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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156757805Author Jean RacineFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Avant-garde plays by a gifted and unconventional German Jewish writer, one of the few women among the Expressionists of the Berlin ModernsFamous for her poetry and infamous for her bohemian lifestyle, as well as her association with political radicals,...

Though much beloved and widely produced, Moliere's satirical comedies pose a problem for those reading or staging his works today: how can a genre associated with biting caricature and castigation deliver engaging theatre? Instead of simply dismissing...

From the wager between God and Mephistopheles and the pact Faust makes with the latter-that this genial, urbane devil could have his soul if ever Faust became satisfied with any experience or knowledge Mephistopheles could show him-the drama unfolds in...

Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe "Blood is thicker than water," goes the old proverb. But do common bloodlines in fact demand special duties or prescribe affections?...

This original and innovative study is the first systematic exploration of Racine's theatricality. It is based on a close examination of all Racine's plays and on evidence for performance of them from the seventeenth century to the present day. David...

Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dali, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico Garcia Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond. This study offers a fresh examination of one of the...

Going Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent times in Spain. It both contributed to and documented La Movida, a drug-fuelled youth movement that placed Madrid firmly on the global...

Henrik Ibsen's plays came at a pivotal moment in late nineteenth-century European modernity. They engaged his public through a strategic use of metaphors of house and home, which resonated with experiences of displacement, philosophical homelessness, and...

The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize...

In the decades before the Second World War, popular musical theatre was one of the most influential forms of entertainment. This is the first book to reconstruct early popular musical theatre as a transnational and highly cosmopolitan industry that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820448510Author Jost HermandFormat HardbackPage Count 199Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 410g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820411446Author Solange GuenounFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 560g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820437187Author Huimin ChenFormat HardbackPage Count 113Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 360g

Part one begins by examining the nature of Diderot's theatrical revolution as it is revealed in the works of dramatic theory, the Entretiens sur Le Fils naturel and De la poesie dramatique, as well as in his letters and articles for the Correspondance...

August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects...

This long awaited collection brings together in one volume the definitive essays on Anton Chekhov by renowned Chekhov scholar Robert Louis Jackson, including work that has never appeared in English as well as brand new essays published here for the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451526885Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 171mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572410411Author Oskar KokoschkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 542g

This volume contains four of Pixérécourt’s most important melodramas: The Ruins of Babylon, or Jafar and Zaida; The Dog of Montargis, or The Forest of Bondy; Christopher Columbus, or the Discovery of the New World; and Alice, or The Scottish...

Isabella Andreini was the most famous actress of the Italian Renaissance, the darling of dukes and kings, as well as of less-moneyed theatergoers. As a founding member with her husband, Francesco, of the Compagnia dei Gelosi, she performed ceaselessly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442631267Author Leonard E DoucetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 449g

Four taboo-tackling plays from the foremost writer of Dutch language theatre, poetry and prose.Book InformationISBN 9780966615210Author Hugo ClausFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Martin E. Segal Theatre CenterPublisher Martin E. Segal Theatre...

Poland is celebrated internationally for its rich and varied performance traditions and theatre histories. This groundbreaking volume is the first in English to engage with these topics across an ambitious scope, incorporating Staropolska, the...

Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe "Blood is thicker than water," goes the old proverb. But do common bloodlines in fact demand special duties or prescribe affections?...

Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other leading canonical works of European literature such as Dante's Inferno and Shakespeare's Hamlet. This is...

One of Poland's most important artists and writers of the 20th Century, this collection includes: The Pragmatists, Tumor Brainiowicz, Gyubal Wahazar, The Anonymous Work, The Cuttlefish, Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes, and The Beelzebub Sonata. Also...

A collection of translated plays from Tolstoy.Book InformationISBN 9780810113947Author L.N. TolstoyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451528032Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This volume contains four representative French comedies of the period from the death of Moliere to the French Revolution: Jean-Francois Regnard's The Absent-Minded Lover, Philippe Nericault Destouches's The Conceited Count, Pierre Nivelle De La...

The manner in which a play is published often says as much about the culture that it comes from as the play itself. Using the example of nineteenth-century Spanish theatre, The Stages of Property argues that there is a great deal one can learn about a...

This collection represents Schnitzler's dramatic work from 1886 to 1915 in the most accurate English translation available. Included are the popular ""Roundelay"" and ""Anatol"" (with additional scenes and an alternate ending), as well as the rarely...

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...

Can you be a hero if you fought for Nazi Germany? The Latvians who fought for the Third Reich and halted the Red Army parade as heroes every year through the streets of Riga. As a growing number of young Russians campaign to halt the 'fascist' march,...

Samuel Beckett's Self-Referential Drama - The Sensitive Chaos, 2nd EditionAbout the AuthorShimon Levy is Chairman of the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv UniversityReviews"... the book's principal value lies in Levy's penetrating observations about...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573618260Author Jean-Claude GrumbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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...

This series presents a wide choice of 20th-century drama. The books offer scene-by-scene analysis, structured questions and assignment suggestions for GCSE. In this Russian comedy, a young traveller in a provincial town is mistaken for a government...