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Blood on the Stage, 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

Blood on the Stage, 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D.

This volume examines the key representations of transgression drama produced between 480 B.C. and 1600. Arranged in chronological order, the entries consist of plot summary (often including significant dialogue), performance data (if available), opinions by critics and scholars, and other features. The plays covered in this volume will include the great ancient Greek and Roman tragedies, fifteenth century Passion plays, and dramas by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.

Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 869

Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950

In this volume, Amnon Kabatchnik provides an overview of more than 150 important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection between 1925 and 1950. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, production data, and the opinions of well known and respected critics and scholars.

Blood on the Stage, 1800 to 1900
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 736

Blood on the Stage, 1800 to 1900

This volume examines the key representations of transgression drama produced between 1800 and 1900. Arranged in chronological order, the entries consist of plot summary (often including significant dialogue), performance data (if available), opinions by critics and scholars, and other features.

Blood on the Stage, 1600 to 1800
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 828

Blood on the Stage, 1600 to 1800

This volume examines the key representations of transgression drama produced between 1600 and 1800. Arranged in chronological order, the entries consist of plot summary (often including significant dialogue), performance data (if available), opinions by critics and scholars, and other features.

Sherlock Holmes on the Stage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Sherlock Holmes on the Stage

One of the world's most well known fictional characters, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887. The detective was featured in four novels and 56 short stories written by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Within a decade of his creation Sherlock Holmes made his theatrical debut, first in a couple of obscure productions and soon in the celebrated play adapted by and starring William Gillette. Through the 20th century and beyond, the fictional detective featured in dozens of plays, not to mention radio programs, films, and television shows. In Sherlock Holmes on Stage, Amnon Kabatchnik cites the many theatrical appearances of the great detective since his debut in a one-act musical...

Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 646

Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000

Discussing more than 80 full-length plays, this volume provides an overview of the most important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection produced between 1975 and 2000. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, production data, and the opinions of well-known and respected critics and scholars.

Horror on the Stage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Horror on the Stage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-06-28
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  • Publisher: McFarland

There are numerous publications about the horror genre in film and television, but none that provide information about horror on a legitimate stage until now. This book highlights the most terrifying moments in theater history, from classical plays like Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and Euripides' Medea to the violence of the Grand Guignol company productions in 18th-century France, and present-day productions like Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd, Stephen King's Carrie and dark 21st-century plays by Clive Barker and Conor McPherson. The book compiles the history and behind-the-scenes tales surrounding stage productions about monsters, hauntings and horrors both historical and imagined. Included are the nightmarish adaptations of popular writings from Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others, as well as plays starring popular characters like Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, and the Woman in Black. More than 500 plays are documented, accompanied by dozens of photographs. Entries include plot synopses, existing production data, and evaluations by critics and scholars.

Blood on the Stage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Blood on the Stage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Acts of crime and criminal minds have always fascinated the world's authors. During 1900-1925, world stages were full of plays in which transgression and lawbreaking were the common denominators. In Blood on the Stage: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection, An Annotated Repertoire, 1900 - 1925, Amnon Kabatchnik examines the key representations of transgression drama produced in the 20th century's first quarter. This volume covers 80 plays written and produced between 1900-1925 that had at least one public performance in the English language, with an emphasis on New York and London performances. Each of the entries revolves around murder, theft, chicanery, kidnapping, political int...

Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975
  • Language: en

Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Discussing more than 120 full-length plays, this volume provides an overview of the most important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection produced between 1950 and 1975.

Courtroom Dramas on the Stage Vol. 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 635

Courtroom Dramas on the Stage Vol. 1

While many books have been published about courtroom fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage courtrooms has been largely ignored. This endeavor aims to fill the void. More than fifty plays are scrutinized and analyzed. The first stage trial on record appears in The Danaid Tetralogy (463 B.C.) by Aeschylus, in which 49 young women are accused of murdering their grooms, their cousins, on their wedding night to avoid incestuous marriage. In Aeschylus's The Oresteia (458 B.C.), the accused, Orestes, had slashed his mother's throat for killing her husband -- his father. The god Apollo serves as the defense attorney while the Furies, ancient Greek's divinities of retribution, perform...