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The Religious Teachers of Greece: Gifford Lectures Delivered at Aberdeen University, 1904-06 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby James Adam (Author)These lectures provide an in-depth look at the religious teachers of Greece, exploring their teachings and influence on the culture and society of ancient Greece. James Adam's clear and engaging writing style makes this book accessible to all readers, from students of Greek history to those interested in the history of religion. Through his research, Adam sheds light on an often-overlooked aspect of Greek culture and offers new insights into ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anonymous (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enou...

Shakespeare-quarto Facsimiles: Pericles ... 2. Quarto - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)This facsimile edition of the 1609 quarto of Shakespeare's Pericles provides a fascinating glimpse into the early printing of Shakespeare's works. The text is reproduced in its original format, complete with spelling, punctuation, and other idiosyncrasies of early modern English. This edition is an important resource for Shakespeare scholars, as well as anyone interested in the history of printing and publishing.This work has been se...

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by Rainier Karl (Author)Kanon suffers a major loss and must decide his purpose in life. Kanon decides to leave everything he's ever known behind and becomes homeless. Should he continue northbound, away from the life he left behind, or go back? Kanon will have to face reality either way. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 04, 2020

Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author), Matt Wiegle (Illustrator)NOW IN COLOR! Read Romeo and Juliet in graphic-novel form--with NO FEAR! Based on the No Fear Shakespeare modern translations, this dynamic graphic novel--now with fully-colored illustrations--brings the tragic star-crossed lovers to life. The illustrations are distinctively offbeat and sure to appeal to today's teens. The graphic novel also includes an illustrated cast of characters and a helpful plot summary.A...

Invitation to the Party: Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community - Paperback

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by Donna Walker-Kuhne (Author), George C. Wolfe (Preface by)Acknowledged as the nation's foremost expert on audience development involving America's growing multicultural population by the Arts and Business Council, Donna Walker-Kuhne has now written the first book describing her strategies and methods to engage diverse communities as participants for arts and culture. By offering strategic collaborations and efforts to develop and sustain nontraditional audiences, this book will directly imp...

Minds on Stage: Greek Tragedy and Cognition - Hardcover

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by Felix Budelmann (Editor), Ineke Sluiter (Editor)Greek tragedy parades, tests, stimulates, and upends human cognition. Characters plot deception, try to fathom elusive gods, and fail to recognise loved ones. Spectators observe the characters' cognitive limitations and contemplate their own, grapple with moral quandaries and emotional breakdown, overlay mythical past and topical present, and all the while imagine that a man with a mask is Helen of Troy. With broad coverage of both plays and ...

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by Jay Bell (Author)I never thought I'd find love. I spent all of high school watching others pair up, my little gay heart slowly withering in despair... until the fateful summer night that I met Tim. His meaty muscles and smoldering silver eyes already haunt my dreams. And I know for a fact that he's lonely like me. I've been taking care of Tim ever since he got into an accident that was technically my fault, but the healing he needs goes so much deeper than that. I need him too. With any lu...

Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays - Paperback

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by Tina Howe (Author)Tina Howe once said that her aim is "to present a lovely exterior, then seduce the audience into the dark and mysterious places inside." Her four major plays to date are noted for their unusual and elegant settings: an art museum, a French restaurant, a Beacon Hill townhouse, a New England beach. These worlds overflow with hilarious, outlandish, vivid life -- wittily imagined, eloquently rendered, fearlessly explored. Their inhabitants are absurd, anguished, gallant. A de...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Barbara a. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties. Among them: What is the Ghost--Hamlet's father demanding justice, a tempting demon, an angelic messenger? Does Hamlet go mad, o...

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by Jez Butterworth (Author)"A richly absorbing and emotionally abundant play...An instant classic." --Independent "A mighty affair, sending stories, characters, history, politics and love skittering across the floor with the flair of a gambler rolling dice. It's a stunning piece of writing: teeming with life; haunted by death...Butterworth takes the great family drama and makes it his own." --Financial Times "An astonishing, enormous, shattering eruption of a play...It left me genuinely stunn...

Blue Heart (Revised Tcg Edition) - Paperback

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by Caryl Churchill (Author)"Substantial, provocative, immensely stylish works which create an unsettling mixture of wild laughter and profound unease . . . A major hit." --Telegraph "A fiendishly clever and surreal play, timed to perfection." --Guardian "The play of the year." --Independent Blue Heart consists of two related short plays, Heart's Desire and Blue Kettle. Both are teasingly entertaining and brilliantly executed: one about a father and daughter, the other about a mother and son. ...

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Tcg Edition) - Paperback

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by Lynn Nottage (Author)Nottage is one of our finest playwrights, a smart, empathetic, and daring storyteller who tells a story an audience won't expect.--Time Out New YorkLynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history--and the startling simplicity of desire--with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion.--Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrightIn her first new play since the critically acclaimed Ruined, Lynn N...

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by Ellen McLaughlin (Author), Tony Kushner (Introduction by)From The PersiansDefeat is impossibleDefeat is unthinkableWe have always been the favorites of fate.Fortune has cupped usIn her golden palms.It has only been a matterOf choosing our desire. Which fruitTo pick from the nodding tree.This chilling passage is from Ellen McLaughlin's new adaptation of The Persians by Aeschylus, the earliest surviving play in Western literature, an elegy for a fallen civi-lization and a warning to its new ...

Audition Monologues for Teens: Written by a Teen - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Mazey Aud (Author)Written for Teens-by a Teen Teen actors, you know how hard it is to find the perfect audition monologue. There are plenty of monologue books out there, but most of them are written for adults-and it can be hard for teens to relate to the adult scenarios. If you're uncomfortable and having a hard time being yourself, your performance is sure to suffer. AUDition Monologues for Teens is written especially for teenagers. It contains original mono...

Little Women: The Broadway Play of 1912 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Louisa May Alcott (Author), Marian De Forest (Author)The play "Little Women," the only authorized version of Louisa May Alcott's celebrated story of the March family, was originally produced on Broadway in 1912 and has a long history of popular productions. Critics at the time hailed the play as "clever," "exerts rare charm" and "something worth rejoicing over." All the familiar scenes play out in a tapestry of New England life as the March family deals with th...

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by Jez Butterworth (Author)The latest work from acclaimed playwright Jez Butterworth, The Hills of California is a generational drama that rifles through decades of one family's past.Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The beaches are packed. The hotels are heaving. In the sweltering backstreets, far from the choc ices and donkey rides, the Webb Sisters are returning to their mother's run-down guest house, as she lies dying upstairs.Author BiographyJez Butterworth is also...

Sophocles Plays 2: Ajax; Women of Trachis; Electra; Philoctetes - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Sophocles (Author), J. Michael Walton (Editor), Kenneth McLeish (Translator)Sophocles' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series. Introduced by series editor J Michael Walton Includes the surviving complete plays: Ajax which plots the downfall of Odysseus's greatest Trojan enemy - who slaughters a whole herd of cattle before killing himself; Women of Trachis in which the seemingly docile Deianira prepares a lethal homecoming for her w...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Burton Raffel (Editor), Harold Bloom (Contribution by)The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a party of...

Gallinita Colorá Colorá: y las semillitas misteriosas - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Tere Marichal-Lugo (Author)Gallinita Color Color es una obra de teatro que puede ser representada con t teres o con ni as y ni os. Gallinita Color Color est inspirada en el cuento cl sico La gallinita roja. En esta versi n, los amigos de Gallinita Color Color , la ayudan a sembrar unas semillas misteriosas. Disfruta de la lectura dramatizada y descubre de qu son las semillas misteriosas.Author BiographyTere Marichal-Lugo es escritora, ilustradora, dramat...

Vida Y Escritos Del Dr. José Rizal - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Wenceslao Emilio Retana (Author), Miguel De Unamuno (Author), Javier Gómez de la Serna (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body ...

The Many Wondrous Realities of Jasmine Starr-Kidd - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Brown (Author)Can an altered past lead to a better future? A touching story of fate, second chances and accepting what we can't change. Jasmine Starr-Kidd is a 12-year-old computer genius who can hack into the AT&T mainframe, build an artificially-intelligent friend named Grace, and convince the Department of Defense to send her high-powered lasers. But when she realizes that time travel is a lot easier to figure out than trying to convince her pare...

The Merry Wives Of Windsor Shakespeare for kids: Shakespeare in a language kids will understand and love - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jeanette Vigon (Author)Jump into the funny and fantastic world of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," where laughter and clever plans fill the air of old England. This isn't just a regular comedy; it's a hilarious adventure about smart ladies, silly tricks, and a whole lot of fun, made just right for kids.Why kids will love "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Fun and Funny: Laugh out loud as you follow a story packed with silly mix-ups, goofy characters, and smart moves ...

Death and the Fool; a Drama in one Act - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (Author), Elisabeth Foucart-Walter (Author)This powerful drama explores themes of mortality, love, and folly. It follows a Fool who engages in a philosophical conversation with Death, examining the nature of life and the inevitability of death. Written by two acclaimed authors, this book provides a thought-provoking exploration of the human condition.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jessie M. King (Author), John Milton (Author)This beautiful illustrated edition of John Milton's classic masque 'Comus' features the imaginative and colorful designs of Jessie M. King, one of Scotland's most celebrated female artists of the early 20th century. King's illustrations, inspired by the themes and imagery of the masque, create a stunning visual interpretation of Milton's allegorical tale of chastity, virtue, and temptation. This book is a must-read f...

Alice in Wonderland: A Play for Children in Three Acts - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Burton Harrison (Author), John Tenniel (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, tha...

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Report copyright infringementby Gaspar Melchor De Jovellanos (Author)Esta comedia lacrimosa de Jovellanos es una de las cumbres del g nero y una de las obras m s renovadoras est tica e ideol gicamente de su siglo en Espa a. Escrita en prosa, desarrolla una historia de fuerte sabor melodram tico centrada en un personaje, Torcuato, que se ve a las puertas de la muerte por haber participado, a os atr s, en un duelo donde mat al anterior marido de su esposa. El descubrimiento de que el juez que ...

Interferencias del archivo: Cortes estéticos y políticos en cine y literatura: Argentina y Chile - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Uta Felten (Other), Wolfgang Bongers (Author)Los nueve ensayos de este libro analizan textos y films argentinos y chilenos de las últimas décadas, caracterizadas por dictaduras, postdictaduras, y democracias neoliberales. El énfasis estás puesto en las relaciones entre (an)archivo, (anti)memoria, cine, literatura y política.Author BiographyWolfgang Bongers es Profesor Asociado en la Facultad de Letras, Universidad Católica de Chile. Realizó sus estudios y su Do...

Endgame and Act Without Words - Paperback

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by Samuel Beckett (Translator)Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essen...

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production - Paperback

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by J. K. Rowling (Author), Jack Thorne (Author), John Tiffany (Author)The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, a play by Jack Thorne.It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must strug...

The Thanksgiving Play / What Would Crazy Horse Do? - Paperback

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by Larissa Fasthorse (Author)The Thanksgiving Play "Satire doesn't get much richer... A takedown of white American mythology... The familiar, whitewashed story of Pilgrims and Native Americans chowing down together gets a delicious roasting." --Jesse Green, New York Times "Wryly funny... Deftly makes points that need making about representation and, to borrow a line from Hamilton, the crucial matter of 'who tells your story.'" --Don Aucoin, Boston Globe A group of well-intentioned white teach...

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by Khalid Abdalla (Author)Khalid Abdalla's surprising solo show about his own history and involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011. Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.13 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: October 01, 2024