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This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book...

Racine's masterpieces--Andromaque, Britannicus, Phedre, and Athalie--are translated into English verse. The introduction and notes by Mr. Lockert guide the reader to a greater understanding of the plays. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton...

The Other Voice's edition of Barbara Torelli's pastoral drama Partenia (c. 1586) is a groundbreaking contribution to the study of early modern Italian literature and women's writing. This is the first ever print edition of the earliest secular play by an...

Valeria Miani's Celinda (1611), the only female-authored secular tragedy of early modern Italy, is here made available for the first time in a modern edition. Miani's tale of the doomed love of the Lydian princess Celinda for the cross-dressed Persian...

This fresh translation of five plays securely authored by Antonia Pulci-one of the first published women writers in Renaissance Florence-reveals this gifted dramatist at her finest. Intended primarily for a convent audience, Pulci's plays give us a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374521165Author Joseph BrodskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156331500Author Gunter GrassFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530370Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802132765Author Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Friedrich D rrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. In this ALTA National Translation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411289Author Thomas BernhardFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 272g

Perhaps the first full-throated response to the war in Kosovo to be published in English, this anthology in a Serbian translation crossed the border between the two countries in 2014 as one of the first works to break a literary silence of three decades...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894865593Author Volodymyr VynnychenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of...

Although Pedro Calderon de la Barca was one of the greatest and most prolific playwrights of Spain's Golden Age, most of his nonallegorical comedias - 118 in all - have remained unknown. Robert ter Horst presents here the first full-length study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783204304Author Barbara Tepa LupackFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books

Dramatic sketches full of surprising, unpredictable twists and turns from a major twentieth-century German-language author.   A member of the Gruppe 47 writers’ group which sought to renew German-language literature after World War II, Ilse Aichinger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788323350019Author Agnieszka OrszulakFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, WydawnictwoPublisher Uniwersytet Jagiellonski,...

A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacred rappresentazioni-one-act plays on...

Paris, 1870. Adultery ought to be a serious business - but it's hard to keep your dignity when the cleaning lady has a fireman in your kitchen and she suspects that something is up. Not to mention the fact that your lover is not only stuck halfway up a...

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792) is, after Goethe, the most important writer of the German Sturm und Drang. Crucial in the reinvention of German literature through the reception of Shakespeare, his works contain a scathing critique of the ethical,...

Culture and cognition work together dynamically every time a spectator interprets meaning during a performance. In this study, Bruce McConachie examines the biocultural basis of all performance, from its origins and the cognitive processes that...

Theatre in Market Economies explores the complex relationship between theatre and the market economy since the 1990s. Bringing together research from the arts and social sciences, the book proposes that theatre has increasingly taken up the mission of...

Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages across Germany and...

The motto "Narod sobe"-"From the Nation to Itself"-inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague's National Theatre symbolizes the great importance theater holds for the Czechs. It also belies an extraordinary history of subversion, repression, and an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783207350Author James MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books

Best known today as the author of Don Quixote-one of the most beloved and widely read novels in the Western tradition-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a poet and a playwright as well. After some early successes on the Madrid stage in the...

This is the first book to deal with the work of three important Soivet theatre directors - Alexander Tairov, Evgeni Vakhtangov and Nikolai OkHlopkov - who, although familiar names in the West, are not often the subjects of full-length studies. The...

English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they are just as important to understanding his larger intellectual project. In Ahmed the Philosopher, Badiou's...

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century. It explores the specific context from which he emerged in imperial Germany during the late nineteenth and...

An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama, Loose Screws brings together nine previously untranslated plays by prominent playwrights who have emerged in rapidly changing postcommunist landscapes. The plays expose ways in which individual and...

This book examines the careers of three performers whose professional lives together spanned the period from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, from the heyday of neo-Classicism to the coming of Realism. While the individual essays...

In this book, Jeanette Malkin considers a broad spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created, coerced and destroyed by language. The playwrights examined include Handke, Pinter, Bond, Albee, Mamet and Shepard, as well as Vaclav Havel and...

From a forested Polish village to the blinding lights of London, A Time to Reap looks at one woman's story against the mountain landscape of an evolving nation and one of Poland's hottest political topics - abortion and the Catholic Church. Anna...

"An intellectual escapes the security and wealth of his Budapest life and heads for the dream land of Portugal. He stops in a remote poverty-stricken village where he refuses to become part of the community. He seduces the inn-keeper's daughter with...

Originally published in 1943, this book contains an edited French edition of Paul Claudel's 1910 drama L'annonce faite a Marie. The play, which deals with a young French peasant woman who contracts leprosy in the medieval era, is accompanied by critical...

In the late eighteenth century, a movement to transform France's theatre architecture united the nation. Playwrights, philosophers, and powerful agents including King Louis XV rejected the modified structures that had housed the plays of Racine and...

This book is a revised and expanded version of Ingmar Bergman: Four Decades in the Theatre, by the same authors, published more than ten years ago. The developments that have occurred in the interim, clustered around Bergman's triumphant return to the...

This Is A Play About The Future (And Climate Change. Not Insomnia.) A woman walks onto the stage. She says she is from the future. She says that we have stopped dreaming. She says we can change everything. She says that she can help end all our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866985307Author Perry GethnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts &...

Racine's poetry is always thought to be untranslatable; so one of the world's great dramatists remains inaccessible to readers without French. This is the best translation into English; Professor Knight has used a regular English blank verse which...