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Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor
First published in 1936, The Jacobean Drama is a brilliant interpretation of the drama written between the last years of Elizabeth I and the first years of Charles I. Professor Una Mary Ellis-Fermor’s book traces the evolution of thought and mood from the end of Marlowe’s career,...
To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor
First published in 1939, The Irish Dramatic Movement is a critical study of the dramatic work of W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge, their contemporaries and some of their successors. Professor Ellis-Fermor relates each to the movement as a whole, discussing the nature of poetic drama in the...
To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor
First published in 1930, in Tamburlaine the Great – in Two Parts, Professor Ellis-Fermor discusses early editions of the work and considers how far the spelling and punctuation of the 1590 octavo should be retained in modern editions. The author discusses the date that the play was written and its...
To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor
First published in 1927, this book aims to trace the development of Christopher Marlowe’s mind and art as these are revealed in the surviving parts of his work, while portraying the personality thus perceived. Professor Ellis-Fermor begins by looking at Marlowe’s life and early works, before making...
To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor
First published in 1964, this arresting and original work is a study of the relations between content and form in drama; the conflict between and ultimate reconciliation of certain kinds of material that life presents to the poet and the demands inherent in dramatic form and technique. There are...
To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov’s dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist...
To Be Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
Maria Irene Fornes is the most influential female American dramatist of the 20th century. That is the argument of this important new study, the first to assess Fornes's complete body of work. Scott T. Cummings considers comic sketches, opera libretti and unpublished pieces, as well as her...
To Be Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge
To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
Series: The New Critical Idiom
Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of cultural narrative. Debated from Aristotle to the present day, tragedy has never lost it central place in aesthetic discourse and has been re-imagined and redefined to suit to tastes of succeeding generations. In this volume Martin Regal...
To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
