Shelley's tragedy, The Cenci, has been regarded as an avant-garde attack on orthodox Christian principles, a celebrated cause for Victorian intellectuals, a vehicle for innovative minds of the theater, a historical oddity, a neglected masterpiece. Derived from the dark legends of one of Rome's great families, the Cenci records a history of sadism, incest, and murder. Shelley's one actable play has received little attention in modern times. Professor Curran studies it first as a poem-its patterns, themes, imagery-then as a play. After showing its relationship to England's Regency theater, he analyzes the fascinating course of its stage history, and finds Shelley foreshadowing such modern emphases as psychodrama, the existential vision, the Theatre of Cruelty Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Product Description: A scholarly edition of works by Sir Richard Steele. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Product Description: Englands famous seducer of other mens wives lays siege to his sister-in-law in the first battle of Ayckbourns celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests. In Table Manners, the action occurs in the dining room of Mothers house, where a conventional middle-class family is attempting to have a pleasant country weekend...read more

The Description for this book, Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: The Cuchulain Cycle of W.B. Yeats, will be forthcoming.

In writing THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, as in my other plays, I have used one or two words only that I have not heard among the country people of Ireland, or spoken in my own nursery before I could read the newspapers. A certain number of the phrases I employ I have heard also from herds and fishermen along the coast from Kerry to Mayo, or from beggar-women and balladsingers nearer Dublin; and I am glad to acknowledge how much I owe to the folk imagination of these fine people.

Gives citations to biographical information on Britains and Americans involved in the theater, as well as foreign-born persons connected with British/American theater from 1660 to the early 1970s

Product Description: From the author of Copenhagen and Noises Off. A comedy-drama about a door manufacturing company and a fateful convention in Frankfurt. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Rosalind Ayres, Allan Corduner, David Ellenstein, Julian Holloway, Peter A...read more

Product Description: A witty energetic piece of young people's theatreWhen Wendy has an epileptic fit in the kitchen and burns herself, her friends in their last term at a special school come up with a way to help. They set themselves a goal and spend their last days struggling to reach it...read more

Product Description: Now in book format, Shaw (continuing The Shaw Review) will publish general articles on Shaw and his milieu, reviews, notes and the authoritative Continuing Checklist of Shaviana the bibliography of Shaw studies. Because of its book size, Shaw will offer approximately twice as many pages as the present three-issue format combined; it therefore will be possible to utilize more illustrative material than before, and more detailed studies...read more

Features two plays - simultaneously a traditional sex farce, 'Nothing On', and the backstage farce that develops during 'Nothing On's' final rehearsal and tour.

Product Description: A scholarly edition of dramatic works by John Gay. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Product Description: Answers questions about rainbows, puppies, butterflies, babies, dinosaurs, the seasons, and other subjects.

Product Description: John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and dramatist, is most widely known as the author of The Forsyte Saga, but recent productions testify to the power that his plays still exert over modern audiences and the strength and relevance of the issues he raiseIn Strife, Galsworthy deals with industrial relations; in Justice, with prison life - it was one of the few plays to effect real reforms...read more