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Book Recommendations

deja_vroom

11:50 / 28.05.10

Hi, B

Could you please recommend any good readings on the following topics?

Books about:

- the Novel/Romance narrative (theory, analysis, essays, history);

- Theatre (theory, analysis, essays, history and good plays, too (or even interesting bad plays)); and

- Art (more specifically, pictorial art & some sculpture, but with emphasis on the first - theory, analysis, essays, history)

Much appreciated.

Mistoffelees

21:15 / 29.05.10

I don't know any book in english about these topics at all and this book is in german and I haven't read it but Engel was an authority on anything about literature:

Geschichte der englischen Literatur von ihren Anfängen bis auf die neueste Zeit: Mit einem Anhange: Die amerikanische Literatur (German Edition) by Eduard Engel

Alex's Grandma

21:14 / 11.06.10

DV;

Have you read 'The Theatre And Its Double' by Antonin Artaud; his thoughts on the subject of drama as 'a plague'? If not, you could do worse than track down a copy - there's any amount of great material involved.

Psyche

22:52 / 29.06.10

Anything by Northrup Frye is worth a read regarding literature and literary criticism.

MrKismet

23:13 / 07.08.10

DV,

Just finished Free For All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told, an oral history of Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival by Kenneth Turan & Joseph Papp. It's a terrific piece about arguably the most important American theatre of the 20th Century.

For plays, you can't go wrong with Edward Albee, Tom Stoppard and Peter Barnes (my personal favorites) and, of course, Shakespeare. The comic plays by Christopher Durang and Charles Ludlam will have you laughing out loud, and I highly recommend the English translations (by Christopher Hampton) of Yasmina Reza's Art and God of Carnage.

deja_vroom

13:14 / 08.08.10

Thanks, guys. MrKismet, I'll make sure I check those names (I have a very unpractical Arden edition of Shakespeare, but have to admit that so far I've read only three plays from him...)

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