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...
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...
It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically if confusedly alive. The river which flows through Tom Stoppard's play connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's early manhood where High Victorianism in art, literature and morality is being challenged by the Aesthetic movement and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst on to the London scene... The Invention of Love premiered at the National Theatre, L...
Tollerators and Con-Tollerators, A Comedy (Scottish Poetry Reprints, #9)
by Archibald Pitcairne
Alexis Piron, 'L'antre de Trophonius' Et 'la Robe de Dissention, Ou Le Faux-Prodige' (Mhra Phoenix)
by Alexis Piron
"Francisco Nieva and Postmodernist Theatre" should engage with and advance the debate on the viability of postmodernist theatre in general by presenting the works of Francisco Nieva as a bona-fide postmodernist theatre formulated on avant-garde foundations.
Oeuvres de J.-B. Poquelin de Moliere. Tome 1 Vie de Moliere Par Voltaire (Litterature)
by Moliere
George Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman" (Modern Critical Interpretations S.)
