The mythological, folkloric, and religious beliefs of Western culture have resulted in a long and ongoing history of esoteric themes in theatre from the Middle Ages to the present in Spain and the America.
It was Shaw's general contention that all great art was didactic; it was his specific contention that he wrote plays to convert people to his opinions on 'Social Economy', 'Political Economy' and 'Vital Economy'.
This study explores the theater actually known and frequented by Dickens in order to show in terms of concrete structural analysis of his novels the nature of the predominantly "e;dramatic"e; or "e;theatrical"e; quality of his genius.
Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays?
Shakespeare has been viewed by critics both as a secular writer who affirmed the dual nature of man and as a Christian allegorist whose work has a submerged but positive and elaborate pattern of Christian meaning.
In The Shavian Playground, originally published in 1972, Shaw's plays are examined as self-contained imaginative structures intended for theatrical performance.
In this book, Walter Foreman studies the closing scenes of Shakespeare's tragedies, considering the tragic structure of the plays and the shapes the tragic characters give their lives by the way they encounter death.
Originally published in 1969, in Shaw - "e;The Chucker Out"e; Allan Chappelow quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw material (the fruits of six years' research at the British Museum and elsewhere) as the basis for his aim of assisting towards a better understanding of Shaw's controversial character and his paradoxical attitude to life - with reference particularly to certain fallacies and misconceptions voiced by the villagers of Ayot St.
The challenge is to live in this world, not a new oneA veteran US astronaut is about to land back on Earth after completing his very last space flight.
It was Shaw's general contention that all great art was didactic; it was his specific contention that he wrote plays to convert people to his opinions on 'Social Economy', 'Political Economy' and 'Vital Economy'.
Versions of Hamlet: Poetic Economy on Page and Stage takes a fresh look at an old textual problem: Instead of arguing the case for one of the three early Hamlet texts as the one , the book presents a new analytical approach which allows us to see different Hamlet versions and the interpretations emerging from them side by side.
Dans le Berlin de 1965, alors que les procès contre les criminels de guerre font rage, la culpabilité de Karl Jungman est loin d’être établie aux yeux de son avocat.
Dans Le jouet pernicieux, un homme manipulateur entraîne sa famille à Paris, utilisant la maladie de son fils comme prétexte, dans le but d’attirer une grande artiste dans un piège mortel.
In June 2025 Claire Dowie returned to the Finborough Theatre where she started her career as a stand-up comedian, playwright and performer more than forty years ago.
Jack Gelber: Consider This explores the works of American playwright Jack Gelber (1932-2003), whose groundbreaking, immersive play The Connection (produced by The Living Theatre in 1959) served as the link between the Art Theatre/Beat Generation and the Off-Off-Broadway movement.
In 1976 a dozen hopeful young Mexican dramatists - most of them studying with Emilio Carballido - began staging plays, primarily in small, out-of-the-way theater, and publishing them, mostly in university magazines with limited distribution.
