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The latest in the Malone Societys series which prints materials bearing on the study of Renaissance and early modern drama.

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Mother Bombie is unique among Lylys comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs and the determination of their young servants to exploit their masters aspirations for their own advantage.

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This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events and in constructing new definitions of national and personal identity. It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices, songs, dance, rituals, and in material archives, texts, documents, buildings.

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This book, generously illustrated with key pages from the publication and comparative works, tells the human, artistic, economic and technical stories of the birth of the First Folio - and the birth of Shakespeare's towering reputation.

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Noh plays live on as a magnificent artistic heritage handed down from the high culture of medieval Japan. This book contains translations of nineteen plays and summaries of sixteen more, together with a revealing introductory essay that furnishes the background for an understanding and appreciation of the No as a highly significant dramatic form.

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A lavishly illustrated history of gardens drawing from Shakespeare's works and garden writing--published to commemorate the 400th anniversary year of his death

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'The Tempest': Shakespeare in Performance situates the play's 400-year performance history within ever-changing cultural contexts, and supplements historical analysis of particular productions with information about contemporary appropriations and adaptations. -- .

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A Malone Society volume of George Wapull's 1576 play, The Tide Tarrieth No Man. Beautifully produced in a facsimile edition, from one of only five extant originals.

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The man and the plays - without the boring bits - with commentary by Peter Ackroyd.

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F. Murray Abraham offers a joyful personal commentary on playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, his favourite role in a forty-year career. This lively account charts his journey from rehearsals to performance, with observations on the craft of acting, on playing Shakespeare in America, and a survey of the play itself.

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This concise guide to staging an Ayckbourn play includes information on: plot breakdown, hints on production, details of female and male characters, where to apply for permissions and music, and much more.

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This guide contains a full introduction, historical and theatrical analysis, plus details of productions around the world, to enable theatregoers and students to enjoy and understand the work of these three writers.

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Offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent times. His survey includes a concise biography, in-depth analysis of Sarah Kane's work, and interviews with Kane and those who helped to put her work on stage.

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In About Stoppard, Jim Hunter charts the work of one of Britain's leading playwrights.

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One of Shakespeare's most thought-provoking comedies in which highborn Lord Bertram learns humility and the true worth of his wife, is now newly revised with a special Introduction by Sylvan Barnet, along with a special features throughout. Revised reissue.

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Vanessa Redgrave, an iconoclastic actor equally adept in classic or modern roles for stage or screen, has played in and directed Antony and Cleopatra a number of times since 1973, both in the UK and the USA.

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David Hare's trilogy of plays - Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War - first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993, examines the crises facing three great British institutions - the Church, the Law and the Labour Party.