Drama Genres

Simon Barker guides the reader through the full range of previous interpretations of the play. This text in particular has provided a major focus for scholarship as well as being the subject of a number of major theatrical productions...

Novelist and playwright of huge popular appeal in the early 20th century. Wrote Anna of the Five Towns and The Man from the North. Volume covers the period 1898-1931. Extras: History of composition, sales, royalties of over 100 books...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves...

First published in 1970, this book explores drama as literature and provides critical overviews of different aspects of drama and the dramatic. It first asks what a play is, before going on to examine dramatic language, action and tension, dramatic irony, characters and drama’s relationship with mod..

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to reaad the material themselves...

Can you really write a play that lasts a minute? _x005F_x000D_ The one minute play presents a unique creative challenge: how does one create room for actors to perform, for directors to create a world, and for audiences to learn something, all in 60 seconds? _x005F_x000D_ Steve Ansell and Rose Burne..

The Art of John Webster, first published in 1972, is a study of the three extant plays of Webster known to be solely his work. These plays are seen as attempts to achieve in literature the effects of the baroque, a term which related Webster to the larger developments of European art. Their content ..

This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of nationalism, class, and gender identities undertaken by these authors in the years leading up to Irelan..

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...