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“walter puchner”

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  • Greek Theatre between Antiquity and Independence

    A History of Reinvention from the Third Century BC to 1830

    by Walter Puchner, Andrew White ...
    This first general history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of the Modern Greek state in 1830 marks a radical departure from traditional methods of historiography. We like to think of history unfolding continuously, in an evolutionary form, but the story of Greek theatre is rather different. After traditional theatre ended in the sixth and seventh centuries, no traditional ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

    by Oscar Wilde, Elise Bruhl, Michael Gamer ...
    A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde’s wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best.Subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Written, according to Wilde, “by a butterfly for ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson

    Edited by Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and masque; in poetry, epigram, epistle and lyric; in prose, literary criticism and English grammar. He became the most visible poet of his age, honored more than even William Shakespeare, and his dramatic ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shakespearean Star

    Laurence Olivier and National Cinema

    by Jennifer Barnes ...
    Laurence Olivier was one of the best-known and most pioneering actor-directors of Shakespeare on screen. This is the first study to provide a comprehensive analysis of Olivier's Shakespearean feature films and his unique Shakespearean star image. Through an examination of Olivier's unmade film Macbeth, as well as his adaptations of Shakespeare's Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III, Jennifer Barnes ... Read more

    $103.99 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

    $24.99 USD

  • Women Beware Women

    by Thomas Middleton ...
    Series series New Mermaids
    One of the great Renaissance playwrights, Middleton wrote tragedies essentially different from either Marlowe's or Shakespeare's, being wittier than the former and more grittily ironic than the latter. The genre of 'citizen tragedy' came into its own in the eighteenth century, but Middleton can claim to have created it: Bianca, wife of a middling commercial agent, arouses the lust of the Duke of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Plays, 1996-2000 (Maxwell)

    by Richard Maxwell ...
    * New play Joe opens 8/02 at NYC's P.S. 122 * Directing Henry IV at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Spring 2003 18 plays in the collection Performed work all over the world as well as many numerous performance spaces throughout the U.S ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Theater of Experiment

    Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by Al Coppola ...
    The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science by analyzing how eighteenth-century science was "staged" in a double sense. On the one hand, this study analyzes science in performance: the way that science and scientists ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • Theatre of Real People

    Diverse Encounters at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond

    by Ulrike Garde, Meg Mumford ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Theatre of Real People offers fresh perspectives on the current fascination with putting people on stage who present aspects of their own lives and who are not usually trained actors. After providing a history of this mode of performance, and theoretical frameworks for its analysis, the book focuses on work developed by seminal practitioners at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) production house. It ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Henrik Ibsen

    Edited by Michael Egan ...
    This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • York Notes Companions: The Long 18th Century

    by Penny Pritchard ...

    $10.99 USD

  • Shakespeare Survey: Volume 65, A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Edited by Peter Holland ...
    Series Book 65 - Shakespeare Survey
    Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major ... Read more

    $38.99 USD