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The Babes in the Wood; Or, Harlequin and the Cruel Uncle. a Pantomime, Founded on the Ancient Ballad. the Opening Story Written by the Author of the T

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Report copyright infringementby John Baldwin Buckstone (Author), W. Dorrington (Author)Title: The Babes in the Wood; or, Harlequin and the Cruel Uncle. A ... pantomime, founded on the ancient ballad ... The opening story written by the author of ... "The Three Bears," "Little Bo-peep" [J. B. Buckstone?] ... The harlequinade ... by Mr. W. Dorrington. First performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on Friday, December 26th, 1856.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British ...

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Report copyright infringementby Francis Jarman (Author)Rickie, Sammie, Lisa, and Sally are the four members of a famous "girl group." They are popular and successful, but Lisa has a dangerous secret. It all starts with a kiss, and then life becomes very complicated for the girls and their friends. Here is the text of the musical "Girls Will be Girls," by the British playwright Francis Jarman ("A Star Fell," "Lip Service," "Invictus," etc.) Number of Pages: 116 Dimens...

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Report copyright infringementby John Pellet (Author)Title: A Poetical Essay on Physick. Inscrib'd to Dr Pellet.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, alon...

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Report copyright infringementby Francis Jarman (Author)A feminist-oriented cosmetics company, run by a bossy power-maniac, is in trouble! New advertising ideas are needed, and both old favorites and new faces are brought in to sell the product, with hilarious results. British playwright Francis Jarman (A Star Fell, Girls Will Be Girls, Invictus) shows what happens whens styles, ideologies, and generations collide. Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN ...

Romard: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama, vol 54: Love and Romance in Early Drama

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Report copyright infringementby David Klausner (Editor), M. J. Toswell (Editor), Emily Pickard (Author)ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama is an academic journal devoted to the study of Medieval and Renaissance drama in Europe. Previously published under the title of Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (RORD), the journal has been in publication since 1956. ROMARD is published annually at Western University (www.uwo.ca). For further details, please visit the ROMARD webs...

Out & Allied Volume 1 (2nd Edition): An Anthology of Performance Pieces Written by LGBTQ Youth & Allies

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Report copyright infringementby Meghan Brodie (Editor), Sophia Glass (Editor), Jennifer Hodsdon (Editor)The award-winning Vol 1 of the Out & Allied Youth Writing Project has been updated to include a more comprehensive glossary and information about programs around the US doing theatre for LGBTQ and Allied advocacy. These 34 performance pieces are coupled with Do-It-Yourself tips for youth leaders and their supportive adults. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.51...

Ten Plays +: Short, easy dramas for churches

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Report copyright infringementby Rosalie Sugrue (Author), Rosemary Garside (Illustrator)Lay preacher Rosalie Sugrue's 14 short plays and meditations are ideal to present in church. They encourage us to engage with Bible and historical characters and explore important themes. Staging is simple. Few props or costumes are required. Most of the plays work best with a combination of children and adults.This revised and expanded 2021 edition includes two new plays: How Lay Preaching Began & Go a...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Glaspell (Author)"Alison's House" is a poignant and powerful three-act play by the acclaimed dramatist Susan Glaspell. Set on the eve of the twentieth century in 1899, the story unfolds eighteen years after the death of the celebrated poet Alison Stanhope. As her surviving family members gather at her old homestead to prepare it for sale, they are forced to confront the secrets and sacrifices that defined Alison's life and work. The discovery of a hidden ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ed Kashi (Photographer), Red Shuttleworth (Author)"Red Shuttleworth is one of the finest poets of the American West, past, present, and future. Some of us also know him as one of the finest, imaginative living playwrights writing for a challenged American theatre. In Shuttleworth's daring and galvanizing, dark tragi-comedy, High Plains Fandango, he offers a perceptive and prophetic account of romance, life, and danger on the High Plains of Nebraska, a possible ...

A Poetical Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution, in Four Cantos Addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, by Ch

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Caustic (Author)Title: A Poetical Petition against Tractorising Trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution, in four cantos ... addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, by Christopher Caustic, M.D., LL.D., etc. [With reference to the "Metallic Tractors" invented by Elisha Perkins and popularized by B. D. Perkins.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of th...

Shakespeare's Comic Changes: The Time-Lapse Metaphor as Plot Device

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Report copyright infringementby Roger L. Cox (Author)Perhaps the central question about Shakespeare's comedies is whether they form a single group we can meaningfully call "Shakespearean comedy." The problem arises in locating a unifying principle that is not so broad as to lack interpretive value. In Shakespeare's Comic Changes, Roger L. Cox argues that the thread connecting almost all of Shakespeare's comedies is a plot in which character change is presented metaphorically instead of realis...

They Followed the Master: Nine Dramas for Lent

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Report copyright infringementby Cynthia S. Baker (Author)They Followed The Master gives power and vividness to the Lenten experience for participants and spectators. Characters are carefully based on the scriptural evidence, supplemented by imaginative re-creation of what they might have said. The plays may be performed by any size congregation. Even so, the author kept in mind small churches during her writing, saying she has great sympathy for small churches -- those with limited budgets an...

The Collective: 10 Play Anthology, Volume 2: 12 original short plays

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Z. Designs LLC (Illustrator), Lisa Kicielinski (Editor), Robert Z. Grant (Editor)Selected from over a thousand blind submissions, this second volume of The Collective:10 Play Anthology features 12 original short plays that premiered as part of The Collective:10 Play Festival in New York City in October 2014. Also included is one unseen play selected exclusively for publication, PLUS a Q&A with many of the playwrights about their inspirations, the pro...

See You Around: Pantomime of Bygone Fun and Frolic

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Report copyright infringementby Drew Carson (Author)A retired SailorBoy, home from the sea, looked at an old postcard and dreamed about it. Suddenly the old postcard came alive. Once again he revisited the seaside resort where he had enjoyed fun with friends as a younger man. Out of the card stepped a lady - a dancer - who began to show the SailorBoy around the Magic Mile - a place in the other world where all the funny postcard people had gone and where they still lived and sang their oldtim...

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Report copyright infringementby Oliver Bestul (Author)Bury yourself alive with the first published play of Oliver Bestul!First performed on April 27th of 2019. Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.19 x 6 x 4 IN Publication Date: March 07, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Tennessee Williams (Author)After being locked out of his church for castigating God, the Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is adrift and working as a tour guide in Mexico. Passions and secrets explode as he tries to marshal his newest group of guests.Shannon is accused of committing statutory assault of a 16-year-old girl, Charlotte Goodall, who is among the current tourists under his charge. Struggling emotionally, Shannon tries to manage the other members of the g...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen M. Crotts (Author)How recently have you shared with your congregation and its children the story of the "Christian" Saint Nicholas? This book offers you the opportunity to tell the story in a visual way by dressing the part of the Bishop of Myra, Turkey. Saint Nicholas Speaks enables you to tell the story from your pulpit in an informal format with children or to groups outside the church. The monologue is also appropriate for parents and grandparents t...

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Report copyright infringementby Anushka Jalan (Author)What are expressions? Can dance help us to reveal our suppressed emotions? How can dance, especially Bharatanatyam, as an expression help people? This informative book gives a brief insight into the most famous classical dances namely Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi and Sattriya. Focusing mainly on Bharatanatyam, this book provides an insight into the rich cultural heritage of Indian Mudras and R...

I Once Knew an Indian Woman: New Edition for 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Keir Cutler (Editor), May Ebbitt Cutler (Author)Selected an "Outstanding Book of the Year" by the New York Time Book Review in 1973, "I Once Knew an Indian Woman" is a heartwarming childhood memoir set in Mont Tremblant, Quebec between First and Second World Wars. The book received multiple rave reviews, and was also awarded first prize in the 1967 Canadian Centennial Literary Competition. This new edition is edited by her son, Keir Cutler, who worked with his ...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Cain (Author)Physics in the twenty-first century is not for the faint-hearted. Just ask Catherine Langley, twenty-three-year-old music major at UCLA, who stops by the flooded San Gabriel River on a stormy spring evening to help search for a dog that has fallen into the turbulent water and comes face to face with the protagonist of her mother's most famous novel-a ghostly girl who transcends the boundaries of space and time in the fiction, emerging fro...

Scheherazade's Last Night and Other Plays

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Schulman (Author)Jules Verne, before he became the famous novelist we know today from Around the World in 80 Days, learned his profession writing for the stage. Many of those youthful plays have been discovered for the first time, and three are translated into English for the first time in Scheherazade's Last Night and Other Plays. In An Excursion at Sea, Verne offers a humorous account of a nautical adventure interrupted by pirates. In La Guimard, he re...

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Report copyright infringementby Augustin Daly (Author)This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 20 features Augustin Daly's "Man and Wife," "Divorce," "The Big Bonanza," "Pique," and "Needles and Pins." Number of Pages: 430 Dimensions: 0.96 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 04, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Frederich Schiller (Author) Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.49 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: May 08, 2008

DAVY CROCKETT and Other Plays: America's Lost Plays, Vol 4

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Murdoch (Author), Lester Waldack (Author), J. J. McCloskey (Author)This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 4 features "Across the Continent," by J.J. McCloskey; "Rosedale," by Lester Wallack, "Davy Crockett," by Frank Murdock; "Our Boarding House," by Leonard Grover; and "Sam's of Posen," by G.H. Jessop. Number of Pages: 260 Dimensions: 0...

Heavenly Bodies: Ten Plays From the 2011 San Francisco Olympians Festival

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Report copyright infringementby Stuart Eugene Bousel (Author)Ten plays that were written for the 2011 San Francisco Olympians Festival inspired by the myths of heavenly bodies and elements of the sky: the stars, constellations, asteroids, moons, winds, planets and the sun. Plays included in the collection are "Leda And The Pr0n" by Kirk Shimano, "Joe Ryan" by Megan Cohen, "Cassiopeia" by Christian Simonsen, "Pleiades" by Marissa Skudlarek, "Boreas" by Lise Miller, "Chronus" by Bennett Fisher,...

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Report copyright infringementby Lord Dunsany (Author)Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany a k a Lord Dunsany was an Irish dramatist and storyteller. His fantasy worlds combined imagination with ingenuity to create stories full of wonder. His more than 50 works were full of fairies and gods. His kingdoms could often be macabre. Plays included in this collection are A Night at an Inn, The Tents of the Arabs, The Queen's Enemies, and The Laughter of the Gods. Num...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Sugarman (Editor)Curating material from Applause's Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two by John Russell Brown, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends by Neil Freeman, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First Folio Editions, we've created the must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays. Along with tips on approaching and working on the play and tackling the speeches, Applause Shakespeare Workbook: Julius Caesar includes highlighted essential p...

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Report copyright infringementby Wilfred E. Major (Author)The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens, by Wilfred E. Major, analyzes how writers of comedy in Classical Greece satirized the emerging art of rhetoric and its role in political life. In the fifth century BCE, the development of rhetoric proceeded hand in hand with the growth of democracy both on Sicily and at Athens. In turn, comic playwrights in Athens, most notably Aristophanes, lampooned o...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Solomon (Author)BRAIN GRAFT centres around Isobella, who works at a publishing firm and is diagnosed with a brain tumour. She finds a surgeon to remove her tumour and decides to have a brain implant - that is, a segment of brain to fill the space in her brain created by the tumour removal. The segment is donated by another woman, Tracey.After the transplant, Isobella begins to take on characteristics of Tracey's personality. Isobella's boyfriend, Tarquin,...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Peterson (Author)Straight White Male: Performance Art Monologues by Michael Peterson Mass media images of the male are central to popular culture. This book analyzes a genre known as "performance art monologues" as presented by white heterosexual men. Its focus is stand-up comedians and stage and screen artists, including Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, Josh Kornbluth, Rob Becker, Andrew Dice Clay, Wallace Shawn, and Danny Hoch, whose acts portray and inv...

I Never Cheat on My Husband: A Play in Three Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Georges Feydeau (Author), Frank J. Morlock (Translator)Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) wrote some 60 comedies, farces, and comic monologues; I Never Cheat on My Husband was one of his last productions (1914). Often considered the greatest French comic genius since Molière, Feydeau wrote frequently about the relations between men and women in modern society. In this play, the professional artist and sexual predator, Saint Franquet, begins his pursuit of Micheline, t...