Newton Compton editori s.r.l., 1995. — 98 p. — (Tascabili Economici Newton). Il teatro italiano ha una storia lunga e complessa che si estende dal X secolo a oggi e che non ha nulla da invidiare a quella di paesi di grandi tradizioni teatrali e sceniche come la Francia, la Gran Bretagna, la Spagna, la Germania e l'Austria. L'obiettivo di questo volume è di ricostruirla non solo...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 452 p. Beginning in the cafés, lofts and small spaces of Off-Off-Broadway, and continuing in the Off-Broadway and regional theatres of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, new American playwrights emerged committed to exploring the potential of their craft, the nature of American experience and the politics of gender and sexuality. In this study...
Brill: Leiden; Boston, 2012. — 767 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-21753-9 — (Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe) Some early modern poets never lose their attraction. One of them is Shakespeare. Another one is the Dutch poet and playwright Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679), whose lifetime roughly coincides with the Dutch Golden Age. However, to the same degree to which the figure of...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 332 p. — ISBN10: 052164075X; ISBN13: 978-0521640756 English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theater was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance...
Frances Lincoln, 2017. — 120 p. London is the undisputed theatre capital of the world. From world-famous musicals to West End shows, from cutting-edge plays to Shakespeare in its original staging, from outdoor performance to intimate fringe theatre, the range and quality are unsurpassed. Leading theatre critic Michael Coveney invites you on a tour of forty-five theatres that...
Donohue Joseph. Cambridge History of British Theatre, Vol. 2, 1680 to 1895 Cambridge University Press, 552 p. Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of British Theatre begins in 1660 with the restoration of King Charles II to the throne and the reestablishment of the professional theatre, interdicted since 1642, and follows the far-reaching development of the form over two centuries...
Scarecrow Press, 2006. — 456 p. More than mere entertainment, German theater was a crucial component of culture — often influencing society and politics in German-speaking countries — whose influence gradually reached much further with the emergence of outstanding playwrights like Goethe, Schiller, Hauptmann, and Brecht, as well as exceptional dramas such as Faust and The...
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. — xii, 223 p.; 6 b/w illus. Theatre and theatregoing was central to the cultural life of later eighteenth-century Britain. In this engaging work, Jean I. Marsden explores the playhouse as a source of emotion during a period when the ability to feel demonstrated moral worth. Using first-hand accounts, reviews,...
London: Routledge, 1993 — 162 p. — ISBN10: 0415052025; ISBN13: 978-0415052023. Theatre on Trial is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett's later drama in the context of contemporary theatre. Audrey McMullan employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, voyeurism, gender and the ideology of stage and TV...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 196 p. — ISBN10: 1137276983; ISBN13: 978-1137276988. McTighe, in an elegantly written, wide-ranging study of Beckett's dramas, focusing mainly on the late plays but relevant to his entire corpus, provides an original and much-needed way of approaching the complex issues related to Beckett's depiction of bodies - at once material yet...
Milling Jane, Thomson Peter. Cambridge History of British Theatre, Vol. 1, Origins to 1660 Cambridge University Press, 525 p. Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of British Theatre begins in Roman Britain and ends with Charles II’s restoration to the throne imminent. The four essays in Part i treat pre-Elizabethan theatre, the eight in Part ii focus on the riches of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 315 p. This examination of the relation between law and drama in Renaissance England establishes the diversity of their dialogue, encompassing critique and complicity, comment and analogy, but argues that the way in which drama addresses legal problems and dilemmas is nevertheless distinctive. As the resemblance between law and theatre...
London: Routledge, 2018. — 194 p. — ISBN10: 1138236489; ISBN13: 978-1138236486 — (Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama) The work of dramatists such as George Chapman, Thomas Heywood, Cyril Tourneur, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford can profitably be studied as attempts to construct a new moral order in response to the absence or weakening of the religious...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 406 p. Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic investigates the way in which theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post- Revolutionary American culture. Richards examines a variety of phenomena connected to the stage, including closet Revolutionary political plays, British drama on American boards,...
Oxford University Press, 1939. — 204 p. — B0008632J2. An outline of dramatic history which marks the great turning points in the development of theatre. A delineation of the conventions which various playwrights invented, and of the societies in which they wrote. The author intends to explain what has happened in the history of the stage, why it happened, and what it means.
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