Tragedy in the Age of Oprah : Essays on Five Great Plays 9780810885097, 9780810885080

In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society. A

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Tragedy in the Age of Oprah : Essays on Five Great Plays
9780810885097, 9780810885080

A fresh, lively, accurate, and, for the first time, complete translation in English of Chekhov's five most famous p

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Presented informally, The Return of Eden is filled with the vast learning and demonstrates the imaginative magnitude we

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While its actors made their entrace down the Flower Way over three hundred years ago, little of kabuki's repertory

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Founded in 2004, the TEAM is an internationally-acclaimed Brooklyn-based collaborative ensemble whose mission is to make

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Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that establi

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Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through

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These essays deal with the uses of Greek tragedy by European playwrights between the Renaissance and the Romantic period

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