Devotees of the bard will relish this fresh take on his work―where math and numbers illuminate Shakespeare’s use of science, games, money, magic, astronomy, and moreBooks on Shakespeare are plentiful, but until now there has never been a book written for...

Reminiscences by Beckett, Gielgud, Finney, Olivier, and other performers underlie a chronicle of the stormy twenty-five-year history of the seminal British theater

Book by Clifford Odets

The lives of two brothers, working in a European zoo, are dramatically altered when their wives are killed in a car crash. One brother, unable to accept what has happened, is given over to the strange habit of photographing the decay of animal corpses...

Examines the careers of seven contemporary German playwrights and analyzes the experimental techniques and political themes of their plays

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681), one of the great dramatists of Spain's Golden Age, wrote a series of mythological spectacle plays for the Habsburg courts. Written when court spectacles were an instrument of monarchical absolutism, these later...

Book by Roger Johnson, Guy Trail, Editha Neumann