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Cambridge University Press Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama
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Cambridge University Press The First Quarto of Othello The New Cambridge Shakespeare The Early Quartos
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
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Cambridge University Press Wilde
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Tragic Cosmos
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to PostColonial Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Impersonations
Book SynopsisWhy was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theatre in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. Why were boys used to play female roles in drama, and how did such cross-dressing impact on the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries? What was the place of women in the Renaissance theatre, either on the stage or in the audience? And what did society make of those women who significantly and successfully violated accepted gender boundaries? At once provocative and witty, lucid and stylish, Impersonations will reshape our understanding of the Renaissance theatre, and make us rethink our own inadequate categories of gender, power and sexuality.Trade Review'In [this] brilliant short book ... Orgel writes with unfailing clarity and authority, laying bare the steps of his own thinking step by step, encouraging us to entertain objections to his argument, each of which he carefully answers, while never losing sight of the central theme of his book.' New York Review of Books'Orgel's strength is in the sharp local perception - the scholarly insistence, for example, that despite the fantasies of critics and directors the text of Edward II does not call for an on-stage poker. Such rigour is a useful corrective to critical orthodoxies which abjure the unfashionably empirical.' New Theatre QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The performance of desire; 3. The eye of the beholder; 4. Call me Ganymede; 5. Masculine apparel; 6. Mankind witches; 7. Visible figures.
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespearean Forest
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Cambridge University Press A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Cambridge University Press Aristophanes
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Cambridge University Press Jonson Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama 21 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 21
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Cambridge University Press Othello
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre of Sam Shepard
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Cambridge University Press Drama at the Heart of the Secondary School Projects to Promote Authentic Learning David Fulton Books
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Cambridge University Press Gender and the Italian Stage
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Troy
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Cambridge University Press Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England
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Cambridge University Press King Henry V
Book SynopsisThis is the first stage history of Shakespeare''s King Henry V to cover the play''s theatrical life since its first performance in 1599. Staging this play has always been a political act, and the substantial introduction traces its theatrical interventions into conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam and the Falklands crisis, offering a complete account of the play''s fortunes: from its absence in the seventeenth century to its dominant position as historical spectacle in the Victorian period, through twentieth-century productions, which include the popular films by Olivier and Branagh. Together they raise vital interpretative questions: is Henry V an epic of English nationalism, a knowing and cynical piece of power politics, or an anti-war manifesto? The volume also includes the play text, illustrations and detailed footnotes about major performances.Trade Review'I cannot recommend too highly the whole series (a bargain at £16.99 for each play) to all theatre lovers, theatregoers, theatre practitioners, and anybody who enjoys Shakespeare.' Robert Tanitch, What's on in LondonTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Series editors' preface; List of abbreviations; Select chronology of English-language performances; Introduction; King Henry V and commentary; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Beckett
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Cambridge University Press Beckett Waiting for Godot Plays in Production
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Cambridge University Press King Henry V
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights
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Cambridge University Press Euripides Ion
Book SynopsisIon is one of Euripides'' most appealing and inventive plays. With its story of an anonymous temple slave discovered to be the son of Apollo and Creusa, an Athenian princess, it is a rare example of Athenian myth dramatized for the Athenian stage. It explores the Delphic Oracle and Greek piety; the Athenian ideology of autochthony and empire; and the tragic suffering and longing of the mythical foundling and his mother, whose experiences are represented uniquely in surviving Greek literature. The plot anticipates later Greek comedy, while the recognition scene builds on a tradition founded by Homer''s Odyssey and Aeschylus'' Oresteia. The introduction sets out the main issues in interpretation and discusses the play''s contexts in myth, religion, law, politics, and society. By attending to language, style, meter, and dramatic technique, this edition with its detailed commentary makes Ion accessible to students, scholars, and readers of Greek at all levels.Trade Review'… this is a very competent edition of Euripides' Ion, which shows comprehensive familiarity with modern work on the play and its background … detailed enough for the majority of readers.' Michael Lloyd, Exemplaria Classica'… wonderfully sound, tremendously useful for the student and scholar, and constitutes a landmark publication. James Diggle and his team of editors deserve the highest praise for their achievement.' Dublin Review of Books'… tactful, packed with insights and ideas that will generate insight and ideas in any careful reader.' Gregory Crane, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Euripides: life and works; 2. Myth; 3. Setting, staging, and production; 4. Structure and dramatic technique; 5. The Chorus and the characters; 6. Political identity; 7. Ritual and religion; 8. Revelation and deception; 9. Genre and tone; 10. Transmission of the text; A note on the text and critical apparatus; Ion; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press NCS
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Cambridge University Press Brecht
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Cambridge University Press Much Ado about Nothing
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Rome
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Cambridge University Press Hamlet Versus Lear
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Tragedies
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeares Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare on the German Stage Volume 1 15861914
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Cambridge University Press The First Quarto of Othello The New Cambridge Shakespeare The Early Quartos
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Cambridge University Press Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Book SynopsisA revised edition of Dr Dawe's bestselling edition. As in the first edition, the commentary tackles problems of language and expression, but is added to by reflections on the text developed in the twenty years since the first edition's publication, most notably recognizing the spurious nature of the play's ending.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Oedipus Rex; Commentary; Appendix on lyric metres.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Victorian Stage
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Cambridge University Press Williams A Streetcar Named Desire Plays in Production
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Cambridge University Press Williams A Streetcar Named Desire Plays in Production
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Domestic Loss
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Cambridge University Press Antony and Cleopatra
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Cambridge University Press Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Albee
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Cambridge University Press London Civic Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Theory of Drama
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Cambridge University Press Albee Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf Plays in Production
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Cambridge University Press Greek Theatre Performance
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Cambridge University Press Congressional Theatre Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage Film and Television 11 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 11
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