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 means of Alan Bennett comprises his Kafka performs, one an hilarious comedy, the opposite a profound and looking out drama. additionally incorporated is An Englishman out of the country and a question of Attribution. The fascination of those performs lies within the manner 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 sleek excremental physique is in lots of methods an erotic physique, Will Stockton—with humor and dry wit—reads psychoanalytic idea via early smooth comedies, claiming that it's valuable, 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 specialise in a few of his so much enduring characters. Betraying his popularity as theatre's perennial outsider Ambivalences reveals Wesker in beneficiant and interesting shape, supplying 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 finished pupil of languages and theology. Her significant power of personality used to be validated by means of her public conversion to Catholicism in 1625 thereby developing an irrevocable rift in her marriage and her kinfolk. Her biography, written through her daughter, says she wrote ’for her deepest sport’ and mentions quite a few works, now misplaced, together with the lives of saints, and poems to the Virgin Mary.