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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.

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Martin Stevens examines the four extant complete cycles of Middle English mystery plays in light of the most recent research on the manuscripts, sources, and records relating to the medieval drama. The first comprehensive treatment of all four of the cycles, the book emphasizes the study of the surviving manuscripts as texts distinct from their per

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This study, which situates Kroetz's aesthetics in a political context, focuses on four plays that mark crisis points in his development of a political aesthetic. The breaks in otherwise very successful aesthetic models occur as Kroetz reponds to changing social conditions.

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A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political -- .

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Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qualities (such as nostalgia, futility and heroism) with reference to specific French texts and contexts -- .

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Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qualities (such as nostalgia, futility and heroism) with reference to specific French texts and contexts

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This volume presents a list of the dramatic works of more than 400 French women playwrights from the 16th through 19th centuries and includes brief biographical information, as well as publication, performance and availability information for nearly 3000 plays.

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This volume demonstrates that many scholars and stage directors firmly believe Schiller is very much a writer for the twentieth century.

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