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The Circulation of Power in Medieval Biblical Drama - Theaters of Authority (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Robert S. Sturges The Circulation of Power in Medieval Biblical Drama - Theaters of Authority (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Robert S. Sturges
R1,945 Discovery Miles 19 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A literary reading informed by the recent temporal turn in Queer Theory, this book analyzes medieval Biblical drama for themes representing modes of power such as the body, politics, and law. Revitalizing the discussions on medieval drama, Sturges asserts that these dramas were often intended not to teach morality but to resist Christian authority.

Measure for Measure (Hardcover): William Shakespeare Measure for Measure (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R886 Discovery Miles 8 860 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.

As You Like It: York Notes Advanced (Paperback, 2nd edition): William Shakespeare, Robin Sowerby As You Like It: York Notes Advanced (Paperback, 2nd edition)
William Shakespeare, Robin Sowerby
R244 R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Save R22 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Hardcover): Edward de Vere The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Hardcover)
Edward de Vere
R1,106 Discovery Miles 11 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I Ain't Sorry for Nothin' I Done - August Wilson's Process of Playwriting (Paperback): Joan Herrington I Ain't Sorry for Nothin' I Done - August Wilson's Process of Playwriting (Paperback)
Joan Herrington
R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The most successful African-American playwright of his time, August Wilson is a dominant presence on Broadway and in regional theatres and college drama courses throughout the country. In little more than a decade, his work has earned him two Pulitzer Prizes, two Tonys and six New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. In this book Joan Herrington, traces the roots of Wilson's drama to visual artists like Romare Bearden and to the jazz musicians who inspire and energise him as a dramatist. She goes on to analyse his process of playwriting, how he brings his experiences and his ideas to stage life.

Eugene O'Neill in China - An International Centenary Celebration (Hardcover, New): Haiping Liu, Lowell Swortzell Eugene O'Neill in China - An International Centenary Celebration (Hardcover, New)
Haiping Liu, Lowell Swortzell
R2,812 Discovery Miles 28 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The year 1988 was notable for being the centennial of playwright Eugene O'Neill's birth and a time of unprecedented democratization in the People's Republic of China and rapprochement with the West. In this optimal climate, a remarkable festival and conference devoted to O'Neill was held in Nanjing, China, orchestrated mainly by Haiping Liu, who secured the funds and cooperation necessary to lure noted O'Neill scholars and theatre artists from around the world. Liu selected and edited papers for publication after the conference, but he realized that this would be a difficult task conducted from China. At his invitation Lowell Swortzell, a conference participant, became co-editor, and in the dark days following the political upheaval in China in 1989, Swortzell assumed much of the burden of editing, organizing, clearing rights, and generally readying the final volume. The essays included capture the intellectual and artistic stimulation of the conference. Organized in divisions similar to the order in which the papers were delivered, they explore the major areas of O'Neill scholarship by some of the most renowned scholars from the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, and China. They emphasize O'Neill's international reputation and productions, particularly in Asia. Included is an open forum discussion of the festival productions, as well as photographs. The circumstances of the festival and conference are a story unto themselves, and in their individual introductions, the co-editors relate some of the background and convey some of the flavor of the events--providing insights into the continued appeal of O'Neill in China and the world.

Lungs (Paperback): Duncan Macmillan Lungs (Paperback)
Duncan Macmillan
R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.' In a time of global anxiety, terrorism, erratic weather and political unrest, a young couple want a child but are running out of time. If they over think it, they'll never do it. But if they rush, it could be a disaster.They want to have a child for the right reasons. Except, what exactly are the right reasons? And what will be the first to destruct - the planet or the relationship?

Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction - DCI Shakespeare (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Lisa Hopkins Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction - DCI Shakespeare (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Lisa Hopkins
R2,739 R1,919 Discovery Miles 19 190 Save R820 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four 'queens of crime' (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid. It also looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series, most notably Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and considers the special sub-genre of detective stories in which a lost Shakespeare play is found. It shows how Shakespeare facilitates discussions about what constitutes justice, what authorises the detective to track down the villain, who owns the countryside, national and social identities, and the question of how we measure cultural value.

The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence - Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator (Hardcover): James Moran The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence - Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator (Hardcover)
James Moran
R3,890 Discovery Miles 38 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book to give an in-depth analysis of Lawrence's interaction with the theatre industry during the early twentieth century. It connects and examines his performance texts, and explores his reaction to a wide-range of theatre (from the sensation dramas of working-class Eastwood to the ritual performances of the Pueblo people) in order to explain Lawrence's contribution to modern drama. F. R. Leavis influentially labelled the writer 'D. H. Lawrence: Novelist'. But this book foregrounds Lawrence's career as a playwright, exploring unfamiliar contexts and manuscripts, and drawing particular attention to his three most successful works: The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Daughter-in-Law, and A Collier's Friday Night. It examines how Lawrence's novels are suffused with theatrical thinking, revealing how Lawrence's fictions - from his first published work to the last story that he wrote before his death - continually take inspiration from the playhouse. The book also argues that, although Lawrence has sometimes been dismissed as a restrictively naturalistic stage writer, his overall oeuvre shows a consistent concern with theatrical experiment, and manifests affinities with the dramatic thinking of modernist figures including Brecht, Artaud, and Joyce. In a final section, the book includes contributions from influential theatre-makers who have taken their own cue from Lawrence's work, and who have created original work that consciously follows Lawrence in making working-class life central to the public forum of the theatre stage.

The Logic of Wish and Fear: New Perspectives on Genres of Western Fiction (Hardcover): Ben La Farge The Logic of Wish and Fear: New Perspectives on Genres of Western Fiction (Hardcover)
Ben La Farge
R1,850 Discovery Miles 18 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American and Russian drama, and fiction and contemporary television, this study sheds new light on the art of comedy.

Shakespeare and Popular Music (Hardcover): Adam Hansen Shakespeare and Popular Music (Hardcover)
Adam Hansen
R4,570 Discovery Miles 45 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites, showing how musicians have woven the Bard into their sounds. How have Shakespearean characters, words, texts and iconography been represented and reworked through popular music? Do all types of popular music represent Shakespeare in the same ways? And how do the links between Shakespeare and popular music challenge what we think we know about both Shakespeare and popular music? One of the enduring myths about how Shakespeare and popular music relate is that they don't - after all the antagonism between high culture and pop music could be considered mutual. In the first book of its kind, Adam Hansen shows what happens to Shakespeare when he exists in and becomes popular music, in all its diverse and glorious forms. Exploring these interactions reveals as much about the functions of the diverse genres of popular music as it does about Shakespeare as a global cultural form. Discussing a wide range of examples in a critically-informed but lively and accessible style, this book brings something new to Shakespeare and popular music, capturing the excitement and energy of both for its readers.

Lies Like Truth - Shakespeare, Macbeth and the Cultural Moment (Hardcover): Arthur F. Kinney Lies Like Truth - Shakespeare, Macbeth and the Cultural Moment (Hardcover)
Arthur F. Kinney
R1,449 Discovery Miles 14 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What was it like to be in the audience of the Globe Theater in 1606? By demonstrating fundamental connections between audience reaction then and the use of computers today, Renaissance scholar Arthur Kinney explores the cultural moment of one of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies.

Examining the cultural practices and beliefs that influenced Shakespeare's writing of Macbeth, Kinney reconstructs how playgoers in 1606 understood that drama when it was first presented and shows how many congruent and often conflicting perspectives played on their minds. Calling on hundreds of documents with which Shakespeare might have been familiar -- books and pamphlets circulating in England from 1600 to 1606 as well as manuscripts and statutes -- he records a wide range of cultural practices related to nearly every aspect of society in that day: politics, religion, economics, medicine, family life, witchcraft, and more.

Kinney proposes a new way of reading this period's texts, drawing us closer to the way dramatic plays such as Macbeth were understood from early modern times to beyond today's technological revolution. In the course of this inquiry, he seeks to determine whether the 1623 text of Macbeth that we now have is anything like the original 1606 performance.

Lies Like Truth shows that the computer revolution of our time can help us revisit Shakespeare's works in their own time and thereby enhance our understanding of them. This provocative work unlocks a cultural moment frozen in time and broadens our appreciation of Shakespeare.

French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century - A Checklist (Hardcover): Cecilia M. Beach French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century - A Checklist (Hardcover)
Cecilia M. Beach
R2,102 Discovery Miles 21 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Until recently, French women playwrights had received almost no critical attention and their works were for the most part completely unknown, but this volume is evidence of the important contribution they have made to world literature. It presents an extensive list of the dramatic works of more than 400 French women playwrights from the 16th through 19th centuries and includes brief biographical information, as well as publication, performance, and availability information for nearly 3,000 plays.

The volume includes authors who are relatively unknown, as well as more canonical names such as Marguerite de Navarre and George Sand. The book is divided into four chapters, each devoted to a particular century with authors listed alphabetically. Each entry includes basic biographical information about the author, such as pseudonyms, place and date of birth and death, professions or activities for which the author is known, and other genres in which the author wrote. Plays are listed chronologically under the author's name.

Open-Air Shakespeare - Under Australian Skies (Hardcover): R. Gaby Open-Air Shakespeare - Under Australian Skies (Hardcover)
R. Gaby
R1,835 Discovery Miles 18 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Many people today first encounter staged Shakespeare in an open-air setting. In Australia, picnic Shakespeares seem particularly suited to the predilections of contemporary audiences and the plays have been performed in a remarkably varied range of sites. Shakespeare has been transported to gardens, parks, caves, mountains and beaches all over the country, in a place that for Shakespeare and his contemporaries was completely unknown. Why does the anomaly of performing Shakespeare in Australian space exert such a strong appeal? This book traces the history of open-air Shakespeare production in Australia from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day and suggests that the industry reflects important changes in the ways contemporary Australians relate to both their environment and to Shakespeare. It provides striking evidence of the diversity of localised responses to Shakespeare that exist outside Britain, and contributes to our understanding of Shakespeare's changing global impact.

The Stage Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre (Hardcover, New): Bente Videbaek The Stage Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre (Hardcover, New)
Bente Videbaek
R1,955 Discovery Miles 19 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The majority of Shakespeare's plays have at least one clown figure making an appearance. These characters range from rogues who say only a line or two, to important figures like Touchstone and Falstaff. Videbaek examines even the smallest clown roles, showing how the clown's freedom of speech allows him to become a mediator between the audience and the action of the play, helping audience interpretation. This illuminating celebration of the stage clown's contribution to the understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays will be a valuable resource for both students and scholars alike.

Shakespeare and Consciousness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Paul Budra, Clifford Werier Shakespeare and Consciousness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Paul Budra, Clifford Werier
R4,259 Discovery Miles 42 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines how early modern and recently emerging theories of consciousness and cognitive science help us to re-imagine our engagements with Shakespeare in text and performance. Papers investigate the connections between states of mind, emotion, and sensation that constitute consciousness and the conditions of reception in our past and present encounters with Shakespeare's works. Acknowledging previous work on inwardness, self, self-consciousness, embodied self, emotions, character, and the mind-body problem, contributors consider consciousness from multiple new perspectives-as a phenomenological process, a materially determined product, a neurologically mediated reaction, or an internally synthesized identity-approaching Shakespeare's plays and associated cultural practices in surprising and innovative ways.

Checking out Chekhov - A Guide to the Plays for Actors, Directors, and Readers (Hardcover, New): Sharon Marie Carnicke Checking out Chekhov - A Guide to the Plays for Actors, Directors, and Readers (Hardcover, New)
Sharon Marie Carnicke
R2,472 R2,254 Discovery Miles 22 540 Save R218 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Theatres world-wide embrace Chekhov's handful of plays with a fervour second only to Shakespeare's. Whatever their native language or culture, audiences often see themselves in his Russian characters, making Chekhov seem an author who easily transcends his own culture and time. Nonetheless, students, actors, and audiences alike are often initially puzzled by Chekhov's dramatic texts. Are they comic or tragic, ironic or sincere, starkly familiar or willfully elusive? How can his often seemingly irrelevant dialogue create dynamic performances? In his stories and plays alike, Chekhov challenges his readers to diagnose his characters' desires, opinions, heartaches and joys in the same way that doctors diagnose illness by attending closely to apparently trivial details. In the plays where narrative voice is absent and characters speak for themselves reading under a microscope becomes all the more necessary. The expert attention that Carnicke pays to the performative dimensions of Chekhov's plays makes her book unique among the published guides to Chekhov's works.

Theatre and Residual Culture - J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Christopher Collins Theatre and Residual Culture - J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Christopher Collins
R3,352 R2,020 Discovery Miles 20 200 Save R1,332 (40%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge's plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding of what it meant to be "modern" at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book draws extensively on Synge's archive to demonstrate how pre-Christian residual culture informed not just how he wrote and staged pre-Christian beliefs, but also how he thought about an older, almost forgotten culture that Catholic Ireland desperately wanted to forget. Each of Synge's plays is considered in an individual chapter, and they identify how Synge's dramaturgy was informed by pre-Christian beliefs of animism, pantheism, folklore, superstition and magical ritual.

Much Ado About Nothing (Hardcover): William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

No one does romantic comedy like William Shakespeare, and Much Ado About Nothing is the Bard at the top of his game. The Italian countryside is the perfect setting for love, which soon appears in abundance. We have Hero and Claudio, star-struck sweethearts who are kept apart by wicked machinations. Beatrice and Benedick are the original couple who can't stand each other yet are made for each other. Add to that a bevy of villains, fools, and assorted family members, and you have a recipe for fun of the highest order.

Lorca - The Gay Imagination (Paperback): Paul Binding Lorca - The Gay Imagination (Paperback)
Paul Binding
R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Shakespeare Verbatim - The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus (Hardcover, New): Margreta De Grazia Shakespeare Verbatim - The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus (Hardcover, New)
Margreta De Grazia
R4,940 Discovery Miles 49 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book challenges traditional Shakespeare studies through a study of its textual imperatives in the late eighteenth century. Only with Malone's 1790 edition did concepts now basic to literary studies become dominant.

Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition (Hardcover): Raphael Lyne Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition (Hardcover)
Raphael Lyne
R2,712 Discovery Miles 27 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Raphael Lyne addresses a crucial Shakespearean question: why do characters in the grip of emotional crises deliver such extraordinarily beautiful and ambitious speeches? How do they manage to be so inventive when they are perplexed? Their dense, complex, articulate speeches at intensely dramatic moments are often seen as psychological - they uncover and investigate inwardness, character and motivation - and as rhetorical - they involve heightened language, deploying recognisable techniques. Focusing on A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Cymbeline and the Sonnets, Lyne explores both the psychological and rhetorical elements of Shakespeare's language. In the light of cognitive linguistics and cognitive literary theory he shows how Renaissance rhetoric could be considered a kind of cognitive science, an attempt to map out the patterns of thinking. His study reveals how Shakespeare's metaphors and similes work to think, interpret and resolve, and how their struggle to do so results in extraordinary poetry.

Performing European Memories - Trauma, Ethics, Politics (Hardcover): Milija Gluhovic Performing European Memories - Trauma, Ethics, Politics (Hardcover)
Milija Gluhovic
R3,573 Discovery Miles 35 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Performing European Memories: Trauma, Ethics, Politics explores the intersections between contemporary European theatre and performance, the interdisciplinary field of memory studies, and current preoccupations with the politics of memory in Europe. Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single homogenised European memory, this important book examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Harold Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, and Heiner Muller, Andrzej Wajda, Artur Zmijewski and other European artists. Gluhovic shows different ways in which these artists engage with the traumatic experiences of the Holocaust, the Stalinist Gulags, colonialism, and imperialism, challenge their audiences' historical imagination, and renew their affective engagement with Europe's past.

'Antony and Cleopatra' in Context - The Politics of Passion (Paperback): Keith Linley 'Antony and Cleopatra' in Context - The Politics of Passion (Paperback)
Keith Linley
R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Peter L Hays Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Peter L Hays
R3,872 Discovery Miles 38 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Every day, in some part of the world, an Arthur Miller play is performed. In the nearly 60 years since its first production, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Death of a Salesman" has become a classic, a staple of school anthologies of American literature and of acting companies' repertoires. It has received worldwide productions, whether as a study of parent-child relationships, as in its landmark 1976 production directed by Miller in Beijing, or as a critique of Western capitalism and has been filmed once for television and twice for movies. This guide provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the play, giving students an overview of the background and context; detailed analysis of the play's structure, style, characters etc; analysis of key production issues and choices; overview of the performance history from the first performances in 1949 to recent productions and film adaptations; and an annotated guide to further reading highlighting key critical approaches.It offers accessible, informative critical introductions to modern plays for students in both Theatre/Performance Studies and English. Offering up-to-date coverage of a broad range of key plays throughout modern drama, the guides include accounts of performance history, production analysis, screen adaptations and summaries of important critical approaches and debates.

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