This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists to Aphra Benn.
Krzysztof Plesniarowicz draws differences between Western and Eastern European absurdism, points out similarities and adjacencies, and emphasises the function fulfilled by the theatre of the absurd in Eastern Europe: the representation of the drama of a man deprived of freedom.
Shakespeare's Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Woman's Debate investigates the echoes of two early modern discourses-paradoxical writing and the woman's question or querelle des femmes-in the representation of the "e;Shakespearean shrew"e; in The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and Othello.
Krzysztof Plesniarowicz draws differences between Western and Eastern European absurdism, points out similarities and adjacencies, and emphasises the function fulfilled by the theatre of the absurd in Eastern Europe: the representation of the drama of a man deprived of freedom.
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.
Die hier vorgelegte Studie begreift sich als Fortführung der Arbeiten an einer philologischen Hermeneutik des Textes, die 1977 abgebrochen wurden und hier zu einem Abschluß gebracht werden.
First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient and modern tragic drama through an investigation of the plays in the light of psychoanalytical ideas.
Two actors, a thousand characters, and the story of how a kingdom is changed An epic new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about the Warrior King, Sinuhe written by Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri that captures the essence of humanity and the complexities of immigration.
Noel Coward combines a fresh appraisal of major plays by one of the twentieth century's most popular dramatists, with an account of critical and theatrical responses to his life and work.
Ein Überblick über Schillers gesamtes literarisches SchaffenDieses kleine Buch bietet eine gleichermaßen kompakte wie umfassende Einführung in Schillers Werk und setzt dabei einen Akzent auf seine poetischen Texte.
