Drama History category: 1664 books

While Ben Jonson's political visions have been well documented, this study was the first to consider how he threaded his views into the various literary genres in which he wrote. For Jonson, these genres were interactive and mutually affirming, necessary for negotiating the tempestuous politics of...

Extrait : "Je n'ai point le mérite d'être auteur ; le temps et les talents m'ont également manqué pour le devenir : mais il y a environ huit ans que je m'amusai à jeter sur le papier quelques idées sur le drame sérieux ou intermédiaire entre la tragédie héroïque et la comédie plaisante. De...

Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of the notion of 'the Absurd' in the 1940s, he...

Dans la biographie de Racine, trois problèmes surtout méritent d’attirer l’attention, et ont été discutés... avec beaucoup de finesse et de précision : Racine a-t-il été amoureux ? Pourquoi a-t-il abandonné le théâtre de si bonne heure ? Quelle a été la vraie cause de sa disgrâce...

Paradox informs the narrative sequence, images, and rhetorical tactics contrived by skilled dramatists and novelists. Their literary languages depict not only a war between rivals but also simultaneous affirmation and negation voiced by a tragic individual. They reveal the treason, flux, and duplicity...

The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking at four direct encounters between philosophers and thespians, beginning with Socrates, Agathon, and...

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From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello’s Iago, perhaps the Bard’s most compelling villain—the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities. In all of literature, few antagonists have...

Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and structure of a number of Shakespeare’s major...

Now in its third edition Shakespeare: The Basics is an insightful and informative introduction to the work of William Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare’s plays including the language, cultural contexts, and modern interpretations, this text looks at how a range of plays from across...

What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians and...

Lines in Long Array demonstrates the enduring impact of the Civil War on American culture by presenting poems and photographs from both the past and present, including 12 wholly new poems by contemporary poets created especially for this volume. Includes previously unpublished poetry by Eavan...

Literary criticism from the Nobel Prize winner on subjects from Dante to Dickens. Some one said*: “The dead writers are remote from us because we* know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know.   Celebrated poet and playwright T. S. Eliot was one of the twentieth...

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