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Generations of Deceit: The Struggle and Survival of Women in the Early 20th Century

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Report copyright infringementby Susan W. Harris (Author)How does a woman facing trauma and adversity find the courage and resilience to survive?Susan Harris tells the stories of her grandmother and mother as they faced the difficult situations life dealt them, yet persevered despite the weight of being women in the early 20th century.Thorough research, including oral and written histories, newspaper articles, and online sources, allowed Harris to investigate what happened to her grandmother a...

Sir William Davenant, the Court Masque and the English Seventeenth Century Scenic Stage, c1605 -c1700

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Report copyright infringementby Dawn Lewcock (Author)This book examines why, when, how and where the scenic stage began in England. Little has been written about the development of theatrical scenery and how it was used in England in the seventeenth century, and what is known about the response to this innovation is fragmentary and uncertain. Unlike in Italy and France where scenery had been in use since the sixteenth century, the general public in England did not see plays presented against ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Crutchfield (Author)A "domestic phantasmagoria with song and dance," John Crutchfield's My Crazy My Love, set in a small, present-day Southern Appalachian town, in a sprawling house in condemnable disrepair, tells the raucous comic story of one family's failure to know itself. Only the impending death of the Finckelsteins' patriarch can offer some hope of eleventh-hour self-recognition and redemption. Or not. Number of Pages: 118 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Niven (Author)Frederick John Niven, (born March 31, 1878, Valparaíso, Chile-died Jan. 30, 1944, Vancouver, B.C., Can.), regional novelist who wrote more than 30 novels, many of them historical romances, set in Scotland and Canada. Educated in Scotland, Niven worked in libraries in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Three of his best-known novels-The Flying Years (1935), Mine Inheritance (1940), and The Transplanted (1944)-form a trilogy dealing with the settlemen...

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Francois Regnard (Author), Alain Rene Le Sage (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Editor)Four French comedies on marriage, love, and manners. In THE WIDOW A LA MODE, by Jean Donneau de Vise, the death of an aged husband forces his young widow and other members of his family to scramble quickly to save their fortunes while pretending to be overcome with grief. WAYWARD WENCHES, by Jean-François Regnard, is a collection of skits about bad girls who've gone wrong. Mic...

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Report copyright infringementby Alain Rene Le Sage (Author), Charles Dufresny (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Editor)Three French comedies revolving around marriage, misidentification, medicine--and money! DOCTOR SCRATCH, by Noël le Breton, is a clever and hilarious farce, in which love becomes hopelessly entangled in the attempts by the characters to improve their declining financial situations. THE SERVANT PROBLEM, by Alain-René Lesage, the well-known novelist, two criminals manage to insert th...

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Report copyright infringementby H. H. 1786-1860 Wilson (Author)Wilson's Theatre of the Hindus offers a valuable collection of translated Sanskrit dramas, providing insight into the rich theatrical traditions of ancient India. Translated by H.H. Wilson, this anthology presents a selection of plays that reflect the religious, social, and cultural values of Hinduism. The works included showcase a variety of dramatic forms and narratives, offering a glimpse into the aesthetic and spiritual world ...

The Spirit of Contradiction & the Double Widowing: Two Plays

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Dufresny (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)Two comedies by a cousin of French King Louis XIV. THE SPIRIT OF CONTRADICTION is an hilarious play about a woman whose sole aim in life is to prevent others (mostly in her own family) from getting their way. So contrary is she to anything that's suggested to her that her husband, daughter, and in-laws must conceal, as best they can, their real wishes. But she knows they know--and this creates absolutely s...

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Report copyright infringementby Arnold Wesker (Author)Includes the plays The Four Seasons, Love Letters on Blue Paper and Lady Othello Spanning three decades of impassioned and inspiring work, the three plays in this volume show in cross-section Arnold Wesker's development as one of the key figures of late-twentieth-century drama. Each play grapples with the timeless problems accompanying two people in love. The most intimate and personal of relationships are placed under uncompromising scrut...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Le Marquand Hartigan (Author)A threatre piece in two acts, Beds brings together mime, music and dialogue to explore Irish attitudes towards sex, marriage, love, death and sexual fantasy centring on the common theme of beds. Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.31 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: July 13, 2016

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Report copyright infringementby Jan Hrabia Potocki (Author), Russian Empress II Catherine the Great (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Editor)These eight short plays by Louis Carmontelle, Thomas Gueulette, Jan Potocki, and Russian Empress Catherine II the Great (of all people!) were all the rage in eighteenth-century France--short skits that could easily be performed by amateur companies. Since they weren't writing "literature," the authors of these pieces could create anything without adhering to t...

The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

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Report copyright infringementby Beatrix Hesse (Author)This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.Author BiographyBeatrix Hesse is Professor of English/ Cultural and Media Studies, University of...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Favart (Author), Philippe Destouches (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Editor)Three French comedies of love and marriage. Charles Favart contributes two comic operas of considerable verve and humor. In THE DISGUISED LOVER, Julie pretends to be a man, and Clitandre pretends to be a peasant. But it's all in good fun, and while the play doesn't take itself seriously, all's well that ends well. RUSTIC AMOURS is a strange but effective blend of classical opera the...

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Report copyright infringementby David Epstein (Author)From a surreal musical satire featuring much-loved American rogues like Billy The Kid and Ma Barker to a bitter takedown of the Iraq War and its toll on one family, these four plays by David Epstein expose painful home truths about our nation's soul."There is a fine, lovely and lyric madness at the Cherry Lane Theater. It is called Wanted, it is by David Epstein and Al Carmines, and, at last, it restores the art of the musical to the Off-B...

Cyrano and Molière: Five Plays by or About Molière

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Report copyright infringementby Frank J. Morlock (Editor), Molière (Author)After his death, Molière was gradually recognized in France as that country's most important dramatist. Along with this realization came a desire to write plays ABOUT the writer, his life on the stage, and his interaction with the other dramatists of his age, and also with King Louis XIV. Even Alexandre Dumas featured Molière as a character in his historical play, The Young Louis XIV. Molière himself was such a large, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Wilkie Collins (Author)The New Magdalen confronts Victorian society's harsh judgment of women as Mercy Merrick, a reformed "fallen woman," seizes a chance at respectability by taking on another's identity. Her deception leads her into the heart of domestic life, where love, guilt, and moral reckoning collide. As secrets surface and truths unravel, Mercy must fight for the dignity and forgiveness the world denies her. With its bold critique of gender double stan...

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Report copyright infringementby P. J. Reed (Author)'Although the poems are short as the haiku style usually is P.J. Reed ignites the imagination with the rich visual imagery contained within her verse and the way in which the words knock together creating sparks.' DRFlicker is a delightful collection of senryu or human haiku. In Flicker, Reed has brought together a series of poetic postcards, entwining the ever-changing nature of the Devon countryside, with the lives of some of the fascinatin...

Zeneida & the Follies of Love & the Cat Who Changed Into a Woman: Three Plays

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Francois Regnard (Author), Eugene Scribe (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Editor)Three delightful French plays about different aspects of Love. ZENEIDA, by Louis de Cahusac, is a fairy tale about love being blind--but says that true love can happen anyway, regardless of looks. It's a story filled with charm and grace. THE FOLLIES OF LOVE, by Jean-François de Regnard, demonstrates how far love will go to have its way. The heroine, who's being oppressed by her ag...

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Report copyright infringementby John Francis King (Author)Prog II and other variations on a musical theme, featuring Morris Spiegelman (audio drama) Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.14 x 11.69 x 8.27 IN Publication Date: August 20, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Brittiny D. Morehead (Author)Born and raised in a city that held no dreams, Brittiny had to learn the consequences of utilizing sex as her answer to everything. She never knew that a broken daughter could become a broken woman. I am Porcelain embraces the promiscuous girl; it revels in her name and helps her heal from harsh realities, with the art AND the power of words.I am Porcelain derived from the dust of Brittiny's first poetic novel, The Naked Truth. Dete...

Castor and Pollux and Other Opera Libretti

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Francois Marmontel (Author), Emile Augier (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Editor)Three French libretti on classical themes. In CASTOR AND POLLUX, by Pierre Bernard, one of the twins from ancient myth attempts to rescue his brother from the underworld. PENELOPE, by Jean-François Marmontel, tells the story of Ulysses' return to Ithaca after his long journey home from Troy, and how he takes revenge on the boorish suitors of his wife, Penelope, who have browbeaten...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Nicholls (Author)Showfolk duo Joan and Peter defer the usual pre-lunch cocktail and anxiously await the arrival of their bright new young director. Reviewing their career high and lowlights to date, this exciting new project promises them a big break in the face of their comically fast-maturing professional viability. At this point, when their careers are about to go over the top, the action of the play retreats 40 years to the world of personal and profes...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Nicholls (Author)Athena, an Australian nurse working overseas, is raped and murdered. Her father, John, must decide whether to grant clemency to her murderer, who is facing execution by beheading. Margaret, an ex-school teacher on a career change as a junior Australian Government official, is sent in to counsel and assist the grieving man. When the situation proves predictably challenging, Margaret's daughter, Nina, provides a clarity of counsel and assist...

Somewhere Between Three Rehearsals and the Performance

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Nicholls (Author)Ellen hasn't done a show since well before she had kids. Why she allowed herself to be roped-in at the last minute to sing, play the cello as well as the lead in Glenn's one-night stand production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a mystery. By the end of the first rehearsal she is floundering, by the end of the second, she is in love. Or, at least, she has a crazy thing for Lana, an utterly relaxed and experienced actor with no apparent ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Nicholls (Author)A hillside with an ocean view seems an ideal spot to spend a lonely Christmas Eve. When Jessica, a journalism major, and Beth, a high-profile politician, discover they both have the same idea, they exchange the sort of explosive little gifts that are usually left wrapped. Although barely acquainted, over the course of the day they discover that through their mutual relationship with Jeff, a Government Minister, their lives are intimately c...

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Report copyright infringementby Roselle Thompson (Author)Papa Bois: King of Paradise is a play about a contemporary Caribbean society, battling against the detrimental effects of globalisation, its fruits of prosperity from returning Caribbean Diaspora migrants, and the consequences for their Caribbean-heritage children. Based on the Caribbean folktale, Papa Bois, this play satirises social conventions and practices held dear by an aged, local Caribbean community, that clash with modern persp...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Vinsonhaler (Author)"This groundbreaking translation ... reveals the un-Beowulf-a riddling maze never seen before, a murder mystery of smoke and mirrors."- Robert Bjork, editor of Klaeber's Beowulf"Vinsonhaler presents startling new evidence for the poem's 'enigmatic design, ' in which good kings such as Beowulf and Hrothgar are repeatedly complicated by allusions to kin-murder, vengeance, and avarice, drawing them ever closer to the monsters they confron...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Nicholls (Author)Every weekday April has the 4WD waiting at the school gate well before 3.30pm and a raft of after-school activities in hand to keep them all occupied. But seven years' worth of long lunches with her single friend Louis and two half days a week at the gallery have left this doctor's wife wondering if there is anything else. When Jeremy the private tutor comes into her life, and her foster daughter May comes of age, April begins to feel like...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Nicholls (Author)Finally, the new play is up and running but Ellen's problems are just beginning. Imogen, her daughter and primary theatrical asset, is tiring of the spotlight. Glenn, her co-producer with privileges, is demanding something more. Then on opening night, Lana appears. Ten years ago, she walked into Ellen's life, changed it and left. Ever since Ellen has been wondering why. Now she is also wondering what Lana wants with Imogen. Nu...

The Monologue Bin: Original Monologues for Teens And Adults

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Chevallier (Author)Author BiographySoap opera fans may recall Jim Chevallier from the opening week of NBC's "Passions', in which he played a French doctor. Now a writer and actor, he spent years in the music business, hosting radio shows in the Boston-Cambridge area (WBZ-FM, WCAS and WBUR) while performing in clubs and festivals across New England and Europe. Having also been a carpenter in the Virgin Islands, a clothes buyer in Boston, a coin dealer in Par...

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (with author biography)

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Report copyright infringementby Lucy Maud Montgomery (Author)"Anne of Green Gables" follows the story of Anne Shirley, an orphan girl, mistakenly sent to live with siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert on their farm, Green Gables. The Cuthberts live in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and seek to adopt a boy to help with farm chores. However, their expectations are overturned when Anne unexpectedly arrives at Green Gables instead. Despite initial reservations, th...

Drummers And Dreamers: Casablanca Rising

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Report copyright infringementby Laila Ouarrachy (Author)On the cusp of an uprising, one girl fights to steer her own lifeDrummers and Dreamers is a genre-blending historical novel and coming-of-age story set in 1960s Casablanca, Morocco, where political unrest and strict social codes collide in streets that pulse with music and rumor. Heartbroken by the sudden death of her father, Tamo - a sharp, spirited teenager from a farm - moves in with her uncle and is thrust into a city that's both int...