Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U. S. and beyond. The Theatre of David Henry Hwang provides an in-depth study of his plays and other works in theatre. Beginning with his "Trilogy of Chinese America", Esther Kim Lee traces all major phases of his playwriting career. Utilizing historical and dramaturgical analysis, she argues that Hwang has developed a unique style of meta-theatricality and irony i...
Drawing on recent developments in critical and psychoanalytic theory, this feminist study offers a radical reading of gender in Renaissance tragedy by looking at constructions of the category "woman" through language, ideology and subjectivity, thereby challenging the notion that key heroines of 16th- and 17th-century drama can be seen as representations of Renaissance womankind.
Rebeck in an Hour (Playwrights in an Hour)
by Associate Professor in Theater Stacy Wolf
Christopher Marlowe at 450
There has never been a retrospective on Christopher Marlowe as comprehensive, complete and up-to-date in appraising the Marlovian landscape. Each chapter has been written by an eminent, international Marlovian scholar to determine what has been covered, what has not, and what scholarship and criticism will or might focus on next. The volume considers all of Marlowe's dramas and his poetry, including his translations, as well as the following special topics: Critical Approaches to Marlowe; Marlow...
Oeuvres de Moliere. Tome 1 l'Etourdi, Ou Les Contre-Temps (Litterature)
by Moliere
"Comedia" in the Age of Calderon (Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, v. 70, No. 1.)
A "festschrift" in honour of Sir Albert Sloman, Gilmour Professor of Spanish in the University of Liverpool (1953-62) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex (1962-87), this volume contains a lengthy introduction about Sloman and thirteen specialist contributions on themes concerning drama in the time of Spain's most famous Golden-Age playwright, Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Dramatists considered at length include Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Cubillo de Aragon, Jimenez de Enciso and Cald...
L'Elaboration Du Mythe de Soi Dans l'Oeuvre de Samuel Beckett (Faux Titre, #404)
by Solveig Hudhomme
Dans L'Elaboration du mythe de soi, Solveig Hudhomme demontre comment les oeuvres de Samuel Beckett construisent leur propre interiorite, lieu d'images et de mythes createurs. In L'Elaboration du mythe de soi Solveig Hudhomme highlights how Samuel Beckett's works build their own inner space, their own image and mythology.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Continuum Renaissance Drama) (Continuum Renaissance Drama Guides)
A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied comedies. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions, TV, and film versions as well as opera and ballet. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further...
Designed and written for students, this four-volume set introduces the genres and major works that constitute Shakespeare's formidable canon. Whether readers are beginning with one of the tragedies, a history play, a comedy, or the poems, they will find a full volume devoted to each genre, with thorough analysis of the major works within. The set contains 77 essays, all written by experts, thus offering a guide to the perplexed. Each analytical essay is written with expertise and insight to guid...
REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Merchant of Venice and a biography of William Shakespeare. Places the events of the play in historical context and discusses each act in detail. Includes study questions and answers along with topics for papers and sample outlines.
Michael Kohlhaas (Art of the Novel) (Klassiker Der Weltliteratur, #36)
by Heinrich von Kleist
"You can send me to the scaffold, but I can make you suffer, and I mean to." Based on actual historic events, this thrilling saga of violence and retribution bridged the gap between medieval and modern literature, and speaks so profoundly to the contemporary spirit that it has been the basis of numerous plays, movies, and novels. It has become, in fact, a classic tale: that of the honorable man forced to take the law into his own hands. In this incendiary prototype, a minor tax dispute...
The Oxford Handbook of American Drama (Oxford Handbooks)
by Heather S. Nathans
This ambitious collection of essays covers American drama in its entirety—from its inception in colonial America, through its many incarnations in the nineteenth century, to its zenith in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Differentiating itself from other treatments of the genre, the handbook will not only highlight the major works of the twentieth century, but will also attend carefully to earlier works and contexts. The collection's first part will explore the genre's eighteent...
This is the drama of a king too fine and dandy to be an effective ruler. Faulted with incompetence and hoodwinked by his court, he loses his kingdom as the result of following his pleasure's course.
The Persians, Aeschylus' earliest surviving tragedy, holds a fascination both for readers of Greek drama and Greek history. Not only is it the earliest existing play in the Western tradition, it is drawn directly from the playwright's own experiences at the battle of Salamis, making it the only account of the Persian Wars composed by an eyewitness. And as pure tragedy, it is a masterpiece. Aeschylus tells the story of the war from the Persian point of view, and his pride in the great victory...
The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
by Kristen Deiter
The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c.1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. While Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I fashioned the Tower as a showplace of royal authority, magnificence, and entertainment, many playwrights of the time revealed the Tower's instability as a royal symbol and represented it, instead, as...