For the first time in the history of drama criticism, this book uses traditional rhetorical theory to evaluate moral values in plays from Shakespeare's time to the present. In an accessible style free of jargon, Robert King first reviews other theories and critiques of drama to show that they ignore or minimize the argument from moral worth ......
Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form provides a new and comprehensive account of the writing and thought of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. While Gombrowicz is probably the key Polish modernist writer, with a stature in his native Poland equivalent to that of Joyce or Beckett in the English language, he remains little ......
This work, which introduces and provides the first major study and detailed analysis of Timberlake Wertenbaker's as a radical feminist dramatist. Professor Gormceli's research is also meant to provide a lucid, cogent and direct discussion of the contemporary British feminist theatre/drama and she has provided scholars and students of drama with ......
Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare's mature plays -- As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. The author pushes beyond traditional ways of thinking about tragedy, framing his readings with simple questions that have been missing from scholarship of the past generation: Are ......
The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and novelistic narratives of commercial success. In ......
Includes numerous animal fables that are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct wayward princes. This volume also contains the compact version of King Vikrama's Adventures, thirty-two popular tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne.
Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons
The new practices and theories of parliamentary representation that emerged during Elizabeth's and James' reigns shattered the unity of human agency, redefined the nature of power, transformed the image of the body politic, and unsettled constructs and concepts as fundamental as the relation between presence and absence. In The Third Citizen, ......
Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic
With annotated footnotes, this work explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. It includes an introduction that provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building.
Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic
With annotated footnotes, this work explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. It also includes an introduction that provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building.
