Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books

Die Spezifik der städtischen Formation Wiens um 1900 bestand in der Überlagerung zweier divergierender Schichten, die sich im Stadtkörper, in den Handlungsformen der Stadtbewohner und in der Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung der Stadt auffinden lassen: die...

Die im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts wachsende Diskrepanz zwischen literarischer Dramatik und moderner Bühne brachte gravierende Verschiebungen mit sich. Die Vielfalt heutiger Theatertexte lässt sich nicht mehr nach Gesichtspunkten der Poetologie des...

Alongside Wieland Wagner, Walter Felsenstein (1901-1975) was the most important opera director of the early post-war period in Germany. To this day, the dramaturgic preparation of his productions at the Komische Oper in East Berlin can justly claim...

This volume gathers 16 papers originally written for the occasion of the 49th Colston Symposium, held in Bristol in 1997, and substantially revised for this publication. They reflect on some of the key developments in the discipline of Theatre Studies...

Die Studie widmet sich dem Problem der Bewegungsanalyse, ausgehend von Gesellschaftstanz und Tanztheater im 20. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum steht die Motorik des sich bewegenden Köouml;rpers. Aus der analytischen Beobachtung und Beschreibung -...

Die Analysen des vorliegenden Bandes setzen diejenigen von »Theatralia Judaica I« fort, die die jüuuml;dische Teilhabe am mitteleuropäauml;ischen Theater seit Beginn der jüdischen Emanzipation bis zum...

Provides a clearer understanding and interpretation of characters who suffer from mental and emotional extremities in Shakespearean drama.

This is a collection for our times - from four women poets who have taken on Shakespeare, and their love, during the pandemic. The fact that they were in conversation with each other about a literary figure and his works, and worked towards this...

The persona of Edward de Vere represents a contrast to the canonical, Stratfordian image of Shakespeare. His adulterous affair with a teenage girl half his age, his complicity in acts of treason against Queen Elizabeth, and the bankruptcy of his...

Provides a new way of thinking about film's relation to theatre.

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Local/Global Shakespeare and Advertising examines the two-way relationship between Shakespeare and advertising - in the broad sense of the term - both within and beyond Anglophone cultures.

Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust uses Jewish theology to mount a courageous new reading of a four-hundred-year-old play, The Merchant of Venice, and propose a similar analysis of Othello and The Tempest.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Why do Shakespeare and the English Bible seem to have an inherent relationship with each other? How have these two monumental traditions in the history of the book functioned as mutually reinforcing sources of cultural authority? How do material books...

Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c.1600) is one of his most captivating plays. A comedy of mistaken identities, it has given rise to thought-provoking debates around such issues as gender identity and role-playing, manipulation and deception...

This volume explores Shakespeare's interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience's most common responses to tragic drama in the theater.

William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is one of the finest studies of human psychology and its range of personalities is exciting - there is the egotistical Caesar himself whose "wisdom is consumed in confidence", there is the playboy-cum-politician Antony...

Be warned! The far-ranging notes and essays of Sweet Marjoram are addictive. Once I began reading, I couldn’t stop. I wanted more of Henry’s wit and wisdom, his dazzling, surprising juxtapositions. I wanted to see him keep making the familiar...

This book contains the English and French texts and a complete record of the genesis of each. Besides Comment C'est How It Is, O'Reilly has included L'Image and an excerpt from Comment C'est that was published later in another volume.

The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom. In this book, first published in 1963, four aspects of the problems of justice in action in Shakespeare's great tragedies are explored. This study is based on...

Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean...

Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Traces the development of black theater in America by examining the work of the theater's five most productive playwrights: Willis Richardson, Randolph Edmonds, Langston Hughes, LeRoi Jones, and Ed Bullins.

This book argues that Shakespeare and various cultures of celebrity have enjoyed a ceaselessly adaptive, symbiotic relationship since the final decade of the sixteenth century, through which each entity has contributed to the vitality and adaptability of...

Le Songe de Bocace est un livre �����crit par Giovanni Boccaccio et publi����� en 1715. Il s'agit d'un r�����cit all�����gorique qui raconte le r������ve de l'auteur, dans lequel il est transport����� dans un jardin enchant����� o����� il rencontre des...

Le Roma Veritable, Partie 2 : Ou Sous Des Noms Et Des Pais Empruntez (1647) est un livre anonyme qui explore l'histoire de Rome ������ travers les noms et les lieux qui ont �����t����� emprunt�����s au fil du temps. Le livre se concentre sur les...

Le livre intitul����� ""Le Grand Empire De L�������Un Et Lautre Monde Divise En Trois Royaumes"" a �����t����� �����crit par Pierre, Jean De La en 1625. Ce livre est une �����uvre de litt�����rature politique qui explore l'id�����e d'un empire mondial...

""Der Landjunker"" ist ein Theaterst�����ck von John Vanbrugh aus dem Jahr 1773. Es handelt von dem reichen Landjunker Squire Richard und seiner Familie, die in einem Herrenhaus auf dem Land leben. Richard ist stolz auf seine Abstammung und seinen...

Chef-d'�����uvres Dramatiques de Montfleury (1791) est une collection de pi�����ces de th����������tre �����crites par l'auteur fran�����ais Antoine Jacob de Montfleury. La collection comprend neuf pi�����ces, dont certaines ont �����t����� jou�����es...

The Tragedy of Valentinian is a play written by Francis Beaumont in 1619 and first published in 1717. The play is set in ancient Rome and tells the story of Valentinian, the Emperor of Rome, who falls in love with his stepmother, Lucina. The play...

The Music To The Agamemnon Of Aeschylus is a book published in 1900, written by Aeschylus. It is a collection of musical scores that were composed to accompany the famous Greek tragedy, Agamemnon. The book includes the original Greek text of the play, as...

""The History of Our Shakespeare Club"" is a book written by William Harris and published in 1903. The book is a detailed account of the Shakespeare Club, a literary society that was formed in Harris's hometown of Birmingham, England in the mid-19th...

Holiday Letters is a collection of letters written by a Dundee merchant during his travels in Europe in the late 19th century. The letters are addressed to his family and friends and provide a vivid and detailed account of his experiences, observations,...

""History of Charles the Great and Orlando V1: Ascribed to Archbishop Turpin"" is a book written by Thomas Rodd in 1812. The book is a historical account of the legendary figure of Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great, and his famous knight,...

Winner of two Obie Awards, a New York Drama Critics Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet is widely considered to be one of the most prolific and powerful voices in contemporary American theater. A seminal figure whose reputation as an innovative...

A surprisingly large number of women writers, directors, and performers have created works that talk back to Shakespeare, or to most earlier and more traditional interpretations of his plays, in the late 20th century. For example, Jane Smiley's A...

Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares is a savvy look at the wide range of adaptations, spin-offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in 1990s popular culture. What does it say about our culture when Shakespearean references turn up in television episodes of The...

Ibsen's Drama: Right Action and Tragic Joy argues that in his late plays, Ibsen struggled with and finally repudiated the Aristotelian ideas of reality and change that held sway over the earlier part of his career, and more generally over nineteenth...