The idea of retelling theatre stories began with a second-hand copy of Donald Sinden’s Theatrical Anecdotes. Other anthologies biographies and histories followed. Widening circles of biblio-graphies soon spread out into earlier anthologies and accounts from practitioners within the theatre – Oxberry Bunn Wilkinson ......
From the Introduction: "The texts of Aman used in the preparation of this edition are taken from five editions of Montchrestien's plays, i.e., 1601, 1603, 1604, 1606, 1627. There are, however, in fact only two editions which differ from each other, i.e., the 1601 and 1604 editions. . . . In the arrangement of the present text in this edition of ......
At a time when good editions of drama in English are prohibitively expensive and online texts are unedited and lack the apparatus necessary for students to understand and contextualize the plays, this anthology affordably illustrates every significant genre of drama in the English language from the late fourteenth century to the early twentieth ......
In Blind Spots Bruce Dawe (author of such popular poetry collections as Condolences of the Season and Sometimes Gladness) turns his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected termination of Kevin Rudd as our PM Julia Gillard's subsequent term of office and Kevin Rudd's return. Dawe's sympathy for those subjected to the intense ......
In Blind Spots Bruce Dawe turned his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected termination of Kevin Rudd as our PM Julia Gillard's subsequent term of office and Kevin Rudd's return. In Kevin Almighty one of Australia's finest poets extends his send-up of the 2013 election and its aftermath.
The aim of this volume is to examine nascent movements, genre shifts, developing authors/playwrights and controversial themes as they emerged in both drama and theatre. The editors have focused on the essence of creative nexus of London from the end of the nineteenth century up to the beginning of the Great War (1914). The resultant study ......
A Play Presenting the Origin and Early Development of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
How, exactly, did the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions come into existence? Historians may debate the issue but playwrights can imagine it. Here, Alan M. Chesney dares to go where doctors and historians may not. A one-act play, The Flowering of an Idea presents in four scenes 'an imaginary conversation in which an idea is born.' The dramatis ......
Offers a satirical account of the conquest of the holy city of Benares by Nescience, of the war of liberation waged by the forces of Intuition, and of the freedom of the Inner Man that then follows the rise of Wisdom.
