Books written by Kathleen Riley

  • Nigel Hawthorne on Stage
    Nigel Hawthorne on Stage

    The job is to understudy the lead ( Leslie Phillips ) and two others ( Anthony Sharp and Ken Ruddington ) in a new comedy . My interview was with Harold Boyes , and I remember my ...

  • The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness
    The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness

    K. R. Extracts from Shirley Barlow's translation of Euripides' Herakles reproduced by permission of Aris & Phillips from Euripides: Heracles, edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by Shirley A. Barlow (Aris & Phillips ...

  • The Astaires: Fred & Adele
    The Astaires: Fred & Adele

    ... I would like to single out for thanks Chris Bamberger (my codirector of the Astaire Conference in Oxford), David Benson, Trevor Bentham, Sallyann Halstead, Fiona Macintosh, Gillian Mann, Helen Mileshkin, and Laurie Rokke.

  • The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness
    The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness

    Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon.

  • Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity
    Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity

    This volume explores the impact of the classical world on his life and work, offering new perspectives on canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material."--

  • The Astaires: Fred & Adele
    The Astaires: Fred & Adele

    This is the first book about the theatre career of Fred and Adele Astaire, detailing their years in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in London, their impact culturally, and the essence of their partnership on and off the stage.

  • Imagining Ithaca: Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War
    Imagining Ithaca: Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War

    Imagining Ithaca explores the idea of nostos, and its attendant pain (algos), in an excitingly eclectic range of sources: from Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier and Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, through the exilic ...

  • King of Kings: Knowing God Through His Names
    King of Kings: Knowing God Through His Names

    In this book, we will discover that God has revealed Himself to us through His many-faceted names, such as Abba Father, Healer, Provider, Sanctifier, Peace, Shepherd, King, Deliverer and many more!

  • The Astaires: Fred & Adele
    The Astaires: Fred & Adele

    Traces siblings Fred and Adele Astaire's rise to fame, from humble Midwestern origins and early days as child performers on small-time vaudeville stages, to their 1917 debut on Broadway,to star billings on both sides of the Atlantic.