Brian Friel: Plays 1
Introduction Seamus Deane
Faber and Faber
Collected Grimm Tales
The Brothers Grimm Craig Higginson Grimm Tales Notes Text Design Music Running Order Grimm Tales: Dramatisation dramatized by Tim Supple Hansel and Gretel The Golden Goose Ashputtel A Riddling Tale The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage Iron Hans The Lady and the Lion The Magic Table, the Gold-Donkey and the Cudgel in the …
The Staging of Plays before Shakespeare
Part One: 1466-1527 The Doors of Entrance The Earliest Surviving Interludes 1466-1508 Contemporary Court Staging 1511 onwards Other Interludes to 1527 Six Plays Attributed to John Heywood 1521-1529 Part Two: 1527-1553 The Travers New Technicalities 1527-1539 Presentation in Civic Halls etc. 1538 onwards Developments to Mid-Sixteenth Century 1541-1552 Part Three: 1553-1576 The Rise of the …
The Plantagenets
Introduction Adrian Noble The Plays The Production
Shakespearian Production
The early chapters originally published under the title Principles of Shakespearian Production in 1936. Preface to the Third edition (1963) Preface to the First edition (1936) Part I (1936) The Shakespearian Play The Theory of Production Some Actual Productions The Ideal Production [with a 1963 addition] Shakespeare and Ritual Part II (1949 and 1963) The …
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
Prologue: 5 January 1606 The King’s Man Division of the Kingdoms From Leir to Lear Possession The Letter Massing Relics Remember, Remember Hymenaei Equivocation Another Hell above the Ground The King’s Evil Unfinished Business Queen of Sheba Plague Epilogue: 25 December 1606 A note on Dating the Plays Bibliographical Essay
Henry IV, Part I
Introduction: Shakespeare – Playwright, Actor and Actor’s Playwright Colin Nicholson Characters Cast of Chimes at Midnight (dir. Patrick Garland, Chichester Festival Theatre, 1998) Foreword Prelude: Carnival Act One Act Two Act Three Act Four Act Five
Twelfth Night
Introduction: Shakespeare – Playwright, Actor and Actors’ Playwright Colin Nicholson Foreword The Lovers Finding Viola A rebirth, I suppose My mother is a twin Conceived in the moment Orsino Confusion ‘Sex fucks up the equation’ Sir Toby and Maria Sebastian A lost boy The bubble of pomposity Structure Look behind you! ‘Come away, death’ A …
The White Goddess (3rd edition)
Foreword Poets and Gleemen The Battle of the Trees Dog, Roebuck and Lapwing The White Goddess Gwion’s Riddle A Visit to Spiral Castle Gwion’s Riddle Solved Hercules on the Lotus Gwion’s Heresy The Tree-Alphabet (1) The Tree-Alphabet (2) The Song of Amergin Palamedes and the Cranes The Roebuck in the Thicket The Seven Pillars The …
Stage Directions: Writing on Theatre 1970-2008
Introduction Collected Plays Plays: 1 – Alphabetical Order, Donkey’s Years, Clouds, Make and Break, Noises Off Plays: 2 – Benefactors, Balmoral, Wild Honey Plays: 3 – Here, Now You Know, La Belle Vivette And Also … On the Roller-Coaster – a diary of my first venture into theatre No Show – a note on the origins of Donkey’s Years …
Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 1
Introduction by the Author
Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 2
introduction by the author
