Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books
Transworld Publishers Ltd Incomplete Shakespeare Romeo Juliet
Book SynopsisTo celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection of the Bard's greatest plays is digested to a few thousand words along with footnotes. It is suitable for those who know their Shakespeare, perfect for the theatre goer needing a quick recap, and a massive relief for those just desperate to pass their English exam.Trade ReviewThe wonderful John Crace collaborating with UCL’s John Sutherland for parodic and truncated retellings of Shakespeare’s great plays. * Times Higher Education Supplement *Better by far.. -- David Sexton * Evening Standard *What finer way to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death than a series of witty modern reworkings...Shakespeare reduced to 100 pages of pithy pentameter with smart side notes. * Evening Standard *Witty, fresh takes on Shakespeare * The Times *A very pleasant way to read Shakespeare. * nudge.com *
£11.66
University of Exeter Press Le Comte dEssex Exeter French Texts CX
Book SynopsisThis is a volume in the series Textes litteraires/Exeter French Texts. If Elizabeth I of England thought to rid herself forever of Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, by sending him to the scaffold she was very much mistaken, since his name, intertwined with hers, has traversed four centuries.Trade Review 'Wendy Gibson has provided a clear and helpful Introduction, . . . Her annotations and footnotes are both erudite and illuminating.' (New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Volume 24 No 1, 2003) Table of ContentsFrontispice Introduction Le Texte Bibliographie Le Comte D'Essex; Au Lecteur Extrait du Privilege du Roy Acteurs Acte premier Acte II Acte III Acte IV Acte V Notes
£30.15
Te Herenga Waka University Press Vagabonds New Zealand Playscripts
Book SynopsisSet against the backdrop of the Waikato Land Wars, this play exuberantly explores aspects of New Zealand’s history. Three of the country’s real-life historical figures, Charlotte Badger, an escaped convict with a colourful, Mrs Foley, and Mrs Swan, are placed in a series of increasingly outrageous imaginary incidents.
£23.70
Medieval Institute Publications Iconographic and Comparative Studies in Medieval
Book SynopsisArticles drawn from papers presented at the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of the Medieval Theatre. The connections between medieval art and drama are explored in topics ranging from English mystery plays to the Assumption to the Cuzco Corpus Christi paintings.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Meg Twycross On the Use of Figurative Art as a Source for the Study of Medieval Spectacles by Paola Ventrone The Staging of the Assumption in Europe by J. Francesc Massip The Hierosphthitic Topos, or the Fate of Fergus: Notes on the N-Town Assumption by Ann Eljenholm Nichols The Staging of the First Murder in the Mystery Plays in England by Cherrell Guilfoyle The Great Calvaries of Brittany and the Medieval Breton Burzud braz Jezuz by Stanley Damberger and Ellin M. Kelly Positional Symbolism and English Medieval Drama by Clifford Davidson The Way of Vice and Virtue: A Medieval Psychology by Eva Kimminich St. Crepin, St. Crispin, Sant Crespi: French, Breton, and Catalan Mysteres by Elisabeth Lalou The Iconography of Audience in the Cuzco Corpus Christi Paintings by Barbara H. Jaye and William P. Mitchell St. Denis in Antwerp: Hagiographica in a Protestant Play by B. A. M. Ramakers
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Modern Tragedy
Book SynopsisWhat distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locations during the 20th century? Partly motivated by the urgency of our current situation in an age of ecocidal crisis, Modern Tragedy encompasses a variety of drama from throughout the 20th century. James Moran begins this book with John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea (1904), which shows how environmental awareness might be expressed through tragic drama. Moran also looks at Brecht's reworking of Synge's drama in the 1937 play Señora Carrar's Rifles, and situates Brecht''s script in the light of the theatre practitioner's broader ideas about tragedy. Brecht's tragic thinking informed by Hegel and Marx is contrasted with the Schopenhauerian approach of Samuel Beckett. The volume goes on to examine theatre makers whose ideas were partly motivated by applying an undeTrade ReviewTaking his cue from Raymond Williams' landmark Modern Tragedy (1966), James Moran updates our understanding of 20th-century tragic drama to speak to contemporary concerns about politics, decolonisation and the climate emergency. An admirably clear and engaging argument for the continuing relevance of an age-old theatrical tradition. * Jennifer Wallace, University of Cambridge, UK, and author of Tragedy Since 9/11 *Table of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Does Modern Tragedy Exist? 1. From 1904: Synge and the Nature Elegy 2. From 1937: Brecht and Political Engagement 3. From 1954: Walcott, Clark and the Postcolonial Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Athena
Book SynopsisWhy Athena?I guess just like the goddess of strategic warfare and all that.In a New York City fencing club two warriors are ready to battle.Athena and Mary Wallace are training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together. They compete against each other. They spend their lives together. They wish they were friends.From award-winning playwright Gracie Gardner, following an acclaimed extended run in New York, comes a fierce coming-of-age comedy where two teenagers parry class, competition and power as they practice fencing and life. But only one will win - en garde.This edition was published to coincide with the UK premiere at The Yard in London in October 2022.Trade ReviewCritic’s Pick! A deadly serious comedy about ambition, success, and owning your superiority. In its delicate ferocity, it shows a playwright who is full-throttle funny and wise beyond her years. * New York Times *Wily and entertaining. * Village Voice *Smart, galvanising coming-of-age drama * Guardian *Athena’s strength is in its relatability. As is often the way with teenagers, the unlikely duo’s worlds are both small and all-encompassing. But as they advance and retreat from each other, in practice and beyond, you yearn for their bond to become long-lasting – even though, with such competition ahead of them, this seems an unlikely prospect. * The Stage *
£14.98
Arcturus Publishing Macbeth
£12.34
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Studying Shakespeares Contemporaries
Book SynopsisStudying Shakespeare's Contemporaries is an accessible guide to non-Shakespearian English drama of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Featuring works of prestigious playwrights such as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton, Lars Engle describes the conditions under which Renaissance plays were commissioned, written, licensed, staged, and published. Plays are organized by theme and explored individually, creating a text that can be read as a complete overview of English Renaissance drama or used as an indexed reference resource.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface: How to use this book xi Part One: Inwardness 1 1.1 The Inward Self 2 1.2 The Inward Self in Soliloquy: The Jew of Malta 4 1.3 The Inward Self in Aside: The Changeling 16 1.4 A Digression: The Inner Life of Modernized Texts 25 1.5 The Christian/Stoic Soul Under Duress: The Duchess of Malfi 36 1.6 How to Behave When You Have a Soul Always Already Damned: Doctor Faustus 42 1.7 Obsession and Delusion: Comic Inwardness in Every Man in His Humor 53 1.8 Epicene 63 1.9 Tamburlaine the Great 1 and 2: Interior Strength, External Weakness 68 1.10 Disguise and Honor in The Malcontent 78 1.11 Conclusion: A Drama of Interiority? 80 Part Two: Intimacy, Rivalry, Family 83 2.1 Rivalry and Intimacy in A Trick to Catch the Old One 85 2.2 The Tragedy of Mariam: Intimacy, Tyranny, and Ambivalence 90 2.3 Domestic Tragedy and Moral Commentary: Arden of Faversham 96 2.4 The Battle of the Sexes: The Woman’s Prize 99 2.5 Intimacy, Rivalry, Family: Women Beware Women 103 2.6 Familiar and Familial: Incest in ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 113 Part Three: Society, Politics, the City, and the State 123 3.1 Dreaming Up the Free City: The Roaring Girl 124 3.2 The Shoemaker’s Holiday 138 3.3 A New Way to Pay Old Debts 144 3.4 The Knight of the Burning Pestle 155 3.5 The State at War in The Spanish Tragedy 161 3.6 Two Bodies: State and Self in Edward II 167 3.7 Resistance to Tyranny in The Maid’s Tragedy 173 3.8 Tyranny as a Boundary Condition for a Subject’s Violence: The Duchess of Malfi and The Revenger’s Tragedy 189 3.9 Republic and Tyranny in Sejanus 190 Part Four: Not Shakespeare – Lives of the Theater Poets 207 4.1 “Non-Shakespearean”: The Dire Privative 207 4.2 Christopher Marlowe 209 4.3 Ben Jonson 211 4.4 Thomas Middleton 215 4.5 Thomas Kyd 217 4.6 Thomas Dekker 218 4.7 Francis Beaumont 218 4.8 John Fletcher 219 4.9 John Ford 220 4.10 John Marston 221 4.11 Philip Massinger 221 4.12 Elizabeth Cary 222 Appendix: Performance History 225 Bibliography 245 Index 251
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Chronicle Books You Kiss by th Book New Poems from Shakespeares
Book SynopsisIn his engaging new collection, National Book Award finalist Gary Soto creates poems that each begin with a line from Shakespeare and then continue in Soto's fresh and accessible verse.
£12.43
Seal Press (CA) Juliet: The Life and Afterlives of Shakespeare's
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Exile Editions Trojan Women
Book SynopsisWith a stunning command of the Greek language and a mastery of poetic nuance, this translation of Euripides' play breathes unparalleled life into an ancient masterpiece. Using vocabulary that gives the sense that the play was written with an appreciation of and application to the 20th and 21st centuries, this adaptation goes beyond the timeless plot of the consequences of war and the fate of both the victors and the losers and focuses on the modern-day issues of feminism and women's rights. Also included in this volume are two long poems—"Helen" and "Orestes"—by contemporary Greek poet Yannis Ritsos, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize.Trade Review“It’s significant that MacEwen would choose to translate The Trojan Women and Helen texts, for after all, they are filled with the plaint of women, their powerlessness, their victimization, and a sense of isolation . . . The vocabulary of these translations is so much MacEwen’s own that they seem almost to have been written by her. These translations are deeply felt.” —Margaret Atwood, author, The Penelopiad
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Ignatius Press Romeo and Juliet
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Ignatius Press Julius Caesar
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Ignatius Press Othello
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Prometheus Bound
Book SynopsisPrometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled to a rock in the Caucasus. This is his punishment for giving the gift of fire to humankind and for thwarting Zeus?s decision to exterminate the human race. Prometheus?s pain is unceasing, but he refuses to recant his commitment to humanity, to whom he has also brought the knowledge of writing, mathematics, medicine, and architecture. He hints that he knows how Zeus will be brought low in the future, but when Hermes demands that Prometheus divulge his secret, he refuses and is sent spinning into the abyss by a divine thunderbolt. To whom does humanity look for guidance: to the supreme deity or to the rebel Titan? What law controls the cosmos? Prometheus Bound, one of the great poetic achievements of the ancient world, appears here in a splendid new translation by Joel Agee that does full justice to the harsh and keening music of the original Greek.
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The Library of America Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on
Book SynopsisCollected Plays and Writings on Theater, the most comprehensive one-volume edition of Thornton Wilder’s work for the stage ever published, takes the measure of his extraordinary career as a dramatist by presenting the complete span of his achievement, beginning with his early expressionist experiments and daring one-act plays, such as “The Long Christmas Dinner” and “The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden” (one of Wilder’s personal favorites), ranging through the full flowering of Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker, and encompassing the intriguing dramatic projects of his later years, such as his adaptation of the ancient story of Alcestis (The Alcestiad) and plays written for dramatic cycles based on the Seven Deadly Sins and the varied ages of an individual’s life. Complementing the selection of plays is an illuminating group of essays that captures Wilder’s reflections on his plays and contains a revealing epistolary account of the film adaptation of Our Town.This volume also includes material never before published: scenes from The Emporium, an ambitious unfinished play that, emerging out of Wilder’s intense engagement with existentialist philosophy in the postwar years, imagines a Kafkaesque department store whose enigmatic activities are as inscrutable as the mysteries of life itself; and the complete screenplay Wilder wrote for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Shadow of a Doubt just before reporting for military service in 1942. Although faithful to the spirit of the film, the screenplay presented here restores Wilder’s original dialogue, some of which (to Wilder’s dismay) was altered for the movie. A study of family life, youthful illusions, and the desperation of a criminal on the run, the Shadow of a Doubt screenplay is a masterful exhibition of the art of suspense and taut dramatic storytelling, and is an essential part of Wilder’s oeuvre.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.Trade Review“While all of Wilder’s work is intelligent, non-synthetic and often moving, as well as funny, it is Our Town that makes the difference. It is probably the finest play ever written by an American.” —Edward Albee“The Library of America earns a standing ovation from grateful theater lovers for its triumphant assemblage of all of Thornton Wilder’s dramatic writings into one magnificent, indispensable volume. Seeing the totality of this great American playwright’s dizzyingly, dazzlingly wide range of work will be especially revelatory for a new generation of playwrights.” —John Guare
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Guernica Editions,Canada Remembering Shakespeare Volume 68: The Scope of
Book SynopsisThe longstanding challenge and problem of living through tragedy, as opposed to living beyond it or simply carrying on in spite of it, is highlighted in this extensive and in-depth scholarly study. Shakespeare was able to live through tragedy and consequently could come into those higher evolutionary states of mind and being, until now so little known, that are so impressively represented in his last plays.Trade Review" rigorous highly pertinent the present book, especially the final chapter, "Prosperos Powers: Shakespeare's Last Phase", is the culmination of a long journey [in O'Mearas study of Shakespeare's work]. The kind of philosophy underlying The Tempest has its present day equivalence in Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, "that process of living further into the 'wisdom' of man" (p.88) which appears to have close links with the Rosicrucian Enlightenment" -- R.W. Desai, 'The Critical Endeavour,' Vol. XXIV, January 2018"the reader will find something provocative in this book [Shakespeares] tragedy is that since his time we have not been instructed by his pains." -- Jonathan Locke Hart 'Renaissance and Reformation', Volume 41, Number 4, Fall, 2018Table of Contents1.Shakespeare's Muse; 2.Otherworldly Hamlet; 3.Othello's Sacrifice; 4.Prospero's Powers.
£16.16
Medieval Institute Publications The Play of Daniel: Critical Essays
Book SynopsisThe Play of Daniel from Beauvais was the first medieval music-drama to be staged in a popular modern production by the legendary Noah Greenberg's New York Pro Musica. This book provides for the first time a critical introduction to the staging and production, music, and setting of the play in its architectural and historical context. It also reproduces the pages in the manuscript which contain the play in facsimile, and it provides a new and faithful transcription of the music as well as a fresh translation of the text by A. Marcel J. Zijlstra of the Schola Cantorum "Quem Quaeritis" of the Netherlands, a group which performs regularly at the Utrecht Festival.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Dunbar H. Ogden The Staging of The Play of Daniel in the Twelfth Century by Dunbar H. Ogden Divine Judgment and Local Ideology in the Beauvais Ludus Danielis by Richard K. Emmerson The Play of Daniel in Modern Performance by Fletcher Collins Jr. Music in the Beauvais Ludus Danielis by Audrey Ekdahl Davidson The Play of Daniel (Ludus Danielis) Transcribed by A. Marcel J. Zijlstra Translation Index
£26.33
Ave Maria University Press Jacobean Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe eminent Shakespeare scholar Peter Milward, S.J. here presents an analysis of Shakespeare’s late plays that is both accessible to beginners and beneficial to seasoned scholars.
£23.70
Ave Maria University Press Elizabethan Shakespeare
Book SynopsisTo know Shakespeare is to know his plays, not just one by one but all together—or what T. S. Eliot calls ""the pattern in his carpet”.
£28.45
Santa Fe Writer's Project Roadmap
Book SynopsisIn this radical twenty-first century choreopoem, Dorian, a young American Black man, is tasked by an ancestral spirit to thwart his inevitable murder. He traces his family tree, from his grandmother to his offspring, uncovering secrets of sex work, self-harm, and assault alongside snapshots of #BlackBoyJoy. Guided by The Novelist, an omniscient muse, and her troupe of dancers, Dorian must interrogate his legacy, forgive his past, and reckon with being Black in modern America. He tries on different selves and possible futures in his increasing desperation to experience the luxury of growing old and finding solace despite institutional racism declaring him a threat. Through the poetry, dance, and song of Roadmap, will Dorian overcome the odds or become another hashtag?
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City of Light Publishing Shakespeares Goddess
Book SynopsisIn our culture, Shakespeare's works are classics and his characters have achieved mythical status. But what did William Shakespeare consider to be the great myths and classics? And who were the empowering role models for his bold and unforgettable heroines? In plays and poems throughout his career, Shakespeare explored many facets of the divine feminine, including Greek and Roman goddesseshe nearly deified Queen Elizabeth. His characters frequently refer to classical goddesses, some plays feature literal appearances of goddesses onstage, and the goddess of love starred in his epic poem Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare's Goddess explores the poet's many representations of the divine feminine, as a pantheon of individual deities, and also as diverse manifestations of a single, multifaceted goddess. This thoroughly researched sequel to Supernatural Shakespeare: Magic and Ritual in Merry Old England will appeal to scholars, but its playful and engaging tone also makes it accessible to anyone
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold: Classic Love Poems
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Les Belles Lettres Ecrits Sur Le Theatre
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet: Comedies
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet
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Classiques Garnier Tartuffe, Ou l'Imposteur
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Classiques Garnier Relire Cyrano de Bergerac
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet. Tome IV: Tragi-Comedies
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet
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Classiques Garnier Reparer Une Maison de Poupee d'Ibsen ?:
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Brepols N.V. This Earthly Stage: World and Stage in Late
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet. Tome III
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Classiques Garnier Le Theatre En Liberte: Victor Hugo Et La Scene
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet
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Harrassowitz Arnold Quiting: Jacobus Und Petrus
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Harrassowitz Matheus Steffan: Felicitas
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Geistliche Lesespiele: Exemplarische Lekturen
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£156.75
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Religioses Wissen Im Mittelalterlichen Und
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Brill Fink Theater Und Krise: Paradigmen Der Störung in
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£139.38
Universitatsverlag Winter Wieland-Studien / Band 8: Aufsatze O Texte Und
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£39.00
Universitatsverlag Winter (en-)Gendering a Popular Theatrical Genre: The
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V&R Unipress Von Angst Bis Zerstorung: Deutschsprachige
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Verlag-Antike Fragmenta Comica: Kratinos: Archilochoi -
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Fragmenta Comica: Einleitung und Testimonia
Book SynopsisDie Reihe Fragmenta Comica wird die vollständige Kommentierung der Fragmente der griechischen Komödie bieten.Ziel der Kommentare ist es, einerseits die in der Regel schwierig zu verstehenden Texte unter allen möglichen Gesichtspunkten zu erschlieÃ�en, andererseits, wo dies möglich ist, eine Rekonstruktion der StÃ"cke zu versuchen und eine literaturgeschichtliche Einordnung der Autoren vorzunehmen. Die Fragmente und Testimonien werden Ã"bersetzt.
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Ergon Verlag The Stage as Palimpsest: Conceptions of Time and
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Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki Robert Macaire, Or, the Exploits of a Gentleman at Large
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