Richard Nelson: Plays 1
Introduction: Where These Plays Came From Richard Nelson
1999
W. Somerset Maugham: Plays 2
Chronology Introduction Anthony Curtis
Ben Jonson: Five Plays
Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography Chronology
Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid
Notes on the Adaptation Simon Reade, Tim Supple Introduction Ted Hughes [from his original collection Tales from Ovid: Twenty-four Passages from the ‘Metamorphoses’, published by Faber and Faber, 1997] Tales from Ovid Tales from Ovid Genealogy [family tree] Glossary of characters Metamorphoses: A selection of [excerpts from] other translations
Gogol: Three Plays
Chronology Introduction Stephen Mulrine
Shakespeare on Management
Part 1: Universal lessons From Shakespeare to Tom Peters[rtoc] Managers must be leaders What managers do when they manage: the issue of responsibility at the heart of the management experience Management achieves little without managers The importance of emotion Assuming the responsibility for managing change Gender, Shakespeare and modern management How we learn and how …
Shakespeare’s Kings
Family Trees Maps Royal Emblems Introduction Edward III and the Black Prince (1337-1377) The Young Richard (1377-1381) Favourites and Appellants (1381-1388) The King’s Revenge (1388-1398) The Triumph of Bolingbrooke (1398-1400) King Henry IV Part I (1400-1403) King Henry IV Part II (1403-1413) Harfleur and Agincourt (1413-1415) The End of the Adventure (1415-1422) King Henry V …
New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience and Asia
Introduction Part I: Visiting Open Stages: presence and occasion Audiences: on stage and off stage Ritual: action and meaning Ceremony: behaviour and reception Performance: imagination and involvement Improvisation: freedom and collusion Response: actors and audiences Settings: actors and stages Part II: Returning Criticism: texts and study Control: directors and companies Scenography: theatres and design Actors: …
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The Tempest
List of illustrations General editor’s preface Preface Introduction The play Genesis and early performances Genre Structure Music Language Characters The context Domestic politics Brave new world Africa and Ireland Literary forerunners Classical models The ‘salvage man’ Magic Masque The afterlife Restoration rewritings Eighteenth-century ambivalence Romanticism Perspectives on imperialism Re-enter Miranda Freudian influences The Tempest on …