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  • Theatre, Time and Temporality

    Melting Clocks and Snapped Elastics

    by David Ian Rabey ...
    Theatre, Time and Temporality is the first book-length exploration of the subject of temporality within theatre and performance. David Ian Rabey brings in sources ranging from medieval and Renaissance theatre to contemporary performances – in addition to recent writings from physics, philosophy and psychology – to analyse ways that time can be presented, communicated and transformed in the theatre ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • The Wye Plays

    The Back of Beyond and The Battle of the Crows

    by David Ian Rabey ...
    David Ian Rabey is Professor of Drama and Subject Leader of Theatre Studies at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Alistair McDowall's Pomona

    by David Ian Rabey ...
    Series series The Fourth Wall
    ‘It’s all real. All of it. Everything bad is real’ - MoeAlistair McDowall’s Pomona was first staged in 2014 and won properly startling, and startled, acclaim. Its edgeland setting permits a surrealistic disengagement of linear forms of time, which is both dreamlike and wildly funny; nightmarish and ominously enveloping. The play has as its imaginative springboard a landscape which is both real and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • David Rudkin: Sacred Disobedience

    An Expository Study of his Drama 1959-1994

    by David Ian Rabey, David I. Rabey ...
    Dr. Rabey's profound critical study of David Rudkin's drama constitutes an in-depth evaluation of this unique dramatist, re-assessed in the light of his bi-sexuality and Anglo-Irish origins. This key study includes insights from noted performers of Rudkin's work, including Ian Hogg, Peter McEnery, Ian McDiarmid, Gerard Murphy, and Charlotte Cornwell. It is a fully authorized study with exclusive ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • English Drama Since 1940

    by David Ian Rabey ...
    Series series Longman Literature In English Series
    English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • The Theatre and Films of Jez Butterworth

    by Professor David Ian Rabey ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    Jez Butterworth is the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful new British dramatist of the 21st century: his acclaimed play Jerusalem has had extended runs in the West End and on Broadway. This book is the first to examine Butterworth's writings for stage and film and to identify how and why his work appeals so widely and profoundly. It examines the way that he weaves suspenseful ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Theatre of Catastrophe

    New Essays on Howard Barker

    Edited by Karoline Gritzner, Professor David Ian Rabey ...
    Fifteen essays on the style, language and vision of one of Britain’s most influential and controversial playwrights. Focusing on different aspects of what Barker has called the Theatre of Catastrophe, an international range of academics offer illuminating interpretations of his work. Includes analyses of the political, moral and historical aspects of his writing, its poetry and eroticism, its ... Read more

    $28.49 CAD

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  • The Secret Life of Plays

    by Steve Waters ...
    A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters.Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing – scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images – to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Good are the Arts?

    by John Carey ...
    From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value of art. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Theatre of Howard Barker

    by Charles Lamb ...
    In this second, fully revised edition of his acclaimed study of Barker's work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of the characters and their interactions.This is a detailed exploration of the 'scene of seduction' - the challenge, the secret, the abject and the catastrophic, processes which dominate Barker's work. For Lamb, the power of Barker's plays is to be found in the exposure to ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Performing Character in Modern Irish Drama

    Between Art and Society

    by Michał Lachman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about the history of character in modern Irish drama. It traces the changing fortunes of the human self in a variety of major Irish plays across the twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium. Through the analysis of dramatic protagonists created by such authors as Yeats, Synge, O’Casey, Friel and Murphy, and McGuinness and Walsh, it tracks the development of aesthetic ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Beginning theory

    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    by Peter Barry ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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