This volume offers direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains 12 plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation. Playwrights include: Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden); Amelia Pincherle Rosselli (Italy); Elsa Bernstein (Germany); Elizabeth Robins (Britain); Marie Leneru (France); Alfonsia Storni (Argentina); Hella Wuolijoki (Finland); Hasegawa Shigure (Japan); Rachilde...
This volume offers direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains 12 plays by women from the Ame...
This collection of fifteen essays offers a guide to the work of Tom Stoppard and addresses all of his major work. It provides insights into the recent plays, Arcadia and Invention of Love, as well as the first extended examination of his work for the screen, including a discussion of his coauthored, academy award-winning screenplay Shakespeare in Love. Photographs from key productions, a biography and chronology complete the volume and prepare the reader for future work by this extraordinary writer.
This collection of fifteen essays offers a guide to the work of Tom Stoppard and addresses all of his major work. It provides insights into the recent...
This collection of fifteen essays offers a guide to the work of Tom Stoppard and addresses all of his major work. It provides insights into the recent plays, Arcadia and Invention of Love, as well as the first extended examination of his work for the screen, including a discussion of his coauthored, academy award-winning screenplay Shakespeare in Love. Photographs from key productions, a biography and chronology complete the volume and prepare the reader for future work by this extraordinary writer.
This collection of fifteen essays offers a guide to the work of Tom Stoppard and addresses all of his major work. It provides insights into the recent...
From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with "Look Back in Anger," British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century. This reference profiles the life and work of some 40 British playwrights active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of whom are also known for their work as novelists and poets. Included are figures such as W. H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Noel Coward, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, W....
From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with "Look Back in Anger," British playwrights made numerous lasting con...
