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In 1989 a festival and conference devoted to Eugene O'Neill was held in Nanjing, China. This volume contains essays which capture the intellectual and artistic stimulation of the conference, and explore the major areas of O'Neill scholarship. They emphasize O'Neill's international reputation.

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A collection commemorating the centennial of O'Neill's birth, this volume comprises contributions from a range of fields, such as psychology, English literature, philosophy, the classics and theatre arts, offering a variety of perspectives on and interpretations of his life and art.

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Euripides Our Contemporary is a major assessment and study of all of Euripides' plays organised by theme. For students, teachers and practitioners it's a perfect companion to Euripides' work and will lead to a deeper appreciation of the timeless appeal and the connections between his plays.

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Provides background, context, plot summary and analysis, a survey ofcriticism and of the reception of the play from the Hellenistic period to modern times, including performance history.

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Presenting a scene-by-scene analysis of Euripides' "Suppliant Women", this book discusses the date and background of the play, whether people and events from contemporary Athens can be glimpsed in the drama; the problems of staging, and finally the story in later tradition.

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What if bed-hopping among university students was not just inevitable, but mandatory A sexy radical girl, an over-sexed jock and an ancient professor of Ancient Greek discover that with the lights off, a serious attempt to end discrimination can also be a very dirty joke.

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From the star-crossed romance of Romeo and Juliet to Othello's misguided murder of Desdemona to the betrayal of King Lear by his daughters, family life is central to Shakespeare's dramas.

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This text considers the historical similarities of the eras in which Shakespeare and Shaw wrote and then explores types of father-daughter interactions in terms of the power structures of society. Each dramatist drew on themes including incest, daughter sacrifice, education and androgyny.

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A collection of three farces from Georges Feydeau, commonly accepted to be France's best comic dramatist since Moliere. This collection includes three plays translated by British translator Peter Meyer.

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Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He asks the reader to commit himself to a variety of points of view--those of witnesses, actors, directors, and characte

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This is a study of the work of Caryl Churchill who wrote "Fen", "Top Girls" and "Serious Money". Linda Fitzsimmons examines the development of Churchill's powerful style from her earliest work to the major plays.

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This volume contains a comprehensive checklist of the work of Michael Frayn; a detailed performance history of each play; excerpts from contemporary and subsequent reviews; Frayn's own comments on his work drawn from interviews, essays, letters and diaries; and a chronology.

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Includes a selection of plays and non-dramatic writing by Gorky.

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Contains the plays, television plays and screenplays of the writer Peter Nichols, as well as his non-dramatic writing. The book also has a chapter in which Nichols discusses his work.

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Part of a series which assembles vital facts about playwrights and their work, this book on Oscar Wilde offers a checklist of all his plays, a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of Wilde's own comments on his work drawn from essays, interviews, letters and diaries.

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A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity.

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An anthology of five plays, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the internationally acclaimed ensemble The TEAM.