Author: Kirby, Michael Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Michael Kirby presents a penetrating look a theater theory and analysis. His approach is analytically comprehensive and flexible, and nonevaluative. Case studies demonstrate this unique approach and r...
Author: Krasner, David Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise ...
Author: Krasner, David Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise ...
Author: Beaumont, Francis Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Fletcher was an important transitional figure between the Elizabethan popular tradition and the popular drama of the Restoration Period. Fletcher and Beaurmont wrote and lived together for over ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides a fascintating overview of modern theatre. Innes has selected three writers, Ibsen, Chekhov and Bernard Shaw to exemplify the movement. A must for all stude...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Naturalism is one of the key movements in modern theatre, forming the basis for mainstream plays throughout the modern period and dominating theatrical form today. Christopher Innes begins by giving a...
Author: Beaumont, Matthew Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Adventures in Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the vi...
Author: Kermode,Lloyd Edward Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Covering a wide variety of plays from 1550ñ1600, including ShakespeareÃs second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-fore...
Description: 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...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While Ben JonsonǃÙs political visions have been well documented, this is the first study to consider how he threaded his views into the various literary genres in which he wrote. For Jonson, these...
Author: McDonald,Ronan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is an eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. This book provides biographical and contextual information, but more fundamentally, it al...
Author: Castillo, Susan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or "multi-voiced" texts in the three centuries following the first contact between Europeans and indigenous peoples of the ...
Author: Wooster, Roger Publisher: Intellect Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Theatre in Education emerged in the mid-sixties as a unique hybrid of performance and child-centred learning. Contemporary Theatre in Education charts the creation and adaptation of this 'hybrid' thro...
Author: Browning, Mark Publisher: Intellect Ltd Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn...
Author: Haber, Judith Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This wide-ranging study investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change, ...
Author: Stern, Tiffany Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As well as ëplay-makersà and ëpoetsÃ, playwrights of the early modern period were known as ëplay-patchersà because their texts were made from separate documents. This book is the first to consid...
Author: Fitzsimmons, Linda Publisher: Methuen Drama Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 'A study of the work of Caryl Churchill who wrote "Fen", "Top Girls" and "Serious Money". Geraldine Cousin examines the development of Churchill"s powerful style from her earliest work to the major pl...
Author: Morgan, Margery Mary Publisher: Methuen Drama Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Writer Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred yearsOscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1856. In the years following his graduation from Oxford in 1878 ...
Author: Fischer-Lichte, Erika Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This major study reconstructs the vast history of European Drama from Greek tragedy through to 20th century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and re...
Author: N/A Publisher: Intellect Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book addresses the consequences of the main changes the media have undergone over the last 10 years: increasing commercialisation, concentration, convergence and internationalisation. The contrib...
Author: Sullivan Jr, Garrett A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Engaging with current debates over the nature of subjectivity in early modern England, this fascinating and original study examines sixteenth and seventeenth century conceptions of memory and forgetti...
Author: Bigsby, C. W. E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and brings the reader up to 2000. While retaining the ke...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first full-length study of Octauia, the only complete Roman drama of an historical subject, or fabula praetexta. The play deals with Nero's divorce from the princess Octavia, Claudius' dau...
Author: Kingsley, Charles Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using o...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama" is the first significant collection of critical and historical essays on women's essential contributions to the Renaissance stage. It revives the faded Renaissa...
Author: Blau, Herbert Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Herbert Blau's long sustained inquiry into theater's most provocative questions-presence, liveness, and finitude-are, at their deepest level, queries into life. Reality Principles returns us to Blau'...
Author: McLane, Maureen N. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This innovative study examines the dialogue between Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane reveals how Romantic writers participated in a new-found consciousness of human...
Author: Cantor, Paul A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this useful guide, Paul Cantor provides a clearly structured introduction to Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. Cantor examines Hamlet's status as tragic hero and the central enigma of the delayed ...
Author: Lima, Robert Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The evil that men do" has been chronicled for thousands of years on the European stage, and perhaps nowhere else is human fear of our own evil more detailed than in its personifications in theater. I...
Author: Lima, Robert Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "The evil that men do" has been chronicled for thousands of years on the European stage, and perhaps nowhere else is human fear of our own evil more detailed than in its personifications in theater. I...
Author: Poole, Kristen Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in all the major regional American theatres. They are ...
Author: Cox, John D. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theatres by parliamentary order in 1642. The book represents a major revision ...
Author: Wertheim, Albert Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most brilliant, powerful, and theatrically astute of modern dramatists is South African playwright Athol Fugard ("MASTER HAROLD" ... and the boys). The energy and poignancy of Fugard's work...
Author: N/A Publisher: Intellect Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gabriela Zapolska (1857-1921) was an actor, journalist and playwright. She was born during the 123 year partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia and wrote over thirty plays. The Morality of ...
Author: Schiesaro, Alessandro Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first monograph in English devoted to the most important of Seneca's tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from Shakespeare to Antonin Artaud. Thyestes em...
Author: Polti, Georges Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is written from the standpoint of 1919. The time has not yet come for telling how the Russian Church met the storm of the Revolution
Author: Howard, Jean Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on a wide range of plays, Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London.
Author: N/A Publisher: Intellect Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Increased experimentation by filmmakers such as Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock means that the walls between art and documentary are collapsing, generating innovative ideas and attracting an entirel...
Author: Lorca, Federico Garcia Publisher: Methuen Drama Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Yerma (meaning ’Barren’) is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca’s ’rural trilogy’.It is possibly Lorca’s harshest play following a ...
Author: Worthen, W. B. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold b...
Author: Kurnick, David Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty Houses challenges this consensus by reexamining the genre's development...
Author: Nichols, Peter Publisher: Methuen Drama Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: We are not short of good playwrights in Britain, but I know of none with Nichols’ power to put modern Britain on the stage and send the spectators away feeling more like members of the human race...
Author: Price, Robert Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Though the Rock Opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" has become a religious and musical phenomenon, beloved around the world among Christians and non-believers alike, no one has ever delved into t...
Author: Price, Robert Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Though the Rock Opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" has become a religious and musical phenomenon, beloved around the world among Christians and non-believers alike, no one has ever delved into t...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Focusing squarely on the strength of mimesis as a philosophical idea, this collection of essays considers aspects of mimesis ranging from Shakespeare to colonialism. As the philosophical agenda of maj...
Author: Sierz, Aleks Publisher: Methuen Drama Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years British theatre has seen a renaissance in playwriting that has been accompanied by a proliferation of writing awards, new writing groups and a ceaseless quest for fresh, authentic voic...
