Dramatik

Dirty Story and Other Plays

John Patrick Shanley

"In the appallingly entertaining Dirty Story . . . Mr. Shanley has expanded his focus from the intimate to the international to create one of the liveliest, boldest and-against the odds-funnie...

'Tis Pity She's A Whore

'Tis Pity She's A Whore

Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture

T. Döring

This study takes a look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were histori...

Bone Songs

André Gregory

"Bone Songs is a series of love poems, inspired by 33 years of marriage . . . The sonata-style material, which evokes Rumi, Thornton Wilder and James Joyce without ever seeming referential, is...

Four Major Plays, Volume I

Henrik Ibsen

Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem

<p>The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the “Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem” era ...

Henry the Fourth, Part One

Intimate Apparel/Fabulation

Lynn Nottage

"Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history-and the startling simplicity of desire-with a clear tenderness, with hu...

Singer on the Shore

Gabriel Josipovici

The novelist Gabriel Josipovici's new book of essays ranges from writings on the Bible, Shakespeare, Kafka, Borges and the Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld to considerations of Rembrandt'...

Oxford Shakespeare: Othello

The Mystery of the Resurrection

Claudette Francis

A newly published drama, ‘The Mystery of the Resurrection’ satisfies a hunger for re-examining and reflecting on the most important Scriptural event in the Bible and the meaning behind the Eas...

Clean House and Other Plays

Sarah Ruhl

"Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess. The Clean House shines."-New Haven Advocate"The Clean House is not, by any means,...

Sé que voy a morirme

Inés Posada

La muerte es el problema humano por excelencia. ¿Cómo enfrentarnos a ella, cómo pensarla? Hay respuestas filosóficas, respuestas religiosas, respuestas humanas. Podemos resignarnos o desespera...

Sambadrama

<p>There are more active practitioners and teachers of psychodrama in Brazil than anywhere else in the world, with their own strong sense of community, history and tradition. In selecting an...

Office Hours

Norm Foster

It's a Friday afternoon in the big city and, in six different offices, six different stories are unfolding at the same time. However, they are all connected somehow, from the figure skater on ...

Growing Old Together

Robert W. Nero

<p>Naturalist, ornithologist, avocational archaeologist and poet, Winnipegs Dr. Robert W. Nero has authored nine books dealing with his amazing spectrum of interests. Growing Old Together is...

Hullawrerr China!

Rikki Fulton / Stan Mars

Francie & Josie began their incredible career at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow in 1958. Originally brought to life by Stanley Baxter, it was to be the partnership of Rikki Fulton and Jack Milroy...

The Gift of Country Life

Victor Carl Friesen

<p>Memories of farming in the 1940s conjure up images of horse-drawn farm machinery, grain stooks in fields, hay meadows, free-range chickens and cords of wood strategically placed for fuell...

Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama

D. Walen

This book explores representations of love and desire between female characters in nearly seventy plays written between 1580 and 1660. The work argues that playwrights of late sixteenth- and early...