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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
"The dominant Athenian playwright in fifth-century-BCE Athens, Sophocles left us seven powerful dramas that still shock as they render the violence that erupts within divinity and humankind. Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone trace three generations of a family m…
"A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, desperate lamentation, self-mutilation, and a thrilling eyewitness account of the battle of Salamis - these are some of the features of Aeschylus' Persians which make it one …
Introduction: Ideology and the ideological aesthetic -- The ruthless schemers of Tomsk and Atomsk: The Man from the USSR and The Waltz Invention -- Bits of my past litter the floor: ideology, epistemology, and the "Modernism of Underdevelopment" in the eye and despair -- "Violin…
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Drawing on expertise from across the African continent this collection reflects the realities for women working and making theatre: how Egyptian director Dalia Basiouny has documented the "Tahrir Stories" of the Egyptian Revolution; how in Uganda women have used various theatric…
Athol Fugard's plays are often looked at for their apartheid connection, but with apartheid officially over, it is time to look at them under a new lens. Through this study four of Fugard's plays have been examined under cross-generational attachment theory in an attempt to demo…
The years between 1921 and 1934 were Eugene O'Neill's journeyman years, a time when the country's theatrical community, hungering after a national playwright, turned a spotlight on a good writer in hopes of finding a great one. The discursive interplay between the maturing playw…
This examination is a study of the characterization of Cleopatra in three early modern English plays. The three plays are the following: Mary Sidney's The Tragedie of Antonie, Samuel Daniel's The Tragedie of Cleopatra, and William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra . Although al…
This thesis is an examination of Tess Onwueme's plays namely; The Broken Calabash, The Reign of Wazobia, and Tell it to Women. Based on the premise that female playwrights are hardly recognized, it shows how Onwueme merits a central position in African literary world. Using West…