Drama category: 27605 books
by Victor Kiernan
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
'This book rests on a lifetime’s thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in “a more realistic light”.’
Times Literary Supplement
The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of William Shakespeare, this form of drama...
Dr Faustus: The A- and B- texts (1604, 1616)
A parallel-text edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
Dr. Faustus is one of the jewels of early modern English drama, and is still widely performed today. Interestingly, the play has come down to the contemporary audience in two distinct versions that have become known as the 'A' and the 'B' texts. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen, who edited the original...
by Felicity Dunworth
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. It explores a range of genres: moralities, histories, romantic comedies, city comedies, domestic tragedies, high tragedies, romances...
The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy
The Al-Hamlet Summit; Richard III, an Arab Tragedy; The Speaker’s Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Sulayman Al Bassam is one of the world's leading contemporary dramatists. His adaptations of Shakespeare, performed around the world, have won many awards and met with widespread acclaim on four continents.
This volume brings together for the first time three of Al Bassam's adaptations of Shakespearean...
First World War Plays
Night Watches, Mine Eyes Have Seen, Tunnel Trench, Post Mortem, Oh What A Lovely War, The Accrington Pals, Sea and Land and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recognised, with only a handful of plays commonly associated with the war.
First World War Plays...
James Graham Plays: 1
A History of Falling Things, Tory Boyz, The Man, The Whisky Taster, Sons of York
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This collection brings together four of Graham's most successful and entertaining plays, each representing a relationship with a theatre with which he has worked and introduced by the author. One of the plays, Sons of York, has never before been published, but earned James Graham a nomination for...
National Theatre Connections 2017
Three; #YOLO; Fomo; Status Update; Musical Differences; Extremism; The School Film; Zero for the Young Dudes!; The Snow Dragons; The Monstrum
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays collected offer young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging...
by Tom Cantrell, Christopher Hogg
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
This fascinating text offers the first in-depth exploration of acting processes in British television. Focused around sixteen new interviews with celebrated British actors, including Rebecca Front, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Ken Stott, Penelope Wilton and John Hannah, this rich resource delves behind the...
by Jez Bond, Mark Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
There will come a point in every witch's life where the scales are tipped so far to one side that the world, nature, humanity - whatever you want to call it - finally fights back. The demons are expelled and we return to the natural state.
Sleeping Beauty is the fairytale of the beautiful princess...
by Simon Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Simon Stephens' explosive play Rage was written as a counterpoint for Elfriede Jelinek's Wut. Composed as31 high-energy scenes, each one is based on a series of photos by Joel Goodman which captured the excitement and the mayhem of New Year's Eve 2015/16 in Manchester city centre. Published in the...
A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse
The Queen's Servants at the Red Bull Theatre (c.1605–1619)
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Eva Griffith's book fills a major gap concerning the world of Shakespearean drama. It tells the previously untold story of the Servants of Queen Anna of Denmark, a group of players parallel to Shakespeare's King's Men, and their London playhouse, The Red Bull. Built in vibrant Clerkenwell, The Red...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his...
by Jane Vetter
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, Coastal Georgia Community College, Brunswick, Georgia, USA (Coastal Georgia Community College, Brunswick, Georgia, USA), 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Fictional characters often appear to readers...
Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009
Voices, Documents, New Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four/five...