Results for "Hayman, Ronald"

'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self. While the nineteen... Read More about The Great Philosophers: Nietzsche

How to Read a Play is an introductory guide to the art of translating the printed page of a play or screenplay into dramatic mental images; it has been a classic among actors, directors, and writers for the past twenty years. Now fully updated and revised, the book devotes a chapter exclusively to s... Read More about How to Read a Play

Few playwrights write as much of their lives into every work as did Tennessee Williams, and few had lives that were so obviously theatrical.  Growing up amid abusive alcoholism, genteel posturing, and the incipient madness of his beloved sister, Rose, Williams produced plays in which violence e... Read More about Tennessee Williams: Everyone Else Is an Audience

"[M]eticulously researched...judicious....intelligently illuminates the private life Jung deliberately veiled in shadow."—New York Times Book Review Carl Jung was one of the world's most influential psychoanalysts. With the exception of Freud, who chose him as the first president of the Internationa... Read More about A Life of Jung

Not a conventional biograpy, this book offers an explanation of Sylvia Plath's death in 1963. The author looks back on Plath's life in an attempt to offer an objective account of why she killed herself. It discusses her life with her husband Ted Hughes, who had control of all her copyright works, as... Read More about The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath

Includes the plays The Gates of Summer, The Devils, Marching Song, No Why, Noman and The Nomads. The Gates of Summer is a comedy set in and about a country house in Greece immediately before the First World War. The Devils was commissioned by Sir Peter Hall and produced at the Aldwych in 1961 with... Read More about Whiting: Plays Two (Oberon Modern Playwrights)