Tag: Plays

Free Download The Plays of Margaret Drabble: A Critical Edition By Fernández, José Francisco(Editor)
2019 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0815636059 | PDF | 10 MB
Award-winning British novelist Margaret Drabble is renowned for her fiction, stories that gave voice to the new woman of the 1960s and continue to illuminate the conflicting roles of women in the twenty-first century. Drabble’s long affiliation with the theatrical world also inspired her to experiment withthe dramatic form. She wrote two plays–one for television, Laura (1964), and one for the stage, Bird of Paradise (1969). Fernndez’s penetrating new critical edition makes both plays available for the first time, giving Drabble fans a new vantage point from which to understand her work. InLauraandBird of Paradise, Drabble mines the familiar territory of social class, domestic life, and questions of destiny, which have been the hallmark of her writing. Asin her novels, both plays reveal a deep curiosity about the world and a piercing commentary on the social issues of her time. The volume’s introduction and accompanying critical essays give valuable insight into the plays’ historical and social context, and explore the artistic solutions that an accomplishedauthor of fiction found when writing for the stage. Offering a fascinating complement to Drabble’s prodigious oeuvre, this volume also provides a glimpse into a specific period in English letters, one that shaped an influential generation of writers.

Free Download John Meagher, "Shakespeare’s Shakespeare: How the Plays Were Made "
English | ISBN: 147424744X | 2015 | 256 pages | PDF | 31 MB
In this work of scholarship and creativity, Meagher argues that Shakespeare has been misunderstood because of a failure to recognize his own directions as a playwright. Through an examination of several of his plays Meagher uncovers Shakespeare as artist, director, and actor.

Free Download Mynie Plays with Fire: The best-ever braai-tasting cookbook by Mynie Steffens
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09DYZ54QR | 73 pages | EPUB | 45 Mb
As Mynie Steffens admits herself, she is a self-confessed braai addict and has been cooking over fire since the age of 10! She says: ‘Everything tastes so much better when it’s cooked over fire…I find any reason possible, to organise an epic, all-day braai.’ Using her experience gained on a travel and braai cooking TV show called ‘Speel met vuur’ and catering for private braai events, often with a braai-tasting menu, Mynie decided to play with these ideas even further, resulting in this cookbook of braai-tasting menus as the best braai entertainment ever. From the menu themes, to the accompanying music playlists and fun facts, never forgetting the delicious and often quirky recipes themselves, Mynie invites you to have fun as you play with your braais. So whether you’re a braai virgin or you consider yourself a braai expert, why not join the party and learn new tricks the Mynie way.

Free Download Mick Wallis, "Studying Plays Ed 4"
English | ISBN: 1350007331 | 2018 | 248 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Now in its 4th edition, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the critical study of drama. Using familiar examples of classic and contemporary works such as Shakespeare’s King Lear, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good, the book explores the essential elements of play texts, from character, dialogue and Description to theatrical space.

Free Download Lissa Tyler Renaud, "Selected Plays of Stan Lai: Volume 1: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land and Other Plays"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0472055070, 0472075071 | PDF | pages: 521 | 4.1 mb
These volumes feature works from across Lai’s career, providing an exceptional selection of a diverse range of performances.

Free Download Martin Crimp’s Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) by Vicky Angelaki
English | June 30, 2022 | ISBN: 0367471027 | 120 pages | EPUB | 0.61 Mb
This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.

Free Download Sian Adiseshiah, "Churchill’s Socialism: Political Resistance in the Plays of Caryl Churchill"
English | ISBN: 1443813184 | 2009 | 260 pages | PDF | 1305 KB
Although now celebrated as a world-leading playwright, Caryl Churchill has received little attention for her socialism, which has been frequently overlooked in favour of emphasising gendered identities and postmodernist themes. "Churchill’s Socialism" examines eight of Churchill’s plays with reference to socialist theories and political movements. This well-researched and dynamic new book reframes Churchill’s work, positioning her plays within socialist discourses, and producing persuasive political readings of her drama that reflect much more of the political challenge that the plays pose. It additionally explores her uneasy relationship with postmodernism, which presents itself particularly in Churchill’s later plays. The book contains a very helpful chapter on socialist contexts, which outlines some of the key events, debates, and movements during the late 1960s up until the early 2000s. This chapter also offers an incisive critique of the easy acceptance by some socialists of a postmodernist rejection of grand narratives and political agency. An in depth examination of the rarely explored interconnections of utopianism and theatre, forms another chapter, where all eight of Churchill’s plays, ‘Light Shining in Buckinghamshire’, ‘Vinegar Tom’, ‘Top Girls’, ‘Fen’, ‘Serious Money’, ‘Mad Forest’, ‘The Skriker’, and ‘Far Away’, are introduced. The plays are then discussed in pairs in a further four chapters with reference to communist historiography, the class/gender intersection, the end-of-history thesis, ecocritical challenges and postmodernism.

Free Download Harai Golomb, "A New Poetics of Chekhov’s Plays: Presence through Absence"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1903900476, 1845196244 | PDF | pages: 445 | 2.1 mb
* Casts new light on how ChekhovÃs plays can be interpreted and enacted * The author explores all the prime components of Chekhov’s theatrical technique: text construction, themes and ideas, scenes, dialogue, Description, and interaction between verbal and nonverbal elements * A rigorous and comprehensive treatment of the many aspects of Chekhov’s artistic universe * All the major works explored. One century after the death of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), his plays are celebrated throughout the world as a major milestone in the history of theatre and drama. Outside the Russian-speaking community, he is undoubtedly the most widely translated, studied and performed of all Russian writers. His plays are characterised by their evasiveness: tragedy and comedy, realism and naturalism, symbolism and impressionism, as well as other labels of school and genre – all fail to account for the uniqueness of ‘Chekhovism’, i.e., the essence of his artistic system and world view. Presence through Absence is a bold attempt to map the unique structure and meaning that comprise Chekhov’s immensely rich artistic universe. Golomb’s text is an incursion into Chekhov’s vision of unrealised potentials and present absences. His timeless works are shown with rare insight and clarity to have artistic principles and coherence above and beyond the scope of the individual play.