Great Shakespeareans presents a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpret......more
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This ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform o......more
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Reveals eighteenth-century German comedies’ inherent resistance -- through their depiction of alternative gender roles a......more
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This is the first volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish au......more
The dramatic career of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, from his first plays in 1902 to his premature death in 1909, alm......more
Playwright and screenwriter Martin Sherman dramatizes outsiders--gay, female, foreign, disabled, different in religion, ......more
Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility begins with a moment in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra in which Cleopatra says to......more
According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individua......more
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Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,......more
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One of two volumes of an early seventeenth century play, showing two distinct versions which both have much to commend t......more
This is a ground-breaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with q......more
Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy examines the extraordinary focus on coy women in late seventeenth-century Englis......more
Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part ......more
What is the significance of Shylock’s ring in The Merchant of Venice? How does Shakespeare create Gertrude’s closet in H......more
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May D......more
A new volume in the popular value-for-money Drama Classics series....more
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 demonstrates that popular......more
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This title in the series concentrates on those plays and books that remain part of a vibrant scholarly and popular liter......more
Original essays in this volume begin with a treatment of the historical background of Shakespeare s play, beginning with......more
Four decades ago Tom F. Driver brought theater into discussion with religion and modern theology. It has been a rich ong......more
John Ford is best known as the author of the controversial ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore’, but his other plays are also full o......more
King Lear is one of Shakespeare s most performed and studied plays - seen as one of the most significant and universal t......more
Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,......more
Essays from the 2011 Synge Summer school marking the centenary of John Millington Synge s death which examine the influe......more
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The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, becau......more
A Tongue Not Mine examines the significance of bilingualism, translation, and self-translation in the work of Samuel Bec......more
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Collected Plays of Mahesh Elkunchwar, Volume II brings together eight critically acclaimed plays--Holi, Flower of Blood,......more
As a playwright and a performer, Dario Fo (1926-) is one of the most important figures in world theatre. By the 1980s so......more
Sources, Analogues, and Contexts, a rich selection of historical and literary writing, gives readers an understanding o......more
O mother, mother What have you done? --Coriolanus Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provi......more
Why, then the world s mine oyster. --The Merry Wives of Windsor Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric R......more
A panoramic view of how we think about life and the imitation of life on stage...more
A panoramic view of how we think about life and the imitation of life on stage...more
The redefinition of the Thomas Middleton canon has led to an explosion of interest in this quintessential Jacobean. Midd......more
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Refreshingly off-beat new comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots. Inspired by real-life crisis in Jewish commun......more
Includes recommendations for further reading, a chronology of the author’s life and a glossary of terms....more
This work asks questions of our own mortality and discovers how often hope and acceptance can be found in our darkest mo......more
A remarkable play dealing quite unconventionally with the sudden loss of a loved one, and the healing power of a shared ......more
Dramatised by one of the most acclaimed adapters of our time. Premiered at the RSC’s main Courtyard in June 2010....more
The gripping story of the sensational, real-life case. In 1903, Birmingham solicitor George Edalji was found guilty of a......more
"What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction; and the greatest good is fleeting, for all life......more
Most famous and funniest of the satires of Nikolai Gogol, The Inspector General receives a modern makeover in this styli......more
In the Middle Ages, religious theater was a popular medium for both the edification and the entertainment of the public.......more
Follows the very successful Happy Now? as a high-profile new play in the National s Cottesloe Theatre, Spring 2010....more
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This CliffsNotes study guide on Arthur Miller s Death of a Salesman supplements the original literary work, giving you b......more
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In uncovering the origin of the designation University Wits , Bob Logan examines the characteristics of the Wits and th......more
"Tom Paulin’s new version is robust, flecked with poetry but still down to earth"-Guardian...more
His mother is a virgin and he’s reputed to be the son of a god; he loses favor and is driven from his kingdom to a sorro......more
A truly groundbreaking collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism, Shakespeare in Parts ......more
Performing Women brings visibility to the work of women who performed on the borderlines of dominant theatrical activity......more
An anthology of essays on the work of Tom Mac Intyre....more
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Contexts is thematically arranged to include almost all known documents from the period concerning Mary Frith (aka Moll......more
Lectures on theatre, drama in the classroom, the relationship between drama and film; and opera and its history....more
Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,......more
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W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State: Adding the Half-pence to the Pence utilizes new source m......more
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Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur ......more