Drama History category: 1664 books

Dramatic version of Dogeaters *New book being published by Viking/Penguin in 2003

The intrigues of such aptly named characters as Lady Sneerwell, Sir Joseph Surface, Lady Candour, and Sir Benjamin Backbite have amused theater audiences for more than two centuries. They are the invention of the Irish-born playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and they unfold, collide, and backfire...

An introduction to the theatrical art of comic storytelling that originated in the Edo period, Rakugo sheds light on Japanese culture as a whole: its aesthetics, social relations, and learning styles. Enriched with personal anecdotes, Rakugo explicates the art's contemporary performance culture: the...

The innovative Brazilian playwright, director and international lecturer explicates Aristotle's poetics and the philosophies of Machiavelli, Hegel and Brecht to determine the extent to which their chief components--imitation, catharsis and, ultimately, audience control--serve up to support the status quo of a society rather than facilitate change.

El burlador de Sevilla es la primera obra donde aparece el legendario burlador de la fe y de las mujeres, Don Juan, que conjuntamente con el Quijote son los héroes de la literatura clásica española más universales y populares. El don Juan de Tirso que seduce a doña Isabela haciéndose pasar por...

The debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice. Since his poems first began to appear in the pages of The New Yorker and Poetry, there has been a lot of excited talk about the fresh and inventive work of Michael Robbins. Equal parts hip-...

Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything...

Seven plays by the genius of French theater. Including The Ridiculous Precieuses, The School for Husbands, The School for Wives, Don Juan, The Versailles Impromptu, and The Critique of the School for Wives, this collection showcases the talent of perhaps the greatest and best-loved French playwright. Translated...

En Fuenteovejuna Lope de Vega recoge los hechos acaecidos en esta población en 1476, cuando se produjo un levantamiento general del pueblo ante la injusticia ejercida por Fernán Gómez de Guzmán, comendador de la orden de Calatrava, al que acabaron ajusticiando los habitantes, que se declararon...

Un tema eterno, lo real y lo imaginario... Sueños hay que verdad son pertenece a la serie de autos sacramentales inspirados en la Biblia. El argumento bíblico relata que un faraón sueña que está a la orilla del río y ve siete vacas robustas y luego otras siete vacas flacas que se comían a las...

La próspera fortuna de don Bernardo Cabrera se inspira en la historia política de España y relata la vida de Bernardo Cabrera (Calatayud, 1289-Zaragoza, 1364). Este noble aragonés participó en la conquista de Mallorca (1343), y comandó la escuadra que derrotó a la flota genovesa y se apoderó...