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by Robert Leach (Author)Now in a second edition, Theatre Studies: The Basics is a fully updated guide to the wonderful world of theatre. The practical and theoretical dimensions of theatre - from acting to audience - are woven together throughout to provide an integrated introduction to the study of drama, theatre and performance. Topics covered include: dramatic genres, from tragedy to political documentary theories of performance the history of the theatre in the West acting, di...

Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women - Paperback

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by Jeffrey Henderson (Author)These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest surviving portrayals of contemporary women in the European literary tradition. These plays provide a unique glimpse of women not only in their familiar domestic roles but also in relation to household and city, religion and government, war and peace, theater and festival, and, ...

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by Reid Matthias (Author)Son of a Butcher is book IV of the Amicable circle which continues the narrative of the small town of Amicable, Iowa. It details the story of Butcher's son, J.T., who possesses almost miraculous visual powers. With these, he notices, during his father's funeral, his Watcher. Intrigued by this newcomer to town, J.T. and his new best friend, Murgatroyd MacDonald, a young English immigrant, attempt to discover the identity of the Watcher and ultimately if his intensions ...

The Dramatic Works of John Tatham - Hardcover

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by John Tatham (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 domain...

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by Alan Reynolds Thompson (Author)This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1942. Number of Pages: 434 Dimensions: 1.13 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publica...

Luigi Pirandello, 1867 - 1936, 3rd Edition - Hardcover

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by Walter Starkie (Author)This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965. Number of Pages: 318 Dimensions: 0.88 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Dat...

Luigi Pirandello, 1867 - 1936, 3rd Edition - Paperback

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Storm Cloud Rising: The Truth Is Subjective - Hardcover

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by Rob Williams (Author)Based around actual events, Storm Cloud Rising follows the efforts of three dedicated Special Operations soldiers battling through a growing web of lies on the part of their superiors. Developed to work deep undercover, their mission was to find four terrorists operating on American soil who were partly responsible for 9/11 and prepare to bring them to justice, only to receive orders, eliminate without delay. The Storm Cloud team had in their hands a cell of ruthless p...

Hittaz: Get It Back In Blood - Paperback

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by Lou Garden Price Sr. (Author)When Mercenary, Joker Red, is double crossed by his cousin, Skeeter Dukes, he is left to serve years in prison with nothing other than thoughts of vengeance and money as fuel for survival. Coincidentally, the stage for both are set upon his release. Joker Red stumbles across his treacherous cousin at a strip club, murders him in the bathroom, and introduces himself to the club's star stripper, Uzenna Jade, immediately after.Joker Red falls for the stripper and...

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Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama - Paperback

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by Enoch Brater (Editor), Ruby Cohn (Editor)When Martin Esslin published The Theatre of the Absurd in 1961 he caught the pulse of Western drama as it burst into bold and surprising new forms after the Second World War. Around the Absurd is the first book to examine the history, impact, and legacy of that theater. In provocative essays by leading critics from both sides of the Atlantic (including Jan Kott, Herbert Blau, Katharine Worth, Theodore Shank, and Benedict Nightingale), this forum car...

Fuenteovejuna: A Dual-Language Book - Paperback

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by Lope De Vega (Author), Stanley Appelbaum (Editor)From the golden age of the Spanish theater comes this captivating seventeenth-century drama of peasantry defending their honor against oppression by a feudal lord. Based on a historical incident during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Fuenteovejuna takes its name from an Andalusian town in which the residents unite to enact justice when faced with vicious oppression.One of Spain's most highly esteemed and prolific playwrights, Lope de Ve...

The Stage and the Page: London's Whole Show in the Eighteenth-Century Theatre Volume 6 - Paperback

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by George Winchester Stone (Editor)This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981. Number of Pages: 262 Dimensions: 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN Publicatio...

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by John F. Michell (Author)Was the most famous poet and writer of all time a fraud and a plagiarist? Was Shakespeare the upstart crow described by Greene as strutting in borrowed feathers, or Jonson's Poet-Ape who patched plays together from others' work? These questions have been debated ever since the eighteenth century, when the writing styles of Marlowe and other playwrights were discerned in such plays as Titus Andronicus. The orthodox view is that the author of the works of Shakespeare ...

The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity - Hardcover

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by Irad Malkin (Author)This remarkably rich and multifaceted study of early Greek exploration makes an original contribution to current discussions of the encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks. Focusing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward after the Trojan War, Irad Malkin shows how these stories functioned to mediate encounters and conceptualize ethnicity and identity during the Archaic and Classical periods. S...

Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England Volume 4 - Paperback

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by Stephen Greenblatt (Author)Stephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process.Author BiographyStephen Greenblatt is The Class of 1932 Professor of English Lit...

The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas - Hardcover

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by Philip Lutgendorf (Author)The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text--the epic Ramcaritmanas--and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and beautifully illus...

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by George T. Wright (Author)This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language.Author BiographyGeorge T. Wright is Regents' Professor of English at the University of Minnesota and author of The Poet in the Poem ...

The Story of the Western Wing - Paperback

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by Shi-Fu Wang (Author), Stephen H. West (Introduction by), Wilt L. Idema (Introduction by)China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji, or The Story of the Western Wing, is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled popularity. The play has given rise to innumerable sequels, parodies, and rewritings; it has influenced countless later plays, shor...

Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus - Paperback

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by Plautus (Author), Amy Richlin (Translator), Amy Richlin (Introduction by)Still funny after two thousand years, the Roman playwright Plautus wrote around 200 B.C.E., a period when Rome was fighting neighbors on all fronts, including North Africa and the Near East. These three plays--originally written for a wartime audience of refugees, POWs, soldiers and veterans, exiles, immigrants, people newly enslaved in the wars, and citizens--tap into the mix of fear, loathing, and curiosity with whi...

Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s - Paperback

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by Patrick McGilligan (Editor)Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters in Backstory 5, focusing on the 1990s. The thirteen featured writers--Albert Brooks, Jean-Claude Carrière, Nora Ephron, Ronald Harwood, John Hughes, David Koepp, Richard LaGravenese, Barry Levinson, Eric Roth, John Sayles, Tom Stoppard, Barbara Turner, and Rudy Wurlitzer--are not confined to the 1990s, but their engrossing, detailed, and richly personal stories create, in McGill...

The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón - Paperback

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by Anthony J. Cascardi (Author)This is the first thorough study of Calder n in comparison with other important dramatists of the period: Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina in Spain, Racine and Corneille in France, and Shakespeare and Marlowe in England. Cascardi studies Calder n's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its philosophical guise as scepticism. He shows on the one hand Calder n's moral will to reject illusion and on the other his theatrical need to embrace it. Cascardi discusses p...

Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition: A Reading of Five Problem Plays - Paperback

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by Jean-Pierre Maquerlot (Author)This book contends that Shakespeare's so-called "problem plays" can be viewed as experiments in the Mannerist style. The plays reappraised here are Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure. Maquerlot reveals intriguing analogies between Shakespeare's plays and the structural ambiguity of certain Italian Mannerist paintings, establishing the relevance to drama of a concept imported from the field of visual a...

The Plays of Heinrich Von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions - Paperback

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by Seán Allan (Author)This is a new and accessible study of the plays of Kleist (1777-1811), an important and much-studied author whose work has been highly influential in contemporary German writing. Se n Allan examines Kleist's critique of the aspirations of both Enlightenment and Romantic metaphysics, and offers resolutions of a number of long-running controversies in Kleist criticism. The book contains summaries of the state of research on all the plays. All quotations are given in both G...

Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama - Paperback

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by Wendy Wall (Author)Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge conceptions of national identity. With a detailed account of household practices, this study interprets plays on the London stage in reference to the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources, Wall reveals that domesticity was represented as "familiar" as well as "exotic". She analyzes a wide range of plays including some now little-known as w...

Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics - Paperback

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by Lesley Sharpe (Author)In this important study, Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker, and provides detailed discussions of all his major works, including his essays on aesthetics. His works are viewed against the social, political and literary background of the late eighteenth century. Spanning a period from the late 1770s to 1805 they explore the insistent themes of the age - the loss of tradition and authority, the individual's claim to self-expre...

The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge - Hardcover

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by P. J. Mathews (Editor)John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1904. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-known plays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and The Playboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work The Aran Islands. The essays provide detailed and insightful analyses of individual texts, as w...

Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama - Paperback

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by Jeremy Lopez (Author)This book provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Focusing on the relationship between the repertory system and the conventions and content of the plays, Jeremy Lopez proposes that understanding the potential for theatrical failure (the way playwrights anticipated it and audiences responded to it) is crucial for understanding the way in which the drama succeeded on the stage. Nu...

The Tudor Play of Mind: Rhetorical Inquiry and the Development of Elizabethan Drama - Paperback

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by Joel B. Altman (Author)Contrary to the widespread assumption that Elizabethan drama grows out of an essentially homiletic tradition, The Tudor Play of Mind proposes that many important plays--including such diverse works as Gorboduc, Endimion, Tamburlaine, The Spanish Tragedy, Every Man in His Humour, and Bussy D'Ambois--are informed by the ancient rhetorical tradition of posing questions and arguing them in utramque partem emphasized in humanist education. This accounts for the complex a...

The Theatre Industry in Nineteenth-Century France - Paperback

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by Frederic William John Hemmings (Author)This is the first book to explore the history of French theater in the nineteenth century through its special role as an organized popular entertainment. Traditionally regarded as an elite art form, in post-Revolutionary France the stage began to be seen as an industry like any other and the theater became one of the few areas of employment where women were in demand as much as men. In this lively account, Hemmings examines how the theater world flour...

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by Diane J. Rayor (Editor), Diane J. Rayor (Translator)Sophocles' Antigone comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality. She provides an analytical introduction and comprehensive notes, and the edition includes an essay by director Karen Libman. Antigone begins after Oedipus and Jocasta's sons have killed each other in a battle over the kingship...

The Mind and Art of Calderón: Essays on the Comedias - Paperback

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by Alexander Augustine Parker (Author), Deborah Kong (Editor)Don Pedro Calder n de la Barca (1600-81) was, with Lope de Vega, the greatest exponent of Spanish Golden Age drama. Professor Parker's essays are the fruits of a highly distinguished career spanning forty-five years. They provide a wide-ranging survey of Calder n's secular, three-act plays (comedias) through detailed analyses of individual works. The themes found in the plays are studied in relation to the background of ideas in sev...