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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre - Paperback

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by Richard Beadle (Editor), Alan J. Fletcher (Editor)The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the...

Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Paperback

$78.03

by Stephen J. Bottoms (Author)This is the first detailed study of one of the most important plays in contemporary theater. In this fascinating look at the modern stage, Stephen Bottoms draws on original archival material and sources including an exclusive interview with Edward Albee. The Introduction considers the text of the play itself; part one provides a survey of the major productions from 1962 to 1999, including the film. Part two examines shifting critical responses to the play and the...

The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson - Paperback

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by Christopher Bigsby (Author)One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists of their own drama and evidence of a vital and compelling community. Decade by decade, he told the story of a people with a distinctive history who forged their own fu...

The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard - Hardcover

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by Katherine E. Kelly (Editor)This collection of fifteen essays offers a guide to the work of Tom Stoppard and addresses all of his major work. It provides insights into the recent plays, Arcadia and Invention of Love, as well as the first extended examination of his work for the screen, including a discussion of his coauthored, academy award-winning screenplay Shakespeare in Love. Photographs from key productions, a biography and chronology complete the volume and prepare the reader for futu...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Robert Kean Turner (Editor), Patricia Tatspaugh (Editor)Since the late twentieth century, when scholarly attention began to focus on sexuality, collaboration and Shakespeare's late plays, The Two Noble Kinsmen has become an essential script. Turner and Tatspaugh's edition presents a strong case for taking the play more seriously now than ever before. A lively introduction discusses Shakespeare's craftsmanship in adapting a medieval tale for the Jacobean stage,...

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by Lee Bliss (Editor), Bridget Escolme (Contribution by)The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Coriolanus, edited by Lee Bliss, provides a thorough reconsideration of what was probably Shakespeare's las...

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy - Paperback

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by Emma Smith (Editor), Garrett A. Sullivan Jr (Editor)Written by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of topics crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical and frequently taught texts. Part I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and, uniquely, discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with Shakespeare's generic distinctiveness as well...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Janis Lull (Editor)The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of King Richard III, Janis Lull has added a new section to her introduction, in which she focuses on contempor...

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre - Hardcover

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by Kerry Powell (Editor)This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theater. An introduction surveying the historical period of the theater is followed by an essay contextualizing it within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance and production, (including music, actors, stagecraft and audience), plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Types of performances (such as comedy, fa...

The Cambridge Introduction to English Theatre, 1660-1900 - Hardcover

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by Peter Thomson (Author)This 2006 introduction aims to share with readers the author's enjoyment of the turbulent 240-year history of a theatre that tried, often against the odds, to be 'modern'. In each of its five parts, it deals successively with history and cultural context, with the plays and the actors who caught the imagination of their era. Peter Thomson's text, always approachable, is enriched by quotations and carefully selected illustrations that capture 'the spirit of the age' un...

Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication - Hardcover

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by Zachary Lesser (Author)Shifting our focus from author to publisher and from first performance to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a new vantage point on the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and their contemporaries. Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication re-imagines the reception and meaning of plays by reading them through the eyes of their earliest publishers. Since success in the book trade required specialization, locating a play within its publisher's output allo...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Andrew Gurr (Editor)For this updated edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated war play, Andrew Gurr has added a new section to his introduction which considers recent critical and stage interpretations. He analyzes the play's double vision of Henry as both military hero and self-seeking individual and demonstrates how the patriotic declarations of the Chorus are contradicted by the play's action. Gurr analyzes the play's more controversial sequences in the con...

The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama - Paperback

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by Eric Csapo (Editor), Margaret C. Miller (Editor)This volume is the most thorough examination on the origins of Greek drama to date. It brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars in a variety of fields, including classical archaeology, iconography, cultural history, theatre history, philosophy, and religion. Though it primarily focuses up on ancient Greece, the volume includes comparative studies of ritual drama from ancient Egypt, Japan, and medieval Europe. Collectively, the ess...

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies - Hardcover

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by Janette Dillon (Author)Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a ...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), G. Blakemore Evans (Editor), Stephen Orgel (Introduction by)The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of The Sonnets, Stephen Orgel has written a new introduction to Shake...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), A. R. Braunmuller (Editor)The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Macbeth provides a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. In his introduct...

The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson - Hardcover

$154.53

Ncs: Midsummer Night Dream 2ed - Hardcover

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by William Shakespeare (Author), R. A. Foakes (Editor)A new section of the Introduction to this updated edition considers important professional theater productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years. The Reading List has been revised and augmented to reflect the scope of the revised edition. First Edition Hb (1985): 0-521-22194-3 First Edition Pb (1985): 0-521-29389-8 Number of Pages: 168 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN Publication Date...

Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard - Paperback

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by Matthew Roudané (Editor)Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed "on" and "off" Broadway as well as in all the major regional American theaters. They are also widely performed and studied in Europe, particularly in Britain, Germany and France, finding both a popular and a scholarly audience. This companion explores the various aspects of Shepard's career, providing fascinating first-hand accounts and substanti...

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by Margreta de Grazia (Author)'Hamlet' without Hamlet sets out to counter the modern tradition of abstracting the character Hamlet from the play. For over two centuries, Hamlet has been valued as the icon of consciousness: but only by ignoring the hard fact of his dispossession. By admitting that premise, this book brings the play to life around man's relation to land, from graves to estate to empire. Key preoccupations are thereby released, including the gendered imperatives of genealogy, an...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Christine Dymkowski (Editor)This edition of The Tempest is the first dedicated to its stage history. Dymkowski examines four centuries of mainstream, regional, and fringe productions in Britain, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stagings, and recent Australian, Canadian, French, Italian, and Japanese productions. She analyzes the cultural significance of changes in theatrical representation, eg. when and why Caliban began to be represented by a black ...

The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre - Hardcover

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by Janette Dillon (Author)This introduction offers an overview of early English theatre from the earliest recorded vernacular texts in the late medieval period to the closing of the theatres in 1642. Where most existing studies focus on one side or the other of an imaginary boundary between 'medieval' and 'early modern' or 'Renaissance' drama, this book examines the theatre of nearly three centuries in a way that highlights continuities as well as divisions. The study is organised into five s...

Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television - Paperback

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by Brenda Murphy (Author)Congressional Theatre is the first book to identify and examine the significant body of plays, films, and teleplays that responded to the actions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the "show business hearings" it held between 1947 and 1960. Among the writers discussed are Arthur Miller, Bertolt Brecht, Lillian Hellman, Maxwell Anderson, Elia Kazan, Barrie Stavis, Herman Wouk, Eric Bentley, Saul Levitt, Budd Schulberg, Carl Foreman, Abraham Polonsk...

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by Anna Deavere Smith (Author)"Smith's powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope." --The Village Voice Anna Deavere Smith's extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. "One of her most ambitious and powerful works on how matters of race continue to divide and enslave the nation" (Variety). Smith renders a host of figures w...

The Singing Soul: A Chinese Play in One Act - Paperback

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by Emma Henriette Schermeyer Backus Backus (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This ...

Pepita Reyes Comedia En Dos Actos - Paperback

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by Serafin R. Joaqin a. Varez Quintero (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work...

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by Gregorio Martinez Sierra (Author), John Garrett Underhill (Author) Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 06, 2016

Dr. Ride's American Beach House - Paperback

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by Liza Birkenmeier (Author)It's 1983, the evening before Dr. Sally Ride's historic space flight. Hundreds of miles from the launch, a group of women with passionate opinions and noopportunities sit on a sweltering St. Louis rooftop watching life pass them by. Their uncharted desires bump up against American norms of sex and power in this intimate snapshot of queer anti-heroines. Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 14, 2022

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 45th Series - Paperback

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by Krista Knight (Author)One of Manhattan's most established play festivals, the Samuel French Off OffBroadway Short Play Festival fosters the work of emerging writers, giving themthe exposure of publication and representation. The 45th collection includes: Slow Jam - Following their sex therapist's advice, Jamie and Charlie try to setthe mood as they practice staying present during physical intimacy. A tenderlyclumsy attempt to reclaim sexual connection in the wake of trauma.The Falling Man ...

Shakespeare and his Love: A Play in Four Acts and an Epilogue - Hardcover

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by Frank Harris (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domai...

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by T. S. Eliot (Author)A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. "An authentic modern masterpiece" (New York Post). "Eliot really does portray real-seeming characters. He cuts down his poetic effects to the minimum, and then finally rewards us with most beautiful poetry" (Stephen Spender). Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 18, 1964

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Paperback

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by Elsa Rael (Author), Michael Valenti (Music Engraved by)This sprightly version of Snow White ran over three years at New York's Theatre East, a record unprecedented in the history of children's theatre. It has played to the delight of children of all ages from Toronto to Los Angeles to Miami. The exceptional score and the caring relatedness of the young girl and the dwarfs distinguishes this version. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2023