Drama History category: 1664 books

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Why should Greek tragedy matter now? This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected essays, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest theatre as inspiration for how we might shape...

In Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons, Travis Curtright examines the influence of the classical rhetorical tradition on early modern theories of acting in a careful study of and selection from Shakespeare’s most famous characters and successful plays. Curtright demonstrates that “personation”—the...

"Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis L’écrivain et publiciste viennois Karl Kraus (1874-1936), directeur et auteur de la revue Die Fackel (La Torche) fut sans doute le plus virtuose des satiristes et polémistes de langue allemande. Une fiche de lecture...

In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the understanding of the theater of farce and its literary possibilities. By tracing the development of farce in late medieval and Renaissance comedic theater...

Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950­-1955. ESSAYS TOWARD A SYMBOLIC OF MOTIVES, 1950¬-1955 contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy, which began with A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). In these essays-some of which appear...

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El volumen 6 del Anuario calderoniano recoge en su mayoría trabajos que estudian en profundidad esa extensa faceta calderoniana de la comedia cómica que ha sido menos estudiada que la vertiente seria del dramaturgo. Los artículos centran su punto de vista no sólo en obras poco conocidas sino en...

Tennessee Williams' plays are performed around the world, and are staples of the standard American repertory. His famous portrayals of women engage feminist critics, and as America's leading gay playwright from the repressive postwar period, through Stonewall, to the growth of gay liberation, he represents...

From the producer of numerous Agatha Christie stage plays comes the first book to examine the world’s bestselling mystery writer’s career and work as a playwright, published to commemorate her 125th birthday. Agatha Christie has long been revered around the world for her mysteries and the...

*Ce livre est annoté (il contient une biographie détaillée de l'auteur). *Une table des matières actives a été ajoutée par l'éditeur pour une meilleure expérience client. *Ce livre a été vérifié et corrigé des erreurs d'orthographe. Durant quatre années, j’ai été chargé...

Écartée comme « pièce fantasque d'étudiant universitaire » par un critique, Sex, Lies et les Franco-Manitobains est devenue l'œuvre de Marc Prescott la plus étudiée dans les départements de lettres à travers le Canada. Sex, Lies et les Franco-Manitobains a inauguré une nouvelle ère dans...

Uno de los fenómenos culturales más dinámicos del Siglo de Oro fue la Leyenda Negra, el sistema de imágenes que utilizó y difundió la propaganda antihispánica del momento, principalmente la de algunos de los enemigos de la Monarquía Hispánica como holandeses, ingleses y protestantes alemanes....