The first volume of Coward's autobiography. Displaying an early dedication to the theatre, it hints at the success that would come to Coward as actor, playwright, novelist and performer, and is punctuated with his trademark effervescent wit.
The first volume of Coward's autobiography. Displaying an early dedication to the theatre, it hints at the success that would come to Coward as actor, playwright, novelist and performer, and is punctuated with his trademark effervescent wit.
Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from…
The book recounts Osborne's childhood and youth, emphasising his warm relationship with his father, and his antagonistic relationship with his mother, which deepened to hatred after his father died when John was ten.
A key document in the German reception of Shakespeare, Herder's essay is a repudiation of the normative poetics of the Enlightenment and the hegemony of French neoclassicism, as well as a passionate defence of European diversity in an age of increasing homogeneity.