Theater
Staging Fairyland
Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime
Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814345917
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345900
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345924
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Three Plays
The translations collected here-Death and the Fool, Electra, and The Tower represent different periods and interests in his career as a dramatist.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814312865
Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage
Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business
Collects leading scholars’ insight on the plays, production, music, audiences, and political and aesthetic concerns of modern Yiddish theater.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814335048
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337196
From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot
Israel Zangwill’s Jewish Plays
Three plays by Israel Zangwill, a noted Jewish playwright, published together for the first time in their original form and accompanied by extensive scholarly commentary.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814329559
What Mama Said
An Epic Drama
An explosive political drama projecting an African people’s revolutionary struggle to confront government forces and foreign oil corporations that have ravaged their land and strangled the voices of their mothers and daughters.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331415
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336786
Lies Like Truth
Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment
By demonstrating fundamental connections between audience reaction then and the use of computers today, Renaissance scholar Arthur Kinney explores the cultural moment of one of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814329658
What the Wine-Sellers Buy Plus Three
Four Plays by Ron Milner
The four Milner plays collected here —Checkmates, What the Wine-Sellers Buy, Jazz-Set, and Urban Transition —are characterized by their attention to African American social and psychological culture.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814329290
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814329771
Tell It to Women
An Epic Drama for Women
Tell It To Women gives traditional rural women a voice: the women from Idu break from their assumed position of silence and powerlessness to confront the urban women who believe their western education gives them the authority to speak for all women.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814326497
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336779
Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940
A valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship, this volume is a compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance, brought together for the first time and set in a historical context.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814325803
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338339
Three Plays
The Broken Calabash, Parables for a Season, and The Reighn of Wazobia
This anthology of plays allows a glimpse into the lives of the people of Onwueme’s native Nigeria and reveals the range and beauty of Nigerian culture.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814324455
The Roots of African American Drama
An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938
This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American writers.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814321423
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338476