Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their language without their agreement or consent, and without any treaties ever having been signed.
The first English-language anthology of Aristide Tarnagda's theatre, this book brings together six of the acclaimed West African playwright's recent French-language plays.
Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a 'stranger' to English law in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period.
Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a 'stranger' to English law in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period.
Vom karnevalesken Außenseiter zum scharfsinnigen corrupter of words – der Narr als eine zentrale Reflexionsinstanz der Frühen Neuzeit und ihrer (Welt-)Bühne: Die Studie untersucht zum einen den Narren als Epochenmotiv, als eine in dieser und für diese Zeit besonders signifikante Gestalt.
The Big House Anthology is a celebration of the last decade of work and plays by a unique theatre company, featuring five original plays that offer a chance for stories with diverse casts to contribute to the canon of theatre's literature.
Neue Übersetzung ins Deutsche:Volpone, der Fuchs, ist ein venezianischer Herr, der nach langer Krankheit vorgibt, im Sterben zu liegen, um Voltore, den Geier, Corbaccio, den Raben, und Corvino, die Krähe, zu täuschen, drei Männer, die sein Vermögen erben wollen.
In neuer Übersetzung ins Deutsche: Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman - Lady Windermeres Fächer, ein Stück über eine gute Frau - ist eine Komödie in vier Akten von Oscar Wilde, die am Samstag, dem 20.
Years ago, Abby Reynolds was given the letters written by her great-great-grandmother who traveled from Virginia to New Mexico in a covered wagon just after the Civil War.
Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a 'crime of passion' - indicatively, wife-killing.
Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes.
Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes.
William Shakespeare is ubiquitous throughout the Western world as the master of the written word, and the above-quoted Sonnet 18 is celebrated as one of the most exquisite love poems of all time.
This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos.
This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition, providing insight into the foundations, theories, and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare.
This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition, providing insight into the foundations, theories, and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare.
