Drama History & Criticism 97

Don Juan est un comédie écrite par Molière en 1665. Il met en scène le personnage de Don Juan, un séducteur invétéré qui se moque des conventions sociales et des conséquences de ses actions. Le livr……続きを見る

L'Avare est une comédie écrite par Molière en 1668. Il met en scène Harpagon, un homme avare qui est prêt à tout pour protéger sa fortune, même si cela signifie mettre en danger ses proches. Le livr……続きを見る

Toutes les clés pour réussir le bac de français ! Le Malade Imaginaire est une comédie écrite par Molière en 1673. Elle met en scène Argan, un homme riche et vaniteux qui feint d'être malade pour at……続きを見る

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme de Molière est une comédie satirique qui plonge les spectateurs dans les arcanes de la société du XVIIème siècle. Ce livre est un incontournable de la littérature française,……続きを見る

'Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.' Letter to Fanny Knight This entertaining collection gathers together Jane Austen’s wisest and wittiest quo……続きを見る

Did you know… Shakespeare is the most filmed author of all time: he’s been credited on more than 1,000 movies and TV shows. ‘Obscene’, ‘gloomy’, ‘fashionable’ and ‘generous’ are among the countless ……続きを見る

'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' Hamlet This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare’s wisest and wittiest quotations. The Wit and Wisdom of Will……続きを見る

This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of t……続きを見る

“t was then that I decided to write you these letters. One crisp winter day in New York, Willem receives a phone call – it's time to go home. Home to Amsterdam – to an estranged family and forgotten……続きを見る

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

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