Drama

Drama
Author: W. B. Worthen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010-01-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781444317381

An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance. Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate the performance and study of drama, such as the status of language, the function of character and plot, and uses of writing Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural repositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position at the threshold between text and performance

Selected Poetry and Drama

Selected Poetry and Drama
Author: Leah Goldberg
Publisher: Toby Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2005
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

This collection features a new translation by Rachel Tzvia Back of a large selection of Goldberg's poetry, as well at T. Carmi's classic translation of her only work for the theatre, The Lady of the Castle.

Poetry Into Drama

Poetry Into Drama
Author: C. J. Herington
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520051003

Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose

Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose
Author: Mick Short
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317887808

Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carying out stylistic analysis of poetry, drama and prose fiction in turn. He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature, adopting an accessible approach to the analysis of literary texts which can be applied easily to other texts in English and in other languages.

Famous Poems from Bygone Days

Famous Poems from Bygone Days
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-02-20
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0486148564

Over 80 poems from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including works about love and war, ships and the sea, farms and family, life and death, heaven and hell.

Victorian Parlour Poetry

Victorian Parlour Poetry
Author: Michael R. Turner
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 325
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780486270449

Features 117 gems by Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning and many lesser-known poets. "The Village Blacksmith," "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight," "Only a Baby Small," more, often difficult to find elsewhere. Index of poets, titles, first lines.