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The Shakespearean stage, 1574-1642
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Andrew Gurr |
"For almost forty years The Shakespearean Stage has been considered the liveliest, most reliable and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time. It is the only authoritative … |
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Arms and the Man
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George Bernard Shaw |
Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the… |
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Stigmas of the Tamil stage
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Susan Seizer |
This is a feminist and performance studies-oriented ethnography of the on- and offstage lives of a group of traveling artists in southern India and their complex relation to their deviant status in t… |
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The winter's tale
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Leon Garfield |
An abridged version of "The winter's tale" accompanied by illustrations from the television series. Suggested level: secondary. |
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King Lear
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William Shakespeare |
King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. His eldest daughters both then reject him at their homes, so Lear goes mad and wanders … |
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A Beautiful Pageant
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David Krasner |
"The Harlem Renaissance was the time when Harlem came alive with theatre, drama, sports, dance and politics.
David Krasner paints a vibrant portrait of the exciting years 1910 to 1927 and the divers… |
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As she likes it
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Penny Gay |
As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique in both Shakespearian and feminist st… |
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Taming of the Shrew
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William Shakespeare |
This play within a play is a delightful farce about a fortune hunter who marries and tames" the town shrew. The comedy, often produced today because of its accessibility, is one of the plays Shakespe… |
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Public and performance in the Greek theatre
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Peter D. Arnott |
Peter Arnott discusses Greek drama not as an antiquarian study but as a living art form. He removes the plays from the library and places them firmly in the theatre that gave them being. Invoking the… |
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