Drama History & Criticism 95

My story is about love… No, it's about loss… No, it's about love and loss and pain and loneliness… But it's funny! Calvin is going to completely revolutionise his life. Escape his abusive boyfriend,……続きを見る

The plays of María Martínez Sierra were popular in Spain, South America and in translation on Broadway and London's West End in the first half of the 20th century but they were thought to be written……続きを見る

During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists including Dekker, Greene, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and Shakespeare wrote for playhouses that, though enclosed by sur……続きを見る

Shortlisted for The TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023 As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the present, Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genr……続きを見る

Thomas Heywood's book, simply titled 'Thomas Heywood,' is a comprehensive exploration of the life and works of the renowned English playwright. Heywood's diverse literary style is showcased through ……続きを見る

A superb study of drama by a highly esteemed theatre scholar, Dramatic Technique looks at the principles of a well-made play and explores technique in drama, action and emotion in drama, dialogue, s……続きを見る

Das Glück der Familie Rougon von Emile Zola (französisch La Fortune des Rougon), Erstausgabe 1871, ist der erste Band von Émile Zolas monumentalem zwanzigbändigen Rougon-Macquart-Zyklus. Die Geschic……続きを見る

In this 1891 essay, Shaw champions the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, praising his social realism and his characters’ struggles against a hypocritical society. Shaw then pushes farther,……続きを見る

Published in 1921, this "psycho-critical study" casts Ibsen as representative of modern consciousness. Chapters include "Ibsen as Artist," "The Strength of his Weakness," "The Drama of the Moral Sup……続きを見る

This 1817 volume of critical essays on Shakespeare's plays brings a fresh psychological perspective to the characters, as well as addressing the dramatic and poetic qualities of the works, placing s……続きを見る

This book provides a fascinating and concise history of devised theatre practice. As both a founding member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theater Company and a Professor, Telory Arendell begins this jo……続きを見る

The Oresteia is permeated with depictions of the afterlife, which have never been examined together. In this book Amit Shilo analyses their intertwined and conflicting implications. He argues for a ……続きを見る

You can't live your life thinking everything you text will become public knowledge. Censoring yourself is no way to live. Everyone needs Jim. His mother. His best friend. His brother. A hopeful futu……続きを見る

“I need you to get in the wardrobe.” Faye's afraid. She's not sleeping, she doesn't trust ducks and all she's had to eat this week is a box of dry Rice Krispies. A doctor recommends a form of exposu……続きを見る

Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing. Covering fiction, poetry, and dra……続きを見る

Schillers Drama "Wilhelm Tell" wurde am 17. März 1804 uraufgeführt und erschien im Oktober desselben Jahres als Buch. Es war nicht der erste literarische Text, der den Schweizer Freiheitshelden Tell……続きを見る

A torn family. A hostile state. One heroic brother. One misguided son. One conflicted sister, and the second is on the run. This is a blistering retelling of Sophocles' epic story from the writer of……続きを見る

**CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly As we witness monuments of white Western history fall, many are asking how is Shakespeare ……続きを見る

ODA AL MUNDO NUEVO Historias de la vida, situaciones que se presentan y decisiones que se toman y que muchas veces se tornan impredecibles, pero con la convicción y esperanzas de que el amor y la co……続きを見る

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds. In contrast to the predominantly Western approaches, which look at ……続きを見る

If you're a wheelchair-user, you've got a simple choice: either you suck sweets in a corner and watch television all day or you try to change the world around you. There ain't gonna be no magic pill……続きを見る

Claire Dobbin, Helen Garner, Evelyn Krape, Jude Kuring and Yvonne Marini mocked the ocker character beloved by Pram Factory playwrights, and performed monologues about men, sex, and how they felt "a……続きを見る

Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors: A Psycho-Semiotic Analysis uses semiotics along psychoanalytic to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most interesting comedies. It is dist……続きを見る

If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story of a long and incredible misunderstanding. Out of the hundreds of tragedies that were performed,……続きを見る

“The majority is never right…Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?” – Henrik Ibsen Widely regarded as one of the foremost dra……続きを見る

‘A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched……続きを見る

The landmark Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism, first published in the 1980s, is one of the most impressive collections of literary criticism ever produced. It is now available in digital ……続きを見る

Known today chiefly for his surrender to the American forces at Saratoga, New York, in 1777, General John Burgoyne was one of the most interesting – and extraordinary – figures of the eighteenth cen……続きを見る

Weird isn't it. Years of the same old thing and then suddenly, without warning, tomorrow is a stranger. An old starship. Far from Earth. Prema Ramesh, the ship's grieving commander, seeks solace in ……続きを見る

Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare’s engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformati……続きを見る