CK - Drama History & Criticism 1

'911, what's your emergency?' 'My husband... they shot him... they all did.' July 10th, 1981, Missouri. Smalltown bully, Ken Rex McElroy rules Skidmore with an iron fist. His ten-year reign of terro……続きを見る

This is the first full-length exploration of the work of Laura Wade, providing critical and performance perspectives on one of the UK's most frequently staged female playwrights. Laura Wade is one o……続きを見る

I can't explain it. I can't explain any of it to you. The line of beauty which led me to him… to here. London. Summer, 1983. Nick Guest moves into the grand Notting Hill home of his university frien……続きを見る

It was an accident! When Wendy jumps off the family piano and shatters her mam's favourite glass table, she doesn't just break the glass, she cracks open a whole other world. With the shards packed ……続きを見る

Through the magic of cinema, you are about to witness The Greatest Spy Movie (n)Ever Made! Agent Blonde has 24 hours to save the world. The only things standing in her way are dastardly villains, an……続きを見る

Nominated for Community Award at The Stage Awards 2025 Five powerful new plays by some of the most exciting artists working in the UK today – created with and for young people. Developed as part of ……続きを見る

Drawing on qualitative research exploring the techniques of playwriting instructors, this book outlines signature pedagogies within playwriting instruction for 'novice' writers and how they may be r……続きを見る

Plongez dans la société anglaise du XIXe siècle avec « La foire aux vanités, Tome I » de William Makepeace Thackeray, une satire percutante qui dévoile les travers de l'aristocratie. Dans « La foire……続きを見る

Don't be ridiculous Dusty, this isn't one of your Shoddy Detective Plays... A laugh-out-loud slapstick whodunnit featuring four actors, a dozen characters and a whole load of chaos. When a priceless……続きを見る

Play the man, not the cards. Sunday night. Stephen hosts a weekly poker game in the basement of his failing London restaurant. All the usual suspects are there; the chef, the waiters, the errant son……続きを見る

In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill……続きを見る

Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that Wilson’s ……続きを見る

Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research from Irish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, a……続きを見る

This volume offers a multidimensional exploration of the theme of time in early modern France: of time past, time present and time future, in literature and in life. In poetry, the importance of pas……続きを見る

Jack Gelber: Consider This explores the works of American playwright Jack Gelber (1932–2003), whose groundbreaking, immersive play The Connection (produced by The Living Theatre in 1959) served as t……続きを見る

Hospitality to strangers has become an increasingly prevalent topic in recent years, from political upheavals resulting in the displacement of millions of people, to the emergence of our collective ……続きを見る

Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Beiträge einer interdisziplinär ausgerichteten Tagung, die im März 2015 in Hamburg stattfand und das Hamburger Stadttheater (1770–1850) zum Thema hatte. Im Mittel……続きを見る

Der Band vereint elf Beiträge zu Werken von jüngeren und «klassischen» Theaterautoren wie Lukas Bärfuss, Bertolt Brecht,Martin Crimp, Ödön von Horváth, Janosch, Dea Loher, Christoph Marthaler, Heine……続きを見る

Iphigenia in Splott is a one-woman play, first seen in 2015, loosely adapted from the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis. The title character, Iphigenia (or "Effie"), finds escap……続きを見る

Northern bloody soul… it's been my life. Two bad knees, one screwed hip and a vicious dorsal bunion… a messed up family, bones of my arse broke… but I'd do it all again in a trice. Eugene and Maxine……続きを見る

In "George Bernard Shaw," H. L. Mencken delivers a penetrating examination of one of the most significant playwrights and social critics of the 20th century. Mencken employs a distinctive blend of i……続きを見る

Fiktionalität ist ein Bewußtseinsphänomen. Anders als in den zahlreichen bereits zur Verfügung stehenden Studien wird das Fiktionale hier aufgefaßt als eine spezifische Projektionsleistung durch das……続きを見る

In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories for children. The result was Swallows and Amazons an……続きを見る

A thrilling book referred to as "The White Dove" become written via a British creator named William J. Locke in the early 20th century. The tale moves together with a delicate mix of romance, thrill……続きを見る

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeare’s words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the Cue Scripts from the Romances and Histories in Sha……続きを見る

Die hier vorgelegte Studie begreift sich als Fortführung der Arbeiten an einer philologischen Hermeneutik des Textes, die 1977 abgebrochen wurden und hier zu einem Abschluß gebracht werden. Friedric……続きを見る

Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing cre……続きを見る

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeare’s words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the Cue Scripts from the Comedies in Shakespeare’s Fir……続きを見る

Noël Coward combines a fresh appraisal of major plays by one of the twentieth century’s most popular dramatists, with an account of critical and theatrical responses to his life and work. For almost……続きを見る

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeare’s words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the Cue Scripts from the Tragedies in Shakespeare’s Fi……続きを見る