"'After years of sham heroics and superhuman balderdash, Caste delighted everyone by its freshness, its nature, its humanity.' Thus, after watching a revival in 1897, did Shaw generously recognize the impact made thirty years earlier by Tom Robertson's best-known play. Yet, in spite of the acknowledged importance of these seminal dramas, they are not easily accessible in print, and this edition therefore comprises four of Robertson's mos ..."
"Stand at the rim of Palo Duro Canyon or look down from any vista along the caprock, and let your imagination take over. Beneath an endless canopy of blue, you find yourself at the edge of an enormous island of rippling grassland that stretches from the New Mexico borderlands down through the Texas Panhandle.The Llano Estacado, Coronado's legendary "staked plains," comprises all or part of thirty-three counties in Texas and four in New M ..."
"This is the only volume available to bring together a wide selection of primary sources from the theatrical history of the Middle Ages. The focus is on Western Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Renaissance forms in Italy. Coverage includes the survival of Classical tradition and development of the liturgical drama, the growth of popular religious drama in the vernacular, and the pastimes and customs of the ..."
Wilde, 'Comedies' 'Lady Wintermere's Fan', 'A Woman of No Importance', 'An Ideal Husband', 'The Importance of Being Earnest' ; a Casebook ; [a Selection of Critical Essays] by WilliamTydeman, Gamini Salgado Paperback, 187 Pages, Published 1982 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-27323-4, ISBN: 0-333-27323-0
"William Tydeman MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL AND THE COCKTAIL PARTY '
Informative, provocative and most of all highly readable ... the series could run
and run.' The Times Educational Supplement. This volume in the 'Text and
Performance' series shows how Murder in the Cathedral and 77ft' Cocktail Party
work as drama and how the texts are realised through performance. In his
writings for the stage T. S . Eliot sought to pierce the veil of ..."
The Theatre in the Middle Ages Western European Stage Conditions, c.800-1576 by WilliamTydeman Hardcover, 322 Pages, Published 1979 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-21891-7, ISBN: 0-521-21891-8
"Popular and scholarly works on the Elizabethan stage have long familiarised readers and playgoers with the main features of a typical Shakespearian playhouse, yet medieval stage conditions remain far less well known, despite the amount of research in this area recently. In this survey of findings and theories (some unavoidably controversial), William Tydeman covers central aspects of western European theatre from the Dark Ages to the bu ..."
Four Tudor Comedies(Updated) "Jacke Jugeler", "Roister Doister", "Gammer Gurton's Nedle" and "Mother Bombie" (Penguin Classics) by WilliamTydeman, Jacke Jugeler Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1997 by Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-043663-1, ISBN: 0-14-043663-4
"Tudor dramatists were aware of the benefits of laughter, and this is shown in this range of plays, including "Jacke Jugeler", "Roister Doister", "Gammer Gurton's Nedle", and "Mother Bombie". The author's introduction sets the scene and makes an appraisal of the context and achievement of the plays."
"Certainly he often adheres to a line of five stresses (which may have led the
editor of Tottel's Miscellany t'o think that he was striving to write iambic ..."
Christopher Marlowe A Guide Through the Critical Maze (State of the Art) by WilliamTydeman, Vivien Thomas Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1989 by Bristol Classical Press ISBN-13: 978-1-85399-011-3, ISBN: 1-85399-011-6
Plays by Tom Robertson Society, Ours, Caste, School (British and American Playwrights) by WilliamTydeman, Thomas William Robertson Hardcover, 247 Pages, Published 1982 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-23386-6, ISBN: 0-521-23386-0
"This edition comprises four of Robertson's most successful comedies: Society (1865), Ours (1866), Caste (1867), and School (1869)."
Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads (Casebooks Series) by Alun Richard Jones, WilliamTydeman Paperback, 253 Pages, Published 1972 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-01127-0, ISBN: 0-333-01127-9
"Contents: Dedication to Clyde Jones -- Preface -- The U.S. Biological Survey: A Brief History, 1885-1940 -- C. Hart Merriam: Pioneering Mammalogist -- Vernon Bailey (1864-1942): Chief Field Naturalist of the Biological Survey -- Merriam's Men: The Federal Agents of the Biological Survey (1885-1910) -- The Influence of E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman on Mexican Mammalogy -- Eradicating Predators and Rodents: The Biological Survey Offends ..."
Penguin Masterstudies Henry V (Masterstudies S.) by WilliamTydeman Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1987 by Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-077144-2, ISBN: 0-14-077144-1
Theatre Production English Medieval Theatre Fourteen Hundred to Fifteen Hundred by WilliamTydeman Hardcover, 221 Pages, Published 1986 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-7100-9850-4, ISBN: 0-7100-9850-2
"13 EC Monetary Arrangements: Britain's Strategy David T. Llewellyn The EC has
not been short of plans for formal monetary integration. ..."
Coleridge The ancient mariner and other poems; a casebook, (Casebook series) by Alun R. Jones, WilliamTydeman 254 Pages, Published 1973 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-13551-8, ISBN: 0-333-13551-2
"Each Macmillan Casebook concerns a classic of English Literature or a significant modern work. (Occasional volumes in the series will deal with closely related works.) Each Casebook brings together the best of modern criticism, along with a generous selection of earlier review and comment and any useful information that readers might need. The Introduction discusses the critical reputation of the work from the time of its publication to ..."
"This one-volume edition of the two most influential pre-Shakespearean tragedies in English. "Gorboduc" (1561) has claims to be the earliest English tragedy and was written jointly by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville. "The Spanish Tragedy" is of extraordinary interest, not only in its own right, but as as the central precusor to "Hamlet"."
The Theatre in the Middle Ages Western European Stage Conditions, c. 800-1576 by WilliamTydeman Comp Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 1979 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-29304-4, ISBN: 0-521-29304-9