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Textual Intercourse: Collaboration,authorship,and sexualities in Renaissance drama (Cambridge Studie

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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 illuminates questions of authorship and intellectual property.

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From his first designs for Covent Garden and the Ballet Rambert in the 1950s, through regular commissions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s, and on to the West End in the 1980s and the world’s stages in the 1990s, Ralph Koltai is possibly the most wide-ranging and consistently prolific British stage designer.

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	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...
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English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare (Oxford History of English Literature): G. K. Hunter

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Publication Date: July 31, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0198122136 | ISBN-13: 978-0198122135

Shakespeare 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 his fellow dramatists were able to move easily from vulgar realism to poetic transcendence.

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	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. ...
	The Merchant of Venice, A Longman Cultural Edition Publication Date: August 10, 2004| ISBN-10: 0321164199 | ISBN-13: 978-0321164193| Edition: 1 From Longman's Cultural Editions Series, Lawrence Danson presents William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in several illuminating contexts—cultural, historical, and critical. Featuring illustrations, a table of dates and performance reviews; the text provides historical sources as well as numerous documents that reveal the cultural context in which The Merchant of Venice was written. ...
	Understanding Othello: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series) Publication Date: August 30, 2000| ISBN-10: 0313309868 | ISBN-13: 978-0313309861Although Othello has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, its performance history has been marked with risk and tension because of the play's focus on racial prejudice, gender conflict, and sexuality. The controversies surrounding conflicting attitudes toward race and religion, love and marriage, and war and the military in Shakespeare's time are reflected in the tragic plot and thematic ambiguities of Othello. This interdisciplinary casebook is designed to help students and their teachers explore th...
	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...

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	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...
	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 ...
	Now or Neverland: Peter Pan and the Myth of Eternal Youth : A Psychological Perspective on a Cultural Icon (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 82) ...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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. ...
	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...
	Agamemnon (Plays) ...
	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...
	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. ...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	The York Corpus Christi Plays (Middle English Texts) ...
	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...
	Collected Stories Publication Date: May 1, 1998The highly acclaimed new play by the author of Sight Unseen and The Model Apartment . ...
	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...

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	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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	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...
	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. ...
	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...
	Collected Stories Publication Date: May 1, 1998The highly acclaimed new play by the author of Sight Unseen and The Model Apartment . ...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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 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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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. ...
	Now or Neverland: Peter Pan and the Myth of Eternal Youth : A Psychological Perspective on a Cultural Icon (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 82) ...
	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...
	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...
	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 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...

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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 from impoverished Royalist families trying to survive in a rapacious marriage market at the war's end. This Broadview Edition presents these two complementary plays together, along with supplementary materials on Cavendish's life, the participation of women in the combat of the English Civil War, the conduct of the Royalist military forces, and seventeenth-century social and marriage conventions.

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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 ...
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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. ...
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	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...
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	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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Tom Stoppard Radio Plays: Tom Stoppard: 9780712351232: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: August 31, 2012

One of the world’s most internationally acclaimed and most-staged playwrights, Tom Stoppard has also written for TV, radio, and film, and has won an Academy Award and four Tony Awards for his work. To mark his seventy-fifth birthday in July of 2012, the British Library has released, for the first time, the original BBC broadcasts of four of his most important radio plays in this five-disc audio set.

 

Dating from 1967 to 1991, the plays collected here are Albert’s Bridge, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, and In the Native State. The actors featured include Peggy Ashcroft, John Hurt, Penelope Keith, and Felicity Kendal. Revealing the humor and humanity characteristic of his works for the stage and film, this sample of Tom Stoppard’s original plays for the radio will heighten any fan’s interest in and appreciation for the writer’s complete oeuvre.  

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• Publisher: British Library; 1st edition (August 31, 2012)
• Language: English
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	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...
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	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...
	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 Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Collector's Library Editions) Publication Date: September 1, 2011This re-set edition of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare contains all the plays and poems; the plays are arranged in the chronological order of their composition, not gathered into comedies, histories and tragedies - the traditional method dating from the first folio.The text is taken from the Shakespeare Head Press edition edited by Arthur Henry Bullen, and this volume also contains John Aubrey's Brief Life of Shakespeare, a biography of Sir John Gilbert, an account of The Shakespeare Head Press edition, a glossary, and a bibliography.This vol...
	A Christmas CarolA Ghost Story of Christmas (Wilson) - Acting Edition Publication Date: November 30, 2009This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...am here, or how I came. I have listened to the Chimes these many years. They have cheered me often." "And you have thanked them?" said the Bell. " A thousand times!" cried Trotty. "How?" "I am a poor man," faltered Trotty, " and could only thank them in words." "And always so?" inquired the Goblin of the Bell. "Have you never done us wrong in ...
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	The Merchant of Venice, A Longman Cultural Edition Publication Date: August 10, 2004| ISBN-10: 0321164199 | ISBN-13: 978-0321164193| Edition: 1 From Longman's Cultural Editions Series, Lawrence Danson presents William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in several illuminating contexts—cultural, historical, and critical. Featuring illustrations, a table of dates and performance reviews; the text provides historical sources as well as numerous documents that reveal the cultural context in which The Merchant of Venice was written. ...
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	The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (Penguin Classics) Release Date: January 1, 2000| Series: Penguin Classics William Shakespeare is a global icon for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, but his poetic meditations on love are among the most powerful and evocative poems ever written. This "Penguin Classics" edition of "Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint" is edited by John Kerrigan. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' The language of Shakespeare's sonnets has become inseparable from the language of love in English; but the force and tenderness of these poems is undiminished by age. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems fi...
	Ralph Koltai: Designer for the Stage Publication Date: 2003| ISBN-10: 1854597841 | ISBN-13: 978-1854597847From his first designs for Covent Garden and the Ballet Rambert in the 1950s, through regular commissions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s, and on to the West End in the 1980s and the world’s stages in the 1990s, Ralph Koltai is possibly the most wide-ranging and consistently prolific British stage designer. ...
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A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (New Mermaids): Thomas Middleton,Alan Brissenden: 9780713650686: Amazon.c

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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 nature
even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in
London's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is more
important than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted
commodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middleton
interweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marry
their children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any more
for fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their property
in the family. Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to a
rich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony. Like
many early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this play
warned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country
produces.

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• Language: English
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	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...
	The York Corpus Christi Plays (Middle English Texts) ...
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	Collected Stories Publication Date: May 1, 1998The highly acclaimed new play by the author of Sight Unseen and The Model Apartment . ...
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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 Yeats's lifetime, as well as extensive editorial notes and emendations.

Though best known as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century, from the beginning of his career William Butler Yeats understood the value of his plays and his poetry to be the same. In 1923, when he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yeats suggested that "perhaps the English committees would never have sent you my name if I had written no plays...if my lyric poetry had not a quality of speech practiced on the stage." Indeed, Yeats's great achievement in poetry should not be allowed to obscure his impressive and innovative accomplishments as a dramatist.

In "The Plays, " David and Rosalind Clark have restored the plays to the final order in which Yeats planned for them to be published. This volume opens with Yeats's introduction for an unpublished Scribner collection and encompasses all of his dramatic work, from "The Countess Cathleen" to "The Death of Cuchulain.

The Plays" enables readers to see clearly, for the first time, the ways in which Yeats's very different dramatic forms evolved over the course of his life, and to appreciate fully the importance of drama in the oeuvre of this greatest of modern poets.

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• Hardcover: 960 pages
• Publisher: Scribner (December 4, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684857235
• ISBN-13: 978-0684857237
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.9 x 9.4 inches
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Joe Egg: Peter Nichols: 9780802151155: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: January 11, 1994

This 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 stroke of theatre. Over the years, the author implies, explaining to others how one lives with such a situation becomes a kind of set party piece. This, savagely exaggerated, is what he has written-a recital, interspersed with jazz, imitations and tap-dances, about life with Joe Egg."

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• Paperback: 87 pages
• Publisher: Grove Press; (2nd) edition (January 11, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802151159
• ISBN-13: 978-0802151155
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The Witlings and The Woman-Hater (Broadview Literary Texts): Fanny Burney,Peter Sabor,Geoffrey Sill:

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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 conventions; The Woman-Hater, more melodramatic, both expresses and warns against the excessive sensibility of romanticism. Together, these two plays constitute a miniature history of English drama from the Restoration to the French Revolution and beyond. This edition contains a valuable selection of appendices, including: Burney s "Epilogue to Gerilda"; letters and diary entries; contemporary writings on comedy; and Burney s cast-list for The Woman-Hater.

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• Paperback: 329 pages
• Publisher: Broadview Press; 1 edition (September 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551113783
• ISBN-13: 978-1551113784
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
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