Drama History & Criticism 3

The forgotten classic that launched the career of one of America's greatest playwrights A Penguin Classic It took more than fifty years for The Man Who Had All the Luck to be appreciated for what it……続きを見る

What do you do as Captain Amazing? Fight… baddies and things. Save people… make people go to bed when they're supposed to go to bed… Join the world's most unassuming superhero in Alistair McDowall's……続きを見る

Originally published in 1956, this is a critical analysis of the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander studied in the context of the history of comedy, of the allied arts, and of contemporary life. ……続きを見る

This richly illustrated short, extracted from the official book The Chronicles of Downton Abbey, focuses on the characters individually, examining their motivations, their actions and the inspiratio……続きを見る

Richard Foreman has been at the leading edge of the theatrical avant-garde in the United States and throughout the world since 1968. His legendary productions, written and directed by him at his Ont……続きを見る

On the stormy Yorkshire moors, love becomes obsessionーand obsession becomes ruin. Wuthering Heights (1847), by Emily Brontë, is a haunting tale of wild passion, destructive love, and the dark force……続きを見る

The world can and will go on without us but I have to think that we have made this world a better place. That we have left it richer, wiser than had we not chosen the way of art. The 1996 Tony Award……続きを見る

An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his peo……続きを見る

'One way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education ... Another would be to say that it was about the meaning of life. A third, that it is a cross betwee……続きを見る

Este es el segundo tomo de las obras de Arístides Vargas. En esta ocasión, se eligieron los textos que se centran en la problemática latinoamericana, resultado de sus trabajos en cada país junto a C……続きを見る

Originally published in 1931, this book surveys the origin and development of Greek Comic Drama, with full discussion not only of Aristophanes and Menander but also of other important playwrights wh……続きを見る

The critically acclaimed biography of Shakespeare's most enduring heroine, Rosalind, now in paperback. Into the spotlight steps Rosalind, the actor-manager of As You Like It. She's alive. She's mode……続きを見る

A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revivalーfeaturing an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot an……続きを見る

'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?' Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrica……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage fournit une analyse approfondie de La Cantatrice chauve d'Eugène Ionesco avec toutes les clés pour analyse l'œuvre. Bien décidé à bousculer les conventions du théâtre, Eugène Ionesco mon……続きを見る

當情節讓我們身歷其境時，故事才吸引人 要讓讀者們在第一頁看到什麼，他們才會一頭栽進書裡，把自己當成主角？ 跟著大編劇、名作家從腦科學出發，寫出讓大腦「愛讀到上癮」的好故事！ 寫出好故事竟然跟大腦有關？ ……続きを見る

'I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd……続きを見る

Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians. Born probably in 525 or 524 BC, he lived through the end of tyranny at Athens and the restitution of democracy. He took part in the battl……続きを見る

唐代乃中國古典文學的輝煌時期，有文起八代之衰的韓愈；開創詩歌黃金盛世的唐詩；唐代詞人並開啟後世宋詞的蓬勃。而唐代傳奇則以文言文短篇小說的形式呈現，上承六朝志怪小說，始創於初唐，大盛於中唐，衰落於宋代……続きを見る

‘Enchanting’ - Simon Russell Beale ‘Remarkable’ - James Shapiro ‘Wonderful . . . compulsively readable’ - Nicholas Hytner Why do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us ……続きを見る

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leadin……続きを見る

This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. The first section of the Element explores how Shakespeare 'went v……続きを見る

Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love, politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good meas……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires.' One of Shakespeare's darkest and most violent trag……続きを見る

Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain 'works in p……続きを見る

The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, g……続きを見る

This Student Edition of A View from the Bridge is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to Miller's play. It features an extensive introduction by Steve Marino ……続きを見る

The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge for modern audiences. Hugely popular in its day, the play swings wildly and rapidly in genre, from pointed satire, to bloody revenge tr……続きを見る

Die wichtigsten Werke von William Shakespeare (Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Deutsch-Englisch) ist eine Sammlung von Shakespeares bekanntesten Stücken, darunter Hamlet, Romeo und Julia, Othello und viele m……続きを見る

This first general history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of the Modern Greek state in 1830 marks a radical departure from traditional methods of historiography. We like t……続きを見る