Another Country is loosely based on the life of the spy Guy Burgess, Guy Bennett in the play, and examines the effect his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism has on his life, and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public schools. The setting is a 1930s Eton-esque public school, where Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own wa...(展开全部)

From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile and Sisters! Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department's stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set wort...(展开全部)

The most extensive new collection in this field published in more than three decades, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology surveys the astonishing, and astonishingly varied, dramatic works written and performed in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included here—by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and Thomas Middle...(展开全部)

阿绍卡·莫迪，普林斯顿大学伍德罗·威尔逊公共与国际事务学院教授（Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor）。此前，他曾担任国际货币基金组织（IMF）研究部和欧洲部的代理主任。他也在世界银行、宾夕法尼亚大学和贝尔实验室工作过。莫迪在有关发展和金融项目及政策方面，为世界多个国家的政府提供建言，同时也在多个领域发表过政策和学术论文。 译者：王剑鹰，美国密苏里大学政治学博士。在中西方接受了完整而扎实的社会科学训练，主要从事学术翻译及写作。在法学、社会学及政治学等领域均有作品。

Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparklin...(展开全部)

Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparklin...(展开全部)

This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both text and performance. Each chapter offers an accessible overview and critical analysis of one or more plays—canonical as well as less frequently studied works—and their historical contexts. How to Read Chinese Drama highlights how each play sheds light...(展开全部)