Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books

Scriptores Rerum Hungaricarum Minores V2: Hactenus Inediti, Synchroni, Aut Proxime Coaevi est opus litterarum ab Joseph De Batthyan editum. In hoc libro, scriptores Hungarici minores, qui usque ad tempora huius libri inediti vixerunt, describuntur. Libri...

Dieses Buch über Wolfgang und Cornelia Goethes Lehrer stellt einen Beitrag zu Goethes Entwicklungsgeschichte dar und wurde nach archivalischen Quellen erstellt. Es ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1909. Illustriert...

Comedy in Context: Essays on Moliereby H. Gaston HallThis book brings together a dozen essays devoted to the aspects of Moliere's stagecraft, each of which illustrates in its way Hall's thesis of comedy in context. It is only in the later generations...

Die Eiche in alter und neuer Zeit ist eine mythologisch-kulturhistorische Studie von Paul Reinhold Wagler. Der erste Teil des Buches besch�����ftigt sich mit der Bedeutung der Eiche in der Mythologie und Kulturgeschichte. Wagler untersucht die Rolle der...

Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a play written by William Shakespeare in the late 16th century. The play tells the story of two best friends, Valentine and Proteus, who fall in love with the same woman, Silvia, and their journey to...

L. Fenestellae De Magistratibus, Sacerdotiisque Romanorum Libellus, auctore Fenestella, Lucio, est opus quod Romanorum magistratibus et sacerdotiis antiquis, eorumque officiis, potestatibus et ritibus explicat. In hoc libro, auctor historiam Romanorum...

Le livre ""Tablettes Des Bibliophiles De Guyenne V2 (1877)"" de Richou, Gabriel Charles Marie est un recueil de textes et d'informations sur les bibliophiles de la r�����gion de Guyenne en France. Le livre est divis����� en plusieurs sections qui...

Titi Livi Ab Urbe Condita Libri V3 est opus historicum, quod a Tito Livio scriptum est. In hoc libro, Livius historiam Romanorum a condita urbe usque ad bellum Punicum secundum narrat. Liber tertius continet narrationem de bello inter Romanos et Sabinos,...

This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare. Taking three fundamental Protestant concerns of the era - (double) predestination, conversion, and free will - it demonstrates how Protestant...

Appreciating Shakespeare makes easily available the essential tools for understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's plays and poems, which means experiencing the deep and thrilling meanings of his works.Part 1 offers the background knowledge--about...

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe. In plays from 1682-1799, The Theatres...

This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British...

This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species' history. Our genetic and...

Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest playwright the world has known. But it has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand his works. This series gives you engaging and readable prose retellings of the complete works,...

Grand-Guignolesque explores the continuing influence and legacy of the infamous Parisian theatre of horror. The volume consists of a critical introduction along with thirteen previously unpublished scripts of classic Grand-Guignol and modern horror...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, one of several plays based on true events from Roman history.As a historical drama of Roman war time, Julius Caesar explores the...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the English Romantic Movement. He was also a member of the famous Lake Poets, together with William Wordsworth and Robert Southey...

Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare's audiences. In When Honour's at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and...

Originally published in 1992, Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance is the first book-length study to examine the Elizabethan and Jacobean children's drama, not only from a musicological perspective, but also drawing on the histories...

An original intervention in the critical history of Shakespeare's most famous play, Histrionic Hamlet argues that the Danish Prince is a stage representation of a histrionic personality, incongruously thrown in the middle of ruthless high-stakes power...

This book critically engages with the study of theatre and performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom, institution-building, modernity, nation/subject not only as concepts but...

Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D'Annunzio: Modernist Playwrights challenges the general resistance in scholarship and queer studies to approach Yeats and D'Annunzio through a queer lens because of their controversial affiliations with fascism and...

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama e xplores class as a complicated, contingent phenomenon modified by a wider range...

This book takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England. For playhouse audiences during the period, conversional thought encompassed a markedly...

The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell'Arte traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outside Italy into popular forms which bear little resemblance to the original. The book follows the Masks of Arlecchino, Pedrolino...

This is the first book to view Shakespeare's plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and...

Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies...

What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a...

As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare's time, we work in a field that contains many significant losses: of texts, of contextual information, of other forms of cultural activity. No account of early modern literary...

Who really wrote the Shakespeare plays? This important literary and cultural controversy is livelier and more widely discussed than ever before. Here, nine leading experts offer their version of who wrote the plays. In new essays especially written for...

The Hero's Journey in Film interprets twelve Hollywood movies in a mythical context, using Joseph Campbell's model of the hero's journey: Departure-Initiation-Return. It also weaves in concepts from the related fields of archetypal psychology and...

" Les notes qui suivent ont pour but principal d'éclairer et d'assurer le très petit nombre de renseignements qu'on a pu rassembler sur les quarante premières années de la vie de notre grand comique, en les faisant concorder avec les faits publics et...

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Passau, course: Elizabethan Tragedies, language: English, abstract: This essay is dedicated to the influence of witchcraft and...

It is a fact that today's British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and that, very often, these voices have been those of young women playwrights. This collection of essays gives visibility and pride of place to these fascinating voices by...

Identifying, naming, and belonging lend a sense of rational order, a feeling of rootedness within specific societies and eras, yet that order may collapse and threaten to undermine the predictability that ensures stability. As Spain enters only its fifth...

ପ୍ରାକ୍‌-ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା କାଳରେ ରଚିତ ସାମାଜିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ନାଟକ ଯେଭଳି ସମାଜର ଚିତ୍ର ବହନ କରିଛି ତାହା ଗ୍ରନ୍ଥଟିରେ ସୂଚିତ ହୋଇଛି । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟରେ ପ୍ରଥମ ନାଟକ ରଚନା ହେବା ବେଳକୁ ସମାଜରେ ପୂରି ରହିଥିଲା ଅନ୍ଧବିଶ୍ୱାସ ଓ କୁସଂସ୍କାର । ତତ୍କାଳୀନ ନବ୍ୟ ଶିକ୍ଷିତ ସଂପ୍ରଦାୟ ଉକ୍ତ ପ୍ରଥାର...

These randomly selected 7 plays would transport the readers beyond their trite mundane existence to seven different transcendental terrains-sometimes illusively comic and farcical to unexpected depths of fantasy and the uncanny. The plays included...

With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always...

With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always...

Pooling their resources, twenty-two leading experts on Early Stuart drama here explore three closely interconnected questions. To what extent did playwrights how their dramatis personae as forming, or failing to form, communal groupings? How far were...

Il Pastor Fido ����� una tragicommedia scritta da Giovan Battista Guarini nel 1590. La storia si svolge in Arcadia, dove il giovane pastore Mirtillo ����� innamorato della bella pastorella Amarilli. Tuttavia, Amarilli ����� promessa in sposa a un altro...

Il libro ""Il Drama Popolare In Roma Nel Periodo Delle Origini E Suoi Pretesi Rapporti Con La Comedia Dell' Arte"" scritto da Giacomo Cortese nel 1897, si concentra sull'analisi del teatro popolare a Roma durante il periodo delle sue origini e sui suoi...

Il Decamerone di Giovanni Boccaccio V2: Con Spiegazioni Tratte Dai Migliori Commentarj (1849) ����� un libro che contiene la seconda parte delle novelle raccolte da Giovanni Boccaccio nel celebre Decameron. Quest'opera, scritta nel XIV secolo, ����� una...