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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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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Social Dialogue
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Cambridge University Press Performance and Literature in the Commedia dellArte
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Cambridge University Press Euripides Medea Cambridge Greek and Latin
Book SynopsisThis up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of motivation that lead to her tragic insistence on killing her own children, and assesses the potential sympathy of a Greek audience for a character triply marked as other (barbarian, witch, woman). A unique feature of this book is the introduction to tragic language and style. The text, revised for this edition, is accompanied by an abbreviated critical apparatus. The commentary provides morphological and syntactic help for inexperienced students and more advanced observations on vocabulary, rhetoric, dramatic techniques, stage action, and details of interpretation, from the famous debate of Medea and Jason to the 'unmotivated' entrance of Aegeus and the controversial monologue of Medea.Trade Review'… predictably fine, thoughtful and polished … a nicely self-contained teaching-tool … Throughout, Mastronarde displays virtues known from his previous activity as a commentator: clarity of exposition; fairness in the treatment of controversial issues; philological acumen; command of the primary and secondary literature … a keen eye for the theatrical dimension of drama; and an openness to engage with broader, and often complex, non-philological aspects of interpretation.' Mouseion, Journal of the Classical Association of Canada'We may confidently say now that future students will face a less difficult task thanks to the work of D. J. Mastronarde, whose knowledge of Greek theatre and uncommon talent as a teacher have combined to produce a most valuable book. It is easy to foresee that students will be grateful to M. for his admirably concise and useful treatment of language, style and metre … Mastronarde's book is an outstanding contribution to the understanding of Medea and a valuable introduction to Greek tragedy as a whole. It deserves to take pride of place on the shelves of Euripidean scholars beside the time-honoured commentary of Page.' Journal of Hellenic Studies'… this series has consistently proven itself to provide high quality commentaries for teaching Greek texts in the original. Mastronarde's fine work does not disappoint. … this is a volume which will prove very useful to students of Greek tragedy in the original and will also be a valuable resource for professional colleagues.' HermathenaTable of ContentsGeneral introduction; Structural elements of Greek tragedy; Language and style; Prosody and metre; MEDEA; Commentary; Appendix: Medea's great monologue.
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Cambridge University Press Hamlet
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Cambridge University Press Greek Theatre Performance An Introduction
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Cambridge University Press Before Orientalism Londons Theatre of the East 15761626 45 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 45
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Cambridge University Press The Language of Sophocles
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Irish Drama Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey Volume 52 Shakespeare and The Globe
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Cambridge University Press ONeill
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare on Masculinity
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Cambridge University Press ONeill
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Cambridge University Press The Taming of the Shrew
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Cambridge University Press Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare in Production
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeares History Plays Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with resources for independent research through the 'Where next?' sections at the end of each chapter. The book draws on scholarship without being overwhelmed by it, and unlike other introductory guides to Shakespeare it emphasizes that there is space for new and fresh thinking by students and readers, even on the most-studied and familiar plays.Trade Review'… a dazzling, reader-friendly tutorial in reading Shakespearean drama.' Emily Bartels, Rutgers University, New Jersey'I'll be entirely happy to recommend this to students. It's accessible, it's divided up by topic in a way that reflects the different approaches one might take to Shakespeare in class (e.g. structure/genre, historical context), the suggestions for further reading are realistic and helpful and include well-chosen online materials, and it's framed in a way that invites further discussion either in the classroom or in the study.' Tom Rutter, Sheffield Hallam UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Character; 2. Performance; 3. Texts; 4. Language; 5. Structure; 6. Sources; 7. History.
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Cambridge University Press THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARES TRAGEDIES
Book SynopsisA lively and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's tragedies, this 2007 book begins with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considers each of Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically. It includes helpful text boxes and detailed chapters on Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear, among other plays.Trade Review'Dillon provides an excellent brief account of English tragedies before Shakespeare.' Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Tragedy before Shakespeare; 2. Titus Andronicus; 3. Romeo and Juliet; 4. Julius Caesar; 5. Hamlet; 6. Othello; 7. Timon of Athens; 8. King Lear; 9. Macbeth; 10. Antony and Cleopatra; 11. Coriolanus.
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Cambridge University Press Players of Shakespeare 5
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Two Noble Kinsmen
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Cambridge University Press The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
Book SynopsisWritten by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings of the plays are given in the context of genre as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume, contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a national context, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history of reception and performance.Trade Review'As the introduction to this volume points out, this is the fifth volume to bear its title, and together they form a fascinating chronicle of the ways in which Shakespeare - plays, poems, person - has been addressed over these years … Like the plays themselves, the essays are enriched by cross comparison; and it is to the plays that they repeatedly return us, the most that can be asked of a companion of this order.' Cahiers ÉlisabéthainsTable of ContentsPreface; William Shakespeare: a partial chronology; Shakespeare's works: a conjectural chronology; 1. The traces of Shakespeare's life STEPHEN GREENBLATT; 2. Shakespeare's reading JEFF DOLVEN and SEAN KEILEN; 3. Shakespeare's writing H. R. WOUDHUYSEN; 4. The theatre of Shakespeare's London TIFFANY STERN; 5. Transmission of Shakespeare's texts ANDREW MURPHY; 6. Shakespeare and language JONATHAN HOPE; 7. Shakespeare the poet COLIN BURROW; 8. Shakespeare's comedies STANLEY WELLS; 9. Shakespeare's tragedies MICHAEL NEILL; 10. Shakespeare's English history plays TON HOENSELAARS; 11. Shakespeare's Classical plays HEATHER JAMES; 12. Shakespeare's tragicomedies JANETTE DILLON; 13. Shakespeare, religion and politics CLAIRE MCEACHERN; 14. Shakespeare and race JONATHAN GIL HARRIS; 15. Shakespeare, sex and gender STEPHEN ORGEL; 16. Shakespeare's stage ANTHONY DAWSON; 17. The critical reception of Shakespeare EMMA SMITH; 18. Shakespeare and popular culture PAUL PRESCOTT; 19. Shakespeare and globalization ANSTON BOSMAN; 20. Shakespeare and media history KATHERINE ROWE; 21. Shakespeare: reading on ANDREW DICKSON.
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Cambridge University Press How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text
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Cambridge University Press Nine Medieval Latin Plays 1 Cambridge Medieval Classics Series Number 1
Book SynopsisThis first volume of Cambridge Medieval Classics offers the text of nine of the most outstanding plays composed and performed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the period of the finest flowering of medieval Latin drama. Newly edited and translated, the texts are given in both Latin and English, with detailed notes and apparatus to aid interpretation. They are selected to represent the range of dramatic achievement between about 1050 and 1180, when the use of sung play-texts, within a context of liturgical ceremony as well as for secular entertainment, was at its peak. The plays chosen are boldly inventive and compellingly imaginative, revealing the depth and range of the medieval dramatic mind. Included are works from France and Germany, a piece by Hildegard of Bingen, and the Passion Play from the Carmina Burana.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Eleventh-Century Plays: I. Sponsus (The Bridegroom); 2. Officium stelle (The Play of the Star); 3-4. Tres filie, Tres clerici (The Three Daughters and The Three Students); Twelfth-Century Plays: 5-6.Verses pascales de tres Maries, Versus de pelegrino (Easter Verses of the Three Maries and Verses about the Stranger); 7. Danielis ludus (The Play of Daniel); 8. Ordo Virtutum (The Play of the Virtues); 9. Ludus de passione (The Passion Play, from the Carmina Burana); Textual and Explanatory Notes.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill
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Cambridge University Press Menander Samia The Woman from Samos Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Workmanship
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Individualism
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Cambridge University Press Don Pedro Caldern
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Cambridge University Press Plautus
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Race
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Cambridge University Press Women Nationalism and the Romantic Stage Theatre and Politics in Britain 17801800 46 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 46
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Cambridge University Press Chicano Drama Performance Society and Myth 12 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 12
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Counterfeiting Shakespeare Evidence Authorship and John Fords Funerall Elegye
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeares History Plays
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Cambridge University Press The Merchant of Venice
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Serial History Plays
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Cambridge University Press The Merchant of Venice
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeares History Plays Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Chicano Drama Performance Society and Myth 12 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 12
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Race
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Cambridge University Press Authors Pen and Actors Voice
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