Drama History Criticism category: 905 books
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...
by Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the...
Beckett's Dantes
Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative...
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...
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...
by Mathew R. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe’s plays between the tragic...
by Rose Whyman
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this canonical playwright, examining the genius of Chekhov's writing, theatrical representation and dramatic philosophy.
Emphasising Chekhov’s continued relevance and his mastery of the tragicomic, Rose Whyman provides...
by Robert Shaughnessy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans.
In this friendly, structured guide, Robert Shaughnessy:
introduces Shakespeare’s...
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...