You want a play to be challenging, ambitious, nuanced and complicated. You also want it to sell tickets. You want to make art, and you know you’re in show business. These are some of the balancing acts that the National Theatre, and this book, is about. This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre. It is a story of lunatic failures and spec...(展开全部)

This is the fascinating inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain's greatest theater. Nicholas Hytner's highly entertaining memoir combines gossip with serious insight into what is involved in bringing a production to life. It tells vivid, lively stories about working with some of the world's most celebrated actors and writers and explores many variations on the colla...(展开全部)

From the Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning former director of London's National Theatre--this is a fascinating, candid, eloquent memoir about his career directing theater, producing films and opera, and working closely with some of the world's most celebrated actors. The list of Nicholas Hytner's accomplishments is long and distinguished: as Artistic Director of Lon...(展开全部)

Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis.

In Theatre , W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa –introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting. It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers...(展开全部)

罗伯特·科恩（Robert Cohen），美国职业导演、剧作家和戏剧评论家。1965年获耶鲁大学戏剧学院导演艺术博士学位，同年创办欧文加州大学戏剧系，并担任系主任，现为该系讲座教授。曾获美国大学的最高荣誉UCI奖章和美国高等教育戏剧协会职业成就奖。他的剧本和学术著作在美国、欧洲和非洲出版，后者主要涉及五种舞台演出研究，其中《表演第一课》（Acting 0ne）、《莎剧表演》（Acting in Shakespeare）和《表演的力量》（Acting Power）分别被翻译成四种语言。

In Theatre , W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa –introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting. It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers...(展开全部)

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility h...(展开全部)

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility h...(展开全部)

Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. After his death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the center of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a...(展开全部)