Plays, playscripts

Over Christmas dinner Sue and Eddie gossip and discuss the goodtimes they used to have together before their son left home, leaving avoid in their lives.

The first New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of King Henry VIII, edited by John Margeson.

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions.

Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats's dramatic career.

Kuyanuka and other Plays by Gha-Makhulu Diniso is also a collection of three one person plays; Kuyanuka was first performed in 1991, Koropa in 2000 and Shoeville in 2005.

This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter to England in the age of William Shakespeare?

In the 18th century Italian theatre and its artists became vital to Russian rulers, who employed Italian musico-dramatic works to advance their political agendas and emphasize Russia's cultural uniqueness and its cosmopolitan character.

Everything can be quantified.

El presente volumen ofrece al lector el estudio y la edición crítica de La aurora en Copacabana, la única comedia de tema americano que conservamos de Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

Arthur is an OAP, hiding out from the world in his grotty high-rise.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare is a unique survey of the small supporting roles - such as foils, feeds, attendants and messengers - that feature in Shakespeare's plays.

Though representations of alien languages on the early modern stage have usually been read as mocking, xenophobic, or at the very least extremely anxious, listening closely to these languages in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Marianne Montgomery discerns a more complex reality.

Three plays by multi-award-winning Australian writer Lachlan Philpott, including M.

Seeing Shakespeare's Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally.

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentrated on related matters, including geography and language.

';A fascinating, funny and evocative play.

The second volume in this series brings together some of the best new writing from contemporary American playwrights.

Shakespeare was fascinated by power throughout his career but also understood its dangers and limits.

Shelagh Stephenson's daring and thoughtful new play1799 - On the eve of a new century, the house buzzes with scientific experiments, furtive romance and farcical amateur dramatics.

Anthony Clark s award-winning adaptation of Albert Lamorisse s Fifties French film, The Red Balloon, follows the adventures of a lonely Parisian boy and a stray balloon which befriends him.

"e;David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times.

'Much like Mr.

Este volumen pretende suplir una carencia en la trayectoria editorial de El mayor monstruo del mundo, una de las tragedias más conocidas de Calderón, objeto de diversas ediciones críticas, pero que sin embargo carecía hasta el momento de una edición conjunta de las dos versiones de la obra: El mayor monstruo del mundo y El mayor monstruo los celos.

Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights is the first anthology of LGBTQ-themed plays written by Russian queer authors and straight allies in the 21st century.

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The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies.

Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy advocates that the beauty of Shakespearean drama is inseparable from its philosophical power.

Innovation & Digital Theatremaking introduces a blueprint for how to think differently about Theatre, how to respond creatively in uncertainty, and how to wield whatever resources are available to create new work in new ways.

Bunthorne is an aesthetic poet struggling with the legitimacy of his work and the female adoration it brings, when one woman suddenly rejects his advances.

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption.

How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays?

Through classical, Scriptural, and global notions of virtue, this handbook illuminates the shared worlds of Shakespeare''s plays.

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare's trans-cultural writing through the interrelations and interactions of binaries including theory and practice, past and present, aesthetics and ethics, freedom and tyranny, republic and empire, empires and colonies, poetry and history, rhetoric and poetics, England and America, and England and Asia.

Combines the critical and the creative, looking at the collisions that arise when Shakespeare texts are recreated in contemporary contexts.

'Music is medication.

This book posits that Shakespeare's First Tetralogy draws inspiration from the Italian "e;politic histories"e; of the early modern period.

It's unusual, isn't it, for a girl to grow a tail at my age?

An investigation into modes of early modern English literary 'indirection,' this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works.

A play and production from one of the world's most innovative theatre companiesMnemonic is about memory, people's personal histories, shared memories and discordant recollections - exhuming the past in order to examine it in the present.

Gordon was always an odd little child, given his penchant for setting the neighbours' sheds on fire with their pets locked inside and his fascination with the funeral rituals at the church across the way.

Now I'm dead there'll be changes.

The night before the funeral was when he told us that he was getting the lot and I said, I said only then in retaliation, you know, and I am not proud of this, but how Dad had, how he had smashed his glass and cried, cried for Simon when he rang home to tell him how he had failed his exams, how it broke his dad's heart.

This is the inside story of the Royal Shakespeare Company - a running historical critique of a major national institution and its location within British culture, as related by a writer who is uniquely placed to tell the tale.

Drei neue Stücke von Lukas Bärfuss, die große Themen diskutieren und zugleich an unsere Alltagserfahrungen anknüpfen - tragisch, komisch und grotesk.

This volume is a comprehensive overview of scholarship on this play.

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.

The Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespeare specialists.