Drama History Criticism category: 905 books
Media Between Culture and Commerce
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
This book addresses the consequences of the main changes the media have undergone over the last 10 years: increasing commercialisation, concentration, convergence and internationalisation. The contributors reflect on the debate and the concern about the role of the media in a rapidly changing society....
Radical Shakespeare
Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries, have...
by Peter Clark, James L. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
Indifference to Difference
On Queer Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou’s suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identitarian specificity, one might consider the politics and practice of being indifferent to difference. Such a politics would be based on the superabundance of desire and its inability...
The Tangled Ways of Zeus
And Other Studies In and Around Greek Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
The Tangled Ways of Zeus is a collection of studies written over the last twenty years by the distinguished classicist Alan Sommerstein about various aspects of ancient Greek tragedy (and, in some cases, other related genres). It complements his recent collection of studies in Greek comedy, Talking...
by Leon Golden
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Aristotle and the Arc of Tragedy is the latest of Leon Golden’s books to connect Ancient Greece to modern culture. In a world facing many pressing issues Classics professor Golden wants to champion the values and achievements of Classical Civilization. He asserts that Homeric Epic and Greek Tragedy...
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater
Upstaging Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative team, in the...
Grundformen der Kunst
Eine psychologische Studie
Language: German
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Lou Andreas-Salomé Essays zu allgemeinen künstlerischen Fragen beschreiben eine ästhetische Grundlagentheorie. Ihre Mitte bildet die Begründung und Rechtfertigung von Kunst als Zugang zur unverkürzten Tragweite der »Dinge« - mit einem Begriff Lou Andreas-Salomés selbst: als »Menschenheimat«...
Vier Kammerspiele
Henrik Ibsen »Gespenster«, Frank Wedekind »Frühlings Erwachen«, Gerhart Hauptmann »Das Friedensfest«, Maurice Maeterlinck »Aglavaine und Selysette«
Language: German
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Als Schriftstellerin selbst eine der herausragenden Erscheinungen um 1900, hat Lou Andreas-Salomé das literarische Leben der frühen Moderne aufmerksam verfolgt und begleitet. Diesem Interesse verdankt sich der bei weitem umfangreichste Teil ihres Aufsatzwerks. Bis heute ist er zugleich der unbekannteste...
About Beckett
The Playwright and the Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In About Beckett Emeritus Professor John Fletcher has compiled a thorough and accessible volume that explains why Beckett's work is so significant and enduring. Professor Fletcher first met Beckett in 1961 and his book is filled not only with insights into the work but also interviews with Beckett and...
by Peter Brooker
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
First published in 1988, this books argues with received accounts to reclaim Brecht’s emphasis on his self-described ‘dialectical theatre’, re-examining firstly the concepts of Gestus and Verfremdung and their realisation in Brecht’s poetry in terms of his attempt to consciously apply the...
by Terence Hawkes
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism'. Presentism is a critical manoeuvre which uses relevant aspects of the contemporary as a crucial trigger for its investigations. It deliberately begins with the material...
English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime
Fictions of Transport in Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Patrick Cheney's new book places the sublime at the heart of poems and plays in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Specifically, Cheney argues for the importance of an 'early modern sublime' to the advent of modern authorship in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson. Chapters...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
How do writers of contemporary fiction incorporate Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy? This collection brings together some of the leading voices in the scholarship of Shakespearean adaptation and appropriation to examine the ways in which writers have used literary culture's...