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The Great Revolution of 1840. Reminiscences of the Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign. (Tippecanoe Songs of the Log Cabin Boys and Girls of 1840.).

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Report copyright infringementby A. B. Norton (Author)Title: The Great Revolution of 1840. Reminiscences of the Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign. (Tippecanoe Songs of the Log Cabin Boys and Girls of 1840.).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, paten...

John Marston - Antonio & Mellida: The First Part of the History of Antonio and Mellida

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Report copyright infringementby John Marston (Author)John Marston was born to John and Maria Marston née Guarsi, and baptised on October 7th, 1576 at Wardington, Oxfordshire. Marston entered Brasenose College, Oxford in 1592 and earned his BA in 1594. By 1595, he was in London, living in the Middle Temple. His interests were in poetry and play writing, although his father's will of 1599 hopes that he would not further pursue such vanities. His brief career in literature began with the fashion...

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory Motton (Author)Gengis discovers he's won the competition to become leader of the nation. He'll be in charge of stocking the shelves and a marketing outreach policy statement, and great things are expected of him. He has plans to modernise the shop, increase profit and sell his people the one commodity they haven't already got: the noose.After trying in vain to reform his rude, stupid and greedy population he ends up in a trade war against the US. He goe...

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Report copyright infringementby John McGrath (Author)A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground? Who is the enemy?Hyperlynx was performed as a one act rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2001. Its grim premonition of the terrorist activity of September 11th, necessitated that John...

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Report copyright infringementby Do Shaw (Author)It's 1940 and across the country women are leaving their homes, shops and offices to take up a new role in the Women's Land Army. These Land Girls quickly learnt new farming skills with stock and crops. Back to the Land takes a warm-hearted look at the lives and loves of a group of Land Girls making the best of their new situation in a hostel not very far from Berwick upon Tweed. They had come from every class and every county and sometimes jeal...

Margaret Cavendish - The Comedy Named the Several Wits: 'But a wild wit in every ditch doth flow, And with the mudde doth soul, and filthy grow''

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Cavendish (Author)Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was born in 1623 in Colchester, Essex into a family of comfortable means. As the youngest of eight children she spent much time with her siblings. Margaret had no formal education but she did have access to scholarly libraries and tutors, although she later said the children paid little attention to the tutors, who were there 'rather for formality than benefit'. From an early ag...

Margaret Cavendish - Love's Adventures - Part I: 'For shame take courage, and be not afraid of a Woman''

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Report copyright infringementby Norman Rosenblood (Editor)An attempt to reinterpret Shaw for modern audiences, this collection of essays will appeal not only to Shavian scholars, but to anyone who has been delighted and stimulated by the playwright's keen wit and sensitive awareness of social issues Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.35 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 15, 1971

Isaac Newton's Scalder, Abraham, Prophesies the End of the World, & Other Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Carlo Parcelli (Author), Daniel McTaggart (Editor), Elric DeVault (Editor)A collection of new monologues and poems from Carlo Parcelli, modernist poet, monologist, and vaudevillian, who is a founder and editor for Flashpoint magazine and tours in performance of his works. Iconoclastic, argumentative, and a challenging read for those disused to his historical, blasphemous, profane, comedic, and vulgar meanderings. Number of Pages: 120 D...

Margaret Cavendish - Love's Adventures - Part II: 'But my Lady is not of that humour''

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Poems ... A new edition, chronologically arranged, with illustrative notes, and a selection of contemporary criticism. [With a portrait.]

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Report copyright infringementby Felicia Dorothea Hemans-Browne (Author)Title: Poems ... A new edition, chronologically arranged, with illustrative notes, and a selection of contemporary criticism. [With a portrait.]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 record...

Ridley Plays: 2: Vincent River; Mercury Fur; Leaves of Glass; Piranha Heights

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Ridley (Author)This second volume of Ridley's stage plays confirms him as one of themost imaginative, daring and unique voices currently working intheatre. All four plays collected here resonant with Ridley's trademarkthemes - East London, storytelling, moments of shocking violence, memories of the past, fantastical monologues, and that strange mix ofthe barbaric and the beautiful he has made all his own.Vincent River: '... a grieving mother and a traum...

Aphra Behn - The Debauchee: or, The Credulous Cuckold

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Report copyright infringementby Aphra Behn (Author)Aphra Behn was a prolific and well established writer but facts about her remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said though is that Aphra Behn is now regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre.Aphra was born into the rising tensions to the English Civil War. Obviously a time of much division and difficulty as the King and Parliament, and their respective forces, came ever closer to confl...

Murphy Plays: 6: The Cherry Orchard; She Stoops to Folly; The Drunkard; The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Murphy (Author)Murphy Plays: 6 brings together four plays by the author inspired by other great works of literature: The Cherry Orchard: In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history and in the society around them. Tom Murphy's fine vernacular version allows us to re-imagine the events of the play in the last days of Anglo-Irish colonialism. It gives this great play viv...

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Bowen (Author)A temp takes off, a headhunter wins a Dreamcast. A father hires a boy and a daughter needs an escort. The successful and the damaged ricochet around the metropolis. Emotion becomes a commodity with violent consequences in this savage, funny first play. Free was performed as part of the National Theatre's Transformations season in May 2002. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.7 x 5 IN Publication Dat...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Evans (Author)When Danielle was a child, three women loomed large in her life: her gritty, responsible mother, her wild-child Aunt, and their best friend. Now a young woman herself and facing the break-up of another relationship, Danielle takes stock of her childhood years - of an absent dad; of her fascination with a neighbourhood "bad boy" - and uncovers a story of everyday heroism and the strange tricks that memory can play. A warm and witty play, Getti...

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Osment (Author)Philip Osment's magical play is funny, tender and true. Gabriel has to earn his stripes as a guardian angel to a poor orphaned girl as she grows up with her adoptive parents. Along the way he learns things about his own history and the real reason for his growing friendship with the little girl. Astonishing theatrical skills, including puppetry, live music and song combine to create this wondrous adventure, an unforgettable exploration of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Colin Teevan (Author)The tale of the roguish Monkey and his exploits on a fabulous journey to India is one of the most popular classics in Asian literature. Monkey has been imprisoned in a mountain because of the chaos he has wrought in heaven. To be redeemed, he must guide the Buddhist monk Tripitaka from China, through the Himalayas, on a mystical quest in search of sacred scriptures. Helped by two friends, Pigsy and Sandy, he encounters demons, spirits, drag...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Sellar (Author)Two policemen are called out to a remote asylum to investigate the escape of a missing patient. Set in the twilight world of 1950s pulp, this creepy satire twists and turns towards its shocking climax. Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8.38 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2001

Ted Whitehead: Four Plays: The Foursome; Alpha, Beta; The Sea Anchor; The Punishment

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Whitehead (Author)Includes the plays The Foursome, Alpha Beta, The Sea Anchor and The Punishment E. A. Whitehead's first play, The Foursome, had its premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in 1971, and subsequently transferred to the West End, winning the George Devine Award and Evening Standard Award for most promising playwright. Ostensibly a play about the battle of the sexes, it is actually an exploration of the assumptions that make such battles inevitable...

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Onram (Author)There's a war going on. A war between the spirit and the mind. Between the eternal present and the past. Between intelligence and inertia. Between faith and rationale. Between hip and square.Neil Oram's ten-play cycle, The Warp was first performed in 1979 in a 22 hour production directed by Ken Campbell. This new volume brings together the most vibrant speeches from the legendary play.Author BiographyNeil Oram's ten-play cycle The Warp was fi...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Oswald (Author)After ten years at war, Odysseus returns to Ithaka to find his palace in the hands of violent men. These mortal enemies are overcome but the ghosts of war are not so easily vanquished. Drawing on the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, and loosely following the model of classical Greek drama, Peter Oswald explores the personal journey behind the fantastic one, and asks what it means to be a hero.Author BiographyPeter Oswald was born in England in 1...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Messaline (Author), Bill Tarling (Author)In the Background gives advice on courses and casting, and how to prepare before shooting begins. It describes the joy and the fear, the pleasures and the pain, the challenge and the boredom of life on set. Wardrobe, taxes, files, resumes, the myriad details of the performer's life - here are practical details and information that can make the professional difference.Author BiographyBill Tarling is a performer extr...

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory Motton (Author)Gregory Motton's latest play, and his fourth to be premiered in France, is a lyrical comedy. It concerns God's relationship with his creations, and Man's destiny. It includes episodes with God and Lucifer, Isaac and Rebecca and their sons Jacob and Esau, Jacob and the Angel, Jacob begetting his children, God's love affair with Mary, the birth of Jesus, and the Saviour's final betrayal by his idolising follower, the lonely, fearful Judas.A...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Lucas (Author)Tom and Jess have grown disillusioned with a world full of people who'll murder you as soon as look at you - or else systematically overcharge you for building work. They are going to make life simple from now on: just two of them rescuing starfish washed up by the tides and strictly no contact withother human beings. But this secluded lifestyle is disrupted when mysterious stranger Slippy arrives on their doorstep, wounded, dying and begging...

The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie, complete in one volume. [With a portrait.]

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Report copyright infringementby Joanna Baillie (Author) Title: The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie, complete in one volume. [With a portrait.]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 coll...

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Report copyright infringementby Colin Teevan (Author)Dublin. The night before Christmas and Mrs and Mrs Walls are preparing for the arrival of their son Joseph and his new bride, Mary, from London. "George Bernard Shaw wrote: 'I have not yet found real homes except in very stupid families to whom a house is a world.' The tragedy was when, as in his own family - or Stella's in The Walls - intelligent people attempt to make a house their world. Shaw turned his own childhood tragedy into comedy ...

Is Shylock Jewish?: Citing Scripture and the Moral Agency of Shakespeare's Jews

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Report copyright infringementby Sara Coodin (Author)A detailed exploration of the significance of Hebrew Biblical stories in The Merchant of VeniceWhat happens when we consider Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as a play with 'real' Jewish characters who are not mere ciphers for anti-Semitic Elizabethan stereotypes? Is Shylock Jewish studies Shakespeare's extensive use of stories from the Hebrew Bible in The Merchant of Venice, and argues that Shylock and his daughter Jessica draw on recog...

Burlesque Upon Burlesque: Or, the Scoffer Scoft. Being Some of Lucian's Dialogues Newly Put Into English Fustian, Etc. [By C. Cotton ... in Verse.]

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Cotton (Author)Title: Burlesque upon Burlesque: or, the Scoffer Scoft. Being some of Lucian's Dialogues newly put into English Fustian, etc. [By C. Cotton ... In verse.]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, pa...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Nabbes (Author)Title: Covent Garden: a pleasant comedie [in five acts, in prose and verse], etc.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 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory Motton (Author)Includes the plays Looking at You (Revived) Again, A Message for the Broken Hearted, The Terrible Voice of Satan and Lazy Brien "An Irish Peer Gynt... Motton's use of language gives sheer delight" - The Times "An eerie mixture of needling precision and shambling incoherence... every line is taught and precise... mysterious, provoking and uncomfortably comic." - Time Out "A masterpiece... A writer of the first importance" - La LibérationAu...

Moliere - Sganarelle or, The Self-Deceived Husband aka The Imaginary Cuckold: Sganarelle ou Le Cocu Imaginaire

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Heron Wall (Translator), Moliere (Author)Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is better known to us by his stage name of Molière. He was born in Paris, to a prosperous well-to-do family on 15th January 1622.In 1631, his father purchased from the court of Louis XIII the posts of "valet of the King's chamber and keeper of carpets and upholstery" which Molière assumed in 1641. The benefits included only three months' work per annum for which he was paid 300 livres and a...