Drama History category: 1664 books
Cheiron's Way
Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful figures in Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides. Every fictional character comes with a past attached, a presumed personal history that is both implicit and explicit; for the youthful heroes and heroines of epic and tragedy, early education...
All in the Timing
Fourteen Plays
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are...
The Three Theban Plays
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1984
The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C.
Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—*Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus—*are among the most enduring and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality...
The Theatre of Martin Crimp
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
First published in 2006, Alek's Sierz's The Theatre of Martin Crimp provided a groundbreaking study of one of British theatre's leading contemporary playwrights. Combining Sierz's lucid prose and sharp analysis together with interviews with Martin Crimp and a host of directors and actors who have...
Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage
Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Collects leading scholars’ insight on the plays, production, music, audiences, and political and aesthetic concerns of modern Yiddish theater.
by Eszter Szalczer
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Dramatist, theatre practitioner, novelist, and painter, August Strindberg’s diverse dramatic output embodied the modernist sensibility. He was above all one of the most radical innovators of Western theatre.
This book provides an insightful assessment of Strindberg’s vital contribution...
George Farquhar
A Migrant Life Reversed
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
George Farquhar (1677–1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces*, The Recruiting Officer* and The Beaux' Stratagem, are still regularly performed today. Yet aspects of Farquhar's biography, and in particular his Irish roots and family...
by Esther Kim Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U. S. and beyond. The Theatre of David Henry Hwang provides an in-depth study of his plays and other works in theatre.
Beginning with his "Trilogy of Chinese...
Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward...
Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England
Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. Ivanov depicts a man stifled by inactivity and lost idealism, and The Seagull contrasts a young man's...
by Christopher Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
'Tell me worldlings, underneath the sun, If greater falsehood ever has been done'
The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a
challenge for modern audiences. Hugely popular in its day, the play
swings wildly and rapidly in genre, from pointed satire, to bloody
revenge tragedy, to melodrmatic...
Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights
Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the work of Henrik Ibsen (“The creation of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen . . . Miller and Odets, Inge and O’Neill, Williams and Shaw, swallowed the whole of him”), August...