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  • Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue

    From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks

    by Ruby Cohn, Dr Daniela Caselli, Hannah Simpson ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    This book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American theatre.Published posthumously, this renowned theatre scholar's book considers English dramatic dialogue as exemplified in the verbal invention of particular plays. That invention is traced through ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Around the Absurd

    Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama

    Edited by Enoch Brater, Ruby Cohn ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    When Martin Esslin published The Theatre of the Absurd in 1961 he caught the pulse of Western drama as it burst into bold and surprising new forms after the Second World War. Around the Absurd is the first book to examine the history, impact, and legacy of that theater. In provocative essays by leading critics from both sides of the Atlantic (including Jan Kott, Herbert Blau, Katharine Worth, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

    Edited by Ruby Cohn ...
    Series series Casebooks Series
    This is a Bloomsbury Academic title. For our full Academic Catalogue, please visit https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/ ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Disjecta

    Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Series series Beckett, Samuel
    [Beckett] is a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition: and therefore one of the dozen or so writers those who are concerned with modern man in search of his soul should read.”-Stephen Spender, The New York TimesRenowned Beckett scholar Ruby Cohn has selected some of Beckett's criticisms, reviews, letters, and other unpublished materials that shed new light on his ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • A Beckett Canon

    by Ruby Cohn ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Theatre of the Absurd

    by Martin Esslin ...
    In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Invisible Forms

    A Guide to Literary Curiosities

    by Kevin Jackson ...
    A collection of essays about unacknowledged genres and curiosities of literature."This exuberant book is a cornucopia for bookworms." — The Sunday Times (UK)Dedications, titles, epigraphs, footnotes, prefaces, afterwords, indexes, these and other "invisible" literary necessities form the skeletons of many a book, yet these unacknowledged and unexamined forms abound in wisdom, curiosities, or ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What the Thunder Said

    How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern

    by Jed Rasula ...
    A rich cultural history of the creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpieceWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. “But,” as Jed Rasula writes, “The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Next Week, Swan Lake

    Reflections on Dance and Dances

    by Selma Jeanne Cohen ...
    An important book of essays on "dance and ideas about dance" ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pathos of Distance

    Affects of the Moderns

    by Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté ...
    Jean-Michel Rabaté uses Nietzsche's image of a “pathos of distance,” the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. Revealing overlooked connections between Nietzsche's and Benjamin's ideas of history and ethics, Rabaté provides an original genealogy for modernist thought, moving through ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The absurd in literature

    by Neil Cornwell ...
    Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary figures and selected works, before moving on to discuss four key writers: Daniil Kharms, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien.The absurd ... Read more

    $19.49 USD