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by David Adjmi (Author)From David Adjmi the virtuosic playwright dubbed one of the "best and most original theatre artists of a generation" by Vogue come a wholly original one-woman show. Elective Affinities takes the audience into the apartment of Alice a witty octogenarian offering a funny and savage portrait of cultured life promising to initiate a vital discourse about what it means to be civilized. Number of Pages: 18 Dimensions: 0.04 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2014

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Report copyright infringementby Louisa May Alcott (Author), Emma Reeves (Adapted by)Romantic Meg. Shy Beth. Wilful Amy. And, of course, passionate and fiery Jo. Little Women tells the story of the March sisters growing up in genteel poverty against the backdrop of the American Civil War. This timeless tale of four sisters' adventures has enchanted millions of readers, and is now available in this acclaimed adaptation for the stage.Author BiographyEmma Reeves writes for stage, radio and televi...

She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Nguyen (Author)A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games in a new edition created speciallyfor High School performing groups! She Kills Monsters tells the story of high schoolerAgnes Evans as she deals with the death of her younger sister Tilly. When Agnes stumblesupon Tilly's Dungeons & Dragons notebook she finds herself catapulted into a journey ofdiscovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister&rs ...

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus - Paperback

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by F. Storr (Translator), Sophocles (Author)Theban plays The Theban plays consist of three plays: Oedipus the King (also called Oedipus Tyrannus or by its Latin title Oedipus Rex), Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. All three plays concern the fate of Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus. They have often been published under a single cover. Sophocles, however, wrote the three plays for separate festival competitions, many years apart. Not only are the Theban plays not a true trilo...

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Report copyright infringementby David Wood (Author)Characters: 4 male, 2 female plus children's chorus (optional)Scenery: Various setsWizzpopping wonder and fruit filled fun abound in this stage adaption of Roald Dahl's greatest adventure story. James is a lonely young boy who is forced to work like a slave for the most revolting aunts in England. One day a mystical old man gives him a bag of magic. When he accidently spills it near the old peach tree, the most incredible things happen! "Pure...

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Report copyright infringementby Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder (Author)1m 3f / Drama / Simple setGee's Bend depicts the turbulent history of African-Americans in the 20th century by focusing on a single family in the real community of Gee's Bend AL which is now famous for the beautiful quilts created by the women that grew up there. Gospel songs weave in and out of this hauntingly beautiful work."Gee's Bend is a lovefest -- between the characters in the play and the land they live on between the ac...

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Report copyright infringementby Nia Vardalos (Author)Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos Tiny Beautiful Things personifies the questions and answers that "Sugar" was publishing online from 2010-2012. When the struggling writer was asked to take over the unpaid anonymous position of advice columnist Strayed used empathy and her personal experiences to help those seeking guidance for obstacles both large and small. Tiny Beautiful Things is ...

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by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Author)The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written ...

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by Daisy Eris Campbell (Author)COSMIC TRIGGER: THE PLAY, based on Robert Anton Wilson's classic autobiographical philosophical treatise, took the British alternative theater and counterculture scenes by storm in 2014 and 2017, with the ripples continuing to this day. And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, you too can experience Daisy Eris Campbell's wild opus. Take your seats, and strap in for a psychedelic magick trip, as Wilson and pals navigate Chapel Perilous via Playboy magazine, Discordian Init...

Long Day's Journey Into Night - Paperback

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by Eugene O'Neill (Author)Winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Drama "The definitive edition."--Boston Globe Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition includes a Foreword by Harold Bloom, in which he writes: "By common consent, Long Day's Journey into Night is Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece. ...

Theatre in the Chocolate Factory: Performance at Cadbury's Bournville, 1900-1935 - Hardcover

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by Catherine Hindson (Author)Providing a new way of thinking about industrialism and its history through the lens of one of Britain's most recognisable heritage brands, Catherine Hindson explores the creativity that was at the heart of Cadbury's operation in the early twentieth century. Guided by Quaker Capitalism, employees at Bournville took part in recreational and educational activities, enabling imagination to flourish. Amidst this pattern of work and play arose the vibrant phenomenon th...

Shakespeare and the Romantics - Paperback

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by David Fuller (Author)Romantic criticism, of which Shakespeare is the central figure, invented many of the modes of modern criticism. It is also distinct from many contemporary academic norms. Engaged with the social and intellectual currents of an age of revolutionary change, it is experimental, writerly, and individually expressive. Above all it is creative in response to the difficulties of understanding aesthetic experience in new ways, and in setting those experiences in new cultural a...

Timon of Athens: The Oxford Shakespeare - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Thomas Middleton (Author), John Jowett (Editor)Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave. The play's plot structure is schematically clear, and the poetry of Timon's rage is arresting in its savage intensity. Yet readers have often detected loose ends, and the tone of writing is uneven. ...

Early Modern Drama at the Universities: Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals - Hardcover

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by Elizabeth Sandis (Author)This is the first history of Oxford and Cambridge drama during the Tudor and Stuart period. It guides the reader through the theatrical worlds of England's universities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Drama at the Universities opens up an exciting and challenging body of evidence and offers the reader a choice of three inroads into the corpus: institutions, intertexts, and individuals. How to get noticed at university? How to get into unive...

Shakespeare and Text: Revised Edition - Paperback

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by John Jowett (Author)Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert on Shakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has proved its value as an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takes Shakespeare readers to the very foundation of his work, explaining how his plays first took shape in the theatre where writing was part of a larger collective enterprise. The account examines the early modern printing industry that produced the earli...

What Rosalind Likes: Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse - Hardcover

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by Paul J. Hecht (Author)What Rosalind Likes begins with the strange ferocity of Elizabethan responses to poetry: a woman named Rosalind expresses scorn for a shepherd's poems, and a character in a play loses his temper and storms off stage at the sound of a blank verse line. What are these people so angry about? Thus begins a journey into a world where the details of poetic form and vagaries of Latin translation are caught up in the dynamics of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and power, ...

The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums - Paperback

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by Nicola J. Watson (Author)The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer's house museum, The Author's Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativit...

Passion's Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson: Literature and the Sciences of Soul and Mind - Hardcover

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by Benedict S. Robinson (Author)Passion's Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of mind and soul from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the novel. It chronicles the emergence of new sciences of the passions between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and it argues that this history was shaped by rhetoric that contained the most extensively particularized discourse on the passions, offering principles for moving and affecting the passions of others in c...

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by Hanna M. Roisman (Author)Sophocles' Electra is a riveting play with a long and varied reception. Its nuanced treatment of matricidal revenge with all the questions it raises; its compelling depictions of the idealistic, long -grieving, rebellious Electra; her compliant sister; her brother; and her mother; and its superb poetry have all contributed to making this one of Sophocles' most admired plays, as have the moral issues it raises and its political reverberations. In recent decades it h...

Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 - Hardcover

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by Marissa Nicosia (Author)Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays--plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when the playhouses were closed during the civil wars--in order to examine the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works...

Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity - Hardcover

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by Adam Zucker (Author)Author BiographyAdam Zucker is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has won the College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award. He is the author of The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy (2011) and the co-editor of essay collections Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater (2015) and Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625-1642 (2006). He is a...

Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays - Paperback

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by A. C. Cawley (Editor)God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic and dramatic tradition on which Shakespeare drew. Everyman discovers what you can't take with you when you go. He beseeches in turn friends, family (one pleads 'cramp in my toe'), possessions ('I follow n...

Balinese Dance, Drama & Music: A Beginner's Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali (Bonus Online Content) - Hardcover

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by I. Wayan Dibia (Author), Rucina Ballinger (Author), Barbara Anello (Illustrator)Discover the richness and beauty of Bali's many performing art forms. This book is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the most popular forms of traditional performing arts in Bali--among the most intricate and spectacular musical and theatrical performances found anywhere. Ideal reading for visitors to the island, as well as anyone interested in Balinese culture, this book presents the history and form of e...

Shakespeare Made Easy - Twelfth Night - Paperback

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by Alan Durband (Author)Full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance of the plays is reinforced by sections discussing Shakespeare's life, works and theatre. Pupils are encouraged to understand the language, characters, structure and themes of the plays by completion of practical exercises....

Shakespeare Made Easy - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Hardcover

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by Alan Durband (Author)The Shakespeare Made Easy series aims to take the fear out of Shakespeare. By having Shakespearean and Modern English facing each other, pupils will find it easier to comprehend the text. Through discussion of the life, work and theatre of Shakespeare pupils can gain a more rounded understanding of these classic works. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.52 x 7.6 x 5.05 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2014

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Jane Coles (Editor), Rex Gibson (Editor)Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, Measure for Measure has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version of Measure for Measure aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind...

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by Moses Hadas (Author)Front JacketIn power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. His introduction explores the religious origins, modes of productions, structure, and conventions of the Greek theater, individual prefaces illumi...

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by Christopher Marlowe (Author)One of the most durable myths in Western culture, the story of Faust tells of a learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Early enactments of Faust's damnation were often the raffish fare of clowns and low comedians. But the young Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) recognized in the story of Faust's temptation and fall the elements of tragedy.In his epic treatment of the Faust legend, Marlowe r...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)One of Shakespeare's dark comedies, Measure for Measure is as noteworthy for its fascinating political and social implications as for its compelling characters: a duke masquerading as a monk, a would-be nun ordered to sacrifice her chastity to save her brother's life, and a self-righteous courtier, professing his incorruptibility while concealing a depraved private life.In this engrossing drama set in 16th-century Vienna, Duke Vincen...

Kinbaku: The Art of Rope Bondage - Hardcover

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by Nawashi Murakawa (Editor)Kinbaku is the Japanese word for rope bondage: In the west it is often referred to as Shibari. Although it originated in Japan as a means of restraint and torture, during the last hundred years it has also been used as an activity which gives emotional, physical, and visual pleasure for the participants. Nawashi Murakawa, the Artistic Director of the annual London festival of the Art of Japanese Rope Bondage provides the historical context for the practice which go...

Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Tcg Edition) - Paperback

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by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Author)"Guirgis, a lifelong New Yorker and a properly profane bard of the city, is a wizard at getting language to flow hot, funny, and fast...Guirgis's rough-cut gem of a play is rich with revelation and barbed empathy." --Alexandra Schwartz, New YorkerStephen Adly Guirgis brings his prodigious gifts for exploring the lives of social outcasts to new heights in this play about the inner workings of a women's halfway house in New York City, where the unmoored residents...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Murnane (Author)It's fall 1992, and Abby Williams is struggling at St. Dymphna's, her new school. She eats lunch alone to avoid the cafeteria's invisible rules and obvious hierarchy. Percy Van Allen is one of those rich kids. He drives the black BMW his father paid for, but pretends he wants nothing of his father's wealth. He makes money he doesn't need selling plastic bags of pills because it's one choice he gets to make for himself.Kira watches all t...