Drama History category: 1664 books
Salvation in New England
Selections from the Sermons of the First Preachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The sermon as crafted by the early New England preachers was the most prominent literary form of its day, yet the earliest Puritan texts have as a rule been available only in rare-book collections. This anthology of sermons of the first generation of preachers fills a serious gap in American literature....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The great documents in this important collection helped form the foundation of American democratic government. Compelling, influential, and often inspirational, they range from Patrick Henry's dramatic "Give me liberty or give me death" speech at the start of the American Revolution to Abraham Lincoln's...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country,...
Dickens' Dreadful Almanac
A Terrible Event for Every Day of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Inspired by the gory and sensational publications of the Victorian era, these tales collected by Charles Dickens and his staff between 1850 and 1855 features a beautifully engraved heading for every month In among the pages of Dickens' monthly supplement to Household Words lurks a very strange history....
The Indispensable Zinn
The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
A “well-chosen anthology of the radical historian’s prodigious output,” from A People’s History of the United States and lesser known sources (Kirkus Reviews).
When Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions of Americans mourned the loss of one of the nation’s foremost intellectual...
The Spirit of Noh
A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the Fushikaden
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich six-hundred-year history and has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western artists as Ezra Pound and The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has long held a fascination for people both in the East and the West. For six hundred years it has had a...
American Lazarus
Religion and the Rise of African American and Native American Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of color in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, "the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust." This book explores the means by which...
Liffey and Lethe
Paramnesiac History in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand both the literature and the varieties of nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, we must understand the various modes in which the very...
by Seneca
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour....
by Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.
Sophocles was one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose...
American Rhapsody
Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to...
Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals)
Plebian Culture and The Structure of Authority in Renaissance England
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which crucial American issues—revolution,...
A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIV
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
A new annotated edition of Yeats’s indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy—a meditation on the connections between the imagination, history, and the metaphysical—this volume reveals the poet’s greatest thoughts on the occult.
First published in 1925, and then substantially revised...