Drama History Criticism category: 905 books
by Laurence P. Senelick
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Although younger than most European theatrical traditions, the Russian professional theater has generated an exciting body of criticism and theory which until recently has remained unknown or nearly inaccessible in the West. This anthology presents a selection of important Russian writing on the aesthetics...
The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama
An Introduction with Primary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource forstudents embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information. This companion equips students with the information needed to situate the...
Approximate Bodies
Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and...
The Death and Life of Drama
Reflections on Writing and Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What makes a film "work," so that audiences come away from the viewing experience refreshed and even transformed in the way they understand themselves and the world around them? In The Death and Life of Drama, veteran screenwriter and screenwriting teacher Lance Lee tackles this question...
Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015
Art, Modernity and the National Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 provides a critical and historical exploration of a tradition of modern dramatic creativity that has received very little scholarly attention. Exploring the emergence of a distinctly modern verse drama at the turn of the century and its development into the twenty-first,...
by Christopher Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Dramatically compressing the reign of Edward II and enlivening the historical narrative with humour, romance, and horrific violence, Marlowe interrogates how the transgression of accepted codes of behaviour affects even those at the highest level of society. Kept off the stage for almost three hundred...
by Reginald Rose
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet
A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic...
by Lucy Prebble
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did.
One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding...
The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and Performance
Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Collected Studies CS 1068
The essays selected for this volume are chosen to reflect the important and intersecting ways in which over the last forty years Meg Twycross has shifted paradigms for people reading early English religious drama. The focus of Meg Twycross’s research has been on...
Misreading Shakespeare
Modern Playwrights and the Quest for Originality
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
A dynamic new study in literary and dramatic influence, Misreading Shakespeare defines and explores the relation between two modern playsEdward Bonds Lear and Tom Stoppards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Deadand Shakespeares King Lear and Hamlet. While some see the modern plays as derivative, others...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2000
This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time. No longer seen as a privileged arena for select dramatists and elite courtiers, the Restoration...
Staging the revolution
Drama, reinvention and history, 1647-72
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Staging the revolution offers a reappraisal of the weight and volume of theatrical output during the commonwealth and early Restoration, both in terms of live performances and performances on the paper stage. It argues that the often-cited notion that 1642 marked an end to theatrical production in...
by Maxim Gorky
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of th
Imprisoned for his revolutionary activities...
Dramatic Geography
Romance, Intertheatricality, and Cultural Encounter in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, this book asks how a sense of geographical location was created in early modern theatres that featured minimal scenery. While previous studies have stressed these plays' connections to a historical Mediterranean...