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The Moral Vision of Jacobean Tragedy. - Hardcover

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by Robert E. Ornstein (Author), Unknown (Author) Number of Pages: 310 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 18, 1975

Shakespeare--Who Was He? The Oxford Challenge to the Bard of Avon - Paperback

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by Richard Whalen (Author)Debate has swirled for years around that most significant of literary problems, the authorship of Shakespeare's works. Now Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, a recognized poet and playwright, has eclipsed Bacon, Marlowe, and all the other candidates for authorship honors. Lengthy and specialized studies have detailed the historico-literary case for Oxford and against the man from Stratford-on-Avon . . . Shakespeare: Who Was He? is the first book to give the gen...

Sing Sorrow: Classics, History, and Heroines in Opera - Hardcover

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by Marianne McDonald (Author)Opera has often used classical literature as a means of expressing the most vital concerns of the period in which the operas were written. Sing Sorrow explores the classical roots of many noted operas, illustrating the ways in which the operas reflected the political concerns of their time through these ancient narratives. In particular, though female opera characters are often regarded as victims, they are actually quite heroic, frequently shaping their own desti...

August Wilson's Fences: A Reference Guide - Hardcover

$142.20

by Susan C. W. Abbotson (Author), Sandra Garrett Shannon (Author)Fences is the story of a responsible yet otherwise flawed black garbage collector in pre-Civil Rights America who, in August Wilson's hands, rises to the level of an epic hero. Deemed a generational play, it mirrors the classic struggle of status quo, tradition, and age, versus change, innovation, and youth. During its 1987 Broadway run, Fences garnered four Tony Awards, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer ...

Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem - Hardcover

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by Diana Price (Author)As the world's greatest author, Shakespeare has attracted attention from scholars and laypersons alike. But more and more people have questioned whether the historical Shakespeare wrote the plays popularly attributed to him. While other books on the subject have argued that some other particular person, such as the Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays, this is the first book in over 80 years to comprehensively revisit the authorship question without an ideological bias, the ...

Shakespeare's Criminals: Criminology, Fiction, and Drama - Hardcover

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by Victoria M. Time (Author)By exploring Shakespeare's use of law and justice themes in the context of historical and contemporary criminological thinking, this book challenges criminologists to expand their spheres of inquiry to avenues that have yet to be explored or integrated into the discipline. Crime writers, including William Shakespeare, were some of the earliest investigators of the criminal mind. However, since the formalization of criminology as a discipline, citations from literar...

Understanding Othello: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents - Hardcover

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by Faith Nostbakken (Author)Although Othello has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, its performance history has been marked with risk and tension because of the play's focus on racial prejudice, gender conflict, and sexuality. The controversies surrounding conflicting attitudes toward race and religion, love and marriage, and war and the military in Shakespeare's time are reflected in the tragic plot and thematic ambiguities of Othello. This interdisciplinary casebook is designed t...

Understanding Death of a Salesman: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents - Hardcover

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by Brenda Murphy (Author), Susan Abbotson (Author)This collection of social, cultural, and historical documents and popular materials, with linking explanations and commentary, will help the reader to study the play in the context of its time and cultural background. The collected materials are designed to work with the play to highlight inherent conflicts within American society which lie at the heart of Death of a Salesman, and to explore how the play affects and is affected by social mores...

The Theatregoer's Almanac: A Collection of Lists, People, History, and Commentary on the American Theatre - Hardcover

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by Thomas Hischak (Author)As a concise study of the American theatre, this work explores the past and present by looking at major aspects of theatregoing in America over the past 250 years. Diverse topics include plays On and Off Broadway, ticket prices, critics, playwrights, awards, musicals, actors, theatre groups and organizations, and theatre publications. The Almanac is both a reference work and a very personal browsing book. It is lively and highly readable, yet scholarly with commentar...

Understanding A Raisin in the Sun: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents - Hardcover

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by Lynn Domina (Author)A Raisin in the Sun is the first play by a black woman to be produced in a Broadway theater. First performed in 1959, before the civil rights and women's movements came to the fore, it raises issues of segregation, family strife, and relationships between men and women that are both representative of the time and timeless in their universality. This interdisciplinary collection of commentary and forty-five primary documents will enrich the reader's understanding of the ...

Rachel Crothers: A Research and Production Sourcebook - Hardcover

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by Colette Lindroth (Author), James Lindroth (With)Rachel Crothers had a fascinating and influential career as a woman playwright and director. She was a major part of Broadway history during the first half of the 20th century, when she wrote for leading actresses such as Tallulah Bankhead, Katharine Cornell, and Gertrude Lawrence. While she is primarily known for her plays, she also worked for a time in Hollywood, and many of her plays were filmed--some more than once. This volume presents a...

Alice on Stage: A History of the Early Theatrical Productions of Alice in Wonderland - Hardcover

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by Charles Candler Lovett (Author)This unique work covers the many stage productions of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The book opens with details of productions of the play during the author's lifetime. The book goes on to give a brief background of Victorian Theater in general and then a discussion of Carroll's own passion as a theatergoer and friend of theatrical personalities. Number of Pages: 356 Dimensions: 0.95 x 10.28 x 7.24 IN Publication Date: December 01, 1989

A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans - Hardcover

$149.40

by Bernard L. Peterson (Author)This comprehensive reference book provides succinct information on almost thirteen hundred musical stage works written and produced from the 1870s to the 1990s involving contributions by black librettists, lyricists, composers, musicians, producers, or performers or containing thematic materials relevant to the black experience. Organized alphabetically, they include tent and outdoor shows, vaudeville, operas and operettas, comedies, farces, spectacles, revues, ...

Musical Notes: A Practical Guide to Staffing and Staging Standards of the American Musical Theater - Hardcover

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by Carol Lucha-Burns (Author) Number of Pages: 598 Dimensions: 1.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 23, 1986

Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (Author), Eliz Brown Guillory (Author)This is the first book-length study of black American women playwrights. It will be useful to scholars in the fields of black and women's literature and an excellent source of background reading in graduate and undergraduate courses on American women playwrights. The author's training as both a scholar and a playwright is evident in this book. Choice This important contribution to African American and women's studies analyzes t...

Interpretations in Shakespeare's Sonnets - Hardcover

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by Hilton Landry (Author), Unknown (Author)Recurrent principles and interests in the sonnets are isolated in close studies of individual sonnets to show Shakespeare's pattern of mind. The study suggests various groupings by which the nature of Shakespeare's response to a number of stimuli can be gauged. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 19, 1976

Against All Odds: Readers Theatre for Grades 3-8 - Paperback

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by Suzanne Barchers (Author), Michael Ruscoe (Author)This book of readers theatre scripts for low-achieving middle grade readers is meant to inspire. Written at readability levels of grades 2 and 3, students who struggle with reading will enjoy learning about the lives of people both current (Bob Woodruff) and historical (Franklin Roosevelt) who are inspirational because of their perseverance and ability to overcome adversity in their daily lives. By reading, performing, and discussing these ...

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by Margaret Edson (Author)Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award.Adapted to an Emmy Award-winning television movie, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson.Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize-winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence's unifying experiences--mortalit...

Shakespeare and Audience in Practice - Paperback

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by Stephen Purcell (Author)What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespearean play? What makes them respond in the ways that they do? This book examines a wide range of theatrical productions to explore the practice of being a modern Shakespearean audience. It surveys some of the most influential ideas about spectatorship in contemporary performance studies, and analyses the strategies employed both in the texts themselves and by modern theatre practitioners to position audiences in particula...

William Shakespeare: Facts and Fictions - Hardcover

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by Douglas King (Author)Based on solid research and clear explanations, this book provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of 10 key facts and fictions regarding the life and works of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is perhaps the most famous author in world literature. His works have attracted tremendous critical and historical attention, and the world in which he lived has been the subject of hundreds if not thousands of books. But for all the attention given to Shakespeare and his worl...

How to Study a Shakespeare Play - Paperback

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by Martin Coyle (Author), John Peck (Author)This book - for a decade the most highly regarded general introduction to Shakespeare - offers students a clear and practical method of approaching a Shakespeare play. This major new edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include five new chapters that illustrate the nature and impact of the new approaches to Shakespeare that have swept through literary studies in recent years: structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction, feminism,...

Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama - Hardcover

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by Helaine L. Smith (Author)Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus plays, Euripides' Medea and Bacchae, and Aristophanes' Birds and Lysistrata are discussed in this lively and scholarly volume. The author's experience teaching these plays to gifted high school students makes this volume particularly useful. The drama festivals, the adaptations of myth, the relevance of Aristotelian criteria, and the political and cultural background of each play are described fully, and the nature of traged...

Divine Madness and the Absurd Paradox: Ibsen's Peer Gynt and the Philosophy of Kierkegaard - Hardcover

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by Bruce G. Shapiro (Author)This book is a comprehensive study of Peer Gynt, a drama that forms the foundation of not only the entire Ibsen canon but also modern drama as a whole. It provides scene-by-scene commentary on the drama, showing how the literature and ideas of the drama resemble, and sometimes duplicate, the literature and philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard. It is the first such study since Henri Logeman's commentary on the drama published in 1917. Although the main focus of the book ...

George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre - Paperback

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by Tracy Davis (Author)A biographically based study of George Bernard Shaw and his milieu, this book offers a non-laudatory reading of Shaw's economic practices and theories, augments feminist and postcolonial critiques that preoccupy the study of literary history in the 1990s, and provides a long overdue revisionist reading of Shaw for an undergraduate readership. It traces the theatrical and political influences on Shaw from his earliest days in London; tracks his interest in socialism as a...

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by Jeremy Lopez (Author)JEREMY LOPEZ is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2003), an experienced director and the theatre review editor of the Shakespeare Bulletin.Author BiographyJEREMY LOPEZ is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Dra...

YOU-niquely H.E.R.: There is a little YOU in H.E.R. A True Story of Deceit, lies, and manipulation - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Kema Banks Johnson (Author)Joss is an independent woman, successful in her own way. She had everything she needed in her life except for love. It was something she felt she needed in order to feel complete. She unknowingly found herself being manipulated by love and sex.HER journey of love came from different platforms of dating, from meeting Drew at work, bumping into Sawyer at a convenience store, simply making a post online, prompting Micah to respond, to ev...

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Harriet Beecher Stowe (Author)The book "" Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. Nu...

Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze: Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought - Paperback

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by Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough (Author)Using theories of national, transnational and world cinema, and genre theories and psychoanalysis as the basis of its argument, Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze argues that these understandings of Japanese horror films can be extended in new ways through the philosophy of Deleuze. In particular, the complexities and nuances of how films like Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Audition (1999) and Kairo (2001) (and beyond) form dynamic, transformative global net...

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by Tanika Gupta (Author)Teenage sisters Affy and Di look out for each other. Dying to escape their violent life, they move from dreams to betrayal - with devastating results.Inside Out, a Clean Break commission, is the provocative and funny story of how the sisters fight for a better future.Author BiographyTanika Gupta has written for theatre, radio, film and television. Her stage plays include "Voices in the Wind", "Skeleton", "On the Coach with Enoch", "Sanctuary" (also published by Oberon ...

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Report copyright infringementby James Matthew Barrie (Author)Though today he is best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan, British author J.M. Barrie was a playwright with wide-ranging interests and an irreverent sense of humor. The Admirable Crichton is a witty send-up of clashes between the social classes in turn-of-the-century England.Author BiographySir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was...

Surviving Bethel: a true story of surviving torture and abuse - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Allen Knoll (Author)A true story about a boy who attended the abusive and corrupt Bethel Boys Academy! The story is captivating and heart breaking. At times it will make you laugh and at times you will cry! Many Magazines and TV programs have reported on this school including BARBARA WALTERS in 20/20. Author Allen Knoll tells his captivating story of surviving an incredibly abusive school that hid behind religion. He walks you through his experience and it's as...

The Art of Law in Shakespeare - Paperback

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by Paul Raffield (Author)Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield analyses the contiguous development of common law and poetic drama during the first decade of Jacobean rule. The broad premise of The Art of Law in Shakespeare is that the 'artificial reason' of law was a complex art form that shared the same rhetorical strategy as the plays of Shakespeare. Common law and Shakespearean drama of this period employed various aesthetic devices to capture the imagination a...