Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Amar su propia muerte es una comedia de tema bíblico que fue escrita por el intelectual cuzqueño Juan de Espinosa Medrano (apodado el "Lunarejo"), quien fuera autor del famoso Apologético en favor de don Luis de Góngora (1662).

A collection of essays on film adaptations of Shakespeare''s plays.

This book is about the search for a lost play.

No one's any right to be what father is - never questioned, never answered back.

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power.

Meet Jess and Joe.

In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west.

Explores the construction of Jonson''s multifaceted reputation and shifting legacy from his own time to the present.

Does philosophy gain or lose when it is embedded within literature or embodied by drama?

This highly praised book, first published in 2005, reveals how political thought critical of the government underpins Shakespeare''s writing.

The plays of Mar a Mart nez Sierra were popular in Spain, South America and in translation on Broadway and London's West End in the first half of the 20th century but they were thought to be written by her husband, the celebrated director and playwright Gregorio Mart nez Sierra.

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICSGeneral Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley WellsOxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship.

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Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry.

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect 6,000 from his fiancee's dad.

Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays.

Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture.

For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries - often more so.

This comprehensive, accessible introduction to one of Britain's leading contemporary playwrights and filmmakers outlines Martin McDonagh's body of work, the key critical contexts for understanding and exploring his career, analysis of productions, and includes an exclusive interview with the director of his most recent stage work.

First published in 1974, European Drama of the Early Middle Ages stresses the distinctive variety of the dramatic traditions, both secular and religious, and shows that throughout the period the popular and profane was a constant and lively source of enrichment to the mainstream of charge drama.

Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, 2018Caring for Red is Mindy Fried's 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.

Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue.

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice.

This is the person I am now.

The first collection of plays from the critically acclaimed Karen Zacar as, one of the ten most produced playwrights in the USA.

Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and instructor.

This book takes a fresh look at mistaken identity in the work of the Greek playwright Menander.

It is a generally accepted fact that in the first half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Gore became the most prolific, if not most popular writer of fashionable novels in England.

Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known female writers and writers in languages other than English to more fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between modernism and the occult.

Shakespeare's Spiral aims to explore a figure forgotten in the dramatic texts of Shakespeare and in Renaissance painting: the snail.

Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who famously demands a pound of flesh as security for a loan to his antisemitic tormentors, is one of Shakespeare's most complex and idiosyncratic characters.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Includes the plays De Sade Show, Persons Unknown and Salto MoltaleA second series of plays, originally written for and performed by the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre.

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979.

"e;This work takes gender as its point of entry into the comedies of Carlo Goldoni (1707-93).

This unique and comprehensive study reviews the practice of leading American directors of Shakespeare from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century.

Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics.

Examining theatrical bodies, the spaces inhabited by actors and audiences, and the texts that circulate around and between them.

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

I drank three glasses of scotch and ginger ale before we'd even cleared Coney Island.

Shakespeare in China provides English language readers with a comprehensive sense of China's past and on-going encounter with Shakespeare.

This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner Jacques Lecoq to the process of rehearsing or workshopping the Shakespeare text.