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by Nicole R. Rice (Author), Margaret Aziza Pappano (Author)The civic religious drama of late medieval England--financed, produced, and performed by craftspeople--offers one of the earliest forms of written literature by a non-elite group in Europe. In this innovative study, Nicole R. Rice and Margaret Aziza Pappano trace an artisanal perspective on medieval and early modern civic relations, analyzing selected plays from the cities of York and Chester individually and from a comparative perspe...

Tortured Justice, South Carolina - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Kammen (Author)In a sequel to the critically acclaimed Tortured Justice Guantanamo Bay, Alicia Tobolada a beautiful young Mexican woman returns to South Carolina, where she accidentally kills a police officer while defending herself. With her one call, she calls Conner Mendelson a lawyer who helped her when she was deported the first time. Mendelson thinks he can help, but Alicia is Mexican, undocumented, killed a popular police officer, and Beaufort is...

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Report copyright infringementby Isabella (Author)Dive into a tale of forbidden yearning and political intrigue with Undercover Desire.Lexi Anders, a savvy political campaign manager, couldn't be more excited about her most recent candidate. That is, until she encounters Officer Max Church during a chance traffic stop and discovers exactly how much more excited she can be. Drawn to the enigmatic policewoman, Lexi wonders if there's a way to mix her pleasure with business-and win at both. She r...

Schiller's Tragedies: The Piccolomini; and the Death of Wallenstein [From the Trilogy Wallenstein] Tr. by S.T. Coleridge - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Johann Christoph Friedr Von Schiller (Author)This classic translation of Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy by S.T. Coleridge is a masterful exploration of power, politics, and human nature. Filled with vivid characters and stirring language, Schiller's Tragedies is a timeless masterpiece of German literature.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 "pu...

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by Steven Sater (Author), Duncan Sheik (Author)"This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times"The staggering purity of this show will touch all open hearts...In its refined, imaginative simplicity, it daringly reverses all the conventional rules by returning the American musical to an original state of innocence."--John Heilpern, The New York Ob...

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by Tim Jorgenson (Author) Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.55 x 8.5 x 5.54 IN Publication Date: December 04, 2002

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by George Bernard Shaw (Author)Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London. This edition include...

El Último Dia De Un Reo De Muerte - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Victor Hugo (Author)Esta es una obra dramática del escritor francés Victor Hugo. El Último Día de un Reo de Muerte es una obra que inspira reflexión en el lector. La historia narra las últimas horas en la vida de un condenado a muerte y los sentimientos que éste experimenta. Es un libro que invita al lector a pensar en la justicia y la pena de muerte.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civi...

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by Friedrich Schiller (Author)Many have told the tragic tale of Mary Queen of Scots - it is irresistible - but none more powerfully than Friedrich Schiller. Like Mary Stuart herself and the legends which pursued her to her death, Schiller's drama continues to captivate the modern imagination nearly two centuries later. Eric Bentley's lean, forceful rendering of the German masterpiece will command the attention of theatre audiences for years to come. Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8.2...

Advice to a Player: A Collection of Monologues from Shakespeare with Explanatory Notes - Paperback

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by Donald MacKechnie (Author)While some of the thirty-two speeches included here - those from Hamlet, Henry V and As You Like It, for example - are well known and favorites for audition purposes, most are less familiar and so provide challenging new opportunities for an actor to grow. The author, a producer, director and teacher for more than 40 years, carefully analyzes the meaning of each monologue as a whole and various sentences and phrases within it. He goes on to explain point by point ...

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by Sophocles (Author), Nicholas Rudall (Translator)The tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly slays his father and marries his mother, is one of the mythical cornerstones of Western civilization. Nicholas Rudall's new translation remains true to Sophocles original text while fashioning a language of grace and power, with contemporary players and theatergoers in mind.Author BiographyThe Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the Court Theatre at the...

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by Euripides (Author)Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Trojan War is, despite its heroic background, in many respects a domestic tragedy. Plays for Performance Series.Author BiographyThe Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago where he is professor of classics, and Bernard Sahlins, founder and director of the Second City. They both live in ...

Once More Unto the Speech, Dear Friends: The Tragedies - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Neil Freeman (Other)ONCE MORE UNTO THE SPEECH DEAR FRIENDS: MONOLOGUES FROM SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST FOLIO V3Author BiographyNeil Freeman is currently associate professor of theatre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He also holds the position of master teacher with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. His groundbreaking work in using the first printings of the Shakespeare texts in performance and in the classroom has led to lectures ...

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by William Gibson (Author)The rise of Golda Meir from impoverished Russian schoolgirl to Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most amazing stories of the 20th century. Now her life has been transformed into a one-woman play of overwhelming power and triumph by William Gibson, author of The Miracle Worker. Golda's Balcony earned actress Tovah Feldshuh a 2003 Drama Desk award. "Enlightening ... Now, hearing from someone who was there at the birth of the country, who sacrificed to make that ha...

The Best American Short Plays 1999-2000 - Paperback

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by Glenn Young (Other)Pearl Cleage - David Dozer, Rich Orloff - Jacquelyn Reingold - Murray Schisgal - Nicky Silver - Shel Silverstein - Wendy Wasserstein - donald Steele - Billy Aronson. Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.46 x 8.51 x 5.53 IN Publication Date: October 01, 2001

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by William Shakespeare (Author)These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse an...

Life Is a Dream and Other Spanish Classics - Paperback

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by Various Authors (Author)Translations of four great Spanish dramas: Calderon de la Barca Life Is a Dream; Miguel de Cervantes Siege of Numantia; Lope de Vega Fuente Ovejuna; Tirso de Molina The Trickster of Seville. Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 0.73 x 8.26 x 5.46 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2000

The Collected Works of Harold Clurman - Paperback

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by Harold Clurman (Author)Six decades of commentary on theatre, dance, music, film, art, letters, and politics from this world-renowned critic. A New York Times notable book of the year. Number of Pages: 1122 Dimensions: 2.33 x 9.33 x 7.23 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2000

Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing - Paperback

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by Iani del Rosario Moreno (Author)Theater of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses on how dramatists from the Northern Mexico border territories utilize theater as a means to present the US-Mexico Borderlands in a sociohistorical and political context.Author BiographyIani Moreno is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Suffolk University where she also directs university productions of contemporary Latin American pl...

Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom - Paperback

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by Joseph P. Haughey (Author)Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First Century Classroom is for both the novice and veteran teacher and offers fresh takes on teaching Shakespeare's iconic Hamlet. Its lessons push students to engage deeply and creatively. Rooted in text and performance, each chapter provides ready-to-use learning objectives, reading guides, notes on language, critical backgrounds, discussion questions, film-based strategies, and project-based culminating activities that embrace stud...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare: The Know-It-All Version - Paperback

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by Rachel DeTemple (Author)Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Know-It-All Version uses playful commentary interlaced with the lines of Shakespeare's original text to actively guide and support you as you read this play. It's a lively, engaging, often funny, and thoroughly enlightening way to read Shakespeare. Finally--you don't have to be an expert to know it all.Author BiographyRachel DeTemple has been teaching Shakespeare for more than two decades. She has awakened a love of Shakespeare in stud...

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by Nicolai Gogol (Author)Eric Bentley brings to the attention of Gogol's still growing American public not only a new version of Inspector, but three other dramatic works: The Marriage, Gamblers and A Madman's Diary the last-named being Bentley's dramatization of a famous Gogol story. In a critical preface, Bentley finds all four works to be a Gogolian treatment of love - or the lack of love - and by the same token, thoroughly original works of dramatic art. Also includes a piece on Gamblers ...

The Theatre of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama - Paperback

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by Robert Brustein (Author)Focusing on Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill, and Genet, Mr. Brustein uncovers the roots of the modern theatre in the soil of the rebellion they cultivated. "One of the standard and decisive books on the modern theater."-New York Times.Author BiographyRobert Brustein, theatre critic for the New Republic and is the author of Cultural Calisthenics, Dumbocracy in America, The Siege of the Arts, and Reimagining American Theatre. He is also f...

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by Aristophanes (Author)Aristophanes' great anti-war drama glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Mr. Rudall's new translation recaptures the splendid variety of diction in Aristophanes, so that instead of a heavily poetic presentation the play becomes highly theatrical.Author BiographyThe Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago where he is professor of classics, and Bernard Sah...

The End of the Ancient Republic: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - Paperback

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by Jan H. Blits (Author)While recent criticism of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has stressed the corruption of both the common people and the Republic's enemies within the patrician class, this book argues that at the core of the play lies the less obvious but more important corruption of the regime's leading defenders, particularly Brutus.Author BiographyJan H. Blits teaches philosophy and literature at the University of Delaware. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Da...

Perspectives on Politics in Shakespeare - Paperback

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by John A. Murley (Editor), Sean D. Sutton (Editor), John E. Alvis (Contribution by)Political science is becoming ever more reliant on abstract statistical models and almost divorced from human judgment, hope, and idealism. William Shakespeare offers the political scientist an antidote to this methodological alienation, this self-imposed exile from the political concerns of citizens and politicians. The contributors to this volume, esteemed scholars of political science, show us that Shakespe...

Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul - Paperback

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by Jan H. Blits (Author)The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: "Hamlet" and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul.Author BiographyJan H. Blits is Professor, Honors Faculty, at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Insufficiency of...

Scheherazade's Last Night and Other Plays (hardback) - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Jules Verne (Author), Peter Schulman (Translator)Jules Verne, before he became the famous novelist we know today from Around the World in 80 Days, learned his profession writing for the stage. Many of those youthful plays have been discovered for the first time, and three are translated into English for the first time in Scheherazade's Last Night and Other Plays. In An Excursion at Sea, Verne offers a humorous account of a nautical adventure interrupted by pir...

Final Deception: A Whidbey Island Mystery - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Pedersen (Author)When a woman's body washes ashore near Deception Pass Bridge on Whidbey Island, it looks like suicide. Brad Haraldsen, her long-ago lover, isn't so sure.Decades after journalist Bella Morelli disappears from Brad's life, she is back and in trouble. She travels 3,000 miles to seek refuge and a new life on Whidbey Island, only to find conflict with powerful interests as she prepares to write the most important story of her life.That conflict ...

Much Ado about Nothing and the New Awareness - Hardcover

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by W. Reginald Rampone (Editor), Nicholas M. Utzig (Editor), Jim Casey (Contribution by)Inspired by ongoing movements for social justice, equality, accountability, and truth, the scholars in this volume resituate Much Ado About Nothing in a contemporary critical context. From fake news to #MeToo, these essays explore how vital concerns of the present offer new ways of reading, performing, and understanding Much Ado. Author BiographyW. Reginald Rampone, Jr. is associate professor of English at...

The Bacchae: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudal - Hardcover

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by Euripides (Author)Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason as well as pure sensuality. Plays for Performance Series. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.42 x 8.83 x 5.88 IN Publication Date: April 01, 1996

Aristophanes: The Clouds--An Annotated Translation - Paperback

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by Marie Marianetti (Author)This new translation attempts to inform the general as well as the more specialized reader of what Aristophanes put on stage in 423 B.C. It remains more or less faithful to the original Greek, avoiding radical changes that would make the Clouds conform to linguistic "fads" at the very end of the twentieth century.Author BiographyMarie Marianetti is Assistant Professor of Classics and History at Lehman College, The City University of New York. Number of Pages: 120 D...