September 2006

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All books are paperback unless stated otherwise

AESCHYLUS

AESCHYLUS: AGAMEMNON. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. Barbara Goward. Series Editor Thomas Harrison.
This detailed study sets the play against the rich traditions of archaic poetry from which the drama had only recently sprung. It considers the ethical dilemmas of the plot in the context of fifth-century Athenian religious and political thinking, and the play’s attitude to women. ISBN 0-7156-3385-6

ALBEE, EDWARD

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO EDWARD ALBEE edited by Stephen Bottoms
This collection of new essays on Albee, which includes contributions from the leading commentators of Albee’s work, brings fresh critical insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright’s career, from his 1959 breakthrough with The Zoo Story to his most recent Broadway success, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002). ISBN O-521-54233-2

EDWARD ALBEE — A Singular Journey. A Biography. Mel Gussow
"Mel Gusset has caught the exhilarating feel of that time in the Fifties and Sixties when traditional theatre world was flying apart and there at the centre stood Edward Able. Gussow’s haunting portrait of an artist thriving and surviving in the American theatre over the last forty years is splendid, riveting and happily unfinished." John Guare, playwright

ARISTOPHANES

ARISTOPHANES AND THE DEFINITION OF COMEDY. M.S. Silk
"… a work of major importance, one of the most distinctive contributions ever made to the interpretation of Aristophanes … every page of this book demands to be pondered by anyone who wants to be made to rethink their view of Aristophanes in particular or comedy in general." Stephen Halliwell, Greece and Rome. ISBN 0 19 925382 X

ARISTOTLE

ARISTOTLE — Poetics. A New Translation by Kenneth McLeish
This brand new translation seeks to make this famous text as accessible as possible without cutting or paraphrasing. Instead, important passages are highlighted, while key words and concepts are glossed within the text so as to dispense with the need for intrusive footnotes. The aim is to allow readers to experience Aristotle’s arguments directly for themselves.

ARTAUD, ANTONIN

ANTONIN ARTAUD — A Critical Reader. Edited by Edward Scheer
This unique resource brings together for the first time a selection of the best critical writing available on the key themes of Artaud’s life and work. This book challenges traditional perceptions of Artaud; explores the circumstances of his life and work, including the relationship between his mental illness, drug addiction and creativity and reflects the multi-disciplinary nature of Artaud’s work by including material drawn from a wide range of sources on a number of subjects. ISBN 0 415 28255 1

ANTONIN ARTAUD— The Man and His Work. Martin Esslin
Artaud was both a revolutionary and a man of great originality but sometimes clinically mad, dying at 52 in 1948. The author shows how the man and his life and work cannot be separated, and redefines the revolution in theatre that Artaud created, which still continues today.

ARTAUD FOR BEGINNERS — Gabriela Stoppelman Illustrated by Jorge Hardmeier
This book introduces the reader to the life and art of a man who avant-gardists call the "totally rebellious artist".

ARTAUD ON THEATRE — Edited by Claude Schumacher with Brian Singleton
This volume contains all of Artaud’s key writings on theatre and cinema from 1921 to his death in 1948, including new selections which have never appeared in English before. Together with an introduction, biographical notes and commentary, the collection charts Artaud’s work from his early association with surrealism, through his founding of Théâtre Alfred Jarry, to the invocation of his compelling vision in his most famous manifesto, The Theatre and its Double. ISBN 0 413 73770 5

ARTAUD’S THEATRE OF CRUELTY. Albert Bermel
The author looks closely at Artaud’s work as a playwright, director, actor, designer, producer and critic, and provides a fresh insight into his ideas, innovations and above all, his writings. Tracing the theatre of cruelty’s origins in earlier dramatic conventions, tribal rituals of cleansing, transfiguration and exaltation, and in related arts such as film and dance, Bermel examines each of Artaud’s six plays for form and meaning, as well as surveying the application of Artaud’s theories and techniques to the international theatre of recent years. ISBN 0 413 76660 8

AYCKBOURN, ALAN

THE CRAFTY ART OF PLAYMAKING — Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn shares all the tricks of the trade. From helpful hints on writing (Where do you start? How do you continue? What is comedy and how does it work?), to tips on directing (working with actors and technicians, when to listen to the other experts, how to cope with rehearsals), the book provides a complete primer for the tyro and refresher for the more experienced. Written in an accessible and highly entertaining style, with anecdotes galore to illustrate the how, when, where and why, it’s worth the cover price for the jokes alone. ISBN 0 571 21510 6

A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH AYCKBOURN COUNTRY. Albert-Reiner Glaap, Nicholas Quaintmere (Editors)
An opportunity for those who do not know Ayckbourn so well to get a glimpse into what makes the great bard tick. Ideally, this book will act as a springboard, or maybe even a goad, to find out more about Ayckbourn, to experience his work firsthand. To those who already know his work this volume hopes to provide the sort of background information that usually is not available to the general public as it comes straight from the horse’s mouth. ISBN 3-88476-678-3

A POCKET GUIDE TO ALAN AYCKBOURN’S PLAYS — Paul Allen
Do you belong to an amateur theatre group wanting to "do an Ayckbourn"? Are you the Artistic Director of a professional theatre seeking to slot an Ayckbourn into next season? Are you a fan of Ayckbourn’s work and would love a handy reference book? This guide will tell you all you need to know and more: all plays in chronological order with an alphabetical index. A complete listing of male and female characters in each play. A plot break down for each play. Useful hints on production.

BARAKA, AMIRI

AMIRI BARAKA — The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual. Jerry Gafio Watts
In this groundbreaking and comprehensive study, the first to interweave Baraka’s art and political activities, Jerry Watts takes us from his early immersion in the New York scene through the most dynamic period in the life and work of this controversial figure. ISBN 0 8147 9373 8

BARBA, EUGENIO

EUGENIO BARBA. Routledge Performance Practitioners. — Jane Turner
Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on the twentieth-and twenty-first-century performance. ISBN 0415 27328 5

LAND OF ASHES AND DIAMONDS — My Apprenticeships in Poland Followed by 26 Letters from Jerry Grotowski to Eugenio Barba — Eugenio Barba
This book publishes for the first time a series of letters from Jerzy Grotowski to Eugenio Barba written during the early "Theatre of Productions" phase of Grotowski’s work in the 1960’s. The letters are contextualised in a autobiographical essay by Baba, which chronicles his early contact, and lifelong friendship, with Grotowski, and his close collaborators, and charts their deep significance to his own life and work.

NEGOTIATING CULTURES — Eugenio Barba and the Intercultural Debate. Ian Watson and Colleagues
This is a collection of essays and interviews that examines the role of cultural fusion, negotiation and conflict in Eugenia Barb’s creative work, research, and theories about theatrical performance. ISBN 0 7190 6170 9

THEATRE — Solitude, Craft, Revolt. Eugenio Barba
This is a highly illuminating and provocative professional autobiography by one of Europe’s leading theatre directors. It is a collection of essays dating from 1964 to 1995 by Eugenio Barba, director, theorist and founder of Odin Teatret. As a chronicle of over thirty years’ sustained work with a permanent ensemble, it reveals the meaning of his influential theatre practice, his life’s work and guiding principles. ISBN 1 902867 03 3

BARKER, HOWARD

DEATH, THE ONE AND THE ART OF THEATRE. Howard Barker
This is the latest collection of Barker’s distinctive and revelatory philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning array of speculations, deductions, prose poems and poetic aperçus that casts a unique and unflinching light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love and theatre. ISBN 0 415 36987 7

THEATRE OF CATASTROPHE. New Essays on Howard Barker. Edited by Karoline Gritzner and David Ian Rabey.
This collection of essays is the first to consider the full range of Barker’s theatrical objectives and achievements, and reflects his international status as an artistic thinker and practitioner. Contributors from around the world consider key events and themes in Barker’s plays such as death, sexuality, performance, blindness, politics, eroticism and cruelty. Overviews of Barker’s career explore his rejection of standard dramatic and theatrical techniques and his pursuit of a new tragic form ISBN 1 84002 672 3

THE THEATRE OF HOWARD BARKER — Charles Lamb
Through his powerful stage poetry, Howard Barker creates a world peopled by characters who live at the extreme edges of experiences — characters who challenge the very limits of actors’ imaginations. In this acclaimed study of Barker’s work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of these characters and of their interactions, leading to detailed exploration of the "scene of seduction" — the challenge, the secret, the abject and the catastrophic processes which dominate Barker’s work. ISBN 0 415 31531 X

BARNES, PETER

DARK ATTRACTIONS — The Theatre of Peter Barnes. Brian Woolland
This is major study of one of the most enduring and distinctive playwrights and screenwriters of the last fifty years. ISBN 0 413 77442 2 (HB)

BECKETT, SAMUEL

ABOUT BECKETT — the Playwright and the Work. John Fletcher
Emeritus Professor John Fletcher has compiled a thorough and accessible dossier that aims to explain why Beckett’s work is so significant and why it will last. Professor Fletcher first met Beckett in 1961 in Paris and his book is filled not only with insights into the work but first-hand stories by theatre practitioners who worked with Beckett, as well as interviews with the playwright himself. As an introduction to Beckett and his work, Professor Fletcher’s book is incomparable. ISBN 0 571 20124 5

BECKETT & AESTHETICS — Daniel Albright
As a young man, Beckett hoped that writing could provide psychic authenticity and true representation of the physical world; instead he found himself immersed in artificialities, self-enclosed word games. Daniel Albright argues that Beckett escaped from this bind by allegories of artistic frustration and through an art of non-representation and estrangement. Albright shows Beckett experimenting with the notion that an artistic medium might itself be made to speak. Engaging with radio, film, and television, prose and drama, Albright’s Beckett becomes a sophisticated theorist of the very notion of the aesthetic. ISBN 0 521 82908 9 (HB)

A BECKET CANON. An Indispensable Guide to the Oeuvre of Samuel Beckett, Spanning Sixty Years. Ruby Cohn
Beginning in 1929 with Beckett’s earliest work, the book examines the variety of genres in which he worked: poems, short stories, novels, plays, radio pieces, teleplays, reviews and criticism.
Intended as a resource to accompany the reading of Becketts writing — in English or French, published or unpublished, in part or as a whole — the book offers context, information and interpretation of the work of one of the last century’s most important writers. ISBN 0-472-03131-7

CAMBRIDGE STUDENT GUIDE — Second edition
Beckett. Waiting for Godot. — Lawrence Graver. ISBN 0 521 54938 8
This volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett’s first and most renowned dramatic work, Waiting for Godot,. Lawrence Graver discusses the play’s background and provides a detailed analysis of its originality and distinction as a landmark of modern theatrical art. ISBN 0 521 54938 8

BECKETT’S BOOKS. A Cultural History of Samuel Beckett’s "Interwar Notes". Matthew Feldman.
"Exciting new scholarship that will make quite an impression on the Beckett industry, well written and argued, but especially full of empirical evidence that is so often lacking in criticism." Professor Geert Lernout, University of Antwerp. HB ISBN 0 8264 9059 X

THE COMING OF GODOT. A Short History of a Masterpiece. Jonathon Croall. Foreword by Peter Hall.
During Peter Hall’s landmark anniversary production of Beckett’s masterpiece the writer Jonathon Croall was given exclusive access to rehearsals, and talked at length to director, actors and designer. His vivid rehearsal diary is an illuminating inside account of how this acclaimed production was put together. The book ends with an examination of Beckett’s influence on writers such as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. ISBN 1-84002-595-6

THE ESSENTIAL SAMUEL BECKETT — An Illustrated Biography. Enoch Brater
Professor Brater follows Beckett’s career from the early days in Ireland, to the efflorescence in France just after the Second Word War, and beyond that to the unfolding of his success in the rest of the world as a result of universal appeal of his cryptic, moving play Waiting for Godot. In his analysis of the way Beckett approached his work, Brater emphasizes the Irish rhythms in his writing, and examines, at all stages, the intriguing relationship between his fiction and his compositions for theatre, film and television. Supported by large selection of photographs, personal and public, here is a brilliant and informed study of Beckett’s life and works. ISBN 0 500 28411 3

IMAGES OF BECKETT — John Haynes and James Knowlson
Images of Beckett sets John Haynes’ unique repertoire of photographs of Beckett’s dramatic opus alongside three newly written essays by Beckett’s biographer and friend James Knowlson.
ISBN 0 521 82258 0. HB

THE PAINTED WORD — SAMUEL BECKETT’S DIALOGUE WITH ART. Lois Oppenheim. HB
Broadly interdisciplinary, The Painted Word sheds light on Beckett’s references to and the exploration of the visual arts in his creative work and on dramatic and fictive compositional strategies he shared with a number of artists. This book will appeal to scholars familiar with Beckett’s work and to those interested in the dynamics of word and image interconnections. ISBN 0 472 11117 5

THE PHILOSOPHY OF SAMUEL BECKETT. John Calder
John Calder has examined the work of Beckett principally for what it has to say about our time in terms of philosophy, theology and ethics, and he points to aspects of his subject’s thinking that others have ignored or preferred not to see. ISBN 0 7145 4283 0

SAMUEL BECKETT. Deirdre Blair
The first major biography of this most private and mysterious author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. ISBN 0 099 80070 5

SAMUEL BECKETT. Sinead Mooney.Writers and Their Work.Isobel Armstrong General Editor.
In this accessible guide to Beckett’s prose and drama, Sinead Mooney offers a concise and informative account of the development of Beckett’s oeuvre across its two languages, from the erudite experiments of the early fiction through the major works of the radio and television plays, to the formidable minimalism of the late prose and drama. ISBN 0 7463 0857 4

SAMUEL BECKETT. 100 YEARS. Centenary Essays. Edited by Christopher Murray
Samuel Beckett — 100 Years consists of thirteen essays by many of the foremost academics studying Beckett today. Literary luminaries such as John Banville and Anthony Cronin line up alongside philosophers Dermot Moran and Richard Kearney to delve into the psyche of the man responsible for such classics as Murphy, Krapps Last Tape and Waiting for Godot, while actors Barry McGovern and Rosemary Pountney describe what makes his works so theatrical. The book is a challenging and serious look at his work and its impact on literature today. ISBN 1 905494 08 4

SAMUEL BECKETT Waiting for Godot/Endgame. A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism Ed. by Peter Boxall
In this book Peter Boxall traces critical responses to the above plays from the 1950s to the present day. The guide presents the major debates that surround these works as they develop, from Martin Esslin’s early appropriation of the plays as examples of the Theatre of the Absurd, to recent post-structuralist and post-colonial readings by critics such as Steven Connor, Mary Bryden and Declan Kiberd.

SAMUEL BECKETT (The World of 1906-1946). Lois Gordon
A new perspective on Beckett, challenging the prevalent image of him as reclusive, self-absorbed, and disturbed. He investigates the first forty years of Beckett’s life and finds that he was, on the contrary, a kind and generous man who responded sensitively and even heroically to the world around him.

SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE PRIMACY OF LOVE. John Robert Keller
This new study places the emotional world at the centre of Beckett’s writing. Dr Keller re-esseses the reason for the author’s influence and enduring popularity, by suggesting that Beckett is "primarily about love". This study integrates highly readable discussions of psychoanalytic theory, and clinical examples, with textual analysis. It will be valuable to scholars and readers if Beckett, and to anyone interested in modern literature and culture. ISBN 0 7190 6313 2

SAMUEL BECKETT’S SELF-REFERENTIAL DRAMA. The Sensitive Chaos. Shimon Levy. ISBN 1 902210 46 8
This current collection of essays is divided almost equally between theory and performance, but the author treats the two as a single field. ISBN 1 902210 46 8

THEATRE OF SHADOWS — Samuel Beckett’s Drama 1956-1976. Rosemary Pountney.
A comprehensive approach to the middle period of Beckett’s dramatic writing. By making a close study of the structure, and of the largely unpublished manuscript drafts of the plays of 1956-76, it offers considerable insight into Beckett’s creative process and his stagecraft.
"A marvellous contribution to Beckett criticism ..... painstakingly scholarly, meticulous in its observations, and illuminating in its detail" Review of English Studies, 1990
" if you want the best book on the background to Beckett’s plays -— without jargon -— this is it. It is also the most useful to the actor." Barry McGovern

BEHN, APHRA

APHRA BEHN — The Comedies. Kate Aughterson
The author provides readers with an approachable and fascinating critical guide to the dramatic works of an important seventeenth-century woman writer. Aughterson analyses Aphra Behn’s abilities as a playwright, showing particularly how she skilfully employs comic and dramatic conventions to radical ends, and how she forces her audience to engage with issues about gender and sexuality whilst retaining her witty and accessible style. ISBN 0 333 96321 0

THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERDESS — The Life of Aphra Behn 1640-89. Maureen Duffy
Duffy has lifted the tarnished image of Aphra Behn from the muddle of sensational legend that has for too long obscured her true achievement — as an artist and as the pioneer who opened up the whole field of literature to women. ISBN 1 84212 166 9

THE SECRET LIFE OF APHRA BEHN — Janet Todd
The author draws on documents she has rediscovered in the Dutch archives, and on Behn’s own writings, to tell a story of court, diplomatic and sexual intrigue, and of the rise of humble origins of the first woman to earn a living as a professional writer. Todd reveals the historical scandals and legal cases behind some of Behn’s most famous "fictions".

BERKOFF, STEVEN

STEVEN BERKOFF AND THE THEATRE OF SELF-PERFORMANCE. Robert Cross
This first thorough and in-depth study of this contentious artist, examines the wide-ranging strategies adopted by Berkoff in the construction and projection of his larger-than-life public persona, ISBN 0 7190 6254 3

BLAKEMORE, MICHAEL

MICHAEL BLAKEMORE —ARGUMENTS WITH ENGLAND. A Memoir.
Candid observations about life and art, from his shock on witnessing the poverty in the North to his sense of excitement on reading the works of Proust and Webster, sit beside colourful escapades at drama school and recollections of working with characters such as John Osborne and Tyrone Guthrie. Blakemore recalls life as an actor before his directorial success with A Day in the Death of Joe Egg propelled him to the National Theatre and the start of a glittering career. ISBN 0 571 22445 8. (HB)

BOAL, AUGUSTO

AUGUSTO BOAL. Frances Babbage
This study combines a biographical and historical overview of Boal’s career as playwright and director; in-depth analysis of Boal’s classic text on radical theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed; exploration of training and production techniques and practical guidance to the Theatre of the Oppressed workshop methods. ISBN 0 415 27326 9

A BOAL COMPANION. Dialogues on theatre and cultural politics. Edited by Jan Cohen-Cruz and Mady Schutzman
This collection not only expands the knowledge of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) practitioners and scholars but invites those unfamiliar with Boal’s work whose primary interests lie in one of the related disciplines addressed in these chapters. ISBN 0-415-32294-4

PLAYING BOAL — Theatre, Therapy, Activism. Ed. by Mady Schutzman and Jan Cohen-Cruz.
The first book to examine the techniques in application of Augusto Boal, creator of Theatre of the Oppressed and internationally renowned Brazilian theatre maker and political activist.

BOLT, ROBERT

SPARKNOTES.
SparkNotes are created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school. Each SparkNote contains Complete Plot Summary and Analysis; Key Facts about the Work; Author’s Historical Context; Analysis of Major Characters, Suggested Essay Topics; Themes, Motifs, and Symbols; 25-Question Review Quiz; Explanation of Important Quotations.
A Man for All Seasons. Robert Bolt. ISBN 1 58663 478 X

BOND, EDWARD

EDWARD BOND — Modern Dramatists Series. David L. Hirst
This new and comprehensive study argues that Bond’s theatrical technique is essentially subversive. It provides a detailed explanation of the sources for the plays and an assessment of their place in contemporary British theatre.

EDWARD BOND — Letters I. Selected and Edited by Ian Stuart.
Edward Bond’s letters have been general unavailable until the editor of this volume convinced him of their value. From reading this book the reader will experience new insights into the influences, motivations and beliefs of this often misunderstood playwright. ISBN 3 7186 5504 7

EDWARD BOND AND THE DRAMATIC CHILD Edward Bond’s plays for young people. Edited by David Davis
This is the first book in English to explain fully Edward Bond’s new form of theatre. ISBN 1 85856 312 7

SELECTIONS FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF EDWARD BOND — Volume One 1959-1980 Ed. and introduced by Ian Stuart. HB

BRENTON, HOWARD

BRENTON THE PLAYWRIGHT. Richard Boon
Howard Brenton is one of Britain’s best-known and most controversial dramatists. In this, the first full-length study of his work, the social and theatrical context of Brenton’s career in the theatre is examined, together with a detailed analysis of the plays.

HOT IRONS — Diaries, Essays, Journalism. Howard Brenton
In this collection of diaries, essays and pieces of journalism written over two decades, the British dramatist Howard Brenton casts a keen eye over his own work and that of others. Full of humour, insight and sharp observations.

BRECHT, BERTOLT

BENTLEY ON BRECHT — Eric Bentley.
Included in this volume are Bentley’s published analyses and commentaries on Brecht’s plays as well as some new thought of recent years. Also included is Bentley’s highly personal memoir of his years working with Brecht: his personal recollections of Charles Laughton’s L.A. production of Galileo. ISBN 1 55783 331 1

BERTOLT BRECHT – Ronald Speirs
Brecht is recognised as a major contributor to political theatre in the twentieth-century. This study surveys his development, considering the continuities and discontinuities between the earlier work and the later Marxist writing, critically examining the relation between theory and practice with a detailed study of several of the major plays.

BERTOLT BRECHT — Brecht on the Theatre. The Development of an Aesthetic. Ed. and trans. by John Willett
The book charts Brecht’s thinking over four decades. We hear how the theories of Epic Theatre and Alienation evolved, and contains notes and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, Galileo and many others. Also included is A Short Organum for the Theatre, Brecht’s most complete statement of his revolutionary philosophy of the theatre.

BERTOLT BRECHT — Poems and Songs from the Plays. Edited translated by Ronald Speirs
"This is Brecht at his Bolshie best. Now available thanks to Willett and Manheim, in the best hard-bitten English around. All who relish the sight and sound of it are in their debt." Christopher Hope, Financial Times

BERTOLT BRECHT COLLECTED SHORT STORIES. Edited and Introduced by John Willett and Ralph Manheim
Bertolt Brecht’s collected short stories reveal yet another facet of this protean writer best known for his plays and poetry. Spanning the years 1921-1945, the stories fall into three groups: those written in Bavaria at the start of the twenties, in Berlin before Hitler and in exile up to World War II.

BERTOLT BRECHT ON FILM & RADIO — Edited and Translated by Marc Silberman
From Weimer Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, this gathers together a selection of Brecht’s own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century.

BERTOLT BRECHT — WAR PRIMER. Translated and edited, with an afterword and notes by John Willet. ISBN 1 870352 46 7

BRECHT — A CHOICE OF TWO EVILS. Fourth Edition. Martin Esslin
" A brilliantly perceptive study of the most ambiguous and perpetually fascinating figure of the twentieth—century European theatre." Kenneth Tynan
When first published the wide-ranging study of Brecht’s life and work was unanimously well received. Martin Esslin has thoroughly revised and up-dated the book for this edition, paying particular attention to the extensive reference section at the end. ISBN 0 413 54750 7

BRECHT — The Cambridge Companion. Edited by Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks
Crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of this complex and controversial writer, bringing together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners.

BRECHT AND METHOD. Frederic Jameson. HB
The author elegantly dissects the intricate connections between Brecht’s drama and politics, demonstrating the way these combined to shape a unique and powerful influence on a profoundly troubled epoch. "a classic of late 20th century Euroamerican critical thought." — Choice

BRECHT FOR BEGINNERS. Michael Thoss. Illustrated by Patrick Boussignac

BRECHT IN CONTEXT. John Willett. New Revised Edition
In this classic study, the author sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time. A detailed and wide-ranging account of one of the
most significant men of this century.

BRECHT AND CRITICAL THEORY Dialectics and contemporary aesthetics. Sean Carney
Brecht and Political Theory maps the many ways in which Brechtian thinking pervades critical thought today, informing the critical tools and stances that make up the contemporary study of aesthetics. ISBN 0-415-34974-5 HB

BRECHT AND POLITICAL THEATRE. The Mother on Stage. Laura Bradley.
This production history of The Mother provides substantial new insights into Bertolt Brecht’s theatre and drama, his impact on political theatre, and the relationship between text, performance, and politico-cultural context. As the only play which Brecht staged in the Weimar Republic, during his exile, and in the GDR The Mother offers a unique opportunity to compare his theatrical practice in contrasting settings and at different points in his career. HB ISBN 0 19 928658 2

BRECHT SOURCEBOOK. Edited Carol Martin and Henry Bial
This anthology brings together a unique collection of articles, plays and interviews portraying the development and complexity of Brecht’s ideas. Included are two plays not easily available in English: The Beggar or The Dead Dog and Baden Lehrstück. The wide range of viewpoints expands the focus from questions of interpretation to how and why Brecht’s theories and practices have been adapted in a variety of compelling contexts.

EMPEDOCLES’ SHOE — Essays on Brecht’s Poetry. Ed by Tom Kuhn and Karen Leeder. With a foreword by David Constantine
This volume arises from a seminar held at Oxford University in 1998 to mark the Centenary of Brecht’s birth and includes seminal contributions from leading critics. It sheds new light on individual poems as well as giving an overview of Brecht’s poetry from the earliest days to the GDR years. ISBN 0 413 75730 7 (HB)

A GUIDE TO THE PLAYS OF BERTOLT BRECHT —Stephen Unwin
Stephen
This is an indispensable, comprehensive and highly readable companion to the work of this challenging and rewarding writer. ISBN 0 413 77416 3

PERFORMING BRECHT — Forty Years of British Performances. Margaret Eddershaw.
The author surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance, from his methodologies to his place in postmodernist theatre and beyond. Key productions by major directors as well as in-depth case studies of three productions of the 1990s are incorporated

THE THEATRE OF BERTOLT BRECHT — John Willett
Willett has emerged as the greatest living English language authority on Brecht’s position as a writer and man of the theatre.
"Seldom if ever has Brecht been looked at with such a combination of approval and commonsense, interest and detachment ... The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht is brilliantly successful." Eric Bentley, New Statesman

UNDERSTANDING BRECHT — Water Benjamin. Introduced by Stanley Mitchell. Translated by Anna Bostock
The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and powerful intellectual partnership. Stimulated by Brecht’s oeuvre and theorising his particular dramatic techniques, Benjamin developed his own ideas about the role of art and the artist in a crisis-ridden society. Alongside his fascinating analyses of Brecht’s ‘epic theatre’ and commentaries on his verse, we find Benjamin’s masterful essay " The Author as Producer", as well as an extract from his diaries that recounts the intense conversations on aesthetics and politics between two of the most important cultural theorists of our time. ISBN 1 85984 418 9

YOUNG BRECHT (THE) — Hans Otto Munsterer. Translated and introduced by Tom Kuhn and Karen Leeder. Preface by Michael Morley
"Munsterer’s 1963 book was important for the light it shed on Brecht’s formative years in Augsburg, but this present volume is more valuable than the original. Kuhn and Leeder’s translations are excellent and their research extremely informative." — Choice (USA)
BROOK, PETER

BETWEEN TWO SILENCES — Talking with Peter Brook. Edited by Dale Moffitt HB
The result of twelve hours of spontaneous question and answer sessions, this book shows Peter Brook responding to points raised by students and lecturers about his work and ideas. He discuses acting, directing, auditions, film versus the stage, his responses to the work of other theatre figures like Grotowski and Artaud, and the multiculturalism which characterizes his most recent work. ISBN 0 413 75580 0

CONVERSATIONS WITH PETER BROOK — 1970 –2000. Margaret Croyden
The author has followed Peter Brook’s career from the 1970 to the present, gaining unparalleled perspective on the evolution of his work. Throughout the interviews in this book, she uses that knowledge to elicit from Peter Brook some of his most insightful thoughts and deepest feelings about theatre and the world. ISBN 0 571 22172 6

THE EMPTY SPACE. Peter Brook
This book, based on a series of four university lectures, shows the depth of the humanity that underlies Peter Brook’s professionalism and throws new light on the great recent achievements of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

CHEKHOV, ANTON

THE ACTOR’S CHEKHOV — Nikos Psacharopoulos and the Company of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, on the Plays of Anton Chekhov. Written and edited by Jean Hackett
"Nikos was an inspired teacher, and a great director of Chekhov. It is a gift to have his words and thought recollected by his closet Williamstown family." Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club.

ARE YOU THERE, CROCODILE? Inventing Anton Chekhov. Michael Pennington
Michael Pennington’s highly acclaimed one-man stage show Anton Chekhov first appeared at the National Theatre, London. In Are You There, Crocodile?, Pennington retraces his search for identification with the great but elusive playwright and finds vivid and intimate insights. ISBN 1 84002 458 5

CHEKHOV: SCENES FROM A LIFE. Rosamund Bartlett
A century after his death Chekhov’s writing and world view are as acute as ever, and ripe for rediscovery. Affectionate yet dispassionate, Chekhov: Scenes from a Life restores humour and warmth to a man too often seen as merely melancholic, and reminds us why Raymond Carver described him as "the greatest short story writer who has ever lived". ISBN 0-7432-3075-2

THE CHEKHOV THEATRE — A Century of the Plays in Performance. Laurence Senelick
Many now consider Chekhov a playwright equal to Shakespeare, and this book studies how his reputation evolved, and how the presentation of his plays varied and altered from their initial productions in Russia to the most recent postmodern deconstructions of them.

CHEKHOV’S PLAYS — An Opening into Eternity. Richard Gilman
The author places the plays in the context of Russian and European drama and the larger culture of the period and, offering textual commentary and a discussion of stagecraft and dramaturgy, explores the reasons behind the enduring power of these works.

IF WE COULD ONLY KNOW! — An Interpretation of Chekhov. Vladimir Kataev. Translated from the Russian and Edited by Harvey Pitcher
In this luminous book of criticism, Chekhov’s foremost Russian interpreter offers to Western readers a remarkably clear and commanding appraisal of the master’s work. With ringing authority and critical common sense, the author examines Chekhov’s major tales, stories, and plays, pointing out patterns of development in Chekhov’s approach to characters and themes, tracing the roots of Chekhov’s ideas as expressed through his plots. No one who has endured tortuous explanations off Chekhov will fail to welcome Mr Kataev’s lucid criticism. ISBN 1 56663 523 3

PERFORMING CHEKHOV — David Allen
Performing Chekhov is a unique guide to Chekhov’s plays in performance. Drawing on extensive interviews with actors, directors and designers, it offers in-depth case studies of a number of significant, and often controversial, productions of Chekhov’s plays. It focuses on the work of key directors in Russia, America and England.

READING CHEKHOV — A Critical Journey. Janet Malcolm
To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov’s life and framed by an account of her own journey to Russia. ISBN 1 86207 635 9

SEEING CHEKHOV. Life and Art. Michael C. Finke
Seeing Chekhov is essential reading for students of Russian literature, devotees of the short story and modern drama, and anyone interested in the intersection of literature, psychology, and medicine. HB ISBN 0-8014-4315-6

UNDERSTANDING CHEKHOV A Critical Study Chekhov’s Prose and Drama. Donald Rayfield
This book by a leading British scholar, reveals the layers of meaning on which the stories and plays are built up. All the important layers works are studied: we see how closely the two genres are connected and gain insight into Checkov’s rapid development over his brief twenty years of creative life, from a medical student supplementing his income by writing comic stories, to the father of twentieth-century drama and narrative prose.

CHEKHOV, MICHAEL

MICHAEL CHEKHOV — Franc Chamberlain
This book — from the Routledge Performance Practitioners series — includes a biographical introduction to Chekhov’s life, a clear explanation of his key writings, an analysis of his work as a director and a practical guide to his unique actor-training exercises. ISBN 0 415 25878 2

CHRISTIE, AGATHA

AGATHA CHRISTIE — A Reader’s Companion. Vanessa Wagstaff and Stephen Poole
In this companion the authors have assembled a mouth-watering feast of period memorabilia — the jackets and binding of first editions, stills from television dramas, photographs of the places and buildings that Christie used as settings for her stories. They discuss each of her novels in chronological order of publication, with a summery of plot-line, bibliographical data, and background information on Christie’s own life at the time the book was written, an account of its reception by readers and the press, and details of subsequent films and TV series. ISBN 1 84513015 4 (HB)

THE COMPLETE CHRISTIE — An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia. Matthew Bunson
Simply the most comprehensive guide to the life and works of the immortal Dame Agatha Christie. Whether you’ve read every title in the Christie canon, or just discovered her writing, this entertaining and highly enjoyable tour of the vast world of mystery created by Christie reveals in delectable detail why the mystique, fascination, and brainteasing fun of the mysteries remain forever undiminished. Sixty illustrations include book covers and shots from the movies and stage productions. ISBN 0 671 02831 6.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AGATHA CHRISTIE. Charles Osborne
An excellent reference which examines not only the crime novels, but also everything else Agatha Christie published, including the non-fiction, the stories for children and the plays. Illustrated with photographs of her life and some of her stage and film productions.

CLUMAN, HAROLD

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF HAROLD CLUMAN — Six Decades of Commentary on Theatre, Dance, Music, Film, Arts and Letters. Edited by Marjorie Loggia and Glenn Young. HB/PB
A collection of over 600 of Cluman’s encounters with the most significant events in American theatre — as well as his regular passionate embraces of dance, music, art and film. A chronological view of American theatre seen through the eyes of our most extraordinary critic, and also the largest collection of criticism by a drama critic ever published in English.

COPEAU, JACQUES

JACQUES COPEAU — Biography of a Theater. Maurice Kurtz
The author here recreates the vitality Copeau imbued in theatre artists throughout the world. He conveys Copeau’s enthusiasm, the crusading spirit that enabled Copeau and his Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier to transform experimentation into tradition, into the heritage of civilization. He has written a biography of a theatre that was tremendously influential in Europe and America.

JACQUES COPEAU Mark Evans. Routledge Performance Practitioners
A leading figure in the development of twentieth century theatre practice, Jacques Copeau pioneered work on actor training. physical theatre and ensemble acting, and was a key mover innovator in the movement to de-centralise theatre and culture to the regions. ISBN 0 415 35435 8

COWARD, NOËL

COWARD THE PLAYWRIGHT. John Lahr
In five dextrously argued chapters, Lahr investigates all the major plays and many of Coward’s lesser known pieces. In them all, Lahr detects a coherent philosophy in which charm is both the subject of Coward’s comedies and the trap which made his very public life a perpetual performance.

LOOK BACK IN PLEASURE —Noël Coward Reconsidered. Edited by Joel Caplan and Sheila Stowell. HB
Theatre scholars, playwrights, actors and directors consider Coward’s contribution to modern British theatre, the importance of gender, class and nation in the shaping of his work, and the unique challenges his plays present the actors and audiences of today. ISBN 0 413 75500 2

THEATRICAL COMPANION TO COWARD — Raymond Mander, Joe Mitchenson. Updated by Barry Day, Sheridan Morley. HB
The definitive record of first performances and revivals of Coward’s plays, revues, shows and operettas from 1918 onwards, edited and updated for the centenary of Coward’s birth by Barry Day and Sheridan Morley.

CRAIG, GORDON

CRAIG ON THEATRE. Edited by J. Michael Walton
This volume — a companion to Brecht on Theatre and Artaud on Theatre — presents the essence of Gordon Craig’s ideas. Included are not only the key sections of his most influential book, On the Art of the Theatre, but also essays from a variety of sources.

DODIN, LEV

LEV DODIN — Journey Without End. Reflections and Memoirs. PLATONOV observed: Rehearsal Notes. Foreword by Peter Brook
Lev Dodin, Artisitc Director of the remarkable and acclaimed Russian ensemble the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg, is considered by many to be amongst the greatest theatre directors in the world. Journey Without End is the first publication of his writing in English. The collection includes Dodin’s articles, memoirs and lectures that offer a rare insight into his work, professional relationships and views on theatre. ISBN 0 9542944 2 4

DRYDEN, JOHN

GENDER, THEATRE, AND THE ORIGINS OF CRITICISM. From Dryden to Manley. Marcie Frank
The author explores the theoretical and literary legacy of John Dryden to number of prominent women writers of the time. Marcie Frank examines the pre-eminence of gender, sexuality, and the theatre in Dryden’s critical texts that are predominantly rewritings of the work of his own literary precursors —Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, and Milton. She proposes that Dryden develops a native literary tradition that is passed on as an inheritance to his heirs — Aphra Behn, Catherine Trotter, and Delarivier Manley — as well as their male contemporaries. ISBN 0 521 81810 9. HB

THE JUST AND THE LIVELY. The Literary Criticism of John Dryden. Michael Werth Gelber
John Dryden is the father of English literary criticism. In this book, the author provides the first complete study of that criticism since Dryden’s death almost three hundred years ago. ISBN 0 7190 6142 3

EUPHEUS

EUPHEUS: THE ANATOMY OF WIT AND EUPHUES AND HIS ENGLAND. John Lyly. An Annotated, modern-spelling edition. Edited by Leah Scragg
These works created a literary sensation in their own time and had a profound influence on Elizabethan prose. This modern-spelling edition of the two works is designed to allow the twenty-first reader access to the culturally significant text and to explore the fascination that it exerted. ISBN 0 7190 6458 9 HB

EURIPIDES

EURIPIDES: HIPPOLYTUS. Sophie Mills
The Hippolytus is generally acknowledged to be one of Euripides’ finest tragedies, for the construction of its plots, its use of language and its memorable characterisations of Phaedra and Hippolytus. Furthermore, it asks serious and disturbing questions about the influence of divinity on human lives. Sophie Mills considers these and many other themes in detail, setting the play in its mythological, cultural and historical contexts. ISBN 0 7156 2974 3

EURIPIDES: MEDEA — William Allan
Euripides’ Medea is one of the greatest and most influential Greek tragedies. This book outlines the development of the Medea myth before Euripides and explores his uniquely powerful version from various angles. ISBN 0 7156 3187 X

OXFORD READINGS IN CLASSICAL STUDIES — EURIPIDES. Judith Mossman
This volume aims to bring together for students some classical essays illustrating the main strands of Euripidean criticism over the last forty years. ISBN 0 19 872184 6

FO, DARIO & RAME, FRANCA

DARIO FO: PEOPLE’S COURT JESTER — Tony Mitchell
A succinct examination of how Fo has caught the imagination of millions, charting the development of the phenomenon, from his early days in radio, through his "bourgeois period", to his later rejection of this in favour of a political theatre in which he can command audiences large enough to fill a football stadium.

DARIO FO — Revolutionary Theatre — Tom Behan
This is the first biography of Dario Fo to explore the "Fo phenomenon" by focusing specifically on his political beliefs. Drawing on unpublished archive material and oral interviews, Tom Behan traces Fo’s life and work from his beginnings in cabaret and mime in postwar Italy and his early writings for television and radio, to the development of his political ideas and the influence of his plays both inside and outside Italy. He examines the issues that have made his plays so popular.

DARIO FO & FRANCA RAME — Harlequins of the Revolution. Joseph Farrell. HB
This biography is written with full access to both Dario and Franca, and examines the life and work of both Dario and Franca, and examines the life and work of both in a unique relationship which draws its strength from the old Italian traditions of the harlequin and commedia dell’arte, and transforms them into uniquely powerful and popular instruments of contemporary political theatre. ISBN 0 413 70910 8

DARIO FO AND FRANCA RAME — Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame Cambridge, 28-30 April 2000
The research papers include Puppets and Marionettes in the Theatre of Dario Fo; Franca Rame: Pedestal, Megaphone or Giullaressa; Directing Fo in the UK; British Anarchists: Fo in Translation; Dario Fo and Franca Rame in the 1990s; Playing Monologue. ISBN 0 906305 11 X

GENET, JEAN

GENET — Edmund White
This most enigmatic of writers has found his ideal biographer in novelist Edmund White, whose eloquent and often poignant chronicle does justice to the unruly narrative of genet’s life even as it maps the various worlds in which he lived and the perverse landscape of his imagination. ISBN 0 099 45007 0

JEAN GENET — Stephen Barber. With and introduction by Edmund White
This new short biography and critical work cuts directly to the essence of Genet’s life, a life of extraordinary spectacle that was always profoundly entangled with his work. Stephen Barber emphasizes those elements that made Genet’s life particularly inspirational in the 1960s and which continue to make it vital for us today. ISBN 1 86189 178 4

GILMAN, RICHARD

THE DRAMA IS COMING NOW The Theater Criticism of Richard Gilman.
1961 — 1991. Foreword by Gordon Rogoff
Presented here is the first collection in more than three decades of the writings of one of America’s finest drama critics. Richard Gilman chronicles a major period in American theater history — the 1960’s to the 1990’s which witnessed the birth or spread of Off-Broadway, regional theater, non profit companies, and avant-garde performance, as well as growing interest in plays by women and minorities in world drama. HB ISBN 0-300-10046-9

HENLEY, BETH

THE PLAYS OF BETH HENLEY — A Critical Study. Gene A. Plunka
The first critical study of Henley’s complete plays including a brief account of Henley’s
childhood and career. ISBN 0 7864 2081 2

HORTON, FOOTE

HORTON FOOTE AND THE THEATER OF INTIMACY. Gerald C. Wood. HB
" Respecting historical fact and the raw experience of real life,[Foote] nevertheless transforms those details and facts into his personal theatre of intimacy. In his dramas everyone is an orphan on an imaginary Texas landscape marked by separation and isolation. Too often his characters ignore their common reality, living as if they did not share this dark bond. Instead they build political systems that magnify the disconnection, and they deny their responsibilities to themselves and others. But the writer also imagines a loving female presence who eternally offers connection, a way home to peace and contentment. By choosing intimacy, his characters find the strength to manage fear and courage to face the dying of light." — Gerald C. Wood, from Hotrod Foote and the Theater of Intimacy

FORNES, MARIA

CONDUCTING A LIFE — Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Fornes. Edited by Maria M. Delgado and Caridad Svich
A collection of reminiscences, homages, tributes, and work journals tracing the life and work of master playwright-director-teacher Maria Irene Fornes presented in a hypertext fashion. Represented are performers, designers, and producers over the years, playwrights who have studied Fornes and describe writing exercises and master classes, as well as critics and scholars who provide contextual narratives about Fornes’ impact and influences on generations of American and world theatre. ISBN 1 57525 204 X.

THE THEATRE OF MARIA IRENE FORNES — Ed. by Marc Robinson
Along with Fornes’s own engaging commentary on playwriting and the creative process, the anthology includes critical essays on her work with the Judson Poets Theatre and The Open Theatre in the 1960s, her shift to greater psychological and formal complexity in the late 1970s, the lyric politics of her theatre from the 1980s, and the metatheatricality of her plays from the 1990s

FOX, GEORGE L.

THE AGE AND STAGE OF GEORGE L. FOX 1825-1877. Laurence Senelick
The author’s biography of the Panto clown Laff Fox, renowned in his time as America’s funniest performer, brings this most popular and most tragic legend to life. In his new essay to this expanded edition, the author draws upon recent discoveries and insights to further animate Fox’s remarkable career.

FRAYN, MICHAEL

THE ADDITIONAL MICHAEL FRAYN. Michael Frayn
One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing newspaper columns since 1959. This book, a complement to the highly successful Original Michael Frayn incorporates the Speak After the Beep collection, originally published to huge acclaim and broadcast on Radio 4. It also includes a selection of Frayn’s favourites from over the years, including "Brought to Book", his defence against a charge of plagiarism brought after his novel Headlong was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize.

CELIA’S SECRET — An Investigation. Michael Frayn and David Burke
One day during the run of Michael Frayn’s play Copenhagen, a curious letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded pages of barely legible German which she thought might have some relevance to the mystery at the play’s heart. They turn out to mark the start of a long and winding trail, taken up by Michael Frayn and the actor David Burke.

THE ORIGINAL MICHAEL FRAYN — ‘The Master of Comic Form’ James Fenton
This classic collection contains the best and funniest pieces of his work, selected and introduced by James Fenton.

UNDERSTANDING MICHAEL FRAYN. Merritt Moseley.
Michael Frayn has garnered widespread critical acclaim and a number of literary honors for his work as a journalist, playwright, novelist, philosopher and translator. Merritt Moseley introduces readers to the accomplishments of one of Britain’s most versatile writers. HB ISBN 978 1 57003 627 9

FRIEL, BRIAN

ABOUT FRIEL — The Playwright and the Work. Tony Coult
Teacher and playwright Tony Colt has put together a wide-ranging choice of material which gives equal emphasis to the study of Friel’s work and the all-important lived experience of the practitioners who put that work on stage. This stimulating dossier of interviews with the author and others provides a unique and accessible resource. If you want to read just one book on Brian Friel and the titanic power of his work, this is it. ISBN 0 571 20164 4

THE ACHIEVEMENT OF BRIAN FRIEL. Edited by Alan Peacock
This book demonstrates, linguistically allusively, and in terms of its broad transcultural analogising, how Friel’s work ranges widely. He utilises ideas and terminologies drawn from various cultural sources and academic disciplines. He addresses the variety and complexity of Friel’s drama by bringing to bear a range of academic and other professional and creative approaches in order to highlight particular aspects of his work and thought.

BRIAN FRIEL’S (POST) COLONIAL DRAMA — Language, Illusion. and Politics. F.C. Mc Grath HB
An important, accessible, scholarly introduction, this book illustrates how Friel playfully subverts the English language and transcends British influence. Friel’s reality is constructed from personal fiction, and it is his liberating response to oppression

GREENWICH EXCHANGE STUDENT GUIDE TO THE STAGECRAFT OF BRIAN FRIEL. David Grant
David Grant’s study of the stagecraft of Brian Friel results from many years of professional association with the Irish playwright’s work. The Student Guide explores the dramatic and cultural significance of Friel’s vision in Ireland, the ways in which the plays might be interpreted on the stage and a synoptic view of his contribution to the theatre. Of special interest is grant’s inclusion of theatrical workshops to enhance our understanding of Friel’s craft. ISBN 1 871551 74 9

FUGARD, ATHOL

ATHOL FUGARD — Writers and Their Work. Dennis Walder
Athol Fugard is widely recognized as one of the most important living dramatists, a total man of the theatre, whose work — individually and in collaboration with his black South African colleagues — has demonstrated the potential of art to bear witness to some of the most extreme events of our time. In this comprehensive critical study of his career over five decades, Dennis Walder asks how successfully the South African playwright’s work continues the search for reconciliation and harmony in a country still haunted by its terrible past. ISBN 0 7463 0948 1

THE DRAMATIC ART OF ATHOL FUGARD — From South Africa to the World. Albert Wertheim
" Albert Wertheim’s study of Fugard’s plays is both extremely insightful and beautifully written — a book that held my attention to the end. It was a pleasure to read! Wertheim succeeds in community the greatness of Fugard as a playwright, actor, and director. He also conveys well that what Fugard has learned from other plays and dramatists. Thus, he places Fugard’s works not so much in a South African context as in a theatrical context. He also illuminates his interpretations with the help of Fugard’s manuscripts, previously available only in South Africa. This book is aimed not only at teachers, students, scholars, and performers of Fugard but also at the person who simply loves going to see a Fugard play at the theatre." — Nancy Topping Bazin, Eminent Scholar and Professor Emerita, Old Dominion University. ISBN 0 253 21504 8

GINKAS, KAMA

PROVOKING THEATRE — Kama Ginkas Directs. Kama Ginkas and John Freedman
Through John Freedman’s format of "question and monologues" Ginkas illuminates the dynamics of his creative process. He offers no simple formulas, yet his lively discussions reveal the secrets of the master creator. ISBN 1 57525 332 1

GLASPELL, SUSAN

SUSAN GLASPELL. Essays on Her Theatre and Fiction. Edited by Linda Ben-Zvi
This book is the first collection devoted to the study of the body of Glaspell’s work. Essays by leading playwrights and scholars provide an array of perspectives on the writer and her work. The book features the first complete Glaspell bibliography, including original reviews of her plays and fiction and recent critical studies of her writing. ISBN 0 472 08438 0

SUSAN GLASPELL HER LIFE AND TIMES. Linda Ben-Zvi
"Once ranked with Shaw and O’Neill, the prolific and pioneering American playwright and novelist Susan Glaspell, winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize, has disappeared from standard literary history. Linda Ben-Zvi’s fascinating critical biography of Glaspell restores an important American writer to twentieth-century cultural history. Move over, Millay!"—Elaine Showalter, Princeton University HB ISBN 0-19-511506-6

SUSAN GLASPELL IN CONTEXT — American Theatre, Culture, and Politics 1915-48. J. Ellen Gainor
Susan Glaspell in Context not only informs readers about the dramatic works of this key American author but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical climates in which Glaspell’s dramas were created: the worlds of Greenwich Village and Provincetown bohemia, of the American frontier, of American modernism. ISBN 0 472 03010 8

GRAY, SIMON

AN UNNATURAL PURSUIT AND OTHER PIECES — Simon Gray
Primarily a transcript of the diary kept by Simon Gray during the staging of his recent play The Common Pursuit, this record of the production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, is self-analytical, witty, painful, and wonderfully observed.

GROTOWSKI, JERZY

GROTOWSKI SOURCEBOOK. Edited by Richard Schechner and Lisa Wolford. HB
The first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of the phases of Jerzy Grotowski’s long and multi-faceted career. It assembles materials that have appeared in diverse publications and languages over a period of more than thirty years.

HALL, PETER

MAKING AN EXHIBITION OF MYSELF — The Autobiography of Peter Hall
Sir Peter Hall is one of the greatest theatre, film and opera directors of our time. At the age of 29 he founded the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1973 he became Director of the National Theatre and opened the new theatres on the South Bank. He later founded the Peter Hall Company, producing many West End and Broadway successes. This is his story. ISBN 1 84002 115 2

HAMPTON, CHRISTOPHER

HAMPTON ON HAMPTON — Edited by Alistair Owen
Since his acclaimed first play in 1966, Christopher Hampton has amassed over 50 credits in theatre, film and television. From his best-known play, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, to personal and critical favourites like Total Eclipse and Tales from Hollywood; from his films as writer-director (Carrington) to his work as screenwriter-for-hire (The Quiet American), Hampton eloquently and entertainingly discusses a career which puts him among Britain’s most prominent but least predictable playwrights. ISBN 0 571 21418 5

HANSBERRY, LORRAINE

LORRAINE HANSBERRY -— Award-Winning Playwright and Civil Rights Activist. By Susan Sinnott
Hansberry was just twenty-nine years old when her play A Raisin in the Sun opened in 1959 — an era when her very existence as a black, female writer was considered unusual. The play was an overnight sensation, earning its author the double distinction of being the youngest playwright and first black person to win the New York drama Critics’ Circle Award.

SPARKNOTES.
SparkNotes are created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school. Each SparkNote contains Complete Plot Summary and Analysis; Key Facts about the Work; Author’s Historical Context; Analysis of Major Characters, Suggested Essay Topics; Themes, Motifs, and Symbols; 25-Question Review Quiz; Explanation of Important Quotations.
A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry. ISBN 1 58663 455 0

HARE, DAVID

ABOUT HARE — The Playwright and the Work. Richard Boon
Professor Richard Boon provides an in-depth critical study of one of the great post-war British playwrights. With a rigorous analysis of Hare’s work to date, plus new interviews with the playwright and other practitioners, Professor Boon presents a complete guide to the writer and his plays. With the increasing interest in this major playwright, whose work attracts the very best of acting talent, this book is a timely publication for student and theatregoer alike. ISBN 0 571 21429 0

DAVID HARE — Acting Up
Hare’s hilarious diary of his experience on both sides of the Atlantic tells of his difficulties in coming to terms with his frightening change of career, but also grapples with more serious questions about what the difference is between acting and performance, whether anyone can learn to do either.

OBEDIENCE, STRUGGLE & REVOLT. David Hare.
Bringing to the lectern the same gift for the essential for which his plays are known, Hare presents the distilled result of a lifetime’s sustained thinking about art and politics.
ISBN 0-571-22872- 0. HB

THE PLAYS OF DAVID HARE. Carol Homden
This is the first full-length survey of one of the leading playwrights of the post-war generation. Through his career as playwright, filmmaker and director, David Hare has been at the forefront of modern theatre, and his work is frequently seen as a reflection of the contemporary political and social environment of Britain. In this analysis Homden identifies the key themes which dominated and influenced his plays including his most recent work, the trilogy of plays Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges and The Absence of War.

HAVEL, VACLAV

ACTS OF COURAGE — VACLAV HAVEL’s LIFE IN THE THEATRE. Carol Rocamora
This book tells the dramatic story of Vaclav Havel’s in the theatre during three dark decades under Communism and the extreme risks that he and many others took to perform his works. Havel’s ten full-length plays and seven one-act plays are also discussed. IBSN 57525 344 5 1

IBSEN, HENRIK

HENRIK IBSEN AND THE BIRTH OF MODERNISM.Art, Theater, Philosophy Toril Moi.
One hundred years after Ibsen’s death, Toril Moi presents a radical new appraisal. Ibsen is here an astonishing innovator; a powerful influence on a generation of European writers; a painter and philosopher whose clear-eyed chronicling of relationships overturned idealism, the dominant aesthetic of his age. Henrik Ibsen and theBirth of Modernism rewrites nineteenth-century literary history, placing Ibsen in his rightful place alongside Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Manet as a founder of European modernism. HB ISBN 0 19 92987 5

IBSEN — THE DRAMATURGY OF FEAR. Micheal Goldman
In this wide ranging study, the author focuses on many features of Henrik Ibsen’s dramaturgy that have been overlooked or underappreciated. Goldman looks at the dramatist’s unsettling dialogue, driving plots, and radically new demands on the actor, then explores the impact on the audience when Ibsen’s powerful vision takes effect. With considerable attention to Peer Gynt, A Doll’s House, The wild Duck, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder, and Little Eyolf, Goldman examines characteristic moments of crisis and crucial similarities of language, as well as Ibsen’s continuing grip on the contemporary imagination.

THE IBSEN CYCLE — The Design of the Plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken. Brian Jonston. (revised edition)
" ... the single most provocative and critically exciting book of Ibsen criticism in decades and will most likely alter significantly the course of Ibsen criticism." Choice

IBSEN’S DRAMA — Right Action and Tragic Joy. C. Theoharis
This book is a groundbreaking piece of work that will change the way Ibsen is currently viewed and engender even more debate about this most influential master of modern drama. This work of criticism situates Ibsen and his plays within the entire sweep of western culture.

IBSEN’S LIVELY ART — A Performance Study of Major Plays. Frederick J. Marker & Lise-Lone Marker. ISBN 0 521 61924 6

SPARKNOTES.
SparkNotes are created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school. Each SparkNote contains Complete Plot Summary and Analysis; Key Facts about the Work; Author’s Historical Context; Analysis of Major Characters, Suggested Essay Topics; Themes, Motifs, and Symbols; 25-Question Review Quiz; Explanation of Important Quotations.
A Doll’s House. Henrik Ibsen. ISBN 1 58663 459 3

IONESCO, EUGÉNE

COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH AND STUDY GUIDE BLOOM’S MAJOR DRAMATISTS.
These research and study guides are the perfect introduction to critical analysis of the most poplar dramatists today. Each book covers three to six plays, offering a variety of viewpoints by different critics on the important aspects of each work, Each volume also includes an editor’s note and introduction by Harold Bloom, author’s biography, plot summery, extracts of major critical essays, extensive bibliography, index of themes and ideas. Eugène Ionesco — Edited and With an Introduction by Harold Bloom. ISBN 0 7910 7037 9. (HB)

JONSON, BEN

BEN JONSON AND POSSESSIVE AUTHORSHIP Joseph Loewenstein
In this book, Joseph Loewenstein describes the fragmentary and eruptive emergence of a key phase of the bibliographical ego, especially Early Modern form of authorial identification with printed writing. ISBN 0-521-81217-8

BEN JONSON AND THEATRE. Performance, Practice and Theory. Richard Cave, Elizabeth Schafer and Brian Woolland. HB/PB
This book includes discussions with and between practitioners, essays on the staging of the plays and edited transcripts of interviews with contemporary practitioners. This radical re-evaluation of Jonson’s theatre is original and innovative in both form and content. It explores the vibrant relationships between actors, directors and academics on their approaches to Jonson.

BEN JONSON’S PLAYS AND MASQUES. A Norton Critical Edition — Selected and Edited by Richard Harp.
Each Play and Masque is accompanied by textual annotations. New to this edition is a section on "Backgrounds and Sources," which gives selections from some of the principal texts that influenced Volopone and The Alchemist, such as those by William Caxton, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Erasmus. Also included is helpful material about the history of alchemy. ISBN 0 393 97638 6

KANE, SARAH

"LOVE ME OR KILL ME" — SARAH KANE AND THE THEATRE OF EXTREMES. Graham Saunders
This book is the first study of the most significant British dramatist in post-war theatre. It covers all Kane’s major plays and productions, contains hitherto unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her continuing influence after her tragic early death. Locating the main dramatic sources and features of her work, as well as centralising her place within the "new wave" of emergent British dramatists in the 1990s, the author provides an introduction for those unfamiliar with her work. ISBN 0 7190 5956 9

KANYOR, TADEUSZ

ENCOUNTERS WITH TADEUSZ KANTOR. Krzysztof Miklaszewski.Translator and Editor: George Hyde.
This unique set of reminiscences, written by one of the actors who worked closely with Kantor over a long period of time, ranges from the anecdotal to the theoretical. Kantor’s work offers some of the most disconcerting allegories of Modernism and a quintessential expression of the unconscious during a bitter period of human history. Kantor’s stern but affectionate guardianship of his troupe of travelling players comes off Miklaszewski’s pages with warmth, humanity and humour. ISBN 0-415-37263-1


KENNEDY, ADRIENNE

THE ADRIENNE KENNEDY READER — Introduction by Werner Sollors
This is the first comprehensive collection of Kennedy’s most important works traces the development of her unique theatrical oeuvre. More recent prose writings and a new introduction by Werner Sollors complete this valuable collection by one of our greatest living playwrights. ISBN 0 8166 3603 6

KUREISHI, HANIF

DREAMING AND SCHEMING — Reflections on Writing and Politics. Hanif Kureishi
This book collects together the very best of the non-fiction writings by Hanif Kureishi over the past fifteen years. These include political essays; diaries and accounts of his many collaborations in the fields of film and television ( My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, London Kills Me, The Buddha of Suburbia, My Son the Fanatic, Intimacy); reflections on the influence of his father; analyses of both the craft and the job of writing; and above all, explorations of haw the life of the mind expresses itself in creative endeavours. ISBN 0 571 21434 7

KUSHNER, TONY

THE THEATRE OF TONY KUSHNER. LIVING PAST HOPE. James Fisher
The Theatre of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the life and works of one of America’s most important contemporary playwrights. Fisher examines all of Krushner’s full-length, one-act, and adapted works to illuminate his progressive politics, his techniques and themes, and his place in American and international drama. ISBN 0 415 94271 3

TONY KUSHNER IN CONVERSATION — Ed. by Robert Vorlicky
This collection of interviews with Tony Kushner traces his phenomenal success and his maturing artistic and political vision. The young playwright’s eloquence, wit, and strong moral convictions continue to engage and impress audiences as he speaks out on issues ranging from art and sexuality to American politics and social justice.

LECOQ, JACQUES

JACQUES LECOQ — Routledge Performance Practitioners. Simon Murray
This volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth-and twenty-first-century performance. Lecoq’s influence on the theatre of the latter half of the twentieth century cannot be overestimated. This book combines an historical introduction to his life and the context in which he worked; an analysis of his teaching methods and principles of body work, movement, creativity and contemporary theatre; detailed studies of the work of Théâtre de Complicité and Mummenschanz; practical exercises demonstrating Lecoq’s distinctive approach to actor training. ISBN 0 415 25882 0

LEPAGE, ROBERT

THEATER SANS FRONTIERES — Essays on the Dramatic Universe of Robert Lepage. Ed by Joseph I. Donohoe Jr. and Jane M. Koustas

LITTLEWOOD, JOAN

ROUTLEDGE PERFORMANCE PRACTITIONERS: JOAN LITTLEWOOD Nadine Holdsworth.
A theatrical and cultural innovator, Joan Littlewood’s contribution to theatre made a huge impact on the way in which theatre was generated, rehearsed and presented during the twentieth century. ISBN 0 415 33887 5

LORCA, FEDERICO GARCIA

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA. David Johnstone
The author takes us from Lorca’s early years in Granada, when his writing is at its most troubled and confessional through the personal and artistic trauma of his visit to New York at the time of the wall street crash, to his murder at the hands of Nationalist forces in Granada in 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was flaring.

GARCIA LORCA — FOR BEGINNERS. Luis Martinez Cuitiño. Illustrated by Delia Cancela
The author analyses Lorca’s work within the context of his life — a life filled with passion and drama — while Delia Cancela’s illustrations compliment the text by recreating the line and style of Fedrico’s own drawings. ISBN 0 86316 290 8

LORCA — Living in the Theatre. Gwynne Edwards
This study of all Lorca’s plays examines the ways in which the dramatist’s life was transformed into high art through influences as varied as Surrealism and Greek tragedy.
ISBN 0 7206 1148 2 (HB)

McGRATH, JOHN

FREEDOM’S PIONEER — John McGrath’s Work in Theatre, Film and Television. Edited by David Bradby and Susanna Capon. Foreword by Richard Eyre
Freedom’s Pioneer defines the importance of John McGrath’s role in the development of theatre, film, and television in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Through play and script-writing, through directing, producing and co-ordinating work, and through his critical, political and philosophical reflections, McGrath exerted a powerful influences over developments and innovations in all three art forms. ISBN 0 85989 749 4

MAMET, DAVID

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO DAVID MAMET — Edited by Christopher Bigsby
This collection of specially written essays offers both student and theatregoer a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists working today. The volume covers the full range of Mamet’s writing, as well as his films. Additional chapters also explore Mamet and acting, Mamet as director, his fiction, and a survey of Mamet criticism. This companion is an introduction which will prepare the reader for future work by this important and influential writer. ISBN 0 521 89468 9

DAVID MAMET IN CONVERSATION. Ed by Leslie Kane
David Mamet in Conversation collects interviews with the playwright that offers readers insight into his life in the theatre, his artistic vision, and the evolution of his craft. The interviewers help followers of his work better understand the sensibilities that have informed his work in drama, film, and prose over a twenty-five-year career. ISBN 0 472 06764 8

DAVID MAMET — Three Uses of the Knife, on the Nature and Purpose of Drama.
Renowned playwright, screenwriter, poet and essayist David Mamet explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. A celebration of the ties that bind art to life. Three Uses of the Knife will enthral anyone who has sat anxiously waiting for the curtain to give way to Act One. ISBN 0 413 77133 4. HB

DAVID’S MAMET’S GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS — Text and Performance Edited by Leslie Kane
These original writings present timely and provocative thinking on David Mamet’s Pulitzer- prize winning play and screen play, and substantially advance our understanding of this seminal dramatist. The commentaries take diverse critical approaches to feminism, pernicious nostalgia, the discourse of anxiety, and Mamet’s vision of America. The collection also includes an exclusive interview with Sam Mendes, director of the recently acclaimed revival of Glengarry in London.

HOW GOOD IS DAVID MAMET, ANYWAY? — Writings on Theatre and Why it Matters. John Heilpern
"John Heilpern is truly rare. His reviews are generous, open-hearted and smart, without being effusive— tough and incisive without being mean. And ever present is his love for the theatre and respect for the people who make it" George C. Wolf

MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE — Edited by Patrick Cheney
This provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls that Marlowe was an inventor of the English history play (Edward II) and if Ovidian narrative verse (Hero and Leander), as well as being author of such masterpieces of tradgedy and lyric as Doctor Faustus. Seventeen leading scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters, and the volume includes a chronology of Malowe’s life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter. ISBN 0 521 52734 1

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE — A Literary Life. Lisa Hopkins. HB
This study begins with a brief overview of Marlowe’s works, moving on to look at his early life and education, demonstrating how the influences of these are found in his works. His seven plays and his one major poem are dealt with in the context of his overall literary career, and the long and sometimes spectacular afterlife of his works and reputation is
examined.

A COMPANION TO RENAISSANCE DRAMA — Edited by Arthur F. Kinney
In its pages, today’s best Renaissance scholars chart the cross-currents of belief and daily experiences that illuminate the meaning of the works by Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, or Webster, as it has changed over time, place, and audience. The contributors explain why the plays do or say what they do, and raise provocative possibilities of what the plays might have said to Tudor and Stuart playgoers by discussing values, attitudes, and the material conditions of performance, along with the lives and particular ideas of individual playwrights. ISBN 1 4051 2179 3

MARLOWE AND THE POPULAR TRADITION — Innovation in the English Drama before 1595. Ruth Lunney
This book explores Marlowe’s engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s. It offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response, as well as providing a new account of the English drama in these important but largely neglected years. ISBN 0 7190 6118 0

MARLOWE — Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks). Edited by Avraham Oz
This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of essays on Marlow’s major plays. Articles from the last two decades by leading critics of English early modern drama provide a variety of fresh, controversial and enlightening critical perspectives on five of Marlowe’s plays: Tamburlaine the Great Parts one and Two, The Jew of Malta, Doctor Faustus, and Edward II. ISBN 0 333 62499 8

MARLOWE: The Plays. Analysing Texts. Steve Simian
Marrow’s four major works (Doctor Fasts, Edward II, and The Jew of Malta and Timberline) are remarkable pieces of theatre, daring explorations of the nature of kingship, salvation and damnation, sexuality, and ethnic prejudice. This book looks in depth at extracts from each of the plays, exploring them in parallel to uncover key concerns, including heroes and anti-heroes, gender, and power and politics. This book also investigates Marrow’s style: his use of rhythm, the complexities and richness of his poetry, and his evolving development of "Character". ISBN 0 333 92240 9

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Doctor Faustus. Christopher Marlowe. ISBN 1 58663 508 5

THE WORLD OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE — David Riggs
Marlowe’s brief life was enigmatic, contradictory and glorious — and this magisterial work of reconstruction and scholarship illuminates it with immense richness.
"Meticulously researched, full of new insights, and presents a compelling and compassionate portrait of this troubled young genius," Charles Nicholl, author of The Reckoning and Leornardo da Vinci ISBN 0 571 22160 2

MARSTON, JOHN

THE DRAMA OF JOHN MARSTON — Edited by T.F. Whatnot. HB
Four hundred years after the death of John Marten this collection of critical essays on his work by leading scholars in the early modern field discovers, in the de-centred, hilarious, but unsettling work of this idiosyncratic Renaissance dramatist, an uncannily post-modern voice.

McDONAGH, MARTIN

THE THEATRE OF MARTIN McDONAGH. A World of Savage Stories. Edited by Lilian Chambers and Eamonn Jordan.
This collection of essays is a vital and significant response to the many challenges set by McDonagh for those involved in the production and reception of his work.
The volume brings together critics and commentators from around the world, who assess the work from a diverse range of often provocative approaches. What is not surprising is the focus and commitment of the engagement, given the controversial and stimulating nature of the work. ISBN 1 904505 19 8

MEYERHOLD, VSEVOLOD

VSEVOLOD MEYERHOLD — Routledge Performance Practitioners Jonathan Pitches
This volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth-and twenty-first-century performance. It combines a biographical introduction to Meyerhold’s life; a clear explanation of his theoretical writings; an analysis of his masterpiece production Revisor, or The Government Inspector; a comprehensive and usable description of the " biomechanical’ exercises he developed for training the actor. ISBN 0 415 25884 7

MILLER, ARTHUR

ARTHUR MILLER’S AMERICA — Theatre and Culture in a Time of Change. Edited by Enoch Brater
This volume collects original writing by a remarkable group of critics, scholars, and theatre practitioners on Arthur Miller, America’s greatest living playwright. Written on the occasion of Miller’s 85th year, the original essays and interviews collected here consider the breadth of Miller’s work. ISBN 0 472 11410 7 (HB)

ARTHUR MILLER — The Crucible in History and Other Essays
A repressive era in America history brought to life by America’s most celebrated dramatist. ISBN 0 413 74790 5

ARTHUR MILLER’S AMERICA. Theater & Culture in a Time of Change. Enoch Brater, Editor
This volume collects original essays and interviews on Arthur Miller, the greatest American playwright of the twentieth-century, by a remarkable group of critics, scholars, and theater practitioners. In reflecting the many dimensions of his work, this volume illustrates Arthur Miller’s long-standing commitment to forging a uniquely American theater. ISBN 0 472 03155 4

CONVERSATIONS WITH MILLER — Mel Gussow
Mel Gussow of the New York Times first meets Arthur Miller in 1963 during rehearsals for After the Fall, the play inspired by Miller’s marriage to Marilyn Monroe. They then meet regularly over the following forty years. This book records more than a dozen of these conversations, in which the author of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible is astonishing candid about everything from the personal to the political: his successes and disappointments in theatre, his role as an advocate of human rights, his staunch resistance to the United States Congressional witch hunts of the 1950s. He also speaks forthrightly about his relationship with Monroe. ISBN 1 85459 666 7

ECHOES DOWN THE CORRIDOR — Arthur Miller Collected Essays 1944 -2000. HB
43 essays by the author of The Crucible, A View from the Bridge and other 20th century classics. Topics covered include the Nazi war crimes trials; meeting Nelson Mandela; the subtle pleasures of gardening; the Brooklyn full of characters and jokers where he grew up … A humane, wise and powerful commentary on our age. ISBN 0 413 75690 4


THE THEATRE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR MILLER — Ed. and introduced by Robert A. Martin with a new foreword by Arthur Miller
" What Miller has to say about his work, about the American theatre, about politics, is well worth reading. He is one of the important writers of the mid-twentieth-century in America". Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

SPARKNOTES.
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The Crucible. Arthur Miller. ISBN 1 58663 369 4
Death of Salesman. Arthur Miller. ISBN 1 58663 409 7

MOLIÈRE

MOLIÈRE — A Theatrical Life. Virginia Scott.
The author traces Molière’s life, from his boyhood and Jesuit education at the Collège de Clermont through his theatrical career in Paris and as a vagabond actor in the provinces, to his days as a court dramatist under Louis XIV. Molar was a controversial playwright, striking out against hypocrisy in religion and medicine, and a cynical survivor of literacy, cultural, and marital wars. His relationships, public and private, with patrons, lovers, friends, and enemies inform his work and make for a fascinating life. ISBN 0 521 01238 4

THE PUBLIC MIRROR — Moliere and The Social Commerce of Depiction — Larry F. Norman
" The Public Mirror is a subtle and enlightening account of the interplay between Molar’s theatre and the images and self-images of its audiences; an account, as well, of the comparable characterising interplay that goes on the comedies themselves." Richard Wilbur, Former Poet Laureate of the United States

MÜLLER, HEINER

THE THEATRE OF HEINER MÜLLER — Jonathan Kalb
Jonathan Kalb analyzes Müller’s basic artistic method: taking on the mantle of other writers and inhabiting the "bodies" of their work like a vampire or a historically subversive virus. His artisitc- hosts include-among others, Brecht, Shakespeare, Artaud, Beckett, Genet and Wagner. Kalb’s intention is to illuminate Müller texts by showing how they relate to the writings of his carefully chosen alter egos. ISBN 0 87910 965 3

NOWRA, LOUIS

THE THEATRE OF LOUIS NOWRA — by Veronica Kelly
Nowra’s work is highly theatrical, blackly-comic and draws upon reference from Ovid and Shakespeare to horror movies and tabloid newspaper. In her compelling study Veronica Kelly draws out the sources of Nowra’s passionate, idiosyncratic vision and demonstrates how it reveals the turbulence at the root of Australian history of which the 1990s has seen the eruption.

O’CASEY, SEAN

ABOUT O’CASEY — the Playwright and the Work. Victoria Stewart
Dr Victoria Stewart considers the social and political situation into which O’Casey was born, and traces the path which led him to an association with theatre in the early 1920s, and the turns his career took after he made the decision to leave Ireland for good. Dr Stewart has compiled a dossier of interviews with O’Casey and others who worked with him, and she provides a clear and useful resource on the work of one of Ireland’s major writers. ISBN 0 571 20159 8

O’NEILL, EUGENE

EUGENE O’NEILL— Beyond Mourning and Tragedy. Stephan A. Black
In this enlightening psychoanalytic biography, Stephan Black presents a new understanding of Eugene O’Neill’s life (1888-1953), from his troubled childhood and adolescence through a glacially slow period of mourning for his family to his ultimate emergence from the preoccupation with grief and loss that had pervaded his life and his writings. Black argues that O’Neill consciously and deliberately used playwriting as a medium of self-psychoanalysis—an endeavour that led to the creation of some of the finest American plays ever written and, eventually, to a successful therapeutic outcome. ISBN 0 300 09399 3

EUGENE O’NEILL — A Playwright’s Theatre. Egil Törnqvist
After a description of O’Neill’s working conditions and the various audiences he addresses, this study examines the various formal aspects of the plays: titles, settings in time and place, names and addresses, language, and connections and allusions to other works. In a concluding part the structures of Bound East for Cardiff, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and A Touch of the Poet are examined. ISBN 0 7864 1713 7

EUGENE O’NEILL’S LAST PLAYS. Separating Art from Autobiography. Doris Alexander
This study draws on new and unprecedented research concerning the lives of Eugene O’Neill, his family, and his life more clearly than ever from the creations that were inspired by, and drew on, that life. ISBN 0-8203-2709-3 (HB)

ODETS, CLIFFORD

CLIFFORD ODETS — American Playwright. The Years from 1906-1940. Margaret Brenman-Gibson
" As a study of an American writer Dr. Gibson’s book may well be unparalleled for its thoroughness and insight into Clifford Odets up to his departure from Hollywood. It is a fascinating account of the Group Theatre as well, a failed attempt to create an American art theatre on the highest level but one which continues to challenge theatre people to this day." Arthur Miller ISBN 1 55783 457 1

OSBORNE, JOHN

DAMN YOU, ENGLAND— Collected Prose. By John Osborne
"And damn you, Osborne. More than 250 pages of rant and repetition of unfairness and festering feud, of absurdity and exaggeration, of myopic, misogynistic, maulin, mealy-mouthed meandering — and it all adds up to one of the most entertaining books likely to be published this year ... There are nuts-and-bolts stagecraft pieces that should be force-fed to drama students, so direct are the wisdoms they present." Richard Morrison, The Times

LOOKING BACK — Never Explain, Never Apologise. John Osborne
When John Osborne died Christmas 1994, his obituaries cited his autobiographical writings as perfect examples of undiluted talent and acerbic wit. Now, Osborne’s superb autobiographies, A Better Class of Person: 1929— 1956 and Almost a Gentleman: 1955— 1966 are available in one volume, Looking Back.

PINTER, HAROLD

ABOUT PINTER:THE PLAYWRIGHT & THE WORK. Mark Batty
ISBN 0-571-22005-3

HAROLD PINTER: A Celebration
In this tribute to Harold Pinter on his seventieth birthday, a number of people from theatre, television, radio and the worlds of cricket and political commentary have come together to celebrate the writer and the man in pieces written specially for this book. ISBN 0 571 20661 1

HAROLD PINTER — Various Voices. Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-1998. HB\PB
Pinter’s own selection of his prose, poetry and political writings. An essential companion to his plays.

PINTER — The Player’s Playwright. David T. Thompson. HB
Disclosing previously unknown facts about Pinter’s early career this throws light on his special theatrical qualities. It argues that Pinter’s experience of the contrasting world’s of classical, repertory and the alternative theatre fuses in his plays creating a link between Pinter’s art and his view of life.

PINTER IN THE THEATRE — Compiled and introduced by Ian Smith
This is the first book to focus on Harold Pinter as a man of the theatre — as an actor and a director, and as a playwright with an unrivalled practical experience of the way theatre works. Pinter’s understanding of his craft is revealed through interviews conducted over forty years and through conversations with fellow theatre practitioners. ISBN 1 85459 836 8 (HB)

PINTER THE PLAYWRIGHT. Martin Esslin.
Martin Esslin’s study of Pinter’s plays has become a standard work since its publication in 1970. This 6th edition has been updated to cover his most recent plays, Moonlight, Ashes to Ashes and Celebration. ISBN 0 413 66860 6

VARIOUS VOICES: PROSE, POETRY, and POLITICS-1948 — 2005. Harold Pinter
"Various Voices, the first collection of Pinter’s prose and poems to span his whole career, is a wonderful book that not only emphasises the versatility of his genius but also gives a portrait of the compassionate individual behind the myth of the difficult author."Times Educational Supplement. ISBN 0-571-23009-1

PIRANDELLO, LUIGI

COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH AND STUDY GUIDE BLOOM’S MAJOR DRAMATISTS.
These research and study guides are the perfect introduction to critical analysis of the most poplar dramatists today. Each book covers three to six plays, offering a variety of viewpoints by different critics on the important aspects of each work, Each volume also includes an editor’s note and introduction by Harold Bloom, author’s biography, plot summery, extracts of major critical essays, extensive bibliography, index of themes and ideas. Luigi Pirandello — Edited and With an Introduction by Harold Bloom. ISBN 0 7910 7036 0. (HB)

HER HUSBAND. Luigi Pirandello. Translated by Martha King and Mary Ann Frese
Translated here into English for the first time, Her Husband is Luigi (Six Characters in Search of an Author) Pirandello’s fifth novel. Profoundly entertaining, funny, bitingly satirical and tinged with anguish, it portrays the complexities of male-female relations in the context of a newly emerging, small but vocal Italian feminist movement. ISBN 0 8223 26000

SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR — PIRANDELLO. Plays in production. Jennifer Lorch
Since its explosive premiere in Rome in 1921, Six Characters in Search of an Author has gained worldwide recognition, Pirandello’s challenge to the very notion of stage representation was taken up by the leading directors of the time. The playwright incorporated details from the early performances into his revised text, which he directed himself in 1925. Jennifer Lorch examines the two texts in the contexts of different theatrical traditions and traces Pirandello’s growing awareness of the development of advanced theatrical facilities outside Italy. ISBN 0 521 64618 9

PRIESTLEY. J B

THE ART OF THE DRAMATIST AND OTHER WRITINGS ON THEATRE. J B Priestley
Combining incisive criticism with witty instruction, Priestley’s essays distil his long association with the Theatre, as playwright, producer, director and —just once —actor. He relates the history and contexts of Theatre, examines its role and value, and defends the unique experience of watching good dama played live on a stage. ISBN 1 84002 294 9

ROSTAND, EDMOND

SPARKNOTES.
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Cyrano de Bergerac. Edmond Rostand. ISBN 1 58663 507 7

RUSSELL, WILLY

WILLY RUSSELL — Shaun McCarthy
This book — from the Creative Lives series — tells the story of Liverpool playwright Willy Russell, with notes not only about his plays but about the social and political context in which they were written. Find out what inspired One for the Road, Stags and Hens, Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine — and, of course, the perennial favourite, Blood Brothers.
ISBN 0 431 14005 7

WILLY RUSSELL AND HIS PLAYS — John Gill
Includes an interview with Willy Russell.

SENECA

DUCKWORTH COMPANIONS TO GREEK AND ROMAN TRAGEDY
SENECA: PHAEDRA. Roland Mayer
Roland Mayer introduces the reader to the complex dramatic and literary inheritance which Seneca appropriated and in his turn bequeathed, and sets out some of the main lines of contemporary interpretation and performance practice. ISBN 0 7156 3165 9

THE PASSIONS IN PLAY: Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan Drama — Alessandro Schiesaro
The first monograph in English devoted to the most important of Seneca’s tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from Shakespeare to Antonin Artaud. ISBN 0 521 81801 X

SENECA: THYESTES — P.J. Davis.
Peter Davis argues that this play needs to be understood as the response of a major politician, philosopher and tragic poet to the increasingly tyrannical rule of the emperor. In this companion he explores key aspects of the play, including the circumstances of its composition, its performance history and its impact on subsequent dramatists, including Shakespeare and Jonson. ISBN 0 7156 3222 1

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD

BERNARD SHAW by Eric Bentley.
Featuring a new preface from Eric Bentley, this classic book reads as a fresh examination of Shaw that, as Bentley writes, disentangles "a credible man and artist from the mass of myth that surrounds him." A must for all who would consider Shaw’s place in history — theatrical, social, political and human — as well as the definitive introduction to the man it portrays. ISBN 1 55783 559 4

BERNARD SHAW — The Ascent of the Superman. Sally Peters
In this critical biography of the enigmatic man, the author explores Shaw’s background and beliefs, interests and obsessions, relationships with men and women, prose writings and dramatic art. Deciphering Shaw reveals his convoluted and extravagant inner life, studded with erotic secrets.

PLAYING JOAN — Actresses on the Challenge of Shaw’s Saint Joan. Twenty-Six Interviews by Holly Hill
Through interviews with international theatre artists who have performed the challenging role of St. Joan, this book provides the insights of the historical Joan, the Joan of Shaw’s play and the difficult choices involved. ISBN 0 930452 64 X

SHAW AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES — THEATRE ESSAYS. Ronald Bryden
This collection of forty essays is written by one of the foremost drama critics of the past half-century. With thirteen essays on Bernard Shaw and his plays, it represents a major new
contribution to Shaw studies. It also contains a section on Shaw’s contemporaries such as Chekhov, Noel coward and Eugene O’Neill, and a third section that deals mainly with British theatre in the 1960s.

SHEPARD, SAM

AMERICAN DREAMS — The Imagination of Sam Shepard. Ed. by Bonnie Marranca
This is a collection of over twenty articles and interviews with actors, directors and critics on the plays of Sam Shepard, America’s most important contemporary playwright. Included is a special section by Shepard on his own work.

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SAM SHEPARD
Edited by Matthew Roudane
A chronology of Shepard’s life and career, with biographical chapters and an interview with the playwright give a fascinating first-hand account of an exuberant and experimental personality who has exerted great influence on the contemporary stage.
ISBN 0 521 77766 6

COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH AND STUDY GUIDE BLOOM’S MAJOR DRAMATISTS. Sam Shepard — Edited and With an Introduction by Harold Bloom. ISBN 0 7910 7035 2. (HB)
These research and study guides are the perfect introduction to critical analysis of the most poplar dramatists today. Each book covers three to six plays, offering a variety of viewpoints by different critics on the important aspects of each work, Each volume also includes an editor’s note and introduction by Harold Bloom, author’s biography, plot summery, extracts of major critical essays, extensive bibliography, index of themes and ideas.

SAM SHEPARD. — Carol Rosen
This book focuses on the dynamic action and heightened theatricality which characterise the many plays written by this Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist. In a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of his career, Carol Rosen illuminates Shepard’s plays in both cultural and theatrical context. ISBN 0 333 38003 7

SAM SHEPARD AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE — Leslie A. Wade
Through an analysis of his life, plays, and screen roles, this book investigates how Shephard’s dramatic voice and film persona address issues of American consensus and community.

THE THEATRE OF SAM SHEPARD — States Of Crisis. Stephen J. Bottoms.
This comprehensive analysis traces Sam Shepherd’s career form his experimental one-act plays of the 1960s through the 1994 play Simpatico. Concentrating on his playwriting, this book charts Shepherd’s various developments and shifts of direction, and the changing contexts in which the work has appeared.

SIMON, NEIL

UNDERSTANDING NEIL SIMON — Susan Koprince. HB
In this guide to his work, Koprince provides an over of Simon’s career and in-depth analyses of his major plays. Koprince suggests that, in addition to — or in spite of — his unmatched commercial success as a writer of comedy, Simon qualifies as master dramatist of twentieth-century theatre. ISBN 1 57003 426 5

SONDHEIM, STEPHEN

READING STEPHEN SONDHEIM — A Collection of Critical Essays Ed by Sandor Goodhar
Sondheim expert Sandor Goddhart and an invited group of world-renowed scholars and critics discuss and analyze Sondheim’s major productions and themes using various critical methodologies — deconstruction, Marxism, formalism, psychoanalysis, historicism, and other postmodernist perspectives.




DUCKWORTH COMPANIONS TO GREEK AND ROMAN TRAGEDY. SOPHOCLES:ELECTRA. Michael Lloyd
Sophocles’ Electra deals with the story of Orestes’ vengeance on his mother Clytemnestra for her murder of his father Agamemnon. In this companion to the play Michael Lloyd discusses whether matricide is a just and final act of violence, or whether Sophocles ironically implies that it is more problematic than it seems.
ISBN 0-7156-3280-9

THE HERO AND THE CITY — An Interpretation of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. Joseph P. Wilson
Wilson’s study offers a radical rereading of the Oedipus’ riddle and concludes with a substantial discussion of the play’s (and playwright’s) role in providing a political and moral education for the troubled Athenian polis in the last decade of the tumultuous fifth century. ISBN 0 4722 08688 X

SOPHOCLES — OEDIPUS TYRANNUS. CAMBRIDGE TRANSLATIONS FROM GREEK DRAMA. Series Editors: John Harrison and Judith Affleck.
Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, which include suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play’s dramatic qualities. Useful features include: full synopsis of the play; commentary alongside translations for easy reference; comprehensive Introduction to Greek Theatre; time line to set the play in its historical context; guide to pronunciation of names, index of topics and themes. ISBN 0
521 01072 1

SOPHOCLES: PHILOCTETES. Hannah M. Roisman
This is an introduction to the play for students and lay readers. The well focused chapters on Greek theatre and performance, the mythical background, and the literary, intellectual, political context illuminate the issues with which the play grapples. Its persuasive analyses of the characters and plot shed light on the play’s complexities and ambiguities, making Sophocles’ great play accessible, enjoyable and meaningful to modern readers. ISBN 0-7156-3384-8

THE PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES. Classical World Series. A F Garvie
The Plays Of Sophocles aims to help readers to understand why Sophocles is still worth reading, or going to see in the theatre, in the twenty-first century, and to show how far Sophoclean scholarship has moved in recent decades from the once prevalent view that he was a pious religious conformist who had nothing very profound or original to say, but who said it very beautifully. ISBN 1-853-99680-7

STANISLAVSKY, KONSTANTIN

KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY — Bella Merlin
This book — from the Routledge Performance Practitioners series — includes an overview of Stanislavsky’s life history, an assessment of An Actor Prepares, a detailed commentary on his key 1898 production of The Seagull and an indispensable set of practical exercises for actors, teachers and directors.
ISBN 0 45145 25886 3


SCIENCE AND THE STANIISLAVSKY TRADITION OF ACTING. Jonathon Pitches.
Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting opens up the theatre laboratories of five major practitioners in the twentieth and twenty – first centuries and scrutinises their acting methodologies from a scientific perspective.HB ISBN 0-415-32907-8

GERTRUDE STEIN

MAMA DADA GERTRUDE STEIN’S AVANT- GARDE THEATER. Sarah Bay-Cheng.
Mama Dada argues for Gertrude Stein as a major playwright of the twentieth century through her developement of a unique playwriting aesthetic based in avant-garde drama, cinema, and queer identity. By examining and explaining the relationship among these three histories, the dramatic writings of Stein can best be understood, not only as examples of literary modernism, but also as influential dramatic works that have had a lasting effect on the American theatrical avant-garde. ISBN 0-415-97723-1

STOPPARD, TOM

ABOUT STOPPARD:THE PLAYWRIGHT & THE WORK Jim Hunter
ISBN 0-571-22023-1

DOUBLE ACT — A Life of Tom Stoppard. Ira Nadel
Drawing on archives and interviews, Ira Nadel’s fascinating book explores the double act of Stoppard’s life to show how questions of identity and language feature in both the work and the persona of this multi-faceted figure who has earned his reputation as one of the most significant and successful writers of our time.
"I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself." Tom Stoppard, 1973 "What I’m saying is firstly, A. Secondly, Not A." Tom Stoppard, 1974
ISBN 0 413 73060 3

STOPPARD — The Mystery and the Clockwork. Richard Corballis
Corballis analyses each of Stoppard’s published works, and guides us through the linguistic contortions, the tableaux and set pieces, the plays-within-the-plays, and the whole dazzling range of puzzles and conundrums.

STOPPARD’S THEATRE — Finding Order amid Chaos. John Fleming
" The fullest and most complete analysis of Stoppard’s work from their first presentations to later revivals, this book is a must for anyone contemplating a production of any of Stoppard’s plays. Strongly recommended for college and university libraries and for theatre professionals." — choice ISBN 0 292 72552 3

STRINDBERG, AUGUST

STRINDBERG AND THE FIVE SENSES— Hans-Göran Ekman. HB
Dr Ekman considers Strindberg’s four Chamber Plays of 1907: Storm, The Burned House, The Ghost Sonata and The Pelican, the works which have gained most interest internationally, studying them in relation to Strindberg’s lifelong obsession with the five senses and the fact that impressions from a stage can only be seen and heard. ISBN 0 485 11552 2

STRINDBERG AND MODERNIST. Post-Inferno Drama on Stage. Frederick J. Marker and Lise-Lone Marker
Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olaf Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, and Ingmar Bergman in our day, this study explores the crucial impact that this writer’s allusive (and elusive) method of playwriting has had on the changing nature of theatrical experience. Each chapter ends with a section devoted to innovative Strindberg performances on the contemporary stage, ISBN 0 521 62377 4. HB

STRINDBERG’S SECRET CODES — Freddie Rokem
Strindberg’s works are enigmatic, taking the form of riddles that constantly ask readers, directors, actors and spectators to find new and creative solutions. Focusing on the plays, these original and searching essays seek to uncover the hidden secrets of Strindberg’s codes as a writer. ISBN 1 870041 55 0

TABORI, GEORGE

THE THEATRE OF GEORGE TABORI — Embodied Memory — Anat Feinberg HB
In this book, the author offers the first English-language study of the controversial dramatist George Tabori. A Jewish-Hungarian playwright and Novelist, Tabori is a unique figure in postwar German theatre—one of the few people since Bertolt Brecht to embody "the ideal union" of playwright, director, theatre manager, and actor. Tabori’s career, first in the United States and later in Germany, is fraught with controversy. Making use of invaluable archive material, Feinberg’s biographical account is followed by a study of Tabori’s experimental theatre work. Feinberg plays special attention to Tabori’s theatrical innovations, most movingly found in his Holocaust plays.

SUZUKI, TADASHI

THE ART OF STILLNESS — The Theatre Practice of Tadashi Suzuki. Paul Allain
For over forty years, Tadashi Suzuki has been a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theatre, creating and directing many internationally acclaimed productions. The author re-evaluates Suzuki’s work, giving a lucid overview of his development towards an international theatre aesthetic. He examines Suzuki’s collaborators, the importance of architecture and environment in his theatre and his impact on performance all over the world. HB ISBN 0413 76960 7


TERENCE

TERENCE AND THE LANGUAGE OF ROMAN COMEDY — Evangelos Karakasis
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the language of Roman comedy in general and that of Terence in particular. The study explores Terence’s use of language to differentiate his characters. (HB) ISBN 0 521 84298 0

TREMBLAY, MICHEL

TWELVE OPENING ACTS — Michel Tremblay
This is an account of Tremblay’s discovery of the theatre: from his first breathtaking recognition of how the imagination is always a public construct, while watching a performance of Babar the Elephant at the of six; to his winning of the CBC drama competition with his first play, Le Train. ISBN 0 88922 466 8

TYNAN, KENNETH

THE DIARIES OF KENNETH TYNAN. Ed by John Lahr
"Kenneth Tynan was one of the finest dramatic critics of the twentieth century. I put him up there alongside Shaw … he was a major influence on what has now become our modern theatre." Laurence Olivier ISBN 0 7475 5418 8

VANBRUGH, JOHN &
FARQUHAR, GEORGE

VANBRUGH AND FARQUHAR — John Bull
The plays of Vanburgh and Farquhar effectively herald the end of the great period of post-Restoration comedy. The author argues persuasively for a re-evaluation of their work, and locates their work both in the context of their own times and in the larger history of theatrical production.

VON KLEIST, HEINRICH

HEINRICH VON KLEIST. Selected Writings Edited and Translated by David Constantine
Kleist was born and grew up in the Enlightenment and died in a suicide pact in 1811, aged only thirty-four. He left behind him literary works which among the few disturbing and amusing of any produced in that revolutionary and romantic period. He is a modern writer: in the characters and situations he created we recognize our own aspirations and anxieties. Selected Writings introduces the man and his times and makes the greater part of his work available in the English language.

WASSERSTEIN, WENDY

WENDY WASSERSTEIN. Dramatizing Women, Their Choices and Their Boundaries. Gail Ciociola.
Through the use of a new critical viewpoint of textual or performance drama that is guided by feminist disposition both thematically and stylistically, the author provides a fresh reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. ISBN 0-7864-2317-X

WESKER, ARNOLD

THE BIRTH OF SHYLOCK AND THE DEATH OF ZERO MOSTEL. Arnold Wesker
A brilliant description of the hidden world of the rehearsal room, the often agonizing relationship between director and writer and the complexities of the writing process, revealed by one of the world’s most revered playwrights in this gripping account of an ill-starred Broadway production.

WILDE, OSCAR

OSCAR WILDE — A Biography. H. Montgomery Hyde
This fascinating biography examines both sides of Wilde’s life: the artistic genius who gave us The Important of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray and the man who visited male prostitutes and was preoccupied with sin. As well as following Wilde’s life from its Dublin beginnings to its end and Paris, this masterly study explores his friendship and literary circle, which included writers such as Yeats, Proust and Gide. ISBN 0 141 39086 7

OSCAR WILDE – A Certain Genius. Barbara Belford.
Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde’s personal life and in our understanding of the choices he made for his art. More than previous biographers, Belford evaluates Wilde’s homosexuality not just as a private matter but one connected to the politics and culture of the 1890’s. He emerges from this biography in all his colours, not just as a tragic figure but fully human and fallible.

OSCAR WILDE — and the Theatre of the 1890s. Kerry Powell. HB
Along with revealing insights into the sexual and moral politics of the era, Powell provides an indispensable basis for understanding Wilde’s achievement as a playwright. Contains production photographs and an appendix of biographies. Of interest to students and specialists of drama, theatre history, and English literature, as well as playgoers.

SPARKNOTES.The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde
Featuring explanations of key Themes, Motifs and Symbols including: The nature of marriage, the constraints of morality, the dandy, puns, death and the double life.
Also detailed analysis of these important characters: Jack Worthing, Algernon Moncrieff, and Gwendolen Fairfax. Created by Harvard for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you what you need to succeed in school. ISBN 1 4114 0250 2

WILDE — SALOME. Plays in production. William Tydeman & Steven Price
The authors provide a detailed stage history of this controversial work, and its transformation into opera, dance and film. The book surveys Salome’s principal realisations in the European theatre as well as a wealth of further interpretations.

THE WILDE YEARS — Oscar Wilde and the Art of his Time HB
Focusing on the last quarter of the nineteenth century, this features Oscar Wilde as a central, catalytic figure linking two artistic capitals, London and Paris. Wilde was prized as a poet, writer and playwright but this publication also features his lesser known work as an art critic, journalist and progressive thinker.

WILDER, THORNTON

COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH AND STUDY GUIDE BLOOM’S MAJOR DRAMATISTS.
These research and study guides are the perfect introduction to critical analysis of the most poplar dramatists today. Each book covers three to six plays, offering a variety of viewpoints by different critics on the important aspects of each work, Each volume also includes an editor’s note and introduction by Harold Bloom, author’s biography, plot summery, extracts of major critical essays, extensive bibliography, index of themes and