Drama History & Criticism 87

John Fletcher’s Rome is the first book to explore John Fletcher’s engagement with classical antiquity. Like Shakespeare and Jonson, Fletcher wrote, alone or in collaboration, a number of Roman plays……続きを見る

“Don’t look at them, look at me,” a peacock seemed to be saying as he posed magnificently between the audience and the Shakespearean play being performed by Theatre Set-Up in the open air at Trevarn……続きを見る

Med "Fremmed digtning", der oprindeligt blev udgivet i 1894, giver Anna Erslev en introduktion til verdenslitteraturen og dens største digtere. Hun begynder i oldtidens østen og bevæger sig derfra m……続きを見る

Saviez-vous que les dieux grecs sont prompts à la gaudriole et interviennent encore de nos jours dans les histoires de couples des humains ? Aphrodite, Zeus et Éros décident d'aider une jeune femme ……続きを見る

Med et ønske om at udbrede kendskabet til litteraturhistorien blandt den brede befolkning udarbejdede forfatter og redaktør Anna Erslev dette værk om digtekunstens store mestre. Hun begynder ved old……続きを見る

This study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration i……続きを見る

Robert Greene holds a significant place in our understanding of Elizabethan literature. This book offers the most rigorous attempt yet undertaken to determine the scope of the playwright’s canon thr……続きを見る

This collection of innovative essays by leading scholars on eighteenth-century British women satirists showcases women's contributions to the satiric tradition and challenges the assumption that wom……続きを見る

Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. Willy Loman is an ageing travelling salesman haunted, driven and ye……続きを見る

The sensation of water flowing around my body happily floating down a river, watching the banks pass me by. I like to take the same journey as a river it's the lack of control which feels so good, i……続きを見る

PRE-ORDER MICHAEL BALL'S NEXT EMPIRE THEATRE NOVEL, A BACKSTAGE BETRAYAL, NOW. Welcome to The Empire Theatre 1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is inst……続きを見る

I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days. ……続きを見る

Antony Gormley's angel looked down on the lads. "She'll see us through, she'll help us. The guardian angel of fucking toe rags." Two lads. One mission. Belter. Sewell and Gerry live in Gateshead. Th……続きを見る

What money?! This ends when you end. This experiment is about the survival of the fittest. Nothing more – nothing less. Imprisoned in an abandoned warehouse, a desperate group of failing actors are ……続きを見る

This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama’s most common format, the single-pl……続きを見る

Nil Darpan; Or, the Indigo Planting Mirror: A Drama is a Bengali play depicting the plight of the farmers in Bengal during the Indigo Revolt of 1859. Written by Dinabandhu Mitra in real-time and pub……続きを見る

Ohne den Text umfassend zu interpretieren, gibt dieses E-Book für jede einzelne Szene die wichtigsten Hinweise zum Verständnis. In wenigen Minuten wird deutlich, auf welche Textstellen besonders zu ……続きを見る

Acting the Essence examines the theory, practice, and history of the art of the performer from the perspective of its inner nature as work on oneself, within, around, and beyond the pedagogy of the ……続きを見る

In The Theory of the Modern Stage, leading drama critic, Eric Bentley, brings together landmark writings by dramatists, directors and thinkers who have had a profound effect on the theatre since the……続きを見る

In the seventeenth century, Molière raised comedy to the pitch of great art and, three centuries later, his plays are still a source of delight. He created a new synthesis from the major comic tradi……続きを見る

Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusia……続きを見る

Shakespeare's immutable history of Henry's victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From a wild youth, Henry comes t……続きを見る

This play produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company has as its chief characters A. J. Raffles, the literary creation some seventy odd years ago of E. W. Hornung. The cool daring of the impeccable Am……続きを見る

'With spot-on injections of humour and a frequently raised sardonic eyebrow, joy and warmth shine from this fascinating and funny book' Jo Brand A joyful celebration of amateur theatre From the Myst……続きを見る

A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution o……続きを見る

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a los……続きを見る

When James Matthew Barrie died, in 1937, his funeral was an occasion for national mourning. Crowds gathered; reporters and newsreel men came to record the day, and many well-known figures followed t……続きを見る

With typical critical flair, Raymond Williams examines the development of the dramatic form from Henrik Ibsen to Bertolt Brecht. Taking an expansive view of drama from around the world, he offers th……続きを見る

Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his time……続きを見る

Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his work and his age. Shakespeare was a man of his time, ……続きを見る