Literary studies: plays and playwrights

A detailed study of Molière as playwright, director and actor, and his life and career.

Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book contains author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of characterization, and sample questions with guideline answers.

Classic Books Library presents this new beautiful edition of William Shakespeare's historical play, "e;Henry V"e;.

It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has been woven into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts - from her first appearance in eighteenth-century translations of Hamlet, through depictions by seminal authors such as Espronceda, Becquer and Lorca, to turn-of-the millennium figurations.

When directors approach Shakespeare, is the play always the thing or might something else sometimes be the thing?

No-one would have believed in the early years of the twentieth century that this world was being watched.

First published in 1975, The English Morality Play is the extended history of the English morality play, its persistence and flourishing as a dramatic tradition.

In this work of scholarship and creativity, Meagher argues that Shakespeare has been misunderstood because of a failure to recognize his own directions as a playwright.

This study revaluates the work of the scientist and radical, poet and dramatist and English exile in Germany Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849).

Covering a period of nearly 40 years' work by the author this collection of essays in the Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and practitioner of early English plays to the understanding of how medieval plays and Robin Hood games of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were performed.

A collection of important essays from one of Ireland''s foremost literary and cultural historians.

Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare synthesizes Laura Mulvey's male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's stare into a new critical lens, the filmic stare, in order to understand and analyze the visual construction of disability in adaptations of Shakespearean drama.

A prolific playwright in the US, Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi explores, through his dramatic work, the immigrant experience.

Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, 2018Caring for Red is Mindy Frieds moving and colorful account of caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny--an actor, writer, and labor organizer--in the final year of his life.

Bringing together four of the most popular and widely studied of Ben Jonson's plays, this anthology focuses on the city comedies for which Jonson is best known today: The Alchemist (edited by Elizabeth Cook), Volpone (edited by Robert N.

Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries focuses on the broad movements of national revivalism that took place around the turn of the century as Finland and Norway, and later Iceland, were gaining their independence.

Cet ouvrage invite à découvrir le travail que le metteur en scène et réalisateur, Patrice Chéreau, engage au Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers entre 1981 et 1990.

First published in 1971, Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television is concerned with the nature of theatre as a subject for study and the ways of studying it.

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Rasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi.

This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter.

Seriously William, you're eighteen and you're gay, for Christ's sake.

The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts.

No modern play in the western dramatic tradition has provoked as much controversy or generated as much diversity of opinion as Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.

This book explores Shakespeare films as interpretations of Shakespeare's plays as well as interpreting the place of Shakespeare on screen within the classroom and within the English curriculum.

How and why did Victorian culture make Shakespeare into a literary deity and his work into a secular Bible?

Poetry on Stage focuses on exchanges between the writers of the Italian neo-avant-garde with the actors, directors, and playwrights of the Nuovo Teatro.

How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama?

This book explores Shakespeare films as interpretations of Shakespeare's plays as well as interpreting the place of Shakespeare on screen within the classroom and within the English curriculum.

A study of the topic of friendship in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

A useful student edition which contains modernized texts of six classic plays and which takes full account of recent scholarship.

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

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Coriolanus is the last and most intriguing of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies.

Shakespeare / Nature sets new agendas for the study of nature in Shakespeare's work.

In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare's plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Melies and what to the Lumiere brothers.

This text was the first monograph to examine plays by Black and Asian women in Britain.

A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes' Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies.

In devoting a whole book to Measure for Measure Miss Lascelles has expressed her conviction that in no other way can the sharp divisions of opinion which characterise recent criticism of the play be resolved.

Using computer analysis, this book confronts the main unsolved mysteries of authorship in Shakespeare''s canon, providing some surprising conclusions.