Drama History category: 1664 books

Extrait : "Térence était esclave du sénateur Terentius Lucanus. Térence esclave ! un des plus beaux génies de Rome ! l'ami de Lælius et de Scipion ! cet auteur qui a écrit sa langue avec tant d'élégance, de délicatesse et de pureté, qu'il n'a peut-être pas eu son égal ni chez les anciens, ni parmi les modernes !"

The Masters of the Revels and Elizabeth I's Court Theatre places the Revels Office and Elizabeth I's court theatre in a pre-modern, patronage and gift-exchange driven-world of centralized power in which hospitality, liberality, and conspicuous display were fundamental aspects of social life. W.R....

As a playwright and a performer, Dario Fo (1926-) is one of the most important figures in world theatre. By the 1980s some were proclaiming him the most widely performed living playwright. In 1997 his achievements were acknowledged with the Nobel Prize for literature. Based on his interpretations...

In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers....

Partez à la découverte du théâtre japonais avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Une rare perfection formelle, résultat d'une recherche constante dans des voies diverses et toujours originales, un répertoire d'une haute tenue littéraire dû à des dramaturges de génie, à qui seule la...

The Dancing of the title was in Shakespeare's mind as he wrote: a physical and active imagination. This book studies its operation in his most frequently performed texts and encourages readers to seek out the performance possibilities of all the texts for themselves. The need to study Shakespeare's...

Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians. Born probably in 525 or 524 BC, he lived through the end of tyranny at Athens and the restitution of democracy. He took part in the battle of Marathon in 490 and probably also in the battle of Salamis in 480, the subject of his Persians....

John Ford's tragedy 'Tis Pity She's A Whore was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed, if controversial, play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and...

Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of...

Die Nestroyana veröffentlichen wissenschaftliche Arbeiten über das Altwiener Volkstheater und im Besonderen über das Werk und die Person Johann Nestroys und berichtet über die Tätigkeit der Internationalen Nestroy-Gesellschaft.

Partez à la découverte de la tragédie avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! La tragédie naît en Grèce au VIe siècle avant J.-C., mais c'est à Athènes, au cours du Ve siècle, qu'elle trouve sa forme littéraire achevée. Les œuvres tragiques qui nous sont parvenues et que les Grecs...

The subject of deformity and disability in the ancient Greco-Roman world has experienced a surge in scholarship over the past two decades. Recognizing a vast, but relatively un(der)explored, corpus of evidence, scholars have sought to integrate the deformed and disabled body back into our understanding...

Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative...

Die Nestroyana veröffentlichen wissenschaftliche Arbeiten über das Altwiener Volkstheater und im Besonderen über das Werk und die Person Johann Nestroys und berichtet über die Tätigkeit der Internationalen Nestroy-Gesellschaft. Die NESTROYANA erscheinen als Zeitschrift der Internationalen Nestroy-Gesellschaft...