'Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage' is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-16th century to the early 17th centuries.
Using original research from BBC archives and manuscript sources, this book provides perspectives on the relationship between Beckett's television dramas and the wider television culture of Britain and Europe.
Explores connections between theater time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in …
"Shakespeare's unique status has made critics reluctant to acknowledge the extent to which some of his plays are the outcome of adaptation. In Shakespeare's Stage Traffic Janet Clare re-situates Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing and competitive theatrical trade of …
"Shakespeare's unique status has made critics reluctant to acknowledge the extent to which some of his plays are the outcome of adaptation. In Shakespeare's Stage Traffic Janet Clare re-situates Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing and competitive theatrical trade of …
The internationally renowned actor and playwright adapts Henrik Ibsen's Master Builder.
"Internationally renowned actor-playwright adapts Henrik Ibsen's Master Builder. Shawn's plays are everything you dream of theatre being-really smart, stimulating, unsettling, hilarious, and truthful. The quality of his writing places Shawn in the company of heavyweight playwrig…
"Between the advent of the French Revolution and the short-lived success of the Chartist Movement, overworked and underpaid labourers struggled to achieve solidarity and collective bargaining. That history has been told in numerous accounts of the age, but never before has it be…
Begining with a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a through analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these playwrights, Laurens De vos thoroughly illustrates how both, in their own way, struggl…
Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these playwrights, De Vos minutely points out how both in their own way struggle with comi…
