Drama History category: 1664 books
by Keir Elam
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
The late twentieth century saw an explosion of interest in semiotics, the science of the signs and processes by which we communicate. In this study, the first of its kind in English, Keir Elam shows how this new 'science' can provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance,...
Beat Drama
Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as...
Beckett's Creatures
Art of Failure after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry.
A colorful, comprehensive...
Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737
From Leviathan to Licensing Act
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical and non-canonical texts within the scope of an eighty-year period of theatre history, allowing for definition and assessment that uncouples Restoration drama from eighteenth-century...
by Downing Cless
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force. Though...
The Death and Life of Drama
Reflections on Writing and Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What makes a film "work," so that audiences come away from the viewing experience refreshed and even transformed in the way they understand themselves and the world around them? In The Death and Life of Drama, veteran screenwriter and screenwriting teacher Lance Lee tackles this question...
Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015
Art, Modernity and the National Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 provides a critical and historical exploration of a tradition of modern dramatic creativity that has received very little scholarly attention. Exploring the emergence of a distinctly modern verse drama at the turn of the century and its development into the twenty-first,...
The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama
An Introduction with Primary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource forstudents embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information. This companion equips students with the information needed to situate the...
by Reginald Rose
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet
A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic...
The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and Performance
Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Collected Studies CS 1068
The essays selected for this volume are chosen to reflect the important and intersecting ways in which over the last forty years Meg Twycross has shifted paradigms for people reading early English religious drama. The focus of Meg Twycross’s research has been on...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2000
This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time. No longer seen as a privileged arena for select dramatists and elite courtiers, the Restoration...
Staging the revolution
Drama, reinvention and history, 1647-72
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Staging the revolution offers a reappraisal of the weight and volume of theatrical output during the commonwealth and early Restoration, both in terms of live performances and performances on the paper stage. It argues that the often-cited notion that 1642 marked an end to theatrical production in...
by Maxim Gorky
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of th
Imprisoned for his revolutionary activities...