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A brilliantly perceptive study of the most ambiguous and perceptually fascinating figure of the twentieth-century European theatre

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From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with Look Back in Anger, British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century.

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The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage.

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Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteen years with leading directors, actors and writers at the National Theatre, Buzz Buzz! is a fantastic compendium that offers unrivalled insight into the work and practice of the best theatre talent.

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Provides a critical introduction to Caryl Churchill's play "Top Girls", giving students an overview of the background and context for the play; detailed analysis of the its structure, style and characters; a practical analysis of key production issues and choices; and, an overview of the performance history focusing on key productions.

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Provides a comprehensive critical introduction to "Top Girls", giving students an overview of the background and context for the play. This work includes accounts of performance history, production analysis, screen adaptations and summaries of important critical approaches and debates.

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Looks at the explicit and implicit forms of censorship to which literature in translation is vulnerable

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Looks at the explicit and implicit forms of censorship to which literature in translation is vulnerable

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In the earliest extant works of Greek literature, Zeus reigns supreme in the Olympian hierarchy. However, scattered and scanty though they may be, there are allusions to threats of rebellion which challenge Zeus' supremacy. This book examines these passages, drawn from Homer, Hesiod and the "Homeric Hymns", to offer some new interpretations.

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This work focuses on Marlowe's works as an index of the major transformation of Elizabethan theatrical practices. Intended as an introduction to the subject, this book provides an insightful approach to Marlowe's work and the study of Elizabethan thought and theatre.

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Part of a series that provides guides to the principal subject-areas covered by the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. These dictionaries provide readers with a comprehensive guide to the topic under discussion, its occurrence and significance in Shakespeare's works, and its contemporary meanings.

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Never achieving the acclaim of Eugene O'Neill, who came before, or Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, who followed, Odets bridged the gap between earlier melodramatic theatre and the mature post-World War II drama on the American stage, creating rich and varied drama well into the 1950s.

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the approaches of Feminism, Reader Response Criticism, Deconstructionism, Chaos and Anti-Chaos Theory, Translation Theory, Formalism, Mythology, Perception Theory, and Gender Theory;

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This reference book sheds light on the achievement of African American female playwrights, both in the theatre and the literary world, including contemporary African American women dramatists within the circle of production, publication, and criticism.

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This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous ones; Organized as an encyclopedia, it provides information on more than 600 noteworthy Black American playwrights whose plays have been written, produced, or published between 1950 and the present.