Drama Genres Books

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41. World-Wide Shakespeares

    Local Appropriations in Film and Performance

    Edited by Sonia Massai

    Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriation of Shakespeare’s plays in film and performance around the world. In particular, the book examines the ways in which adapters and directors have put...

    Published July 18th 2005 by Routledge
42. Approximate Bodies

    Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy

    By Maurizio Calbi

    The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and...

    Published April 25th 2005 by Routledge
43. Shakespeare Imitations Vol 1

    Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
44. Shakespeare Imitations Vol 2

    Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
45. Drama/Theatre/Performance

    By Simon Shepherd, Mick Wallis

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    What is implied when we refer to the study of performing arts as 'drama', 'theatre' or 'performance'? Each term identifies a different tradition of thought and offers different possibilities to the student or practitioner. This book examines the history and use of the terms and investigates the...

    Published September 15th 2004 by Routledge
46. Shakespeare Imitations, Parodies and Forgeries

    Edited by Jeffrey Kahan

    Series: Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850

    Shakespeare Imitations is a collection of all-but-forgotten Shakespearean plays, composed between 1710 and 1820. These imitations, parodies and forgeries reveal the biases of eighteenth-century Shakespeare in London theatre. But these plays are far from derivative. Indeed, rather than simply...

    Published May 19th 2004 by Routledge
47. Making Shakespeare

    From Stage to Page

    By Tiffany Stern

    Series: Accents on Shakespeare

    Making Shakespeare is a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history, whilst also raising questions about what a Shakespeare play actually is. Tiffany Stern reveals how London, the theatre, the actors and the way in which the plays were written and printed all affect the '...

    Published February 11th 2004 by Routledge
48. Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist

    Critical Essays

    By Thomas C. Crochunis

    This superb collection of new essays offers a unique insight into the work of a leading women dramatist of the Romantic era. Contributors offer: *contextual material for those new to Baillie's work *examinations of the relationships between her plays and the philosophical and scientific writing of...

    Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge
49. John Lyly

    Selected Prose and Dramatic Work

    By John Lyly

    Edited by Leah Scragg

    Series: Fyfield Books

    Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge
50. The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama

    Edited by Simon Barker, Hilary Hinds

    This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays:* The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)* Arden of Faversham (Anon.)* Edward II (Christopher Marlowe)* A Woman Killed...

    Published October 2nd 2002 by Routledge