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by Joseph Pearce (Author), William Shakespeare (Author)Contributors to this Volume: James Bemis Crystal Downing Richard Harp Andrew J. Harvey Jill Kriegel Jonathan Marks Rebecca Munro Joseph Pearce Stephen Zelnick"Star-crossed" Romeo and Juliet are Shakespeare's most famous lovers. A staple of high school reading lists, the tragedy especially resonates with young adult readers who, like Romeo and Juliet, have experienced the exhilarating and perilous phenomenon of being "in love". Given the t...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Alexander (Author), Unknown (Author)Through historical and bibliographical research, and through analysis of Shakespeare's work, the author places Shakespeare among the supreme artists of the world. In the first two chapters he examines the facts about Shakespeare's career as a dramatist and summarizes the unfavorable judgments created by his early biographers. In subsequent chapters Professor Alexander establishes an order among the plays that reveals a ...

Editing, Performance, Texts: New Practices in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Jacqueline Jenkins (Author), Julie Sanders (Author)The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars.Author BiographyChristie Carson, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Richard Allen...

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by Arthur Miller (Author), Christopher Bigsby (Introduction by)A Penguin Classic Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went back to business, making himself very wealthy in the ensuing years. In Miller's work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Steve's daughter, the bitterness of Ge...

Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays (Revised Edition) - Paperback

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by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Author)Includes Revised Broadway version of AppropriateWinner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a PlayA double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers.In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of socio-political realities when the Lafayettes gather at a former plantation home to sift through the belongings of their deceased patriarch. A...

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by Annie Baker (Author)Baker may just have the subtlest way with exposition of anyone writing for the theater today... There is something distinctly Chekhovian in the way her writing accrues weight and meaning simply through compassionate, truthful observation. --Charles Isherwood, New York TimesBaker has a soft spot for the abandoned, the discarded, the hard luck case... her heartbreaking works of staggering focus have actually rescued realism from the aesthetic scrap heap -- Helen Shaw, Tim...

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by Tom Stoppard (Author)Stoppard's masterful adaptation of Chekhov's best-loved play has been lauded by critics for its shining prose as well as its faithfulness. The play opens at a country estate, where a group of friends and relations have gathered to see the first performance of an experimental play, written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin. Among the audience are Konstantin's mother, the actress Arkadina, and her lover, the famous novelist Trigorin. Their glamorous pr...

How to Write a Story: (Read-Aloud Book, Learn to Read and Write) - Hardcover

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by Kate Messner (Author), Mark Siegel (Illustrator)The inspiring sequel to the 2015 Parent's Choice Winner, How to Read a Story Step 1: Choose an idea for your story. A good one.Step 2: Decide on a setting. Don't be afraid to mix things up.Step 3: Create a heroine--or a hero.Now: Begin. Accomplished storytellers Kate Messner and Mark Siegel playfully chronicle the process of becoming a writer in this fun follow-up to How to Read a Story, guiding young storytellers through the joys and challe...

Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts - Paperback

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by George Bernard Shaw (Author), Nicholas Grene (Introduction by), Dan H. Laurence (Editor)Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin ClassicShaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle--"an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers"--for Mrs. Patrick Campbell, with whom he had a passionate but unconsummated affair. From the outset the play was a ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Logan (Author)"Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don't: The exhilaration of the act." The New Yorker Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting. A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose struggle to ac...

Contemporary Monologues for Twentysomethings

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Bashline (Author)The theater of the 21st century, in many ways, is expanding to require new muscles of its actors, and so should their monologue choices. Contemporary Monologues for Twentysomethings is a compilation of monologues for actors ages 15 to 30, incorporating characters from a variety of backgrounds with different stories to tell, giving you the chance to explore those who are close to you and those who may come from someplace else. These mono...

The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 - Hardcover

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by Katrin Ettenhuber (Author)The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep but uncharted relationship with logic. The nature and functions of logic have been largely misunderstood in literary criticism of the period, where it is often seen as sterile and formalistic: either an overcomplex remnant of Medieval philosophy superseded by rhetoric, or part of a Ramist pedagogy so stripped back that ...

Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity - Hardcover

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by Adam Zucker (Author)Author BiographyAdam Zucker is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has won the College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award. He is the author of The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy (2011) and the co-editor of essay collections Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater (2015) and Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625-1642 (2006). He is a...

Introduction to Theatre Arts 1, Student Workbook - Loose Leaf

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by Suzi Zimmerman (Author)The SECOND EDITION of everyone's favorite theatre arts curriculum book, Introduction to Theatre Arts, Volume 1, is now available! This new edition is gender neutral, better organized, updated to reflect modern technology and social media, and has a 2020 copyright date! Best of all, this Student Workbook is just that... a true individual workbook for each student, loose-leaf three-hole punched and ready to drop into a binder. We've retained all the elements that mad...

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by Aimé Césaire (Author), Richard Miller (Translator)"C saire's Tempest, in translation by Richard Miller, is a sprightly and song-filled enchantment. The luminous intelligence of Mr. C saire's meditation on the absurdities of colonialism shines through the antics of the bewildered characters." -New York Times "The weapon of poetry may be C saire's greatest gift to a modern world still searching for freedom. As one of the last truly great 'universalists' of the twentieth century, he has had a...

King Lear: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday language A complete list of characters, with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary Author BiographyWILLIAM SHAKESPE...

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by Joseph Pearce (Author), William Shakespeare (Author)Arguably the darkest of all Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth is also one of the most challenging. Is it a work of nihilistic despair, "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing", or is it a cautionary tale warning of the dangers of Machiavellianism and relativism? Does it lead to hell and hopelessness, or does it point to a light beyond the darkness? This critical edition of Shakespeare's classic psychological drama ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Shakespeare everyone can understand--now in this new EXPANDED edition of MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter. The expanded sections include: Five Key Questions: Five frequently asked quest...

We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Yea

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Report copyright infringementby Jackie Sibblies Drury (Author)"Impressively navigates the tricky boundaries that separate art and life, the haunted present and the haunting historical past.." New York Times A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, what seemed a far-away place and time is suddenly all too close to home. Just whose story are they t...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Gunderson (Author)"Sharp and funny. Gunderson taps into a buoyant spirit...the touching 'barbaric yawp' (Whitman's phrase) of these two deeply engaging kids." Washington Post Housebound by illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she has only social media for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in - uninvited and armed with waffle fries, a scruffy copy of Walt Whitman's poetry and a school project due the next ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Harvey (Author)Beautiful Thing explores pre-teenage homo-erotic sensuality and the frictions and intimacies of living cheek by jowl on a Thamesmead housing estate. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.27 x 7.81 x 4.99 IN Publication Date: October 09, 2008

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Report copyright infringementby James Graham (Author)I want to tell you a story. And it's true. That's what makes it a good fucking story, right, 'cause all the best stories are true.Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises.James Graham'sruthless, red-topped play leads with the birth of this country's most influential newspaper - when a young and rebellious Rupert Murdoch asked the impossible and launched its first editor's quest, against all odds, to give the people what they want.Inkpremiered at t...

The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence Harbison (Editor)A collection of never-before-published women's monologues from new plays.Author BiographyLawrence Harbison was in charge of new play acquisitions for Samuel French, Inc., for over thirty years. He edits annual anthologies of best plays by new playwrights and women playwrights, best ten-minute plays, and monologues for men and for women. His column, "On the Aisle with Larry," is a regular feature at www.applausebooks.com. Harbison was a...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Frayn (Author)"As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits..the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality" Guardian A play-within-a-play following a touring theatre company who are rehearsing and performing a comedy called Nothing On, results in a riotous double-bill of comedic craft and dramatic skill. Hurtling along at breakneck speed it sho...

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Report copyright infringementby Lolita Chakrabarti (Author)"Chakrabarti has crafted a rich psychological study that's also a shrewd portrait of the theatre as an institution - its vanities and strange conventions, its politics and sense of community, the opportunities it presents for both progress and blinkered traditionalism." Evening StandardTheatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage while playing Othello. A young black Amer...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Ravenhill (Author), Chris Megson (Editor), Jenny Stevens (Editor)Shopping and F***ing is...Falling in love with your best friend - if you can get the right mix of Es and whizz...Passion buried beneath layers of bubble and wrap and cellophaneA world where microwaves are the only source of heatA place where Shopping is sexy and F***ing is a job...And if you killed someone what would it feel like? Or maybe there are no feelings left...Shopping and F***ing is ...

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Report copyright infringementby Slavoj Zizek (Author)Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the representative of state power, also has a valuable point to make? And what if both Antigone and Creon are part of a probl...

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Report copyright infringementby Bertolt Brecht (Author), John Willett (Editor), Ralph Manheim (Editor)Written in 1940 during Brecht's exile in Finland, Puntila is one of his greatest creations - to be ranked alongside Galileo and Mother Courage. A hard-drinking Finnish landowner, Puntila suffers from a divided personality: when drunk he is human and humane; when sober, surly and self-centred. The play contains some of the best comedy Brecht wrote for the theatre.This translation by John Wille...

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Report copyright infringementby Bertolt Brecht (Author)Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf - an amoral criminal - and his father in law, a racketeer who controls and exploits London's beggars and is intent on having Macheaf hanged. Despi...

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Report copyright infringementby Bertolt Brecht (Author), John Willett (Editor), Ralph Manheim (Editor)Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify their existence. They find Shen Teh, a good-hearted but penniless prostitute, and make her a gift that enables her to set up her own business. But her goodness brings ruin and she must disguise he...

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Report copyright infringementby Bertolt Brecht (Author), John Willett (Translator)Brecht's most important treatise on theatre The Messingkauf dialogues are the longest but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht's discussions of theatre. Here Actor, Actress, Dramaturg (or literary adviser) and Electrician argue with the Brechtian Philosopher who wants to exploit their talent for his own purposes. The result is a lively debate about the place of art in society.Author BiographyBertolt...

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Report copyright infringementby Bertolt Brecht (Author), John Willett (Editor), Ralph Manheim (Editor)Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go to those who will make best use of them. Thanks to the rascally judge, Azdak, one of Brecht's most vivid creations, this story has a happy ou...