"The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age Drama examines the various ways in which male and female dramatists present the figure of the ascetic woman in seventeenth-century Spanish theater. Playwrights depict her not only as the solitary initiate of a rite of passage struggling to …
Contributed articles.
The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. Further to studies of individual playwrights the collection also includ…
The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late 19th-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals.
"This is the first book in English to trace the history of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, founded in 1919 and liquidated by the Soviet government in 1949. Since the conventional view of the fate of Jews in Soviet Russia is that, from the beginning, the Soviet state pursued po…
Moscow Performances bring to life the diversity, energy, and imagination of Russian theater. Focussing on the work of Moscow's leading directors, it gives reviews key productions and opinionated responses to Moscow stage developments in the.
"The reviews and features collected in John Freedman's Moscow Performances bring to life the diversity, energy and imagination of Russian theater. He focusses on the work of Moscow's leading directors: Pyotr Fomenko, Kama Ginkas, Valery Fokin, Anatoly Vasilyev, Sergei Artsibashe…
"Film, Drama and the Break-Up of Britain engages with ideas that are highly topical such as: nationalism, nationhood and national identity, and examines the relationship of these to post-colonialism in the context of a radically changing Britain since devolution. It does so thro…
When the sun set on the British Empire, the resultant fragmentation of British identity emerged most tellingly in artistic works: cinematic works such as Howards End depicted a richly historical land steeped in tradition and tragedy, while the more modern Lock, Stock and Two Smo…
Tertullian (c. 150-222 CE) founded a Christian Latin language and literature, strove to unite the demands of the Bible with Church practice, defended Christianity, attacked heresy, and pondered morality. Octavius by Minucius, an early Christian writer of unknown date, is a debat…
Tertullian (c. 150-222 CE) founded a Christian Latin language and literature, strove to unite the demands of the Bible with Church practice, defended Christianity, attacked heresy, and pondered morality. Octavius by Minucius, an early Christian writer of unknown date, is a debat…
