A new and definitive guide to the theatre of the ancient world 
 The Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is a meticulously researched and accessible survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides a comprehensive authorbyauthor examination of the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, as well as giving an insight into how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out, and who watched them. It includes a fascinating discussion of the function of the essential characteristics of Greek drama, including verse, rhetoric, music, comedy, and chorus. Above all it offers a fascinating viewpoint onto the everyday values of the ancient Greeks; values with a continuing influence over the theatre of the present day.

Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama (Plays and Playwrights)

McLeish, Kenneth

Griffiths, Trevor R.

Humor & Entertainment

Methuen Drama

Gathers more than two thousand of the most memorable passages from Shakespear's plays and poems, and includes a brief explanation of each quotation

Longman Guide to Shakespeare Quotations

Literature & Fiction

Josecelyne, Trevor A.

Dramas & Plays

Longman Trade/Caroline House

A history of the Grand Prix since 1950. It is divided into two sections. The first section gives in chronological order the grid, results and drivers' finishing time for all races counted in the championship. Section two lists A-Z all the drivers who have ever taken part.

Grand Prix

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Motorbooks Intl

Describes the lives and major plays of British, European, American, and classical playwrights, and looks at recent productions of each one's work

The Back Stage Theater Guide

Woddis, Carole

Back Stage Books

Understand Shakespeare through his own words! "In our choice of quotations we have naturally included many old favorites, but the increased representation of the comedies and the histories reflects their growing reputation since the 'standard' quotations of Shakespeare were established..." More than 2000 of Shakespeare's most memorable quotations. Detailed explanations of the context in which the quotation occurs. Clarifies obscure terms. Fully indexed. Comprehensible, reliable and authoritative.

Shakespeare's Quotations: A Players Press Guide

Joscelyn, Trevor A.

Players Pr

Romantic Comedy (Forms of Drama)

'The course of true love never did run smooth' - so says Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an appropriate sexual partner have been a theatrical staple. This book explores the shapes that Romantic Comedy has assumed from Greek New Comedy via Shakespeare to the present. Changing social values have helped to redefine the genre's traditional hetero-normativity, while the recent trend towards more fluid casting has opened up many romantic comedies to radical reinterpretations. Organized chronologically to allow readers to trace the development of the form against changing societal norms, the book features a range of case studies of key works from the British tradition, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Susanna Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes, Noël Coward's Private Lives, Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, Ayub Khan-Din's East is East and David Eldridge's Beginning.

The commentary at the heart of the book introduces readers to the challenge of reading The Tempest as a text and responding to the play in performance. Other sections discuss early performances and cultural contexts (with quotations from contemporary works). A wide-ranging sample of critical responses accompanies consideration of key performances and productions on stage and film. A further section examines the ways that other writers and political thinkers have used the play to develop their own ideas

The Tempest (Shakespeare Handbooks, 16)

Red Globe Press

With more than five hundred entries, from A to Z, providing information on the most important plays and playwrights (dead or alive) performed today, The Ivan R. Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights is the most useful and comprehensive reference book for contemporary theatre now available. It is both biographically detailed and critically up to date, and offers an extensive cross-referencing system that allows for wider perspectives and new discoveries. For example: The entry on Carlo Goldoni provides his dates of birth and death; a complete listing of his plays with the dates they were written; approximately 300 words of biography and critical commentary on Goldoni's work; and references to other plays and playwrights that are similar in subject and treatment (in this case, for instance, "Beaumarchais's Marriage of Figaro for its treatment of servant and master relationships; Molière, writing in a more formal style is more savage in exposing bourgeois and aristocratic hypocrisies;...") Stimulating, observant, and informative, The Ivan R. Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights is an essential companion and reference tool for producers, directors, actors, teachers, and anyone with an active interest in drama. Illustrated with 34 black-and-white photographs.

The Ivan R. Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights

Ivan R. Dee

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Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama (Plays and Playwrights)

Longman Guide to Shakespeare Quotations

Grand Prix

Grand Prix

The Back Stage Theater Guide

Shakespeare's Quotations: A Players Press Guide

Romantic Comedy (Forms of Drama)

Romantic Comedy (Forms of Drama)

The Tempest (Shakespeare Handbooks, 16)

The Ivan R. Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights