Literary studies: plays and playwrights

In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced variously by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologizers, and philosophers.

This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994.

This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994.

The royal judge was an archetypal character in French tragedy during the 17th century.

The royal judge was an archetypal character in French tragedy during the 17th century.

Shakespeare enjoys an enduring curiosity.

A complete account of my search for my father would take a lifetime to tell because that's how long I've been looking.

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

From Aristotle's Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy.

Mark Rylance, the Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe says: As an actor and director I use and recommend the Applause First Folio Editions.

Five great forces Checkhov, Hauptmann, Ibsen, Strindberg and Zola dramatists whose work define, embrace and transcend the trends and genres of the modern stage, meet here in this extraordinary exhibition of their sustained and sustaining power in today's theatre.

This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity.

Tennessee Williams' characters set the stage for their own dramas.

This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis.

The 15th in a series drawn from scholarship presented at the annual Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection provides insights into texts and practices currently at the forefront of theatrical discussion.

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Set in politically unstable environments, Shakespeare's history plays--Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV and Henry V--and HBO's Western series Deadwood (2004-2006) all stand as critiques of myths of national origin, the sanitized stories we tell ourselves about how power imposes order on chaos.

The contents of the Shakespeare canon have come into question in recent years as scholars add plays or declare others only partially his work.

Beginning with early Arab American playwright, poet and novelist Kahlil Gibran and concluding with contemporary playwright Yussef El Guindi, this book provides an historical overview and critical analysis of the plays, films and performances of self-identified Arab Americans.

Shakespeare had extraordinary intelligence, unheard-of powers of observation and interpretation, a soaring imagination, a way with words that defies description, and a defining interest in the theater.

Shakespeare had extraordinary intelligence, unheard-of powers of observation and interpretation, a soaring imagination, a way with words that defies description, and a defining interest in the theater.

Shakespeare had extraordinary intelligence, unheard-of powers of observation and interpretation, a soaring imagination, a way with words that defies description, and a defining interest in the theater.

Shakespeare had extraordinary intelligence, unheard-of powers of observation and interpretation, a soaring imagination, a way with words that defies description, and a defining interest in the theater.

A dynamic new study in literary and dramatic influence, Misreading Shakespeare defines and explores the relation between two modern playsEdward Bonds Lear and Tom Stoppards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Deadand Shakespeares King Lear and Hamlet.

Pierre participe aux émeutes de Mai 68 à Paris.

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars.

See in my opinion there are two types of people in the world.

See in my opinion there are two types of people in the world.

When that baby's born .

Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.

A scandal half-stifled is worse than a scandal.

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

Trees don't have ears.

Some poems are better written in flesh .

Observed by a lone, mystified Aboriginal Australian, the first convict ship arrives in Botany Bay, 1788, crammed with England's outcasts.

This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication.

A new collection of the latest plays from the writer of Beautiful Thing and TV's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme"e;JONATHAN HARVEY has an athletic and fantastical imagination, bawdy, funny and joyously blasphemous"e; Sunday TimesGUIDING STAR: "e;Dry, funny, truthful, the writing buzzes with graceful perception and Scouse sarcasm.

Here we are nibbling away all day and night, Mrs Dacey.

Mastering the Shakespeare Audition is a handbook for actors of all ages and experience, whether auditioning for a professional role or a place in drama school.

Its government has declared a vicious class war.

Its government has declared a vicious class war.

I kept telling myself I wanted something more out of my life, something brighter.

I slip into Thandi's bed in the night.

Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain 'works in progress'.

You look otherworldly.

Drawing on major new archival discoveries and recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an innovative account of Irish drama and theatre, spanning the past seventy years.

Contemporary Plays from Iraq is a ground-breaking collection of Middle Eastern drama translated into English for the very first time.

Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at Key Stage 4.

I'll gather my breath.