Product Description: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

Product Description: Harold Pinter was one of the world's leading and most controversial writers, and his impact and influence continues to grow. This Companion examines the wide range of Pinter's work - his writing for theatre, radio, television and screen, and also his highly successful work as a director and actor...read more

Product Description: During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and performances of celebrated entertainers...read more

Product Description: Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today...read more

This book presents a complete account of the remarkable life and career of Harriet Smithson Berlioz. Peter Raby's success in this book is to bring fully and sympathetically to life the vulnerable woman and the working actress who is so generally submerged beneath the myth that was created about her. At the same time he provides a continually fascinating commentary on the theatrical and cultural history of her time: on touring troupes in Ireland; on the late Georgian theatre in London; on the different acting styles and traditions in England and France; on the economics of the theatre and the composition of the audiences; on the intellectual background to Shakespeare's belated acceptance in France; on French translations of Shakespeare and contemporary French critical essays and reviews; on the leading figures who frame Harriet's story - actors, painters, writers, and musicians (most notably, of course, Berlioz himself). Holding all together is the complex figure of Harriet - a talented actress, and who for a brief but crucial period in French cultural history became a symbol and an ideal of the new, Romantic spirit. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Aubrey Beardsley's art epitomises an age, often referred to as the 'Beardsley period'. In this book his letters and the memoirs and anecdotes of his mother, sister and contemporaries are complemented by numerous illustrations of his own works. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

(view table of contents)

(view table of contents)

Product Description: Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today...read more

Analyzes both the social context and the literary artistry of Oscar Wilde's comedic play

Product Description: Book by Butler, Samuel

Product Description: Samuel Butler: A Biography, by Raby, Peter

This study argues that Wilde's output should be judged as a developing and unified whole, of which the paramount element is his inherently dramatic nature. The author sees Wilde's plays as important to the development of modern drama.