The Wicked World (Dodo Press)
by William Schwenck Gilbert and W S Gilbert
Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness, a preoccupation suggesting widespread resentment of systemic unfairness - legal, economic, political and social. Revengers' precise equivalents - the father of two beheaded sons obliges his enemy to eat her two sons' hea...
L'Attualita di Pirandello
A dramatization of the Greek legend of Iphegenia, sacrificed by her father King Agamemnon to the goddess Artemis in order to free the becalmed Greek fleet in the port of Aulis. It is an eye witness account of Andreas, the soldier who guarded the royal tent that fateful day.
Shadow and Substance (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern)
by Jay Zysk
Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way of thinking about physical embodiment and textual interpretation in theological and dramatic contexts. Regardless of one's specific religious identity, to speak of the Euc...
Babes in the Wood (Acting Edition S.)
by John Crocker and Eric Gilder
This is a full length pantomime, entirely traditional with lots of humour and with its own original and delightful score by Eric Gilder which is available separately. The large number of both amateur and professional groups who present Crocker and Gilder pantomimes regularly every year is unmistakable proof of their success. Vocal score on sale.-Large flexible cast
Pierre Loti's Dramatic Works (Studies in French Literature, v. 30)
by Michael G. Lerner
Picture the young George Bernard Shaw spending long days in the Reading Room of the British Museum, pursuing a self-taught education, all the while longing for the green landscapes of his native Ireland. It is no coincidence that gardens and libraries often set the scene for Shaw's plays, yet scholars have seldom drawn attention to the fact until now. Exposing the subtle interplay of these two settings as a key pattern throughout Shaw's dramas, Shaw's Settings fills the need for a systematic st...