Drama category: 27605 books
by Luigi Pirandello
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
A brand new adaptation of Pirandello's first play.
No one has ever seen Signor Ponza's wife and her mother, Signora Frola together. Also, the neighbours have become suspicious because Signora Ponza never leaves her home and start asking questions. Ponza claims that this wife is really his second...
Deborah and Her Sisters
How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages across Germany and Austria, as well as throughout Europe, the British...
Beyond Spain's Borders
Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that transcended national borders. The transnational character of early modern theater reflects the rich admixture of various dramatic traditions, such as Spain’s comedia and Italy’s...
Youth Theatre
Drama for Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Youth Theatre: Drama for Life defines the youth theatre process, by outlining its constituent parts and explaining how these activities work in order to support young people’s development. As well as describing what is done in youth theatre, it also explores why it’s done and how to ensure the...
by Terry Stoller, Michael Billington
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Tales of the Tricycle Theatre provides an inside look at the history of the north London theatre which has achieved renown with its staging of black, Irish, verbatim and political drama. Co-published with the Society for Theatre Research, the book draws extensively on archival research and interviews...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. For historians of early modern England, turning to legal archives and learning more about legal procedure has seemed increasingly...
Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett
The Falsetto of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a delightfully original,...
by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Gregary Racz
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
The masterwork of Spain’s preeminent dramatist—now in a new verse translation
Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will...
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic play in the original German. According to Wikipedia: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama,...
Die Hermannsschlacht
Ein Drama in fünf Aufzügen
Language: German
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Heinrich von Kleist: Die Hermannsschlacht. Ein Drama in fünf Aufzügen Nach der Niederlage gegen Frankreich rückt Kleist seine 1808 entstandene Bearbeitung des Hermann-Mythos in den Zusammenhang der damals aktuellen politischen Lage. Seine Version der Varusschlacht, die durchaus als Aufforderung zum...
Heinrich von Kleist: Gesammelte Dramen in einem Band
Die Familie Schroffenstein, Amphitryon, Der zerbrochne Krug, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, Die Hermannsschlacht, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg...
Language: German
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Heinrich von Kleist stand als "Außenseiter im literarischen Leben seiner Zeit jenseits der etablierten Lager" und der Literaturepochen der Weimarer Klassik und der Romantik. Kleists erste Tragödie Die Familie Schroffenstein orientiert sich am Dramenstil Shakespeares und thematisiert die...
Catilina
Drama in drei Akten
Language: German
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Henrik Ibsen: Catilina. Drama in drei Akten Entstanden zwischen 1848 und 1849. Erstdruck 1850 unter dem Pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarne. Textgrundlage: Sämtliche Werke. Volksausgabe in fünf Bänden. Herausgegeben von Julius Elias und Paul Schlenther. Einzige autorisierte deutsch Ausgabe. S. Fischer, Berlin...
Ein Volksfeind
Gesellschaftskritisches Drama mit Biografie des Autors
Language: German
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Dieses eBook: "Ein Volksfeind" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Ein Volksfeind ist ein gesellschaftskritisches Drama des norwegischen Schriftstellers Henrik Ibsen aus dem Jahr 1882. Leitmotive sind Wahrheit und...
by Friedrich Schiller
Language: German
Release Date: November 19, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 19, 2017
Dieses eBook: "Die Räuber" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Räuber ist das erste veröffentlichte Drama von Friedrich Schiller. Das Werk, das zunächst nicht als Bühnenstück, sondern als Lesedrama gedacht...