, from one of Britain's most prominent literary theorists and criticsProposes a new path for future criticism, more open to reflecting on the pleasures of fictionWritten in a clear, jargon ... Read more

    $81.00 USD

  • Shakespeare Left and Right

    by Ivo Kamps ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Shakespeare Left and Right brings together critics, strikingly different in their politics and methodologies, who are acutely aware of the importance of politics on literary practice and theory. Should, for example, feminist criticism be subjected to a critique by voices it construes as hostile to its political agenda? Is it possible to present a critique of feminist criticism without implicitly ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics

    by Hugh Grady ...
    Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics explores ideas about art implicit in Shakespeare's plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning as resources for art. Hugh Grady draws on a tradition of aesthetic theorists who understand art as always formed in a specific historical moment but as also distanced from its context through its form and Utopian ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Philosophy in the Modern World

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries have seen some of the most intriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $31.99 USD