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'I see a man's life is a tedious one.'
Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a play of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. When the King of Britain Cymbeline discovers his daughter's secret marriage, he banishes her...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-02
ePub
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'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground,
And tell sad stories of the death of kings'
Crowned as a child, Richard II only knows power. The King's court tire of his fickle, greedy reign, but it is only when he exiles his own cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, and attempts to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-30
ePub
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'Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.'
In Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, the Roman general Titus incurs the wrath of the Queen of the Goths when he enslaves her and kills one of her sons. The shocking...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-28
ePub
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'How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!'
The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays, with not one but two sets of twins sliding past each other into mistakes, violence, and madness. An early romantic comedy, it's often considered an immature play...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-28
ePub
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'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war'
Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition situates these questions within the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-28
ePub
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This study combines a literature review from a macro perspective and case studies from a micro perspective to reveal the communication and reception of Polish theatre in China, starting from the reception-end to explore the factors that influence the communication of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-11-27
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'Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues
We write in water.'
Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the defining periods in English history: the marriage and divorce of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Written in the wake of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-26
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'I see a man's life is a tedious one.'
Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a play of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. When the King of Britain Cymbeline discovers his daughter's secret marriage, he banishes her...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-26
PDF
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'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground,
And tell sad stories of the death of kings'
Crowned as a child, Richard II only knows power. The King's court tire of his fickle, greedy reign, but it is only when he exiles his own cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, and attempts to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-26
PDF
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'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war'
Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition situates these questions within the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-21
PDF
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'How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!'
The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays, with not one but two sets of twins sliding past each other into mistakes, violence, and madness. An early romantic comedy, it's often considered an immature play...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-21
PDF
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'Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.'
In Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, the Roman general Titus incurs the wrath of the Queen of the Goths when he enslaves her and kills one of her sons. The shocking...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-20
PDF
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'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?'
Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has endured as a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-30
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I cantastorie che giravano per la Sicilia, alcuni secoli fa, riportavano diverse versioni di un dramma della gelosia accaduto il 4 dicembre 1563 a Carini, un paese vicino Palermo. Si raccontava di un delitto d'onore compiuto da un padre, nobile del tempo, il quale...
Editeur :
Stylit
Parution :
2024-05-14
epub sans DRM
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Mamamouchi, or The Citizen Turned Gentleman (1672) was Edward Ravenscroft’s playwriting debut. Its rambunctious comedy and star-studded ensemble earned him spectacular success with the London audiences, quickly turning him into one of the most relevant authors of his...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-04-30
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This volume should be understood in the context of the "postdramatic" and "postspectacular" paradigms that have questioned traditional concepts regarding the representation and the role of the spectator in the creation of meaning and that have also emphasized the...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2024-04-24
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Forced to flee Germany, the eminent drama critic, poet and fiercely vocal anti-Nazi journalist, Alfred Kerr, settled in London in 1935 and became deeply attached to the calm and decency he found in the «island people».
With much dry wit and some perplexity, his...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-04
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Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. This is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema become the movies, it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-13
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'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?'
Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has endured as a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-12
ePub
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Covering nearly 225 years, this volume tries to capture a broad spectrum of the situation of women performers from Gerasim Lebedeff's time (1795), who are considered to be the first performers in modern Bengali theatre, to today's time. The moot question is whether the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-24
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