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Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Joking Apart and Other Plays written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donncha O'Callaghan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409045013
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book Joking Apart written by Donncha O'Callaghan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donncha O'Callaghan is one of Ireland's leading international rugby players, and a stalwart of the Munster side. He was a key figure in the Irish team which won the IRB 6 Nations Grand Slam in 2009, and has won two Heineken Cup medals and two Magners League titles with Munster. But that success did not come easy. For such a well known player with a larger-than-life reputation, his long battle to make a breakthrough at the highest level is largely unknown. In this honest and revealing autobiography, Donncha talks in detail about the personal setbacks and disappointments at Munster and the unconventional ways he dealt with the frustration of not making the team for four of five years in his early 20s. He had a parallel experience with Ireland where it took him nearly six years to get from fringe squad member to established first choice player. Here he talks candidly about how he brought discipline to his game, and about his relationships with the coaches who had overlooked him and the second row rivals who had kept him on the bench. Donncha talks also with great warmth about a hectic childhood that was shaped by the death of his father when he was only six years old. One of the heroes of his story is his mother Marie who showed incredible strength and resourcefulness to rear a family of five on her own. Often deservedly regarded as 'the joker in the pack', what is often less well known is the serious attitude and intensely professional approach Donncha brings to his rugby. Joking Apart gives the full picture, showing sides of the man that will be unfamiliar to followers of Irish rugby and will surprise the reader.
Author : Mustafa Kirca
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 383826018X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Alan Ayckbourn in Chekhov's Footsteps. A Study of Chekhovian Character Traits in Ayckbourn Drama written by Mustafa Kirca and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mustafa Kirca explores the dark sides of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy by comparing the playwright’s characters with those of Chekhov’s drama and drawing a parallelism in the character portrayal of both artists. The significance of Ayckbourn’s plays, following Chekhov’s footsteps, particularly lies in his vivid portrayal of characters from everyday life with psychological depth. Kirca shows that the fine mix of comedy and tragedy in Ayckbourn’s drama is conveyed through his realistic characterization contrary to the farcical style of his plays. This kind of character portrayal in Ayckbourn’s plays brings him very close to Chekhov and establishes the known equilibrium between comedy and tragedy in his theatre. The study covers Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends, Just Between Ourselves, Joking Apart, Season’s Greetings, Woman in Mind, A Small Family Business, and Henceforward. From Chekhov’s drama, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard are included to define the general Chekhovian character traits. The book is especially interesting for teachers, students, and for general readers who are interested in modern 'human comedies'.
Author : Susan Mandala
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351877240
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century Drama Dialogue as Ordinary Talk written by Susan Mandala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Susan Mandala offers a series of in-depth investigations into how the dialogue of four modern plays 'works' with respect to the pragmatic and discoursal norms postulated for ordinary conversation. After an account of the often-heated debates between linguists and critics concerning the analysis of drama dialogue as talk, four plays are considered: Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, Arnold Wesker's Roots, Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love, and Alan Ayckbourn's Just Between Ourselves. For readers unfamiliar with linguistic approaches to talk, a chapter outlining the major frameworks used in the analysis of the plays is also included. By considering both linguistic and literary perspectives, this book extends the boundaries of traditional criticism and shows how the linguistic study of conversation can contribute to our understanding of dramatic dialogue.
Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470751479
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005 written by Mary Luckhurst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Author : John Bull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 134923379X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stage Right written by John Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1994-05-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage Right is a refreshingly abrasive account of the state of British theatre since 1979, offering an account of the development of a new mainstream formed in conscious opposition to the work of the politically committed dramatists of the 70s and an analysis of the plays of the most successful playwrights of the new mainstream: Nichols, Gray, Frayn, Bennett, Ayckbourn and Stoppard.
Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507433
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Playwrights, 1956-1995 written by William W. Demastes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-10-23 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. During that time, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter made the British theater as rich, varied, and vital as any national theater in history. This reference chronicles the history of British theater from 1956 to 1995 by providing detailed information about the playwrights of that period. Included are entries for some three dozen British playwrights active between 1956 and 1995. Entries are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each entry supplies biographical information, the production history for particular plays, a survey of the playwright's critical reception, an assessment of the dramatist's work, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography at the end of the volume directs the reader to important sources of additional information about this period in theater history.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042029102
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents current state-of-the-art discussions in corpus-based linguistic research of the English language. The papers deal with Present-day English, worldwide varieties of English and the history of the English language. A special focus of the volume are studies in the broad field of corpus pragmatics and corpus-based discourse analysis. It includes corpus-based studies of speech acts, conversational routines, referential expressions and thought styles, as well as studies on the lexis, grammar and semantics of English. And it also includes several studies on technical aspects of corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140707014
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skuespil.
Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : London : Chatto & Windus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Joking Apart ; Ten Times Table ; Just Between Ourselves written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by London : Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 1979 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
