 | Acting between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics, 1980-1984 (Oxford English Monographs)
Publication Date: April 27, 1995| ISBN-10: 0198182473 | ISBN-13: 978-0198182474Since its creation in 1980 by actor Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) and playwright Brian Friel (Translation, Dancing at Lughnasa), Northern Ireland's Field Day Theatre Company has brought challenging drama to the entire island, "from Coleraine to Kerry." With the addition to the board of directors of poets and critics such as Tom Paulin, Seamus Heaney, and Seamus Deane, Field Day ventured into the realm of the more explicitly political with a controversial pamphlet series. Acting Between the Lines is a fascinati...
 |  | 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...
|  | The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. II: The Plays
Release Date: December 4, 2001"The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume II: The Plays" is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory notes."The Plays, " edited by David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark, is the first-ever complete collection of Yeats's plays that honors the order in which the plays first appeared. It provides the latest and most accurate texts in Ye...
|  | The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama (Oxford Handbooks)
Publication Date: September 8, 2012| ISBN-10: 019956647X | ISBN-13: 978-0199566471The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, its scope reflects the broad reach of Tudor drama as a subject, inviting readers to see the Tudor century as a wh...
|  | Woza Albert (Methuen Drama)
Publication Date: August 11, 1983| Series: Methuen Drama Woza Albert! is based on one dazzlingly simple idea - that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ should take place in present-day South Africa. This brilliant two-man show from the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, took the Edinburgh Festival then London by storm in September 1982, playing to standing ovations every night. It was also seen in Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia and twice on BBC TV.'A satire played with devastating energy in a brilliantly witty staging.' Guardian'The most politically potent show ever stage...
|  | English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare (Oxford History of English Literature)
Publication Date: July 31, 1997| ISBN-10: 0198122136 | ISBN-13: 978-0198122135Shakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book, the long-awaited final volume in the Oxford History of English Literature, sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences, censorious authorities, profit driven managers, and authors looking for classic status and social esteem. Hunter follows the compromises and contradictions of the Elizabethan repertory, examining how Shakespeare and h...
|  | Palestine: A Personal History
Publication Date: January 21, 2008“[Sabbagh’s] memoir offers a vital yet unfamiliar perspective on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a heartfelt, judicious invitation to dialogue.” —Publishers WeeklyPalestinians feature regularly in news headlines, but their country is much less known. In this humane and deeply compelling book, Karl Sabbagh traces Palestine and Palestinians from their roots in the mélange of tribes, ethnic groups, and religions that have populated the region for centuries, and describes how, as a result of the interplay of global power p...
|  | The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Release Date: May 1, 1997| Series: Classic, 20th-Century, PenguinRiots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907. Eggs, potatoes and even a slice of fruit cake were hurled at the actors during subsequent performances, and it seems unlikely that much of the actual play could have been heard in the uproar. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, with the two other plays in this volume, Yeats's The Countess Cathleen (1892) and O'Casey's Cock-a-doodle Dandy (1949), mark vital stages in the rich explosion of Irish drama that...
|  | 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...
|  | Collected Stories
Publication Date: May 1, 1998The highly acclaimed new play by the author of Sight Unseen and The Model Apartment . ...
|  | Design for Living (Methuen Drama)
Release Date: March 15, 2012| ISBN-10: 1408140071 | ISBN-13: 978-1408140079'The actual facts are so simple. I love you. You love me. You love Otto. I love Otto. Otto loves you. Otto loves me. There now! Start to unravel from there.'Design for Living is a wickedly witty dark romantic comedy by Noel Coward. Initially banned in the UK, this provocative play portrays three amoral, glib and stylish characters and their hopelessly inescapable, if also unconventional, emotional entanglement. From 1930's bohemian Paris to the dizzying heights of Manhattan society, a tempestuous love triangle unr...
|  | The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (Broadview Editions)
Publication Date: September 18, 2007| ISBN-10: 1551116871 | ISBN-13: 978-1551116877| Edition: illustrated edition The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was the theatrical sensation of the London stage in 1893. It established Pinero as the leading English dramatist of serious social issues, and created a star out of Mrs. Patrick Campbell in the title role. The play recounts the marriage of a "woman with a past" and how it fails because of the double standard of morality applied unequally and hypocritically by Victorian society to men and women. This Broadview edition includes a thoroughly rev...
|  | 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...
|  | Postcolonial Theory in Irish Drama from 1800-2000 (Studies in Irish Literature)
Publication Date: March 2004| ISBN-10: 0773464980 | ISBN-13: 978-0773464988This study demonstrates the practical application of postcolonial theory to Irish drama. It argues that postcolonial tactics must evolve to suit temporal needs, calling for a re-evaluation of writers too easily dismissed or overlooked in earlier generations. Starting with Sheridan's sister, Alicia LeFanu, around the Act of Union, moving to Dion Boucicault's comedic melodramas post-famine, then to W.B. Yeats' romantic Celt mythology plays, on to Brian Friel's interrogation of nationalisms, and finally to contempora...
|  | 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 Field
Publication Date: December 31, 1991The Field is John B. Keane's fierce and tender study of the love a man can have for land and the ruthless lengths he will go to in order to obtain the object of his desire. It is dominated by the Bull McCabe, one of the most famous characters in Irish writing today. An Oscar-nominated adaptation of The Field proved highly successful and popular worldwide,and stared Richard Harris, John Hurt, Brenda Fricker and Tom Berenger. ...
|  | John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (Modern Theatre Guides)
Publication Date: May 10, 2008| Series: Modern Theatre Guides Look Back in Anger is one of the few works of drama that are indisputably central to British culture in general, and its name is one of the most well-known in postwar cultural history. Its premiere in 1956 sparked off the first "new wave" of kitchen-sink drama and the cultural phenomenon of the angry young man. The play's anti-hero, Jimmy Porter, became the spokesman of a generation. Osborne's play is a key milestone in "new writing" for British theatre, and the Royal Court—which produced the play—h...
|  | 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 Dances of Shakespeare
Publication Date: July 12, 2005| ISBN-10: 0415974348 | ISBN-13: 978-0415974349Invaluable advice on how to perform authentic dance styles from Shakespeare's time, covering all the styles featured in his plays as well as a number of dances of a similar vein. Designed for the practicing director, choreographer or actor, this book provides clear instructions on how to perform the popular dances of Shakespeare's day including masques, brawls, canaries, corantos, galliards, jigs, La Volta, pavans, morris dances and roundels. Illustrated throughout, these instructions allow non-specialists to g...
|  | Memory of Water/Five Kinds of Silence (Modern Plays)
Publication Date: July 3, 1997| Series: Modern Plays In The Memory of Water (winner of the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy), three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. As the conflicts of the past converge, everyday lies and tensions reveal the particular patterns and strains of family relationships. '"Combines a flair for witty dialogue with a relish for the dynamics of theatre … a mistress of comic anguish" GuardianFive Kinds of Silence (winner of the 1996 Writers' Guild Award for Best Original Radio Play and the 1997 Sony Award for Best Original D...
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