Author: John ForsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Dramatic Essays
Author: John ForsterDramatic Essays
Author: LoweDramatic Essays
Author: William HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Dramatic Essays of Charles Lamb
Author: Charles Lamb100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write
Author: Sarah RuhlPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711976
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl. This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. A vibrant, provocative examination of the possibilities of the theater, it is also a map to a very particular artistic sensibility, and an unexpected guide for anyone who has chosen an artist's life. Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stunningly original book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture. The titles themselves speak to the volume's uniqueness: "On lice," "On sleeping in the theater," "On motherhood and stools (the furniture kind)," "Greek masks and Bell's palsy."
Why I Write
Author: George OrwellPublisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913724263
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Criticisms and Dramatic Essays of the English Stage. By W. Hazlitt. Second edition. Edited by his son [W. Hazlitt the younger.]
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Author: William HazlittCriticisms and Dramatic Essays of the English Stage
Author: William HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology
Author: Bernard ShawDiverse Pursuits
Author: Javed MalickPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000412865
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The five essays in this book reflect many years of the author's sustained academic engagement with dramatic forms and traditions. The opening essay traces the historical trajectory of modern drama in Europe from its bourgeois period through the period of the liberal dissent to the more recent periods of radical alternative. The subsequent essays deal with certain specific examples of that drama in India and the West, such as Shakespeare adaptations on the Parsi theatre stage, Habib Tanvir, and Samuel Beckett. The author places each of these in a historical perspective. This approach constitutes the theoretical underpinning of the book giving cohesion to this collection of diverse essays. Although they were individually published in various journals and books in their earlier versions, they have been substantially revived and updated by the author for this volume. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.