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The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention. In this study, first published in 1980, Neil Rhodes examines the nature of the grotesque in late sixteenth-century culture, and shows the part it played in the...

A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible. The theatre had...

Mike Masters is on his first day as anchorman at CMN News TV Studio in Atlanta, Georgia.Professor Jeff Harman announces live on air, that a comet will devastate north-eastern USA in less than 30 minutes. He has already notified the White House and the President has fled on Air Force One, leaving behind...

"Zotte Charlotte", een keizerlijk drama van Patrick Bernauw, werd bekroond met de Provinciale Paul de Mont Prijs voor Toneel 1994 en vervolgens onder de titel "La Comédie Française" gerealiseerd als luisterspel (monoloog) in een regie van Frank Van Laecke en met Chris Lomme als...

Following on from the 50th anniversary of the birth of Theatre in Education in Britain in 2015, this is an essential and timely companion to the story of TIE. It contextualizes it within the political and educational landscape of the last fifty years and examines its legacy today. Through this, Roger...

Marlene thinks the eighties are going to be stupendous. Her sister Joyce has her doubts. Her daughter Angie is just frightened. Since its premiere in 1982, Top Girls has become a seminal play of the modern theatre. Set during a period of British politics dominated by the presence of the newly...

Kabale und Liebe ist ein bürgerliches Trauerspiel, das von Friedrich Schiller zwischen 1782 und 1783 verfasst wurde. Die Uraufführung fand am 15. April 1784 statt. Das Drama handelt von der Liebesbeziehung zwischen Luise Miller, Tochter eines bürgerlichen Stadtmusikanten, und Ferdinand von Walter,...

La buena guarda, también titulada La encomienda bien guardada, es una obra teatral en tres actos de las llamadas comedias de santos de Lope de Vega, si bien propiamente se trata de una leyenda religiosa que procede del folclore, por lo que podría ser adscrita al grupo de obras extraídas de crónicas...

Best known today as the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Count Leo Tolstoy also is acknowledged as a skilled playwright. His five-act drama The Power of Darkness offers a cold and unsparing look at Russian peasant life that illustrates the costs of pursuing personal desires rather than the...

In this darkly comic exploration of loss, intimacy, and motherhood, three women are joined by a baby who never lived. Morgan, in her middle years, is the grieving mother of a stillborn child. Elena, the failed midwife, burdened by guilt, is considering a career change. Dolores, eighteen, is pregnant...

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,...

Wedekind's expressionist plays influenced the whole course of modern drama A moralist who wore the mask of an immoralist, Wedekind was the terror of the German bourgeoisie. His work was censored and the original Lulu play was not even published during his lifetime; Wedekind toned it down and...

Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban American playwright in the United States and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize. In his plays, Cruz almost always journeys back to Cuba, even when the play is not set there. Cruz is a sensualist, a conjurer of mysterious voyages...