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"Clever, beautiful. Observant, and better than that, brave" - The Scotsman

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This study focuses on four of Ibsen's plays and their reception in England and France in the 1890s, specifically in the context of cross-cultural understanding, translation, and the diffusion of ideas.

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This is a multidisciplinary study that reads the early modern literary and historical representations of the Muslim woman against both the European politics towards Islam and the domestic constructions of gender and social hierarchies in England.

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Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve is a study of the political and social milieu that informs William Congreve's writings. The book attempts to read Congreve's plays and his novella, Incognita, against the political and social upheaval of the period initiated by the rebellion of 1688.

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Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve is a study of the political and social milieu that informs William Congreve's writings. The book attempts to read Congreve's plays and his novella, Incognita, against the political and social upheaval of the period initiated by the rebellion of 1688.

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This is the story of the Cottesloe Company of actors, operating from the National Theatre, told by two of its leading members. It includes accounts of all the major productions including The Mysteries and Larkrise to Candleford.

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In this book, Ghosh puts together thirteen new essays on Becketts most popular and widely read play, Waiting for Godot. Contributors explore the play in reference to topics as varied as Hindu philosophy, Agamben, Kristeva, Derrida, the absence of women in the play, Aristotleanism in structural reading, and anti-existentialism.

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Recurrent principles and interests in the sonnets are isolated in close studies of individual sonnets to show Shakespeare's pattern of mind. The study suggests various groupings by which the nature of Shakespeare's response to a number of stimuli can be gauged.

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This book provides a detailed analysis of the development of Irish drama and theatre since the 1950s, focusing on key figures and companies, as well as major plays and performances.

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This book provides a detailed analysis of the development of Irish drama and theatre since the 1950s, focusing on key figures and companies, as well as major plays and performances.

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Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This reference work provides detailed entries for 32 Irish playwrights active from 1880 to 1995, supplying extensive bibliographical information.

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This is the first collection of scholarly essays dedicated to an assessment of this playwright's prodigious body of work.

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"No Plays" are a major contribution to Japanese theatre. These lyric dramas evolved in the 14th century from ritual dances associated with Shinto worship, and their form became fixed in the 17th century. This book looks at this Japanese art form and its influences on Western writers.

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Written by Shakespeare's son-in-law John Hall, The Little Book of Cures is a fascinating look into the life of a doctor in seventeenth-century Stratford-upon-Avon. -- .

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A collection of plays from the creator of Rumpole QC, hero of the Rumpole of the Bailey television series.

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"Look Back in Anger" is one of the few works of drama that are indisputably central to British culture in general, and its name is one of the most well-known in postwar cultural history. This guide provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the play, giving students an overview of the background and context.

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This introductory guide to one of Jonson's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.

This introductory guide to one of Jonson's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.

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Journey's End is one of the best known, and most studied First World War plays. This comprehensive and detailed book tells the story of what went into the making of this extraordinarily powerful first world war drama, and why it means so much to so many people across the word and through the years.