Family Trees Map of the conspirators in the Midlands Author’s Note Prologue: Bountiful Beginnings Before the Fruit Was Ripe Whose Head for the Crown? The Honest Papists Diversity of Opinions The Horse of St George A King and his Cubs Spanish Charity Catesby as Phaeton That Furious and Fiery Course So Sharp a Remedy Pernicious …
Foreword Raymond Williams Preface Preface to Second Edition Behind the Clichés of Contemporary Theatre Towards a Working-Class Theatre Mediating Contemporary Reality Theatre Has Begun to Take Place Theatre as Political Forum The Challenge of Cinema and Television Appendix: 7:84 Theatre Company
Foreword Matthew A. Epstein Believing in Opera Peter Brook and theatrical opera Theory of interpretation A repertoire of classics The design matrix Patrice Chéreau: revolutionary classicism Ruth Berghaus: Marx, feminism and the absurd David Alden: expressionist shock Peter Sellars: Americanizing everything Richard Jones: burlesque profundities Graham Vick: neo-realism and emotion Albery, Pimlott, Cairns: British expressionism …
CD Running Order Introduction The Opera Experience The Elements of Opera Behind the Scenes: the Making of an Opera The Story of Opera The World of Opera through Eight Masterworks (as below) A Guide to 50 Further Essential Operas Opera Houses and Festivals
Introduction The Middle Ages and the Renaissance Dante’s Worlds Chaucer’s England Shakespeare’s Stratford and London Montaigne’s France Cervantes’ Spain The Discovery of the New World: Arcadia and Utopia The Age of Reason The France of the Enlightenment The Journeys of the Age of the Novel Eighteenth Century London Eighteenth Century Dublin Eighteenth Century Edinburgh and …
Hackney Lad Romantic Ireland Baron Hardup Early Stages Playwright in Waiting Power Play Sexual Politics Family Values Private Worlds Time Regained Pinter’s Way States of Revolution Private Lives Voices from the Past Public Affairs Setting the Agenda Party Manners Moonlit Nights Festival Time Onwards and Upwards Memory Man
Introduction Part One: Civil Engineering Irrigation and Water Supply Dams Bridges Roads Building Construction Surveying Part Two: Mechanical Engineering Water-raising Machines Power from Water and Wind Part Three: Fine Technology Instruments Automata Clocks
Introduction Lesley Sharpe Note on the translation Chronology of Dates and Events during Schiller’s Life Royal Family Tree: The Historical Relationship between Mary Stuart and Don Carlos Don Carlos Mary Stuart
Introduction Gaynor Macfarlane Eighteenth-Century German Drama and Sturm und Drang Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) Themes in Mary Stuart Schiller’s Dramatic Theory Performance History Mary Stuart
Introduction John Osborne, 1993