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The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry V (Hardcover): William Shakespeare The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry V (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Gary Taylor
R5,307 Discovery Miles 53 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Henry V, the climax of Shakespeare's sequence of English history plays, is an inspiring, often comic celebration of a young warrior-king. But it is also a study of the costly exhilarations of war, and of the penalties as well as the glories of human greatness. Introducing this brilliantly innovative edition, Gary Taylor shows how Shakespeare shaped his historical material, examines controversial critical interpretations, discusses the play's fluctuating fortunes in performance, and analyses the range and variety of Shakespeare's characterization. The first Folio text is radically rethought, making original use of the First Quarto (1600).

The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631)... (Paperback): Thomas Seccombe The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631)... (Paperback)
Thomas Seccombe
R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

A Doll's House: York Notes for A-level everything you need to catch up, study and prepare for and 2023 and 2024 exams and... A Doll's House: York Notes for A-level everything you need to catch up, study and prepare for and 2023 and 2024 exams and assessments (Paperback)
Henrik Ibsen, Frances Gray
R237 Discovery Miles 2 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An enhanced exam section: expert guidance on approaching exam questions, writing high-quality responses and using critical interpretations, plus practice tasks and annotated sample answer extracts. Key skills covered: focused tasks to develop your analysis and understanding, plus regular study tips, revision questions and progress checks to track your learning. The most in-depth analysis: detailed text summaries and extract analysis to in-depth discussion of characters, themes, language, contexts and criticism, all helping you to succeed.

John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama (Paperback): Rupert Brooke John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama (Paperback)
Rupert Brooke
R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Enchanted April (Paperback, Revised edition): Matthew Barber Enchanted April (Paperback, Revised edition)
Matthew Barber
R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
"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
R4,799 Discovery Miles 47 990 Ships in 12 - 17 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 8 - 11 working days

Die boek behandel spraakopleiding en opvoedkundige drama

Modern Tragedy (Hardcover): James Moran Modern Tragedy (Hardcover)
James Moran; Series edited by Simon. Shepherd
R1,577 Discovery Miles 15 770 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

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.

A Streetcar Named Desire (Hardcover, 1 New Ed): Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire (Hardcover, 1 New Ed)
Tennessee Williams
R594 Discovery Miles 5 940 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play depicts the conflict between a fading Southern belle and the brash lower-class society of her sister's family.

The Birth of Tragedy (Hardcover): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy (Hardcover)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
R1,011 R744 Discovery Miles 7 440 Save R267 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Gaslight Sonatas (Hardcover): Fannie Hurst Gaslight Sonatas (Hardcover)
Fannie Hurst
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Equus (Paperback, 1st New edition): Peter Shaffer, Roy Blatchford, Adrian Burke Equus (Paperback, 1st New edition)
Peter Shaffer, Roy Blatchford, Adrian Burke
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 9 - 15 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
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.

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
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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
R793 Discovery Miles 7 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Plautus: Menaechmi (Hardcover): V Sophie Klein Plautus: Menaechmi (Hardcover)
V Sophie Klein
R2,077 Discovery Miles 20 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus' most whimsical, provocative, and influential plays for the first time, and a useful first point of reference for scholars less familiar with Roman comedy. Menaechmi is a tale of identical twin brothers who are separated as young children and reconnect as adults following a series of misadventures due to mistaken identity. A gluttonous parasite, manipulative courtesan, shrewish wife, crotchety father-in-law, bumbling cook, saucy handmaid, quack doctor, and band of thugs comprise the colourful cast of characters. Each encounter with a misidentified twin destabilizes the status quo and provides valuable insight into Roman domestic and social relationships. The book analyzes the power dynamics at play in the various relationships, especially between master and slave and husband and wife, in order to explore the meaning of freedom and the status of slaves and women in Roman culture and Roman comedy. These fundamental societal concerns gave Plautus' Menaechmi an enduring role in the classical tradition, which is also examined here, including notable adaptations by William Shakespeare, Jean Francois Regnard, Carlo Goldoni and Rodgers and Hart.

Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights - Satellites and Comets; Summer Lightning; A Little Hero; A Child for Olya; The... Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights - Satellites and Comets; Summer Lightning; A Little Hero; A Child for Olya; The Pillow's Soul; Every Shade of Blue; A City Flower (Hardcover)
Tatiana Klepikova
R2,421 Discovery Miles 24 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights is the first anthology of LGBTQ-themed plays written by Russian queer authors and straight allies in the 21st century. The book features plays by established and emergent playwrights of the Russian drama scene, including Roman Kozyrchikov, Andrey Rodionov and Ekaterina Troepolskaya, Valery Pecheykin, Natalya Milanteva, Olzhas Zhanaydarov, Vladimir Zaytsev, and Elizaveta Letter. Writing for children, teenagers, and adults, these authors explore gay, lesbian, trans, and other queer lives in prose and in verse. From a confession-style solo play to poetic satire on contemporary Russia; from a play for children to love dramas that have been staged for adult-only audiences in Moscow and other cities, this important anthology features work that was written around or after 2013-the year when the law on the prohibition of "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors" was passed by the Russian government. These plays are universal stories of humanity that spread a message of tolerance, acceptance, and love and make clear that a queer scenario does not necessarily have to end in a tragedy just because it was imagined and set in Russia. They show that breathing, growing old, falling in love, falling out of love, and falling in love again can be just as challenging and rewarding in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia as it can be in New York, Tokyo, Johannesburg, or Buenos Aires.

Gender and Religious Life in French Revolutionary Drama (Paperback): Annelle Curulla Gender and Religious Life in French Revolutionary Drama (Paperback)
Annelle Curulla
R2,887 Discovery Miles 28 870 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Aristophanes: Frogs (Hardcover): C.W. Marshall Aristophanes: Frogs (Hardcover)
C.W. Marshall
R2,413 Discovery Miles 24 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes' Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduction guides students through the play, its themes and contemporary contexts, and its reception history. Frogs offers sustained engagement with the Athenian literary scene, with the politics of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War, and with the religious understanding of the fifth-century city. It presents the earliest direct criticism of theatre and a detailed description of the Underworld, and also dramatizes the place of Mystery cults in the religious life of Athens and shows the political concerns that galvanized the citizens. It is also genuinely funny, showcasing a range of comic techniques, including literary and musical parody, political invective, grotesque distortion, wordplay, prop comedy, and funny costumes. Frogs has inspired literary works by Henry Fielding, George Bernard Shaw, and Tom Stoppard. This book explores all of these features in a series of short chapters designed to be accessible to a new reader of ancient comedy. It proceeds linearly through the play, addressing a range of issues, but paying particular attention to stagecraft and performance. It also offers a bold new interpretation of the play, suggesting that the action of Frogs was not the first time Euripides and Aeschylus had competed against each other.

Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation (Hardcover): Bola Dauda, Toyin Falola Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation (Hardcover)
Bola Dauda, Toyin Falola
R3,254 Discovery Miles 32 540 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

The Variety Stage; a History of the Music Halls From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By Charles Douglas Stuart and... The Variety Stage; a History of the Music Halls From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By Charles Douglas Stuart and A.J. Park (Hardcover)
Charles Douglas Stuart; Created by A. J. Park
R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Seneca's Characters - Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves (Hardcover): Erica M. Bexley Seneca's Characters - Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves (Hardcover)
Erica M. Bexley
R2,548 R1,444 Discovery Miles 14 440 Save R1,104 (43%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Seneca's Characters addresses one of the most enduring and least theorised elements of literature: fictional character and its relationship to actual, human selfhood. Where does the boundary between character and person lie? While the characters we encounter in texts are obviously not 'real' people, they still possess person-like qualities that stimulate our attention and engagement. How is this relationship formulated in contexts of theatrical performance, where characters are set in motion by actual people, actual bodies and voices? This book addresses such questions by focusing on issues of coherence, imitation, appearance and autonomous action. It argues for the plays' sophisticated treatment of character, their acknowledgement of its purely fictional ontology alongside deep - and often dark - appreciation of its quasi-human qualities. Seneca's Characters offers a fresh perspective on the playwright's powerful tragic aesthetics that will stimulate scholars and students alike.

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