 | 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...
 |  | Gallathea and Midas
Publication Date: December 1, 1969This is a facsimile edition of these two plays by John Lyly. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Escanaba in da Moonlight - Acting Edition
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|  | 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...
|  | Joe Egg
Publication Date: January 11, 1994This brilliantly written, deeply moving play about the problems of a young couple with a spastic daughter-the "Joe Egg" of the title-was described by Ronald Bryden in The Observer (London) as a "remarkable play about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men: living with a child born so hopelessly crippled as to be, as the father in it says brutally, a human parsnip. For all that, it has to be described as a comedy, one of the funniest and most touching I've seen. The bridge between its form and content is a simple but brilliant stro...
|  | The York Corpus Christi Plays (Middle English Texts)
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|  | 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 ...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: December 17, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521685060 | ISBN-13: 978-0521685061| Edition: 1 One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists of their own drama and evidence of a vital and compelling community. Decade by decade, he told the story of a people with a distinctive history who forged their own future, aware of their roots in an...
|  | Agamemnon (Plays)
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|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | A Midsummer Night's Dream (SourcebooksShakespeare; Book & CD)
Publication Date: April 27, 2006More than 60 minutes of audio on the CD including key scenes and excerpts from great performances past and presentBringing Shakespeare to life, from stage to pageIn the book:Photographs from notable productions including:-the 1935 Dieterle/Reinhardt film with James Cagney as Bottom and Mickey Rooney as Puck-Peter Brook's seminal 1970 production at the Royal Shakespeare Company-contemporary American productions with James Earl Jones as Oberon, F. Murray Abraham as Bottom and Richard Gere as DemetriusHear 30 great scenes on audio CD:-Sir John Gielgud from t...
|  | A King's Speech: The BBC Radio Play (BBC Radio 4)
Publication Date: June 14, 2011| Series: BBC Radio 4 A gripping BBC Radio drama about King George VI's struggle to overcome his stammer and his close working relationship with his speech therapist.It is Coronation Day, 1937. As the country celebrates, the new monarch must face one of the most difficult challenges he has ever encountered: the dreaded BBC Radio Broadcast to the Nation. Only one man can prepare the terrified King for his ordeal at the microphone – Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue. With his unconventional methods such as tongue-twisters, breathing exercises, and Sha...
|  | Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?
Publication Date: April 1, 2007“Caryl Churchill’s power to grip an audience is an extraordinary thing. Her plays perform a pincer-movement on your attention. Their ear for a subject of real concern out there in the world . . . has always been acute, and often prescient. These are plays which don’t merely debate issues: they embody them.”—The Observer“Churchill is one of the most original and unpredictable of dramatists, and part of the pleasure of her work is going into the theater, and not having the faintest clue about what to expect.”—Daily ...
|  | Blue/Orange (Modern Plays)
Publication Date: April 13, 2000| Series: Modern Plays In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service, Blue/Orange premiered at London's Cottesloe Theatre in April 2000 and transferred to the West End in 2001. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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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|  | 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...
|  | 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...
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