Drama category: 27605 books
by Ben Slemish
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Four short stories of life and death, ranging from the depths of painful drama to the lighthearted humour of everyday life."Angel or Devil?" (drama) presents a young mother experiencing emotions which no human being should ever have to face. Beautiful, in a very sad sort of way."Betty"...
The Lost Colony
A Symphonic Drama of American History
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In 1937, The Lost Colony, Paul Green's dramatic retelling of the founding and mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony, opened to standing-room-only audiences and rave reviews. Since then, the beloved outdoor drama has played to more than 3 million people, and it is still going strong....
by Luigi Pirandello
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
One of the major figures of modern theater, Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) wrote dramas and satires that sparked controversy with their radical departures from conventional theatrical techniques. His most celebrated work, Six Characters in Search of an Author, embodies the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's...
by Allison P. Hobgood
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story about the emotional experiences of theatregoers in Renaissance England. Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Kyd and Heywood, the reader will discover what it felt like to be part of performances in English theatre and appreciate...
by George Pierce Baker
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
A superb study of drama by a highly esteemed theatre scholar, Dramatic Technique looks at the principles of a well-made play and explores technique in drama, action and emotion in drama, dialogue, subject and plot, and making a scenario, among other elements using an almost scientific method.
by J.T. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Play
Winner of the 2017 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play
Winner of the 2017 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
“*Oslo* is a wonderful and moving work that portrays how real diplomacy...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 — a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant scholarly attention. Written by specialists from...
by Florian Burkhardt
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Stuttgart, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Can you imagine Our Town as a play in the manner of the nineteenth century? Imagine an educated, interested audience watching the...
Beckett's Creatures
Art of Failure after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature...
by Isabelle Torrance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
One of our earliest surviving Greek tragedies, Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes is an extraordinarily rich poetic text. It dramatises the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Polynices - the exile, and Eteocles - reigning king of Thebes. Polynices marches on Thebes to regain his throne along with...
by Trilby James
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES:
Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills
As an actor at any level – whether you are doing theatre studies at school, taking part in youth theatre, preparing for drama-school showcases, or attending professional...
National Theatre Connections 2012: Plays for Young People
Victim Sidekick Boyfriend Me; Journey to X; Little Foot; Prince of Denmark; Socialism is Great; The Grandfathers; Alice by Heart; Generation Next; So You Think You’re a Superhero?; The Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2012 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is...
The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
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,...
Shakespeare and the Visual Arts
The Italian Influence
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Critical investigation into the rubric of 'Shakespeare and the visual arts' has generally focused on the influence exerted by the works of Shakespeare on a number of artists, painters, and sculptors in the course of the centuries. Drawing on the poetics of intertextuality and profiting from the more...