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The Paris Manuscript: The Early Draft Rediscovered - Hardcover

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by Michael Chekhov (Author), Hugo Moss (Volume Editor)In the early 1930s, during his first years of exile and 20 years before the publication of his seminal work To the Actor, Michael Chekhov made his first incursion into the challenging task of writing about an actor's experience and his vision of the craft. This important, though largely forgotten, work (the so-called 'Paris Manuscript') was handwritten in German and in it we find Chekhov laying the groundwork for the canon of exercises a...

Hamlet Globe to Globe: Two Years, 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play - Paperback

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by Dominic Dromgoole (Author)Two years, 190,000 miles, 197 countries, one play. For the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth the Globe Theatre in London undertook an unparalleled journey to share Hamlet with the entire world. The tour was the brainchild of Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of the Globe, and in Hamlet Globe to Globe, Dromgoole takes readers along with him on this wildly ambitious expedition. From performing in sweltering deserts, capital and remote cities, heaving mark...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Barbara a. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)The authoritative edition of Much Ado About Nothing from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. One of Shakespeare's most frequently performed comedies, Much Ado About Nothing includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happines...

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by Archibald MacLeish (Author)This Play Is A Modern Poetic Version Of The Biblical Book Of Job Which Attempts To Relate The Concept Of Goodness To Contemporary Life. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2012

Yellowman: and My Red Hand, My Black Hand - Paperback

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by Dael Orlandersmith (Author)These two raucously acclaimed new plays by Dael Orlandersmith, whom The New York Times has called "an otherworldly messenger, perhaps the sorcerer's apprentice, or a heaven-sent angel with the devil in her," confirm her reputation as one of the truly unique voices in contemporary American drama. In Yellowman, a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Alma and Eugene have known each other since they were young children. As their friendship blossoms into lov...

Doctor Faustus and Other Plays - Paperback

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by Christopher Marlowe (Author), David Bevington (Editor), Eric Rasmussen (Editor)Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Mal...

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by Katie Cappiello (Author), Jonathan Marc Sherman (Afterword by)SLUT, the play, was critically acclaimed for depicting sexual violence in schools experienced by girls. Now That We're Men wrestles with misogyny, double standards, and harmful expectations of masculinity told by boys on the cusp of adulthood. This urgent, insightful intervention brings to light how sexist culture harms all young people, and includes an afterword by playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman.Author BiographyKatie Cappiell...

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by Efua T. Sutherland (Author)Edufa had cultivated an image of sophisticated affluence, he had the whole town eating out of his hand and a wife who loved him unconditionally. Was it not too soon to have it all snatched away from him? In desperation, he attempts an unthinkable substitution. Can he reverse his entanglement with the dark forces? Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: October 16, 2024

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by Andrew Abney (Author)Being from a broken family doesn't make you a broken person. Divided "A Memoir of a Family I Never Knew" is an in-depth story of a man who finally learns the truth about his family's identity after more than fifty years of living a lie. As he discovers his past, learning the truth about one lie only opened the door to another one. His struggles with salvation and redemption takes him on a cross-country journey to unite nine siblings that never knew about each other.In ...

Time Enough to Cry: The Children of the Greatest Generation - Hardcover

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by Carlton Randolph Crane (Author)This novel is a follow up to Mr. Crane's first novel, "So Much to Give: A Story of America's Greatest Generation". It recounts what happened to three of the children born to the main character in that book. It is a sequel in a sense, but also a stand-alone novel.It tells the story of six children of the Greatest Generation growing up during the fifties, seventies, and eighties. The story follows them through all their growing up, their heartaches, their trage...

On The Rocks: Marriage and Margaritas - Paperback

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by Erika Daniels (Author) Number of Pages: 226 Dimensions: 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 10, 2025

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by Zachary Cain (Author) Number of Pages: 262 Dimensions: 0.55 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 14, 2025

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by Lucy Kirkwood (Author)Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley's Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she's telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose. With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the devil in their midst.Author BiographyL...

Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) [Revised Tcg Edition]: With Other Monologues for Theatre - Paperback

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by Will Eno (Author)"It's sad, isn't it? The dead horse of a life we beat, all the wilder, all the harder the deader it gets. On the other hand, there are some nice shops in the area." Thom Pain has come to a certain point in his life. Maybe you have too. His entire existence is ordinary; but that ordinariness is a revelation and a wonder and a curiosity. To him at least. He'd better hope so. It's all he has (except maybe a dictionary and an old love letter). Comic and disturbing, this provoc...

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by Caryl Churchill (Author)Chilling... Churchill's play seems to reinvent drama with every other line. - Village Voice A masterpiece from one of the most valuable playwrights working today. Churchill is that rare dramatist who imagines different forms and even invented languages every time out. -Chicago Tribune Deeply disturbing. Far Away has the picturesque form and gentle rhythms of a fairy tale told at bedtime. But it also finds a grating alarm in traditional sounds of comfort, from the la...

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) - Paperback

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by Suzan-Lori Parks (Author)Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for DramaThe finest work yet from this gifted writer.--The New York TimesOffered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for He...

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by Vladimir Gubaryev (Author)In this moving play by the science editor of Pravda, victims of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station embark on a non-return journey in a terminal radiation clinic. The arrival of nine survivors from the disaster starts a string of confessions and recriminations which ends in a powerful condemnation of the bureaucratic muddle and official cover-up.6 women, 12 men Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 05, 2016

Shirley Jackson: A Companion - Paperback

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by Simon Bacon (Other), Kristopher Woofter (Editor)From "The Lottery" to The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson's oeuvre has created an influential apocalyptic vision of America. This collection of essays offers new insights into her work, in light of themes of space, motherhood and race, as well as filmic adaptations of her work.Author BiographyKristopher Woofter teaches courses in horror, the Gothic, and the Weird tradition in literature and the moving image in the Department of Englis...

Social Excursions of the Masked Girl Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Ch20 (Author)A lonely girl who wears a mask at all times decides one dark night to change her life and reach out to others so she can make some friends. In doing so however, she will embark on a journey of self-discovery and invest herself in the lives of those she interacts with. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.53 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: September 12, 2024

The Buckinchere Collection: of short stories - Paperback

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by B. Lorenzo Buckinchere (Author)Join freelance journalist and Gothic Fiction author, B. Lorenzo Buckinchere, in his debut publication, The Buckinchere Collection of short stories. An anthology of six suspenseful short stories exploring themes of existentialism, and the macabre.The hermit next door(A man tells his friends the story of one of his mysterious former neighbors, an elderly lady who never left her apartment.)Scenario for a jacket(An expectant mother tends to harbor male company, m...

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by Joan Livieri (Author) Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 12, 2024

Judy: The Greatest Chimpanzee That Ever Lived - Hardcover

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by Ralph Helfer (Author) Number of Pages: 202 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 24, 2024

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by John D. McCray (Author) Number of Pages: 166 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 19, 2024

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by Honeymoon Aljabri (Author), Maggie Ritchie (Editor)Heartstrings: Love's Melody in Trapani sweeps readers into the sunlit embrace of Italy's Trapani, where love blossoms like a secret garden in the heart of two souls. Zahra, a gifted Sudanese-American artist, escapes to the quiet beauty of her canvas, yearning for more than the life she's left behind in Washington, D.C., and the fading embers of a marriage she no longer feels. Ahmad, a dashing Moroccan football star, torn between his passio...

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by Osonye Tess Onwueme (Author)"'The Missing Face' is Beholding...In this meticulously paced play, Ida...a true optimist about love, family and her culture, takes a great leap in rearing her son, Amaechi...until she decides to leave the masculine formation of her young man-child to his father, who is domiciled in Africa...'The Missing Face' offers a rich illustration of music...ritual and tradition that is noble in looking back and seizing the moment."- ?Laura Andrews, Amsterdam News, New Yor...

Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity - Paperback

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by Adi Nester (Author)Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall outside traditional understandings of minority culture. Exploring expressions of Jewish identity and difference in biblical-themed musical dramas and their literary sources, Adi Nester argues that the issue of Jewish difference should be treated as an aesthetic question in the first half of the twentieth century, even amid the ...

Shakespeare's Political Spirit - Hardcover

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by Nicholas Luke (Author)This exciting and challenging study reorients how we think about politics in Shakespeare and on the early modern stage. By reading Shakespeare's political drama as a negative mode of political experience and thought, Nicholas Luke allows us to appreciate the imaginative and disruptive elements of plays that might seem politically pessimistic. Drawing on a long religious and philosophical tradition of negativity and considering the writings of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Benja...

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by Leslie Kimbell (Author)Polly Porter, famous 1970s gospel singer of the group Polly Porter & the Praise His Name Singers, has gone on up to heaven. Her daughter, Caroline, has come home to Savannah, Georgia, to pack up Miss Polly's house, but there is just one little problem (or two or three): Miss Polly was an extreme hoarder of epic proportions, Caroline's useless siblings are totally MIA, and her three best friends from high school, former co-cheerleaders, have all shown up... unanno...

The Voyage of Ervin Devland: and Other Works - Paperback

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by Luke T. McConnell (Author)Join Ervin Devland in his battle for redemption. Will Ervin redeem his soul and overcome his pride or will he perish in the deep?Follow his story, along with other assorted poems by author Luke T. McConnell. These poems range in subject from theology to romance, some deeply personal."Against my skull new fears pushed forth and danced upon my brain. A show of life and death was seen. Played by Abel and Cain" Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publi...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Peter Holland (Editor), Peter Holland (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 general...

A Christmas Carol: Stageplay - Paperback

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by A. S. Peterson (Adapted by)Christmas Eve arrives in Victorian London, but the miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge isn't having any of it. He'd prefer to support prisons rather than feed his own apprentice or celebrate the season. But he will be haunted by a parade of spirits before the sun comes up on Christmas Day, and in their wake, even the coldest heart may yet be changed.This new adaptation of Charles Dickens' story is both a faithful telling and a fresh turn on a timeless classic, reminding...

Reconstruction of the Poet: Uncollected Works of Zbigniew Herbert - Paperback

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by Zbigniew Herbert (Author)From one of Poland's most acclaimed poets comes a new collection of poems and plays spanning almost five decades and translated for the first time.Encapsulating the prolific work of the poet and playwright Zbigniew Herbert, Reconstruction of the Poet is both a celebration of a profound life of letters and a wide-ranging collection of never-before-published work that casts new light on a much-loved poet. Spanning from 1950 to 1998, this volume of work contains three...