New Playwriting Strategies offers a fresh and dynamic approach to playwriting that will be welcomed by teachers and aspiring playwrights alike.

Next to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson is perhaps the most widely studied Renaissance dramatist. Very few students of literature or drama would not encounter Volpone or Bartholomew Fair in the course of their studies, and there has been a recent resurgence of interest in Epicoene, or the Silent Women amongst gender theorists. As part of The Complete Critical Guide series, this volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays. A must for students of the Renaissance.

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Contents:
General Editor's Note ^Kimball King. Introduction Lois Gordon. Introduction to Second Edition Lois Gordon. Chronology. 1. Creative Process and Meaning-Some Remark of Pinter's 'Letter to Peter Wood Martin Esslin 2. The Economy of Betrayl Ruby Cohn 3. Time for Change in No Man's Land Austin E. Quigley 4. Last to Go: A Structuralist Reading David Lodge 5. Monologue: The Play of Words Linda Ben-Zvi 6. The Dumb Waiter, The Collection, The Lover, and The Homecoming: A Revisionist Approach George Wellwarth 7. Displacement in Time and Space:Harold Pinter's Other Places Ewald Mengel 8. Film and Drama: The Opening Sequence of the Filmed Version of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (The Guest) Steven H. Gale 9. Pinter and Politics Susan Hollis Merritt 10. 'Yes! In the Sea of Life Enisled': Harold Pinter's Other Places Ewald Mengel 11. 'To Lay it Bare': Pinter, Shakespeare, and The Dwarfs Francis Gillen 12. Mind-less Men: Pinter's Dumb Waiters Robin Gordon 13. Harold Pinter in New York Lois Gordon 14. Photos, from Pauline Flanagan 15. Harold Pinter's Achievement and Modern Drama Kimball King & Marti Greene 16. Acting Pinter Mel Gussow 17. 'You're speaking to someone and you suddenly become another person: Storytelling in Pinter's Moonlight and Ashes to Ashes Ann C. Hall 18. Celebrating Pinter Michael Billington Selected Bibliography. Author Biographies. Index

In recent years there has been a massive upsurge in academic, professional and lay interest in mortality. This is reflected in academic and professional literature, in the popular media and in the proliferation of professional roles and training courses associated with aspects of death and dying.
Until now the majority of reference material on death and dying has been designed for particular disciplinary audiences and has addressed only specific academic or professional concerns. There has been an urgent need for an authoritative but accessible reference work reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the field. This Encyclopedia answers that need.
The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying consolidates and contextualizes the disparate research that has been carried out to date. The phenomena of death and dying and its related concepts are explored and explained in depth, from the approaches of varied disciplines and related professions in the arts, social sciences, humanities, medicine and the sciences.
In addition to scholars and students in the field-from anthropologists and sociologists to art and social historians - the Encyclopedia will be of interest to other professionals and practitioners whose work brings them into contact with dying, dead and bereaved people. It will be welcomed as the definitive death and dying reference source, and an essential tool for teaching, research and independent study.

Volume of new essays investigating Kleist's influences and sources both literary and philosophical, their role as paradigms, and the ways in which he responded to and often shattered them. Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a rebel who upset canonization by employing his predecessors and contemporaries as what Steven Howe calls "inspirational foils." It was precisely a keen awareness of literary and philosophical traditions that allowed Kleist to shatter prevailing paradigms. Though little is known about what specifically Kleist read, the frequent allusions in his enduringly modern oeuvre indicate fruitful dialogues with both canonical and marginal works of European literature, spanning antiquity (The Old Testament, Sophocles), the Early Modern Period (Shakespeare, De Zayas), the late Enlightenment (Wieland, Goethe, Schiller), and the first eleven years of the nineteenth century (Mereau, Brentano, Collin). Kleist's works also evidence encounters with his philosophical precursors and contemporaries, including the ancient Greeks (Aristotle) and representatives of all phases of Enlightenment thought (Montesquieu, Rousseau, Ferguson, Spalding, Fichte, Kant, Hegel), economic theories (Smith, Kraus), and developments in anthropology, sociology, and law. This volume of new essays sheds light on Kleist's relationship to his literary and philosophical influences and on their function as paradigms to which his writings respond.

Kanadehon Chushingura has been one of the most popular bunraku and kabuki plays. This fascinating study explores the full spectrum of ukiyo-e (floating world) representations of the Chushingura story. Essential reading for all students of Japanese theatre, the history of Japanese art and the social history of Japan.

Unique in any Western language, this is an invaluable resource for the study of one of the world's great theatrical forms. It includes essays by established experts on Kabuki as well as younger scholars now entering the field, and provides a comprehensive survey of the history of Kabuki; how it is written, produced, staged, and performed; and its place in world theater. Compiled by the editor of the influential Asian Theater Journal, the book covers four essential areas - history, performance, theaters, and plays - and includes a translation of one Kabuki play as an illustration of Kabuki techniques.

Contents:
General Editor's Introduction, Acknowledgments, Part I. The Tempest and the Critical Legacy Interpreting The Tempest: A History of Its Readings Part II. The Tempest and the Critics Preface to The Tempest or the Enchanted Island Patrick Murphy, Comment on Caliban John Dryden, The Adventurer, Number 83 Joseph Wharton, The Transcript of Lecture 9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Tempest Colerdige, The Tempest William Hazlitt, Tempest W.J. Birch, The Monster Caliban Daniel Wilson, Shakespeare's Last Plays Edward Dowden, Shakespeare's Tempest as Originally Produced at Court Ernest Law, The Tempest Don Cameron Allen, Romance, Farewell!: The Tempest M.C. Bradbrook, The Day of The Tempest John Bender, The Miranda Trap: Sexism and Racism in Shakespeare's Tempest Lorie Jerrell Leininger, Propsero's Wife Stephen Orgel, "Remember/First to Posses His Books:" The Appropriation of The Tempest, 1700-1800, Michael Dobson, Local Tempest: Shakespeare and the Work of the Early Modern Playhouse Douglas Bruster, Revisiting The Tempest, Fantasy an History in The Tempest Richard Wheeler, Part III. Performances of The Tempest The Tempest at Covent-Garden Hazlitt, Shakespeare Illuminated: Charles Kean's 1857 Production of The Tempest Mary Nillan, The Tempest at the Turn of the Century: Cross Currents in Production Nilan, Peter Brook's Tempest Margaret Croyden, The Tempest (National Theater at Old Vic's on 5 March 1974) Peter Ansorage, Prospero or the Director: Giorgio Strehler's The Tempest Jan Kott, A Brave New Tempest Lois Potter, The Tempest in Bali David E. R. George, Tampering with The Tempest Virginia Mason Vaughn & Alden T. Vaughn, Shakespeare at the Guthrie: The Tempest Through a Glass Darly Randall Louis Anderson, Tempest in a Smokepot Robert Brustein, Part IV. New Essays on The Tempest Listening for the Playwright's Voice, 4.1.139-5.1.32 Robert Hapgood, Alien Habitats in The Tempest Geraldo U de Sousa, Peopling, Profiting, and Pleasure in The Tempest Barbara Ann Sebeck, Print History of The Tempest in Early America, 1623-1787 Christopher Felker, "Their Senses I'll Restore": Montaigne and The Tempest Reconsidered Alan De Gooyer, Drama's "Inward Pinches": The Tempest James Stephans, Modernist Revisions of The Tempest: Auden, Woolf, Tippett Edward O'Shea, The Tempest as Political Allegory Claudia Harris

Coming after Charles Krance's edition of Company and of Ill Seen Ill Said (Beckett 1996), this is the third volume of Samuel Beckett's Complete Bilingual Works. Like those volumes, this one presents twin English and French texts and a complete record of the genesis of each one. This volume will serve primarily as a research tool in two areas: comparative study of Beckett's English and French texts, along with the study of the genesis of those texts.

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Shakespeare Criticism

Playwrights in Rehearsal is an inside look at the writer's role in the creative process of bringing his or her words to life on stage. Susan Letzler Cole recounts her participation in rehearsal with Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, and others. Cole follows these writers from staged readings in small rooms to season-opening world premieres and seeks to understand the playwright's role in the collaborative process of "rewriting" the script during rehearsal.

Playwrights in Rehearsal is an inside look at the writer's role in the creative process of bringing his or her words to life on stage. Susan Letzler Cole, granted rare access to some of the major playwrights of our time, recounts her participation in rehearsal with Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner and Suzan-Lori Parks, and others.

This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies. It is the ideal reference for the classroom, for independent research and for a general overview of the field.

This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies. It is the ideal reference for the classroom, for independent research and for a general overview of the field.

The creation of the new Globe Theatre in London has heightened interest in Shakespeare performance studies in recent years. The essays in this volume testify to this burgeoning research into issues surrounding contemporary performances of plays by Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists, as well as modern trends and developments in stage and media presentations of these works. Truly international in coverage, the discussion here ranges across the performance and reception of Shakespeare in Japan, India, Germany, Italy, Denmark and the United States as well as in Britain. Dennis Kennedy's introductory essay places the new Globe Theatre in the context of Shakespearean cultural tourism generally. This is followed by five sections of essays covering aspects of Shakespeare on film, the stage history of his plays, Renaissance contexts, the movement of the text from page to stage, and female roles. Exploring many of current issues in Shakespeare studies, this volume provides a global perspective on Renaissance performance and the wide variety of ways in which it has been translated by today's media. About the Editor: Edward J. Esche is a Senior Lecturer in English and Head of Drama at Anglia Polytechnic University. He has published on renaissance drama and twentieth-century modern British and American drama. His most recent publication is an edition of Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris for the Clarendon Press The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe.

Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britian today, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and Whoopi Goldberg's (whiteface) African Queen to Sally Dexter's languorous Helen and Alan Howard's raver 'Queen' of Troy.

There is a traditional view that women were absent from the field of dramatic production in the early modern period because of their exclusion from professional theatre. Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700 challenges this view and breaks new ground in arguing that, far from writing in closeted retreat, a select number of women took an active part in directing and controlling dramatic self-representations. Examining texts from the mid-sixteenth century through to the end of the seventeenth, the chapters trace the development of a women-centred aesthetic in a variety of dramatic forms. Plays by noblewomen such as Mary Sidney, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Rachel Fane and the women of the Cavendish family, form an alternative dramatic tradition centred on the household. The powerful directorial and performative roles played by queens in royal progresses and masques are explored as examples of women's dramatic production in the royal court. The book also highlights women's performances in alternative venues, such as the courtroom and the pulpit, arguing that the practices of martyrs like Margaret Clitherow or visionaries like Anna Trapnel call into question traditional definitions of theatre. The challenges faced by women who were admitted to the professional theatre companies after 1660 are explored in two chapters which deal with the plays of Katherine Philips, Elizabeth Polwhele, Aphra Behn, and Mary Pix, among others. By considering the theatrical dimensions of a wide range of early modern women's writing, this book reveals the breathtaking panorama of women's dramatic production and will be essential reading for students of women's writing and renaissance drama.

First published in 1973, this book is about Shakespeare, language and drama. The first part introduces some common ideas of anthropology and linguistics into an area where they serve as a base for the discussion of usually literary matters. It attempts to link language to our experience of speech - examining its range, texture, and social functions. In part two, the author argues that in Elizabethan culture there was a greater investment in the complexities and demands of speech due to the widespread illiteracy of the time. It examines eight of Shakespeare's plays, together with one of Ben Jonson's, in light of their concern with various aspects of the role of spoken language in society.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world.

Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britian today, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and Whoopi Goldberg's (whiteface) African Queen to Sally Dexter's languorous Helen and Alan Howard's raver 'Queen' of Troy.

Samuel Beckett's work forever changed the concepts of literature and theatre. His work remains a core part of introductory courses on literary history, drama, theatre or performance and also features in more specialist modules such as Modernism or The Absurd. The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett is a comprehensive introduction to his life and work as well as an outline of the critical issues surrounding his work. The The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett leaves judgements up to the student by explaining the full range of often very different critical views and interpretations and offers guides to further reading in each area discussed.

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