Category Archives: Drama

Wilhelm Reich in Hell

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

The great psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich once wrote, “No President, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow.” In 1957, the government of the United … Continue reading →

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Reading Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence (The W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures)

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy has only recently begun to establish itself in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most recent books stress … Continue reading →

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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning … Continue reading →

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Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

This wide-ranging study investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change, or undermine the structures in which they are embedded. Through close readings of … Continue reading →

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Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

While Ben Jonson’s political visions have been well documented, this is the first study to consider how he threaded his views into the various literary genres in which he wrote. For Jonson, these genres were interactive and mutually affirming, necessary … Continue reading →

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Bertolt Brecht (Routledge Performance Practitioners)

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Bertolt Brecht is … Continue reading →

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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible (Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations)

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, is returning to Broadway. To mark the occasion, Penguin is pleased to offer this beautiful hardcover edition. “A powerful drama.” (Brooks Atkinson, The New York … Continue reading →

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Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations)

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

Beckett’s first stage play portrays two tramps, trapped in an endless waiting for the arrival of a mysterious personage named Godot, while disputing the appointed place and hour of his coming. They amuse themselves with various bouts of repartee and … Continue reading →

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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Comedies (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare’s day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies … Continue reading →

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God and Mystery in Words: Experience through Metaphor and Drama

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

In God and Mystery in Words, David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship … Continue reading →

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