"The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is a ground-breaking study of twenty-five writers whose work during the past fifty years has helped to shape and define Irish theatre. Written by a team of international scholars, it provides an authoritative survey and …
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and define Irish theatre. Written by a team of international scholars, it provides an illuminating sur…
"This is the richest and most detailed study in English of Ernst Toller's plays and their most significant productions. Dr Cecil Davies places particular emphasis on the productions directed by Karl-Heinz Martin, Jurgen Fehling and Erwin Piscator, showing how these brilliant dir…
"This is the richest and most detailed study in English of Ernst Toller's plays and their most significant productions. Dr Cecil Davies places particular emphasis on the productions directed by Karl-Heinz Martin, Jurgen Fehling and Erwin Piscator, showing how these brilliant dir…
"Making Plays is a collection of ten interviews with some of the greatest dramatists of our time and the directors with whom they have worked: Howard Brenton and Max Stafford-Clark, Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner, David Edgar and Michael Attenborough, David Hare and Richard Ey…
Rage and Reason explores the work of 20 leading dramatists who discuss their work from the perspective of being both playwrights and women.
Women playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama. Twenty leading contemporary dramatists discuss their work from the perspective of being both writers and women. Each talks about the state of the theatre…
"The work of the 'other' comic poets of classical Athens, those who competed with, and in some cases defeated, their (eventually) better-known fellow comedian, Aristophanes, has almost eluded the historical record. The poetry of Cratinus, Phrynichos, Eupolis and the rest has sur…
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"During the last quarter of the eighteenth century in London there was a remarkable surge in the number of produced plays written by women." "Ellen Donkin explores the careers of seven such women playwrights. This tiny cohort created a formidable pressure and presence in the pro…
Due to the scarcity of surviving texts by other poets, it is easy to forget that Aristophanes wrote for competition and that rivalry was an important component in the rhetoric of his comedies, especially Clouds and Knights . This important study, comprising 26 essays by leading …
