"In this ground-breaking study Francesca Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements…
The metamorphoses of ancient myths
This is a compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre. Each of the book's parts comprises full reproductions of the plays that defined the period and key critical writings that inform and contextualise their reading.
Interviews med: Howard Brenton, Max Stafford-Clark, Alan Bennett, Nicholas Hytner, David Edgar, Michael Attenborough, David Hare, Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Michael Blakemore
About the role of women in Roman Republican plays of all genres, and about the role of gender in the influence of this on later dramatists