Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath explores Beckett's literary responses to the political maelstroms of his formative and middle years: the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II.

Was ist 'tragische Erfahrung' im Theater?

This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child.

What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music?

A dazzling celebration of theatre, its workings and its most compelling playwrights by the New York's senior drama critic emeritus and the author of Tennessee Williams'By far the best thing about my stuff I've ever read' Arthur Miller'Luminous with insight and love for every aspect of the act of dramatic creation' Daily Mail'A wonderful celebration of theatre, filled with insights' Guardian'John Lahr manages to write better about the theatre than anybody in the English language,' says Richard Eyre.

Why has memory become such an important political tool in response to the challenges of modernity?

The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is, arguably, a problem of the present-day world.

In this second, fully revised edition of his acclaimed study of Barker's work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of the characters and their interactions.

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

Includes all the narrative poems that can confidently be assigned to Shakespeare.

Volumes in this series trace the course of Shakespeare criticism, play-by-play, from the earliest items of recorded criticism to the beginnings of the modern period.

Let down by the uncertainties of memory, language, and their own family units, the characters in Harold Pinter's plays endure persistent struggles to establish their own identities.

This handbook offers a way in to reading Anthony and Cleopatra theatrically.

Advanced Placement Classroom: Macbeth is a teacher-friendly resource for using one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies in the Advanced Placement classroom.

What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre?

This book explores emotion in a range of literary works, in the context of current neurobiological, psychological, sociological and other empirical research.

First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society.

The drug laws in this country- the drug laws IN THE WORLD - all stem from this attitude that pleasure is a bad thing.

In a once-great Scottish town, a massive redevelopment project promises to bring money, jobs and new prospects to its forgotten population.

Measure for Measure generates much debate and is strikingly modern.

Despite their significant contributions to the American theater, African American dramatists have received less critical attention than novelists and poets.

Moliere wrote, directed, and starred in comedies for public and court audiences in seventeenth-century France.

"e;An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him.

Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a twenty-year career.

Selected for Arab America's Best Arab American Books of 2020 list.

This Element analyses Catharine Trotter Cockburn''s philosophy and her contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and religion.

This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare s sonnets.

This is the first full-length study to focus on the staging of Samuel Beckett's drama in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

This book examines the political alliances that are built across the diaspora in contemporary plays written by Black women playwrights in the UK.

Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.

En mettant l’inconscient au centre de l’attention, le présent volume entend interroger la place que le théâtre comme les analyses qui lui sont consacrées aujourd’hui confèrent au sujet, à sa singularité, à sa force subversive.

António de Almeida, autor que floreció a mediados del siglo XVII, pertenece a una parcela poco explorada de las letras ibéricas modernas, la de los escritores de nacionalidad portuguesa que se expresaron en castellano.

Analyses Vargas Llosa''s career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond.

The Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespeare specialists.

Something strange happens when the past comes crushing into you, right in the present.

Forms of Conflict is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet the representational challenges posed by the 'new wars' of the global era.

This set reissues two volumes entitled A Book of Broadsheets and A Second Book of Broadsheets, both with introductions by Geoffrey Dawson, a former editor of The Times.

This is the first study to comprehensively analyse Laurence Olivier''s Shakespearean films alongside his unique Shakespearean star image.

"e;Emerging in Italy in the mid-sixteenth century, pastoral drama is one of the most characteristic genres of its time.

In thinking about Justice, we ignore Love to our peril.

A new account of playgoing in Elizabethan England, in which audiences participated as much as performers.

From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London's Grand Guignol - also published by UEP this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language.

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