Peter Oswald: 11 books

Schiller's play of 1800 pits Mary Queen of Scots against her rival Elizabeth of England. The meeting never happened, but Goethe claimed 'It will be good to see those whores alongside each other.' Schiller's Mary redeems her youthful crimes through an ordeal that lifts her into the realms of spiritual...

After ten years at war, Odysseus returns to Ithaca to find his palace in the hands of violent men. These mortal enemies are overcome but the ghosts of war are not so easily vanquished. Drawing on the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, and loosely following the model of classical Greek drama, Peter...

A comedy written for the Shakespeare's Globe, telling the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, takes the wrong drug and finds himself transformed into an ass. His subsequent travels lead him to encounter the chaos of human desire from the perspective...

Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. Both dramatize periods of crisis in sixteenth-century...

This latest volume in the Wavelets Analysis and Its Applications Series provides significant and up-to-date insights into recent developments in the field of wavelet constructions in connection with partial differential equations. Specialists in numerical applications and engineers in a variety of...

Descending from the heavenly sphere of the gods to the mortal world below, Arcturus raises a mighty storm. For Labrax, a ‘procurer’ of women, the storm brings shipwreck and ruin. For his two female captives it offers a chance of escape. Washed up on a rocky coastline the two women seek refuge...

Lucian Willow has a dark past; so dark he can’t remember it. Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, a former Army Chaplain lives in a state of amnesia on his old comrade Lord Brook’s country estate, deep in the slumbering fields of England. The arrival of a circus from across the...

The ancient Hindu epic poem The Ramayana tells of the journey of Rama, an incarnation of God, to set free his wife Sita from the demon Ravana. This divine story, here set forth in dramatic form, encapsulates the rise of humanity from animal to God. It was produced at the Birmingham Rep in 2000, and at the RNT in 2001

Augustine’s Oak, the first play to be commissioned for Shakespeare’s new Globe Theatre, is the story of St Augustine’s mission in 597 AD to reconcile the Christians of the Celtic Church with the authority of Rome.

Eine umfassende, zuverlässige und wissenschaftlich aktuelle Einführung in die Welt der Hebräischen Bibel: ihr kulturelles Umfeld, ihre literarische Gestalt, ihre gesellschaftlichen Hintergründe, ihre kultische Prägung, ihre Bilder vom Menschen und von Gott. Die 32 Paragraphen sind von ausgesuchten...

Der Muster- und Kulturwandel von Krankenhäusern spiegelt sich in Managementansätzen sowie der Organisation und Führung wider. Das Krankenhausmanagement folgt dabei den Rahmenbedingungen der Politik. Fundierte und theoriegeleitete Managementkonzepte - in der Praxis erprobt - können eine Grundlage...