Drama History & Criticism 13

1500 words on The Tempest's background, plot and key ideas. Get up to speed on Shakespeare, sharpish.続きを見る

This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music. Charting……続きを見る

The first detailed cultural and theatrical history of a major literary form, this landmark introduction examines Roman tragedy and its place at the centre of Rome’s cultural and political life. Anal……続きを見る

First published in 2002. This is Volume II of the collected works of G.Wilson Knight and this revised looks at the Shakespearian Tempest and includes a Chart of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Universe. 続きを見る

This wide-ranging and unique collection of documents on one of the most enduring of literary genres, Tragedy, offers a radical revaluation of its significance in the light of the critical attention ……続きを見る

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece Thesmophoriazusae has long been recognized amongst the plays of Old Comedy for its deconstruction of tragic theatricality. This book reveals that this deconstruction ……続きを見る

Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were set in medieval Britain and early modern Spain to av……続きを見る

Taking a 'performance studies' perspective on Shakespearean theatre, W. B. Worthen argues that the theatrical event represents less an inquiry into the presumed meanings of the text than an effort t……続きを見る

Die Nestroyana veröffentlichen wissenschaftliche Arbeiten über das Altwiener Volkstheater und im Besonderen über das Werk und die Person Johann Nestroys und berichtet über die Tätigkeit der Internat……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Othello, der Mohr von Venedig / Othello, the Moor of Venice - Zweisprachige Ausgabe (Deutsch-Englisch) / Bilingual edition (German-English)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamische……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Timon von Athen / Timon Of Athens - Zweisprachige Ausgabe (Deutsch-Englisch) / Bilingual edition (German-English)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis verse……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Macbeth - Zweisprachige Ausgabe (Deutsch-Englisch) / Bilingual edition (German-English)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig k……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Tragödien: Agamemnon + Die Perser + Der gefesselte Prometheus" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen……続きを見る

Die Nestroyana veröffentlichen wissenschaftliche Arbeiten über das Altwiener Volkstheater und im Besonderen über das Werk und die Person Johann Nestroys und berichtet über die Tätigkeit der Internat……続きを見る

This title, first published in 1960, is intended primarily to increase the understanding of drama among those who do not have easy access to the live theatre and who, therefore, study plays mainly i……続きを見る

According to Aristotle the main purpose of tragedy is the manipulation of emotions, and yet there are relatively few accessible studies of the precise dynamics of emotion in the Athenian theatre. In……続きを見る

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics……続きを見る

Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the in……続きを見る

Norway, 1881. Mrs. Alving is ecstatic when her son Osvald visits after many years abroad. He has returned to celebrate the heroic memory of his dead father. But within hours of Osvald's homecoming h……続きを見る

In this challenging book, first published in 1987, Michelene Wandor looks at the best-known plays in the thirty years prior to publication, from Look Back in Anger onwards. Wandor investigates the r……続きを見る

This is an analysis of sexual themes in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, both in the context of the Jacobean theatre and in the light of modern readings of sexuality and gender during the English……続きを見る

In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s.……続きを見る

This study is the first general critical introduction to the writing of Horton Foote, recipient of two Academy Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. These original essays survey Foote's career, his work fo……続きを見る

Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus. [Critical a……続きを見る

The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention. In this study, first published in 1980, Neil Rhodes examine……続きを見る

That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration, yet the modern reader continually stumbles across concepts which are difficult to ……続きを見る

Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton examines the dynamics of early modern marriage-making, a time-honored practice that was evolving, often surreptitiously, from patriarchal control b……続きを見る

Mike Leigh’s 1970s classic play ‘Abigail’s Party’ focuses on an evening of domestic hell in the guise of a suburban drinks soirée. While teenager Abigail parties a few doors away, the pretentious Be……続きを見る

Tennessee Williams's controversial Hollywood screenplay Baby Doll opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction, as she has refused to consummate their marriage until the day of h……続きを見る

A Man Could Stand Up --- is the third novel of Ford Madox Ford's highly regarded sequence of four novels known collectively as Parade's End. It was first published in 1926. Parade's End : The Tetral……続きを見る