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Historical drama.
- Title
- Historical drama.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | PN1872 .H57 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vi, 251 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Themes in drama, 0263-676X ; 8
- Uniform Title
- Themes in drama ; 8.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Clio vs. Melpomene; or, why so little historical drama from classical Athens? -- Historia quasi fabula: the Catiline theme in Sallust and Jonson -- At the graves of the ancestors: chronicle plays in the wayang cepak puppet theatre of Cirebon, Indonesia -- Mockery and mangling in Shakespeare's Henry V -- Shakespeare's stepchildren; or Clio, sedition unlimited -- Differing treatments of history: Gryphius's Carolus Stuardus and Schiller's Maria Stuart -- Historical celebrities and the vaudeville imagination -- Bonaparte on stage: the Napoleonic legend in nineteenth-century French drama -- America redeemed: the shape of history in Robert E. Sherwood's The Petrified Forest and Abe Lincoln in Illinois -- A reflection of French-Canadian nationalism: Le Drapeau de Carillon -- Chronicles of wasted time -- Edward Bond's Bingo: history, politics and subjectivity.
- LCCN
- 86180060
- OCLC
- ocm14240011
- 14240011
- SCSB-1195368
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library