Drama category: 27605 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland, the UK, the USA and Europe provide individual...
Stage Histories
Post-War British Historical Drama
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it. The author shows how some of the central concerns of late twentieth-century...
The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and Performance
Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Collected Studies CS 1068
The essays selected for this volume are chosen to reflect the important and intersecting ways in which over the last forty years Meg Twycross has shifted paradigms for people reading early English religious drama. The focus of Meg Twycross’s research has been on...
Misreading Shakespeare
Modern Playwrights and the Quest for Originality
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
A dynamic new study in literary and dramatic influence, Misreading Shakespeare defines and explores the relation between two modern playsEdward Bonds Lear and Tom Stoppards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Deadand Shakespeares King Lear and Hamlet. While some see the modern plays as derivative, others...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2000
This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time. No longer seen as a privileged arena for select dramatists and elite courtiers, the Restoration...
Three Sisters
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
Staging the revolution
Drama, reinvention and history, 1647-72
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Staging the revolution offers a reappraisal of the weight and volume of theatrical output during the commonwealth and early Restoration, both in terms of live performances and performances on the paper stage. It argues that the often-cited notion that 1642 marked an end to theatrical production in...
All the Way
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This Tony Award–winning, “jaw-dropping political drama” chronicles LBJ’s fight for the Civil Rights Act and includes an introduction by Bryan Cranston (Variety).
Winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play, as well as Best Play awards from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, the Outer...
Faith and Drama
Plays and Readings from a Biblical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Faith and Drama contains thirty-four short plays and dramatic readings that have been performed in churches, youth groups, conferences and special events in the Middle East as part of a Christian theater ministry.
In places where people dont have the opportunity to read or study the Bible for...
Tartuffe
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
Neva
Bilingual Edition: English/Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
"Guillermo Calderón is an authentic genius of the theater . . . you can't say you've heard or seen any of it before, which may make you want to hear and see it again."—The New Yorker
"Neva's neobrutalist punch demonstrates . . . the enduring power of art."—Time Out...
by Tore Rem, Narve Fulsås
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, the nation's literary presence was negligible, yet by 1890 Ibsen had become one of Europe's most famous...
4000 Miles and After the Revolution
Two Plays
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
"After the Revolution is a smart, funny and provocative play. . . . Herzog deftly avoids simple-minded polemics in favor of richly detailed people who are as ready to examine their relationships as they are their consciences."—Variety
"A funny, moving new play . . . 4,000 Miles is a quiet...
by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2019
A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King. The great plays of Ancient Greece are among the most...