Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Applied Shakespeare is attracting growing interest from practitioners and academics alike, all keen to understand the ways in which performing his works can offer opportunities for reflection, transformation, dialogue regarding social justice, and challenging of perceived limitations.

Explores the significant presence of Shakespeare in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Das Werk Adalbert Stifters scheint von der Bemühung gezeichnet zu sein, moderne Subjektivität an vormoderne Konzepte binden zu wollen.

Two bombs in one day is a foul coincidenceDon't forget the lightning strikeA normal day.

Hear Me Now, Volume Two is a unique collection of over 80 original audition monologues, expressly created by a range of writers including Vera Chok, Josh-Susan Enright and Bea Webster, brought together by producer Titilola Dawudu and Tamasha Theatre Company.

This accessible introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest comic writers tackles key questions posed by Aristophanes' plays, such as staging, humour, songs, obscene language, politics and the modern translation and performance of Aristophanic comedy.

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have emerged from performative, political, literary, and conceptual encounters with Shakespeare and his oeuvre in African contexts.

Kate, Sam and Pete are stuck.

The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens in vivid, dynamic new translations by award-winning poets Robert Bagg & James Scully.

I can't forget her.

Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire.

Im Rahmen der derzeit kurrenten Untersuchungen zu den Relationen zwischen Literatur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte macht der Band den Vorschlag, Schnittmengen und Differenzen zwischen medizinischem Wissen und literarischen Texten über die auf beiden Feldern gleichermaßen zentrale Kategorie der Schreibweise zu untersuchen.

Shakespeare's Political Imagination argues that to better understand Shakespeare's plays it is essential to look at the historicism of setting: how the places and societies depicted in the plays were understood in the period when they were written.

First published in 1977, the third edition of Pinter is an excellent analysis of Harold Pinter and his works.

'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history.

This volume reframes the critical conversation about Shakespeare's histories and national identity by bringing together two growing bodies of work: early modern race scholarship and adaptation theory.

This book is a complete re-assessment of the works of J.

King Lear is perhaps the most fierce and moving play ever written.

I'm not much now, I know, but I will be.

Die Buchreihe Theatrum Scientiarum versammelt originäre Beiträge am Schnittpunkt von Philosophie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Kultur- und Theaterwissenschaft.

Twelfth Night is the most mature and fully developed of Shakespeare's comedies and, as well as being one of his most popular plays, represents a crucial moment in the development of his art.

Recent performances of early modern plays are analysed in essays by practitioners and academics, featuring critical, pedagogical and practical approaches.

An up-to-date survey of the key themes and debates surrounding screen adaptations and productions of Shakespeare''s Othello.

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE award-winning playwright Caridad Svich.

Lying there, drifting up into those ancient lights was exactly like looking into the past.

First published in 1990, Don Juan: Variations on a Theme explores the differing perceptions of this famous character following his first appearance on the European stage in the early seventeenth century.

In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C.

Migrating Shakespeare offers the first study of the earliest waves of Shakespeare's migration into Europe.

Shakespeare is both the world''s most quoted author and a frequent quoter himself.

This edition includes fully annotated texts of all works known or plausibly believed to be by Aphra Behn (1640-1689).

Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and underrepresented storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters hegemonic methods.

Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric Dramas gathers together for the first time in English translation the first three plays by Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.

Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era.

We should all have been taught more of life and less good mannersIt is three years since Agnes, an artist, left her unfaithful husband Henry.

The White Devil is one of the most violent and most fascinating plays in English theatrical history.

Lange erwartet: Der dritte Band von Günther Rühles großer TheatergeschichteDer dritte Band von Günther Rühles »Theater in Deutschland« ist kein historischer Rückblick, sondern die lebendige Schilderung eines Zeitgenossen.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die dramatische Funktion von Mephistos Monolog in Goethes „Faust“ I: „Verachte nur Vernunft und Wissenschaft .

Ireland's Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904.

Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies is a collection of essays which show how selected Shakespearean plays and later adaptations engage with the political situations of the Elizabethan period as well as contemporary Asian societies.

This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays:* The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)* Arden of Faversham (Anon.

In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into 'Joan Dark', a member of the 'Black Straw Hats' (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago.

The Duchess of Malfi is generally regarded as John Webster's finest play, a masterpiece of tragic depth and emotional complexity.