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Report copyright infringementby Gerald Kahan (Author)In this carefully researched work, Gerald Kahan traces the genesis, development, and production history of a delightful and important eighteenth-century theatre piece, The Lecture on Heads. The Lecture was first presented in London in 1764 and became a staple in the English-speaking theaters of the world for the remainder of the eighteenth century. It amassed a fortune for its creator, George Alexander Stevens, was copied and adapted by doz...
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Report copyright infringementby Henrik Ibsen (Author)Hedda Gabler is a play written by Henrik Ibsen, first published in 1890. The story revolves around the character of Hedda Gabler, a young woman who has recently married a scholar named George Tesman. Hedda is portrayed as a complex and manipulative character, who is dissatisfied with her life and feels trapped in her marriage. She is also haunted by her past and struggles to find meaning and purpose in her existence.Throughout the play, Hed...
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Report copyright infringementby Hans Brinckmann (Author)Peter dreams of life with a camera, but his father doubts he has the toughness required to be a professional photographer, and pushes him instead into a more sensible profession: international banking. Twenty-five years later, dramatic events lead Peter to sacrifice his stable career and family for a photographer's life - in New York. A vicious attack, however, disrupts his first success, leaving him to wonder how he will ever reconcile ...
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Report copyright infringementby Alan Fischler (Author)The professional success achieved by W. S. Gilbert was unique in nineteenth-century English theater: he was the first dramatist ever to be knighted for his stage works, which yielded him a fortune that his less prosperous playwriting predecessors could scarcely have imagined. The Savoy operas-so called after the theater at which most of them were originally produced-were comedies. But comedy, in its traditional form, was hardly congenial t...
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Report copyright infringementby J. C. B. Petropoulos (Author)As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than "fame" or "glory." Kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrative--principally an "oral history," a "life story" or ultimately an "oral tradition." When broken down into its twin constituents, "words" and "actions" or "deeds," a hero's kleos serves to define him as a fully gendered social being. This book i...
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Report copyright infringementby Cecilia Dintino (Preface by), Carol Lucha-Burns (Author)Carol Lucha-Burns, a retired University of New Hampshire Professor who lived with ADHD her entire life, captures the reader's interest in a new method of teaching and learning book. In this text, she explains and gives the "how-to learner" the methods she utilized during more than twenty years of teaching Story Theatre and Involvement As a college professor, she not only created courses in different teachi...
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Report copyright infringementby Richard Olmsted (Editor)El Conde don Pero Vélez y don Sancho el Deseado translated by Richard Hubbell Olmsted was first published in 1944. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.This scholarly and critical edition of Vélez de Guevara's comedy was first scheduled for publication as volume ten of the famous Spanish...
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Report copyright infringementby Johannes C. H. R. Steenstrup (Author), Edward Godfrey Cox (Translator)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are t...
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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Johnson (Author), Isaac Reed (Author), George Steevens (Author)This volume contains the plays "King Henry V" and "King Henry VI" from "The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes." This collection presents the timeless works of William Shakespeare, accompanied by insightful commentary from Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, and George Steevens. Explore the historical depths and dramatic intensity of these classic plays, offering a glimpse into the...
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Report copyright infringementby Edward Bond (Author)Restoration is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and fatal crime. He seeks to pin responsibility for it on his guileless, illiterate footman, Bob Hedges. A battle ensues between Bob's black, justice-hungry wife and the fortified privilege of th...
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Report copyright infringementby Shay Seven (Author)LOVE, TRAUMA, COURAGE, AND TRIUMPH Demisha Coleman, a beautiful 37 year-old African American teacher in Atlanta, Georgia falls in love with the man of her dreams. The perfect love story until her best friend Mike, who was once her lover, complicates things. Mike reveals some information that alters Demisha's life. Her life spirals out of control. Demisha is faced with losing everything. Standing tall in the midst of her adversities, she survi...
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Report copyright infringementby Evelyn Gajowski (Editor), Phyllis Rackin (Editor)The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare's weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed introduction by Phyll...
