Product Description: The commentary at the heart of the book introduces readers to the challenge of reading The Tempest as a text and responding to the play in performance. Other sections discuss early performances and cultural contexts (with quotations from contemporary works)...read more

Product Description: With more than five hundred entries, from A to Z, providing information on the most important plays and playwrights (dead or alive) performed today, The Ivan R. Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights is the most useful and comprehensive reference book for contemporary theatre now available...read more

Product Description: A new and definitive guide to the theatre of the ancient worldThe Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is a meticulously researched and accessible survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides a comprehensive author-by-author examination of the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, as well as giving an insight into how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out, and who watched them...read more

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Product Description: A history of the Grand Prix since 1950. It is divided into two sections. The first section gives in chronological order the grid, results and drivers' finishing time for all races counted in the championship. Section two lists A-Z all the drivers who have ever taken part.

Product Description: This is a critical reference guide to the important contribution made by women-writers to the renaissance of British drama since the late 1950s. The coverage ranges from collective work, women's companies and cabaret through to traditional single author plays...read more

Describes the lives and major plays of British, European, American, and classical playwrights, and looks at recent productions of each one's work

Gathers more than two thousand of the most memorable passages from Shakespear's plays and poems, and includes a brief explanation of each quotation

Provides the amateur with information on acting, directing, set design, lighting, make-up, costumes, stage management and theater administration, discusses different types of plays, and contributes guidance on workshops, festivals, and touring