Plays by Publisher - University Of Wales

Studies in the Commedia Dell'arte

David J. George & Christopher J. Gossip - eds

University of Wales

The original commedia dell'arte was performed by travelling players in late sixteenth-century Italy, who improvised their plays around a basic plot or scenario. The best known commedia characters were the co...

Dramatists in Perspective - Spanish Theatre in the Twentieth Century

Gwynne Edwards

University of Wales

Dramatists in Perspective examines the theatre of five major Spanish writers of the twentieth century and seeks to place their work against the broad perspective of European theatre. The Introduction provid...

David Lloyd George - The Movie Mystery

Dave Berry & Simon Horrocks - ed

University of Wales

This is the incredible story of a silent film, made in 1918, but not screened in public until 1996. The central figure in this drama - on and off screen - is the charismatic prime minister, David Lloyd...

Political Theatre during the Spanish Civil War

Jim McCarthy

University of Wales

Jim McCarthy's ground-breaking study rediscovers the forgotten political theatre of the Spanish Civil War Teatro de urgencia is an aspect of Spanish cultural history that virtually disappeared with the de...

Wales and the Cinema - The First Hundred Years

Dave Berry

University of Wales

This book of lively and provocative essays, written by dramatists and professionals active in drama teaching, theatre research and/or theatrical practice in Wales, examines significant developments in theat...