Literary studies: plays and playwrights

The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author of "e;Shakespeare's plays,"e; has now been for fifty years before the learned world.

Gothic Drama from Walpole to Shelley examines the often-overlooked realm of Gothic drama in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, arguing that it deserves equal attention to its more famous counterpart, the Gothic novel.

Inci Bilgin Tekin's study offers a comparative perspective on two very challenging contemporary female playwrights, Liz Lochhead and Cherrie Moraga, and their Scottish and Chicanese adaptations of mythssuch as the Greek Medea and Oedipus or the Mayan Popul Vuhwhich address ethnic, racial, gender, and hierarchical oppression.

Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries focuses on the broad movements of national revivalism that took place around the turn of the century as Finland and Norway, and later Iceland, were gaining their independence.

One morning, as I was writing, I suddenly understood that as a species, through incredible stubbornness, we were able to write love into our genetic makeup, and that this is enough to redeem us all.

This book demonstrates Eugene O'Neill's use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses of selected works from that era, concluding with The Hairy Ape, completed in 1921, as an illustration of the mastery he had achieved in dramatizing key concepts of philosophy.

Nur wenige Experten haben sich bislang mit den dramatischen Werken Eduard Mörikes auseinandergesetzt.

Volker Lösch ist mit Theaterarbeiten bekannt geworden, die das seit den 1990er Jahren beliebte Mittel des Chorischen einsetzen, um Realitäten der zeitgenössischen Wirklichkeit in das Stadttheater zu integrieren - ein "Detektivunternehmen zur Erforschung der wirklichen Verhältnisse".

This book focuses on the projections of romantic love and its progression in a selection of popular romance novels and identifies an innovation within the genre's formula and structure.

Der Schriftsteller Heinrich von Kleist hinterließ nach seinem Selbstmord im Jahr 1811 ein rätselhaftes Werk: In seinen Dramen und Erzählungen geht es um Hass und Mord, Recht und Unrecht, Schuld und Unschuld - und immer wieder um Sein und Schein.

In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare.

Jill the Reckless - P.

The study of medieval drama has long been hindered by the absence of a centralized, comprehensive bibliography that accommodates the wide-ranging interests of scholars and students.

Mit seinem 1801 erschienenen und uraufgeführten Drama 'Die Jungfrau von Orleans' hatte Friedrich Schiller zu seinen Lebzeiten großen Erfolg.

In diesem Band wird Goethes Italienische Reise in den Jahren 1786-1788 von Karlsbad über den Brenner nach Verona, Venedig, Ferrara bis Rom, von dort über Neapel nach Sizilien und wieder zurück nach Rom zusammen mit vielen erläuternden Bildern neu aufgelegt.

Ohne das Drama umfassend zu analysieren, gibt dieses E-Book in knapper und übersichtlicher Form die allerwichtigsten Aspekte zur Interpretation jeder einzelnen Szene.

As far as I'm concerned, why get paid to sit on my arse at home when I can get paid to sit on my arse in a lobbyWhere I also get paidBea's secretly working three full-time jobs.

15 Minuten über Faust II plaudern und einen Überblick gewinnen - mit dieser entspannten und kurzweiligen Betrachtung absolut möglich!

Ohne den Text umfassend zu interpretieren, gibt dieses E-Book für jede einzelne Szene die wichtigsten Hinweise zum Verständnis.

According to psychological research on acting, the histrionic personality consists of a compulsive tendency to play-act, exaggerate emotions, succumb to illusions, to seek attention through speech, body language, and costume, to be seductive and impulsive.

Die Werke von Heinrich Heine sorgsam zusammengetragen und neu durchgesehen in E-Book-Ausgabe.

VOM KLEINEN KÄRNTNER DORF AN DIE SPITZE DER THEATERWELT - SCHAFFEN UND LEBEN DES PETER TURRINI.

Vom Flüchten und Ankommen, von Sehnsüchten und Hoffnungen: das neue Stück von Peter Turrini.

Shakespeare was clearly fascinated by the relationship between fathers and daughters, for this primal bond of domination and defiance structures twenty-one of his comedies, tragedies, and romances.

Internationale Einblicke in die Rezeption Peter TurrinisPeter Turrini (geb.

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.

Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions.

Joachim Kaiser schreibt über wichtige Inszenierungen des 20.

Das Theater war seine Welt – mehr als fünf Jahrzehnte ist Alfred Polgar professioneller Beobachter von Wiener und Berliner Bühnen gewesen.

ALISTAIR MCDOWALL 'uses language with virtuosity.