Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books

In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in...

"Az Ördög, vigjáték három felvonásban" is a play by Ferenc Molnár, originally published in 1907. This Hungarian-language drama, whose title translates to "The Devil," offers a glimpse into the theatrical landscape of...

This volume presents a comprehensive collection of William Shakespeare's dramatic works, enhanced with insightful notes and commentary. Featuring contributions from notable scholars such as John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, and...

This is Volume 9 of "A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare," edited by Horace Howard Furness. This edition offers a comprehensive collection of notes, textual variants, and scholarly commentary on Shakespeare's works, making it an invaluable resource for...

Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the "Golden Age" of Broadway and the start of the Off Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938-2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic...

Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the "Golden Age" of Broadway and the start of the Off Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938-2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic...

This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse...

Today, debates about the cultural role of the humanities and the arts are roiling. Responding to renewed calls to reassess the prominence of canonical writers, Shakespeare On Stage and Off introduces new perspectives on why and how William Shakespeare...

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare's place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies,...

'Adrian Noble vigorously highlights the extraordinary rhythmic, linguistic patterns Shakespeare gives the speaker. Any actor will find this book invaluable. For any student of Shakespeare it should be essential.' (From the Foreword by Ralph Fiennes)'How...

Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot After Brecht

Casual Shakespeare is the first full-length study of the thousands of quotations both in and of Shakespeare's works which represent intertextuality outside of what is conventionally appreciated as literary value. Drawing on the insights...

In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than...

Wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived, this Research Companion investigates Shakespeare's relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare's specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism's likeness and...

""Illustrazioni della Divina Commedia"" ����� un libro del 1822 scritto da Scipione Colelli. Il libro contiene una serie di illustrazioni che rappresentano le diverse scene della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Le illustrazioni sono realizzate con...

Il Pentamerone V1: Or The Tale Of Tales (1893) ����� un libro scritto da Giovanni Battista Basile. Questo libro ����� una raccolta di fiabe e storie popolari italiane che Basile ha raccolto e trascritto nel 17����� secolo. Il libro ����� diviso in cinque...

Il libro del Sette Savi di Roma tratto da un codice del decolo XIV e del Libero Arbitrio trattato di S. Bernardo ����� un'opera di Antonio Cappelli, pubblicata nel 1866. Il libro ����� una rara edizione di un testo antico che narra la storia di sette...

Helgi und Sigrun: Zw������lf Lieder germanischer Heldensage ist ein Buch von Werner Hahn, das im Jahr 1867 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es enth�����lt eine Sammlung von zw������lf Liedern, die sich mit der germanischen Heldensage befassen. Die Lieder...

Das Buch ""Heinzelein Von Konstanz"" wurde 1852 von Franz Pfeiffer verfasst. Es handelt von einem jungen Mann namens Heinzelein, der aus Konstanz stammt und in die Welt hinauszieht, um Abenteuer zu erleben. Auf seinen Reisen trifft er auf verschiedene...

Das Buch ""Epische Verwandtschaften Im Altfranz������sischen Volksepos"" von Julius Wilhelm Determann, erschienen im Jahr 1887, befasst sich mit der Analyse von Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen in altfranz������sischen Volks-Epen. Der Autor untersucht die...

Einfluss: Der Angelsachsischen Gelehrten Auf Die Cultivirung Deutschland's ist ein Buch, das im Jahr 1870 von Wilhelm Schmidt ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk besch�����ftigt sich mit dem Einfluss, den Gelehrte aus England und den USA auf die Kultur...

Das Buch ""Ein Beitrag zur Untersuchung der Quellenbenutzung bei Diodor"" von Edwin Evers aus dem Jahr 1882 ist eine Studie zur Nutzung von Quellen durch den antiken griechischen Historiker Diodor. Der Autor untersucht Diodors Verwendung von Quellen in...

Das Buch ""Die Griechische Tragodie Im Lichte Der Vasenmalerei"" von John H. Huddilston wurde im Jahr 1900 ver������ffentlicht. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit der griechischen Trag������die und untersucht die Darstellung dieser Kunstform auf antiken...

Chefs-D'Oeuvres Dramatiques De P. Corneille V2: Avec Les Notes De Tous Les Commentateurs (1844) est un livre qui regroupe les chefs-d'�����uvre dramatiques de Pierre Corneille, un c�����l�����bre dramaturge fran�����ais du XVIIe si�����cle. Cette...

Le livre ""Chefs-D'Oeuvre De Pierre Corneille V1: Le Cid-Horace (1878)"" est une collection de deux pi�����ces de th����������tre �����crites par Pierre Corneille. Le premier, ""Le Cid"", raconte l'histoire d'un jeune homme nomm����� Rodrigue qui doit...

Bibliotheca Bigotiana Manuscripta (1877) est un livre �����crit par Jean Bigot. C'est un recueil de manuscrits qui ont �����t����� collect�����s et conserv�����s par la famille Bigot pendant plusieurs g�����n�����rations. Les manuscrits sont...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""The Bacons and Shakespeare, Their Lives in Parallel Lines: With Incidental Discussions on the Plays and Poems of Shakespeare"" is a book written by Harry Stratford Caldecott and published in 1908. The book explores the lives of two of the most famous...

Sun-Ways Of Song (1910) is a book of poetry written by Alonzo Leora Rice. The poems in this collection explore themes such as love, nature, and spirituality, and are written in a lyrical and imaginative style. The title of the book refers to the way that...

For One And The World is a novel written by Matilda Betham-Edwards and was first published in 1890. The story is set in the late 19th century and follows the life of a young woman named Mary, who is forced to leave her home in the countryside and move to...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Il libro ""Le Prose De Filippo Mordani Da Raveena (1854)"" ����� una raccolta di scritti del poeta e scrittore italiano Filippo Mordani. Le opere presenti in questo volume includono poesie, racconti e saggi scritti dall'autore durante il XIX secolo...

Il libro ""Storie Fiorentine Di Messer Bernardo Segni Gentiluomo Fiorentino V2 (1830)"" di Niccolo Capponi ����� una raccolta di racconti storici sulla citt������ di Firenze, scritti da Bernardo Segni, un nobile fiorentino del XVI secolo. Questo secondo...

While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama ceased at the end of antiquity the ideals of Jews and Christians had already...

Massinger's Italy offers the first book-length account of the pervasive role of Italy and its culture in Massinger's corpus, discussing to which extent Massinger contributed to energizing the myth of Italy.

This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing...

In this new monograph, Claire Hansen demonstrates how Shakespeare can be understood as a complex system, and how complexity theory can provide compelling and original readings of Shakespeare's plays. The book utilises complexity theory to illuminate...

This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted picture of Shakespeare's scenes of hospitality-with their...

This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact...

Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian, his contemporary Roman authors, and Christian Apologists. Offering a multi-faceted analysis of...

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This bibliography will give comprehensive coverage to published commentary in English on Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition during the period from 1961-1985. Doctoral dissertations will also be included. Each entry will provide a clear and detailed...

Originally published in 1986. This volume points to the rich variety of critical responses to the Henry IV plays and their complexity. It includes selections from characteristic thought of the neoclassical age, character criticism in the eighteenth and...

An Analysis of all the Plays and Fragmentary Works in Jean-Paul Sartre's Théâtre complet is the first volume to propose a critical analysis of all of Jean-Paul Sartre's plays as published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2005.

With its thirteen essays, spanning different types of Italian 'resources', from novellas to dramas, scenarios and dialogues, the book aims at offering a wide-ranging array of topics that foregrounds a more complex dynamics of circulation and...

Offering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the theory and practice of Tsubouchi's Shakespeare translation and argues for Tsubouchi's place as 'the Japanese Shakespeare'.

Presentist Shakespeares is the first extended study of the principles and practice of 'presentism', a critical movement that takes account of the never-ending dialogue between past and present.In this bold and consistently thought-provoking collection of...