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Theatre and Postcolonial Desires
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 36.95This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The author examines the work of prominent Nigerian and British playwrights who came of age after the passing of the British Empire. more...
Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 115.00Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England with multiple comic successes from 1670-1800. Behn's interest in the body, Centlivre's fascination with written contracts, Cowley's nationalism, and Inchbald's discussion of divorce emerge in the comic events that are animated by the... more...
King Leir
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 29.95Performed at the Globe Theater in 1605, King Leir is presumed to be a prime source for Shakespeare. Although the story is the same, in this anonymous version the ending is happy. This is the first time this fascinating work is published in a single-play edition more...
British Theatre of the 1990s
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 105.00This exciting book uniquely combines interviews with scholars and practitioners in theatre studies to look at what most people feel is a pivotal moment of British theatre - the 1990s. With a particular focus on 'in-yer-face theatre', this volume will be essential reading for all students and scholars of contemporary British theatre. more...
Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 22.00Perfect for courses, this is a 2010 account of the first actors in the plays of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson. more...
Feminist Views on the English Stage
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 30.00An exciting study of contemporary drama from a feminist perspective. Working through a generational mix of writers, Aston charts the significant political and aesthetic changes in women's playwriting at the century's end, including Timberlake Wertenbaker, Caryl Churchill and Sarah Kane, among others. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 25.00Presents new scholarship on the innovative playwright Caryl Churchill, discussing her major plays alongside topics including sexual politics and terror. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 28.00This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century. more...
Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce
Random House 2011; US$ 14.67'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny' Daily Telegraph In Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between... more...
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 4
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 18.94The Revengers' Comedies A hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after intermission to reveal an immensely disturbing vision of contemporary middle-class England poisoned by the rise of economic ruthlessness and the collapse of... more...









