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by Tony Kushner (Author)A powerful portrayal of individual dissolution in the face of political catastrophe, by the award-winning playwright of Angels in America.Back JacketPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner's powerful portrayal of individual resolution, irresolution and dissolution in the face of political catastrophe, A Bright Room Called Day follows a group of artists and political activists struggling to preserve themselves in 1930s Berlin as the Weimar Republic surrenders to ...

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by Sanaz Toossi (Author)Winner! 2023 Pulitzer Prize in DramaWinner! 2023 Obie Award for Best New American PlayIt's 2008, and four Iranians assemble triweekly in a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) class in Karaj, Iran. The students are led by Marjan, an anglophile who abolishes Farsi from her classroom. They translate Ricky Martin and endure major preposition confusion; they discover how to be funny in English and ponder what they will lose in the process. As the class slowly devo...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Barbara a. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)The authoritative edition of Henry VI, Part 2 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. Henry VI, Part 2 presents a kind of story that was popular before Shakespeare began writing, tracing the fall of powerful individuals to their untimely deaths. The first to go is the Duke of Gloucester, Lord Protector of England and the most powerful ...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Barbara a. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)The authoritative edition of Henry VI, Part 3 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. Henry VI, Part 3 is dominated by a struggle between two military forces, neither of which can achieve victory for long. Until the end, the Yorkists and Lancastrians strive for the English crown. The conflict between these two families began under Rich...

More Likely Dead: An American Story Crime, Drugs, Sex, Violence-Redemption? - Paperback

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by Keith Hutchison (Author)MORE LIKELY DEAD An American Story Crime, Drugs, Sex, Violence-Redemption is a true story about a young man in California lost and thrown into a world of drugs, sex, and violence. This is a look back at how he got there. It's a rough ride with rays of light and a chance for self-redemption. Everyone has a story. This is mine. It's an adventure I didn't sign up for, a mental struggle to avoid self-destruction. But it is the path I traveled on the ride of my life. Num...

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by Mohamed Cherif (Author)The story of Mayas and extraterrestrials took a serious behavior day after day with new discovering of artifacts and updated studies about this subject.Strange facts emerges with the time to confirm the ancient strong relation between the two parts.In this book you'll find: -Scientifially proven Artifacts showing relation between Ancient Aliens and Mesoamerians.-New credible artifacts from different sources describing the nature of bridge between Mayas and Aliens.-Th...

Caligula and Three Other Plays: A New Translation by Ryan Bloom - Paperback

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by Albert Camus (Author)Four thought-provoking masterworks for the theater by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Stranger and The Plague, in a restorative new translation by Ryan Bloom that brings together, for the first time in English, Camus's final versions of the plays, along with deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue. Though known for his novels that plumb the depths of absurdism, it was the theater stage that Camus called "one of the only places in the world I'm happy." Af...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Andrew Gurr (Editor), Claire McEachern (Introduction by)In this updated edition of King Richard II, Claire McEachern provides a fresh introductory section in which she discusses the most important productions and scholarly criticism of recent years. Paying particular attention to the focus on religion in contemporary interpretations of the play, McEachern also analyses the increasing number of performances on stage and screen. Andrew Gurr's acclaimed introduct...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), William Montgomery (Editor), Janis Lull (Introduction by)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by gener...

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by Obert Holl (Author)My book, which is titled "Lost Inheritance", is a family bio spanning 5 generations dating back to the middle of the 18th century. It begins with the founding of the Khumalo kingdom of Matabeleland, followed by the colonization of Rhodesia, the unilateral declaration of Independence by the Smith Regime, the struggle for national independence, the creation of the new state of Zimbabwe and the subsequent economic collapse.The book also gives a detailed account of the Holl ...

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by Hope Kelley (Author)5 STARS "Brilliant novel Gripping from beginning to end " Miles Merritt, Writer and Filmmaker "Riveting story You are hooked immediately " Edward J. Ferris, Author "Hope Kelley is a magnificent and brilliant writer " Lupita Almaraz Aguilar, Author and PoetFire in Forgotten is a western novel spanning decades, with the story beginning in 1928. This is the tale of two men, Henry Champion and George Baker, who feud their entire lives over a tragic incident they witnesse...

Bad Boy Nietzsche! and Other Plays - Paperback

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by Richard Foreman (Author)Richard Foreman has been at the leading edge of the theatrical avant-garde in the United States and throughout the world since 1968. His legendary productions, written and directed by him at his Ontological-Hysteric Theatre have influenced two generations of theater artists. This new anthology collects plays written and performed over six years, including Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty, Maria del Bosco, Panic (How to Be Happy ), Bad Boy Nietzsche , B...

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by James Söderholm (Author)Hamlet is a twelve year-old boy who hangs out in cemeteries and has a black horse called Nightmare. Yorick is alive and well and teaching the gloomy little prince how to play with words. Young Hamlet worries that he will never be a good king because he thinks too much and doesn't like killing things or grabbing more land. Hamlet debates theology with Horatio and goes swimming with Ophelia but spends most of his time learning how to be a wise fool before Yorick myste...

Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays - Paperback

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by David Henry Hwang (Author)"David Henry Hwang is a true original. A native of Los Angeles, born to immigrant parents, he has one foot on each side of a cultural divide. He knows America - its vernacular, its social landscape, its theatrical traditions. He knows the same about China. In his plays, he manages to mix both of these conflicting cultures until he arrives at a style that is wholly his own. Mr. Hwang's works have the verve of well-made American comedies and yet, with little warning...

Time Stands Still (Tcg Edition) - Paperback

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by Donald Margulies (Author)"The play's two hours fly by as if you've barely taken a breath. . . . Ethical dilemmas arise like exploding mines."-Variety"Mr. Margulies is a skilled practitioner of fluid dialogue that is naturally funny and sensibly smart." -The New York TimesIn his "absorbing intelligent" (Los Angeles Times) and timely new play, Donald Margulies uncovers the layers of a relationship between a photojournalist and foreign correspondent--once addicted to the adrenaline of documen...

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by Linda Tumelo (Author)How I Kept My Self-worth is a heart-wrenching, profound personal story that will teach you how to heal from childhood trauma, handle family conflict, learn self-care and how to persevere no matter how many times you fall, and to never, ever lose faith in God. How I Kept my Self-worth has inspirational, encouraging, motivational and uplifting Bible verses to guide you through every point of your life. This book is dedicated to anyone who is trying to heal from childhood...

Iphigenia among the Taurians - Paperback

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by Euripides (Author)I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work "personal, necessary, and important," while Publishers Weekly says she is "nothing less than brilliant." Her poetry-enigmatic yet approachable, deeply personal yet universal in scope, wildly mutable yet always recognizable as her distinct voice-invests contemp...

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by David Mamet (Author)David Mamet is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such seminal plays of our time as Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, Oleanna, and Speed-the-Plow. His A Life in the Theatre takes us into the lives of two actors: one young and rising into the first full flush of his success; the other older, anxious and beginning to wane. In a series of short, spare, and increasingly raw exchanges, we see the estrangement of youth from age and the wider, inevitable, endlessly cycl...

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by Samuel Beckett (Author)Ends and Odds brings together nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.36 x 8.14 x 5.35 IN Publication Date: January 20, 1994

Three Days of Rain and Other Plays: Three Days of Rain; The American Plan; The Author's Voice; Hurrah at Last - Paperback

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by Richard Greenberg (Author) Number of Pages: 464 Dimensions: 0.84 x 9.03 x 5.99 IN Publication Date: September 13, 1999

Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea - Paperback

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by Nathan Alan Davis (Author)Eighteen-year-old Dontrell Jones the Third decides that it is his duty and destiny to venture into the Atlantic Ocean in search of an ancestor lost during the Middle Passage. But his family is not at all ready to abandon its prized son to the waters of a mysterious and haunting past. Blending poetry, humor, wordplay, and ritual, Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea is a present-day hero's quest exploring the lengths and depths we must go to redeem history's wrongs. Number...

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by Sarah Ruhl (Author)An adaptation of Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo's 2018 epistolary book, Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship, this intimate, poetic play explores the relationship between Sarah and her former student, Max. With humor, lyricism and candor, the two friends share letters and poems as Max faces terminal illness and tests poetry's capacity to put to words what otherwise feels ineffable. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 21, 2024

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by Sarah Ruhl (Author)Out of work and out of love, Becky Nurse is an ordinary but strong-willed grandmother just trying to get by in post-Obama America. She's also the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Rebecca Nurse, who was infamously executed for witchcraft in 1692 - but things have changed for women since then, haven't they? Desperate to raise her troubled teenaged granddaughter right, and also hook up with an old flame, Becky visits a local witch for help. But those spells and poti...

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by Sean Michael Redenbaugh (Author)1000 Shades of Red is the first-person, emotional, and existential journey of a new freshman starting college at Indiana University. It follows him through four years exploring campus, self-discovery, poetic expression, absorption in music, friendships, shenanigans, temptation, and the intense moments of a young man experiencing love gained and love lost for the first time. All of this is set in the beautiful and magical nearly 2000-acre campus of Indiana Un...

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by Sebastian Faulks (Author)"Based on Sebastian Faulks's ... novel, Birdsong tells the story of a soldier haunted by his past. As a young man, Stephen Wraysford was caught up in an all-consuming love affair in Amiens, France. As the First World War unfolds, Stephen finds himself pulled closer and closer back to Amiens, back to the Valley of the Somme"--Amazon.com. Number of Pages: 110 Dimensions: 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 19, 2016

Hysterical Laughter: Four Ancient Comedies about Women - Paperback

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by David Christenson (Author)Hysterical Laughter: Four Ancient Comedies About Women is the first text to uniquely employ comedy as a vehicle to explore women, gender, and sexuality in Greek and Roman antiquity. Featuring new, engaging, and accessible translations by David Christenson of four of the finest classical comedies--Lysistrata (Aristophanes), Samia (Menander), Casina (Plautus), and Hecyra (Terence)--it provides instructors with an attractive and innovative way to explore the social a...

Street Talk: The Great Flood and Other Stories from a River City - Hardcover

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by Dan M. Luzadder (Author)Street Talk, (The Great Flood and Other Stories from a River City), is a collection of columns and stories written in the early 1980s by author and investigative journalist Dan Luzadder, a columnist for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Included are his reflections and reporting on life in the city, including columns he wrote for the newspaper's Pulitzer-winning coverage of The Great Flood. This natural disaster in the spring of 1982 drew national attention and an appe...

Street Talk: The Great Flood and Other Stories from a River City - Paperback

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The Happiest Song Plays Last - Paperback

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by Quiara Alegría Hudes (Author)As ever, Hudes's writing is poetic but wry, full of swagger and poetry. There's live music, but oh, how the lines sing too. -- David Cote, Time Out New York Ms. Hudes draws all her characters with precision and understanding... this warm-blooded play underscores how the disorienting flux of life can be navigated with the help of carefully tended family ties. -- Charles Isherwood, New York Times Delightful... Hudes is a very accomplished storyteller, a playwrigh...

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by Michael Frayn (Author)Farce / 5m, 4f / 2 Int. Called the funniest farce ever written, NOISES OFF returned to Broadway with Patti LuPone and Peter Gallagher and a manic menagerie that sent reviewers searching for new accolades as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called NOTHING'S ON. "The most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy. A spectacularly funny, peerless backstage farce. This dizzy, well-known romp is festival of delirium." - The New York Times "Bump...

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by Blossom Turner (Author)Where Angels Whisper and Demons Lurk, A Battle for Sweet Mara Unfolds...Growing up in1970s small-town Canada, Mara Howland strives to meet her mother's impossible demands-yet the sting of failure always follows. Each punishment leaves another wound to hide, another cruelty to hush, until that dark summer evening. Now, she holds a secret she must bury...if she wants to survive.But more is happening than the human eye can see.The mystery of the supernatural unfolds. Ma...

The Merchant of Venice: The Oxford Shakespearethe Merchant of Venice - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Jay L. Halio (Editor)This edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an exceptionally lucid and accessible introduction which addresses Shakespeare's attitude toward Semitism and establishes the cultural, historical, and literary context in which Shakespeare wrote the play. An interesting range of production photographs and drawings of Renaissance merchants and Jews, and a survey of the play's stage history ...