Point of View in Fiction and Film (American University Studies, #133)
by Charles Garard
Twenty-five years after the publication of A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz returns to his favorite subject for a third edition. Rewriting earlier entries, adding hundreds of new ones, Kostelanetz provides intelligence and information unavailable anywhere else, no less in print than online, about a wealth of subjects and individuals. Focused upon what is truly innovative and excellent, he ranges widely with insight and surprise, in...
Walter Hasenclever, der mit seinem engagierten, expressionistischem Drama -Der Sohn- in die Literaturgeschichte eingegangen ist, begann schon wenige Jahre spater mit der Produktion leichtgewichtiger, heiter-sachlicher, antiexpressionistischer Komodien. Diese Komodien sollen hier erstmals umfassend dargestellt werden. Die Autorin unternimmt den Versuch, die Wandlung Hasenclevers vom hervorstechenden Vertreter des literarischen Expressionismus zum Verfasser unterhaltsamer Komodien im Kontext der g...
Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance (Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies)
Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance investigates the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists from within the context of the European Renaissance and, more specifically, from within the context of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions, with reference to the impact and influence of classical, coeval, and contemporary culture. In contrast to previous studies, the critical perspectives pursued in this volume's tripartite organization take into account a wider European intert...
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...
Theatre Complet (Bibliotheque Du Theatre Francais, #46)
by Thomas Corneille
Perspectives on Shakespeare in Performance (Studies in Shakespeare, #11)
by J L Styan
The Right Time, The Right Place (Applause Books)
by Charles Wohlstetter
Pull up a ringside seat to the exultant pageant of New York's night life, commerce and scoiety, from the Cotton Club to Wall Street to Broadway. Charles Wohlsetter was a young acolyte to George Gershwin, Bernard Baruch, Abe Burrows, J. Paul Getty and George S. Kaufman. He was admitted as a junior member of the Algonquin Round Table with Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Franklin P. Adams and Alexander Woollcott. His Algonquin cohorts would have enjoyed the wit and warmth of this fascinating memoi...
This brief introduction to attending and critiquing dramatic performances enhances the first-time theatre-goer's experience and appreciation of theatre as a living art.
