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  • The Story of Drama

    Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Greeks to the Present

    by Dr Gary Day ...
    Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this book offers readers an exceptional study of the development of both genres, grounded in analysis of landmark plays and their context. It argues that sacrifice is central to both genres, and demonstrates how it provides a key to understanding the grand sweep of Western drama. For students of literature and ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • Lorca - a Dream of Life

    by Leslie Stainton ...
    With a rare blend of grace, warmth, and scholarship, Leslie Stainton raises the stakes of our appreciation for the greatest of Spain's modern poets, Federico Garca Lorca. Drawing on fourteen years of research; more than a hundred letters unknown to prior biographers; exclusive interviews with Lorca's friends, family, and acquaintances; and dozens of newly discovered archival material, Stainton has ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Rope and Other Plays

    by Plautus ...
    Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Molière and many others. In The Ghost, a dissolute ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Artaud's Theatre Of Cruelty

    by Albert Bermel ...
    Series series Plays and Playwrights
    The definitive guide to the life and work of Antonin ArtaudAntonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty is one of the most vital forces in world theatre, yet the concept is one of the most frequently misunderstood. In this incisive study, Albert Bermel looks closely at Artaud's work as a playwright, director, actor, designer, producer and critic, and provides a fresh insight into his ideas, innovations and ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction

    by Michael Scott ...
    Your complete introduction to ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare has been hailed as one of the greatest thinkers of all time, one of the world's finest artists, poets and dramatists.Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction introduces and explains the plays by looking at how they work, taking you on a journey through the genres of comedy, history and tragedy. The best known and most popular plays are ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Magical Muse

    Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams

    by Philip C. Kolin, Albert J. Devlin, Jeffrey B. Loomis, Robert Siegel, Nancy M. Tischler, Allean Hale, Barbara M. Harris, Michael Paller, Dan Sullivan, George W. Crandell, W. Kenneth Holditch, Jackson R. Bryer ...
    In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal to southern characters and settings. His major plays, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie to A ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Another Place

    by DC Moore ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    It's forty million miles. Two and a half years, yeah? It takes a radiowave - right? Travelling at the speed of fucking light, 13 minutes, to get back from Mars. So . . . if anything goes wrong - anything at all - out there . . . they're really . . . they're on their own, you know?When Earth is the loneliest planet, where else is there to go?Paul is a specialist in cognitive behaviour, tasked with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Philosophers and Thespians

    Thinking Performance

    by Freddie Rokem ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking at four direct encounters between philosophers and thespians, beginning with Socrates, Agathon, and Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium and ending with a discussion between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Harvey Plays: 2

    Guiding Star; Hushabye Mountain; Out in the Open

    by Mr Jonathan Harvey ...
    Series Book 2 - Contemporary Dramatists
    A new collection of the latest plays from the writer of Beautiful Thing and TV's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme"JONATHAN HARVEY has an athletic and fantastical imagination, bawdy, funny and joyously blasphemous" Sunday TimesGUIDING STAR: "Dry, funny, truthful, the writing buzzes with graceful perception and Scouse sarcasm...one of the best new plays of the year" Daily MailHUSHABYE MOUNTAIN: "You would have ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Romantic Tragedies

    The Dark Employments of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley

    by Reeve Parker ...
    Series Book 87 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were set in medieval Britain and early modern Spain to avoid the Lord Chamberlain's censorship. Drury Lane rejected both, but fifteen years later Coleridge's revision, Remorse, had spectacular success there, inspiring Shelley's 1819 Roman tragedy, The Cenci, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Regal Phantasm (Routledge Revivals)

    Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle

    by Christopher Pye ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship between theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare’s Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials, including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty, royal portraiture and representations of treason and punishment. Renaissance theater was far more than a vehicle for ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Play’S the Thing

    The Theatrical Collaboration of Clark Bowlen and Kathleen Keena, 1988–2012

    by Kathleen Keena ...
    The Play's the Thing: The Theatrical Collaboration of Clark Bowlen and Kathleen Keena, 1988-2012Kathleen KeenaiUniverse, 187 pages, (paperback) $17.95, 978-1-4917-6151-9(Reviewed: June 2015)The Play's the Thing is Kathleen Keena's theater diary starting at Manchester Community College in Connecticut, 1988, where she meets theater chair Clark Bowlen. They collaborate (and eventually marry) until ... Read more

    $3.99 USD