This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of popular drama between about 1587 and 1603.
Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his ongoing resonance with audiences and his place in world theatre.
In Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies, Alan Sikes explores the intersection of struggles over sex and class identities in politicized performances during key revolutionary moments in modern European history.
This book explores ways in which Shakespeare's writing strategies shape our embodied perception of objects - both real and imaginary - in four of his plays.
This book explores, through a multidisciplinary approach, the immense influence exerted by Bernard Shaw on the Spanish-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic.
The shift in temporal modalities of Romantic Theatre was the consequence of internal as well as external developments: internally, the playwright was liberated from the old imperative of "e;Unity of Time"e; and the expectation that the events of the play must not exceed the hours of a single day; externally, the new social and cultural conformance to the time-keeping schedules of labour and business that had become more urgent with the industrial revolution.
Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and Foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth.
Shakespeare's Storytelling: An Introduction to Genre, Character, and Technique is a textbook focused on specific storytelling techniques and genres that Shakespeare invented or refined.
L’Aventurière des colonies, comme son auteure, Marie Rattazzi, née Bonaparte-Wyse, et le roman dont la pièce est tirée, fut un sujet de scandale sous le Second Empire.
L'oeuvre parle des étudiants ressortissants du fric CFA Land, un pays imaginaire à l'image de tous les pays africains du centre et de l'ouest, utilisateurs du franc CFA.
Au matin du 14 août 1863, dans son château de By, à l'orée de la forêt de Fontainebleau, Rosa Bonheur attend avec impatience une lettre de la plus haute importance, lorsque s'annonce le marchand d'art Ernest Gambart.
La recette de « Stress-Citron » Une comédie qui égratigne l’exercice du pouvoir Prenez une Camille pressée et autoritaire, ajoutez-y un Fred, râleur invétéré, une Luce sympathique et incapable de s’affirmer et additionnez d’un Thomas libidineux et soumis à sa mère.
À l'heure de la judiciarisation à tous crins des affaires, où les formalistes la disputent aux greffiers et gratte-papiers, la pièce est le terrain d'affrontement entre cités à comparaître, experts équivoques, avocats démonstratifs et magistrats sentencieux.
Monsieur VIH/SIDA se retrouve au tribunal pour répondre à plusieurs plaintes des secteurs d'activité tels que la Santé, l'Environnement, la Culture et l'Administration-Gestion, ainsi qu'à des plaintes de la Femme, de la Société civile et de Monsieur Comportements à risque.
Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century.
Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance seeks to address the representation of the humors from non-traditional, abstract, and materialist perspectives, considering the humorality of everyday objects, activities, and performance within the early modern period.
Comment séduire un homme en 10 étapes, c’est le cadeau, sous forme de mode d’emploi, que reçoivent deux femmes, avec un mannequin masculin à taille humaine installé sur un fauteuil-trône.
Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England.
