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Cambridge University Press Molire Don Juan Plays in Production
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Moving Image
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Cambridge University Press Aristophanes
Book SynopsisThis book examines the plays of the Greek comic writer Aristophanes and attempts to reconstruct the responses of the original audiences by using anthropological techniques to compare the plays with those Greek myths and rituals which share similar story-patterns or subject-matter.Trade Review"Bowie's book is a refreshing examination of Aristophanes's use of myth and ritual." Martha Habash, Classical Journal"...the reader will find a wealth of information and detail about ancient rites and festivals, and there are not few places where one's reading of an Aristophanic comedy will be enlarged and enlightened by the material that Bowie adduces." Classical ViewsTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Acharnians; 3. Knights; 4. Wasps; 5. Clouds; 6. Peace; 7. Birds; 8. Lysistrata; 9. Thesmophoriazusae; 10. Frogs; 11. Ecclesiazusae; 12. Plutus; 13. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press William Empson Essays on Renaissance Literature Volume 2 The Drama
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Cambridge University Press Antony and Cleopatra
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Multiplicity
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Cambridge University Press The Tempest
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Cambridge University Press Hamlet
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Cambridge University Press A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Cambridge University Press Wilde
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Dickens
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Cambridge University Press Pioneer Players The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson
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Cambridge University Press Terence Eunuchus
Book SynopsisThis is the first ever full-scale commentary in English on Eunuchus (The Eunuch) by the Roman comic playwright Terence. It provides a thorough examination of the literary and dramatic qualities of the play, and also offers a close study of Terence's Latin in comparison with that of his predecessor Plautus.Trade Review'This volume will leave readers of every kind well informed on a wide range of topics concerning Roman comedy and its Greek background.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review'This volume is highly recommended for anyone intending to read this lively, funny and sometimes touching play.' John Whitehorne, AUMLATable of ContentsPreface; Introduction: 1. Terence and his background; 2. Theatrical conditions and stage conventions; 3. Terence and his Greek originals; 4. Language and style; 5. Metrical structure; 6. The manuscript tradition; P. Terenti Afri Eunuchus; Commentary; Appendices; Bibliography and references; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Recovering Shakespeares Theatrical Vocabulary
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Cambridge University Press Much ADO about Nothing
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Cambridge University Press AngloAmerican Interplay in Recent Drama
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Cambridge University Press Shakespearean Suspect Texts
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Cambridge University Press Travel and Drama in Shakespeares Time
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Cambridge University Press Molire Don Juan Plays in Production
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theatre's most important and enigmatic writers. Although a general overview, the volume also offers some of the latest thinking on the dramatist and his impact on the twentieth century. Part One places Wilde's work within the cultural and historical context of his time and includes an opening essay by Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland. Further chapters also examine Wilde and the Victorians and his image as a Dandy. Part Two looks at Wilde's essential work as playwright and general writer, including his poetry, critiques, and fiction, and provides detailed analysis of such key works as Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest among others. The third group of essays examines the themes and factors which shaped Wilde's work and includes Wilde and his view of the Victorian woman, Wilde's sexual identities, and interpreting Wilde on stage. This 1997 volume also contains a detailed chronology of Wilde's wTrade Review'The Cambridge Companion is successful in that it acts as a good guide for scholar and amateur alike to the diversity and complexity of Wilde's work and to the research currently being carried out by scholars on Wilde. Raby does a good job of balancing all the different research interests of the essayists without giving undue weight to any one view, or to any one aspect of Wilde's œuvre. This book offers an essential guide to Wilde scholarship.' The Wildean'The Cambridge Companion (a particularly refreshing collection of essays) is certainly the first of these volumes a Wilde enthusiast will want to own. Edited by Peter Raby these 15 essays venture more deeply into the manner and more deftly into the manners of the subject than so many works of scholarly inquiry and speculation.' Los Angeles TimesTable of ContentsList of illustrations and acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Preface; Chronology; Part I. Context: 1. Biography and the art of lying Merlin Holland; 2. Wilde and the Victorians Regenia Gagnier; 3. Wilde and the Dandyism of the senses Stephen Calloway; Part II. Wilde's Work: 4. Wilde as poet Karl Beckson and Bobby Fong; 5. Wilde the journalist John Stokes; 6. Wilde as critic and theorist Lawrence Danson; 7. Wilde's fiction(s) Jerusha McCormack; 8. Distance, death, and desire in Salome Joseph Donahue; 9. Wilde's comedies of society Peter Raby; 10. The Importance of Being Earnest Russell Jackson; Part III. Themes and Influences: 11. A verdict of death: Oscar Wilde, actresses, and Victorian women Kerry Powell; 12. 'A Complex, Multiform Creature' - Wilde's sexual identities Joseph Bristow; 13. Wilde's plays: some lines of influence Richard Allen Cave; 14. Wilde on stage Joel Kaplan; 15. Oscar Wilde: the resurgence of lying Declan Kiberd; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill
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Cambridge University Press The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to PostColonial Theatre
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Macbeth
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Cambridge University Press Religion and Revelry in Shakespeares Festive World
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Cambridge University Press Menander
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Victorian Women 64 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 64
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare in Asia
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey I Volume 1 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 10 The Roman Plays Volume 10 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 11 The Last Plays with an Index to Surveys 110 Volume 11 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 13 King Lear Volume 13 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 14 Shakespeare and his Contemporaries Volume 14 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 15 The Poems and Music Volume 15 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 15
Book SynopsisShakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of the previous year's textual and critical studies and of major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. The current editor of Survey is Peter Holland. The first eighteen volumes were edited by Allardyce Nicoll, numbers 19-33 by Kenneth Muir and numbers 34-52 by Stanley Wells. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. For the first time, numbers 1-50 are being reissued in paperback, available separately and as a set.Table of ContentsList of plates; 1. Twentieth-century studies in Shakespeare's songs, sonnets, and poems F. W. Sternfeld, A. Nejgebauer and J. W. Lever; 2. Songs, time, and the rejection of Falstaff Peter J. Seng; 3. Shakespeare's sonnets and the Elizabethan sonneteers Joan Grundy; 4. Love's confined doom M. M. Mahood; 5. Beasts and gods: Greene's Groats-worth of Witte and the social purpose of Venus and Adonis Muriel C. Bradbrook; 6. From Shakespeare's Venus to Cleopatra's cupids Adrien Bonjour; 7. Venus and the second chance J. W. Lever; 8. Some observations on The Rape of Lucrece D. C. Allen; 9. An anatomy of The Phoenix and the Turtle Robert Ellrodt; 10. Shakespeare and the ritualists Robert Hapgood; 11. Illustrations of social life IV: the plague F. P. Wilson; 12. The Soest portrait of Shakespeare Levi Fox; 13. International news; 14. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1960; 15. S. Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet John Russell Brown; 16. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Bernard Harris, W. Moelwyn Merchant and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 16 Shakespeare in the Modern World Volume 16 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 16
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 17 Shakespeare in his Own Age Volume 17 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 17
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 18 ShakespeareThen Till Now Volume 18 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 2 Shakespearian Production Volume 2 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 3 The Man and the Writer Volume 3 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 37 Shakespeares Earlier Comedies Volume 37 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 37
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 39 Shakespeare on Film and Television Volume 39 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 39
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 4 Interpretation Volume 4 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 40 Current Approaches to Shakespeare Through Language Text and Theatre Volume 40 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 40
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Cambridge University Press SHAKESPEARE SURVEY 41 SHAKESPEARIAN STAGES AND STAGING
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 42 Shakespeare and the Elizabethans Volume 42 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 42
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