Shelley's tragedy, The Cenci, has been regarded as an avant-garde attack on orthodox Christian principles, a celebrated cause for Victorian intellectuals, a vehicle for innovative minds of the theater, a historical oddity, a neglected masterpiece.
Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespeare's treatment of political power and social privilege.
Instead of seeing Terence primarily as an adapter of Greek New Comedy, Sander Goldberg treats him as an innovative dramatist writing for a specifically Roman audience.
Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise.
The seventeenth-century English collaborative authors Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were not only the most popular playwrights of their day but also literary figures highly esteemed by the great critics of the age, Jonson and Dryden.
By means of a cross-cultural analysis of selected examples of early Japanese and early Greek drama, Mae Smethurst enhances our appreciation of each form.
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 Graubünden.
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.
Его путь был ни слишком лёгким, ни чересчур тернистым, к тридцати годам Марк Свенссон — человек рассудительный, открытый и целеустремленный — сумел построить себе хорошую жизнь.
The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir s celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureFirst published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an intimate, captivating picture of Simone de Beauvoir in her twenties, thirties and forties.
Nachdem Gustav aus dem Krieg zurückkehrt, 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 Graubünden.
A Dark, Unflinching ThrillerShadows of Your Past is a story of resilience, loyalty, and the legacies we inherit, blending psychological tension with mystical intrigue.
