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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General

Staging Politics and Gender - French Women's Drama, 1880-1923 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): C. Beach Staging Politics and Gender - French Women's Drama, 1880-1923 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
C. Beach
R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Staging Politics and Gender , Cecilia Beach examines the political and feminist plays of French playwrights who have largely been overlooked until now. Beach highlights the importance of theatrical endeavors which women perceived as a powerful way to promote political opinions. The author analyzes the work of Louise Michel, Nelly Roussel, Marie Leneru, Vera Starkoff, and Madeline Pelletier and discusses anarchist theatre and forms of social protest theatre at the turn of the century.

Antony and Cleopatra (Hardcover): William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): S Weller Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
S Weller
R1,514 Discovery Miles 15 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work, as opposed to the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity.

Contemporary Black British Playwrights - Margins to Mainstream (Hardcover): L. Goddard Contemporary Black British Playwrights - Margins to Mainstream (Hardcover)
L. Goddard
R2,822 Discovery Miles 28 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje.

The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture (Hardcover, Parental Adviso): C. Fitzgerald The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture (Hardcover, Parental Adviso)
C. Fitzgerald
R1,515 Discovery Miles 15 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a needed new interpretation of the complex cultural meanings of the late medieval, guild-produced, biblical plays of York and Chester, England, commonly known as mystery plays. It argues that the plays are themselves a "drama of masculinity," that is, dramatic activity specifically and self-consciously concerned with the fantasies and anxieties of being male in the urban, mercantile worlds of their performance. It further contends that the plays in their historical performance contexts produced and reinforced masculine communities defined by occupation, thus visibly naturalizing the world of work as masculine. The book offers welcome insight into a significant, canonical genre of dramatic literature that has been studied previously in devotional and civic contexts, but not yet in its role in the cultural history of masculinity.

Dark Attractions (Hardcover): Brian Woolland Dark Attractions (Hardcover)
Brian Woolland
R1,826 Discovery Miles 18 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A major study of the work of one of Britain's best-known dramatists Peter Barnes was one of the UK's most significant, prolific and enduring playwrights. This book offers a major critical appraisal of the canon of Barnes' work, including a detailed study of his best-known plays, The Ruling Class, Bewitched, Laughter!, Red Noses, and Dreaming, as well as a selection of his television and radio plays which illuminate his thematic concerns, and offer key insights into his dramatic methods. Through this examination, Brian Woolland shows that many of Barnes' plays have remarkable contemporary relevance, and are formally far more innovative than has hitherto been recognised. Woolland analyses the ways in which Barnes uses and subverts theatrical traditions, and relates his work to relevant critical contexts: theatrical, critical and socio-political. Deservedly, Barnes' use of comedy is given special attention. It is a sad truth that Barnes' great talents have not always been acknowledged by the theatrical establishment. In this exciting study, Barnes finally gets the recognition he deserves, as one of the most original, daring and exuberant dramatists of his generation.

Adorno and Modern Theatre - The Drama of the Damaged Self in Bond, Rudkin, Barker and Kane (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): K.... Adorno and Modern Theatre - The Drama of the Damaged Self in Bond, Rudkin, Barker and Kane (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
K. Gritzner
R2,882 R1,919 Discovery Miles 19 190 Save R963 (33%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adorno and Modern Theatre explores the drama of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker and Sarah Kane in the context of the work of leading philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). The book engages with key principles of Adorno's aesthetic theory and cultural critique and examines their influence on a generation of seminal post-war dramatists.

Theatre and Celebrity in Britain 1660-2000 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): Mary Luckhurst, Jane Moody Theatre and Celebrity in Britain 1660-2000 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Mary Luckhurst, Jane Moody
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Theatre has always been a site for selling outrage and sensation, a place where public reputations are made and destroyed in spectacular ways. This is the first book to investigate the construction and production of celebrity in the British theatre. These exciting essays explore aspects of fame, notoriety and transgression in a wide range of performers and playwrights including David Garrick, Oscar Wilde, Ellen Terry, Laurence Olivier and Sarah Kane. This pioneering volume examines the ingenious ways in which these stars have negotiated their own fame. The essays also analyze the complex relationships between discourses of celebrity and questions of gender, spectatorship and the operation of cultural markets.

Shakespeare's Surrogates - Rewriting Renaissance Drama (Hardcover): S. Loftis Shakespeare's Surrogates - Rewriting Renaissance Drama (Hardcover)
S. Loftis
R2,614 Discovery Miles 26 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that the adaptation of Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. This book reveals the way that modern drama built itself in response to its Elizabethan past, ransacking the literary work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries for 'new' innovations in dramatic technique and content. Indeed, playwrights central to the evolution of modern and postmodern drama often returned at key moments in their writing careers to the remains of the Renaissance. Sonya Freeman Loftis argues that for playwrights such as Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard, and Heiner Muller, Shakespearean appropriation was central both to the creation of their public personas and to the development of their own dramatic canons.

Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Hardcover, New): Thomas Adler Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Hardcover, New)
Thomas Adler
R2,681 Discovery Miles 26 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists. They both received landmark productions and are widely-studied and performed around the world. The plays have also inspired popular screen adaptations and have generated a body of important and lasting scholarship.
In this indispensable Reader's Guide, Thomas P. Adler:
- charts the development of the criticism surrounding both works, from the mid-twentieth century through to the present day
- provides a readable assessment of the key debates and issues
- examines a range of theoretical approaches from biographical and New Criticism to feminist and queer theory.
In so doing, Adler helps us to appreciate why these plays continue to fascinate readers, theatregoers and directors alike.

The Theatre of Nation - Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism 1890-1916 (Hardcover, New): Ben Levitas The Theatre of Nation - Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism 1890-1916 (Hardcover, New)
Ben Levitas
R5,231 Discovery Miles 52 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Theatre of Nation is a study of the development of the theatre movement and its relationship to political change in Ireland during the pre-revolutionary period. Ben Levitas traces the connections between Irish drama and Irish politics, and concludes that Ireland's theatre had a pivotal role to play in the controversies of its time and in the coming revolution.

Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s - Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (Hardcover, New): Chris Megson Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s - Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (Hardcover, New)
Chris Megson; Contributions by Janelle Reinelt, Paola Botham, Richard Boon; Series edited by Philip Roberts, …
R3,552 Discovery Miles 35 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Essential for students of Theatre Studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and reassessment of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each volume equips readers with an understanding of the context from which work emerged, a detailed overview of the range of theatrical activity and a close study of the work of four of the major playwrights by a team of leading scholars. Chris Megson's comprehensive survey of the theatre of the 1970s examines the work of four playwrights who came to promience in the decade and whose work remains undiminished today: Caryl Churchill (by Paola Botham), David Hare (Chris Megson), Howard Brenton (Richard Boon) and David Edgar (Janelle Reinelt). It analyses their work then, its legacy today and provides a fresh assessment of their contribution to British theatre. Interviews with the playwrights, with directors and with actors provides an invaluable collection of documents offering new perspectives on the work. Revisiting the decade from the perspective of the twenty-first century, Chris Megson provides an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of British playwriting in the 1970s.

Tragedy and Irish Literature - Synge, O'Casey, Beckett (Hardcover): R. McDonald Tragedy and Irish Literature - Synge, O'Casey, Beckett (Hardcover)
R. McDonald
R2,868 Discovery Miles 28 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Tragedy and Irish Writing McDonald considers the culture of suffering, loss, and guilt in the work of Synge, O'Casey, and Beckett. He applies external ideas of tragedy to the three dramatists and also discerns particular sorts of tragedy within their own work. While alert to the real differences among the three, the book also traces common themes and preoccupations. It identifies a conflict between form and content, between heightened language and debased reality, as the hallmark of Irish tragedy.

King Lear (Hardcover): William Shakespeare King Lear (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

The French Drama of the Unspoken (Hardcover, New edition): May Daniels The French Drama of the Unspoken (Hardcover, New edition)
May Daniels
R1,946 Discovery Miles 19 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Making of Menander's Comedy (Hardcover): Sander M. Goldberg The Making of Menander's Comedy (Hardcover)
Sander M. Goldberg
R4,573 Discovery Miles 45 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The discovery on papyrus of plays by Menander, the greatest writer of Greek New Comedy, at last makes possible an evaluation on his own terms of an ancient author who, through the adaptations of Plautus and Terence, profoundly influenced the course of western drama. The present study establishes a critical perspective for understanding the kind of comedy Menander wrote, his roots, the theatrical effects he sought, and the extent of his achievement. Chapters on the major plays analyse their techniques of construction and characterisation, suggesting both the strengths and the limitations of Menander's comic tradition. This study is based on the Oxford Greek text but cites all ancient authors in translation to open the discussion to a wider audience. An introductory chapter places the tradition of New Comedy in the history of drama, and modern parallels are drawn wherever helpful. It will therefore be of value to students of drama as well as to classicists.

The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939 (Hardcover): Anthony Roche The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939 (Hardcover)
Anthony Roche
R3,204 Discovery Miles 32 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a fresh reassessment of the work of the principal playwrights associated with the Irish Dramatic Revival, a movement that was to radically redefine Irish theatre and see the birth of the world's first national theatre, the Abbey, in 1904. The work of O'Casey and Synge has had a profound influence on generations of writers and remains key to the study of modern drama, whereas work by Yeats and Lady Gregory has received renewed attention among theatre makers and scholars owing to their radical innovation and range.From a consideration of the twin strands of Irish drama prior to the revival, Anthony Roche considers the work of Synge and his experimentation in the creation of a new national drama that drew on native sources while developing a modern and prophetic form of theatre. He explores the role of Yeats as founder and playwright; the role of women and in particular Lady Gregory as producer and dramatist; and the playwrights who emerged following independence. O'Casey's ground-breaking Dublin plays receive detailed consideration, and the new Irish modernism that followed in the 30s and which also witnessed the founding of the Gate Theatre in Dublin.The Companion also features a number of essays from other leading scholars and contemporary practioners offering a variety of critical perspectives on this period of radical change and development in modern Irish theatre.

William Saroyan - A Research and Production Sourcebook (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Jon Whitmore William Saroyan - A Research and Production Sourcebook (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Jon Whitmore
R2,106 Discovery Miles 21 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

William Saroyan, one of the most prolific writers in America, was the first playwright to win simultaneously both the New York Drama Critics' Circle award and the Pulitzer Prize in playwriting for T"he Time of Your Life" in 1940. In spite of his success, he quickly disappeared from the public eye. During the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote plays but did not allow them to be produced or published. Shortly before his death in 1981, his "Play Things" was produced at Vienna's English Theatre.

This volume concentrates in one source the tremendous amount of information available about Saroyan's life and work in the theatre. A chronology provides a capsule summary of the chief events in his career, and a critical overview assesses his place in American theatre. Entries for his plays include plot synopses, production information, and critical commentary. Annotated primary and secondary bibliographies list his published works, production reviews, and other writings about his theatrical career. The volume also includes archival sources to foster additional research about Saroyan.

S. N. Behrman - A Research and Production Sourcebook (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Robert F. Gross S. N. Behrman - A Research and Production Sourcebook (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Robert F. Gross
R2,088 Discovery Miles 20 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Behrman's prolific career as a Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter spans a period from the 1920s to the mid-1960s. As a writer for popular performance, he had to contend with commercial influences and with producers and directors involved in the dynamics of the collaborative process. Though eminently successful, his works have not received adequate critical scrutiny. His ouevre probably will never be fully determined because of collaboration, numerous rewrites, and the many unpublished and unproduced plays and scripts. Author Robert F. Gross here provides an immensely detailed record of the primary materials, published and unpublished, including plays, filmscripts, fiction, and essays, and of the critical response, both reviews and analytical studies. Focusing on Behrman as a dramatist, Gross has written extensive plot summaries and critical overviews for each of fifty-one plays. Where applicable, full production credits are given for premieres and revivals, and references are made to reviews and commentary about specific productions as well as to the plays in general. The annotated secondary bibliography is divided into chronologically organized sections for reviews and for books, parts of books, and articles. Fully cross-referenced, the material is also accessible through an author index to the secondary bibliography and a general subject index. In an opening appraisal, Gross expresses his appreciation for Behrman, whose high comedies he finds to be informed by a probing ethical conscience and whose goal of scrupulosity he emulates in his own work. This scrupulous playwright is here given his due in a comprehensive sourcebook of value for theatre historians and theatre professionals.

Reading And Writing A Screenplay - Fiction, Documentary and New Media (Paperback): Isabelle Raynauld Reading And Writing A Screenplay - Fiction, Documentary and New Media (Paperback)
Isabelle Raynauld
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships with 15 working days

Reading and Writing a Screenplay takes you on a journey through the many possible ways of writing, reading and imagining fiction and documentary projects for cinema, television and new media. It explores the critical role of a script as a document to be written and read with both future readers and the future film it will be giving life to in mind. The book explores the screenplay and the screenwriting process by approaching the film script in three different ways: how it is written, how it is read and how it can be rewritten. Combining contemporary screenwriting practices with historical and academic context, Isabelle Raynauld provides key analytical tools and reading strategies for conceptualizing and scripting projects based on the impact different writing styles can have on readers, with various examples ranging from early cinema to new media and new platforms throughout. This title offers an alternative, thought-provoking and inspiring approach to reading and writing a screenplay that is ideal for directors, producers, actors, students, aspiring screenwriters and readers interested in understanding how an effective screenplay is created.

25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival - A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth, and Black Theater... 25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival - A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth, and Black Theater (Hardcover)
Kelley Nicole Girod
R2,424 Discovery Miles 24 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While the past decade proved to be some of the most tumultuous times in modern US history, the Black community has been resilient, opening up dialogues and sustaining advocacy. Nowhere has this been more apparent than at the Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival in New York City. Since being founded in 2009, this theater festival has become the destination for emerging and early career playwrights from the African diaspora. Inequality in education and healthcare, skewed and negative images of Black people in mainstream media, racism in policing, widespread gentrification and its effects on multi-generational Black neighbourhoods, and the growth of Black love; these conversations have been happening in the US, and The Fire This Time Festival has borne witness. 25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth, and Black Theater reflects this fantastic legacy, containing 25 ten-minute plays originally produced by the eponymous festival. Together, these pieces bookend the Black experience in the US from 2009 to the present day: from the hope for further progress and equity under the Obama administration, to the existential threat faced by Black people under the Trump presidency. Edited and curated by Kelley Nicole Girod, the anthology divides the plays into seven thematic sections concerning multi-faceted aspects of the Black experience, featuring work by seminal writers such as Katori Hall, Antoinette Nwandu, Dominique Morisseau, C.A. Johnson, and Marcus Gardley. Both timely and timeless, 25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival presents an exciting, eclectic mix of 21st century theater that is perfect for study, performance, and reflection.

The Complete Euripides Volume V - Medea and Other Plays (Hardcover, Critical): Euripides The Complete Euripides Volume V - Medea and Other Plays (Hardcover, Critical)
Euripides; Edited by Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro
R2,029 Discovery Miles 20 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.
This volume collects Euipides' Alcestis (translated by William Arrowsmith), a subtle drama about Alcestis and her husband Admetos, which is the oldest surviving work by the dramatist; Medea (Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer), a moving vengeance story and an excellent example of the prominence and complexity that Euripides gave to female characters; Helen (Peter Burian), a genre breaking play based on the myth of Helen in Egypt; and Cyclops (Heather McHugh and David Konstan), a highly lyrical drama based on a celebrated episode from the Odyssey. This volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.

Staging Holocaust Resistance (Hardcover): Gene A. Plunka Staging Holocaust Resistance (Hardcover)
Gene A. Plunka
R1,296 R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Save R220 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gene A. Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. Drama of and about the Holocaust can be staged worldwide, thereby introducing the Shoah to diverse audiences. Moreover, theatre affects audiences emotionally, subliminally, or intellectually (sometimes simultaneously) in a direct way that many other art forms cannot match. This comparative drama study examines a variety of international plays - some quite well-known, others more obscure - that focus on collective or individual defiance of the Nazis.

Bussy D'Ambois - By George Chapman (Paperback, 3): N.S. Brooke Bussy D'Ambois - By George Chapman (Paperback, 3)
N.S. Brooke
R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Revels stuff. . . .|This Edition of George Chapman's tragedy differs from all other modern editions in being primarily based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. N. S. Brooke believes that the earlier text gives a more certain indication of Chapman's intentions and he has supported this view in an introduction and by a bibliographical and critical study of the play. The divergence between the texts of 1607 and 1641 are set out clearly in this volume, which includes the usual textual and critical apparatus found in the Revels series. -- .

Amid Our Troubles - Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy (Hardcover): J. Michael Walton, Marianne McDonald Amid Our Troubles - Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy (Hardcover)
J. Michael Walton, Marianne McDonald
R1,845 Discovery Miles 18 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

New essays on ancient Greek classics from Ireland's greatest living dramatists and academics That so many Irish playwrights should return to the Greek classics can not really be a surprise. Drama in Ireland is still a means of exploring the issues of family and state; of gender, class and race; of the oppressors and the oppressed. It is political in the broad sense in which the Greeks understood the word, involving everyone - immediate but concentrated through parallel and parable. This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists, of the past and present, have drawn on Greek myths and used these stories, which have travelled across three thousand years, to bring new insights on the world in which we now live. Including essays from, amongst others, Athol Fugard, Seamus Heaney and Tom Paulin Amid Our Troubles looks at the work of such writers as Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Brendan Kennelly, Frank McGuinness and W. B. Yeats.

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