Drama History & Criticism 88

Hate your job? Come work for us. This is a show about work. But the worker isn't here, so it's down to you. You'll clock in at the beginning. You'll get short breaks at regular intervals. You'll wor……続きを見る

Sometimes a person needs to create an act that destroys the world because the world is broken. The virus has ravaged Thebes. Millions are dead and the economy has tanked. Vaccinations have been admi……続きを見る

A city under attack from a nuclear blast. As the dust settles, Louise wakes to find herself in a fallout shelter with Mark, the colleague who has saved her life. They have enough water and food to l……続きを見る

Griselda Gambaro is arguably one of Argentina's most important dramatists, as well as a playwright of international significance, whose poetics not only interpret Argentine reality but transcend cul……続きを見る

I don't agree with everything they say, but we do have a lot in common nowadays; anyway, I can't be racist, my best friend is Black. Roger and Harry's bond is so strong they could be brothers. They ……続きを見る

Deux comédiennes dans une situation improbable : au cœur d’une nuit d’été, une voleuse s’introduit par la fenêtre dans un appartement … en se trompant d’étage et surprend la locataire en plein somme……続きを見る

This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These plays, originally a series, are the world’s earliest political satires, and are made avail……続きを見る

It doesn't have to be anything more than it is. Let's just be… organic. Lucy and David are dating. Or at least, they're trying to. Faced with first-date disasters, a few crossed wires and Lucy's mum……続きを見る

I 1800-tallet blomstrede dansk litteratur op som aldrig før, og også en lang række kvindelige forfattere meldte sig på banen og fik udgivet deres værker på det ellers så mandsdominerede bogmarked. A……続きを見る

The party ain't over yet! As long as that music keeps playing, I'll keep dancing! Raw, rude and raucous, Cherry Jezebel is a dazzling new drama. Hilarious and heartbreaking, it's a champagne blowout……続きを見る

I want theatre to be sweaty, exciting, unpredictable…. Mike Bradwell is on a mission to revolutionise British theatre. He's sick of fancy plays by dead blokes and wants to tell stories about real pe……続きを見る

Early modern English writers often complained that “charity had grown cold,” lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from diminishing in scope or influence, charity generated ……続きを見る

Through expert guidance on understanding, interpreting, and writing about Shakespeare's language, this book makes The Winter's Tale accessible and exciting for students. It demonstrates that careful……続きを見る

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

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