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by Leo Strauss (Author)In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy, and that poetry emerges as an autonomous wisdom capable of rivaling philosophy. "Strauss gives us an impressive addition to his life's work-the recovery of the Great Tradition in political philosophy. The...

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by J. Bak (Author)This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it.Author BiographyJOHN S. BAK is Professor of American Studies at the Université de Lorraine, France. His previous books on Tennessee Williams include Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities (2010) and New Selected Essays: ...

Shakespeare and Genre: From Early Modern Inheritances to Postmodern Legacies - Hardcover

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by A. Guneratne (Author)Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work. Contributors probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions. In this sense, the volume proposes to read Shakespeare through genre and, just as importantly, read genre through Shakespeare.Author BiographyANTHONY GUNERATNEAssociate Professor of Communication at Florida Atlantic University, USA. Number of Pages: 314 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN Illustrated...

The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange - Hardcover

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by Vicky Angelaki (Author)This book rigorously examines the work of leading contemporary playwright Martin Crimp. It examines his plays, adaptations, translations and versions, treats them as texts and performance events and argues that their challenge to audiences derives from their 'making strange': producing theatrical innovation, thus rendering the familiar unfamiliar.Author BiographyVICKY ANGELAKI is Lecturer in Drama at the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham,...

Experimental Irish Theatre: After W.B. Yeats - Hardcover

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by I. Walsh (Author)This book examines experimental Irish theatre that ran counter to the naturalistic 'peasant' drama synonymous with Irish playwriting. Focusing on four marginalised playwrights after Yeats, it charts a tradition linking the experimentation of the early Irish theatre movement with the innovation of contemporary Irish and international drama.Author BiographyIAN R. WALSH Graduate of University College Dublin, Ireland, where he completed his doctoral research and where he is no...

Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter - Hardcover

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by M. Bennett (Author)Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century.Author BiographyMichael Y. Bennett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA, where he teaches courses on modern drama...

Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos - Hardcover

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by T. Fahy (Author)Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimentalAuthor BiographyTHOMAS FAHY Director of the American Studies Program and Associate Professor of English at Long Island University, USA. Numbe...

Shakespeare's Speculative Art - Hardcover

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by M. Hunt (Author)This is the first book-length analysis of Shakespeare s depiction of specula (mirrors) to reveal the literal and allegorical functions of mirrors in the playwright s art and thought. Adding a new dimension to the plays Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Henry the Fifth, Love s Labor s Lost, A Midsummer Night s Dream, and All s Well That Ends Well, Maurice A. Hunt also references mirrors in a wide range of external sources, from the Bible to demonic p...

Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre - Hardcover

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by A. Sidiropoulou (Author)A historical, theoretical, and comparative study of the emergence of the director-as-author phenomenon, posing questions of authorship and redefining the relationship between 'playwright' and the director-playwright.Author BiographyAvra Sidiropoulou is Lecturer at the graduate Theatre Studies program of the Open University of Cyprus. Number of Pages: 217 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 06, 2011

A Sustainable Theatre: Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow - Hardcover

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by B. Witham (Author)Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created by Jasper Deeter's idealistic and determined pursuit of 'truth and beauty.'Author BiographyBarry B. Witham is Professor Emeritus of Theatre at the University of Washington, USA. Number of Pages: 185 Dimens...

Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare - Hardcover

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by E. Gajowski (Editor)This collection of essays by an international group of prominent scholars explores, for the first time, the implications of presentism for issues of sexual orientation and gender in Shakespeare's texts. It offers crucial insights into our present professional, theoretical, political, and social moment, as well as readings of particular texts.Author BiographyLINDA CHARNES is Professor of English and West European Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA DOUGLAS E....

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by D. Kehler (Author)Shakespeare s Widows moves thirty-one characters appearing in twenty plays to center stage. Through nuanced analyses, grounded in the widows material circumstances, Kehler uncovers the plays negotiations between the opposed poles of residual Catholic precept and Protestant practice - between celibacy and remarriage. Reading from a feminist materialist perspective, this book argues that Shakespeare s insights into the political and economic pressures the widows face allow ...

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by Fiona Shaw (Author), Lionel Pilkington (Author)What is the significance of theatre and performance within Irish culture and history? How do we understand the impact and political potential of Irish theatre? This innovative survey of theatre in Ireland covers a range of drama and performance, from the 17th century to the present. Expanding the field of Irish theatre to include mumming, wake games, prison protests and theatre riots, the book argues that Ireland's longstanding association wit...

Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama: Unchaste Signification - Hardcover

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by M. Fahey (Author)Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello, Titus Andronicus, King Henry IV Part 1, Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest.Author BiographyMARIA FAHEY is Chair of English at Friends Seminary in New York, USA. She has presented her work on Shakespeare and Spenser at conferences of the Modern Language Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, the Interna...

Modern Armenian Drama: An Anthology - Hardcover

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by Nishan Parlakian (Author), S. Peter Cowe (Editor)Available in English for the first time, Modern Armenian Drama presents seven classic works from the Armenian stage. Spanning over a century (1871-1992), the plays explore such diverse themes science and religion, socioeconomic injustice, women's emancipation, and political reform through the medium of all the major European dramatic genres. Nishan Parlakian and S. Peter Cowe provide a comprehensive introduction to the history of Armenian dr...

Twenty Plays of the Nō Theatre - Paperback

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by Donald Keene (Editor), Royall Tyler (Contribution by), Fukami Tanrō (Illustrator) -- The New York Times Book Review Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.15 x 5.99 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 22, 1970

My Friend Hitler: And Other Plays - Paperback

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by Yukio Mishima (Author), Hiroaki Sato (Translator)Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas--two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, "I started writing dramas just as water flows toward a lower place. In me, the topography of dramas seems to be situated far below that of novels. It seems to be ...

Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett - Hardcover

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by Christoph Menke (Author), James Phillips (Translator)Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age after tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes this modernist prejudice by arguing that tragedy remains alive in the present in the distinctively new form of the playful, ironic, and self-cons...

The Major Plays of Chikamatsu - Paperback

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by Donald Keene (Translator)Author BiographyDonald Keene, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, has written, edited, or translated more than thirty books, many of them published by Columbia University Press. Keene has received numerous honors in both the United States and Japan, and was recently elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Number of Pages: 485 Dimensions: 1.07 x 9.19 x 5.87 IN Publication Date: November 20, 1990

A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance - Paperback

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by Northrop Frye (Author), Stanley Cavell (Foreword by)Frye maintains that Shakespeare's comedy is widely misunderstood and underestimated, and that the four romances-- Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest--are the inevitable culmination of the poet's career.Back JacketIn A Natural Perspective, distinguished critic Northrop Frye maintains that Shakespeare's comedy is widely misunderstood and underestimated, and that the four romances - Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale...

A New History of Early English Drama - Paperback

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by John Cox (Editor), David Scott Kastan (Editor), Stephen Greenblatt (Foreword by)For many years the study of pre-seventeenth-century English drama was shaped largely by an understanding that everything written revolved around the individual author, either as part of the tradition that prepared the way for Shakespeare or as part of his legacy. Now twenty-five original essays by leading theorists and historians chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphas...

Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays - Paperback

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by Karen Brazell (Editor)This is a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance--noh, kyogen, kabuki, and bamrili puppet theater--in one comprehensive, authoritative volume. Organized by genre, each section features a rich selection of representative plays and explorations into each theatrical style and is prefaced by an illustrative essay covering a wide range of subjects, from stage direction to musical accompaniment. With classic and new translations of more than thirty ...

Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama - Hardcover

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by David Mamet (Author)What makes good drama? How does drama matter in our lives? In Three Uses of the Knife, one of America's most respected writers reminds us of the secret powers of the play. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, poet, essayist, and director, David Mamet celebrates the absolute necessity of drama--and the experience of great plays--in our lurching attempts to make sense of ourselves and our world. In three tightly woven essays of characteristic force and resona...

Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts - Paperback

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by Betsy Hulick (Translator), Angela Brintlinger (Introduction by), Alexander Griboedov (Author)Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting social critique. Its protagonist, Alexander Chatsky, is an idealistic ironist, a complex Romantic figure who would be echoed in Russian literature fro...

Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays - Paperback

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by Andrei Platonov (Author), Robert Chandler (Editor), Robert Chandler (Translator)In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response...

Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview - Paperback

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by Linor Goralik (Author), Ainsley Morse (Editor), Maria Vassileva (Editor)One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose, is on full display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a play, and an interview, here translat...

Saint Joan of the Stockyards - Paperback

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by Bertolt Brecht (Author)"A major Brecht play in an outstanding translation with an expert and up-to-date preface." --Eric Bentley" . . . a fine translation. . . . Jones has handled Brecht's meters with great skill." --Choice Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.31 x 7.84 x 5.12 IN Publication Date: January 22, 1970

The Peony Pavilion, Second Edition: Mudan Ting - Paperback

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by Xianzu Tang (Author), Cyril Birch (Translator), Catherine Swatek (Introduction by)The celebrated English translation of this classic work of Chinese literature is now available in an updated paperback edition. Written in 1598 by Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion is one of literature's most memorable love stories and a masterpiece of Ming drama. Cyril Birch has captured all the elegance, lyricism, and subtle, earthy humor of this panoramic tale of romance and Chinese society. When Indiana Uni...

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by Kathy A. Perkins (Editor)"Fine reading and a superb resource." --Ms."Highly recommended." --Library Journal"Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context." --Choice"As well as being centered on the black experience, the plays in Black Female Playwrights are centered on the female experience." --Voice Literary Supplement"Perkins' anthology is valuable for a number of reasons . . . Perkins' book (w...

Modern Arabic Drama: An Anthology - Paperback

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by Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Editor), Roger Allen (Editor)Translations of twelve popular Arabic plays written and produced during the past thirty years introduce English readers to the vibrant theater scene of the Arab world. The plays--from Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia--reflect a variety of dramatic trends and styles and provide insights into contemporary social, cultural, and political currents. This well-prepared anthology represents a unique contribution to the ...

The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World - Paperback

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by Albert Wertheim (Author) "Albert Wertheim's study of Fugard's plays is both extremely insightful and beautifully written--a book that held my attention from beginning to end. It was a pleasure to read! Wertheim succeeds in communicating the greatness of Fugard as a playwright, actor, and director. He also conveys well what Fugard has learned from other plays and dramatists. Thus, he places Fugard's works not so much in a South African context as in a theatrical context. He also illuminates...

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by Ángel Ganivet (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 doma...