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"Taming of the Shrew" (Shakespeare in performance)
(Manchester University Press, 1991)
This text is a grounded introduction to "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare. It features traditional methods for performance analysis - criticism of the theatrical text and empirical descriptions of instances in its ...
The politics of theatre and drama
(Palgrave Macmillan, 1991)
In this text the authors all explore ideas about drama and the Falklands conflict, in the light of popular films, for example "Tumbledown" and "Born on the Fourth of July." This is read in the socio-political context of ...
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
(Penguin Books Ltd, 1991)
The author looks at some of the ways in which this play has been made accessible, as a romantic story of young love, as "West Side Story" or a colourful and spectacular historical pageant and suggests that they lead away ...
Production, reproduction, performance: marxism, history, theatre
(Manchester University Press, 1991)
A metatheatrical approach to the dramatic and theatrical dimensions of the ‘story’ of the Henriad presupposes a standpoint outside the normal limits of what has been called ‘stage-centred’ reading. It calls for a project ...
Introduction to this edition, by Graham Holderness
(Open University Press, 1991)
Introducing a re-issue of Raymond Williams’ Drama in Performance, first published in 1954 and revised in 1968, involves at the outset two major shifts of orientation. First, Williams is customarily associated with studies ...