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Love in the Time of Time's Up - Paperback

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by Christine Sneed (Editor)With pathos and insight, each of the 16 accomplished authors--among them Lynn Freed, Karen Bender, May-lee Chai, Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza, and Amina Gautier--featured in Love in the Time of Time's Up skillfully explores the complexities of desire, intention, and what it means to be a woman in the era of Me Too and Time's Up. From the fraught, sexually charged groves of academia and elevators of corporate America, to the imagined diary entries of Brett Kavanaugh an...

Shakespeare Made Easy - Hamlet - Paperback

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by Alan Durband (Author)The Shakespeare Made Easy series aims to take the fear out of Shakespeare. By having Shakespearean and Modern English facing each other, pupils will find it easier to comprehend the text. Through discussion of the life, work and theatre of Shakespeare pupils can gain a more rounded understanding of these classic works. Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 0.78 x 7.62 x 5.04 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2014

Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard - Paperback

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by Anton Chekhov (Author), Ronald Hingley (Translator)Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the authoritative Oxford Chekhov, in Ronald Hingley's acclaimed translation. Hingley has also written an introduction specifically for this volume in which he provides a detailed history of Chekhov's involvement in the theater and an assessment of...

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by Jeff Malphurs (Author)Joe Moore has always been a leader of his predominately black neighborhood in a small Southern town. He's a devoted family man, an inspiring mentor for the local youth, and a strong-willed, but spiritually uplifting rock for those around him. Through a life of hardships and triumphs, Joe refuses to exist without purpose, live without passion, or die without cause.His life-long best friend and neighbor proclaims himself to be a willing apostle of Joe and his philosophi...

In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play - Paperback

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by Sarah Ruhl (Author)Characters: 3m, 4f / Interior In the Next Room or the vibrator play is a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat 'hysterical' women (and some men), the play centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household. In a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. ...

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by Agatha Christie (Author)Rule of Three is a collection of the three short plays Afternoon At The Seaside, The Rats, and The Patient. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8 x 5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 22, 2014

Shakespeare Made Easy - Twelfth Night - Paperback

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by Alan Durband (Author)Full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance of the plays is reinforced by sections discussing Shakespeare's life, works and theatre. Pupils are encouraged to understand the language, characters, structure and themes of the plays by completion of practical exercises....

Wasps and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes - Paperback

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by Aristophanes (Author), Stephen Halliwell (Author)'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.' Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BCE. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fant...

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by Euripides (Author), Thomas Sleigh (Translator), Christian Wolff (Translator)In Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a thoroughly contemporary dilemma about the relationship between personal and state violence to civic order. Of all of Euripides' plays, this is his most skeptically subversive examination of myth, morality, and power. Depicting Herakles slowly going mad by Hera, the wife of Z...

Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story - Paperback

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by Hamid Sulaiman (Author)JOE SACCO MEETS PERSEPOLIS IN THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM A NEW INTERNATIONAL TALENT, HAMID SULAIMAN--WINNER ENGLISH PEN AWARD---It is spring 2012 and 40,000 people have died since the start of the Syrian Arab Spring. In the wake of this, Yasmine has set up a clandestine hospital in the north of the country. Her town is controlled by Assad's brutal regime, but is relatively stable. However, as the months pass, the situation becomes increasingly complex and violent. Told ...

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by Lauren Yee (Author)Today is the two-year anniversary of Fiona's son's disappearance, and still, nothing makes sense to her. Not her blas husband, the incompetent detective, or the neighborhood kidnapper who keeps introducing himself in the checkout line. As Fiona delves back into her memories of that fateful day, to uncover that crucial missing piece, grief and comedy collide, and ordinary turns of phrase take on dangerous new meanings Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8 x 5 IN Publi...

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by Aphra Behn (Author), Jane Spencer (Editor)Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her most important comedies in a single volume: The Rover, her best-known play; The Feigned Courtesans, a lively comedy of intrigue; The Lucky Chance, a comedy with a bitter edge, which takes a satirical look a...

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by Del Shores (Author)Comedy / 6m, 6f Winner 14 DramaLogue awards including Best Production A black comedy about white trash The author of Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) brings you a comedy that was nominated for over thirty awards during its long run in Los Angeles. When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover's wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas. " This play by] the master of Texas Comedy .....

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by Bryna Turner (Author)Inspired by the real letters between Mary Woolley and Jeannette Marks spanning from 1899 to 1937, this fast-paced comedy asks: What is revolution? What does it mean to be at odds with the world? How do we fulfill our potential? And how the hell do we grow old together? Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 15, 2018

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by Jenny Rachel Weiner (Author)Twelve-year-old Ashleigh rules the Lady Jean Ladies, South Florida's most exclusive horse club. News that her family's stables are being sold and their horses killed for meat throws the Ladies into crisis in this dark comedy of middle school deception and lies. Horse Girls is a play about pre-teens: their obsessions, their insecurities, their desperate need to find a place in the world. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 0...

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by Lindsey Ferrentino (Author)Newly discharged soldier Jess has finally returned to her Florida hometown. She brings with her not only vivid memories of Afghanistan, but painful burns that have left her physically and emotionally scarred. Jess soon realizes that things at home have changed even more than she has. Through the use of virtual reality video game therapy, she builds a breathtaking new world where she can escape her pain. As Jess advances farther in the game, she begins to restore ...

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by David Mandy (Author) Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2024

I See Through Muddy Water: Signs of Down Low Men - Paperback

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by Nichol Collins (Author)"I See Thru Muddy Water," is a compelling tale that exposes the secret lives of "down-low" men. The duplicity of this lifestyle leaves so many women wounded and ravaged with disease. This book runs on the raw side as the writer discloses her own dirty laundry from the past. Nichol Collins shares frank encounters with a variety of men ranging from law enforcement officers to clergymen. She discloses the fetishes which "so called" straight men enjoyed with her while sh...

The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne: What if everything you learned about Shakespeare was a lie? - Paperback

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by Ron Destro (Author)In 1624 London, a brave printer is executed, a portly poet is kidnapped, a Stratford-upon-Avon grave is emptied, King James is put into a panic, many swashes are buckled, and things are never as they seem, all because brave Nicholas and clever Valentina are about to discover and reveal the true identity of "William Shake-speare." This is a timely tale that touches on the powerful love of fathers, the perils of the plague, the joys of turnips, and the mysterious life and ...

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by Swiyyah Nadirah Woodard (Author)She's in the middle of a breakdown. Desperate for happiness, will she at last find the light?Anika Muhammad's whole life is wrapped up in her battle with paranoid schizophrenia. Shocked to discover her wedding never actually happened, she relapses into a chaotic world of inner turmoil. And she feels devastated and completely alone when she's institutionalized against her will.As she undergoes treatment, Anika's troubled existence unravels further when her to...

Indios En Escena: La Representación del Amerindio En El Teatro del Siglo de Oro - Paperback

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by Moises Castillo (Author)Indios en Escena engages both the Baroque and Colonial fields of Hispanism in order to reevaluate fourteen major plays of Spanish Golden Age literature from a social-historical perspective. Castillo argues that these plays portray Amerindians not in their otherness but as subjects of an empire. It is the author's contention that these dramas reveal the vast contradictions between the two leading ideological trends of the age as performed on the stage: the discourse ...

The Normal Heart and the Destiny of Me: Two Plays - Paperback

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by Larry Kramer (Author), Tony Kushner (Foreword by)The Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation. It has been produced and taught all over the world. Its companion play, The Destiny of Me, is the stirring story of an AIDS activist forced to put his life in the hands of the very doctor he has been denouncing.Au...

Much ADO about Nothing: The Oxford Shakespearemuch ADO about Nothing - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Sheldon P. Zitner (Editor)Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P Zitner discusses Shakespeare's transformation of his source material. He rethinks the ...

The Drunk, The Gambler, and The Lover - Paperback

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by Ember White (Author) Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 14, 2025

The Drunk, The Gambler, and The Lover - Hardcover

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by Ember White (Author)The Drunk, The Gambler, and The Lover is a novella about loneliness, isolation, and addiction, all stemming from the feeling of being unseen and misunderstood. The Drunk lives in a mysterious, detached reality with a deep desire for connection. The Gambler dreams of playing at the largest casino tables but is impulsive as he is clever and calculating. The Lover is on the hunt for his darling and is as bold, hot-headed, and fiery as they come. The soulful story of three ...

The Train Driver and Other Plays - Paperback

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by Athol Fugard (Author)For me The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this.--Athol FugardA dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . . It will save us from hopelessness. See it.--Sunday IndependentThe Train Driver is classic Athol Fugard, and one of his most important plays. The playwright, known throughout the world as a chronicler of his native South Africa's apartheid past, directed its premiere at the n...

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by Maria Irene Fornes (Author)Fornes' early work is collected in this volume, including The Sucessful Life of 3, which was produced by the Judson Poets Theatre; Tango Palace, a San Francisco Actors Workshop production, directed by Herbert Blau; and Promenade, an Open Theatre production directed by Joseph Chaikin before going on to a successful Off-Broadway run. Dr. Kheal, A Viertnamese Wedding, and Molly's Dream round out the volume, demonstrating the continuity of Fornes's vision and te...

Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays - Paperback

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by A. C. Cawley (Editor)God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic and dramatic tradition on which Shakespeare drew. Everyman discovers what you can't take with you when you go. He beseeches in turn friends, family (one pleads 'cramp in my toe'), possessions ('I follow n...

Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts - Paperback

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by August Wilson (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and Gone--Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. "The glow accompanying August Wilson's place in contemporary American theater is fixed."--Toni Morrison When Harold Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man--in body. But the scars of his enslavement and a sense of inescapable alien...

Patrick Swayze: Still Inspiring! - Paperback

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by Sue Tabashnik (Author) Number of Pages: 202 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 14, 2025

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by Scott Ash (Author)WHO AM I...? For the best part of my life, I have asked the question. I know I believe that only a very troubled person could ask it. If you grew up in a normal family, your path in life is pretty much straightforward, barring a few exceptions here and there. But my life is hardly normal-far from it. For one thing, I started life with an outcast family. It's a large family headed by a drunk and a woman who hardly showed us love. We made for a ghastly sight in the small co...

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by Alexis Scheer (Author)It's Art Basel, and the stakes are high for the gallery that Mariana runs in the Wynwood Arts District in Miami. And when Mariana's movie-star mother tries to help out, things get even more complicado. Laughs in Spanish is a fast-paced, cafec?o-induced comedy about art and success - and mothers and daughters. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 20, 2023