Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution (Faber Contemporary Classics)

This moment quantity of performs by way of Alan Bennett contains his Kafka performs, one an hilarious comedy, the opposite a profound and looking drama. additionally integrated is An Englishman overseas and a question of Attribution. The fascination of those performs lies within the method they query our approved notions of treachery and, in numerous methods, make a sympathetic case for man Burgess and Anthony Blunt.

Playing Dirty: Sexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy

Taking part in soiled is filled with soiled jokes. Arguing that the early smooth excremental physique is in lots of methods an erotic physique, Will Stockton—with humor and dry wit—reads psychoanalytic conception via early smooth comedies, claiming that it's necessary, instead of inimical, to the undertaking of historicizing the physique.

Ambivalences: A Portrait of Arnold Wesker from A to W

Ambivalences is a record of Arnold Wesker in dialog with the Italian educational Chiara Montenero. the following he discusses his rules on paintings and drama with a selected concentrate on a few of his so much enduring characters. Betraying his recognition as theatre's perennial outsider Ambivalences reveals Wesker in beneficiant and interesting shape, delivering a helpful perception into the brain of 1 of the definitive post-war British dramatists.

Works by and attributed to Elizabeth Cary: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 2: 002 (The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library ... Writings, 1500–1640: Series I, Part One)

Elizabeth Cary (c. 1585-1639) was once an entire pupil of languages and theology. Her massive power of personality used to be verified through her public conversion to Catholicism in 1625 thereby growing an irrevocable rift in her marriage and her relatives. Her biography, written via her daughter, says she wrote ’for her inner most activity’ and mentions a variety of works, now misplaced, together with the lives of saints, and poems to the Virgin Mary.