Front Flap:Poet, essayist, actor, hymn-writer, wit, magazine editor, transvestite stage performer: Christopher Smart, Georgian don-turned-writer, was all of these.
Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty.
Yeats, Shakespeare, and Irish Cultural Nationalism examines Yeats's writing on Shakespeare in the context of his work on behalf of the Irish Literary Revival.
The author of short stories, children's literature, philosophical essays, plays, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde was one of the central literary figures of the late Victorian period whose influence stretches to the present day.
A través de esta sátira, Moliere critica a los literatos pretenciosos y a las damas de la corte de su tiempo, así como la hipocresía reinante en la sociedad del momento.
Divertida y exitosa comedia, narra con satira las desventuras de Orgon al caer bajo la influencia de Tartufo (Tartuffe es el nombre dado a la trufa, un hongo escondido bajo tierra), un falso devoto, a quien encuentra todas las bondades y que, en realidad, busca quedarse con todos sus bienes.
En un mundo donde las historias de las clases populares a menudo quedan relegadas al silencio, este libro retrata en sus páginas la vivencia ficcionada de aquellos que habitan en los márgenes […] "La calle", es una obra que desnuda las vivencias y el absurdo de la vida urbana para un grupo de vecinos de un sector marginado de la ciudad […] La trama, con un lenguaje coloquial y descarnado, en el que abunda la expresión vulgar, irónica y jergal propia de la cultura popular, muestra el peso del sistema sobre la cotidianidad de los sujetos, los efectos de la exclusión social y el oportunismo de algunos agentes institucionales, así como el conjunto de valores que en la lucha por la supervivencia mantiene unida, en medio del conflicto, a una comunidad aparentemente desgarrada […] "Los migrantes" echa una mirada, cercana e íntima, a uno de los fenómenos más extendidos y radicalizados del mundo contemporáneo […] La pieza teatral explora un espacio doméstico configurado accidentalmente en el extranjero por efecto de la migración, en donde convergen luchas interpersonales, rivalidades idiosincráticas, competencias afectivas, camaradería y lazos solidarios entre un grupo de ciudadanos extranjeros en tierras españolas, y de estos con la anfitriona.
Vivir del teatro compila los ensayos que Vicente Lenero escribio entre 1968 y 2004 en torno al ambiente teatral de las ultimas decadas del siglo XX, en las que fue protagonista y testigo de primer nivel.
Este libro surge del encuentro dedicado a Pier Paolo Pasolini el 2 de noviembre de 2015 en Buenos Aires, en el marco del III Coloquio Literatura y Margen y en ocasión del cuadragésimo aniversario de su muerte, ocurrida en Ostia, cerca de Roma, en 1975.
Activating Hamlet offers a new theory of Hamlet, highlighting how significant philosophical themes within the play mirror those that surround the text's complex and mysterious bibliographical history.
Activating Hamlet offers a new theory of Hamlet, highlighting how significant philosophical themes within the play mirror those that surround the text's complex and mysterious bibliographical history.
This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King's Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politics in early modern English drama.
This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King's Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politics in early modern English drama.
This volume explores Mexican dramatic receptions of Sophocles' Antigone from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, investigating the thematic evolution of Antigone in Mexico and its cumulative impact on Mexican heritage discourse.
This volume explores Mexican dramatic receptions of Sophocles' Antigone from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, investigating the thematic evolution of Antigone in Mexico and its cumulative impact on Mexican heritage discourse.
First published in 1950, English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans is a detailed examination of representative plays, and of the growth of a native drama in England up to the foundation of the Tudor stage.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of Anton Chekhov's four great plays within their cultural context: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of Anton Chekhov's four great plays within their cultural context: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard.
This collection celebrates the quadricentennial anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), examining the intersection of law, literature, history, and performance through eight scholarly essays and an afterword.
First published in 1950, English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans is a detailed examination of representative plays, and of the growth of a native drama in England up to the foundation of the Tudor stage.
This collection celebrates the quadricentennial anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), examining the intersection of law, literature, history, and performance through eight scholarly essays and an afterword.
This critical play anthology brings together twenty-three plays by seventeen playwrights from the Frontera/Borderlands of Texas and Mexico, offering readers the first-ever critical play anthology from this geographical region.
Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent, this book examines what it might have meant to perform as Indian in distinct economic and political spaces in early modern England.
