Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This book analyses how the outrage caused by controversial plays or productions reflects the moral standards of the time.

This book begins with the malignant taunts of Robert Greene and the adulatory remarks of Christopher Marlowe's friends and literary associates, and ends with the abrasive comments of the younger G.

Esta nueva serie del teatro completo de Tirso de Molina sigue para su publicación el orden de las partes en tomos de tres comedias.

The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process.

This book is a study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare's final Roman play.

Ancient tragedy has played a well-documented role in contemporary theatre since the mid-twentieth century.

Exploring the relationship between dramatic language and its theatrical aspects, Reading Modern Drama provides an accessible entry point for general readers and academics into the world of contemporary theatre scholarship.

Margitic's critical edition of Pierre Corneille's Le Cid (1637) provides scholar and student with a complete, accurate resource for the study of this famous play.

Shakespeare is at the heart of the British theatrical tradition, but the contribution of Ira Aldridge and the Shakespearean performers of African, African-Caribbean, south Asian and east Asian heritage who came after him is not widely known.

This collection of essays is in no way an attempt to instruct people in ways to teach Drama.

Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Why are readers who are generally at home with narrative and discursive prose, and even readily responsive to poetry, far less confident and intuitive when it comes to plays?

Mediaeval Drama in Chester may seem an inaccurate title for lectures which actually reach in seventeenth century; but it is the type of drama, rather than the period, that is in question.

What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft?

'Richard Wilson's meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account of Shakespeare's 20th-century fascist followers is not just an important but a genuinely essential book.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

For the first time, this play - first performed in 2012 at the National Theatre - is published in the Methuen Drama Student Edition series.

Theatre of Real People offers fresh perspectives on the current fascination with putting people on stage who present aspects of their own lives and who are not usually trained actors.

This book uses the social transformation that has taken place in Ireland from the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 to the repeal of the 8th amendment in 2018 as backdrop to examine relationships between activism and contemporary Irish theatre and performance.

This volume posits and explores an intermedial genre called theatre-fiction, understood in its broadest sense as referring to novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatre.

This major new interdisciplinary study argues that Shakespeare exploited long-established connections between vision, space and language in order to construct rhetorical equivalents for visual perspective.

Paradoxes est un cri du cœur, un appel testamentaire à l’adresse d’une génération en déphasage avec les vraies valeurs, souvent empêtrée dans des contradictions motivées par des espoirs déçus, l’absurde et l’égarement.

We didn't always eat the way we do today, or think and feel about eating as we now do.

In a once-great Scottish town, a massive redevelopment project promises to bring money, jobs and new prospects to its forgotten population.

Fatherland is a bold, ambitious show about contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions.

The deaths of husbands radically changed women's lives in the early modern period.

Shakespeare's and Peele's Titus Andronicus has had a theatrical and a critical revival in the last fifteen years; the critical revival was perhaps prompted by Jonathan Bate's Arden edition of the play and its revision of the traditional critical account that it is an immature work and overly sensationalistic with its emphasis on non-essential violence.

This is an examination of how early modern poets attempt to capture the experience of being in the grip of conscience.

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty.

"We are not short of good playwrights in Britain, but I know of none with Nichols' power to put modern Britain on the stage and send the spectators away feeling more like members of the human race" (Irving Wardle, The Times).

This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth.

Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding's forgery of an actor's biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were early Brechtians.

An engrossing and provocative look at the decline of tragedy in modern art';All men are aware of tragedy in life.

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres for the performance of Shakespeare in North America.

Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters-these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds.

This volume sets out a novel approach to theatre historiography, presenting the history of performances of Greek tragedies in Germany since 1800 as the history of the evolving cultural identity of the educated middle class throughout that period.

Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action.

This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life.

In the late nineteenth century, Asian American drama made its debut with the spotlight firmly on the lives and struggles of Asians in North America, rather than on the cultures and traditions of the Asian homeland.

Touching on everyone from Marlowe to Middleton, Essays on Elizabethan Drama is a rigorous collection of Eliots works on the great dramatists of the 16th century.

Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds.

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