Drama

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Henry Fielding - The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild:

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Fielding (Author)Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury, in Somerset on April 22nd 1707. His early years were spent on his parents' farm in Dorset before being educated at Eton. An early romance ended disastrously and with it his removal to London and the beginnings of a glittering literary career; he published his first play, at age 21, in 1728. He was prolific, sometimes writing six plays a year, but he did like to poke fun at the au...

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Report copyright infringementby George Ainslie Hight (Author)Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde by George Ainslie Hight is a comprehensive guide to one of the most famous operas in the world. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the music, libretto, and historical context of Wagner's masterpiece. The author explores the themes of love, death, and transcendence that are central to the opera, as well as the technical innovations that Wagner employed to achieve his musical vision. Hight also exami...

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Report copyright infringementby Louis Nowra (Author)Spanning five decades from 1962 to 2017, The Lewis Trilogy follows Louis Nowra's occasional hero, sometime narrator and perennial misfit, Lewis, as he struggles to find and understand his place in the changing world around him. In Summer of the Aliens, Lewis is a young man on the cusp of adulthood, growing up in a Melbourne housing commission. Set against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis, the play is a coming-of-age story about sex a...

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Report copyright infringementby Michel-Jean Sedaine (Author), Derek Connon (Translator)In May 1760 the Comédie-Française performed a play by Charles Palissot de Montenoy entitled Les Philosophes (The Philosophes), an attack on the group of writers known by that name. In the audience was Michel-Jean Sedaine, who, although not a member of the group himself, was sufficiently shocked by this attack on serious authors and thinkers to decide that he should write a reply to Palissot's work. At least...

John Dryden - Amphitryon or The Two Sosias:

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Report copyright infringementby John Dryden (Author)John Dryden was born on August 9th, 1631 in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire. As a boy Dryden lived in the nearby village of Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire. In 1644 he was sent to Westminster School as a King's Scholar. Dryden obtained his BA in 1654, graduating top of the list for Trinity College, Cambridge that year. Returning to London during The Protectorate, Dryden now obtained work with Cromwell's Secre...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Reed (Author)Stranded in his Sydney flat, the journalist John Rinner tries to explain his Dad-dud existence to his daughter by telephone. This is not easy since he hasn't seen her in 18 years and she is on the other side of the world working in an Amsterdam hotel with little time to listen to an excuse for a Dad.Just as his working life in the field with the UN Childrens Fund now seems only smoke-and-mirrors, so does Rinner's own life seem as it flashes pa...

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes - A Drama in 4 Acts:

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and his poems, his historical novels, his plays, his political campaigning, his efforts in establishing a Court Of Appeal and there is little room for anything else. Except he was also an exceptional writer of shor...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Wedekind (Author), Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Ziegler (Author)Frank Wedekind's controversial play, "The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood," remains a powerful and unsettling exploration of youth on the cusp of adulthood. This classic German drama delves into the turbulent and often tragic realities of adolescence, confronting themes of sexuality, social pressures, and the painful transition into adulthood. Wedekind's work serves as poignant soc...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Evered (Author)"Alluring...it is very clear that Mr Evered, a bi-coastal film director and playwright, knows a good deal about celebrity...Elliot is a fabulous character." The New York Times "A lovely piece of theatre...a flawless experience that makes you realize just how much value theatre has in our lives... Evered's CLASS truly is a class act...thoroughly absorbing entertainment." Broadway World "Wonderful...Evered's dialogue is sharp, witty, extrem...

Six Plays for Young People from the Federal Theatre Project (1936-1939): An Introductory Analysis and Six Representative Plays

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Report copyright infringementby Lowell Swortzell (Author)The subject of Swortzell's book is a selection of plays created by the Children's Theatre units of the Federal Theatre Project. . . . Most of the six plays in Swortzell's anthology resonate with political messages integral to the post-Depression, post-World War I era. . . . Though some of the scripts, like Chorpenning's A Letter to Santa Clause, which is an indictment of war, and Yasha Frank's Pinocchio, which celebrates the rewards of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Shūdraka (Sudraka) (Author), Arthur William Ryder (Translator)The Little Clay Cart: [Mṛcchakaṭika] A Hindu Drama Attributed To King Shūdraka Translated From The Original Sanskrit And Prākrits Into English Prose And Verse By Arthur William Ryder This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have wor...

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Conlan (Author)A Widow's Fire is the sequel to The Camel Hair Coat. A Widow's Fire is not a story about a widow. It is a story about the fire that lies deep within our souls and the extremes a human will go to for money and to win back the love of the one who owns their heart.Samantha, a young woman, deals with loss and the changes she must make in her life. You are taken on a journey from New York to Boston and the seaside town of Sandy Point as Saman...

EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE The Psychedelic Firesign Theatre At The Magic Mushroom - 1967

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Report copyright infringementby The Firesign Theatre (Author)The Firesign Theatre began their long comedy career in 1966 as radio satirists based in Los Angeles. Before their debut LP "Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him" appeared, Firesign began performing together live over the newly-hippified KRLA-AM. Direct from their sold-out broadcast performances in late 1967 at The Magic Mushroom, a popular rock club in Studio City, EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE presents ten surreal classics...

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Report copyright infringementby Kelsey Ridge (Author)Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its intellectual and practical application. Ridge covers the history of trauma theory from Freud and shell shock to Holocaust studies and PTSD, drawing on psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, post-colonial theory and disability studies. She also looks at the expansive and growing history of trauma-informed Shakespeare productions a...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Brady (Author)This collection includes three full-length plays: TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY, TWO BEARS BLINKING, and KORCZAK'S CHILDREN. TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY: A grieving widower must accept his wife's death to save himself and his relationship with his daughter. TWO BEARS BLINKING: Mysterious lights appearing on canyon wall attract a group of people to a ranch in New Mexico. KORCZAK'S CHILDREN: The story of Janusz Korczak who strove to gi...

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Report copyright infringementby John Henry Brebbia (Author)]Sharktooth, Massachusetts is a seaside resort town situated on the elbow to Cape Cod. Although no stranger to eccentrics, the year-rounders in this tight little town never find it in their hearts to accept as one of their own, pretentious, English-accented, Pemberton Poindexter Plushbottom, aka Triple P. One might have expected the fact that on several occasions tourists were known to have mistaken Triple P for Teddy Roosevelt would ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nick Enright (Author)1967, Australia. As anti-war protestors march in the streets, it is the end of the school year and boys in a Catholic school prepare for their final exams. The cadets plan their regimental dinner and the Colonel will attend. Dominic Connolly, a talented, passionate and committed opponent of the war, chooses this time to stage a personal demonstration. His action leads him to the school's infirmary. In this place of healing he must reconcile...

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Starbuck (Author)The Lamp is a lament in verse, written for theater in the round and presented in three movements. Standing in conversation with Luke 11:34-36 and the tradition of modern poetic drama, it explores how a city sees - and what happens when fear begins to shape perception.In an unnamed American city, labor rises before dawn. Kitchens open. Concrete sets. Towers catch morning light. Yet beneath the brightness, a line is already forming - quiet, p...

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Report copyright infringementby Rajeshwar Prasad (Author)In The Travellers the absurdity of life - a world without God and joy - is brought to consciousness through the encounters of Alvin, Cecil and Blair at a train station. It is underpinned by the philosophy of atheistic existentialism as depicted in works by Samuel Becket, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter and Edward Albee. The Travellers is a play in three acts which has all the features of absurd plays - with the absurdist formu...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Bovell (Author), Patricia Cornelius (Author), Melissa Reeves (Author)It was the 7.57 on the Upfield line. The 8.02 on the Mernda line. The 6.22 on the Craigieburn face to face, groin to bum, armpit to armpit. On the morning commute. A single mother struggles with her hyperactive child, a young man exerts control over his girlfriend, a cleaner is begged for help by her former boss, a convenience store worker returns for vengeance, three siblings thrash ou...

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Report copyright infringementby Eiram (Author)Author, Eiram, provides a detailed account of bizarre occurrences she experienced (over a 15-year time period), as a young woman starting her career in the South. She risks everything to share this story, including her career and close associations with colleagues, friends, and even family. The text is based on actual events but sometimes reads as science fiction as she provides excerpts from her journal writings. She delivers very complex and sen...

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Report copyright infringementby Javier Estrada (Author)Abandoned by the word at a young age, he had a perfect plan to commit suicide, a pan that failed and sent him into a deep coma, where he met his little girl, between Sarah, the caretaker at his dying bed and this little girl, he was brought back to life with a whole new perspective, but! Was this real? An extraordinary and compelling story that will embrace you from beginning to end, forever changing the way you perceive a suicidal mind. ...

Merely Players: Acting like Shakespeare really matters

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Burge (Author)When a middle-aged boy player returns to London's Globe playhouse during a terrible revival of Romeo and Juliet, she sets off a chain of events as great as any of Shakespeare's entertainments, revealing a love story that lay hidden for decades, just beneath the lines of the script. Centuries later, an out-of-work Sydney actor connects the dots of this drama and is inspired to write a play, bringing him face to face with big life lessons in...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Reed (Author)'Cass Butcher Bunting' begins with an explosion and a cave in down a mine shaft. Three miners are trapped there; Cass, the local golden boy, Butcher, the mentally-heavy, stay-at-home product of a small mining community, and Bunting, the old-timer, the 'humpy'.The setting of the action deep in the bowels of the earth places so-called civilised man back in a primordial situation, in a closed-off cave, his only mental and moral buffer lying in ha...

Synge, Connolly, and Socialist Provocation

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Report copyright infringementby Nelson O. Ritschel (Author)George Bernard Shaw has always been regarded as a political provocateur and socialist with ideas that reflected a complicated public philosophy. Scholarship abounds on Shaw's politics, but Nelson Ritschel's compelling study is the first to explore how Shaw's presence in Irish radical debate manifested itself not only through his direct contributions but also through the way he and his efforts were engaged by others--most notably by th...

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Report copyright infringementby Bambi Jeanine Belden-Berkhardt (Author)Bambi Jeanine Belden-Berkhardt lives in Carmel, Indiana but was born in Lebanon, Kentucky in 1965 and grew up in a place called Jacktown in Casey County, Kentucky. Bambi will always think of herself a southern girl although she lives in Indiana. Raised by a middle class father who worked as a storekeeper and at a shoe factory, he was also an Elder in the church where the family worshiped. The entire family, which consists ...

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Groebe (Author)Unheard and unseen for over seventy years, Lady of the Press is an intriguing, entertaining West Coast CBS radio show from 1944 and 1945. The story follows newspaper reporter Sandra Martin, a modern woman trying to balance her personal life with her working world, as she is falsely tagged by police as a Person of Interest in a grisly murder. Sandra Martin is played by Janet Waldo, went on to fame as the voice of Corliss Archer, Judy Jetson,...

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Report copyright infringementby Sydney Grundy (Author), Edward Solomon (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)When a reverend disapproves of his daughter's suitor, he manipulates the church in an effort to discourage their union and find a more favorable partner. It is a drastic decision that effects those inside and outside of the congregation. Rev. William Barlow is the leader of a Low Church, where his curate is a pompous young man named Henry Sandford. Despite his brash persona, Henry a...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Hill (Author)"Jason has done his usual great job interviewing these celebrities. I highly recommend this book." -MEL SIMONS, author and host of Audio Clip Trivia Quiz CBS, WBZ NewsRadio 1030, Boston "Chicago's SAG-AFTRA Senior Radio Players have dedicated themselves to preserving the Golden Days of radio with authentic performances of voice & sound effects. Jason has been a valuable supporter with his knowledge of the shows we perform and those who or...

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Bloom (Author)Harold Bloom on The Merchant of Venice "Shylock's prose is Shakespeare's best before Falstaff's...His utterances manifest a spirit so potent, malign, and negative as to be unforgettable."Author BiographyHarold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western C...

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Report copyright infringementby William A. Burgdorf (Author)Zepaniah Bierman, a mustanger turned hunter, lies on the top of the rocky sandy arroyo. Sweat trickles down his face and stains the shirt across his back as the sun beats daggers of heat on the Chihuahuan desert. Out there is a scout for three riders that torched his ranch in Mesilla. The only way out of this eternal furnace is back to New Mexico; Zep will track them there encountering Mexican cavalry, Apaches, outlaws, and a strong-...