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Fraud, theft, extortion and sexual corruption are the themes in this eighteenth-century masterpiece of French comedy.Book InformationISBN 9780948230189Author Alain-Rene LesageFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Absolute ClassicsPublisher Bloomsbury...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881450163Author Laurence SenelickFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Broadway Play Publishing Inc.,U.S.Publisher Broadway Play Publishing Inc.,U.S.

A hugely acclaimed new play based on a 15th century Bohemian story Written in the 15th century by the Bohemian humanist and writer Johannes Von Saaz, Death and the Ploughman is a tragic dialogue between Death and a recently widowed farmer. It is here...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820402222Author Linn B KonradFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 420g

David Lan's new version of one of Chekhov's greatest plays, was commissioned for a co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic. Directed by Katie Mitchell, it premiered at the Young Vic, London, in March 1998, a century after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898751789Author Frederick SchillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Chekhov's masterpiece, about a Russian family losing its ancestral home, combines a lament for a vanishing past with a hopeful dream of the future. In the century since its first performance, The Cherry Orchard has undergone a wide range of conflicting...

This translation of Checkov's tragi-comic play - perhaps his most popular - is being published to coincide with a production at the National Theatre, starring Vanessa Regrave.Book InformationISBN 9780413757807Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage...

A new German and Catalan play together in one volume Sugar Dollies by Klaus Chatten (Germany) Dressed as Batman and Robin, Babette and her overweight daughter, Tabea enter the ratings-topping blind date TV show - Sugar Dollies. At the auditions they meet...

First published in 1981, Michael Patterson's was the first book in any language to be devoted to the work of Germany's leading theatre director. Peter Stein's thoughtful and critical approach to a variety of dramatic texts - from Irish comedy to German...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898751734Author Frederick SchillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

During the late nineteenth century a remarkable combination of circumstances and individual talents permitted the Court theatre of a small German state to become the theatrical sensation of its age. The Meiningen Court Theatre developed into an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410218308Author Leo N TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

It is against this background of the theater's high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the literary arts, as the place where all the arts coalesce in a Wagnerian 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in Brechtian...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820470603Author Kimberly CashmanFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 350g

Based on extensive archival research, this is a comprehensive study of theatre in the Third Reich. It explores the contending pressures and ambitions within the regime and the Nazi party, within the German theatre profession itself and the theatre-going...

This book chronicles the emergence of a national feeling in the theatres of Northern and Eastern Europe from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. Using original documents and sources, including architects' plans, royal edicts, censors'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898752991Author Frederick SchillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

In this entertaining book, a playwright and theater critic presents up-to-date and witty translations of three classic comedies of French theater: Alain-Rene Lesage's satire Turcaret, Pierre Marivaux's love comedy The Triumph of Love, and Eugene...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213607Author Edmond RostandFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

This book provides a detailed survey of the hundreds of non-biblical serious plays which survive from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. The performers vary from civic groups and literary societies to courts and convents: mainly amateurs, but they...

A detailed introduction to Moliere and his plays, this Companion evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres, patrons, the performers and theatre staff with whom he worked, and the various publics he and his troupes entertained with such success. It...

"Monsieur Jordan is greedy for culture at all costs and aspired to dizzy social heights. Moliere's ferociously funny interchanges between the gullible hero and a succession of dancing masters, philosophy tutors, dubious tailors and penniless...

Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever since the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early...

An illustrative selection of German dramas from the baroque age and the early Enlightenment (i.e. prior to Lessing), by Sachs, Gryphius, Schlegel, and others.Book InformationISBN 9780826407030Author Hans SachsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint...

During the late nineteenth century a remarkable combination of circumstances and individual talents permitted the Court theatre of a small German state to become the theatrical sensation of its age. The Meiningen Court Theatre developed into an...

For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the century this defensiveness about mourning became less...

With the aim of providing a comprehensive history of Italian drama from its origins to the time of its publication in 2006, this book treats theatre in its widest sense, discussing the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative...

This study is entirely devoted to African literary drama in French, a major component of African theatre. Beginning with a detailed analysis of its relationship to a variety of pre-colonial, but sometimes still contemporary traditions of performance...

Since its explosive premiere in Rome in 1921, Six Characters in Search of an Author has gained worldwide recognition. Pirandello's challenge to the very notion of stage representation was taken up by the leading directors of the time. The playwright...

Chekhov is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential literary figures of modern times. Russia's preeminent playwright, he played a significant role in revolutionizing the modern theatre. His impact on prose fiction writing is incalculable: he...

Beckett's later dramatic works defy generic classification as pure theatre, poetry, or prose. Instead, Brater argues, they forge a new aesthetic for themselves. Analysing Beckett's use of disjointed body imagery; mask; abstract monologue; and the...

Presents Shiller's dramatic masterpiece, the "Wallenstein" trilogy, and "Mary Stuart" in their entirety. Includes notes on the historical background of both plays.Book InformationISBN 9780826403360Author Friedrich SchillerFormat...

German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage considers the powerfully stylized, anti-realistic styles of acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition...

Published in conjunction with the Royal Court Theatre, this volume includes translations of five extraordinary new plays from France which were presented as part of the French Theatre Season in London during 1997 One More Wasted Year by Christopher...

During the French Revolution most performances on the London stage were strictly censored, but political attitudes found indirect expression. New and popular genres like pantomime, gothic drama, history plays, musical and spectacular entertainment, and,...

For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the century this defensiveness about mourning became less...

This is the third volume to be published in the series Theatre in Europe. This book makes available for the first time an overview of a significant segment of European theatre history and, with few exceptions, none of the documents presented have been...

Andrzej Wajda stands as one of the leading film-makers in contemporary European cinema, although his equally important theatrical achievements have remained less well-known. This book provides the first account and critical evaluation of this Polish...