As with many performing arts in Asia, neither the highly stylized images of the Javanese shadow play nor its musical complexity detracts from its wide popularity.
A study of postWorld War II plays set in ';total institutions' such as hospitals, psychiatric wards, prisons, and military basesPlays of Impasse probes the structure and significance of the numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead endsthe hospitals, psychiatric wards, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Irving Goffman as ';total institutions.
This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full personality with a conscious and unconscious emotional life.
In the nineteenth century, the French lyric poets imposed their diction on the theatrical genre and thus illuminated the essence of both poetry and theatre.
This book explores the reasons for the lasting freshness and modernity of Shakespeare's plays, while revising the standard history of English medieval and Renaissance drama.
Martin Stevens examines the four extant complete cycles of Middle English mystery plays in light of the most recent research on the manuscripts, sources, and records relating to the medieval drama.
Of the three texts of King Lear--the Quarto version printed in 1608, the Folio edition of 1623, and the modern composite of these two early texts--it has been assumed that both the Quarto and Folio versions arc distortions of an unblemished original"e; now lost and that only the modern text accurately approaches Shakespeare's lost original manuscript.
This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities as a Hollywood writer, a playwright determined to conquer Broadway, a political commentator and activist, a social observer, and an exile in an alien land.
Ein mitleidloses Tal, eine weggesperrte Wahrheit und das Schicksal einer Mutter: Ein meisterhaftes historisch-psychologisches Kammerspiel aus dem alten Graubunden.
Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca's Traodes and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical commentary--the first separate treatment of the play in English since Kingery's 1908 edition.
We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of his work as it reflects a culture remote from our own.
Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles' exhilerating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021's must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy.
Nachdem Gustav aus dem Krieg zuruckkehrt, zieht es ihn auf Einladung seines Onkels Georg Sattler, der dort eine private Lufttransportfirma aufbaut, nach Kolumbien.
Ein mitleidloses Tal, eine weggesperrte Wahrheit und das Schicksal einer Mutter: Ein meisterhaftes historisch-psychologisches Kammerspiel aus dem alten Graubunden.
A Dark, Unflinching ThrillerShadows of Your Past is a story of resilience, loyalty, and the legacies we inherit, blending psychological tension with mystical intrigue.
Join four friends, Reynada, Juny, Talia, and Sophia, as they embark on a perilous journey from the Dominican Republic to the United States in search of a better life.
Yaieuteva es una maga traviesa que habla en verso y se olvida de los que esta diciendo, hace hechizos solamente que promulgan amor y amistad, con un gato y un pollo que le hacen de ayudantes nos lleva a un mundo de fantasías y hechizos.
Haunted Theaters comprises more than two dozen suspenseful stories of spooky happenings and ghostly tales in historic theaters, opera houses, and other stages in the United States (Broadway and beyond), Canada, and England.
Peter Hujar (1934-1987) es uno de los fotografos mas influyentes del ultimo tercio del siglo XX; publicista del Gay Liberation Front y retratista de personajes como William S.
En un pequeno pueblo castellano irrumpe una compania de farsantes con una promesa irresistible: mostrar un retablo capaz de revelar maravillas nunca vistas.
Haunted Theaters comprises more than two dozen suspenseful stories of spooky happenings and ghostly tales in historic theaters, opera houses, and other stages in the United States (Broadway and beyond), Canada, and England.
With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves.
