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Original Monologs That Showcase Your Talent

Dwight Watson

About the Author Dwight Watson, a professor of theater at Wabash College, has directed more than sixty productions. His p...

Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies Revisited : The Dramatist's Manipulation of Response

E. A. J. Honigmann

About the Author ERNST HONIGMANN taught English Literature at the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham), Unive...

Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist

Antoin E. Murphy

Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist...

Theatre in Co-Communities: Articulating Power

About the Author DR SHULMITH LEV-ALADGEM is Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at Tel-Aviv University, Israel....

John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre

Jeffrey Richards, Katherine Newey

Review "This is an exhaustive treatment of a subject most students of Victorian culture probably know little about...Reco...

The Theater and Its Double

Antonin Artaud

A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, The Theater and Its Double is the fullest statement of the ideas of An...

Handbook of Educational Drama and Theatre

Robert J. Landy

Review “Provides a detailed overview of the ways in which theater techniques are used to enrich the lives of many ...

Voice and Speech in the Theatre (6th Edition)

J. Clifford Turner, Jane Boston

Review 'A practical handbook to help the actor develop a clear and powerful voice... This is a classic text regarded as e...

Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre

A. D. Cousins, Alison V. Scott

Review Review of the hardback: 'The editors offer this excellent collection of essays as the first book-length study to e...

Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage

Patricia A. Cahill

Review "[An] excellent study...Sets the stage for a new understanding of early modernity itself." --Studies in English Li...

The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts

Cynthia Marshall

Review Marshall effectively brings to our attention the variety of ways in which late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-cent...

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

From School Library Journal Grade 7 Up–Each book includes a brief introduction to the play, followed by an illustra...

Imagining Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions

Stephen Orgel

Review "This book would repay, with dividends, its careful study...highly recommended..."-Larry Schwartz, Library Journal...

The darkness we carry: the drama of the Holocaust

Robert Skloot

About the Author Robert Skloot is professor in the Department of Theater and Drama and in the Center for Jewish Studies at ...

Shakespeare's culture in modern performance

Maria Jones

About the Author Maria Jones is a Senior Lecturer in English, University of Wolverhampton. ...

Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers

Rebecca Hillauer

About the Author Rebecca Hillauer is a freelance print and radio journalist who lives in Germany. ...

A Bernard Shaw chronology

Anthony Matthews Gibbs

Review Reviews of previous books on Shaw by A.M. Gibbs Reviews of Shaw 'Everybody who is interested in Shaw will find t...

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies)

William Shakespeare

Review An early play in five acts by William Shakespeare, performed 1594-95 and published in the First Folio of 1623. Th...

The Taming of the Shrew: The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies)

William Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson

Book Description John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge editi...

The Comedy of Errors: The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies)

William Shakespeare

From Library Journal These are the first two titles in Penguin's newly revamped "Pelican Shakespeare" series. The Pelican...

Richard III: The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies)

William Shakespeare

Book Description John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge editi...

Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making

Austin J. Freeley, David L. Steinberg

Review "I prefer this book due to its depth on important issues, yet overall the text keeps most discussions simple and s...

Characteristics of Women: Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical and Historical (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies) (Volume 2)

Anna Jameson

Book Description Shakespeare's heroines had been critiqued primarily by men until Anna Jameson published Characteristics ...

Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)

Clare A. Simmons

Review "By investigating the popular medievalism of the Romantic era, Simmons adds an essential and hitherto neglected face...

On Beckett

Alain Badiou

About the Author Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the University of Vincennes-Saint-Denis. He is the author of Deleuze:...

Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland

Bernhard Klein

Review "...fascinating reading..."--Steve Hindle, Albion...this book offers a fine account of the current state of Englis...

Beckett's Masculinity (New Interpertations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century)

Jennifer M. Jeffers

Review “Jeffers’ Beckett’s Masculinity makes a significant and original contribution to criticism on B...

Shakespeare on Love and Lust

Maurice Charney

Review Provides beginners with an informative and readable introduction to Shakespeare's handling of the themes of love and...

Shakespeare: Poetry, History, and Culture

Jonathan Hart

Review “In this book, Hart combines his immense learning and his extraordinary gifts as poet, literary critic, and h...

The English Renaissance in Popular Culture: An Age for All Time (Reproducing Shakespeare: New Studies in Adaptation and Appropriation)

Greg M. Colã³N Semenza

Review “With admirable breadth and wit, The English Renaissance in Popular Culture illuminates how far modern mass c...

Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia: Performative Maladies in Contemporary Anglophone Drama

Christina Wald

Review 'Christina Wald's book is an ambitious, well-researched and meticulous study!expert application of an impressive a...

The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy

Casey Dué

About the Author Casey Dué is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Houston. ...

Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Guide to Criticism (Blackwell Guides to Criticism)

Emma Smith

Book Description Navigating the sea of published commentary on Shakespeares tragedies can be difficult. This book guides ...

Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage

Tom Rutter

Book Description Focusing on plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Dekker, Heywood, and others, this 2008 book examines the way w...

Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre

Peter D. Arnott

Review Arnott answers many of the kinds of questions that novices ask on a first reading of Greek plays, and his answers ...

American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930-1969 (American Theatre : a Chronicle of Comedy and Drama)

Gerald Bordman

Review "Theater aficiandos will revel in Bordman's newest addition to his acclaimed 'American Theatre' series....This vol...

Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare

Bruce W. Young

Review "For students and general readers, Young (English, Brigham Young U.) describes family life during ShakespeareÕs...

Steven Soderbergh (Pocket Essential series)

Jason Wood

Review “These miniature guides are packed to the margins with important facts and enlightening commentary.”...

Shakespeare on the Double! Julius Caesar (Shakespeare on the Double!)

William Shakespeare

From the Back Cover "But, for my own part, it was Greek to me." Now you can appreciate Julius Caesar in plain English. ...

The Shakespeare Game: The Mystery of the Great Phoenix

Ilya Gililov

From Publishers Weekly Among the candidates for author of Shakespeare's works, Roger Manners, the earl of Rutland (1576-1...

David Mamet (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Harold Bloom

David Mamet (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)...

John Bell: The Time of My Life

John Bell

About the Author John Bell has done work for the Old Tote Theatre Company, spent five years with the Royal Shakespeare Co...

Scorsese by Ebert

Roger Ebert

From Publishers Weekly Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, is an unabashed fan of Scorsese, whom he considers t...

Black Mary and Gunjes

Julie Janson

Black Mary and Gunjes...

The Shakespeare Name Dictionary

A. Daniel Frankforter, J. Madison Davis

Review The Dictionary, a valuable addition to the seemingly saturated field of Shakespeare reference, explains it all in ...

Semiotics of Theatre and Drama (New Accents)

Keir Elam

Review 'The New Accents titles are of the highest interest for literary theory and General Editor Terence Hawkes represen...

Shakespeare's Bawdy (Routledge Classics)

Eric Partridge

Amazon.com Review When Shakespeare's plays were first performed, they were popular with everyone: they weren't classics ...

Post-Colonial Shakespeares (New Accents)

Ania Loomba

Review The publication of Post-Colonial Shakespeares is...a welcome event...[it] furthers attempts to develop a critical ...

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