This fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance.
The authoritative guide to teaching Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Folger Guide to Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream is an invaluable resource for teachers, students, and Shakespeare fans alike.
Shakespeare's Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Woman's Debate investigates the echoes of two early modern discourses-paradoxical writing and the woman's question or querelle des femmes-in the representation of the "e;Shakespearean shrew"e; in The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and Othello.
This book begins by asking about the memorial issues involved in the replaying of an old history play, Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII, at the Globe on 29 July 1628, but it is not primarily concerned with the memory of a single individual, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham who paid for the production, nor even of a single day, when he seemed to try to evoke the memories of a small group of people gathered at the theatre for a singular purpose.
Created by experts from the world's largest and most well-respected Shakespeare archive, The Folger Guide to Teaching Macbeth provides an innovative approach to teaching and understanding one of Shakespeare's most well-known plays.
An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter's Tale through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history, and new interpretations.
This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage.
This book redirects attention to a truth largely ignored by recent criticism-that Shakespeare's excellence as a playwright is inextricable from his excellence as a poet.
La vida es sueno, obra de teatro barroco estrenada en 1635, gira en torno al principe Segismundo, prisionero en una torre por orden del rey, lo que le lleva a plantearse el sentido de la vida, la predestinacion o el libre albedrio.
A musical play in the Egyptian and Levantine dialects that tells the story of Khawaja Nimat Allah, who embraces his love for his beautiful aunt Safsaf, and the events revolve around his attempts to marry her with the help of his nephew Naguib and a photo of his daughter as a gift.
