Drama History & Criticism 99

How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate as a conceptual, historical and political site from which to interrogate ideas o……続きを見る

This collection of published and unpublished essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current prohibiting conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version ……続きを見る

From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London’s Grand Guignol - also published by UEP – this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoir……続きを見る

Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding’s forgery of an actor’s biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were……続きを見る

Acting Greek Tragedy explores the dynamics of physical interaction and the dramaturgical construction of scenes in ancient Greek tragedy. Ley argues that spatial distinctions between ancient and mod……続きを見る

A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise. With a cast of agein……続きを見る

Forms of Conflict is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet ……続きを見る

While the infamous Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris closed its doors in 1962, the particular form of horror theatre it spawned lives on and has, moreover, witnessed something of a resurgence over t……続きを見る

O legado cultural da Antigüidade Grecolatina espalla a súa enorme influencia por todo o mundo occidental ata os nosos días e, aínda que penetra con certas dificultades na literatura galega, é un dos……続きを見る

Activated Script Analysis engages theatre students in traditional formative script analysis through a fusion of devised theatre and various modes of creative expression, dispelling the notion of scr……続きを見る

Edizione integrale e quasi filologica della Commedia "amorosissima" in cinque atti pubblicata a Parigi nel 1622. La trascrizione in caratteri moderni è arricchita da un nutrito apparato di note (qua……続きを見る

French Drama of the Revolutionary Years (1990) examines the years following the Revolution which saw an explosion both in the number of theatres and in the number of dramatic representations written……続きを見る

What's the one thing that you need to say but have never dared? And who needs to hear it? Based on the original concept by playwright Rachel De-Lahay, this follow-up volume to My White Best Friend (……続きを見る

Nominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier Awards 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. Af……続きを見る

Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe “Blood is thicker than water,” goes the old proverb. But do common bloodlines in fa……続きを見る

A thoughtful and deeply personal book by a master theatre-maker. In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling differences between F……続きを見る

TWO MEN Tom Crean, the Kerryman, whose phenomenal feats of bravery in the unexplored Antarctic earned him a rare medal for valour, pinned on him by King George. Aidan Dooley, the Galway man, who rej……続きを見る

“I don't know what's beyond this minute. But whatever it is it can't be worse than all the minutes that brought us here”. Two sisters, one last drink. In the Irish border town of Newry, Chrissy prom……続きを見る

This is the first study of one of the most significant voices of modern international theatre, one of Wales's leading writers, and one of the most compelling and beautiful bodies of work in the last……続きを見る

Ireland, and in particular Dublin, was Samuel Beckett's cradle, a place, in Eoin O'Brien's words, he revisited 'with the same intensity that Proust went back to Combray'. It was fitting, then, short……続きを見る

John Millington Synge, controversial in his own time and long established as a major figure of world theatre, has nonetheless suffered relative critical neglect. Where his great contemporaries Yeats……続きを見る

Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world. Drawing extensively from The Harold Pinter Archive……続きを見る

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the worl……続きを見る

»Nur im Wechsel ertragen wir unser Leben« Hugo von Hofmannsthal Unter den großen Autoren der literarischen Moderne ist Hugo von Hofmannsthal ein faszinierender Sonderfall, reich an Widersprüchen und……続きを見る

No matter how hard we try, we just can't get out. It's like we are not allowed to. Some give up and say, “alright then, if you won't give, I will bloody well take.” And you know what Shona, I don't ……続きを見る

Winner of Best New Play at the Offies Awards 2024 My husband died and it's taken my whole life but Dr, I've never had one and I want one, before I die... My orgasm has got to be out there - somewher……続きを見る

It's not stealing if it's from a dead person. Hours before their mother's funeral, the Yeung siblings gather in the family home for the first time in years, only to discover their inheritance is mis……続きを見る

In this volume, Lee Brewer Jones examines Paula Vogel as both a playwright and renowned teacher, analyzing texts and early reviews of Vogel's major plays-including Indecent, Desdemona, How I Learned……続きを見る

We need the theatre, couldn't, couldn't do without it. Could we? A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions ……続きを見る

इस एकांकी संग्रह में नाटकों की परम्परागत शैली से हटकर नाट्य प्रस्तुत किये गए हैं। न इनमें लोक-नाटक शामिल हैं, न एतिहासिक नाटक, न पौराणिक नाटक, न गीति नाटक। हालांकि इनको सामाजिक नाटकों की श्रेणी में ……続きを見る