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  • Hermenegildo and the Jesuits

    Staging Sainthood in the Early Modern Period

    by Stefano Muneroni ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This bookexplores the cultural conditions that led to the emergence and proliferation of Saint Hermenegildo as a stage character in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It considers how this saint became a theatrical trope enabling the Society of Jesus to address religious and secular concerns of the post-Tridentine Church, and to discuss political issues such as the supremacy of the pope over ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Egil's Saga

    by Leifur Eiriksson ...
    Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. The saga recounts Egil's progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to avenge his father's exile from ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Death and the Dolce Vita

    The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s

    by Stephen Gundle ...
    "A brilliant, methodical investigation of a murder scandal that convulsed the Roman political and social establishment in the 1950s" ( Financial Times).On April 9 1953, twenty-one-year-old Wilma Montesi went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected public beach. Some said it was suicide; others, a tragic accident. But as the police ... Read more

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  • A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater

    by Graham Ley ...
    Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the original conditions of such productions in the age of Pericles.Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poetics

    by Aristotle ...
    Aristotle's 'Poetics' is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Pompeii

    An Archaeological Guide

    by Paul Wilkinson ...
    The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, miraculously preserved, from their layers of volcanic ash. Yet for all the fame and unique importance of the site, there is a surprising lack of a handy archaeological guide in English to reveal and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • New Theatre in Italy

    1963–2013

    by Valentina Valentini ...
    Translated by Thomas Haskell Simpson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms of performance that have emerged in the 21st Century. Starting in the Sixties, young artists and militants in Italy reacted to the violence in their streets and ruptures in the family unit that are now recognized as having been harbingers of the end of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland

    Edited by Gregory Hulsman, Caoimhe Whelan ...
    Series Book 4 - Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
    This collection offers a range of interdisciplinary viewpoints on the occupation of space and theories of place in Britain and Ireland throughout the medieval and early modern periods. It considers space in both its physical and abstract sense, exploring literature, history, art, manuscript studies, religion, geography and archaeology. The buildings and ruins still occupying our urban and rural ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Objects as Actors

    Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy

    by Melissa Mueller ...
    Objects as Actors charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items—theatrical props. In this book, Melissa Mueller ingeniously demonstrates the importance of objects in the staging and reception of Athenian tragedy.As Mueller shows, props such as weapons, ... Read more

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  • Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome

    Francesco Sperulo: Poet, Prelate, Soldier, Spy - Volume I

    by Paul Gwynne ...
    Series Book 2 - Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
    This book is also available as a set, together with Volume II.Please visit www.peterlang.com/view/product/84550Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome is the first full-length study of the life and works of Francesco Sperulo of Camerino (1463–1531). In a remarkable career during which the poet progressed from serving as a soldier of fortune in the service of Cesare Borgia to an Italian bishopric ... Read more

    $111.29 USD

  • The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy

    by Thomas Kohn ...
    The first-century Roman tragedies of Seneca, like all ancient drama, do not contain the sort of external stage directions that we are accustomed to today; nevertheless, a careful reading of the plays reveals such stage business as entrances, exits, setting, sound effects, emotions of the characters, etc. The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy teases out these dramaturgical elements in Seneca's work and ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy

    A Stage of Their Own

    by Daniela Cavallaro ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores an important moment in Italian women’s theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-1960s, authored for the most part by women and performed exclusively by women. Because they featured only female roles, they concentrated on aspects of specifically women’s experience, be it their spirituality, their future lives as wives and mothers, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD