William Shakespeare’s Richard ii presents philosophical and political themes related to the history of England and a symbolical interpretation of the Wars of the Roses, on the one hand; and to the person of Queen Elizabeth ...

Perikızı. Ein Traumspiel is a play, conceived and written by the writer, director and German actress of Turkish origin Emine Sevgi Özdamar to be represented within the international project Odyssee Europe in Germany in ...

Is there a woman in Shakespeare? This might sound facetious, but it is not so outlandish in the context of boy actors. Elizabethan drama was after all designed and stagemanaged by men mostly for men. In this context, is ...

Much has changed in Europe since the euphoria of the early nineteen-nineties of the last century: massive migration, pan-European Neo-Nazism, a new and active Moslem self-awareness, the resurgence of Russian Nationalism, ...

The contribution’s goal is to piece together the critical analysis project at the root of Squarzina’s directorial work on The Bacchae staging at Teatro Stabile in Genoa 1969. This preparatory path gives origin to a vast ...

This paper deals with the continuing dialogue between dramatic text and audience, while resorting to the tenets of reception theory. I have focused on the moral issues resulting from the unfolding of dramatic action in ...

Kracht’s first novel is about a trip through Germany. The first-person narrator, a semialcoholic young man belonging to the upper class, travels from the north to the south of the country; he spends his time going to ...

Considered one of the most representative playwrights in the contemporary Irish scene, Brian Friel offers in his plays a changeable and inconstant perception of language, where words are mainly understood as transitory and ...

The Planctus virginum Israel super filia Iepte Galadite is the best known of six poems for music unanimously attributed to Abelard, generally known as the planctus. Reconsideration of some significant moments in the ...

Some of Lope de Vega’s comedies, those witnessed by an autograph manuscript, are of undeniable interest, as they provide the opportunity to observe closely the author’s work of composition which resulted in the text to ...