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By focusing on the important early theoretical writings about these two media, this becomes one of the first books in over thirty-five years to examine the historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationships between theatre and film. It provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the effect that film and drama have had, and continue to have, on each other's development.

Focuses on the literary figure Sophocles Antigone who seems to have taken on a life independent of the play in which she was first featured: Antigone (441 B.C.) She has since appeared in numerous other plays, operas, films, and even in comic books and songs, especially in the twentieth century: in drama alone, we see her in works from Brecht to Cocteau and Anouilh to Fugard and Heaney.

André Bazin (1918-58) is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as with being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. In 1951 he co-founded and became editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinéma, the single most influential critical periodical in the history of the cinema. Bazin can also be considered the principal instigator of the equally influential auteur theory: the i...

Final Cut: The 21st-Century Film Criticism of Stanley Kauffmann is a collection of previously uncollected film criticism by the late Stanley Kauffmann (1916-2013). Kauffmann's creative life spanned seven decades: starting in 1958 and continuing until the end of his life, he was a film and theater critic for The New Republic, The New York Times, and Saturday Review, among other publications. Kauffmann was one of the most potent, influential cri...

This is a new translation, in verse, of Molière's neoclassical masterpiece "Tartuffe". In addition to the translation, the book contains a long essay on this comedy, extensive textual notes to the translation, the original French version of "Tartuffe", a chronology of Molière's life, work, and times, Molière's preface to "Tartuffe" and petitions to King Louis XIV on behalf of the play, a selection of critical reviews of "Tartuffe" in productio...

Expressionism and Influence: The Case of Kaiser's 'From Morn to Midnight'" is a critical edition of this important German expressionist drama. The book includes a translation of the 1912 play, with explanatory notes, an introduction to Georg Kaiser's work, as well as a chronology of his life and his dramatic oeuvre, a timeline of significant historical and cultural events at the time "From Morn to Midnight" was written, a critical preface to K...

This book is a critical edition of Eugene O'Neill's famous, quasi-expressionistic play "The Hairy Ape." In addition to the drama's authoritative text, followed by exhaustive explanatory notes, "'The Hairy Ape': Text and Context" contains an introduction to O'Neill's life and work, a chronology of the Industrial Revolution, the Machine Age, and the two years during which the play was written and produced, a preface to "The Hairy Ape" as well as...

Eugene O'Neill's 'Long Day's Journey into Night': A Reader's Companion" is designed to assist the student as well as the scholar in studying this venerated American play. The book includes an introduction to "Journey" and O'Neill's work in general, a listing of all of O'Neill's plays, in addition to a chronology of his life and work, a timeline of significant historical and cultural events during the year in which "Journey" was written, a syno...

This book is a collection of interviews with, and essays about, not the four filmmakers who introduced the cinema of their respective countries to the West--Akira Kurosawa (Japan) and Satyajit Ray (India), in the 1950s, Abbas Kiarostami (Iran) and Zhang Yimou (China), in the 1980s--but those who followed in their wake. From among them, the editor has chosen 15 representative figures from Iran, China, Japan, Turkey, South Korea, Taiwan, Kurdist...

The Death of Salesmen: David Mamet''s ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' in Text and Performance" is a critical edition of this great American play--its author''s best one to date. This volume includes an introduction to David Mamet''s dramatic oeuvre, a chronology of his work in drama and film, a timeline of significant historical and cultural events during the decade of "Glengarry Glen Ross, " the 1980s, a summary of the play''s plot, productions, and ...

Clifford Odets's 'Awake and Sing!'" is a critical edition of this famous American play from 1935. In American history, 1935 was at once the bleakest of the Depression years and a turning point when New Deal emergency measures began to inch a sick economy toward recovery. In the annals of American drama, 1935 was the Year of Odets: a relatively unknown young actor who, in rapid succession, had four of his plays produced on Broadway. The Group T...

Sam Shepard's 'Buried Child'" is a critical edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning American play. The book includes an introductory essay on "Buried Child" (1979) and the drama of Sam Shepard in general, a bibliography of Shepard's work in both drama and film, a critical bibliography of writings on Shepard's drama, credits and critical reviews of the original American production and revival of "Buried Child", the full text of the play, and exp...

From Naturalism to Symbolism: Synge''s ''Riders to the Sea'' and ''The Intruder''" is a critical edition of these two important plays. The book includes an introduction to "Riders to the Sea" and the drama of John Millington Synge in general, the full text of "Riders to the Sea", followed by textual notes to the play, a critical bibliography of Synge''s drama, an introduction to "The Intruder" and the drama of Maurice Maeterlinck, a bibliograp...

August Strindberg''s ''Miss Julie'': Dramatic Text, Theater History, Critical Thought" is a critical edition of this famous naturalistic play from 1888. The book includes a Strindberg biography and timeline, an introduction titled "August Strindberg, ''Miss Julie'', and the Making of Modern Drama", Strindberg''s own preface to the play, "Miss Julie" in English translation, followed by explanatory notes to the text, "Miss Julie" in the Swedish ...

Undervalued Shaw: ''The Philanderer'' and ''The Doctor''s Dilemma''" is a critical edition of these two lesser-known plays by George Bernard Shaw. The volume includes the full text of both dramas and a long introductory essay to each one: "Otherwise Engaged, or Married to the Drama: Shaw, Modern Womanhood, and ''The Philanderer''" and "The Doctored Dilemma: Shaw''s Approach to Tragedy in ''The Doctor''s Dilemma''." Each essay discusses the res...

", A Reader's Companion to Tennessee Williams's 'A Streetcar Named Desire'", is designed to assist the student as well as the scholar in studying this venerable American play. The book includes an introduction to ", Streetcar", and Williams's work in general, a listing of all Williams's plays and screenplays, in addition to a chronology of his writing of ", Streetcar", , a timeline of significant historical and cultural...

The Scholar Bound for Paradise" is a critical edition of this Shrovetide play by Hans Sachs (1494-1576). The earliest stages of a purely secular comedy in Germany are to be found in Shrovetide plays such as Sachs's. They became popular in Nuremberg in the latter part of the 15th century during Shrovetide--the three days before Ash Wednesday--which was a special period before Lent for both religious confession and carnival festivity. Shrovetide...