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Character Studies eBook Series

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  • Waiting for Godot

    Character Studies

    by Dr Paul Lawley ...
    Series series Character Studies
    This book provides an introductory study of Beckett'smost famous play, dealing not just with the four maincharacters but with the pairings that they form, andthe implications of these pairings for the very idea ofcharacter in the play. After locating Godot within thecontext of Beckett's work, Lawley discusses some ofthe play's puzzles and difficulties-including theabsent "fifth character", Godot ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Mayenburg: Three Plays

    by Marius von Mayenburg ...
    Translated by Maja Zade ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Eldorado: Anton’s got it made: dream house, artistic wife, baby on the way. And, as the smoke rises from another city saved by coalition bombs, there’s a fortune to be made rebuilding the wreckage. So what’s he doing forging his boss’s signature? And why has his wife crushed her hands under the piano lid? Painfully funny scenes of married bliss in meltdown and the insistent presence, on their ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Long Day's Journey Into Night

    Critical Edition

    by Eugene O'Neill ...
    Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged five wars against African states with the intent of destroying their military might and political independence and unifying southern Africa under imperial control. This is the first work to tell the story of this cluster of conflicts as a single whole and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

    Edited by John Russell Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Actors’ Shakespeare is a window onto how today’s actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare’s plays.The process of acting is notoriously hard to document, but this volume reaches behind famous performances to examine the actors’ craft, their development and how they engage with playtexts. Each chapter relies upon privilieged access to its ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Script Analysis for Theatre

    Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production

    by Professor Robert Knopf ...
    Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emerging theatre artists with the tools, skills and a shared language to analyze play scripts, communicate about them, and collaborate with others on stage productions. Based largely on concepts derived from Stanislavski's system of acting and method acting, the book focuses on action ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

    Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama

    by Kristen Poole ...
    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 the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • That Last Pow-Wow

    by That Native Thomas, Steven Paul Judd ...
    Sparkling with magical realism, this book follows nine seemingly separate stories that dovetail in an unexpected and profound climax. It begins with a mysterious pow-wow to be held inside a colossal tipi, 200-feet tall and 3-miles wide, which suddenly appears on the outskirts of a town that has never hosted a pow-wow. Advertising fliers blanket the area and all of Indian country, billing itself as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Octagon

    by Ms Kristiana Rae Colón ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Some poems are better written in flesh . . .After Wall Street and Tahrir Square, after ISIS and the NSA, after Ferguson and Eric Garner: here come the poets.In a downtown poetry slam with a place on the team to be won, eight young poets prepare to do battle. But backstage it's all kicking off with love triangles, families to feed and wounds to rip open. And in the end, is it about winning – or ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Abraham

    by Ken Jackson ...
    In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare’s early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford’s attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry 6, Hubert’s providentially thwarted murder of Arthur in King John, and Aaron the Moor’s surprising decision ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Doctor Faustus

    A critical guide

    Edited by Professor Sara Munson Deats ...
    Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe's most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arousing violent critical controversy.This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, surveying notable stage productions from its initial performance in 1594 to the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Queer Mythologies

    The Original Stageplays of Pam Gems

    by Dimple Godiwala ...
    This book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title 'Queer Mythologies'. Pam Gems has written over 25 plays, and has not had adequate detailed analysis of her plays to date. She is a popular playwright produced often at the West End and has a widespread appeal by being on the pulse of cultural iconology. Gems writes strong central characters for both male and female actors, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Medieval Craft

    Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage

    by Kurt A. Schreyer ...
    In Shakespeare's Medieval Craft**, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare's plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays.** Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare's connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century ... Read more

    $38.69 USD