Point of View in Fiction and Film (American University Studies, #133)
by Charles Garard
Playwrights on Playmaking, and Other Studies of the Stage
by Brander Matthews
Wuthering Heights is the only published novel by Emily Bronte, written between October 1845 and June 1846[1] and published in July of the following year. It was not printed until December 1847, after the success of her sister Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. A posthumous second edition was edited by Charlotte. The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimatel...
Sleeping Trees at the Movies: Mafia? Western? Sci-Fi?
by Sleeping Trees
From 2014 to 2018, character comedy trio Sleeping Trees challenged themselves to bring the big screen to the stage, paying homage and reinventing gangster, western and sci-fi movies for audiences across the country. This book recounts how these shows were made, stories from when they were on tour, the trio’s unique approach to devising fringe comedy, as well as the original scripts of the three award-winning plays. Mafia? Sleeping Trees deliver their version of every gangster film they’ve ever...
One of these days, am I going to evaporate? Right here? Good Girl's girlhood is unfolding as an inquisitive game, but a mysterious tingling sensation heralds her sexual awakening. Welcome to the 90s, where the only sex education is Madonna. A bold, provocative look at the darker side of being a good girl. Naomi Sheldon's engaging storytelling monologue originally premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 2017 where it was described as 'beautifully feminist and absolutely electric' by the Ed Frin...
Measure For Measure (Aperio Series: Loyola Humane Texts) (The Pelican Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare
A timeless tale from the immortal Bard--revised and repackaged!
The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. This text has been rejected by scholars as a "bad Quarto" - corrupt and pirated text printed without the permission of the playwright or his company. Nonetheless, it was the first version of the play to be published...
A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest for life.In The Room, Harold Pinter's first play, he reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character.Harold Pinter's latest play, Celebration, and his first play, The Room directed by the author himself, premièred as a double-bill at London's Al...
Il libro si presenta come un lavoro monografico sulla produzione drammatica dell'autore tedesco Ernst Toller, con particolare riguardo alle opere nelle quali lo scrittore si confronta con il tema della rivoluzione, fondamentale per la storia della Germania nel periodo fra le due guerre mondiali. Il volume segue l'evoluzione del pensiero politico dell'autore, che alla luce degli avvenimenti del Novembre 1919, anno della Rivoluzione Tedesca, si interroga sulle modalita e sulla legittimita della ri...
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searchi...
It's a story that has a beginning, a middle, but as yet, no end. John McGrath's winding, furious, innovative play tracks the economic history and exploitation of the Scottish Highlands from the post-Rebellion suppression of the clans to the story of the Clearances: in the 19th century, aristocratic landowners discovered the profitability of sheep farming, and forced a mass emigration of rural Highlanders, burning their houses in order to make way for the Cheviot sheep. Described by the playwrigh...
The off-off Broadway movement of the 1960s remains one of the most dynamic periods in the history of American theatre. Filled with one-on-one interviews and entertaining anecdotes, "Off-Off Broadway Explosion" explores the backstage stories and captivating history of the unusual venues and legendary personalities of the era. Readers will discover intimate accounts of innovative Beat Generation playwrights who transformed the New York stage, such as Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Amir...
The New Yorker has called Terrence McNally "one of our most original and audacious dramatists and one of our funniest." Now the four-time Tony Award-winning author of such classics as Love! Valor! Compassion! and Master Class returns with two heartrending and humorous plays about friendship, companionship, and love. In Some Men, Terrence McNally takes us on a multigenerational journey of gay life in America. In interwoven vignettes, McNally uses the same characters at different points in their l...
You Already Know: A Playwright's Guide to Trusting Yourself; Practical Exercises to Open the Channel
by Aaron Henne
Two migrants both alike in dignity in this city where we lay our dreams.Two men arrive in London looking for Shakespeare. They say they are from Balaika, Africa. They have passed through fire to be here and are determined for the great man to hear their stories.Alas, Shakespeare is dead! However, his theatre still stands. Soon they find themselves swept up and placed on stage in front of an expectant audience. Fame, fortune and love awaits ... But, can they survive the increasingly hostile envir...