The Making Of Modern Drama (Da Capo Paperback)
Da Capo Press, March 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Da Capo Press, March 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Red Globe Press, June 2009. Trade Paperback. What motivates theatre-makers who work in education? How can theatre respond to young people's experiences of living in a globalised world? Theatre & Education provides an insight into the energy, passion and values that have inspired the most inventive theatre-makers who work with..... More
Red Globe Press, July 2009. Trade Paperback. What is globalization? What role is there for the theatre in a globalizing world? This original and provocative book explores the contribution that theatre has made to our slowly evolving consciousness of our world as a whole. Drawing on sources from Aeschylus to..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, July 2009. Trade Paperback. Act of violence or show of strength? In a world of spectacular suffering and power plays - large and small - what is theatre's role in protecting human dignity? With its impassioned plays, inspired activism and outspoken artists, the theatre has long provided a...... More
Palgrave MacMillan, January 2013. Trade Paperback. If violence is a terrible thing, why do we watch it? Nevitt explores the use of violence in theatre and its effect on spectators. Critically engaging with examples of stage combat, rape, terrorism, wrestling and historical re-enactments, she argues that studying violence through theatre..... More
Springer, May 2013. Trade Paperback. The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated. Harvey Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance - from Ancient Athens to the present day. More
Methuen Drama, June 2009. Trade Paperback. What is ethics and what has it got to do with theatre? Drawing on both theoretical material and practical examples, Ridout makes a clear and compelling critical intervention, raising fundamental questions about what theatre is for and how audiences interact with it. One of..... More
Penguin Classics, 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the..... More
Modern Library Giant, 1936. First Thus. Cloth. Stated, First Modern Library Giant. {5 & 1/4' x 8'}. In very good tan with brown lettering and decorations. Light edgewear. Flap is not clipped. Brown cloth with silver torch bearer centered front board and silver lettering upon spine edge. A complete list..... More
Grove Weidenfeld, January 1994. Trade Paperback. A Taste of Honey tells the story of a working-class adolescent girl and her various relationships: the black sailor who gets her pregnant; the homosexual art student who moves into her apartment to help her through the pregnancy; her fun-loving and saloon-frequenting mother; and..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, April 1991. Trade Paperback. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the..... More
Seabury Press/ Continum, 1978. Cloth. {9' x 6'} In heavily damp stained/curled jacket with darkened edges. Damp stained rear pastedown. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards wiith stamped gold lettering upon spine. Tightly bound. [412 pages]. More
Random House, January 1973. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. Four tiny marks about the size of a pencil point on the front of the jacket. One lightly rubbed corner. Price clipped. Signed by William Styron on the front free endpaper. More
Methuen Publishing, April 2014. Trade Paperback. A major revision of this classic revenge tragedy. The comprehensive introduction covers recent developments in criticism and key theatre productions, as well as relating the play to other early modern tragedies. The edition gives students and teachers a reliable, annotated text and a stimulating..... More
A&C Black, December 2002. Trade Paperback. 'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord' This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had 'the greatest and most noble construction of any pure unmixed comedy..... More
A&C Black, October 2006. Trade Paperback. "The next good mood I find my father in, I'll get him quite discarded" With these chillingly offhand words, Beatrice-Joanna, the spoilt daughter of a powerful nobleman, plots to get rid of the family servant who has crossed her once too often. The Changeling..... More
Cambridge University Press, December 2014. Trade Paperback. Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness..... More
Penguin Classics, March 2003. Trade Paperback. A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community A Penguin Classic "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction..... More
University Of Chicago Press, May 1969. Trade Paperback. "These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket." Robert Brustein, "The New Republic" "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody." Kenneth Rexroth, "The Nation" "The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 1993. Trade Paperback. 'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds' - Virginia Woolf in "A Room of One's Own." More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2002. Trade Paperback. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon..... More
Mariner Books, October 1962. Trade Paperback. New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index. More
Modern Library, 1942. Hardcover. More
Grove/Everygreen, December 1958. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. 13th printing. Mild marginal darkening of covers and interior pages. Previous dealer's sticker residue affixed to front cover panel recto & verso. Vertical creasing of rear cover. [160 pages]. More
Routledge, October 2010. Oversize Softcover. Stanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski's System. Author Nick O'Brien makes this cornerstone of acting accessible to teachers and students alike. This is an exercise book for students and a lesson planner for teachers on syllabi from Edexcel, WJEC and AQA..... More