Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books

Socialists, Socialites, and Sociopaths is a quartet of plays and screenplays written by Frank Tuttle between film directing assignments during the last twenty-five years of his life. Even more than his autobiography, They Started Talking, Tuttle's...

Shakespeares works contain some of the most time-honored truths in Western civilization, and Shakespeare himself was a forward-thinking, enlightened man who wanted us to explore the way things were during his life, suggesting that we could all be better...

Set in politically unstable environments, Shakespeare's history plays--Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV and Henry V--and HBO's Western series Deadwood (2004-2006) all stand as critiques of myths of national origin, the sanitized stories we tell...

"Hamlet" and other plays by Shakespeare are allegories for the major theories of cosmology extant during the poet's lifetime. Shakespeare writes of the competition between Earth-centered and Sun-centered cosmologies, and between planetary systems in...

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Zanetto And Cavalleria Rusticana: Italian Librettos (1902) is a book that contains two Italian librettos written by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti. The first libretto, Zanetto, tells the story of a young minstrel who falls in love with a courtesan named...

Yzdra: A Tragedy In Three Acts is a play written by Louis Vernon Ledoux, first published in 1907. The play tells the story of Yzdra, a young woman living in a small village in Russia. Yzdra is in love with a man named Ivan, but her father has arranged...

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 Song of Milgenwater is a novel written by Marc Antony Henderson and published in 1856. The story follows the life of a young man named Milgenwater, who is born into poverty in a small village. Despite his difficult upbringing, Milgenwater possesses a...

This heartfelt defense of Shakespeare's classic play Romeo and Juliet makes a compelling case for its continued importance in modern times. Filled with insightful analysis and compelling arguments, it is a must-read for anyone who loves this beloved play...

Dieses Buch bietet eine einzigartige Perspektive auf die Charakterisierung in den Dramen von William Shakespeare. Der Autor Wilhelm Vershofen untersucht die Rolle von Nebenfiguren und ihre Beziehung zu den Hauptfiguren in ausgewählten Stücken, um ihre...

Wilhelm Weygandt beleuchtet in diesem Buch die Persönlichkeiten und Charaktere aus einigen der wichtigsten Dramen der Weltgeschichte. Von den schillernden Figuren Shakespeares bis hin zu den komplexen Persönlichkeiten von Ibsen und Hauptmann zeigt dieses...

Bristol explores the influence of Shakespeare on American culture, from the earliest colonial productions of his plays to the present day. Analyzing both theater history and critical reception, Bristol argues that Shakespeare has played a central role in...

Frank Sidgwick's book examines the sources and analogues of William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer-Night's Dream. It offers a comprehensive study of the literary and mythological traditions that contributed to the play's creation.This work has been...

This fascinating book explores the sources that Shakespeare drew on when writing two of his famous plays, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus. The author, Plutarch, was a Greek biographer and historian who wrote about the lives of many influential...

The Greek Drama is an in-depth analysis of ancient Greek theatre and its plays, including their themes, styles, and historical context. It features translations of selected plays and excerpts, as well as discussions of the theories of Aristotle and other...

In diesem Buch stellt uns der Autor die faszinierende Beziehung zwischen Giordano Bruno und Shakespeare vor. Dabei untersucht er die möglichen Einflüsse von Bruno auf das Werk von Shakespeare, sowie die Grenzen und Herausforderungen des Humanismus in der...

Albert Harris Tolman's dissertation examines the role of William Shakespeare in the creation of The Taming of the Shrew. He argues that in the composition of the play, Shakespeare was likely drawing on older Italian works already in circulation, and that...

In this critical analysis of Shakespeare's works, Andrew Becket examines the textual history and various interpretations of the plays, offering his own analysis of the language and themes. He also provides a detailed examination of the editorial...

Who was William Shakespeare? Many scholars have speculated over the mystery of Shakespeare’s identity. Was he really just a man—a poet, playwright, and favorite of the Queen? Was he a collective of writers creating the lasting works of art under...

A distinguishing feature of Shakespeare's later histories is the prominent role he assigns to the need to forget. This book explore the ways in which Shakespeare expanded the role of forgetting in histories from King John to Henry V, as England contended...

Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as...

Forgiving the Gift challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges, negotiations, and circulations. Lawrence reads plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as informed by an early modern belief in the possibility and even...

Shakespeare Settings can be read as a narrative, but it is also a reference work that allows one to trace connections among persons and events surrounding William Shakespeare. It documents the friendship between two men of very different social classes...

Later Roman Education In Ausonius, Capella And The Theodosian Code: With Translations And Commentary is a book written by Percival Richard Cole in 1909. The book explores the state of education in the later Roman Empire, focusing on the works of three...

Shakespeare Festivals Around the World, edited by recognised Shakespeare scholar Marcus D. Gregio, explores the everlasting nature of William Shakespeare via essays about theatre practice and comprehensive listings of more than one hundred...

As one of the foremost Shakespearean scholars of the 19th century, John Wesley Hales provides a valuable commentary on Shakespeare's plays in this collection of essays. He analyzes the characters, themes, and language of the plays, placing them in their...

This book includes illustrations and interpretations of William Shakespeare's works. The author aims to provide a unique perspective on the playwright's most famous works, including Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. The illustrations are created by various...

This book examines the moral philosophy underlying the works of William Shakespeare. Moulton argues that Shakespeare's plays are deeply concerned with questions of ethics and that they offer valuable insights into human behavior and decision making.This...

Dieses Buch ist eine umfassende Einführung in das Drama als literarische Gattung. Der Autor beleuchtet die wichtigsten Merkmale und Traditionen des Dramas und zeigt, wie es sich im Laufe der Geschichte entwickelt hat. Mit seinen klugen Analysen und...

Richard Simpson's classic work on Shakespeare and his contemporaries explores the cultural and intellectual milieu of Renaissance England. He argues that the works of Shakespeare reflect the values, beliefs, and experiences of his time, and that they...

Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derrida's work, this book argues that these adaptations...

This ground-breaking collection of essays focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Leading scholars and practitioners explore the ways that familiar and new works of theatre and dance...

In 1601, at the height of his career, Shakespeare wrote a 67-line untitled elegy-now frequently known as "The Phoenix and Turtle"-for inclusion, along with verse by Ben Jonson, John Marston, and George Chapman, in a collection called Diverse Poetical...

The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries continue to inspire fresh interpretations in every genre and medium. Reinventing the Renaissance: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Adaptation and Performance offers new perspectives on the ways in...

Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the...

This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays - Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear and Cymbeline - to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, The University of Arizona, language: English, abstract: I would like to explore and mainly compare the characters of Eve and Dalila with...