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This study of Brecht's theatre, first published in 1959, traces his stylistic development as a playwright and stage director through each of his major plays and explains... Læs mere
Divided into two parts, this book provides a historical and critical survey of drama and theatre in France since 1968. It also features a listings guide to major theatre... Læs mere
Presents essays by leading writers and academics examining the staging of Greek drama. This book presents a collection of twelve essays by leading academics, writers and theatre practitioners examining the representation of ancient Greek heroines in their original contexts.
This volume documents the course of Shakespeare criticism on "Richard II" from the earliest items of recorded criticism to the beginnings of the modern period around 1920. The introduction traces the history of the play.
Written to provide the actor with fresh and unusual Shakespearean audition material, this book provides fifty speeches with a guide to selecting, preparing and performing their selection.
This work provides the actor with unusual Shakespearean audition material. There are 50 speeches in total. Alongside each speech is a helpful character description, brief explanation of the text, and notes on obscure words, phrases and references.
A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of The Tempest. Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text.
The primary aim of this book is to provide an introduction, principally for students but also for the general reader, to 17th-century French writing. The book includes an exploration of Pascal and the Jesuits, literary forms, gender, transvestism and homosexuality.
Cicero was a prolific writer and a major political figure. The author argues that our understanding both of Cicero's oeuvre and of the practice and theory of public life is transformed if his writings are read as a unified whole in the context of Roman politics.
This companion sets Prometheus Bound in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.