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Tragedy
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 9.99What do we mean by 'tragedy' now? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with Sophocles and Shakespeare? Addressing questions about belief, blame, revenge, pain, witnessing and ending, this book demonstrates the enduring significance of attempts to understand terrible suffering. - ;What do we mean... more...
Bakkhai
Oxford University Press, USA 2001; US$ 34.99Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary model of the classic tragic elements. Disguised... more...
Beckett's Masculinity
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 80.00This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre. more...
Fierce and True
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 54.00A collection of plays written for teenage audiences from the leading theater for young people and families in North America more...
The Chemistry of the Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This innovative, theoretical work focuses on temporal issues in theatre and the 'chemistry' of theatre - the ways in which a variety of factors in performance combine to make up what we call 'theatre'. Discussing a range of canonical plays, from Shakespeare to Beckett, the book makes a unique contribution to theatre and performance studies. more...
Plays from New River 1
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 35.00This is the first volume of Plays from the New River, a place where gifted writers of plays and screenplays are paid and nurtured to write whatever they most want to write. These three very different plays are among the results. Wendy Hammond's Absence considers an era of American foreign policy by focusing on the intensely human story of a Mormon... more...
Japanese Plays
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 16.95Nothing reflects the beauty of life as much as Japanese theater. It is here that reality is held suspended and emptiness can fill the mind through words, music, dance, and mysticism. A.L. Sadler translates the mysteries of Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki in his groundbreaking book, Japanese Plays. A seminal classic, it provides a cross section of Japanese... more...
English Mystery Plays
Penguin Books Ltd 1975; Not AvailableHumour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day. The energies of whole communities, notably at Chester, York and Wakefield, were devoted to their... more...









