Drama History category: 1664 books
by Jeffrey Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production,...
by Paul Murphy, Paul Murphy, James Moran
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This Critical Companion to the work of one of Ireland's most famous and controversial playwrights, Sean O'Casey, is the first major study of the playwright's work to consider his oeuvre and the archival material that has appeared during the last decade. Published ahead of the centenary of the 1916...
Selections from the Notebooks Of Edward Bond
Volume One 1959-1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In this first volume of notebooks, Edward Bond reveals himself to be one of the finest and most creative minds to have emerged in the twentieth century.
Exploring the meeting point between politics and the art of the writer, Bond's notes chart the creative progress of his work and thinking...
The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson
Conspicuous Communities
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
The spellbinding premiere of The Weir at the Royal Court in 1997 was
the first of many works to bring Conor McPherson to the attention of
the theatre-going public. Acclaimed plays followed, including Shining City,
The Seafarer, The Night Alive and Girl from the North Country, garnering
international...
The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence
Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book to give an in-depth analysis of Lawrence's interaction with the theatre industry during the early twentieth century. It connects and examines his performance texts, and...
by Gwilym Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book Award
Whether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, the shipwrecks of the comedies or the thunderbolt of Pericles, there is an instance of storm in every one of Shakespeare's plays. This is the first comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Renaissance tragedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical responses over the course of nearly four centuries. Providing a uniquely detailed and up-to-date account of the play's rich stage history, it demonstrates...
Reader in Tragedy
An Anthology of Classical Criticism to Contemporary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This unique anthology presents the important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span, it traces the development of theories and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways...
Lucretia Borgia: Historischer Roman
Ein fesselndes Drama des Autors von: Les Misérables / Die Elenden, Der Glöckner von Notre Dame, Maria Tudor, 1793 und mehr
Language: German
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Lucrezia Borgia (lat. Lucretia Borgia; span. Lucrecia Borja; 1480 - 1519) war eine italienisch-spanische Renaissancefürstin und die außereheliche Tochter Papst Alexanders VI. mit seiner Geliebten Vanozza de' Cattanei. Sie war die Schwester von Cesare, Juan und Jofré Borgia. Die von Zeitgenossen...
Tennessee Williams in Sweden and France, 1945–1965
Cultural Translations, Sexual Anxieties and Racial Fantasies
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
The immediate post-war period marks a pivotal moment in the internationalization of American theatre when Tennessee Williams' plays became some of Broadway's most critically acclaimed and financially lucrative exports. Dirk Gindt offers a detailed study of the production and reception of Williams'...
This Isle is Full of Monsters
Shakespeare's Audiences and the Supernatural
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Devils crawled up from hell. Angels descended from the heavens. Sorcerers, fairies and witches moved amongst the audience. At the cusp of the Enlightenment, Tudor and Jacobean theaters were certainly places of enchantment.
But for the citizens watching the play, how much did the supernatural...
by Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2002
Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This 2002 volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they...
Death of a Salesman
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream
Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a...