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Jean Genet
By D. Bradby, Claire Finburgh
Jean Genet has emerged in recent years as a key figure in defining and understanding twentieth-century theatre. This timely book, the only introductory text to Genet in English, offers an overview of this influential and controversial writer whose work prefigured many recent postmodern and...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-37506-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America
Edited by Ann L Mackenzie, Jeremy Robbins
This volume of essays is published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer woman scholar (1908-2006) whose books on Enlightenment culture and ideology have been internationally influential in developing scholarly understanding of eighteenth-century Spain and the rest of Europe. Besides an...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-60364-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time
By Matthew Wagner
That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love's Labour's Lost), one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night), or, perhaps most famously, simply ‘out of joint’ (Hamlet). Yet most critical commentary on...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-80587-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Maria Irene Fornes
By Scott T. Cummings
Maria Irene Fornes provides an enlightening introduction to a pivotal figure in both Hispanic-American and experimental theater. From her theatrical origins in 1960s Cuba to her precedent plays for the US stage, this book presents an important guide of work of this politically-charged...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-45435-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Caryl Churchill
By Mary Luckhurst
One of Europe's greatest playwrights, Caryl Churchill has been internationally celebrated for four decades. She has exploded the narrow definitions of political theatre to write consistently hard-edged and innovative work. Always unpredictable in her stage experiments, her plays have stretched the...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-34578-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Mark Ravenhill
By John F. Deeney
Mark Ravenhill is the first book to provide a detailed analysis of the work of arguably the most important dramatist to have emerged from the British theatre over the past twenty years. Shopping and F***ing (1996), with its unrelenting representation of dysfunctional youth, dark humour and...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-37511-5 | Paperback (Routledge)