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The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood - Royal King and Loyal Subject. a Woman Killed With Kindness. If You Know Not Me You Know... The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood - Royal King and Loyal Subject. a Woman Killed With Kindness. If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody, Pt. 1-2. the Golden Age. the Silver Age. an Apology for Actors, 1841 (No. 3) (Paperback)
Thomas Heywood
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Romeo and Juliet (Paperback): William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (Paperback)
William Shakespeare
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The English Drama and Stage Under the Tudor and Stuart Princes, 1543-1664 (Paperback): William Carew Hazlitt The English Drama and Stage Under the Tudor and Stuart Princes, 1543-1664 (Paperback)
William Carew Hazlitt
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Macbeth (Paperback): William Shakespeare Macbeth (Paperback)
William Shakespeare
R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631)... (Paperback): Thomas Seccombe The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631)... (Paperback)
Thomas Seccombe
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama (Paperback): Rupert Brooke John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama (Paperback)
Rupert Brooke
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

"Nathan the Wise", "Minna Von Barnhelm" and Other Plays and Writings (Hardcover): Gotthold Ephraim Lessing "Nathan the Wise", "Minna Von Barnhelm" and Other Plays and Writings (Hardcover)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Edited by Peter Demetz
R4,995 Discovery Miles 49 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lessing was a playwright, scholar, poet, archeologist, philosopher, and critic. His genius is evident in the works collected in this volume, which includes the comedy Minna von Barnhelm, the tragedy Emilia, Galotti, Nathan the Wise, The Jews (and related correspondence), Ernst and Falk: Conversations for the Freemasons, and selections from philosophical and theological writings>

Spraakopleiding En Opvoedkundige Drama (Afrikaans, Book): C. Louw Spraakopleiding En Opvoedkundige Drama (Afrikaans, Book)
C. Louw
R580 Discovery Miles 5 800 Ships in 7 - 10 working days

Die boek behandel spraakopleiding en opvoedkundige drama

Modern and Contemporary World Drama - Critical and Primary Sources (Hardcover): Esther Kim Lee Modern and Contemporary World Drama - Critical and Primary Sources (Hardcover)
Esther Kim Lee
R21,987 Discovery Miles 219 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bringing together 70 major critical articles across four volumes, Modern and Contemporary World Drama: Critical and Primary Sources collects scholarly articles, reviews and critical interventions that are indispensable to anyone wishing to gain an understanding of world drama from the past 150 years. Contesting a Eurocentric reading or history of modern drama, the articles underscore the importance of migration and transnational movements of dramatic forms, and place emphasis on the transmission and circulation of dramatic theories around the world. Modern drama is revealed as a worldwide phenomenon in which a diverse array of artists and writers participated and in which modernism is seen to have affected all parts of the world in ways that are much more complex and multi-directional than what has been assumed in Eurocentric models. The four volumes are arranged both thematically and chronologically to give readers a sense of how world modern and contemporary drama began and how it has been studied in the past 150 years. Volume 1: Beginnings This volume includes essays that describe various beginnings of modern drama. Instead of identifying a singular origin of modern drama with a linear chronology, the volume suggests multidirectional and multidimensional beginnings. The geographical area covered in the volume is extensive, and each essay describes different ways to conceptualize time, chronology, and what would be considered innovative in dramatic writing. Volume 2: Theories This volume includes essays that address theoretical questions of modern and contemporary world drama. In many ways, modern drama around the world began as a theoretical endeavor that questioned the fundamentals of the dramatic form. Like the first volume, the second illustrates an array of studies that challenge a singular interpretation of modern and contemporary drama. Many of the essays provide practical applications of dramatic theories, and all of them situate the core analysis in historically and politically specific contexts, and the volume questions what theory means to lived experiences in the era of globalization. Volume 3: Movements This volume includes themes of migration, exchange, national borders, exile, and diaspora, and the theatrical stage is often used as a laboratory to examine key issues of globalization and displacement. The volume also examines other definitions of "movements," including political and aesthetic movements that have determined the development of modern and contemporary drama. Like the first two volumes, the third volume prioritizes studies that emphasize the complexities of the global and cosmopolitan experience and refuses to arrive at a narrative with a singular or universal perspective. Volume 4: Twenty-First Century This volume continues many topics raised in the first three volumes and considers how the new millennium has affected the development of modern and contemporary world drama. The essays in the volume examine various developments that are commonly described with the prefix "post," as in posthumanism, post-truth, postcolonial, postrace, and post-nation. A number of the essays concern uncertainties around the future of humanity in the age of technological advancements and late capitalism.

Classical Comedy 1508-1786 - A Legacy from Italy and France (Hardcover): Richard Andrews Classical Comedy 1508-1786 - A Legacy from Italy and France (Hardcover)
Richard Andrews
R2,729 Discovery Miles 27 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Modern Tragedy (Hardcover): James Moran Modern Tragedy (Hardcover)
James Moran; Series edited by Simon. Shepherd
R1,640 Discovery Miles 16 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locations during the 20th century? Partly motivated by the urgency of our current situation in an age of ecocidal crisis, Modern Tragedy encompasses a variety of drama from throughout the 20th century. James Moran begins this book with John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea (1904), which shows how environmental awareness might be expressed through tragic drama. Moran also looks at Brecht's reworking of Synge's drama in the 1937 play Senora Carrar's Rifles, and situates Brecht's script in the light of the theatre practitioner's broader ideas about tragedy. Brecht's tragic thinking - informed by Hegel and Marx - is contrasted with the Schopenhauerian approach of Samuel Beckett. The volume goes on to examine theatre makers whose ideas were partly motivated by applying an understanding of the tragic narrative of Synge's Riders to the Sea to postcolonial contexts. Looking at Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin (1954), and J.P. Clark's The Goat (1961), Modern Tragedy explores how tragedy, a form that is often associated with regressive assumptions about hegemony, might be rethought, and how aspects of the tragic may coincide with the experiences and concerns of authors and audiences of colour.

Critical Moments - Fintan O'Toole on Modern Irish Theatre (Paperback): Fintan O'toole Critical Moments - Fintan O'Toole on Modern Irish Theatre (Paperback)
Fintan O'toole; Edited by Julia Furay, Redmond O'Hanlon
R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Few figures are more respected and quoted internationally than Fintan O'Toole, both as a controversial and provocative political commentator and theatre critic. This extensive collection brings together a wide range of his writings going back to 1980. It provides a privileged insight into the great moments of contemporary Irish theatre, marking the contributions of playwrights (Carr, Murphy, Friel, McGuinness), directors (Hynes, Byrne), actors (Hickey, McKenna), and designers (Vanek, Frawley). It also demonstrates his unsettling of the usual "canon," with his thoughtful arguments promoting certain playwrights who deserve to up be there with Ireland's best, including Antoine O'Flatharta, Paul Mercier, Dermot Bolger, and David Byrne.

Staging Violence Against Women and Girls - Plays and Interviews (Hardcover): Isley Lynn, Raul Quiros Molina, Bahar Brunton,... Staging Violence Against Women and Girls - Plays and Interviews (Hardcover)
Isley Lynn, Raul Quiros Molina, Bahar Brunton, Karis E. Halsall, Dacia Maraini, …
R1,998 Discovery Miles 19 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection brings together three international and contemporary plays that each denounce violence against women, alongside interviews with the creators and practitioners who brought them to life. With interviews with writers, directors and producers, who discuss the conception and staging of their plays, their hope is to de-glamourize the staging of violence, to give voice to the survivors of gendered violence, and to create awareness and empathy within the audiences. Little Stitches (London, 2014): four short pieces by Isley Lynn, Raul Quiros Molina , Bahar Brunton and Karis E. Halsall on the issue of Female Genital Mutilation as seen from the point of view of by-standers, health professionals, women who support the practice and, finally, survivors. 'Kubra' (Sydney, 2016) by Dacia Maraini, features a young female protagonist who was subjected to FGM/C as a child, and now brings her case to court. Rape Trial (Rome, 2018), adapted for theatre by Renato Chiocca from the international award-winning documentary of the same title made for Italian state television in 1979, shows how attitudes toward sexual violence, and judicial procedures, tend to turn rape survivors from accusers into accused, in court and in everyday discourse.

The Birth of Tragedy (Hardcover): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy (Hardcover)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
R1,049 R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Save R277 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Gaslight Sonatas (Hardcover): Fannie Hurst Gaslight Sonatas (Hardcover)
Fannie Hurst
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Equus (Paperback, 1st New edition): Peter Shaffer, Roy Blatchford, Adrian Burke Equus (Paperback, 1st New edition)
Peter Shaffer, Roy Blatchford, Adrian Burke
R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them with a spike. Why? While treating the boy, a psychiatrist discovers his own life is paradoxically in the witness box.

The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre (Hardcover): Jade Boyd The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre (Hardcover)
Jade Boyd
R2,326 Discovery Miles 23 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Enchanted April (Paperback, Revised edition): Matthew Barber Enchanted April (Paperback, Revised edition)
Matthew Barber
R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Oroonoko - a Tragedy as It is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Tho. Southerne... Oroonoko - a Tragedy as It is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Tho. Southerne (Hardcover)
Thomas 1660-1746 Southerne, Aphra 1640-1689 Behn
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marginalized - Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender (Hardcover): Casey Kayser Marginalized - Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender (Hardcover)
Casey Kayser
R3,150 Discovery Miles 31 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, author Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, making the argument that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region. Through analysis of the dramatic texts, the rhetoric of reviews of productions, as well as what the playwrights themselves have said about their plays and productions, Kayser delineates these challenges and argues that playwrights draw on various conscious strategies in response. These strategies, evident in the work of such playwrights as Pearl Cleage, Sandra Deer, Lillian Hellman, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Shay Youngblood, provide them with the opportunity to lead audiences to reconsider monolithic understandings of northern and southern regions and, ultimately, create new visions of the South.

A Thousand Times More Fair - What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us about Justice (Paperback): Kenji Yoshino A Thousand Times More Fair - What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us about Justice (Paperback)
Kenji Yoshino
R462 R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Celebrated legal scholar Kenji Yoshino's first book, Covering, was acclaimed--from the New York Times Book Review to O, The Oprah Magazine to the American Lawyer--for its elegant prose, its good humor, and its brilliant insights into civil rights and discrimination law. Now, in A Thousand Times More Fair, Yoshino turns his attention to the question of what makes a fair and just society, and delves deep into a surprising source to answer it: Shakespeare's greatest plays. Through fresh and insightful readings of Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus, Othello, and others, he addresses the fundamental questions we ask about our world today and elucidates some of the most troubling issues in contemporary life.

Enormously creative, engaging, and provocative, A Thousand Times More Fair is an altogether original book about Shakespeare and the law, and an ideal starting point to explore the nature of a just society-and our own.

Telling Our Stories of Home - International Performance Pieces By and About Women (Hardcover): Kathy A. Perkins Telling Our Stories of Home - International Performance Pieces By and About Women (Hardcover)
Kathy A. Perkins
R2,551 Discovery Miles 25 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is home? The answer seems obvious. But Telling Our Stories of Home, an international collection of eleven plays by and about women from Lebanon, Haiti, Venezuela, Uganda, Palestine, Brazil, India, UK, and the US, complicates the answer. The "answer" includes stories as far-ranging as: enslaved women trying to create a home, one by any means necessary, and one in the ocean; siblings wrestling with their differing devotion to home after their mother's death; a family wrestling with the government's refusal to allow the burial of their soldier-son in their hometown; a young scholar attempting to feel at home after studying abroad; a young man fleeing home due to his sexual orientation only to discover the difficulty of creating home elsewhere, and Siddis (Indians of African descent) continuing to struggle for acceptance despite having lived in India for over 600 years. These are voices seldom represented to a larger audience. The plays and performance pieces range from 20 to 90-minute pieces and include a mix of monologue, duologue, and ensemble plays. Short yet powerful, they allow fantastic performance opportunities particularly in an age of social-distancing with flexible casts that together invite the theme of home to be performed and studied on the page. The plays include: The House by Arze Khodr (Lebanon), Happy by Kia Corthron (US), The Blue of the Island by Evelyne Trouillot (Haiti), Nine Lives by Zodwa Nyoni (UK), Leaving, but Can't Let Go by Lupe Gehrenbeck (Venezuela), Questions of Home by Doreen Baingana (Uganda), On the Last Day of Spring by Fidaa Zidan (Palestine) Letting Go and Moving On by Louella Dizon San Juan (US), Antimemories of an Interrupted Trip by Aldri Anunciacao (Brazil), So Goes We by Jacqueline E. Lawton (US), and Those Who Live Here, Those Who Live There by Geeta P. Siddi and Girija P. Siddi (India)

The Play of Brahma; an Essay on the Drama in National Revival (Hardcover): James Henry 1873-1956 Cousins The Play of Brahma; an Essay on the Drama in National Revival (Hardcover)
James Henry 1873-1956 Cousins
R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gender and Religious Life in French Revolutionary Drama (Paperback): Annelle Curulla Gender and Religious Life in French Revolutionary Drama (Paperback)
Annelle Curulla
R3,004 Discovery Miles 30 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the final decade of the eighteenth century, theatre was amongst the most important sites for redefining France's national identity. In this study, Annelle Curulla uses a range of archival material to show that, more than any other subject matter which was once forbidden from the French stage, Roman Catholic religious life provided a crucial trope for expressing theatre's patriotic mission after 1789. Even as old rules and customs fell with the walls of the Bastille, dramatic works by Gouges, Chenier, La Harpe, and others depicted the cloister as a space for reimagining forms of familial, individual, and civic belonging and exclusion. By relating the dramatic trope of religious life to shifting concepts of gender, family, religiosity, and nation, Curulla sheds light on how the process of secularization played out in the cultural space of French theatre.

Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation (Hardcover): Bola Dauda, Toyin Falola Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation (Hardcover)
Bola Dauda, Toyin Falola
R3,386 Discovery Miles 33 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how the author's early years influence his life's work and how his writing, in turn, informs his political engagement. Three sections spanning his life, major texts, and place in history, connect Soyinka's legacy with global issues beyond the borders of his own country, and indeed beyond the African continent. Covering his encounters with the widespread rise of kleptocratic rule and international corporate corruption, his reflection on the human condition of the North-South divide, and the consequences of postcolonialism, this comprehensive biography locates Wole Soyinka as a global figure whose life and works have made him a subject of conversation in the public sphere, as well as one of Africa's most successful and popular authors. Looking at the different forms of Soyinka's work--plays, novels, and memoirs, among others--this volume argues that Soyinka used writing to inform, mobilize, and sometimes incite civil action, in a decades-long attempt at literary social engineering.

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