The Shoemakers Holiday (New Mermaids) (Revels Plays Companion Library)
by Thomas Dekker
Elizabethan comedy (1599) by Shakespeare's contemporary
Ben Jonson (Modern Critical Views S., Series 2) (Bloom's Major Dramatists)
A collection of fourteen critical essays on the works of the English dramatist and poet arranged in chronological order of publication.
Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle (Oxford English Monographs)
by Sophie Duncan
Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siecle performances of Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian drama for the first time, this book illuminates the vital ways in which fin-de-siecle Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian theatre culture conditioned each other. Actresses' mov...
Regine May discusses the use of drama as an intertext in the work of the 2nd century Latin author Apuleius, who wrote the only complete extant Latin novel, the Metamorphoses, in which a young man is turned into a donkey by magic. Apuleius uses drama, especially comedy, as a basic underlying texture, and invites his readers to use their knowledge of contemporary drama in interpreting the fate of his protagonist and the often comic or tragic situations in which he finds himself. May employs a clos...
Eight stories of animals struggling for their existence, based on the author's detailed observations, including the tales of Arnaux, a homing pigeon, Little Warhorse, a jack rabbit, and the Winnipeg Wolf.
Best known as the author of such plays as A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen is one of the most influential figures of modern drama. This book takes Ibsen as a case study for an exploration of early modernist theatre in theory and practice, in text and performance. Modern drama has its roots in the theatrical activity across Europe during the 1880s and 1890s-the period when Ibsen's plays were first being produced in England and France, often by avant-garde or experimental theatrical g...
War and Nation in the Theatre of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
by Simon Barker
This original study explores a vital aspect of early modern cultural history: the way that warfare is represented in the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The book contrasts the Tudor and Stuart prose that called for the establishment of a standing army in the name of nation, discipline and subjectivity, and the drama of the period that invited critique of this imperative. Barker examines contemporary dramatic texts both for their radical position on war and, in the case of the late...
The Irish Dramatic Movement gave to the world major playwrights such as Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, O'Casey and Beckett, while in more recent times the international stage has come to appreciate the talents of a new generation of irish playwrights, from Brian Field to sebastian Barry and Marina Carr. In addition, since 1969, the drama of Northern Ireland, on and off the stage, has claimed world-wide attention. Preoccupied with questions of identity and national self-realisation, it was only afte...
The Plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
by Whitney Jennings Oates
Das Drama und seine Inszenierung (Medien in Forschung Und Unterricht. Serie A, #16)
British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue (British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue, VI)
by Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson
This is the third volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years between the English Reformation to the English Revolution. The catalogue covers every known play, extant and lost, including some which have never before been identified. It is based on a new, complete, and systematic survey of the whole of this body of work, and is presented in chronological order. Each entry contains comprehensive information abou...
This series aims to introduce the reader to major 19th and 20th century dramatists, movements and new forms of drama throughout the world. This book is an examination of the work of the most influential modern Irish dramatists to show how their work contributes to a different view of what constitutes "Irish" and "drama". The development of contemporary drama in the 1980s into a depiction of a new Irish reality has contributed to a new Irish drama aesthetic, sparked originally by plays such as Hu...
Alan Ayckbourn (Modern Dramatists) (Grove Press Modern Dramatists)
by Michael Billington
This book studies the plays by Alan Ayckbourn and includes a biography, a survey of the plays and detailed analysis of the most significant plays, along with discussion, where relevant, of their political, social, historical and theatrical context.
La Vie de M. de Moliere (Ed.1877) (Litterature)
by Jean-Leonor Le Gallois Grimarest
Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured, a full range of critical opinion is presented, along with a biographical sketch, a chronological list of the writer's major works and