Drama History Criticism category: 905 books
28 Great Inaugural Addresses
From Washington to Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Many of the U.S. presidents' inaugural addresses have provided windows into the presidency and the state of the nation. The voices of sixteen presidents are preserved in this collection of great inaugural addresses — from George Washington's somber comments in 1789 and Abraham Lincoln's noteworthy...
by Miguel Cervantes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) is Spain's most famous author, primarily because of his celebrated novel Don Quixote. His first love, however, was the theater, for which he wrote extensively. His Interludes, published 400 years ago in 1615, are short, comic plays that explore the underbelly of Renaissance...
Euripides' Medea
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Euripides' Medea comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane J. Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality and vibrant poetry. The book includes an analytical introduction and comprehensive...
Somebody in the White House Looks Like Me
Thoughts and Poems of Ordinary Black People on the Election of President Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In 2008, the United States made history when it elected the first African American to serve as its countrys president. This was a momentous occasion for both black and white Americans. In Somebody in the White House Looks like me, author Rosetta L. Hopkins shares interviews of average people in the...
Futures of Chinese Cinema
Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
With the burgeoning interest in Chinese film, this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints and shifting viewing practices have shaped perceptions of Chinese screen cultures. Futures of Chinese Cinema contains essays by international scholars...
Literature and Union
Scottish Texts, British Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2018
Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work—both in the Scottish context and more broadly—on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions....
Lying in Early Modern English Culture
From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how religious, cultural, and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
First published in 1973, this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world’s earliest civilizations. Beginning with the early and gradual evolution of Egyptian genres, it includes biographical and...
by Nadia Crucitti
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2015
All'ascesa di Hitler, molti degli artisti che vivevano in Germania emigrano perché ebrei, altri vanno via per rifiuto della dittatura. L'attore Veit Harlan rimane perché la nuova ideologia gli piace, perché ammira la sontuosità scenografica delle adunate naziste, e soprattutto perché sta per...
by John Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre.'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a significant achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle. All the qualities are there, qualities...
by Augusto Boal
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The innovative Brazilian playwright, director and international lecturer explicates Aristotle's poetics and the philosophies of Machiavelli, Hegel and Brecht to determine the extent to which their chief components--imitation, catharsis and, ultimately, audience control--serve up to support the status quo of a society rather than facilitate change.
My TWP Plays
A Collection Including Ten Lost Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
My TWP Plays presents five important plays written by Jack Winter while he was resident playwright at Toronto Workshop Productions, one of the first great troupes of the experimental and alternative theatre movement. The carnivalesque style of the selected works in this anthology reflects the turbulence,...
The Divine
A Play for Sarah Bernhardt
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Quebec City, 1908. Two priests-to-be are ordered to deliver a letter to a controversial visitor to their city: the legendary French actress, Sarah Bernhardt.']As part of her long career, Bernhardt – known to her loyal fans as “The Divine” – visited Canada several times between 1880 and 1917,...
I'll Have What She's Having
Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
In considering the greatest of these films over time, Mr. Kimmel explains why When Harry Met Sally (1989) was called the greatest movie Woody Allen never made. Or how off-screen relationships helped My Man Godfrey (William Powell and Carole Lombard were divorced but remained friends) but interfered...