wired - Drama History & Criticism 3

Coward Plays: 9 offers up a fascinating selection of Noël Coward's lesser-known works. Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered (1940) follows Leila Heseldyne after she has fled to America, leaving a war……続きを見る

This short, illustrated book is a ground breaking study which provides the best explanation so far for William Shakespeare’s knowledge of Italian and Latin literature, of the court, and of his other……続きを見る

“The next good mood I find my father in, I'll get him quite discarded” With these chillingly offhand words, Beatrice-Joanna, the spoilt daughter of a powerful nobleman, plots to get rid of the famil……続きを見る

Rather than treating the plays as objects to be studied, described and interpreted, Engagements with Shakespearean Drama examines precisely what about Shakespeare’s plays is so special – why they co……続きを見る

A Monster with a Thousand Hands makes visible a figure that has been largely overlooked in early modern scholarship on theater and audiences: the discursive spectator, an entity distinct from the ac……続きを見る

This volumeposits and explores an intermedial genre called theatre-fiction, understood in its broadest sense as referring to novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatr……続きを見る

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The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers……続きを見る

Short Plays with Great Roles for Women is an antidote to the traditional underrepresentation of women on stage, by offering twenty-two short plays that put women right at the centre of the action. T……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Comptant parmi les dernières pièces de William Shakespeare (1564-1616), La Tempête, qui fut jouée pour la première fois en 1611, est ……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Cette comédie majeure de William Shakespeare (1564-1616), publiée pour la première fois en 1623, fut sans doute écrite pour être joué……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Hamlet with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, a world-famous stor……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Le drame historique intitulé La Tragédie du roi Richard III (publiée pour la première fois en 1597) est le dernier volet de la premiè……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Publié pour la première fois en 1608, Le Roi Lear, dont Victor Hugo admirait la « construction inouïe », est l’une des grandes tragéd……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis La Chatte sur un toit brûlant (Cat on a hot tin roof, 1955), comme grand nombre d’œuvres de Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), doit sa r……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Le Conte d’hiver, qui compte parmi les quatre dernières pièces de William Shakespeare (1564-1616), appartient au genre hybride des « ……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Cette comédie de William Shakespeare (1564-1616), représentée pour la première fois vers 1595-1596 (première édition en 1600), fut pr……続きを見る

Sabrina Mahfouz has been called 'theatrical dynamite' by The Independent and '[one of] our most interesting playwrights' by Lyn Gardner in The Guardian. As a recent elected Fellow of the Royal Socie……続きを見る

This book, together with A Second Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.M. Forces serving in the trenches of World War I. The vol……続きを見る

In 'The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' William Shakespeare explores the themes of revenge, madness, and moral corruption through the tragic tale of Prince Hamlet. The play is written in Sha……続きを見る

Frederick Gard Fleay's 'A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare' is an in-depth analysis of the life and works of the legendary playwright. Fleay meticulously examines the hi……続きを見る

Hero longing for heiress. Obstacles in the way. Marriage eventually secured. It sounds simple. But the lasting appeal of this, one of the most performed and discussed of all Restoration plays, lies ……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Pièce mythique, Roméo et Juliette, composée vers 1595 et publiée en 1597, est sans doute la tragédie la plus bouleversante de William……続きを見る

Cymbeline: Tragédie, écrite par William Shakespeare, est une Suvre captivante qui mélange habilement tragédie, comédie et roman. L'histoire se déroule dans la Grande-Bretagne antique et suit les nom……続きを見る

Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, this is……続きを見る

'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.' David Lan Hanoch Levin was one of Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work include……続きを見る

One of Shakespeare’s most original and eloquent plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream brilliantly interweaves four contrasting groups of characters to present a many-sided view of love in all its aspects……続きを見る

We are engaged in performing four shows by night and restaging four different shows by day. And restaging all the understudy work as well. This is a lot of work. And my mind has turned to slush. Nic……続きを見る

"I'm in love with a man from Dundee Though he lived 100 years or so before me He was a poet He was aware of this" A tragic comedy, McGonagall's Chronicles charts the true life story of the worst poe……続きを見る

The Comedy of Errors is a brilliant piece of theatrical mechanism, a story of mounting confusion involving two pairs of twins. But it also explores the relations between lovers and between husband a……続きを見る