Drama History & Criticism 96

Multiple award-winning Mark O'Halloran is one of Ireland's most celebrated writers. Two play spanning 12 years of work come together in one published edition to coincide with the New York premiere i……続きを見る

Juli Zehs Roman Über Menschen spricht die großen gesellschaftlichen Themen an, die zur Debatte stehen: Klimakrise, Coronaepidemie, Rechtsradikalismus. Zahlreiche reale Fakten aus zeitgenössischer Po……続きを見る

Staging Violence Against Women and Girls brings together three contemporary plays that denounce gendered violence, along with interviews with their creators and the practitioners who have staged the……続きを見る

In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyn……続きを見る

What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locat……続きを見る

Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews embarking on an arranged marriage, despite barely knowing each other. Abe and Julia are high-profile celebrities embarking on a dangerously flirtatious correspon……続きを見る

Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes. Materializ……続きを見る

'The danger is in the neatness of identifications', Samuel Beckett famously stated, and, at first glance, no two authors could be further distant from one another than William Shakespeare and Samuel……続きを見る

The "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. Rogue Sexuality resituates the rogue b……続きを見る

Sometimes you surprise people into being better than they are. Laura and Anna, half-sisters, plan a grand net stretching across the skyline of North London as a way to unite their community. But not……続きを見る

This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage and positions it as part of an ongoing cultural, ethical, and psychological debate about the effects of performance on a……続きを見る

2023 Le Prix Ann Saddlemyer Award, Winner Symptoms of the Self offers the first full study of the stage consumptive. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, Britain, and North Ame……続きを見る

Shortlisted for Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2023 Finalist for Most Promising New Playwright at the Offies Awards 2024 Look, gang, what we need to keep sight of is, this isn't about us. It'……続きを見る

Ladies, Gentlemen, and then all the legends that have realised gender is a trap – introducing the Sound of the Underground. Out to the electric night, where the base line jumps in the backstreet lig……続きを見る

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores changes in attitudes, literature and criticism over a ……続きを見る

I came to New York when I was seventeen. I had all these ideas about how my life was gonna turn out. When I think about those ideas now, I don't know if I should laugh or shit. In a back street in t……続きを見る

Sarah Kane was one of the landmark playwrights of 1990s Britain, her influence being felt across UK and European theatre. This is the first book to focus exclusively on Kane's unique approach to min……続きを見る

What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contemporary troubles? One of the outstanding and most widely read theorists in the disci……続きを見る

First published in 1974, Investigating Drama offers a holistic understanding of drama. An understanding of drama requires far more thana study, however thorough, of plays and playwright, stagecraft ……続きを見る

Since the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie's oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of Iranian, Euro-American, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian performance traditions and cinem……続きを見る

In 'Goethe's Faust' presenteert J. D. Bierens de Haan een diepgravende analyse van de invloedrijke tragedie van Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, die de existentiële worstelingen van de mensheid onderzoek……続きを見る

Tricky things, memories. Not always the way you remember them. When Ben, a successful London lawyer, returns home for his father's funeral after thirteen years away, he is confronted with uncomforta……続きを見る

Robert Icke's thrilling and radical adaptations of some of the great texts of Western theatre have enthralled theatregoers in London, in New York and around the world. This is the first collection o……続きを見る

No Man or Woman should have to suffer oppression Luther. It's your Birthright to be free, my Love. KING tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Baw's hero, Dr Ma……続きを見る

Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2023 I can imagine myself in the future looking back on this all. And looking back I can feel when the fire was lit. Fifteen-year-old Roxy is burning. Lo……続きを見る

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) kaldes verdens største dramatiker, og forfatterskabets indflydelse på verdenslitteraturen er kolossal. Men hvem var Shakespeare, hvilket samfund levede han i, og ikke……続きを見る

Two plays by the 2021 Papatango Prize-winning playwright Tom Powell. Surfacing NHS therapist Luc is fine. Honest. She's definitely not overwhelmed by meeting Owen, a new client, definitely not freak……続きを見る

Daniel Mesguich est tout à la fois metteur en scène, comédien, acteur et professeur d'art dramatique... Il parle ici admirablement de cet art dont il est un des maîtres incontestés. " Le théâtre est……続きを見る

There was a cliff on the horizon. I didn't know, but then again, maybe I did, and I just didn't want to look. She meets him at an old friend's barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy f……続きを見る

First thing I'm a need you to do is keep my secret. Can't let nobody know I'm here and I mean nobody. In her illegal boarding house in Butetown, Cardiff, Gwyneth Mbanefo toils tirelessly to keep afl……続きを見る