"The Story of Kennett" by Bayard Taylor, published in 1866, is a historical romance set in the picturesque town of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. This novel vividly depicts 19th-century rura …

Shakespeare’s poetic-dramatic worlds are inescapably limited. There is always, in his poems and plays, a force (a contingent drive, a pre-textual undertow, a rational-critical momentum, an ironic sta …

This book adds a unique eastern perspective to the ever growing corpus of Shakespeare criticism. The ancient Sanskrit theory of Rasa the aesthete s emotional response to performing arts is explicated …

Discover the power, resilience, and indomitable spirit of women who have shaped history. In her first collected works, Lauren Gunderson demonstrates why she has become one of America”s most produced …

Filumena is Eduardo de Filippo”s best-known work and arguably his finest comedy, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once romantic and cynical. Set in the balmy heat of la …

‘Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1984) e uno dei maggiori drammaturghi del novecento. Nel suo teatro, la famiglia rappresenta il punto nevralgico della societa. Attraverso quest”unita archetipica, le opere …

A story of hope, from Afghanistan to Wales. Herat, Afghanistan, 2000. A young mother makes a speech demanding freedom for Afghan women, angering local Taliban leaders who issue a warrant for her exec …

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare”s play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Compa …

Coming-of-age drama with sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love ”I mean, the fact that Jesus chose to turn the water into wine, rather than just decontaminating it, proves that drinking alc …

This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson”s claim that Shakespeare had ”small Latin and less Greek” and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare’ …