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An Ideal Husband
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 5.95Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption. The action takes place over three days in London, and it questions ideas of public and private honor. It is a play about the past catching up with one in the present. more...
Arbeiterfreunde
Campus Verlag 2013; US$ 47.38Hauptbeschreibung Im Oktober 1911 gingen bildungsbürgerliche Sozialreformer in die Arbeiterviertel im Osten Berlins: eine soziale Mission, in deren Mittelpunkt das Kennenlernen der Menschen und Verhältnisse im "dunklen Berlin" stand. Sie wurde für ihre Teilnehmer zu einer "Schule des wirklichen Lebens", in der sie Erfahrungen nachholen konnten, die... more...
Bury My Clothes
Haymarket Books 2013; US$ 16.00A stirring meditation on violence, race, and the place in art at which they intersect, by poet Roger Bonair-Agard. more...
Elizabethan Drama
Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 54.00Presents critical essays which discuss the writers and literary works of the Elizabethan era, and includes a chronology of the cultural, political, and literary events of the period. more...
Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens
Felix Meiner Verlag 2012; US$ 74.94Hauptbeschreibung Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) trifft mit seinen populären "Briefen über die Kantische Philosophie" (1786-1787) haarscharf den Nerv der Zeit und setzt damit die kritische Philosophie Kants für ein breiteres Publikum auf die philosophische Agenda. Der Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens (1789) ist... more...
Performing Masculinity in English University Drama, 1598-1636
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Referencing early modern English play texts alongside contemporary records, accounts and statutes, this study offers an overdue assessment of the relationship between the dramatic efforts of the universities and early modern male identity. Taking into account the near single-sex constitution of early modern universities, the book argues that performances... more...
Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Taking up the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian culture, this collection advances our understanding of materiality by examining the miscellaneous, moveable and rejected objects often overlooked in the discourses of thing theory. Essays examine writers as different as Lear, Browning, Balzac and Dickens to show how the things that make up Victorian... more...
Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 42.00This innovative study examines plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts, to discover how people coped with the exigencies of credit, debt, mortgaging and capital ventures in early modern England. Plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries are paired with writings about the finances of royalty, aristocrats, privateers, theatrical entrepreneurs... more...
Strategies of Political Theatre
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 42.00Provides a theoretical framework for some of the most important playwriting in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining plays by Arnold Wesker, Edward Bond, David Hare, and Caryl Churchill, among others, the author analyses their respective strategies for persuading audiences of the need for restructuring society. more...









