The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great

The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great
Author: Lurana Donnels O'Malley
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754656289

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The first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote her political ideals and ideology.

The Complete Dramatic Works

The Complete Dramatic Works
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2006
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780571229154

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The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure, not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land, who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere.' - Hugh Kenner Contents: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, All That Fall, Acts Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for the Theatre, Embers, Roughs for the Radio, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio,...but the clouds..., A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und Traume, What Where.

The Dramatic Works

The Dramatic Works
Author: Susannah Centlivre
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1872
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The Dramatic Works

The Dramatic Works
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1735
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The Dramatic Works

The Dramatic Works
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1879
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Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works

Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works
Author: Vanessa L. Rapatz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501513141

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Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works attends to the religious, social, and material changes in England during the century following the Reformation, specifically examining how the English came to terms with the meanings of convents and novices even after they disappeared from the physical and social landscape. In five chapters, it traces convents and novices across a range of dramatic texts that refuse easy generic classification: problem plays such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; Marlowe's comic tragedy The Jew of Malta; Margaret Cavendish's closet dramas The Convent of Pleasure and The Religious; Aphra Behn's Restoration comedy The Rover; and seventeenth-century dialogues that include both a Catholic treatise promoting women's entrance into European convents and a proto-pornographic exposé of such convents. Convents, novices, and problem plays emerge as parallel sites of ambiguity that reflect the social, political, and religious uncertainties England faced after the Reformation.

The Book of Will

The Book of Will
Author: Lauren Gunderson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2018-06-18
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0822237725

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Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.