Building on the success of The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays, Taking the Stage: Plays from the Suffrage Movement introduces additional contemporary texts that provide performance material, stim
This is the fifth volume in a ten-volume series of the critical old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical principles. Each play is introduced by a discussion of the text, has variant readings in footnotes, and is followed by full textual notes and lists of press-variants, emendations of accidentals and historical collations.
"The three extraordinary lives at the center of Civilizing Habits demonstrate how religious women in the nineteenth-century France could not only escape society's expectations, they could also play a
In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall and began to play a jaunty show tune. Then she began to sing. "Alabama's got me so upset/Tennessee made me lose my rest/And everybody kn
Neoliberalism, the ideology that seeks to reduce state intervention in the economy and society and advocates maximum scope for the free play of market forces, has profoundly changed Canada's political
This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's introduction and notes.Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinc