Drama History Criticism category: 905 books
by Paul Murphy, Paul Murphy, James Moran
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This Critical Companion to the work of one of Ireland's most famous and controversial playwrights, Sean O'Casey, is the first major study of the playwright's work to consider his oeuvre and the archival material that has appeared during the last decade. Published ahead of the centenary of the 1916...
Selections from the Notebooks Of Edward Bond
Volume One 1959-1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In this first volume of notebooks, Edward Bond reveals himself to be one of the finest and most creative minds to have emerged in the twentieth century.
Exploring the meeting point between politics and the art of the writer, Bond's notes chart the creative progress of his work and thinking...
The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence
Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book to give an in-depth analysis of Lawrence's interaction with the theatre industry during the early twentieth century. It connects and examines his performance texts, and...
by Gwilym Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book Award
Whether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, the shipwrecks of the comedies or the thunderbolt of Pericles, there is an instance of storm in every one of Shakespeare's plays. This is the first comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Renaissance tragedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical responses over the course of nearly four centuries. Providing a uniquely detailed and up-to-date account of the play's rich stage history, it demonstrates...
Lucretia Borgia: Historischer Roman
Ein fesselndes Drama des Autors von: Les Misérables / Die Elenden, Der Glöckner von Notre Dame, Maria Tudor, 1793 und mehr
Language: German
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Lucrezia Borgia (lat. Lucretia Borgia; span. Lucrecia Borja; 1480 - 1519) war eine italienisch-spanische Renaissancefürstin und die außereheliche Tochter Papst Alexanders VI. mit seiner Geliebten Vanozza de' Cattanei. Sie war die Schwester von Cesare, Juan und Jofré Borgia. Die von Zeitgenossen...
This Isle is Full of Monsters
Shakespeare's Audiences and the Supernatural
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Devils crawled up from hell. Angels descended from the heavens. Sorcerers, fairies and witches moved amongst the audience. At the cusp of the Enlightenment, Tudor and Jacobean theaters were certainly places of enchantment.
But for the citizens watching the play, how much did the supernatural...
Re: Producing Women's Dramatic History
The Politics of Playing in Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
By analyzing publicity materials, photos, programs, reviews, and box office and theater records, D.A. Hadfield traces the process of creating a theatrical success” and investigates how the politics involved influences what we perceive as good” play-writing.
Edo Kabuki in Transition
From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical tradition. Challenging the prevailing understanding...
Sharon Pollock
First Woman of Canadian Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the...
by Dorothy Parker
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Dorothy Parker holds a place in history as one of New Yorks most beloved writers. Now, for the first time in nearly a century, the public is invited to enjoy Mrs. Parkers sharp wit and biting commentary on the Jazz Age hits and flops in this first-ever published collection of her groundbreaking Broadway...
Acting Up
Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Acting concentrated both the aspirations and anxieties of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, where theater was a defining element of urban sociability. In Acting Up: Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France, Jeffrey M. Leichman argues for a new understanding of the relationship between...
by Stella Adler
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
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 Strindberg...
by Alison Croggon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
In 2010, the Guardian named Melbourne critic Alison Croggon as a ‘must read’ critic. She was the first online critic to be awarded the Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year, in 2009. Her blog Theatre Notes was the first theatre blog in Australia and, over its eight years of existence, made Croggon...