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  • Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca

    Perlimplin, Yerma, Blood Wedding

    by Rupert C. Allen ...
    Symbol and psyche are twin concepts in contemporary symbological studies, where the symbol is considered to be a "statement" by the psyche. The psyche is a manifold of conscious and unconscious contents, and the symbol is their mediator. Because Lorca's dramatic characters are psychic entities made up of both conscious and unconscious elements, they unfold, grow, and meet their fate in a dense ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    Step into the tumultuous world of 18th-century England with "Barnaby Rudge" by Charles Dickens. Prepare to be swept away by a tale of mystery, intrigue, and rebellion as you follow the captivating story of Barnaby Rudge and his journey through the chaos of the Gordon Riots.But amidst the chaos and turmoil of revolution, what truths will Barnaby Rudge uncover?In this sweeping historical novel, ... Read more

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  • Lectures on Don Quixote

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    One of the twentieth century's greatest novelists offers his take on the Spanish classic.The author of Lolita and Pale Fire was not only a master of fiction but a distinguished literary critic as well. In this collection of lectures, which he delivered at Harvard in the early 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov shares insights based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the seventeenth-century novel by Miguel ... Read more

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  • Sea Fret

    by Tallulah Brown ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    The sea took my house and not yours, everything's different for me.Rising sea levels are threatening the ground beneath her house, but Ruby is distracted. She wants one final blowout before her best friend, Lucy, leaves for University.With the local community in favour of letting nature take its course, Ruby must choose: follow Lucy inland or stay and help her father hold back the tide.Sea Fret is ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia

    Translation, Interpretation, Performance: Essays in Honor of Susan L. Fischer

    Edited by Bárbara Mujica ...
    Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia is a nearly unique transnational study of the theater / performance traditions of early modern Spain and England. Divided into three parts, the book focuses first on translating for the stage, examining diverse approaches to the topic. It asks, for example, whether plays should be translated to sound as if they were originally written in the target language or ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • The Comic Spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca

    by Virginia Higginbotham ...
    During the years since his death, Federico García Lorca, Spain's best-known twentieth-century poet and playwright, has generally been considered a writer of tragedy. Three of his major plays are fatalistic stories of suffering and death, and his poetry is filled with dread. Yet most of Lorca's dramatic production consists of comedies and farces. Throughout his poetry and prose, as well as in his ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Seven Faces

    Brazilian Poetry Since Modernism

    by Charles A. Perrone ...
    Brazil, perhaps more than any other nation of the Americas, has placed poetry at the forefront of dialogue and debate about the limits and uses of art, the social duties of artists, and the nature of nationalism and national identity. In Seven Faces, Charles A. Perrone charts the course of Brazilian poetry in the contemporary period through the principal currents, multiple tendencies, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • First World War Plays

    Night Watches, Mine Eyes Have Seen, Tunnel Trench, Post Mortem, Oh What A Lovely War, The Accrington Pals, Sea and Land and Sky

    Edited by Dr Mark Rawlinson ...
    The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recognised, with only a handful of plays commonly associated with the war.First World War Plays draws together canonical and lesser-known plays from the First World War to the end of the twentieth century, ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • National Theatre Connections 2013

    The Guffin; Mobile Phone Show; What Are They Like?; We Lost Elijah; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Tomorrow I'll Be Happy; Soundclash; Don't Feed the Animals; Ailie and the Alien; Forty-Five Minutes

    by Lenny Henry, Mr Howard Brenton, Mr Jim Cartwright, Ms Stacey Gregg, Ms Jemma Kennedy, Ms Anya Reiss, Ms Lucinda Coxon, Miss Morna Pearson, Mr Jonathan Harvey, Mr Ryan Craig ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers – National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.Each play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department and reflects the past year's programming at ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004

    Edited by Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin ...
    Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first play in the Oresteia trilogy, is one of the most influential theatrical texts in the global canon. In performance, translation, adaptation, along with sung and danced interpretations, it has been familiar in the Greek world and the Roman empire, and from the Renaissance to the contemporary stage. It has been central to the aesthetic and intellectual avant-garde as ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD

  • Authenticity in Contemporary Theatre and Performance

    Make it Real

    by Daniel Schulze, Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Authenticity is one of the major values of our time. It is visible everywhere, from clothing to food to self-help books. While it is such a prevalent phenomenon, it is also very evasive. This study analyses the 'culture of authenticity' as it relates to theatre and establishes a theoretical framework for analysis. Daniel Schulz argues that authenticity is sought out and marked by the individual ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Volpone

    A critical guide

    Edited by Dr Matthew Steggle ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    A comprehensive introduction to Ben Jonson's Volpone, introducing its critical history, performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD