Comédies de Térence

Shakespeare’s comedies combine charm and wit with probing intelligence. Through detailed analysis of passages from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It...

Terence’sEunuchus(first shown on stage in the second century BCE) was extremely successful at its first performance and has been influential ever since, having inspired allusions a...

What is a Shakespearean comedy? Nearly half of Shakespeare’s plays could be described as comedies of some kind, but more restrictive criteria would whittle the number to just half ...

‘Time’ considers the strange ways in which Shakespeare manipulates time. In 1570, Lodovico Castelvetro stated that the perfect comedy should be restricted to events lasting no long...

‘World’ looks at the ‘world’ of Shakespearean comedy, isolating the distinctive way that its stories play out in space. There is something dreamlike about all Shakespeare’s comedie...

Abstract Beautiful: The Story of Julian Eltinge, America’s Greatest Female Impersonator is the first in-depth, book-length biography of the vaudeville, musical comed...

The origins of comedy are obscure; but comedic performances were at the heart of Graeco-Roman culture from around 486 BCE to the mid first century BCE; comedies were fictional dram...

Dracula and Frankenstein. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. These are just a few of the icons of Hammer Films. To horror fans, the name “Hammer” conjures visions...