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This Student Edition of Sarah Kane's seminal play Blasted features expert and helpful annotation and is an accessible guide for anyone studying or performing the play. This includes a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested reading, questions for further study and a review of performance history. In 1995 Sarah Kane's first full-length play Blasted...

I can't believe my own sister would come with this thievery and anarchy to my door. Tree and Ree Etienne are laying their mother to rest when an unwelcome arrival at the graveside intrudes on their grief. It's Bo, their troublesome estranged half-sister. To comfort her sisters Bo moves in for a while and things begin to look up. But cracks appear as childhood memories, deep resentments and long-put-away dreams come to the fore. Tensions build before erupting in a confrontation during which har...

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The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. This text has been rejected by scholars as a "bad Quarto" - corrupt and pirated text printed without the permission of the playwright or his company. Nonetheless, it was the first version of the play to be published...

Tom Stoppard's provocative new play spans the recent history of Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution - but from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock 'n' roll band came to symbolise resistance to the regime, and the British left, represented by a Communist philosopher at Cambridge. Rock 'n' Roll premiered at The Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2006.

This text edition is the third part on drama in the Klabund - Complete Works series. The series deals with the works of German author Klabund (1890, Poland -1928, Switzerland). This volume, focuses on Cromwell, Johann Fust, and Der Facher (Libretto). It forms an indispensable basis for any further involvement with the author and his plays.

"An exhilarating, multi-layered new play." The Guardian "Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work." Daily News "Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . . but McCraney's speech holds its own, locating poetry even in casual vernacular and again demonstrating his gift for simile and metaphor." The Village Voice The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the...

In this bold new way of looking at dramatic structure, Jim Linnell establishes the central role of emotional experience in the conception, execution, and reception of plays. Walking on Fire: The Shaping Force of Emotion in Writing Drama examines dramatic texts through the lens of human behavior to identify the joining of event and emotion in a narrative, defined by Linnell as emotional form. Effectively building on philosophy, psychology, and critical theory in ways useful to both scholars and p...

Il libro si presenta come un lavoro monografico sulla produzione drammatica dell'autore tedesco Ernst Toller, con particolare riguardo alle opere nelle quali lo scrittore si confronta con il tema della rivoluzione, fondamentale per la storia della Germania nel periodo fra le due guerre mondiali. Il volume segue l'evoluzione del pensiero politico dell'autore, che alla luce degli avvenimenti del Novembre 1919, anno della Rivoluzione Tedesca, si interroga sulle modalita e sulla legittimita della ri...