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Ronald Hayman
In this important study, originally published in 1985, Ronald Hayman scrutinizes Grass's development and assesses his achievement. While this study focuses mainly on the fiction, it also takes into account…
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Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy's achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known of his works, in particular the two masterpieces Anna Karenina and War and…
Originally published in 1973, this book investigates the power and the pressures behind English theatre in the late 20th Century, analysing its structure and systems, and the way that money…
Originally published in 1969, this was the first book of its kind: an attempt to describe the different approaches that the actor needs to make to different media - theatre…
‘God is dead’, announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself. An enthralling guide for a new, postmodern age.
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This drama about a sensitive, driven, turbulent and mystical playwright uses a fictional play-within-a-play device to create the environment within which its director/subject - Strindberg - works out his relationships…
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This biography sets out to reveal the true identity of the novelist Thomas Mann. His bisexuality, obsession with preserving appearances and the deep guilt which plagued him for much of…
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How to Read a Play is an introductory guide to the art of translating the printed page of a play or screenplay into dramatic mental images; it has been a…
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Carl Jung’s theories made him one of the world’s most influential analysts. This biography reveals what went on during Jung’s sessions with patients and exploresthe man’s own sanity.
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[M]eticulously researched…judicious….intelligently illuminates the private life Jung deliberately veiled in shadow. -New York Times Book Review
In this study, the biographer and critic Ronald Hayman explores the intersection of biography and art in Williams’ work.
John Whiting
The second collection of plays from John Whiting published by Oberon Books.
