Drama category: 27605 books
by Adrian Streete
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This book examines the many and varied uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic language in seventeenth-century English drama. Adrian Streete argues that this rhetoric is not simply an expression of religious bigotry, nor is it only deployed at moments of political crisis. Rather, it is an adaptable...
Desire and Anxiety (Routledge Revivals)
Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender. First published in 1992, this book details the intersections and contradictions between sexuality and gender in the early modern period. Valerie Traub argues that...
by Donald Margulies
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
“A terrific production . . . American playwright Donald Margulies’ self-reflective, dream reverie comedy drama Brooklyn Boy is tough, insightful, bittersweet, funny and ultimately wise.”—The Hollywood Reporter
“Those who know Margulies’ plays will find his familiar themes here:...
by Thomas Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Contents The Root of Evil (1911) Comrades: A Story of Social Adventure in California (1909) The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln (1913) The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South (1912) A Man of the People: A Drama of Abraham Lincoln (1920)...
by Teresa Schenk
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Augsburg, language: English, abstract: This paper will analyze the various accents in the historical period drama television series Downton Abbey created by Julian Fellowes....
National Theatre Connections 2015
Plays for Young People: Drama, Baby; Hood; The Boy Preference; The Edelweiss Pirates; Follow, Follow; The Accordion Shop; Hacktivists; Hospital Food; Remote; The Crazy Sexy Cool Girls' Fan Club
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and emerging writers - this National Theatre Connections anthology is published to coincide with the 2015 festival, which takes place across the UK and Ireland, finishing up at the National Theatre in London. The programme...
by Terry Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1998
This comprehensive reference work is designed to be a single source to which readers may turn for guidance on dramatic theory and practice. It therefore concentrates on critical and technical concepts and terms rather than on theatre history or biography.
The book contains some 1300 entries varying...
Masking the Drama
A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behns «The Rover» and «The Feignd Courtezans»
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
«Masking the Drama: A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behn’s The Rover and The Feign’d Courtezans» pursues an in-depth investigation of the process whereby female identity was performatively negotiated on the Restoration stage by women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and of how a new articulation...
Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737
From Leviathan to Licensing Act
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical and non-canonical texts within the scope of an eighty-year period of theatre history, allowing for definition and assessment that uncouples Restoration drama from eighteenth-century...
Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Since its publication in 1890, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been a recurring point of fascination for readers, theater audiences, and artists alike. Newly married, yet utterly bored, the character of Hedda Gabler evokes reflection on beauty, love, passion, death, nihilism, identity, and a host of other...
by Lloyd Edward Kermode
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Covering a wide variety of plays from 1550–1600, including Shakespeare's second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in England. The economic, social, religious, and political issues that arose from inter-British...
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies
New Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Published in association with the seminar series of the same name held by the University of Oxford, Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies presents the best new scholarship addressing the sources, development and ongoing influence of Samuel Beckett's work. Edited by convenors Dr Peter Fifield and Dr David...
A Theatre of Affect
The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett's Drama
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Combining phenomenological analysis with dance and performance analysis and affect theory, A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett's Drama takes stock of the various ways in which the body in Samuel Beckett's drama participates in the affective ecology of performance. Affect is here...
by John Dryden
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
All for Love or, the World Well Lost, is a heroic work of drama by John Dryden written in 1677. Today, it is Dryden's best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama. It is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare’s...