Literary studies: plays and playwrights

From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "e;W.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Plays of Anton Chekhov" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Only a year ago, the landowner Nikolai Ivanov was full of energy and optimism, in love with his wife and working hard.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords.

In one of our greatest contemporary plays, set in two distinct centuries, Tom Stoppard explores the nature of truth, time, sex and attraction with absorbing and tragic humour.

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It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal.

This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market.

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1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear.

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.

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.

This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age.

The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642.

This introduction provides a concise overview of the central issues and critical responses to Shakespeare s sonnets, looking at the themes, images, and structure of his work, as well as the social and historical circumstances surrounding their creation.

In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to Shakespeare s plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.

This Guide introduces students to critical writing on Shakespeare s comedies over the last four centuries.

This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day.

This Guide steers students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare s history plays, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their critical repertoire.

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

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.

This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts.

HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE This is a companion to Shakespeare with a difference.

This newly-updated volume looks at the scope of Augusto Boal's career from his early work as a playwright and director in Sao Paulo in the 1950s, to the development of his ground-breaking manifesto in the 1970s for a 'Theatre of the Oppressed'.

This newly-updated volume looks at the scope of Augusto Boal's career from his early work as a playwright and director in Sao Paulo in the 1950s, to the development of his ground-breaking manifesto in the 1970s for a 'Theatre of the Oppressed'.

This book brings together a deep thoughtfulness about the insights of psychoanalysis and its application to work with troubled couples with an original and closely argued reading of some classic plays about marriage.

This book focuses on Samuel Beckett's psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W.

This book brings together a deep thoughtfulness about the insights of psychoanalysis and its application to work with troubled couples with an original and closely argued reading of some classic plays about marriage.

This book focuses on Samuel Beckett's psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W.

Goethe's Path to Creativity provides a comprehensive psycho-biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a giant of modern German and European literary, political, and scientific history.

Goethe's Path to Creativity provides a comprehensive psycho-biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a giant of modern German and European literary, political, and scientific history.

Shakespeare and Tourism provides a dialogical mapping of Shakespeare studies and touristic theory through a collection of essays by scholars on a wide range of material.

Originally published in 2005, To Be A Playwright is an insightful and detailed guide to the craft of playwriting.

While many scholars in Shakespeare and Religious Studies assume a secularist viewpoint in their interpretation of Shakespeare's works, there are others that allow for a theologically coherent reading.

While many scholars in Shakespeare and Religious Studies assume a secularist viewpoint in their interpretation of Shakespeare's works, there are others that allow for a theologically coherent reading.

Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi's late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi's late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective.

"Man sollte wirklich alles, was sich über das Gemeine erheben muß, in Versen, wenigstens anfänglich konzipieren.

With an introduction by Simon CallowJudgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion.

'To say this series is "e;empowering"e; doesn't do it justice.

A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spankingWhen it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare's language flowing through her blood for the first time.

Dennis Potter was born and brought up in the Forest of Dean- a 'strange and beautiful place', as he described it in the last interview before his death, 'rather ugly villages in beautiful landscape, a heart- shaped place between two rivers, somehow slightly cut off from the rest of England.

How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama?

In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory.

For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "e;out of joint,"e; their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation.

According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual.

Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy.