Drama History Criticism category: 905 books
The Changeling
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
"The next good mood I find my father in, I'll get him quite discarded†?
With these chillingly offhand words, Beatrice-Joanna, the spoilt daughter of a powerful nobleman, plots to get rid of the family servant who has crossed her once too often. The Changeling's vivid tale of sexual appetite,...
by Julie Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Engaging and stimulating, this Introduction provides a fresh vista of the early modern theatrical landscape. Chapters are arranged according to key genres (tragedy, revenge, satire, history play, pastoral and city comedy), punctuated by a series of focused case studies on topics ranging from repertoire...
Prefiguring Postblackness
Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American freedom struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays between 1959 and 1969 during the civil rights era. Through close readings of the plays, their popular and African American...
Reader in Comedy
An Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlighting the relationships...
James Graham Plays: 1
A History of Falling Things, Tory Boyz, The Man, The Whisky Taster, Sons of York
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This collection brings together four of Graham's most successful and entertaining plays, each representing a relationship with a theatre with which he has worked and introduced by the author. One of the plays, Sons of York, has never before been published, but earned James Graham a nomination for...
Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Since its publication in 1890, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been a recurring point of fascination for readers, theater audiences, and artists alike. Newly married, yet utterly bored, the character of Hedda Gabler evokes reflection on beauty, love, passion, death, nihilism, identity, and a host of other...
by H. D. F. Kitto
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students, such as:
* why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor?
* why did Sophocles...
Eclipse of Action
Tragedy and Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the notion that tragedy has died, this wide-ranging...
Stages of Evil
Occultism in Western Theater and Drama
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
"The evil that men do" has been chronicled for thousands of years on the European stage, and perhaps nowhere else is human fear of our own evil more detailed than in its personifications in theater. Early writers used theater to communicate human experiences and to display reverence for...
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...
by Patrick Lonergan, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Drawing on major new archival discoveries and recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an innovative account of Irish drama and theatre, spanning the past seventy years. Rather than offering a linear narrative, the volume traces key themes to illustrate the relationship between theatre and changes...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
"Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Michael Billington, Guardian)
Michael Frayn is a playwright, novelist, journalist and writer of screenplays. His most important plays included...
Reader in Tragedy
An Anthology of Classical Criticism to Contemporary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This unique anthology presents the important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span, it traces the development of theories and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways...