Drama History category: 1664 books

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an Englishessayist, poet, antiquarian, and miscellaneous writer, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, coauthored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). Friends with such literary luminaries...

Exam Board: AQA, WJEC, WJEC Eduqas Level: GCSE (9-1) Subject: English literature First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2017 Enable students to achieve their best grade in GCSE English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding...

National Abjection explores the vexed relationship between "Asian Americanness" and "Americanness” through a focus on drama and performance art. Karen Shimakawa argues that the forms of Asian Americanness that appear in U.S. culture are a function of national abjection—a process...

This is the first volume of a planned translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—a project undertaken only three times in the three hundred years since Racine’s death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered these plays in...

This is the second volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—only the third time such a project has been undertaken in the three hundred years since Racine’s death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered...

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe’s Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts. It takes both a canonic and archival approach to Faust in studies of adaptations, performances, appropriations, sources, and the...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Comme Peribañez et le Commandeur d’Ocaña (1614), ou Le Meilleur Alcade, c’est le roi (1635), deux pièces composées par le grand dramaturge espagnol Felix Lope de Vega Carpio (1562-1635), Fuenteovejuna est un drame de...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Rares sont les œuvres, créées dans la Grèce classique, qui aient connu une postérité semblable à celle d’Antigone et un foisonnement aussi vigoureux d’adaptations que celui suscité par la pièce la plus célèbre...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Après Amphitryon 38 (1929) et La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu (1935), Électre est la troisième œuvre dramatique de Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) inspirée de l’Antiquité grecque. Une fiche de lecture spécialement...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Dès 1976, Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), qui a d’abord été metteur en scène, se consacre à l’écriture dramatique. Combat de nègre et de chiens (1980), Quai Ouest (1986), Dans la solitude des champs de coton (1987)...

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Hamlet (les deux versions) de William Shakespeare augmentée d'annexes (Biographie). ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse. - Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. - Accédez...

The Art of John Webster, first published in 1972, is a study of the three extant plays of Webster known to be solely his work. These plays are seen as attempts to achieve in literature the effects of the baroque, a term which related Webster to the larger developments of European art. Their content...

First published in 1969, this work examines the genre of Tragedy from its origins in ancient Greece, to the modern day. Beginning with an overview of the meaning of tragedy in Europe through the ages, it goes on to explore common aspects of tragedies such as the tragic hero, the chorus and unities,...

In this volume, Kathleen Jeffs draws on first-hand experience of the Royal Shakespeare Company's rehearsal room for the 2004-05 Spanish Golden Age season to put forth a collaborative model for translating, rehearsing, and performing Spanish Golden Age drama. Building on the RSC season, the volume...