Drama History & Criticism 79

L'"Examen du régime de la propriété mobilière en France" d'Hippolyte-Ferréol Rivière est une analyse approfondie du cadre juridique régissant la propriété mobilière en France. À travers un style cla……続きを見る

In this book, Walter Foreman studies the closing scenes of Shakespeare's tragedies, considering the tragic structure of the plays and the shapes the tragic characters give their lives by the way the……続きを見る

This new comparative reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs sets the two plays squarely in their contemporary social and political context and explores their impact on the audiences o……続きを見る

粵劇劇本作為文學體裁之一，建基於元曲和雜劇。本書選錄五十至六十年代的主要粵劇作家李少芸、唐滌生、陳冠卿、潘一帆、葉紹徳和徐子郎的劇作，選錄的原則是作品能反映當時香港的社會文化、政治經濟環境和人民思想……続きを見る

She cared for him, she understood him… And now she's gone. Two new plays from acclaimed rapper and playwright Testament (Black Men Walking). Orpheus in the Record Shop Orpheus is alone, playing tune……続きを見る

A History of Ancient Greek Literature is an exceptional and comprehensive textbook of Europe's oldest civilization. The book covers the ancient Greek literature from the earliest texts until the tim……続きを見る

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century. It explores the specific context from which he em……続きを見る

Hunger and appetite permeate Renaissance theatre, with servants, soldiers, courtiers and misers all defined with striking regularity through their relation to food. Demonstrating the profound ongoin……続きを見る

"Stephens writes dramas set in uncaring, uncompromising worlds, whose characters speak in a language at once naturalistic and yet artificially pared-down and whose uncertain attempts to assert their……続きを見る

Simon Stephens is one of Europe's pre-eminent living playwrights. Since the beginning of his career in 1998, Stephens's award-winning plays have been translated into over twenty languages, been prod……続きを見る

Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatrical form took the stage in ancient Athens. From Aris……続きを見る

Where did cabaret come from? What has it got to do with pre-war Berlin, decadent society and Nazis? How does it turn into media cabaret and the sisterhood of sleaze? Is cabaret a primary vehicle for……続きを見る

Drawing on evidence from his published works, manuscripts, and correspondence, Samuel Beckett and Cultural Nationalism explores Beckett's engagement with the theme of cultural nationalism throughout……続きを見る

Tom Stoppard's work as a playwright and screenwriter has always been notable for mixing ideas with entertainment. From the early success of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to masterpieces like……続きを見る

"Kærlighedens komedier. Mænd og kvinder i Shakespeares forfatterskab" er en essaysamling om Shakespeares største komedier. Gennem et fokus på kønsnormer og relationen mellem mænd og kvinder analyser……続きを見る

By studying the diction of Romeo and Juliet, Robert O. Evans examines this, the most rhetorical of Shakespeare's plays, in terms of an Aristotelian critical category, which has been neglected in mod……続きを見る

Although there has been a general revival of interest in Ben Jonson's dramatic work in the past twenty years, little critical effort has been directed to his late playsーdismissed by John Dryden as ……続きを見る

Winner of the AEDEAN "Enrique García Díez" Literature Research Award 2023 Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024 Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form bre……続きを見る

Winner of the AEDEAN "Enrique García Díez" Literature Research Award 2023 Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024 Shakespeare’s Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Lang……続きを見る

This succinct authoritative book offers readers an overview of the origins, characteristics, and changing status of tragicomedy from the 17th century to the present. It explores the work of some of ……続きを見る

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adon……続きを見る

Three new plays from three of the UK's most celebrated playwrights. All rooted in West London, the plays explore race, identity and our sense of place and purpose, presented together as one piece, O……続きを見る

Although Pedro Calderón de la Barca was one of the greatest and most prolific playwrights of Spain's Golden Age, most of his nonallegorical comediasー118 in allーhave remained unknown. Robert ter Ho……続きを見る

At least I am my own boss. No regrets. I choose what I do. I am lucky It's 1973 and the West Indies have spectacularly beaten England at their own game, in their own backyard. Shakie, an 18-year-old……続きを見る

Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. The first book to explore the productive intersections between detection and performance ac……続きを見る

Det er Leif Panduros romaner, som er hovedtemaet for Jørgen E. Tiemroths fængslende gennemgang af den spændende digters værker, men også hans dramatiske produktion behandles i et fyldigt afsnit. Jør……続きを見る

Provides a new way of thinking about film's relation to theatre. George Toles's Curtains of Light explores the ways in which various kinds of theatrical space in film engage with the film reality ad……続きを見る

"Forbrydertyper hos Shakespeare" indeholder seks essays om Shakespeares mest markante forbryderkarakterer: Brutus og Cassius fra "Julius Cæsar", Macbeth og Lady Macbeth fra "Macbeth", Richard III fr……続きを見る

Mark Ravenhill's autobiographical radio play explores the way culture, high and low, impacted both his mother's and his family's lives. Starting an adult ballet class as the only male in the group s……続きを見る

This groundbreaking study of girlhood and cognition argues that early moderns depicted female puberty as a transformative event that activated girls' brains in dynamic ways. Mining a variety of genr……続きを見る