History & Criticism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538198858Author Carey PurcellFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

The men in plays such as Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"" or Sam Shephard's ""True West"" are often presented as universal; little attention is given to the gender dynamics involved in the characters. This...

2004 writeup: This is an anthology of the best papers presented at the 28th Comparative Drama Conference at the Ohio State University April 29-May 1, 2004. This international three-day event had 59 sessions and 200 program participants who presented and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540210036Author Doug TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627877381Author Thomas P CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint WheatmarkPublisher WheatmarkWeight(grams) 435g

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Ancient Athens was unique in its politics, extraordinary in its religion and fanatic about its poetry. Yet the creativity of the society peaked in a time of prolonged, avoidable and catastrophic war; the brilliance of Greek tragedy blazed while the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953035479Author Susan IngramFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

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Scenic spectacles collapse the borders of graphic and visual arts, multimedia technology, spectatorship and architecture. Drawing upon various systems of commercial, institutional and public spectacle that intersect with scenic stages of the national...

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This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad terms, the project answers the question, 'How do we define the relationships between performance and audience?'.Book InformationISBN...

Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community. Semmes reveals the political, economic and business realities of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535409216Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This book concerns the life and theatrical career of the great native-born English composer and musician of the eighteenth century, Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778). Its purpose is three-fold. First, it provides a comprehensive biography and account of...

The Experimental Plays of Harold Pinter offers a fresh approach to the plays of Nobel Prize laureate Harold Pinter. He is highlighted as an experimental playwright who attempted to free the theatre from the legacy of realism, causality, and motivation...

In this unique study, Michael Y. Bennett re-reads four influential modern plays alongside their contemporary debates between rationalism and empiricism to show how these monumental achievements were thoroughly a product of their time, but also universal...

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner...

With chapters on The Sound of Music, Milk and Honey, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, The Rothschilds, Rags, Ragtime and The Producers, this book examines both direct and indirect references to, or resonances of, the Holocaust, tracing changing American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497405233Author Dawn WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514346884Author Donald McNeillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544759401Author David Albert MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Christopher Newton has placed the Shaw Festival firmly on the map world-class theatre. His best Shavian productions are revolutionary re-interpretations of plays that are normally treated as Edwardian period pieces or didactic entertainments. In this...

Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century. His advocacy of American, and specifically Jacksonian, themes made him popular in New York's Bowery Theatre. His rivalry with the English tragedian William Charles Macready led to...

In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society. Accustomed to the indulgences of a celebrity-driven culture, how can modern audiences understand and interpret classic works of drama?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517292881Author Irene ShalandFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514347058Author Donald McNeillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477633526Author Pamela V MobergFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506118987Author Kathy OldhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498098670Author Burns MantleFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 649g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498092005Author DoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 621g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497969889Author Joseph SchroederFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 236g

From oral culture, through the advent of literacy, to the introduction of printing, to the development of electronic media, communication structures have radically altered culture in profound ways. As the first book to take a critical realist approach to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142878Author Sue MellenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 18g

Veenapani Chawla is arguably the only practitioner of theatre in India who has fully articulated a theory of the theatre she practices. Exploring her Mumbai plays, the springboard of her later works, this book opens a window to her experiments with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478357803Author Fernando PenalosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

How did Brazilian theatre survive under the military dictatorship of 1964-1985? How did it change once the regime was over? This collection of new essays is the first to cover Brazilian theatre during this period. Brazilian scholars and artists discuss...

This first-ever study of rape in modern American drama examines portrayals of rape, raped women and rapists in 36 plays written between 1970 and 2007, the period during which the feminist movement made rape a matter of public discourse. These dramas...

Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre and performance scholarship. This new volume represents a selection of the best research presented at the 35th international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama...

In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces affect both personal and global change can be difficult to track, particularly in the arts. This collection of twenty new essays explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic...