Drama History category: 1664 books
A Theatre of Affect
The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett's Drama
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Combining phenomenological analysis with dance and performance analysis and affect theory, A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett's Drama takes stock of the various ways in which the body in Samuel Beckett's drama participates in the affective ecology of performance. Affect is here...
W.B. Yeats
Metaphysician as Dramatist
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1986
W. B. Yeats spent a great deal of his life immersing himself in magical, mystical, and philosophic studies in order, as he claimed, to devise a personal system of thought “that would leave [his] ... imagination free to create as it chose and yet make all that it created, or could create, part of...
The Man of Mode
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Arguably the most perfectly poised of Restoration wit comedies, The Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, or nonchalance, matching the beguiling 'easiness' and 'complaisance' of its central character. The play's imaginative brilliance depends upon its author's ability to hint...
Drama sin escenario
Literatura dramática de Galdós a Valle-Inclán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Los capítulos de Drama sin escenario contienen tres aspectos útiles a los lectores. En primer lugar, presentan los títulos, datos y secuencia de escritura o representación de los textos de cada uno de los dramaturgos estudiados: Galdós, Ganivet, Unamuno, Azorín, los Machado, Valle-Inclán, Gómez...
The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen
Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen'
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation's hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Its 13 articles open up a new territory in the critical discussion of the Disney mega-musical, its gender, sexual and racial...
by Paul Frazer, Dr Adam Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The White Devil is one of the most violent and most fascinating plays in English theatrical history. It is also a notoriously challenging work; this volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to the play, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It also provides a...
Routledge Revivals: David Rabe (1988)
A Stage History and a Primary and Secondary Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. As the first full-length work on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical studies. The first part consists of an essay that...
by Laurence P. Senelick
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Although younger than most European theatrical traditions, the Russian professional theater has generated an exciting body of criticism and theory which until recently has remained unknown or nearly inaccessible in the West. This anthology presents a selection of important Russian writing on the aesthetics...
Poetics, Plays, and Performances
The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre. Starting with the plays of Bharatendu Harishchandra in 1870s Banaras, the book moves forward to Jayshankar Prasad and Mohan...
The Masks of Tragedy
Essays on Six Greek Dramas
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
"What matters about a play is not the extent to which it is like any other play, but the way in which it is different," writes Thomas G. Rosenmeyer. "This is, I suggest, how the ancient audiences received the performances.... My purpose, then, in writing these essays is twofold: ......
Of Bondage
Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
The late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical...
by William W. E. Slights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Secrets accomplish their cultural work by distinguishing the knowable from the (at least temporarily) unknowable, those who know from those who don't. Within these distinctions resides an enormous power that Ben Jonson (1572-1637) both deplored and exploited in his art of making plays.
Conspiracies...
Eugene O'Neill
A Life in Four Acts
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This extraordinary new biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O’Neill’s tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama. Robert M. Dowling innovatively recounts O’Neill’s life in four acts, thus highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave...
The Doctor Dissected
A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror. When the perpetrators were finally apprehended in 1828, their motive roiled the nation: William Burke and William Hare had murdered for profit. The cadavers supplied a ready payout, courtesy of...