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Garcia Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism - The Aesthetics of Anguish (Hardcover): David F. Richter Garcia Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism - The Aesthetics of Anguish (Hardcover)
David F. Richter
R2,860 Discovery Miles 28 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Garcia Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and drawings of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 1936). In contrast to the idealist and subconscious tenets espoused by surrealist leader Andre Breton, which focus on the marvelous, automatic creative processes, and sublimated depictions of reality, Lorca s surrealist impulse follows a trajectory more in line with the theories of French intellectuals such as Georges Bataille (1897 1962), who was expulsed from Breton s authoritative group. Bataille critiques the lofty goals and ideals of Bretonian surrealism in the pages of the cultural and anthropological review Documents (1929 1930) in terms of a dissident surrealist ethno-poetics. This brand of the surreal underscores the prevalence of the bleak or darker aspects of reality: crisis, primitive sacrifice, the death drive, and the violent representation of existence portrayed through formless base matter such as blood, excrement, and fragmented bodies. The present study demonstrates that Bataille s theoretical and poetic expositions, including those dealing with l informe the formless] and the somber emptiness of the void, engage the trauma and anxiety of surrealist expression in Spain, particularly with reference to the anguish, desire, and death that figure so prominently in Spanish texts of the 1920s and '30s often qualified as surrealist. Drawing extensively on the theoretical, cultural, and poetic texts of the period, Garcia Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism offers the first book-length study to consider Bataille s thinking within the Spanish context, examined through the work of Lorca, a singular exponent of what is here referred to as a dissident Spanish surrealism. By reading Lorca s surrealist texts (including Poeta en Nueva York, Viaje a la luna, and El publico) through the Bataillean lens, this volume both amplifies our understanding of the poetry and drama of one of the most important Spanish writers of the twentieth century and also expands our perspective of what surrealism in Spain means."

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre (Hardcover): Martin Middeke, Peter Paul Schnierer The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre (Hardcover)
Martin Middeke, Peter Paul Schnierer; Volume editing by Greg Homann, Martin Middeke, Peter Paul Schnierer
R4,578 Discovery Miles 45 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

South Africa has a uniquely rich and diverse theatre tradition which has responded energetically to the country's remarkable transition, helping to define the challenges and contradictions of this young democracy. This volume considers the variety of theatre forms, and the work of the major playwrights and theatre makers producing work in democratic South Africa. It offers an overview of theatre pioneers and theatre forms in Part One, before concentrating on the work of individual playwrights in Part Two. Through its wide-ranging survey of indigenous drama written predominantly in the English language and the analysis of more than 100 plays, a detailed account is provided of post-apartheid South African theatre and its engagement with the country's recent history. Part One offers six overview chapters on South African theatre pioneers and theatre forms. These include consideration of the work of artists such as Barney Simon, Mbongeni Ngema, Phyllis Klotz; the collaborations of William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company; the work of Magnet Theatre, and of physical and popular community theatre forms. Part Two features chapters on twelve major playwrights, including Athol Fugard, Reza de Wet, Lara Foot, Zakes Mda, Yael Farber, Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom, Mike van Graan and Brett Bailey. It includes a survey of emerging playwrights and significant plays, and the book closes with an interview with Aubrey Sekhabi, the Artistic Director of the South African State Theatre in Pretoria. Written by a team of over twenty leading international scholars, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre is a unique resource that will be invaluable to students and scholars from a range of different disciplines, as well as theatre practitioners.

Contemporary European Playwrights (Hardcover): Maria M. Delgado, Bryce Lease, Dan Rebellato Contemporary European Playwrights (Hardcover)
Maria M. Delgado, Bryce Lease, Dan Rebellato
R4,491 Discovery Miles 44 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent's society and culture, and whose work is still in dialogue with Europe today. Traversing borders and languages, this volume offers a fresh approach to analyzing plays in production by some of the most widely-performed European playwrights, assessing how their work has revealed new meanings and theatrical possibilities as they move across the continent, building an unprecedented picture of the contemporary European repertoire. With chapters by leading scholars and contributions by the writers themselves, the chapters bring playwrights together to examine their work as part of a network and genealogy of writing, examining how these plays embody and interrogate the nature of contemporary Europe. Written for students and scholars of European theatre and playwriting, this book will leave the reader with an understanding of the shifting relationships between the subsidized and commercial, the alternative and the mainstream stage, and political stakes of playmaking in European theatre since 1989.

Rona Munro's Bold Girls - (Scotnotes Study Guides) (Paperback): Gillian Sargent Rona Munro's Bold Girls - (Scotnotes Study Guides) (Paperback)
Gillian Sargent
R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Rona Munro's 1991 play Bold Girls is a tale of four Belfast women during the Troubles, exploring personal and communal history, and what it means when aspects of a community - ideologies, relationships, and spaces, for example - are threatened. Despite being set in a very specific time and place, the themes are universal: how societies are warped by male violence, dominance, and social privilege, and female subservience to that behaviour. Bold Girls is a case-study of the victims - rather than the perpetrators - of conflict: an unsentimental portrait of women's lives under psychological siege. Gillian Sargent's Scotnote Study Guide provides a comprehensive overview to the characters and themes of Munro's play, as well as its artistic and cultural influences, and is an excellent guide for senior school pupils and teachers alike.

Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition - The Muses in America (Hardcover): Robert J. Rabel Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition - The Muses in America (Hardcover)
Robert J. Rabel
R4,473 Discovery Miles 44 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first monograph to fully explores Sherwood's use of the classical past.

Backwards and Forwards - A Technical Manual for Reading Plays (Paperback, 2nd): David Ball Backwards and Forwards - A Technical Manual for Reading Plays (Paperback, 2nd)
David Ball
R630 R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Save R37 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.

Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stageworthy. The text is full of tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play. He includes guides for discovering what the playwright considers the play's most important elements, thus permitting interpretation based on the foundation of the play rather than its details.

Using "Hamlet" as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to those who want to put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production specialists) "Backwards and Forwards" is also a fine playwriting manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of the playwright.

Law and Drama in Ancient Greece (Hardcover, New): Edward M. Harris, D. Leao, P.J. Rhodes Law and Drama in Ancient Greece (Hardcover, New)
Edward M. Harris, D. Leao, P.J. Rhodes
R3,891 Discovery Miles 38 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The relationship between law and literature is rich and complex. In the past three and half decades, the topic has received much attention from literary critics and legal scholars studying modern literature. Despite the prominence of law and justice in Ancient Greek literature, there has been little interest among Classical scholars in the connections between law and drama. This is the first collection of essays to approach Greek tragedy and comedy from a legal perspective. The volume does not claim to provide an exhaustive treatment of law and literature in ancient Greece. Rather it provides a sample of different approaches to the topic. Some essays show how knowledge of Athenian law enhances our understanding of individual passages in Attic drama and the mimes of Herodas and enriches our appreciation of dramatic techniques. Other essays examine the information provided about legal procedure found in Aristophanes' comedies or the views about the role of law in society expressed in Attic drama. The collection reveals reveal how the study of law and legal procedure can enhance our understanding of ancient drama and bring new insights to the interpretation of individual plays.

Modern European Tragedy - Exploring Crucial Plays (Hardcover, New): Annamaria Cascetta Modern European Tragedy - Exploring Crucial Plays (Hardcover, New)
Annamaria Cascetta
R2,067 Discovery Miles 20 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, being closely bound with the concept of the limit of inescapable necessity that has been embodied in and expressed through theatre since the time of the ancient Greeks. This book addresses the question of how the twentieth century - one of the most violent periods of human history - dealt with the fundamental structure that is the tragic. Examining the consciousness of the era through an in-depth analysis of some of the twentieth century's most outstanding texts - including works by Ibsen, Claudel, O'Neill, Brecht, Camus, Beckett, Pasolini, Grotowski, Delcuvellerie and Josse De Pauw - 'Modern European Tragedy' draws a vivid picture of the development that tragedy experienced during this time.

Lorca in English - A History of Manipulation through Translation (Hardcover): Andrew Samuel Walsh Lorca in English - A History of Manipulation through Translation (Hardcover)
Andrew Samuel Walsh
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lorca in English examines the evolution of translations of Federico Garcia Lorca into English as a case of rewriting and manipulation through politically and ideologically motivated translation. As new translations of Federico Garcia Lorca continue to appear in the English-speaking world and his literary reputation continues to be rewritten through these successive re-translations, this book explores the reasons for this constant desire to rewrite Lorca since the time of his murder right into the 21st century. From his representation as the quintessential Spanish Republican martyr, to his adoption through translation by the Beat Generation, to his elevation to iconic status within the Queer Studies movement, this volume analyzes the reasons for this evolution and examines the current direction into which this canonical author is heading in the English-speaking world.

The Making of Victorian Drama (Hardcover, New): Anthony Jenkins The Making of Victorian Drama (Hardcover, New)
Anthony Jenkins
R2,714 Discovery Miles 27 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book Anthony Jenkins examines seven Victorian playwrights who, despite their own ideals and prejudices and the theatre’s conservatism, tried to come to terms with such momentous subjects as womanliness, honour and money. The opening chapter sets the frame of reference that briefly describes the social transformation of theatre during the century and the increasing respectability of actors and playhouses. Subsequent chapters deal with the drama of Edward Bulwer, Tom Robertson, W. S. Gilbert, H. A. Jones, Arthur Pinero, Oscar Wilde, and Bernard Shaw. Each of these dramatists sought to create a theatre of ideas according to his own vision of art and society. Their work confronts and interprets the limitations of an idealized theatre, the portrayal of character, the sanctity of marriage, and the charade of social hypocrisy. The plays are examined within the social and political context of the Reform Bill, the Revolution of 1848, the Great Exhibition, royal patronage, censorship and copyright, and, above all, the ‘Woman Question’. Jenkins combines politics and theatrical history with literary criticism to shed provocative light on the struggle to relate the London theatre to the realities of Victorian England. The book contains illustrations from the period and will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre history, English literature and social history, and women’s studies.

On Beckett - Essays and Criticism (Paperback, Revised): S.E. Gontarski On Beckett - Essays and Criticism (Paperback, Revised)
S.E. Gontarski; Introduction by S.E. Gontarski
R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'On Beckett' is a collection of writings about the Nobel Prize-winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.

The Stukeley Plays - 'The Battle of Alcazar' by George Peele and 'the Famous History of the Life and Death of... The Stukeley Plays - 'The Battle of Alcazar' by George Peele and 'the Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Charles Edelman
R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sir Thomas Stukeley, the notorious English courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier, died at the Battle of Alcazar in Morocco in 1578, while serving in the army of King Sebastian of Portugal. This volume comprises the first modern-spelling, annotated edition of two plays in which he is a major character: George Peele's 'The Battle of Alcazar' (c.1588), and the anonymous 'Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley' (c.1596). In his extensive introduction and commentary, Charles Edelman discusses the plays' authorship, their many textual problems, and what they reveal about Elizabethan performance practices. He also challenges most of the traditional assumptions about them. This edition shows that both works, long held to be unperformable, are instead fascinating and worthwhile representatives of the most exciting age in the history of the theatre. -- .

The Works (Hardcover): Christopher Marlowe, Edited by C. F. Tucker Brooke The Works (Hardcover)
Christopher Marlowe, Edited by C. F. Tucker Brooke
R1,120 R1,011 Discovery Miles 10 110 Save R109 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A scholarly edition of works by Christopher Marlowe. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Plautus Comoediae Vol. I: Amphitruo - Mercator (Hardcover): W.M. Lindsay Plautus Comoediae Vol. I: Amphitruo - Mercator (Hardcover)
W.M. Lindsay
R1,603 Discovery Miles 16 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Bucolici Graeci (Hardcover): A. S. Gow, A.S.F. Gow Bucolici Graeci (Hardcover)
A. S. Gow, A.S.F. Gow
R1,550 R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Save R321 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the foot of each page. There are now over l00 volumes, representing the greater part of classical Greek and Latin literature.

Memorias cronologicas sobre el origen de la representacion de comedias en Espana (ano de 1785) (Paperback): Jose Antonio De... Memorias cronologicas sobre el origen de la representacion de comedias en Espana (ano de 1785) (Paperback)
Jose Antonio De Armona, Charles Davis; Edited by Charles Davis; J.E. Varey; As told to J.E. Varey
R2,836 Discovery Miles 28 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Una nueva edicion de la primera historia sistematica del teatro en Espana. Esta nueva edicion de las Memorias cronologicas de Jose Antonio de Armona ofrece por primera vez un analisis pormenorizado de las fuentes documentales empleadas por el autor, que constituyen su aportacion mas fundamentlos estudios teatrales. La obra de Armona es la primera historia sistematica del teatro en Espana, desde el final de la Edad Media hasta su propia epoca. Aunque incluye una vision general de la literatura dramatica del Siglo de Oro, se centra principalmente en los aspectos institucionales del teatro. En su calidad de Corregidor de Madrid, le correspondia a Armona el cargo de Juez Protector, maxima autoridad de la administracion de los teatros publicos y los actores, y la mayor parte de sus Memorias se dedica a este tema. Habiendo reflexionado sobre su experiencia como Protector y los problemas planteados por conflictos jurisdiccionales en este ambito, Armona examino sus origenes y evolucion mediante extensas investigaciones en los archivos municipales de Madrid, reuniendo y recopilando una nutrida coleccion de documentos que aclaran multiples aspectos de la historia teatral. Por tanto, sus Memorias estan estrechamente relacionadas con la documentacion municipal publicada en tomos anteriores de las Fuentes para la Historia del Teatro en Espana, y deben situarse en este contexto. En espanol xiv+352 pp., 8 ilus.b/n Fuentes para la Historia del Teatro en Espana, XIV CHARLES DAVIS es Honorary Research Fellow de Queen Mary, Universidad de Londres.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The Impresario in Political and Cultural Context (Hardcover): Jack DeRochi, Daniel Ennis Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The Impresario in Political and Cultural Context (Hardcover)
Jack DeRochi, Daniel Ennis
R4,067 R2,864 Discovery Miles 28 640 Save R1,203 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural studies of the era. While his pyrotechnic life as a romantic hero, playwright, Member of Parliament, and theatre manager has generated a number of recent biographies, it is Sheridan's works-not just plays but also poetry and orations-that endure. These essays reclaim the legacy of the man of letters and partisan bon vivant who burst from obscurity to become a powerful cultural force in Georgian London. This collection covers the many lives of Sheridan, taking into account both his variegated career and the competing accounts of the man, as well as his early verse, which lays the foundation for his success as a playwright. Chapters are devoted to Sheridan's theatre, and provide innovative readings of his most famous dramatic pieces: The Rivals, The Duenna, The School for Scandal, The Critic, and Pizarro. The volume also includes extensive discussion of the dramatic highs of Sheridan's long political career, thus placing the playwright-politician firmly in the world in which performance and politics were inextricably entwined. Contributors: Mita Choudhury, Jack E. DeRochi, Marianna D'Ezio, Daniel J. Ennis, Emily Friedman, Steven Gores, David Haley, Robert W. Jones, Daniel O'Quinn, Glynis Ridley, John Vance, David Francis Taylor

Andreas Gryphius - A Modern Perspective (Hardcover): Blake Lee Spahr Andreas Gryphius - A Modern Perspective (Hardcover)
Blake Lee Spahr
R3,093 Discovery Miles 30 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664) was the greatest German poet and dramatist of the 17th century, yet he remains virtually unknown outside his own country. One of the chief reasons for his relative obscurity outside Germany is that almost all studies devoted to him are written in German. Another problem has to do with the inaccessibility of the recondite forms of Baroque literature. This book is designed especially for students and scholars in disciplines other than German, particularly those in comparative literature and the modern languages, where a lack of knowledge about this major German writer distorts a proper international perspective on major figures of the 17th century. But it also addresses the Germanist, especially scholars in Germany; they will find interpretations and a way of presenting them entirely new.

Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy (Paperback): Derek Gottlieb Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy (Paperback)
Derek Gottlieb
R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies, serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human, responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanation. Taking its cue from Stanley Cavell's influential readings of Othello and Lear, the book argues that exposure or vulnerability to others is the source of both human happiness and human misery; while the tragedies showcase attempts at the evasion of such vulnerability through the self-defeating pursuit of epistemological certainty, the comedies present the drama and the difficulty of turning away from an epistemological register in order to productively respond to the fact of our humanity. Where Shakespeare's tragedies might be viewed in Cavellian terms as the drama of skepticism, Shakespeare's comedies then exemplify the drama of acknowledgement. As a parallel and a preamble, Gottlieb suggests that the field of literary studies is itself a site of such revealing responses: where competing research methods strive to foreclose upon (or, alternatively, rejoice in) epistemological uncertainty, such commitments bespeak an urge to avoid or circumvent the human in the practice of scholarship. Reading Shakespeare's comedies in tandem with a "defactoist" view of teaching and learning points in the direction of a new humanism, one that eschews both the relativism of old deconstruction and contemporary Presentism and the determinism of various kinds of structural accounts. This book offers something new in scholarly and popular understanding of Shakespeare's work, doing so with both philosophical rigor and literary attention to the difficult work of reading.

Autumnal Faces - Old Age in British and Irish Dramatic Narratives (Hardcover, New edition): Katarzyna Bronk Autumnal Faces - Old Age in British and Irish Dramatic Narratives (Hardcover, New edition)
Katarzyna Bronk
R2,359 Discovery Miles 23 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Drama and "Ideenschmuggel" - Inserted Performance as Communicative Strategy in Karl Gutzkow's Plays 1839-1849 (Paperback,... Drama and "Ideenschmuggel" - Inserted Performance as Communicative Strategy in Karl Gutzkow's Plays 1839-1849 (Paperback, New edition)
K Scott Baker
R1,419 Discovery Miles 14 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This monograph details Gutzkow's recurring use of performance-within-the-play as a means of encouraging an active, political response by the audience. He incorporates an internal audience viewing a performance on stage in order to model an ideal of dramatic reception for the audiences of his own play. Gutzkow structures the narrative contextualization of these performances as reflections of specific issues in the German states of the Vormarz. Beginning with an overview of theoretical and literary texts from the 1830s, this study traces Gutzkow's transferral of self-reflexive structures from his novels of this decade into his first staged play, Richard Savage (1839), and on through Das Urbild des Tartuffe (1844) and Uriel Acosta (1845). It concludes by portraying Der Konigsleutnant (1849) as a transitional work that shows Gutzkow's decision to return to the novel as a consequence of the failure of his plays to attain the reception he intended. By using the coherency of the communicated message instead of fealty to aesthetic norms as the evaluative criteria for discussing Gutzkow's plays, the book exposes an innovative mode of specifically literary social criticism in these works that complements their traditional assessment as documentation of the cultural history of Liberalism in this period.

Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid - By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger (Hardcover): Jose a Perez Diez Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid - By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger (Hardcover)
Jose a Perez Diez
R2,627 Discovery Miles 26 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's comedy Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615) is an innovative and provocative play that explores the struggle of two transgender siblings, Lucio and Clara, who have been brought up as members of their opposite genders. After twenty years of separation, they are forced to switch around their gender identities, facing fierce scrutiny from their family and the cruelly heteronormative society of early modern Seville. This Revels Plays volume is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of the play ever to be published. The text has been modernised and is accompanied by full commentary. The introduction presents ground-breaking research on the play's remarkable engagement with its Spanish literary sources, and it provides a full discussion of its dating, authorship, and reception by literary critics and in the theatre. -- .

The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader (Paperback): Brian Walsh The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader (Paperback)
Brian Walsh
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Revenger's Tragedy is one of the most vital, important, and enduring tragedies of the Jacobean era, one of the few non-Shakespearean plays of that period that is still regularly revived on stage and taught in classrooms. The play is notable for its piercing insight into human depravity, its savage humour, and its florid theatricality. This collection of new essays offers students an invaluable overview of the play's critical and performance history as well as four critical essays offering a range of new perspectives.

Representation and Reception - Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking (Hardcover, New edition):... Representation and Reception - Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking (Hardcover, New edition)
Shehla Burney
R2,146 Discovery Miles 21 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Representation and Reception: Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking deploys German playwright Bertolt Brecht's theory of drama and performance, what he calls "the pedagogics of theatre", to create modes of critical thinking in the classroom. Extrapolating on Brecht's estranged forms of representation-narrative, story, montage, Verfremdungseffeckt or alienation, tableaux, ostension (showing), gestus, masks and music-Burney constructs an original "3-R Pedagogy" or "spiral of semiosis"-"Rethinking/Replaying/Re-cognition"-that is designed to create critical thinking and "complex seeing". Her dramatic production of Brecht's Lehrstuck, or learning-play, The Exception and the Rule, for a non-literate, working-class audience in Hyderabad, India, critically analyses how audiences make meaning through image, word and ideology, gesture, memory, collective experience and personal (hi)stories.

Reconsidering National Plays in Europe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Suze van der Poll, Rob van der Zalm Reconsidering National Plays in Europe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Suze van der Poll, Rob van der Zalm
R3,379 Discovery Miles 33 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume frames the concept of a national play. By analysing a number of European case studies, it addresses the following question: Which play could be regarded as a country's national play, and how does it represent its national identity? The chapters provide an in-depth look at plays in eight different countries: Germany (Die Rauber, Friedrich Schiller), Switzerland (Wilhelm Tell, Friedrich Schiller), Hungary (Bank Ban, Jozsef Katona), Sweden (Gustav Vasa, August Strindberg), Norway (Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen), the Netherlands (The Good Hope, Herman Heijermans), France (Tartuffe, Moliere), and Ireland. This collection is especially relevant at a time of socio-political flux, when national identity and the future of the nation state is being reconsidered.

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