Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britains most important play-wrights and her four-decade long career chronicling the lives of Black people, and Black women in particular, in Britain....Loe edasi...
Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeares theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural bias towards leadership models to reconsider possibilities of working in a non-hierarchical and inclusive creative theatrical pract...Loe edasi...
Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings and retellings of these hi...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the role of religion in Shakespeares plays and poems. It features thirty-four chapters authored by leading scholars on topics from antithea...Loe edasi...
Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within three plays from different times in Shakespeares career through a Jungian framework....Loe edasi...
Shakespeare in Pakistan provides an extensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan, focusing on how it addresses creative, indigenous, cultural, and religious identity expressions....Loe edasi...
The book explores how dramatic visions of antislavery provided a site for (re)mediating a white metropolitanand at times a specifically Dutchidentity....Loe edasi...
Through analysis of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Cavendish, the author reveals how this reconceptualized selfhood offered ecological benefits by valuing human rational capacities while maintaining environmental connection....Loe edasi...
This collection of essays moves plants to the foreground of analysis and brings together some of the rich and innovative ways that scholars are expanding the discussion of plants and botany in Shakespeares writings...Loe edasi...
Witty, learned excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed by works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding. Glorious insights and observations provided by authors life experience in diplomacy. A rich,...Loe edasi...
First published in 1980, each of the three playwrights discussed in this book was a radical in his own way, concerned with the moral and social implications of capitalism. Dukore shows there is a clear chain of influence from Ibsen to Shaw to Brecht...Loe edasi...
Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized examination of the mechanics of blackness in Shakespeares The Tempest....Loe edasi...
Through up-to-date essays by historians, biographers, and Shakespeare critics, this Companion offers, first, a systematic examination of dominant institutions and emergent thought in Shakespeares society, then meditation of Shakespeares representati...Loe edasi...
First published in 1952, The Universities and the Theatre contains the papers read at the Symposium on the Responsibility of the Universities to the Theatre which was held in April 1951 in the University of Bristol....Loe edasi...
The is the first book on neighbourly relationships in early modern English drama. Situating four unique, generically diverse plays within both contemporary prescriptive literature and the lived realities of neighbouring in the period, it argues that...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1969, Shaw The Chucker Out quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw material (the fruits of six years research at the British Museum and elsewhere) as the basis for his aim of assisting towards a better under...Loe edasi...
First published in 1971, this first full-length treatment of Shaw as director is important for several reasons: Shaw was one of the few major playwrights who frequently directed his own works; he was a good director; and he is an early example of th...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaws own essay The Quintessence of Ibsenism, offered a coherent review of his ideas mainly, though not exclusively, as expressed in his plays and prefaces....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1973, Dukore discusses the theory of drama that is the basis of Shaws comedies, which present his views of mores and follies. He proposes fresh perspectives from which to regard Shaws works for the theatre works that were ar...Loe edasi...
First published in 1972, Shaws plays are examined as self-contained imaginative structures intended for theatrical performance. Beginning with his novels, the book covers the whole span of Shaws career as a dramatist playing special attention to cri...Loe edasi...