Browsing English (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Drama"

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    • "'Foul, strange and unnatural': Poison as a murder weapon in English Renaissance drama" 

      Sadowski, Piotr (2020)
      Less spectacular than theatrical violence involving bloodshed, stage murder by poison is nonetheless unsettling because of its secretive nature. Perceived in Renaissance England as dishonorable and unmanly, poison was ...

    • Friel and his 'Sisters' 

      GRENE, NICHOLAS (2010)
      This essay, occasioned by a revival of Brian Friel?s version of Chekhov?s Three Sisters at the Abbey Theatre in 2008, considers the circumstances surrounding its first production by the Field Day Theatre Company in 1981, ...