 | A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (New Mermaids)
Publication Date: March 28, 2002| Series: New Mermaids Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613,this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic natureeven in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people inLondon's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is moreimportant than either happiness or honour; and the most covetedcommodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middletoninterweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marrytheir children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any moref...
 |  | Called to Account: The indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair for the crime of aggression against Iraq - a Hearing (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1840027452 | ISBN-13: 978-1840027457Earlier this year two leading barristers tested the evidence of the grounds for an indictment of the British Prime Minister for the crime of aggression against Iraq. They examined a number of distinguished witnesses, including MPs, diplomats, international lawyers, civil servants, UN officials, policy advisors, intelligence experts, and journalists. The arguments and testimony gathered here examine the criminal implications of the British government’s decision to use force against Iraq. ...
|  | How to Read a Shakespeare Play (How to Study Literature)
Publication Date: June 26, 2006| ISBN-10: 1405113960 | ISBN-13: 978-1405113960| Edition: 1 This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare’s works for pleasure.Encourages readers to approach Shakespeare's works aggressively, interactively, and questioninglyFocuses on six popular Shakespeare plays - A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Part I, Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest Recommends the best editions, recordings and DVDs / videos of these plays Discusses the production of the plays on stage...
|  | Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 3: Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land, Private Fears in Public Places
Release Date: November 28, 2006| ISBN-10: 0571226884 | ISBN-13: 978-0571226887| Edition: 1st In this third volume of his collected plays, Alan Ayckbourn takes his signature acerbic wit into the territory of the lonely and isolated, focusing on everyone from the fantastically famous to the lowliest of Eleanor Rigbys. Collected here are Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land, and the universally acclaimed Private Fears in Public Places, described by Newsday's Linda Winer as "an exquisitely modulated chamber sextet about the unpredictable depths and overlapping absurdities of m...
|  | The Witlings and The Woman-Hater (Broadview Literary Texts)
Publication Date: September 19, 2002| ISBN-10: 1551113783 | ISBN-13: 978-1551113784| Edition: 1 This Broadview edition pairs two of Frances Burney's linked comedies. They both present the character of Lady Smatter, a "femme savante" whose lineage may be traced back to Molière; they both centre on the misfortunes of the "elle" figure, the dispossessed heiress and wife who appears frequently in Burney's fiction; and they both criticize a culture of misogyny that breeds suspicion and resentment. The Witlings, lighter and more comic, derives from late seventeenth-century...
|  | The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe
Release Date: October 11, 2007In Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote a profoundly religious drama despite the theater's newfound secularism and his own reputation for anti-Christian irreverence. The Aesthetics of Antichrist explores this apparent paradox by suggesting that, long before Marlowe, Christian drama and ritual performance had reveled in staging the collapse of Christianity into its historical opponents-paganism, Judaism, worldliness, heresy. By embracing this tradition, Marlowe's work would at once demonstrate the theatricality inhering in Christian worship and, unexpectedly, r...
|  | Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints, and In the Shadow of the Glen
Publication Date: November 1, 2006Three plays for Dublin's Abbey Theatre, based on stories from the Aran Islands, from one of Ireland's greatest playwrights ...
|  | Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: January 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199554811 | ISBN-13: 978-0199554812These four plays, written by women dramatists during the Restoration, are now available in a single edition. This volume includes Mary Pix's The Innocent Mistress, Susanna Centlivre's The Busy-Body, Elizabeth Griffith's The Times, and Hannah Cowley's The Belle's Stratagem; thereby introducing readers to some of the earliest published women dramatists. The text is freshly edited using modern spelling. The critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliography illuminate the plays' cultur...
|  | Forms of Heaven: Three Plays
Publication Date: December 1996Following the success of Incarnations comes Clive Barker's second collection of playsthree very different dramas that share the universal themes of transformation and redemption. Like the books and films that have made his name familiar worldwide, their comedy is always tinged with darkness, their tragedy is never that far from some half-glimpsed wonderment.Crazyface follows the life of a great fool whose adventures in Europe's Dark Ages mingle equal measures of comedy, tragedy, and miracles. The drama continues in Paradise Street as an extraordinary group of t...
|  | Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, authorship, and sexualities in Renaissance drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: February 28, 1997| ISBN-10: 0521589207 | ISBN-13: 978-0521589208| Edition: First Edition Textual Intercourse brings together literary criticism, theater history, the study of printed books, and gender studies, to show how the writing of Renaissance drama was conceptualized in the languages of sex, gender, and eroticism. Jeffrey Masten argues that the plays of Shakespeare and others, and the way in which those plays were first printed, illustrates a shift from a model of collaboration to one of singular authorship. Using methods attuned to sexuality and gender, Masten il...
|  | Mercury Fur (Modern Plays)
Publication Date: February 10, 2005| Series: Modern Plays Challenging new play by the enfant terrible of dark, disturbing dramaElliot is panicking. The party that he and his brother Darren have been planning has been brought forward - to tonight.In a lawless, ravaged city, where memories of the past have been brutally erased, the boys and their team survive by realising their clients' darkest fantasies. But just how far are they prepared to go in trading humanity for information? As the light fades and events spiral out of control it becomes clear that on the success of the evening hangs not...
|  | Agamemnon (Plays)
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|  | Now or Neverland: Peter Pan and the Myth of Eternal Youth : A Psychological Perspective on a Cultural Icon (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 82)
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|  | Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends: Volume III: The Tragedies (Applause Books)
Release Date: December 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1557836574 | ISBN-13: 978-1557836571| Edition: Softcover There has been a great change in the last twenty years to actor auditions, which now require the demonstration of enormous flexibility. The actor is often expected to show more range than ever before, and often several shorter audition speeches are asked ...
|  | The York Corpus Christi Plays (Middle English Texts)
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|  | Three Renaissance Travel Plays: The Travels of Three English Brothers by John Day, William Rowley and George Wilkins; The Sea Voyage by John Fletcher ... Brome (Revels Plays Companion Library)
Publication Date: April 22, 2000| Series: Revels Plays Companion Library This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and exploration. In their different ways they are all dramas of wandering and adventure and they explore the great diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial expansion and to challenges posed by the encounter with exotic places and peoples. ...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: September 30, 2010| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Written by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of topics crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical and frequently taught texts. Part I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and, uniquely, discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with Shakespeare's generic distinctiveness as well as the difficulties our familiarity with Shakespearean tragedy engenders f...
|  | Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions (Broadview literary texts)
Publication Date: February 18, 2002| ISBN-10: 1551112876 | ISBN-13: 978-1551112879| Edition: 1 Written during the English Civil War and Interregnum when the public theatres were closed and Margaret Cavendish was living away from England in exile, Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions are scathing satires that speak to the role of women's agency amidst this cultural tumult. In Bell in Campo, a group of virtuous women follow their husbands to war and, refusing to remain docilely out of harm's way, form an army of their own. The Sociable Companions details the struggles of four women fr...
|  | Confessions (The World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 2, 1992| ISBN-10: 0192817744 | ISBN-13: 978-0192817747In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature.In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery o...
|  | Escanaba in da Moonlight - Acting Edition
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