Drama History Criticism category: 905 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country,...
The Spirit of Noh
A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the Fushikaden
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich six-hundred-year history and has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western artists as Ezra Pound and The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has long held a fascination for people both in the East and the West. For six hundred years it has had a...
American Lazarus
Religion and the Rise of African American and Native American Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of color in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, "the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust." This book explores the means by which...
Liffey and Lethe
Paramnesiac History in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand both the literature and the varieties of nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, we must understand the various modes in which the very...
Menials
Domestic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650–1850
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Menials argues that British writers of the long-eighteenth century projected their era’s economic and social anxieties onto domestic servants. Confronting the emergence of controversial principles like self-interest, emulation, and luxury, writers from Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson...
Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights
Making the Radical Palatable
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This book* * demonstrates the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the twentieth century, tracing ideological change over time in the reception of US mainstream plays taking HIV/AIDS as their topic from 1985 to 2000. This is the first study to combine the topics of the...
by Graham Eatough, Dan Rebellato, David Grieg
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
‘Considering its track record in collaborative and interdisciplinary work, its international status, and its reputation for innovative practice […] Suspect Culture has been and remains one of our most innovative arts companies and as such it is among our most precious.’ Trish Reid
Suspect...
by Jonathon Young, Kevin Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this psychological thriller set in a fictionalized 1930s Vancouver, Alex Braithwaite, a troubled but passionate theatre critic, believes he has found the legendary Stanley Lee, director of the infamous avant-garde theatre The Empty Space.” Alex becomes convinced that this man’s radically...
Theatre of Fear & Horror: Expanded Edition
The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
"Bloodcurdling shrieks, fiendish schemes, deeds of darkness, mayhem and mutilation—we all have a rough idea of what Grand Guignol stands for. But until now it has been hard to find out much more about it than that. According to the American theater historian Mel Gordon, no major history of the theater...
by Richard Foreman
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
"Richard Foreman reinvented dialogue, action, sound, stage design, and philosophical groundwork as no other stage artist in our history."—PEN/Laura Pels Master American Dramatist Award citation These writings, collected from two earlier books now long out-of-print along with two recent interviews,...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of motivation that lead to her tragic insistence on killing...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary...
The Jefferson Bible
Akashic U.S. Presidents Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Acclaimed author Percival Everett will take an atheist’s-eye-view of the little-known Jefferson Bible,” the third president’s response to the King James Bible.
Percival Everett’s novel Erasure won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and his most recent, A History of the African-American...
Crispin Ier
La Vie et l'œuvre de Raymond Poisson comédien-poète du XVIIe siècle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Raymond Poisson, a contemporary of Molière, was the leading comic actor with the troupe of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and later at the Comédie Française during the first five years of its existence. He popularized one of the French stage's best-loved stock characters, the impudent servant Crispin,...