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Grenfell: System Failure asks further vital questions raised by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry since the critically acclaimed 2021 play Grenfell: Value Engineering. Based entirely on the words of those ……続きを見る

This book explores, through a multidisciplinary approach, the immense influence exerted by Bernard Shaw on the Spanish-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of essays encompa……続きを見る

Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s work across the world following the author’s death in 1989, Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative ……続きを見る

Nominated for Outstanding Drama Education Resource at the 2024 Music & Drama Education Awards A first-of-its-kind anthology, Beyond The Canon's Plays for Young Activists combines plays, toolkits, an……続きを見る

« ー Faites-le taire ! Tout ce que cet homme dira ne sera que mensonge et garnison ! ー Garni… Vous voulez dire trahison ? ー Trahison, ce n’est pas le mot qu’on utilise quand on guérit d’une maladi……続きを見る

This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and……続きを見る

This book uses the social transformation that has taken place in Ireland from the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 to the repeal of the 8th amendment in 2018 as backdrop to examine relatio……続きを見る

This may be the biggest But it is far from the first sacrifice I've made for this house And I'm sure it won't be the last But don't fret. I'm ready. England, 1640. A war is brewing. Rumours are flyi……続きを見る

This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, ……続きを見る

Fernán González, además de personaje histórico medieval, fue el protagonista de numerosos relatos legendarios que fueron llevados a la escena teatral. Este libro ofrece una aproximación crítica a su……続きを見る

The degree of Shakespeare’s concern for a "living theatre," capable of perpetually diversifying in order to maintain its appeal, is immediately apparent in the imaginative opening strategies employe……続きを見る

In Sundara Kaanda of the Ramayana, Hanuman takes the most perilous leap across cryptic waters... And Baabi is no less; always leaping over unmapped troubles. In a little village called Vakkalanka in……続きを見る

'Enjoyable, lively … such a pleasure to read … renders the drama of Shakespeare’s contemporaries more than fringe entertainment’ Independent Shakespeare is one of the greatest of all English figures……続きを見る

Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. In consideration of the allure of fundamentalist……続きを見る

This study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, ……続きを見る

The Big House Anthology is a celebration of the last decade of work and plays by a unique theatre company, featuring five original plays that offer a chance for stories with diverse casts to contrib……続きを見る

Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the 'death' of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renaissance dra……続きを見る

Dans une ville de « l’Espagne du Siècle d’Or », période où l’opulence côtoie la misère, une jeune orpheline désargentée, Belize, dont la beauté est chantée par les poètes locaux, à peine libérée d’u……続きを見る

Though he is now best remembered for his fiction, famed wit and bon vivant Oscar Wilde also dabbled in drama over the course of his long and varied literary career. A Woman of No Importance is a dar……続きを見る

"Fra de øverste til de laveste lag blev teatret en yndlingsinteresse for regentskabstiden. Dronningens og Mazarins teaterlidenskab gav eksemplet, – et øjeblik opskræmtes de af teologernes indsigelse……続きを見る

"Det er i dramaet, vi bedst kan studere fransk klassik. Corneilles og Racines tragedier og Molières komedier udtrykker fuldest og renest den åndsform og kunstform, som i over et århundrede behersked……続きを見る

With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so fa……続きを見る

What is power without principle? What are principles without power? It's Spring 1996: Kevin Keegan's Newcastle United are riding high in the Premier League and Tony Blair's New Labour are gathering ……続きを見る

This volume is the seventeenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama and performance. Featuring eleven essays from the 2021 Comparative Drama Con……続きを見る

Esta antología reúne tres piezas muy diferentes que, con técnicas originales, cuentan tres historias: la vida de una pareja construida con detalles y fragmentos, instantes casi fotográficos que mues……続きを見る

In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2021 Alfred Fagon Award It's a play, a performance, a ritual, about human farming, farming humans, soil and the soul, seeds and cells... nursing the nursery, curing creation, remedies ……続きを見る

If I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because I'm just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like. Welcome to the village of Syresham; it's not quite the……続きを見る

Gabriela Zapolska (1857-1921) was an actor, journalist and playwright. She was born during the 123 year partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia and wrote over thirty plays. The Morality o……続きを見る

Russia, Freaks and Foreigners is a collection of three thematically linked plays set against the backdrop of a fractured, post-Soviet Russian society. Written by acclaimed playwright James MacDonald……続きを見る