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Kimball King
A collection of original essays 16 analyzing plays about the movie industry from the 1920s to the present. They concentrate however on such contemporary playwrights as David Mamet, Sam Shepard…
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Provides a survey of the Western dramatic tradition. This title overviews Western drama from Ancient Greece to modern America. It includes chapters on great eras of drama, such as the…
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This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies. It is…
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Woody Allen has had a distinguished career as a playwright and screenwriter/director. In this text, the authors select major plays and films by Woody and examine their complexities in detail…
Beginning with an essay by Harold Pinter, this text examines social, gendered, ethnic and cultural problems of incarceration explored through contemporary theatre. The essays discuss a range of topics related…
This volume addresses disability in theatre, and features critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play by James McDonald. It examines the issues surrounding disability in plays, including Children…
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
From Deleuzean rhizomatics to New Historicism to the crucial question of gender, each reading repositions Beckett’s plays and forces us to rethink our standard interpretations of Beckett’s drama.
George Kimball
The controversial outcome of another - the 1987 Leonard-Hagler fight - remains the subject of heated debates amongst fans to this day. Leonard, Hagler, Hearns and Duran didn’t set out…
In 1980, boxing was resuscitated by a riveting series of bouts involving an improbably dissimilar quartet: Sugar Ray Leonard, ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran. This book documents…
Robert Kimball Shinkoskey
An inevitable feature of democratic governments is the tendency of their chief executives to pursue domestic policies and foreign wars without the consent of the people. America’s own presidents have…
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