Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy.

This book analyses three Shakespearean plays that particularly deal with abusive forms of banishment: King Richard II, Coriolanus, and King Lear.

I really wish my mum was here.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Dramen und dramatische Szenen vor der Jahrhundertwende (1788–1799), Teil 1: Text" verfügbar.

This book offers a new approach to the work of the great classical author.

25 February 1964: 22-year-old Cassius Clay, soon to be Muhammad Ali, has just won the world heavyweight boxing title.

Gérard de Nerval – ein Name, der für die Essenz der französischen Romantik steht und zugleich die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele offenbart.

This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, introducing them to the literary tradition, themes, stylistic features and cultural contexts of the genre and the collection, and offering close readings of more than 100 sonnets.

A concise guide to global performances of Shakespeare, this volume combines methodologies of dramaturgy, film and performance studies, critical race and gender studies and anthropological thick description.

From their inception, 'low culture' comics have intersected with the 'high culture' of Shakespeare.

Fils de Zeus et de Maïa, Hermès, dès sa naissance, multiplie les facéties, au grand dam des autres dieux du panthéon.

Justine a douze ans et demi, elle rêve de devenir astronome.

Fragments du passé et du présent s’entremêlent dans la nouvelle toile qu’Araignée, créature rusée des contes d’Afrique de l’Ouest, déploie autour du monde.

Consent in Shakespeare's Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified, gender-fluid, and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare's classical Mediterranean plays.

Robert s’est toujours senti rejeté par ses parents, Paulette et Henri.

This book analyses three Shakespearean plays that particularly deal with abusive forms of banishment: King Richard II, Coriolanus, and King Lear.

Euripides and Shaw (1921) looks at Bernard Shaw and English Drama as great stylistic changes were sweeping the English stage.

Based on the texts of traditional Chinese dramas such as The Orphan of Zhao, Liang Shangbo and Zhu Yingtai, The Injustice to Dou E, and The Fifteen Strings of Cash, the book aims to broaden the scope of law and literature in China.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

Ye'r a jinx!

I'd be hunted there, for the greed of this nation and they won't even give me a place to hide here.

Novembre 1915.

Alternative temporalities have often emerged as a reaction to the normativizing force of time, demonstrating that time can be used as an instrument of power and oppression, but also as a means to resist this very oppression.

One of Shakespeare's last plays, The Winter's Tale provides tragedy and comedy in equal measure.

Subcultures and generations collide in this New York comedy.

All the time we have invested.

God's code tells an adventure of friends in the wilderness and its objective is to lead the reader to a reflection on how to conduct their relationship with God and whether both parties are satisfied.

Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite - Moliere - Plot: Orgon's family is up in arms because Orgon and his mother have fallen under the influence of Tartuffe, a pious fraud (and a vagrant prior to Orgon's help).

One morning, as I was writing, I suddenly understood that as a species, through incredible stubbornness, we were able to write love into our genetic makeup, and that this is enough to redeem us all.

First published in 1974, European Drama of the Early Middle Ages stresses the distinctive variety of the dramatic traditions, both secular and religious, and shows that throughout the period the popular and profane was a constant and lively source of enrichment to the mainstream of charge drama.

Seit Jahrhunderten fasziniert William Shakespeare die Welt mit seinen unvergleichlichen Dramen und Sonetten.

Coincés sur l’île déserte de « Robinson Crusoé », Daniel Defoe et Jonathan Swift se souviennent des années 1710-1714, où ils faisaient de la propagande pour le premier ministre tory, Robert Harley, ainsi que d’une période plus ancienne où ils se remémorent les rapports que Swift entretenait avec les femmes, notamment Delarivière Manley, une des premières féministes.

»Des Geklimpers vielverworrner Töne Rausch« (Vers 9964) - mit diesen Worten charakterisiert eine Figur im Faust die vielfältigen Versarten, Rhythmen und Reime von Goethes Drama.

Une petite gare sur une ligne locale de province.

The Anatomy of Drama by Alan Reynolds Thompson argues that drama, as an art form, is essential to the vitality of civilization, especially during times of global upheaval.

I've got goosebumps.

Jean Bertier, la cinquantaine, comédien au chômage, se sent vieux, inutile et sans avenir.

"e;I am"e; is presented as a challenge, a daring, face a society many times backward and conservative.

Malgré les jours et les années qui passent, Dawit, emprisonné dans un conteneur depuis plus de vingt ans, garde toujours espoir… Il survit en pensant aux siens, à sa mère, à sa femme Sofia, à leur rencontre lorsqu’ils étaient jeunes, à leurs trois enfants.

Winner of a Fringe First Award 2024What use is paper?

Hasan Erkek que les lecteurs de la collection regards turcs connaissent pour ses pièces de théâtre : Le cercle sacré — qui invite le spectateur à une redécouverte du théâtre de l’Anatolie — et Le cercle de l’affection — qui se présente sous forme d’un conte de fées sur les thèmes de l’affection, l’amour et l’environnement — désire sensibiliser ses lecteurs-spectateurs au respect des autres en les faisant réfléchir et appréhender le monde comme un bien précieux à chérir, à partager.

Dans un pays fictif, sous la domination du dictateur Evren Martinka, président du conseil suprême, le 31 décembre, un peu avant minuit… Arvan Janko, artiste peintre, dont la femme et le fils ont disparu trois ans auparavant, reçoit la visite inattendue du dictateur qui lui ordonne de faire trois-cent-soixante-cinq portraits de lui : soit un par jour.