Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Mayer Smith (Author)The Runaway Bride is a gripping tale of betrayal, survival, and the search for freedom. Elle Sinclair, a runaway billionaire bride, escapes a life of wealth and expectations, faking her own disappearance to break free from the suffocating control of her family and a forced marriage to Ethan Harrington. But as she runs, she leaves behind more than just her past-trust, love, and everything that had once defined her.Starting over in a small tow...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Gari (Author)Show business legends... EDDIE CANTOR DANNY THOMAS GEORGIE JESSEL Music legends... JOHN LENNON & THE BEATLES LITTLE RICHARD BRIAN WILSON PHIL SPECTOR NEIL SEDAKA JAN & DEAN CAROLE KING THE CARPENTERS DAVID CASSIDY GLEN CAMPBELL Songwriting legends... STEPHEN SONDHEIM MARVIN HAMLISCH ANTHONY NEWLEY Comedy legends... GEORGE CARLIN CHRIS ROCK ROBIN WILLIAMS RODNEY DANGERFIELD SOUPY SALES JERRY STILLER Acting legends... KATHARINE HEPBURN ...

No Surrender! No Retreat!: African-American Pioneer Performers of 20th Century American Theater

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Report copyright infringementby Na Na (Author)No Surrender! No Retreat! examines the careers of fifteen pioneer performers and their triumphs over herculean obstacles. It is a look back over the 20th century and documents personal histories of staggering achievement in spite of institutional racism, gender oppression, and classism. Twenty-four years in the making, No Surrender! No Retreat! is an indispensable work on African Americans in the performing arts, examining well-known performers, s...

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie O'Farrell (Author), Lolita Chakrabarti (Adapted by)Based on Maggie O'Farrell's award-winning novel of the same name, and adapted by the Olivier-award winning Lolita Chakrabarti, Hamnet is a fictional account of Shakespeare's youngest son.Author BiographyLolita Chakrabarti is a British actress and writer who has worked extensively on stage and screen. Writing credits include The Goddess for Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4, Faith, Hope and Blue Charity, also o...

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Report copyright infringementby Wallace Stevens (Author)When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's Collected Poems, along with Stevens's characteristically inventive prose and pieces for the theater. Now Milton J. Bates, the author of the acclaimed Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self, has edited and revised Opus Posthumous to correct the...

Nkjv, Reference Bible, Compact, Leathersoft, Teal, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version - Imitation Leather

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)An easy-to-carry Bible that easily fits in a purse or backpack with cross references allowing this Bible to be an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.Reading the Bible on the go? This compact-sized edition was designed with you in mind. Even though this Bible is small, you don't have to compromise size for readability. Plus, thousands of cross references are conveniently located at the end of verses to help you make connections throughout Scripture.Trusted b...

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Report copyright infringementby Shelagh Delaney (Author)A sensational theatrical success in London, A Taste of Honey was written by Shelagh Delaney at the age of 18. The play prompted Graham Greene to say that it had "all the freshness of Mr. Osborne's Look Back In Anger and a greater maturity." A Taste of Honey won Miss Delaney two national awards, the sale of film rights productions at Stratford, London, and Paris, and a round of applause from the critics.The play is the story of a working-...

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Belflower (Author)At a high school in a one-stoplight town in Georgia, a group of lively teens navigate young love, sex ed and a few school scandals while studying a canonical play in English class. As the students delve into the American classic, they begin to question the play's perspective and the validity of naming its hero. With deep wells of passion and biting humor, this dramatic comedy captures a generation mid-transformation, running on pop mu...

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by Betty Viamontes (Author)Por la autora de la novela Waiting on Zapote Street (Esperando en la calle Zapote) ganadora del premio Latino Books Into Movies. Esta historia pica, basada en hechos reales, transporta a los lectores a la provincia de Camag ey, en el coraz n de Cuba. En el a o 1955, la germinaci n de las semillas de la revoluci n Castrista conllevar a los habitantes de un pueblecito a presenciar un cambio radical en sus costumbres y en su forma de vida. El pueblo, Arroyo Blanco, c...

The Queen's Necklace: A Play in Five Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Pierre Decourcelle (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator), Alexandre Dumas (Based on a Book by)While French writer Alexandre Dumas is best-known for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, many critics consider his Marie-Antoinette novels to be his greatest achievement. Indeed, he was working on a dramatization of The Queen's Necklace at the time of his death in 1870. This was never published, but French playwright Pierre Decourcelle then produced ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandre Dumas (Author), Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)To save his father from execution for treason, the Bravo Giovanni agrees to act as an assassin for The Council of Ten, and ruthlessly carries out their orders for targeted killings against real or imagined enemies of the Serene Republic of Venice in Italy. Inevitably, the Council members begin using the Bravo for their own purposes. When the Count de Bellamonte lusts after...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandre Dumas (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)This powerful, eloquent play moves like a Greek tragedy to its inevitable conclusion. Dumas's drama is based on an actual event--the assassination of Duke Alexander of Medici in 1537 by his cousin, Lorenzo. Lorenzino lures his relative to a trap under the pretext of providing him with a woman. He gets close to the Duke by pandering to his lusts, just so that he'll have the opportunity to kill him. His plan ...

The Spaces of Irish Drama: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays

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Report copyright infringementby H. Lojek (Author)Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of space.Author BiographyHELEN HEUSNER LOJEK Professor Emeritus of English and Associate Dean (retired) of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boise State University, USA. Number of Pages: 181 Dimensions:...

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest Rhys (Author)Title: The Illustrated English Poems. Edited by E. Rhys.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along wit...

The Corsican Brothers: A Play in Three Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Eugene Grange (Author), Alexandre Dumas (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)This adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas tale tells the story of two brothers, born as Siamese twins, but separated not long after birth. They're raised by two different families, but are still able to "feel" the emotions of the other, even at a distance. On the island of Corsica they become entwined in the long-running feud between the Orlandi and the Colonnas--a dispute that had its ...

The Chevalier d'Eon and Other Short Farces from the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Theatre

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Report copyright infringementby Frank J. Morlock (Editor)Here are five short comedies from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France: The Chevalier d'Eon, by Charles Dupeuty and the Baron de Maldigny, tells of a cross-dresser at the court of King Louis XV who gets mixed up in the King's scheme to cheat on the royal mistress, Madame Pompadour; Pregnant with Virtue and Chaste Isabelle, both by Thomas Guellette, are parades or skits, smutty comedies filled with crude horseplay, reflecting the ra...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandre Dumas (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)Written in 1837, Caligula is one of the best nineteenth-century plays set in ancient Rome. The story of the mad, tyrannical Emperor Caligula, who reigned four years before being assassinated, is familiar to modern readers and viewers, but this version includes some new twists. Dumas makes Caligula less frightening than in real life, although he certainly qualifies as a villainous dictator bent on his own pl...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandre Dumas (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)In 1844-45, while Alexandre Dumas was working on his two classic novels, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, he found time to write a play called Sylvandire. A young provincial, Roger Tancred d'Anguilem, arrives in Paris to fight a legal battle for a huge inheritance. His opponent is an Indian called Afghano, who has bribed the judges. The case appears lost until Roger's approached by a slea...

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Report copyright infringementby Michele Lee (Author)'Ya used to get mugged around here. In the 70s, and the 80s. Even into the 90s. All types. The Aboriginals. The Serbians. Punks. Skips. You'd just punch on. People were tough around here. People were surviving.' Set in the sanitised grunge of Collingwood, Single Ladies is a buddy story of lone women in the city told over the course of a day, from the award-winning writer of Going Down and Rice. Anne, Lilike and Rachel are from different gen...

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Report copyright infringementby Tommy Murphy (Author)James Packer believes you want to be him. 'I recognise that the vast majority of people would swap places with me and I wouldn't swap places with with anyone.' Is he right?This is the origin story of the Packer prince told over three generations of tycoons who each battle to inherit their gargantuan birthright and drag it into a new era. Packer & Sons is about the family who told Australia how to think, how to relax, how to be - and the...

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Report copyright infringementby Cassandra Fumi (Author)The Mermaid is a reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, created by a team of teenage and adult theatre-makers. Their retelling of the story traces the journey of a fifteen-year-old mermaid, her transformation, obsession, sacrifice, self-destruction, and self-actualization. A tragicomedy with a teenage chorus that has a screaming vision for a hopeful tomorrow. A poetic piece of visual theatre about finding your voice ...

New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920

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Report copyright infringementby S. Engle (Author)Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study rediscovers the lives and notable accomplishments of five prominent, yet historically neglected women dramatists of the Progressive Era: Martha Morton, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, Beulah Marie Dix, and Rida Johnson Young.Author BiographySHERRY ENG...

Shadwell's Restoration Comedy: A Play in Three Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Shadwell (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Author)Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) wrote a number of comic plays during his life. His drama featured broadly-based, coarse humor, and is filled with crude-but-vibrant characters drawn from the streets of Restoration London, individuals such as sharpers, whores, and eccentrics. His work is essentially plotless, but reeks with the odor of real people. Frank J. Morlock has created a composite drama (with plot!) from Shad...

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Report copyright infringementby Merrilee Moss (Author)Running with Emus is a new, non-naturalistic Australian play written by the AWGIE award-winning regional Victorian playwright, Merrilee Moss (Night Breakfast 2010). The story, set in two different time zones, is about the conflicts and dynamics that arise in a small town near the Murray River as it considers becoming a Refugee Friendly Town. Seventy-six year old Patricia has dropped out of life. She is living on her verandah, watching bird...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Rogers (Author)In Thirroul, Emily sits on the beach with her sort-of-ex-sort-of-not boyfriend, trying to figure out how to deal with her unwanted pregnancy. In Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jana goes out to get groceries and slams into the day-to-day reality of the European refugee crisis. Superheroes is a play about two women on opposite sides of the world living small lives in a time of big politics. It's a play that parallels two very different lives to a...

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Report copyright infringementby David Williamson (Author)For 50 years, David Williamson has shown us the best and worst of ourselves. In this blackly comic drama situated squarely on the fault lines that divide Australia, David is at his angry best: furious that his generation has retired from defending the socially compassionate values on which they claim to have built this country. The play asks us to choose freedom over reputation, empathy over franking credits; to abandon a deeply flawed ...

Congreve's Comedy of Manners: A Play in Five Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Frank J. Morlock (Author), William Congreve (Author)This play distills the essence of Congreve into one stageworthy play. William Congreve wrote four comedies: "The Way of the World" is his acknowledged masterpiece; "Love for Love" is less brilliant but easier to perform; "The Old Bachelor" and "The Double Dealer," his early dramas, contain very good material but are rarely read let alone performed. Frank Morlock builds his own adaptation of Congreve's dramas o...

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Report copyright infringementby Hugh Whitemore (Author)Britain in 1956: the Suez Crisis. Prime Minister Anthony Eden, described by a colleague as 'half mad baronet and half beautiful woman', is faced with the terrible possibility of leading his country into war. His health is collapsing. His friends, colleagues and opponents, among them Hugh Gaitskell and Ian Fleming and his wife Ann, are facing crises of their own, crises of conscience and crises of the heart. Hugh Whitemore's new play is a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Vickery-Howe (Author)Basil Pepper is not 'the man', he's not a doer, or a fighter ... or even much of a thinker. World events pass him by, ideology makes him sleepy, and the Prime Minister's name eludes him. Delia Dengel is determined to take a stand, to succeed where generations have failed, and be the change she wants to see, even if she'll always be hunted. Basil is smitten. It isn't long before he begins to see the world through Delia's eyes ... And th...

The Widow's Husband and Porthos in Search of an Outfit - Two Alexandre Dumas Comedies

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandre Dumas (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)Here are two short one-act comedies, one written by Alexandre Dumas and one inspired by him. "The Widow's Husband" was Dumas's first venture into comedy. It's about a woman whose husband hides himself overseas, leading their friends and family to believe that he's dead. When he returns to France, he finds his "widow" getting way too much attention from would-be suitors. But this modern-day Odysseus finds a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Rachel Brown (Author)As if their 20-year age gap wasn't trouble enough, Matilda's fighting for space with Gabe's long-time bedfellows: misery, booze and writerly angst. She's not even convinced he's over his ex-girlfriend and publisher Angela, who was hooked on picking up his pieces. If Gabe wants to get sober, he'll have to abandon his image as tragic writer betrothed to the bottle. And if Angela's really trying to let Gabe go, like her partner Tony needs...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandre Dumas (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)Young Louis XIV (La Jeunesse de Louis XIV) is generally considered by critics to be one of Dumas's best plays. This joyous romp through history focuses on Louis's seizure of power in 1658, and his romance with Marie de Mancini under the oak tree. As a portrait of a young king on the verge of greatness, there's nothing else like it except for Shakespeare's trilogy about Prince Hal (Henry IV, Parts I and II, ...