Drama History category: 1664 books
by Mr Alistair McDowall
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Nineteen-year-old science genius Luke finally has some peace to work on the extraordinary box in his living room, holed up in a dingy flat on a near-abandoned Middlesbrough housing estate.
After his unbalanced brother Rob introduces him to a wealthy out-of-towner they're thrown into a dangerous...
by P.J. Matthews, Mr Martin McDonagh
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Billy, an unloved and crippled boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants...
At the Sharp End: Uncovering the Work of Five Leading Dramatists
David Edgar, Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment, David Greig, Tanika Gupta and Mark Ravenhill
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
What value does theatre have in Britain at the beginning of the
twenty-first century? How has theatre responded to the challenge of
remaining relevant in the media-saturated world of today? These are the
questions that underpin this stimulating study of some of the leading dramatists of contemporary...
by Arthur Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1977
Winner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van Hove.
Set in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights...
by Professor David Carnegie
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This introductory guide to one of Webster's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading.
The Theatre of Eugene O’Neill
American Modernism on the World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2018
The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill offers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career and plays in the context of the American theatre. Organised thematically, it considers his modernist intervention in the theatre, offers readers detailed...
Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood
Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences....
The Trustus Plays
The Hammerstone, Drift, Holy Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
The Trustus Plays is an intriguing collection of three full-length plays by US playwright Jon Tuttle. The Hammerstone (1994) is an academic comedy about two professors aging gracelessly; Drift (1998) is a dark comedy about marriage and divorce, and, Holy Ghost (2005) portrays the plight of German...
National Theatre Connections 2013
The Guffin; Mobile Phone Show; What Are They Like?; We Lost Elijah; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Tomorrow I'll Be Happy; Soundclash; Don't Feed the Animals; Ailie and the Alien; Forty-Five Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers – National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.
Each play is specifically...
by Christopher Bigsby
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for the American theatre but also marked the emergence of a new generation of exciting playwrights. In this book, Christopher Bigsby explores the work of nine of these developing talents, and the importance of issues including race, gender...
by Stevie Simkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This study provides an authoritative overview of all Marlowe's work. It includes thorough investigations of his major plays, Tamburlaine, Edward II, The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus as well as a full discussion of The Massacre at Paris, Dido Queen of Carthage and all his extant poetry. Analysis...
Corruption In Africa
Fifteen Plays
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
The book is a collection of fifteen plays written by Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, Africa’s most politically exposed playwright. This rare collection offers a penetrating insight of corruption and politics in Africa well as the global injustices that plagued the world in the last quarter of the 20th century...
by Stephen Unwin
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Stephen Unwin's A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht is an indispensable, comprehensive and highly readable companion to the dramatic work of this challenging and rewarding writer. Besides providing detailed accounts of nineteen key plays, it explores their context and Brecht's dramatic theory to...
Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays
Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays. Since relocating to France in 1987, in a voluntary exile from China, he has assembled a body of dramatic work that has best been understood neither as expressly Chinese...