Plautus, Bacchides
by Barsby, John, Plautus, Titus Maccius
fromAris et Phillips classical texts
The political plays of Langston Hughes
by Duffy, Susan, Hughes, Langston, Hughes, Langston
Among the most influential poets of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is perhaps best remembered for the innovative use of jazz rhythms in his writing. While his poetry and essays received much public acclaim and scholarly attention, Hughes' dramas are relatively unknown. …
"Spirits of Another Sort is a literary-critical study that traces the development of Kyoka's work from the melodramatic formulas of his early ideological fiction to the increasingly grotesque and fantastic permutations of the original pattern in his plays of the Taisho era. It i…
"Bertolt Brecht's theories of political theatre position him as one of the most important and controversial playwright/directors of the twentieth century. Brecht maintained that unless ideas were useful they should be discarded and this presents a challenge to contemporary Brech…