Plays, playscripts

Ping Chong's four-part masterwork.

To prolong the inevitable, a king attempts to preserve a painter's life when he discovers, through his astrological chart, that their fates are suddenly intertwined.

The regulation on European Health Technology Assessment (EU HTA) entered into force on 11 January 2022 and will apply from 12 January 2025.

Was there more to medieval and Renaissance comedy than Chaucer and Shakespeare?

With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their 'official status as a Renaissance subgenre' that was distinct, by its farcical humour and ironic tone, from 'citizen comedy' or 'London drama' more generally.

The BBC television series Downton Abbey (2010-2016), highly rated in the UK, achieved cult status among American viewers, harking back to the days when serial dramas ruled the airwaves.

The women you've seen play today, we are more than football players, more than athletes and sportspeople of the very highest degree.

Among the regional landed elites in the Western World of the mid-1800s, the two most formidable were the owners of slave plantations in the Southern states of the U.

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) war in der Mitte des 18.

Originally published in 1986.

The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom.

Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity is the first full-length critical study to analyse the importance of beards in terms of the theatrical performance of masculinity.

"e;You put it in the freezer, so when you transfer it to the boiling water it doesn't feel a thing.

In the same spirit as his novels, O'Brien's plays are speculative, inventive, wickedly funny, and a delightful addition to his collected works-now available at last: this volume collects Flann O'Brien's dramatic work into a single volume, including Thirst, Faustus Kelly, and The Insect Play: A Rhapsody on Saint Stephen's Green.

Includes the plays Get Up and Tie Your Fingers, Devil's Ground and SafeGet Up and Tie Your Fingers, Ann Coburn s first play, was premiered at the 1995 Borders Festival and had a successful run at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival.

Présent auprès de la population, Moly s’est fixé un objectif : mener des actions de bienfaisance, malgré l’indifférence générale.

The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists.

Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the embodied early modern subject has been hampered by its failure to acknowledge the role time and temporality play within the scope of these admittedly crucial concerns.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time.

In Minefield six Falklands/Malvinas war veterans who once faced each other across a battlefield now face each other across a stage.

In classical mythology, Phaethon is the child of the sun god Helios, who tries to drive his father's chariot and is killed in the attempt.

Revisiting Shakespeare's Italian Resources is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean plays, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Cymbeline.

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state.

A famous artist invites her old friends out to her luxurious new home and, for one night only, the group is back together.

Leftist thought and activism stands as a defining force in the articulation of political culture and policy in modern Japan.

Through detailed discussion of plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe, Poole explores the supernatural in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.

Includes the plays Yelena, Three Sisters Two and On the LakeThis second volume of de Wet s plays brings together three pieces which take as their inspiration the life and work of Anton Chekhov.

Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic prosperity, and national identity in early modern England.

Condemned by the mother of Jamie Bulger and acclaimed by the critics - for tackling the subject of child killers - this is the controversial new play from the winner of the Sunday Times Playwriting Prize 2001Few kids have a secret as chilling as Timmy's.

A controversial new play which deals with issues such as Muslim fundamentalism, a jihad for an Islamic state, and the conflict between Cypriots living in North London.

Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met.

Includes the plays A New York Threesome, (My Brother's Conversion; Madam Butterfly's Child; Manhattan Breast Company), Mad Margaret's Revenge andThe Jolly Folly of Polly, the Scottish Trolley DollyFivebite-size pieces of theatre that deal with perception: the characters in these theatrical hors d'oeuvres find their view of themselves at odds with the way the rest of the world sees them.

Was the juice worth the squeeze?

Behold the newest nobody of the funniest century yet.

On 19 April 1621, a woman named Elizabeth Sawyer was hanged at Tyburn.

Ripen Our Darkness was the play that established Sarah Daniels as a writer; The Devil's Gateway carries the flavour of life in Bethnal Green in the 1980s; Masterpieces, Daniels' most controversial play is a radical take on the porn industry and caused outrage among critics - "e;The play has bite, anger and tenacity and many of its arguments are true.

'How do you want to live here?

Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, gods/goddesses, beliefs, and divinations to create complex characters.

Shallow Slumber is a new play by award-winning writer and social worker Chris Lee, exploring therelationship between a young mother and a social worker.

Not since 1896 has Sophocles'' Ajax received such a sustained analysis on so many levels: literary, dramatic, textual and metrical.

An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England.

Gripping drama of teenage struggle by talented new writer'I walk to parks and stare into space.

People Live Here is a collection of three exciting new plays by George F.

Griselda Gambaro is arguably one of Argentina's most important dramatists, as well as a playwright of international significance, whose poetics not only interpret Argentine reality but transcend cultural and geographical borders.

"e;What Lenny Bruce was to the 1950s, Bob Dylan to the 1960s, Woody Allen to the 1970s--that's what Eric Bogosian is to this frightening moment of drift in our history.

Heute Nacht feiern die gefallenen Engel als gäbe es kein Morgen.

A surreal fantasy plunging Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into a perilous intergalactic conflictSir Arthur Conan Doyle - the author, spiritualist and creator of the great rationalist detective, Sherlock Homes - is in search of home-grown fairies in the English village of Cottingley.