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The Fourth Wall eBook Series

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  • The Playboy of the Western World

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Series series The Fourth Wall
    ‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy MahonOn the first night of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto the streets of Dublin. How did one play provoke this? Christopher Collins addresses The Playboy ’s satirical treatment of ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Notes from the Underground

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Notes from the Underground is nne of the most profound and most unsettling works of modern literature, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and first published in 1864. Notes from Underground remains a cultural and literary watershed. In these pages Dostoevsky unflinchingly examines the dark, mysterious depths of the human heart. ... Read more

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  • Plays

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Peter Carson ...
    At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. Ivanov depicts a man stifled by inactivity and lost idealism, and The Seagull contrasts a young man's selfish romanticism with the stoicism of a woman cruelly abandoned by her lover. With 'the scenes from ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Electra

    by Sophocles, Anne Carson ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

    Edited by Christopher Innes ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theatre. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing on both the political and theatrical context, while the extensive illustrations showcase productions from ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Performing Noncitizenship

    Asylum Seekers in Australian Theatre, Film and Activism

    by Emma Cox ...
    Series series Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series
    This exacting study examines the theatre, film and activism engaged with the representation or participation of asylum seekers and refugees in the twenty-first century. Cox shows how this work has been informed by and indeed contributed to the consolidation of ‘irregular’ noncitizenship as a cornerstone idea in contemporary Australian political and social life, to the extent that it has become ... Read more

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  • Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus

    by Adrian Kelly ...
    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of human reversal, whose fall he had so memorably treated in the 'Oedipus Tyrannus'. In this play, Sophocles brings the aged Oedipus to Athens, where he seeks succour and finds refuge, despite the threatening arrival of his kinsman Creon, who tries to tempt and then force ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare and the Book Trade

    by Lukas Erne ...
    Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemination and reception of Shakespeare's printed plays and poems in his own time and to argue that their popularity in the book trade has been greatly underestimated. Erne uses evidence from Shakespeare's publishers and the printed works to show ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Arms and the Man - An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts

    by Bernard Shaw ...
    Arms And The Man' is a three-act play written by Bernard Shaw in 1920. An 'anti-romantic comedy', this play endeavours to attack the romantic notion of war by portraying a much more realistic illustration of its plights. A clever, witty, and subtle gem of theatre from the author of 'Pygmalion' that continues to hold up more than 100 years after its writing, this is a play that will appeal to those ... Read more

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  • The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art

    by Lisa Trentin ...
    The subject of deformity and disability in the ancient Greco-Roman world has experienced a surge in scholarship over the past two decades. Recognizing a vast, but relatively un(der)explored, corpus of evidence, scholars have sought to integrate the deformed and disabled body back into our understanding of ancient society and culture, art and representation. The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and Performance

    Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

    by Meg Twycross ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Collected Studies CS 1068The essays selected for this volume are chosen to reflect the important and intersecting ways in which over the last forty years Meg Twycross has shifted paradigms for people reading early English religious drama. The focus of Meg Twycross’s research has been on performance in its many aspects, and this volume chooses four of the most important strands of her work - the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction

    Edited by Andrew James Hartley ...
    How do writers of contemporary fiction incorporate Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy? This collection brings together some of the leading voices in the scholarship of Shakespearean adaptation and appropriation to examine the ways in which writers have used literary culture's most prominent historical figure to their own ends since the year 2000. The essays consider the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD