Drama History & Criticism 96

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

Premier playwright of modern theater and trailblazer of the short story, Anton Chekhov was also a practising doctor, journalist, writer of comic sketches, philanthropist and activist. This volume pr……続きを見る

First published in 1971, Ionesco is a study of the plays written by the absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco. Eugene Ionesco’s play La Cantatrice Chauve, first presented in 1950, established him as o……続きを見る

Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation can only be either theft or gift, and the idea that cultural appropriation should be ……続きを見る

Le Cid est une tragédie écrite par Pierre Corneille en 1636. Il raconte l'histoire de Rodrigue, surnommé le Cid, qui tombe amoureux de Chimène, la fille du gouverneur de Castille, alors qu'il est pr……続きを見る

Phèdre est un drame passionnant écrit par Jean Racine en 1677. Il met en scène la reine Phèdre, qui tombe amoureuse de son beau-fils Hippolyte, mais qui doit lutter contre ses propres émotions et le……続きを見る

Les Fourberies de Scapin est une comédie écrite par Molière en 1671. Elle met en scène Scapin, un valet astucieux et malin qui utilise tous les moyens nécessaires pour aider ses maîtres à résoudre l……続きを見る

Le Tartuffe est une comédie écrite par Molière en 1664, qui met en scène Tartuffe, un faux dévot qui se fait passer pour un homme pieux pour tromper et manipuler Orgon, un homme riche et crédule. Le……続きを見る

Andromaque est un drame épique écrit par Jean Racine en 1667. Il raconte l'histoire d'amour tragique entre Andromaque, veuve du roi troyen Hector, et Pyrrhus, fils d'Achille. Le livre explore les th……続きを見る

Le Misanthrope est un chef-d'œuvre de la comédie classique française écrit par Molière en 1666. Il met en scène Alceste, un homme qui critique la société hypocrite et les faux-semblants des gens aut……続きを見る

Cyrano de Bergerac est une comédie héroïque écrite par Edmond Rostand en 1897. Elle raconte l'histoire de Cyrano, un homme brillant mais laid, qui tombe amoureux de Roxane, une belle cousine. Bien q……続きを見る