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(Paperback, 6th Edition)
By: Martin Esslin
ISBN: 9780413668608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Updated to cover Harold Pinter's most recent plays, including "Mountain Language", "The New World Order" and "Party Time", this revised edition offers a comprehensive survey of the whole span of Pinter's writing career.
(Hardback)
By: Naomi Baker
ISBN: 9780719068744
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the depiction of physically ugly characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented in the era, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. -- .
(Hardback)
By: Zenon Culverhouse
ISBN: 9781793611215
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines Plato's most puzzling dialogue, Hippias Minor, in detail, treating Socrates' engagement with both Homer and the sophist Hippias over human excellence as at once playful and deadly serious.
(Hardback)
By: Ivor Ludlam
ISBN: 9780739190197
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Plato's Republic as a Philosophical Drama on Doing Well reimagines the central theme of Plato's foundational work through an interpretation of its characters as paradigms of the apparent good. Focusing attention on the dialogue itself, Ivor Ludlam provides an innovative, holistic, and dramatic new perspective on the classic text.
(Paperback, Second Edition)
By: Gregory Vlastos
ISBN: 9780691100210
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1974
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Consists of Gregory Vlastos' studies on a variety of themes in Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social philosophy. This book offers solutions to crucial difficulties in this fundamental Platonic work. It contains extensively reviewed papers which comprise almost all of Gregory Vlastos' published work on Plato.
(Hardback)
By: Winthrop Wetherbee
ISBN: 9780691646763
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Winthrop Wetherbee
ISBN: 9780691619903
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Chartres as an intellectual and cultural force in the Renaissance of the twelfth century has engaged the attention of critics and scholars from R. L. Poole through Gilson, Curtius, and Huizinga to, most recently, Peter Dronke. Its importance as a poetic tradition is now reviewed by Winthrop Wetherbee, first as it developed at Chartres, then as it i
(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 1980
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book attempts to explain the nature of the influence of Platonism on English poetry, exclusive of drama, of the 16th and 17th centuries.
(Hardback)
By: Peter J. Hansen
ISBN: 9781498590976
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A careful reading of Platos works show that Thrasymachus and Callicles, his famous immoralists, are unselfconsciously devoted to virtue as they see it. They thereby offer surprising support for the view that people are not simply self-interested, and they cast light on the beliefs and hopes we all have of justice.
(Hardback)
By: Professor David Christenson
ISBN: 9781350020542
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of Casina in its social-historical and performance contexts, and of its themes and reception.
(Paperback)
By: Professor David Christenson
ISBN: 9781350020535
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of Casina in its social-historical and performance contexts, and of its themes and reception.
(Hardback)
By: Professor Ariana Traill
ISBN: 9781350241787
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
ISBN: 9781350079748
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
ISBN: 9781350214330
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
ISBN: 9781350416222
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Seth A. Jeppesen
ISBN: 9781350126770
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Seth A. Jeppesen
ISBN: 9781350126763
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Joan Garner
ISBN: 9781591583448
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Playesque (in the manner of a play), Volume 1 features original plays for performances in high school, junior college, and other amateur venues.
(Hardback)
By: Andrew M Feldherr
ISBN: 9780691138145
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Offers an interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, "The Metamorphoses". Examining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, this book argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome.
(Hardback)
By: Carol Rosen
ISBN: 9780691628820
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Carol Rosen
ISBN: 9780691613260
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Reinhold Grimm
ISBN: 9780826407276
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This title features the plays "Before Daybreak", "The Weavers", "The Beaver Coat", "Vor Sonnenaufgang", "Die Weber", and "Der Biberpelz."
(Hardback)
By: Robert L. Caserio
ISBN: 9780691648217
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Robert L. Caserio
ISBN: 9780691627977
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Giving a close critical reading to major texts by Dickens, Poe, Eliot, Melville, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner, Professor Caserio provides an historical dimension to the developing fate of plot, story, and the novel. In addition, he challenges the major critical positions of Northrop Frye, Roland Barthes, and Edward Said with
