Drama History Criticism category: 905 books
by Matthew Wright
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
"Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way...
Les Derniers Jours de l'humanité de Karl Kraus
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
L’écrivain et publiciste viennois Karl Kraus (1874-1936), directeur et auteur de la revue Die Fackel (La Torche) fut sans doute le plus virtuose des satiristes et polémistes de langue allemande.
Une fiche de lecture...
Rabelais's Radical Farce
Late Medieval Comic Theater and Its Function in Rabelais
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the understanding of the theater of farce and its literary possibilities. By tracing the development of farce in late medieval and Renaissance comedic theater...
by Kenneth Burke
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955. ESSAYS TOWARD A SYMBOLIC OF MOTIVES, 1950¬-1955 contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy, which began with A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). In these essays-some of which appear...
by Jeffrey Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
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.
by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Juan Manuel Escudero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 17, 2015
El volumen 6 del Anuario calderoniano recoge en su mayoría trabajos que estudian en profundidad esa extensa faceta calderoniana de la comedia cómica que ha sido menos estudiada que la vertiente seria del dramaturgo. Los artículos centran su punto de vista no sólo en obras poco conocidas sino en...
Tennessee Williams
A Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Tennessee Williams' plays are performed around the world, and are staples of the standard American repertory. His famous portrayals of women engage feminist critics, and as America's leading gay playwright from the repressive postwar period, through Stonewall, to the growth of gay liberation, he represents...
Curtain Up
Agatha Christie: A Life in the Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
From the producer of numerous Agatha Christie stage plays comes the first book to examine the world’s bestselling mystery writer’s career and work as a playwright, published to commemorate her 125th birthday.
Agatha Christie has long been revered around the world for her mysteries and the...
by Émile Zola
Language: French
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: September 29, 2017
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by Marc Prescott
Language: French
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Écartée comme « pièce fantasque d'étudiant universitaire » par un critique, Sex, Lies et les Franco-Manitobains est devenue l'œuvre de Marc Prescott la plus étudiée dans les départements de lettres à travers le Canada. Sex, Lies et les Franco-Manitobains a inauguré une nouvelle ère dans...
La Leyenda Negra en el crisol de la comedia
El teatro del Siglo de Oro frente a los estereotipos antihispánicos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Uno de los fenómenos culturales más dinámicos del Siglo de Oro fue la Leyenda Negra, el sistema de imágenes que utilizó y difundió la propaganda antihispánica del momento, principalmente la de algunos de los enemigos de la Monarquía Hispánica como holandeses, ingleses y protestantes alemanes....
Sésame et les lys – suivi d'annexes
Nouvelle édition 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Sésame et les lys de Marcel Proust augmentée d'annexes (Biographie).
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La pasión por dudar
Escepticismo y Probabilismo en los Dramas Seculares de don Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 31, 2016
En esta vida todo es verdad y todo mentira, La dama duende, El pintor de su deshonra, Luis Pérez el gallego, El alcalde de Zalamea y La vida es sueño son algunos dramas calderonianos que Eduardo Muratta Bunsen analiza en estas páginas siguiendo el derrotero de la duda. Esta nueva valoración revela...
by Thalia Papadopoulou
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Aeschylus' 'Suppliants' dramatises the myth of the fifty daughters of Danaos, who flee Egypt and come to Argos as suppliants, trying to escape forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins. It was long considered to be the earliest surviving tragedy. Even after the mid-20th century, when new evidence...