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“betty e mckinnie”

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  • Southern Women Playwrights

    New Essays in History and Criticism

    by Theresa R. Mooney, Betty E. McKinnie, Donna Lisker, Elizabeth S. Bell, Judith Giblin James, Janet L. Gupton, J. Ellen Gainor, Claudia Barnett, Carolyn D. Roark, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, Mary Lamb, Alan Shepard, Mary Resing, Sally Burke, Dr. John W. Lowe, Dr. Carlos L. Dews ...
    This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century.Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women playwrights in scholarly criticism to "deep historical prejudices" against drama itself and against women ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Light Princess

    by Samuel Adamson, Tori Amos ...
    I'm done, Father,Keep your crown,I swear you'll never bring me down!I am not queen material!Once, in opposing kingdoms lived a princess and a prince who had lost their mothers. Althea, unable to cry, became light with grief and floated, and so was locked away. Digby, so heavy-hearted that he could never smile, one day declares war. Althea, forced out of hiding, escapes, only to encounter the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1)

    Neglected Authors

    by Dr Matthew Wright ...
    Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period, and even though nearly all are lost, a certain amount is known about them through fragments and other ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece

    by Iain Ross ...
    Series Book 82 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    From his boyhood Oscar Wilde was haunted by the literature and culture of ancient Greece, but until now no full-length study has considered in detail the texts, institutions and landscapes through which he imagined Greece. The archaeology of Celtic Ireland, explored by the young Wilde on excavations with his father, informed both his encounter with the archaeology of Greece and his conviction that ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov

    by James N. Loehlin ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Chekhov is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential literary figures of modern times. Russia's preeminent playwright, he played a significant role in revolutionizing the modern theatre. His impact on prose fiction writing is incalculable: he helped define the modern short story. Beginning with an engaging account of Chekhov's life and cultural context in nineteenth-century Russia, this ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Documents of Performance in Early Modern England

    by Tiffany Stern ...
    As well as 'play-makers' and 'poets', playwrights of the early modern period were known as 'play-patchers' because their texts were made from separate documents. This book is the first to consider all the papers created by authors and theatres by the time of the opening performance, recovering types of script not previously known to have existed. With chapters on plot-scenarios, arguments, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen

    Edited by James McFarlane ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the history of modern theatre, Ibsen is one of the dominating figures. The sixteen chapters of this 1994 Companion explore his life and work, providing an invaluable reference work for students. In chronological terms they range from an account of Ibsen's earliest pieces, through the years of rich experimentation, to the mature 'Ibsenist' plays that made him famous towards the end of the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Not Hamlet

    Meditations on the Frail Position of Women in Drama

    by Janet Suzman ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    "A thoughtful and considered kick up the arse to conspiracy theorists and to patriarchy" – Michael Boyd, Artistic Director RSCCleopatra, La Pucelle, Ophelia, Shaw’s St. Joan and Ibsen’s Hedda – a handful of seminal roles for women in the classical canon. Janet Suzman has played them all and directed some. Here she examines their complexity and explores why only Cleopatra has an independence that ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Radical Shakespeare

    Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career

    by Chris Fitter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries, have together obscured the consistent subversiveness of his work. Traditionally, Shakespeare’s political ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: The Shakespearean Metaphor (1990)

    Studies in Language and Form

    by Ralph Berry ...
    First published in 1978, this book represents a study of the ways in which Shakespeare exploits the possibilities of metaphor. In a series of studies ranging from the early to the mature Shakespeare, the author concentrates on metaphor as a controlling structure — the extent to which a certain metaphoric idea informs and organises the drama. These studies turn constantly to the relations between ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

    by Richard Wilson, Richard Dutton ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Play’S the Thing

    The Theatrical Collaboration of Clark Bowlen and Kathleen Keena, 1988–2012

    by Kathleen Keena ...
    The Play's the Thing: The Theatrical Collaboration of Clark Bowlen and Kathleen Keena, 1988-2012Kathleen KeenaiUniverse, 187 pages, (paperback) $17.95, 978-1-4917-6151-9(Reviewed: June 2015)The Play's the Thing is Kathleen Keena's theater diary starting at Manchester Community College in Connecticut, 1988, where she meets theater chair Clark Bowlen. They collaborate (and eventually marry) until ... Read more

    $3.99 USD