Category: Theatre

By William Shakespeare

ISBN-10: 0199267170

ISBN-13: 9780199267170

Hailed by way of The Washington put up as "a definitive synthesis of the easiest editions" and via the days of London as "a monument to Shakespearean scholarship," The Oxford Shakespeare is the final word anthology of the Bard's paintings: the main authoritative variation of the performs and poems ever released.

Now, virtually twenty years after the unique quantity, Oxford is proud to announce a completely up-to-date moment version, together with for the 1st time the texts of The Reign of Edward III and Sir Thomas extra, spotting those performs formally as real works through Shakespeare. this pretty assortment is the manufactured from years of full-time examine via a workforce of British and American students and represents the main thorough exam ever undertaken of the character and authority of Shakespeare's paintings.

The editors reconsidered each aspect of the textual content within the mild of recent scholarship and so they completely re-examined the earliest revealed models of the performs, firmly constructing the canon and chronological order of composition. All degree instructions were reconsidered in mild of unique staging, and lots of new instructions for crucial motion were extra.

This marvelous quantity additionally encompasses a short creation to every paintings in addition to an illuminating common advent.

Finally, the editors have additional a wealth of secondary fabric, together with an essay on language, a listing of latest allusions to Shakespeare, an index of Shakespearean characters, a thesaurus, a consolidated bibliography, and an index of first traces of the Sonnets. Compiled by way of the world's prime professionals, filled with info, and attractively designed, The Oxford Shakespeare is the finest of Shakespearean anthologies.

By Albert Camus

ISBN-10: 2070360644

ISBN-13: 9782070360642

"Caligula : C'est une vérité toute basic et toute claire, un peu bête, mais difficile à découvrir et lourde à porter.
Hélicon : Et qu'est-ce donc que cette vérité, Caïus ?
Caligula : Les hommes meurent et ils ne sont pas heureux.
Hélicon : Allons, Caïus, c'est une vérité dont on s'arrange très bien. Regarde autour de toi. Ce n'est pas cela qui les empêche de déjeuner.
Caligula : Alors, c'est que tout, autour de moi, est mensonge, et moi, je veux qu'on vive dans los angeles vérité !"

By Pierre Corneille

ISBN-10: 2081224755

ISBN-13: 9782081224759

" Un héros qui s'éveille doit avoir los angeles splendeur d'un soleil levant " lisait-on dans un ouvrage anonyme publié à Madrid en 1637, l'année où fut créé Le Cid. Ce héros splendide, ce pourrait être Rodrigue, qui par un coup d'éclat et quelques coups d'épée triomphe de tous les hindrances, dresses à lui tous les coeurs et s'élève au-dessus de los angeles loi commune. Mais ce héros pourrait aussi bien être Corneille, qui à l'aube de sa trente et unième année, avec Le Cid, s'affranchit de toutes les règles et s'affirme comme l'un des plus grands dramaturges de son siècle.

By Frank O'Connor

ISBN-10: 0815605641

ISBN-13: 9780815605645

Frank O'Connor, at twenty-three, comes out of the internment camp the place he were imprisoned as an Irish progressive, and plunges into the burgeoning intellectual-political ferment of Dublin within the Twenties. during this ebook, he re-creates his years as a tender author, offering as he does so a portrait of an period.

By Laikwan Pang

ISBN-10: 0824830938

ISBN-13: 9780824830939

The Distorting reflect analyzes the a number of and complicated ways that city chinese language topics observed themselves interacting with the hot visible tradition that emerged through the turbulent interval among the Eighteen Eighties and the Nineteen Thirties. The media and visible types tested contain lithography, images, ads, movie, and theatrical performances. Urbanites actively engaged with and loved this visible tradition, which was once principally pushed via the subjective wish for the empty can provide of modernity—promises created from such summary and fleeting suggestions as new, interesting, and fashionable.

Detailing and interpreting the trajectories of improvement of assorted visible representations, Laikwan Pang emphasizes their interactions. In doing so, she demonstrates that visible modernity used to be not just a mix of self reliant cultural phenomena, but in addition coherent sociocultural discourse whose affects have been noticeable in numerous and collective components of the tradition. The paintings starts off with an total old account and theorization of a brand new lithographic pictorial tradition constructing on the finish of the 19th century and an exam of modernity’s obsession with the research of the true. next chapters deal with the fascination with clone of the feminine physique within the new visible tradition; leisure venues within which this tradition spread out and used to be played; how urbanites got here to phrases with and interacted with the hot fact; and the construction and reception of pictures, the dynamics among those being a topic explored in the course of the book.

Modernity, because the writer indicates, may be obvious as spectacle. while, she demonstrates that, even if the excessiveness of this spectacle captivated the fashionable topic, it didn't thoroughly crush or immobilize those that engaged with it. in spite of everything, she argues, they participated in and played with this ephemeral visible tradition in an try and come to phrases with their very own new, smooth self.

By Arthur Frank Wertheim

ISBN-10: 134994985X

ISBN-13: 9781349949854

ISBN-10: 1349949868

ISBN-13: 9781349949861

This e-book unearths how Fields turned a personality comic whereas acting in Broadway’s so much illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies.
As the 1st biography to take advantage of the lately opened Fields Papers on the movie Academy, the publication explores how Fields years as a Follies entertainer portraying a beleaguered husband and an enthralling conman grew to become a landmark turning aspect in his occupation, resulting in his repute as a masterful movie comic. The booklet additionally untangles an online of mysteries approximately Fields’s turbulent inner most existence, from the heartrending tales concerning the tragic courting together with his calculating spouse who refused to divorce him, to his estranged son managed through his mom, to the seven-year extra-marital affair with a refrain woman that resulted in the start of an undesirable child.
This electrifying saga illuminates a fancy twin character, whirling from tenderness to brusqueness, who continued quite a bit discomfort that allows you to carry the present of laughter to hundreds of thousands. even though vilified via Ziegfeld and assailed via demons, Fields survived the cutthroat rigors of Broadway convey biz to turn into a mythical American iconoclast and cultural icon.

By Shou-ren Wang

ISBN-10: 031203525X

ISBN-13: 9780312035259

ISBN-10: 1349203882

ISBN-13: 9781349203888

ISBN-10: 1349203904

ISBN-13: 9781349203901

This ebook advances an exploration of the shape of unacted drama within the nineteenth century and the variation among unacted drama and enacted drama. It consists of out a serious research of why that shape exists in its interestingly introspective, lyrical form, and why it exists in any respect. through at once confronting the unacted dramas of Byron, Shelley, Browning, Clough, Arnold, Swinburne and Hardy, the writer advances a theoretical argument referring to unacted drama as a literary style whereas whilst illuminating the texts that have both been ignored, or thought of in different phrases.

By Andrew Farkas, Anna-Lisa Bjorling

ISBN-10: 1574670107

ISBN-13: 9781574670103

This is often the 1st English-language biography of the loved Swedish tenor, incorporating memories by way of his widow, details from the relations documents, and fabric from operatic files across the world. A chronology of his performances can be integrated.

By Professor Philip H Highfill Jr PhD, Professor Kalman A Burnim PhD, Edward A. Langhans

ISBN-10: 080930919X

ISBN-13: 9780809309191

Quantity eight dis­cusses, between others, the careers of Charles Incledon, the “English Ballad-Singer,” boxing champion of britain, “Gentleman” John Jackson, and participants of the recognized Kemble kinfolk— Charles, Maria Theresa, Frances, Henry, John Philip, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Roger, and Stephen.

By Henrik Ibsen

ISBN-10: 1780011296

ISBN-13: 9781780011295

The NHB Drama Classics sequence provides the world's maximum performs in cheap, hugely readable versions for college kids, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the sequence are obtainable introductions (focusing at the play's theatrical and historic heritage, including an writer biography, key dates and recommendations for extra studying) and the full textual content, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, through best specialists within the box, are exact and chiefly actable. The versions of English-language performs comprise a word list of surprising phrases and words to help understanding.

A Doll's House is Ibsen's progressive story of Nora's awakening to her want for a lifetime of her personal.