The Reference Shelf: Theater
Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
"This concise version of the acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Theatre covers all aspects of theatre worldwide and throughout the ages. It contains entries on a vast range of theatrical styles, dramatists, performers, and directors, as well as information on theatres, festivals, and such technical topics as lighting, sound, and method acting. Entries on people and places include Athol Fugard, Anthony Hopkins, Glenda Jackson, Derek Jacobi, Harvey Fierstein, Helen Mirren, Trevor Nunn, Peter O'Toole, Willy Russell, and Stephen Sondheim, Barbican Theatre, The English Shakespeare Company, Michael Gambon, The Swan at Stratford, and the Shubert theatre in New York." |
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Oxford Companion to American Theatre
"Now thoroughly revised, this distinguished volume once again provides an up-to-date guide to the American stage from its beginnings to the present....The volume includes playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic movements, and much more. The book covers not only classic works (such as Death of a Salesman) but also many commercially successful plays (such as Getting Gertie's Garter), plus entries on foreign figures that have influenced our dramatic development (from Shakespeare to Beckett and Pinter). New entries include recent plays such as Angels in America and Six Degrees of Separation, performers such as Eric Bogosian and Bill Irwin, playwrights like David Henry Hwang and Wendy Wasserstein, and relevant developments and issues including AIDS in American theatre, theatrical producing by Disney, and the rise in solo performance." |
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Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
"From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to the misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favourite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, a team of 100 internationally renowned scholars provides a lucid, stimulating, and authoritative guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Special feature entries on every play are included." |
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Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide
"The title refers to various "themes," but the word is used liberally. Some themes encompass categories of characters, like "Clerics" and "Fools," while others emerge from questions specific to Shakespeare's day, like "Divine Right" and "Fate." Most themes, however, are traditional ones for artists, such as "Generations," "Mortality," and "War." Each theme is developed with focus on how the subtlety of the characters' psychology is revealed through their specific actions and the richness of their language. Emphasis is also placed on the theatricality of these plays, which are treated not as purely literary texts, but as scripts created for performance."
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