 | 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...
 |  | 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...
|  | 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 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...
|  | 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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|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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 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 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...
|  | 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 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 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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 . ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
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