Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books
Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Experience of Love
Book SynopsisProfessor Kirsch presents an original interpretations of Shakespeare's five plays using theological and psychoanalytical ideas.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Othello; 3. Much Ado About Nothing; 4. Measure for Measure; 5. All's Well That Ends Well; 6. Cymbeline; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The School of Shakespeare The Influence of Shakespeare on English Drama 1600 42
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Cambridge University Press Persuasion in Greek Tragedy
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Cambridge University Press Dramatic Form in Shakespeare and the Jacobeans
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Cambridge University Press Divine Poetry and Drama in SixteenthCentury England
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Cambridge University Press Shakespearian Tragedy
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Cambridge University Press English Drama
Book SynopsisThese ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards were first published in 1977. There are essays on genres, on individual playwrights and on social conditions affecting the development of the drama. Together, the essays make a valuable contribution to the study of drama.Table of ContentsIntroduction Raymond Williams; 1. Folk play in Tudor interludes Richard Axton; 2. The Tudor mask and Elizabethan court drama Marie Axton; 3. Comic form in Ben Jonson: Volpone and the philosopher's stone Leo Salingar; 4. He that plays the king: Ford's Perkin Warbeck and the Stuart history play Anne Barton; 5. Medicinable tragedy: the structure of Samson Agonistes and seventeenth-century psychopathology Mary Ann Radzinowicz; 6. Exotick but rational entertainments: the english dramatick operas Richard Luckett; 7. The significance of Gay's drama Howard Erskine-Hill; 8. 'Coming Wonders': uses of theatre in the Victorian novel Gillian Beer; 9. Waiting for Prospero John Northam; 10. Social environment and theatrical environment: the case of English naturalism Raymond Williams; Notes; Appendix: The books and essays on Muriel C. Bradbrook and a selection of her book reviews Patricia Rignold; Index of plays, operas and entertainments; General index.
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Cambridge University Press The Tragic Effect
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Cambridge University Press La Fianza Satisfecha
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Cambridge University Press Sources of Dramatic Theory
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Cambridge University Press Lyric Metres of Greek Drama
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Cambridge University Press Performing Shakespeare in Japan
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Cambridge University Press French Sacred Drama from Beze to Corneille Dramatic Forms and their Purposes in the Early Modern Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Tolstoy and Chekhov
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Cambridge University Press Le Joueur
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Cambridge University Press Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing
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Cambridge University Press Frances Burney
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Cambridge University Press A Companion to Shakespeare Studies
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Cambridge University Press Performance and Literature in the Commedia Dellarte
Book SynopsisThis 2002 book explores the commedia dell'arte: the Italian professional theatre in Shakespeare's time. Henke closely analyzes commedia dell'arte texts in order to demonstrate how the spoken word and written literature were fruitfully combined in performance.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… teacher friendly … inspired insights … this engaging and worthwhile perspective on the commedia dell'arte offers plenty of food for thought.' Journal of Theatre Research InternationalTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Improvisation and characters; 3. Residual orality in early modern Italy and the commedia dell'arte; 4. Venetian buffoni; 5. Early male actors; 6. Early actresses; 7. Zanni texts, 1576–88; 8. Conclusions and caprices: early texts of the Dottore and Pantalone; 9. Tristano Martinelli: a company buffone; 10. Theatrical and literary 'composition' in Francesco Andreini and Flaminio Scala; 11. The generation of Cecchini: technical, moral and dramaturgical publications; Notes; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespeare Company 15941642
Book SynopsisThis is the first complete history of the theatre company in which Shakespeare acted and which staged all his plays. Andrew Gurr provides a comprehensive illustrated history of the company's activities, explores its social role in its time and examines its repertoire of plays.Trade Review'Andrew Gurr's The Shakespeare Company, 1594–1642 fills an enormous gap … an important reference work, and a book necessary for every serious scholar of theatre history, Shakespeare and Shakespeare's milieu.' Around the Globe'... comprehensive ... Andrew Gurr has written a definitive and most appealing work, which frequently glitters with the author's own love of theater and its members.' Renaissance Quarterly'An eminent scholar, Gurr brings both a refined (and colossal) body of research and sage insight into this magnificent achievement. He offers a richly detailed, pleasantly readable case study ... Essential.' P. D. Nelson, Choice'Gurr doesn't explicitly say that the 'company versions' are better than that habitual overwriter Shakespeare's maximal versions. But the stakes in the argument are high – our vision of what we value most in Shakespeare, why we value it, and the notion of value itself. And so, in addition to being grateful to Gurr for the wealth of historical detail of Shakespeare's company, we are in debt to him for provoking anew this important argument.' The Wilson QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface; 1. The plan of 1594; 2. The company's work; 3. 'Will money buy 'em?': company finances; 4. 'Workes are playes': the public repertory; 5. Royal loyalties; 6. The afterlife; Appendix 1. The players; Appendix 2. Documents about the company; Appendix 3. The sharers' papers; Appendix 4. The repertory; Appendix 5. Surviving play-texts; Appendix 6. Court performances; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Drama
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Power of Performance
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Cambridge University Press Myth and Its Making in the French Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Actors and Acting in Shakespeares Time
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Cambridge University Press Goethes Faust
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Cambridge University Press The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 58 Volume 58 Writing about Shakespeare Shakespeare Survey Series Number 58
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 59 Volume 59 Editing Shakespeare Shakespeare Survey Series Number 59
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Cambridge University Press Timon of Athens
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Cambridge University Press Samuel Beckett Kennedy British and Irish Authors
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Cambridge University Press Threshold of a Nation
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Cambridge University Press A Critical Introduction to TwentiethCentury American Drama
Book SynopsisDr Bigsby gives a full account of the early unpublished plays and the major works of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee. He draws on biographical detail and political background to illuminate his reading of the plays, which are illustrated by photographs of important productions.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Tennesse Williams; 2. Arthur Miller; 3. Edward Albee; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Ben Jonson
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Cambridge University Press Jean Racine Four Greek Plays AndromacheIphigenia PhaedraAthaliah
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor
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Cambridge University Press The Comedies of William Congreve
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Cambridge University Press Brecht
Book SynopsisIn this 1976 introduction to Brecht's theatre and theory, Ronald Gray explores the dramatist's interacting roles as a committed Marxist seeking to influence audiences and as one of the most innovative craftsmen ever to work in the theatre.Table of ContentsPrefaces; 1. Marxism and political theatre; 2. Early plays; 3. Propagandist plays; 4. Theories and practice; 5. Exile and anti-Nazism; 6. The Life of Galileo; 7. Mother Courage; 8. Puntila and The Caucasian Chalk Circle; 10. Conclusion; 11. Epilogue: Brecht and political theatre in America and Britain; References; Chronologies; Translations; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Aspects of Hamlet
Book SynopsisAspects of Hamlet brings together authoritative articles by distinguished Shakespeare scholars. In making their selection from the entire range of Shakespeare Survey volumes, Kenneth Muir and Stanley Wells have borne the interests of the general reader in mind, as well as the needs of teachers and students.Table of ContentsList of plates; Preface; Studies in Hamlet, 1901–1955 Clifford Leech; Hamlet Then til Now Harold Jenkins; The Art of Cruelty: Hamlet and Vindice R. A. Foakes; 'Form and Cause Conjoin'd?: Hamlet and Shakespeare's Workshop Keith Brown; The Prince of Denmark and Claudius' Court Juliet McLauchlan; Hamlet and the Moriae Encomium Frank McCombie; 'To say one': An Essay on Hamlet Ralph Berry; Hamlet and the Power of Words Inga-Stina Ewbank; Critical disagreement about Oedipus and Hamlet Nigel Alexander.
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Cambridge University Press Timon of Athens
Book SynopsisKarl Klein introduces Shakespeare's late play as a complex exploration of a corrupt, moneyed society. He argues that evidence for other authors is inconclusive and shows the play to be neither tragedy, satire nor comedy, but a subtle and complete drama whose main characters contain elements of all three genres.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of abbreviations and conventions; Introduction: date, the play and its themes, critical approaches, the play on the stage, the 1999 RSC production (A. R. Braunmuller); Narrative and dramatic treatments of the Timon legend from Lucian to The Comedy of Timon' authorship; The Timon legend; List of characters; The play; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis; Reading list.
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Cambridge University Press Modern German Drama
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Cambridge University Press Modern Drama in Theory and Practice
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Cambridge University Press Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy 2nd ed
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Tragedies
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Cambridge University Press Essays on Shakespeare
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Cambridge University Press Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters
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Cambridge University Press Enter the Whole Army
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