 | The Revenger's Tragedy
Publication Date: January 1, 2012Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), a bricklayer's son, rose to become one of the most eminent playwrights of the Jacobean period. Along with Ben Johnson he helped shape the dynamic course of drama in Renaissance England. His range is broad, as his work successfully covers comedy, tragedy, and history. Praised during his life as well as today, Middleton remains relevant and influential. "The Revenger's Tragedy" (1607) stays in line with the other revenge tragedies of its day, yet this particular drama is set in the high Italian court. The play follows the young son...
 |  | She Stoops to Conquer: Or the Mistakes of the Night (Library Edition Audio CDs) (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections)
Publication Date: October 25, 2010| Series: L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections Love, lies, and dysfunctional families. Sound like your last family gathering? Try this one on for laughs. Two randy young gents, Charles and George, set out to woo the alluring and upper-crust Kate and Constance. But inexperienced Charles is shy and clumsy around upper-class ladies, so it s the barmaid who catches his eye. But is she really who she seems? Bawdy high-jinx, popped pretensions, and good dirty fun are the hallmarks of this romping frolic that s kept audiences laughing for over two centuries...
|  | Playhouse Creatures (Acting Edition)
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|  | Eclipsed
Publication Date: August 31, 2008Eclipsed tells the poignant and sometimes humourous story of the penitent women consigned to Magdalene laundries in the 1960's and one nun's attempts to ease their plight. ...
|  | Eclipsed (Salmon drama)
Publication Date: December 1995| ISBN-10: 1897648340 | ISBN-13: 978-1897648346Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed is a play with a stinger in its tail. Framed by a present-day prologue and epilogue, the two-act work is set mainly in 1963 in a convent laundry at St. Paul's Home for Penitent Women in Killmacha, Ireland. The Galway-based author is a former nun who worked in an institutional laundry when she was a novice. Eclipsed was inspired by the practice - which started in the time of the Famine,and lasted well into the 1960s and even longer - of making pregnant and unwed Irish mothers wor...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: January 27, 2003| ISBN-10: 0521793599 | ISBN-13: 978-0521793599This Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of ten Shakespearean tragedies. It includes the four major tragedies and Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. Chapters on a demanding theatrical genre are clear, concise and informative. They consider how Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified; and how it has fared in performance. ...
|  | Elfriede Jelinek's Princess Plays (Theater Magazine, Vol. 36, No. 2)
Publication Date: May 17, 2006| Series: Theater (Book 36) The summer issue of Theater examines the plays of the 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek. The Nobel Prize brought long-overdue international recognition to one of Europe’s most original and controversial playwright-novelists. Born in Austria in 1946, Jelinek has recently been an outspoken dissenting voice in national and global politics. Despite the acclaim she has won in Europe and the successful film version of her novel The Piano Teacher, few of her plays have been translated into English, and Jelinek has been overlooked in...
|  | Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us
Publication Date: 1993Caroline Spurgeon's pioneer study of the imagery of Shakespeare's plays shows how much light can be thrown on Shakespeare's own mind and thought and on the themes and characters of the plays by a detailed examination of his imagery. At the same time she contrasts Shakespeare with other dramatists of his time, including Marlowe, Bacon, Ben Jonson and Dekker. ...
|  | The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition: Histories
Publication Date: December 2000| ISBN-10: 0393976718 | ISBN-13: 978-0393976717| Edition: 1St Edition A vibrant Shakespeare that brings readers closer than ever before possible to Shakespeare's plays as they were first acted. The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition invites readers to rediscover Shakespeare—the working man of the theater, not the universal bard-and to rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combining the freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with lively introductions by Stephen Greenblatt and his co-editors, glos...
|  | The Malcontent (New Mermaids)
Publication Date: January 29, 1999| Series: New Mermaids "This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer." The Malcontent is a striking example of the new satiric tone and moral seriousness in English comedy of the early 1600s. The play's vision of a fallen humanity driven by lust and ambition is created partly by its depiction of Machiavellian intrigue in the court of Genoa, and partly by the disaffected Malevole, the malcontent of the title, who is actually the deposed Duke Altofront...
|  | The Steward of Christendom - Acting Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0822216094 | ISBN-13: 978-0822216094This is the play that established Barry as one of Ireland's most powerful contemporary playwrights.Thomas Dunne, ex-chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan police looks back on his career built during the latter years of Queen Victoria's empire, from his home in Baltinglass in Dublin in 1932. Like King Lear, Dunne tries valiantly to break free of history and himself. The Steward of Christendom took London by storm when it premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in March 1995 with Donal McCa...
|  | Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0415634202 | ISBN-13: 978-0415634205The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished fragments. She examines how Beckett’s drama composes and recomposes the body in each medium, and provokes ways of perceiving, conceiving and experiencing embodiment that address wider preoccupations wi...
|  | Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England
Publication Date: August 11, 2011Containing detailed readings of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Middleton, as well as poetry and prose, this 2009 book provides a major historical and critical reassessment of the relationship between early modern Protestantism and drama. Examining the complex and painful shift from late medieval religious culture to a society dominated by the ideas of the Reformers, Adrian Streete presents a fresh understanding of Reformed theology and the representation of early modern subjectivity. Through close analysis of major thinkers such as Augustine, William of Oc...
|  | Hamlet's Mother and Other Women
Publication Date: March 15, 2002| ISBN-10: 0231071779 | ISBN-13: 978-0231071772| Edition: 2nd Carolyn G. Heilbrun's groundbreaking essay "The Character of Hamlet's Mother" was published in 1957 at a time when few critics thought seriously about women's issues in literature. In the years since, Heilbrun has emerged as a feminist leader through her commitment to women's writing and feminist literary critique. Now in a new paperback edition with a new preface by the author, this collection explores feminism in literary studies during the last three decades. By questioning the gender arrange...
|  | Picasso's Women: Eight Monologues (Oberon Book)
Publication Date: August 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 1870259866 | ISBN-13: 978-1870259866Absorbing monologues in which women, used and often abused by Picasso, tell all--with the great painter emerging as a "libidinous dwarf with a penchant for strumpets and schoolgirls." ...
|  | Noel Coward: A Biography
Publication Date: May 22, 1998| ISBN-10: 0226345122 | ISBN-13: 978-0226345123To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker, Noël Coward (1899-1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. His biographer, Philip Hoare, given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, has produced the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and controversial figures."Philip Hoare's careful research and lucid presentation in his Noël Coward: A Bio...
|  | The Letters of Noel Coward (Vintage)
Release Date: March 10, 2009| Series: Vintage Lavishly illustrated and annotated, this first and definitive collection of letters to and from Coward provides a divine portrait of an age, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.The incomparable Noël Coward loved to correspond with friends, enemies, the famous and infamous, the talented and the powerful, including Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia, Somerset Maugham, and many more. Granted unlimited access to the Coward archive, Barry Day presents many ne...
|  | The Judas Kiss
Publication Date: January 1, 1998Portraying the two critical moments in Oscar Wilde’s late life –– when he decides to stay in England and face imprisonment and the night after his release, two years later –– David Hare’s The Judas Kiss presents the consequences of taking an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear, expedience, and conformity. ...
|  | Three Classical Tragedies
Release Date: January 1, 1988Titus Andronicus * Timon of Athens * CoriolanusEach Edition Includes:Comprehensive explanatory notes placed on pages facing the text of the playVivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography Titus AndronicusThis, Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy, is also his bloodiest and most horr...
|  | The Playboy of the Western World (Naxos Classic Drama)
Publication Date: July 1, 2008| Series: Naxos Classic Drama One of the best-known Irish playwrights, John Millington Synge premiered The Playboy of the Western World in 1907. It immediately provoked controversy, eventually resulting in the infamous Playboy riots. It has been recorded and adapted many times, but this timeless recording stars the Irish actors who made it a classic, including Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Cusack. ...
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