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Shakespeare's Theatre Of War (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST EDITION SIGNED TWICE BY AUTHOR, NICK DE SOMOGYI)
by Somogyi, De Nick
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1840142073
- ISBN 13
- 9781840142075
- Seller
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Margate, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate, 1998. Fine/Fine. First Hardback Edition, First Printing. SIGNED TWICE BY AUTHOR. FIRSTLY AS A PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, on front endpaper. Inscription reads, 'vii.99/For -------,/some 'scribbled forms drawn with a pen'./with best wishes from the author.' And secondly SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE WITHOUT DEDICATION OR INSCRIPTION 'Nick de Somogyi'. With Notes On Procedures, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Bibliography, Index. This book concludes with a sustained account of 'Hamlet', a play which both dramatizes the Elizabethan context of war fever, and embodies in its three variant texts the war and peace that shaped its production. By affording scrutiny to each of its title's components, 'Shakespeare's Theatre Of War' provides a compelling argument for reassessing the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries within the enduring context of the military culture and wartime experience of his age. A fine copy, in a fine d/w, of a SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED TWICE BY AUTHOR.. Signed by Author. First Hardback Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Fine/Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20101
- Title
- Shakespeare's Theatre Of War (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST EDITION SIGNED TWICE BY AUTHOR, NICK DE SOMOGYI)
- Author
- Somogyi, De Nick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Hardback Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1840142073
- ISBN 13
- 9781840142075
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- Place of Publication
- Aldershot, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Shakespear William. Shakespearian Studies. Shakespearian Research. Literary Studies. Militerary Studies. Militerary History In Literarture. Soldiers In Literature. War In Literature. War. Warfare. Hamlet.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military; Literary Criticism; Literature;
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