Drama History Criticism category: 905 books

The Children’s Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509–1608 uncovers the role of the children’s companies in transforming perceptions of authorship and publishing, performance, playing spaces, patronage, actor training, and gender politics in the sixteenth century. Jeanne...

Die Hamburgische Dramaturgie ist ein zwischen 1767 und 1769 entstandenes Werk von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing über das Drama. Es ist nicht als einheitliches, systematisches Buch konzipiert, sondern als eine Reihe von Theaterkritiken, die Lessing als Dramaturg des Deutschen Nationaltheaters in Hamburg...

What makes tragedy tragic? What makes comedy comic? What does Much Ado About Nothing have in common with When Harry Met Sally? Seneca with Desperate Housewives? Goldoni with Frasier? In Genre: A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen Andrew Tidmarsh explores these questions and more. Investigating...

In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare’s early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford’s attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry...

In this lucid and original study, first published in 1972, Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night. Berry’s purpose is to identify the form of each play by relating the governing idea of the play to the action that expresses it. To this end the...

The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet. With its over-the-top and highly theatrical approach to revenge, The Revenger's Tragedy has emerged as one of the most compelling...

Partez à la découverte du théâtre russe avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! L'année 1898 est une des grandes dates de l'histoire du théâtre européen. Elle marque la fondation du Théâtre d'art de Moscou, en réaction contre l'académisme, le vedettariat, le bas niveau du répertoire...

Michael Kirby presents a penetrating look a theater theory and analysis. His approach is analytically comprehensive and flexible, and nonevaluative. Case studies demonstrate this unique approach and record performances that otherwise would be lost.

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis En janvier 1953 retentit au théâtre Babylone le bruit d’une curieuse bombe, dont l’explosion allait bouleverser le monde du théâtre et de la littérature contemporaine. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Phèdre (1677) est certainement la tragédie la plus célèbre de Jean Racine (1639-1699). Après elle, Racine abandonna le théâtre pour devenir historiographe du roi. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis La Persécution et l’assassinat de Jean-Paul Marat représentés par le groupe théâtral de l’hospice de Charenton sous la direction de Monsieur de Sade, pièce en deux actes et trente-trois tableaux du dramaturge allemand...

Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies and has provoked a rich diversity of interpretations. Definitively passionate, it is much more than the archetypal love story: the play tests the limits of tragedy and comedy, challenges gender roles and explores the nature of language.In...

This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of ‘performativity’ to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to: show how the investigation of performativity...

Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteen years with leading directors, actors and writers at the National Theatre, Buzz Buzz! is a fantastic compendium that offers unrivalled insight into the work and practice of the best theatre talent. The first section features...