Ghost Sonata and When We Dead Awaken
Ghost Sonata and When We Dead Awaken

Author: August Strindberg

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1977-01-15

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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Together in this volume are two plays by the Scandinavian geniuses of modern drama, which focus on a single theme–the reality of death. Translated and edited by Thaddeus L. Torp, this edition contains both August Strindberg's Ghost Sonata and Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken for performance and study and includes an introduction, a chronology of principal works and important events in the authors' lives, and a bibliography.

Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata
Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata

Author: Egil Törnqvist

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9053564357

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Generally considered one of milestones in the development of modern drama, August Strindberg's chamber play The Ghost Sonata (1907) has variously been hailed as the first expressionist, surrealist and absurdist drama. In this monograph of the play as text and as performance —the first of its kind—Egil Trnqvist examines, in four chapters, the source text, various translations of it into English, the stage versions of Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander and Ingmar Bergman, and select radio and TV adaptations. In two framing chapters the background and impact of the play are illuminated. Focusing on Bergman's 1973 production, the book in addition contains a rehearsal diary and a transcription of this production. It is concluded with an annotated list of select productions.

Mirrors of Our Playing
Mirrors of Our Playing

Author: Thomas R. Whitaker

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780472110254

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Examines the major paradigms that have influenced modern English-speaking theater

Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw

Author: Daniel Dervin

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780838714188

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Brings literary criticism into better alignment with modern psychology, particularly psychoanalysis, in order to advance a truly integral view of the author, his work, and the creative process.

New Atlantis and The Great Instauration
New Atlantis and The Great Instauration

Author: Francis Bacon

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1119097983

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This richly annotated second edition of the now-classic pairing of Bacon’s masterpieces, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration features the addition of other works by Bacon, including “The Idols of the Mind,” Of Unity in Religion” and “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates,” as well a Summary of the each work and Questions for the reader. S Includes works new to the second edition, including “The Idols of the Mind,” “Of Unity in Religion,” and “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates” Updates the layout of the previous edition with a more generous interior design, making this work more student-friendly and easier to navigate in the classroom Each work is introduced and subsequently discussed, revealing the importance of Bacon’s work to his contemporaries as well as to modern readers Includes a comprehensive introduction and annotations throughout the text; as well as an appendix of Principal Dates in the Life of Sir Francis Bacon; a selected bibliography; and synopses and questions to accompany each work

Spectral Readings
Spectral Readings

Author: G. Byron

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-08-02

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0230374611

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These essays explore some of the most significant current issues concerning the terrain of the Gothic perspective, offering a variety of possible answers to the crucial question: What is Gothic? The collection begins by addressing general issues about the locations and structure of Gothic; this is followed by various considerations of Gothic as a specific historical phenomenon, linked with specific aspects of British, American, and European society; and, finally, by an exploration of Gothic writing during recent decades.

Chekhov's Plays
Chekhov's Plays

Author: Richard Gilman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780300072563

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Eminent critic Richard Gilman examines each of Chekhov's full-length plays, showing how they relate to each other, to Chekhov's short stories, and to his life. Gilman places the plays in the context of Russian and European drama and the larger culture of the period, and the reasons behind the enduring power of these classic works.

Staging Consciousness
Staging Consciousness

Author: William W. Demastes

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780472112029

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How theater has challenged the mind/body dualism that underpins much of Western thought

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

Author: Francis O'Gorman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1139828444

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The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world. The book explores what 'Victorian' has come to mean and how an idea of the 'Victorian' might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of 'culture' itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship. An invaluable resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours.