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Described by Tennyson as the 'Morning Star' of Elizabethan drama, Christopher Marlowe is considered one of the greatest playwrights in the English language. This book gathers together all the crucial information needed for a study into the life of Marlowe, including a detailed timeline, a biographical...

Thomas Kyd was a prominent English playwright who played a pivotal role in the development of drama during the Elizabethan Era.  Kyd is most famous today for writing The Spanish Tragedy, a very influential play that helped establish the revenge play genre. The Spanish Tragedy was written in...

Mariano José de Larra (Madrid, 1809-Madrid, 1837), España.Hijo de un médico del ejército francés, en 1813 tuvo que huir con su familia a ese país tras la retirada de las fuerzas bonapartistas expulsadas de la península. Como dato sorprendente cabe decir que a su regreso a España apenas hablaba...

It is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before the twentieth century. Their practice had been to trace the roots of theatre to mid-1930s, to the appearance of Father Emile Legault and his troupe, the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent,...

Japanese Theatre presents a full historical account for Westerners of the theater arts that have flourished for centuries in Japan. Kabuki, arising in the late seventeenth century, is the theater of the commoner. The successive syllables of Kabuki mean "song – dance – skill." The...

After 150 years the Civil War is still our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, and epic-our Iliad, but also our Bible, a story of sin and judgment, suffering and despair, death and resurrection in a "new birth of freedom." Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems,...

World renowned South African playwright Athol Fugard recreates the world of his youth in his newest play, based on his experiences aboard a tramp steamer. This critically acclaimed drama has already had productions in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Princeton N.J., and at the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina. The New York premiere is schedules for January 1999, staring Mr. Fugard.

When it comes to Irish America, certain names spring to mind�Kennedy, O�Neill, and Curley testify to the proverbial �footsteps of the Gael� in Boston. However, few people know of Sister Mary Anthony O�Connell, whose medical prowess carried her from the convent to the Civil War battlefields,...

"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."-The New Yorker One week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the arrival of her son's charming new tutor unleashes a whirlwind of...

The formidable talents of Anthony Hecht, one of the most gifted of contemporary American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical scholar, are here brought to bear on this vibrant translation of Aeschylus much underrated tragedy The Seven Against Thebes. The third and only remaining play in a trilogy dealing...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy...

The inner sanctum of Confederate president Jefferson Davis has been breached. Information is leaking to the enemy. Who is the spy? No one is privy to this information except Jeffersons advisors, and they are beyond repute. Based on a true story, Lady Patriot reveals an intimate look into the prejudices...

Alcestis By Euripides At once a vigorous translation of one of Euripides' most subtle and witty plays, and a wholly fresh interpretation, this version reveals for the first time the extraordinary formal beauty and thematic concentration of the Alcestis. William Arrowsmith, eminent classical...

A Race of Female Patriots argues that public-spirited women proliferated on the eighteenth-century British stage to catalyze an affective experience of political belonging, as dramatists imagined new forms of affiliation, allegiance, and loyalty suitable to the new British constitution established...