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Framing Shakespeare on Film
How the Frame Reveals Meaning
By Kathy M. Howlett
The aesthetics of frame theory form the basis of Framing Shakespeare on Film. This groundbreaking work expands on the discussion of film constructivists in its claim that the spectacle of Shakespeare on film is a problem-solving activity.Kathy Howlett demonstrates convincingly how viewers' expectations for understanding Shakespeare on film can be manipulated by the director's cinematic technique.
The Tables Turned
Or, Nupkins Awakened
By William Morris
William Morris is well recognized as an eclectic and energetic contributor to the Victorian artistic and literary scene. Readers of Morris's languid poetic narratives and archaic prose romances will be intrigued by this editions of his single socialist play, a lively and rich experiment in political prose that offers an unusual example of Morris's boisterous humor and satirical style.Written
Seven Gothic Dramas, 1789–1825
Edited by Jeffrey N. Cox
The Gothic drama came at a critical moment in the history of the theater, of British culture, and of European politics in the shadow of France's revolution and the fall of Napoleon. It offered playwrights a medium to express the prevailing ideological tensions of romanticism and revolution, and also responded to a growing and changing theater audience.In
5 Plays 5
Lovecraft's Follies, The Ushers, Mother O, Shadows of Memory, The Last Romantics
By James Schevill
In 1970 Adrian Hall's production of Lovecraft's Follies by the Trinity Repertory Company was praised in The New York Times as a "hilarious extravaganza—with music—that is also an earnest attempt to come to grips with the guilts and terrors of the Age of Technology." The sucess of this production heralded James Schevill's arrival as an important American playwright dedicated to a new kind of theatre that he calls in the introduction to this book, "Poetic Realism."
Collected Short Plays
In a time that emphasizes media spectaculars, the short play offers an exploration of minimal possibilities yet has the power to fix history in a moment's structure, a flash of revelation. The short play is a powerful and innovative theatrical medium, relying upon compression and clarity rather than amplification, and reducing character and action to a spare, dramatic core.Schevill
The Tenth Muse
Classical Drama In Translation
Edited by Charles Doria
Although classical drama has been translated before, this new collection is unique. The translations are modern in their poetry; the translations include poets as well as classicists; and the collection includes at least one example of every known type of ancient Greek and Latin drama.