Plays, playscripts, drama
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Dionysism and Comedy
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the idea of comic seriousness in Old Comedy. The issue has been a vexing one in classical studies, and the most traditional stance has been that Aristophanes'' comedies reflect his personal ideology, reducing the plays to little more than political speeches. Riu concludes, in contrast, that we should abandon our preconceptions about comic seriousness and approach the language of Aristophanes with care and precision, alert to the nuances of meaning that the comic genre entails. Attempting to set Old Comedy in its proper context, Riu explores the myth and ritual of Dionysus in the city-state (including a reading of Euripides''Bacchae and other sources) and relates the patterns found in those myths to the works of Aristophanes. The book concludes with a section on the relationship between comedy and reality, the import of insults in comedy, comedy as ritual, the relationship between author and character, and the seriousness of comedy. With an appendix that examines Trade ReviewThis study of Dionysus and his functions is well informed and wide-ranging, and Riu's method illuminates many passages in Aristophanes' works. * CHOICE *Dionysism and Comedy is an engaging book. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *The book will appeal to those who seek rituals behind the facade of Old Comedy. * Religious Studies Review *Scholars interested in Aristophanes' politics or anthropological approaches to Greek literature will find much stimulating food for thought. * Phoenix *It is learned, imaginative, and often insightful. * The Classical Outlook *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: The Reading of Old Comedy Part 3 Part II: Dionysus in Greek Religion: Toward a Reading of theBacchae Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Dionysus the Greek Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Mythic Geographies: Dionysiac Mixtures Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Dionysus and the City Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Happiness and the Dead Part 8 Part III: Dionysism and Comedy Chapter 9 Chapter 5: Presentation of the Comic Dionysism: Frogs Chapter 10 Chapter 6: The Negation of the City: Wasps and Knights Chapter 11 Chapter 7: The Foundation of a Comic City: Birds Chapter 12 Chapter 8: The Role of Women in Comedy and Religion: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae Chapter 13 Chapter 9: Peace and Justice: Acharnians, Peace, and Plutus Chapter 14 Chapter 10: Comedy and Reality: How to Save the City Chapter 15 Appendix: The Problem of Clouds: A Defense of the City? Chapter 16 Bibliography Chapter 17 Index
£55.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Choephoroe Aeschylus Choephori Greek Texts
Book SynopsisAnthony Bowen is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
£29.44
North Point Press Red Light Winter A Play
£10.44
North Point Press Wrecks and Other Plays
£12.34
Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3pl Conversations in Tusculum
£8.99
Currency Press Pty Ltd The Removalists
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£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd The Touch Of Silk
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£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd The Golden Age
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£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd Daylight Saving
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£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd Summer of the Aliens PLAYS
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£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd St James Infirmary PLAYS
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£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd Close To The Bone
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£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd The Black Sequin Dress
Book SynopsisA woman leaves her children for an evening to go to a nightclub. In a moment of indecision she glances back, slips and falls. Money, desire and dreams converge as she enters a surreal world of haunting colours and lyrical distortions.
£13.99
Currency Press Pty Ltd After Dinner
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£15.19
Currency Press Pty Ltd Love Child
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£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd Navigating PLAYS
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£14.24
Currency Press Woman in the Window
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£16.14
Currency Press Pty Ltd Garys House
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Currency Press Pty Ltd State Of Shock
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£14.24
Currency Press Luck of the Draw
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£16.14
Currency Press Pty Ltd Miss Tanaka
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£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd JACK MANNING TRILOGY Face to Face A Conversation
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£20.89
Currency Press Pty Ltd A Man With Five Children
Book SynopsisGerry is a documentary filmmaker who, one day each year, follows five children around with a camera. The results are shown annually on television. Yet for the children who grow up under Gerry''s (and the nation''s) watchful eyes, the experience creates its own dynamic. Are the participants his subjects, his children or his creations? Spanning more than twenty years, A Man With Five Children invites you into a world of fractured celebrity and distorted vision.
£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd The Return
Book SynopsisA thug and his junior partner in crime take a late night train from Perth to Fremantle, menacing passengers along the way. For an hour they own the train. Riding the uneasy line between comedy and terror, The Return is a tautly written study in peer pressure, anxiety and suppressed violence in a social class which is often silenced.
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Mavis goes to Timor
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Inheritance
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Skate
Book SynopsisInspired by true events that occurred in a south-western NSW town, Skate is about a group of kids battling their local council to get a skate park built in their home town of Narragindi. In the midst of this struggle they are forced to deal with the sudden death of one of their friends. They attempt one final stand; the skate park holds the promise of renewing local youth pride and self-esteem. Skate is a turbo-charged, moving and funny account of the mates, mothers, tricks and traumas of a group of young skaters. Enhanced by live skateboarding, the play is full of the emotional awkwardness of adolescence, its adrenaline, compassion and humour, and reflects the hopes and aspirations of young people in regional Australia.
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Wonderlands
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Currency Press Pty Ltd HOLY DAY Red Sea S
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Run Rabbit Run
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Currency Press Minefields and Miniskirts
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£13.77
Currency Press Pty Ltd Refuge A Collection of Four Plays
Book SynopsisFour plays that look at our need to have a special place. PP Cranney's Home pits suburban trivialities against the lives of the homeless, and two young refugees; in Stephen House's The Yum Yum Room Tom struggles to find independence while coping with his estranged father and the absence of his mother; In Crowded House, John Romeril takes the search for security into a future dystopia where, in a terrifying twist on survival of the fittest, the young are hunted in the streets; and Chris Thompson's The Bridge movingly explores the adolescent search for belonging.
£20.89
Currency Press Pty Ltd The Spook
Book SynopsisIt is 1965. There doesn't seem to be too much going on in the ranks of the South Bendigo Communist Party. Even the presence of young recruit Martin Porter has done little to inject life into the weekly grind. While Martin's mum frets about his inexplicable abandonment of the church, short hair and the army reserve, George and Eli Tassekis welcome him into their family like a second son. But Martin is an ASIO spy and he's about to get his new friends into serious trouble. The Spook, based on a true story from country Victoria, is a sad story hilariously told in true Gogolian style.
£13.99
Currency Press Pty Ltd Two Brothers
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Falling Petals
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Currency Press The Boyce Trilogy The Woman with Dogs Eyes WITH The Marvellous Boy AND The Emperor of Sydney The Woman with Dogs EyesThe Marvellous BoyThe Emperor of Sydney
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£19.79
Currency Press Pty Ltd The Story of the Miracles at Cookies Table
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£14.24
Currency Press Blonde the Brunette the Vengeful Redhead
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£12.39
Currency Press Pty Ltd The Chapel Perilous
Book SynopsisThe Chapel Perilous follows the painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attemptsâ through her school days, lovers, marriage and politicsâ to extract meaning from her environment. Music by Frank Arndt. Also available in Australian Women's Drama and Dorothy Hewett's Collected Plays Volume I.
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Myth Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and
Book SynopsisA savage comedy of manners, It Just Stopped explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery. Sewell''s play is funny and shocking in turn. It holds the mirror up to the things we value today and asks the questions: what will we value the day the world just stops, and what would we be willing to trade for our own survival? Written with searing passion and dazzling momentum, Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America reverberates with the aftershocks of September 11. With compelling drive and theatrical daring, we are swept from cocktails at the Guggenheim to the hungry vacuum of Ground Zero. Stephen Sewell demands answers to some of the most urgent questions of our times. Where is the line between patriotism and nationalism? What happens when the Land of the Free makes such uncompromising statements as: ''You''re either with us or against us''?
£18.99
Currency Press Pty Ltd Songket and This Territory Two plays
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£18.04
Currency Press Pty Ltd Beautiful Words
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£14.24
Currency Press Pty Ltd The Kid
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Dont Say the Words
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Currency Press Pty Ltd The Serpents Teeth Two oneact plays Citizens and
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CURRENCY PRESS The Great
Book SynopsisThe Great is Tony McNamara's distinctive comic take on the rise and reign of Catherine the Great of Russia. The action spans the course of Catherine's adult life as she learns the ways of the world and takes on the challenge of political power with all of its attendant responsibilities, excesses and sorrows. It is at once a coming of age story, a family drama and a wild satire on power. With an attention to veracity that would make Monty Python squeal, history is well and truly damned. Leave the facts with your car keys and your towel on the Sands of Time, come, frolic in the Sea of Great Unlikelihood...
£14.98
Currency Press Pty Ltd Realism
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Currency Press Pty Ltd Checklist for an Armed Robber
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£14.24