Drama category: 27605 books

Cover of Richard II (Annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an Introduction by Charles Harold Herford)
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

The first play in William Shakespeare’s tetralogy of plays which also includes “Henry IV, Part 1”, “Henry IV, Part 2”, and “Henry V”, “Richard II” is believed to have been written around 1595. A history play, the drama concerns the last two years of the life of King Richard II of...
Cover of Tanika Gupta: Political Plays
by Tanika Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012

The first collection of plays by acclaimed British dramatist Tanika Gupta includes Sugar Mummies, White Boy, Sanctuary and Gladiator Games. Refusing to be pigeonholed as an ‘Asian playwright’, Gupta has a fresh perspective on race relations, generational divide and sexual politics. A National...
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Inigo

a play about Ignatius of Loyola

by Jonathan Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

The fast-paced story of one man's journey from sinner to saint as he battles the Inquisition and the corruption of the Catholic Church. Inigo (Ignatius of Loyola) begins as a hot-headed, street-fighting sensualist, in this action-packed play but due to serious injury in a sword-fight, he becomes...
Cover of Text and Supertext in Ibsen’s Drama
by Brian Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990

Brian Johnston's approach to Ibsen, now well known, is unlike any other. Johnston sees Ibsen's twelve realist plays as a single cyclical work, the "realist" method of which hides a much larger poetic intention than has previously been suspected. He believes that the cycle constitutes one...
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Approximate Bodies

Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy

by Maurizio Calbi
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006

The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and...
Cover of The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama

The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama

W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge

by George Cusack
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009

This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. By contextualizing each author’s work within the artistic and political discourses of their time, Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of...
Cover of The Subject of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)

The Subject of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)

Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama

by Catherine Belsey
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014

First published in 1985, The Subject of Tragedy takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman. Catherine Belsey charts, in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts, the production in the Renaissance...
Cover of The Dreyfus Affair: A Trilogy
by George R. Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012

In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an innocent Jewish Officer in the French Army, was convicted on false evidence for a crime of high treason. He was stripped of his rank, publicly degraded and deported to the penal colony of Devil's Island to serve a sentence of life imprisonment in total isolation...
Cover of Aeschylus: Eumenides
by Robin Mitchell-Boyask
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013

The "Eumenides", the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the "Oresteia", is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, both to specialist scholars and public intellectuals. It stands at the crux of...
Cover of Acting, Archetype, and Neuroscience

Acting, Archetype, and Neuroscience

Superscenes for Rehearsal and Performance

by Jane Drake Brody
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

"How do we move actors into the less accessible regions of themselves and release hotter, more dangerous, and less literal means of approaching a role?" Superscenes are a revolutionary new mode of teaching and rehearsal, allowing the actor to discover and utilize the primal energies...
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The Expense of Spirit

Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

by Mary Beth Rose
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period...
Cover of Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama
by Chris McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

In this book, McMahon considers Early Modern revenge plays from a political science perspective, paying particular attention to the construction of family and state institutions. Plays set for close study are The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Malcontent and The Duchess of...
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First World War

Ypres 1918 -Timed Justice- Ghost Trench

by Albert E. Yellop
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014

The book covers a period of A.E. Yellop's life during the First World War, which resulted in his recording for his family "Two Weeks in the Life of a Machine Gunner at the Last Battle for Ypres 1918 and two drama scripts [1] 'Timed Justice' a screenplay covering an injustice carried out during...
Cover of Clouddancer's Alaskan Chronicles, Volume Iii
by CloudDancer
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010

Alaskan Chronicles fans need look no further than the front cover, to know this book is a dramatic change from CloudDancer's first two humorous literary efforts. The new cover reflects the somber theme of the stories within. So what's happened? Did Cloudy run out of funny stories? No. CloudDancer...
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