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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol - Paperback

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by Ronnie Meek (Author)Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol, first published in England on December 19, 1843, was almost single-handedly responsible for rejuvenating the old Christmas traditions of England, such as carol singing, while at the same time celebrating new traditions like the Christmas tree and sending Christmas cards. While the Christmas traditions portrayed in the novella are bursting with images of light, joy, warmth and life, it also contains strong images of darkness, ...

L. is for Sayers: A Play in Five Acts - Paperback

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by Victoria Nelson (Author)The many shades and nuances of Sayers' life and writing lend themselves well to a play. One in particular stands out-her creation of that ever cheerful, indomitable romantic hero, Lord Peter Wimsey. Who more fitted to narrate and sing praise of her varied and distinctive accomplishments? The work is essentially a celebration of Sayers' life and writing, but is also filled with good humor and flights of fancy and is intended to introduce her literary legacy to a whol...

Promising Forecast: A Miracle Rescue at Sea - Paperback

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by Arthur J. Higbee (Author), Daniel David Jones (Author)Promising Forecast is the true story of five men who start out on a well-planned and exciting deep-sea fishing trip that quickly turns into a harrowing experience. Without any warning, their boat suddenly sinks thirty miles offshore. Shocked and disoriented, they find themselves stranded and helpless in the water for almost nineteen hours with only lifejackets and a strong will to live. Each man reacts as the realities of danger and dea...

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by Karl F. Hollenbach (Author)A year after Ebenezer Scrooge encountered the ghost of his partner, Jacob Marley, as well as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, Scrooge relives the previous Christmas and is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley once more. Mediating for his friend and partner by fulfilling his requests, Scrooge witnesses an altogether different story. This expansion on Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, recounts how Marley unshackles his soul from previous deeds al...

A Dying Business: A Comedy in Two Acts - Plus a Funeral - Paperback

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by Mark de Castrique (Author)When old Birdie Campbell dies, many in the NC mountain town of Ridgetop are not particularly sorrowed by her passing. But McAdams & Son Funeral Home still has to plan a service and find someone willing to say good things about the dearly departed. Birdie's death unleashes a string of events that threaten to destroy not only the civility of her service, but the funeral home itself. Stage Play presented as part of The New Plays in America and New Voices of the S...

Harem Slave: One Thousand Nine Hundred and Four Days of Hell on the Persian Gulf - Paperback

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by Nancy Hartwell Enonchong (Author)Harem Slave is not your predictable formulaic sex-slave novel; it is above all, a gripping and often suspense-filled documentary of the harrowing life of a victim of human trafficking. It is, in many respects, a survival guide for girls who find themselves in such unthinkable circumstances. Intended for mature readers, Harem Slave is not gratuitously pornographic, but due to the subject matter, does contain considerable erotic material. Tammy Simmons is eve...

The Acting Coach Approach: 48 Monologues for Kids and How to Master Them - Paperback

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by Lana Young (Contribution by), Sam Ferro (Contribution by), Jon Emm (Author)THE ACTING COACH APPROACH:48 MONOLOGUES FOR KIDS AND HOW TO MASTER THEM is the only book of it's kind. It not only contains original, active, funny and dramatic monologues, but it also assists the actor so they get the most for their efforts. Each monologue is accompanied by a series of questions. The questions are designed to trigger the actor's imagination and help the actor create clear images and create better c...

The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft: Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective - Paperback

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by José M. González (Author)The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft studies Homeric performance from archaic to Roman imperial times. It argues that oracular utterance, dramatic acting, and rhetorical delivery powerfully elucidate the practice of epic rhapsodes. Attention to the ways in which these performance domains informed each other over time reveals a shifting dynamic of competition and emulation among rhapsodes, actors, and orators that shaped their texts and their crafts. A diachronic analysi...

The Great Feast of Language in Love's Labour's Lost - Paperback

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by William C. Carroll (Author)This book contends that in Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare sought to discover the ways in which the imagination uses and abuses language. The author's critical reading shows that the characters are endowed with a wide variety of rhetorical disguises. Each assumes that his verbal and social point of view is correct, and the limitations and virtues of each viewpoint are explored as the drama unfolds. In an elegant examination of theme and style, Professor Carroll...

The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays, the Art of Drama in Changing Perspective - Paperback

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by Francis Fergusson (Author)An original and beautifully written book on changing perspectives in the art of theater. Through a study of nine plays--Oedipus Rex, Bérénice, Tristan und Isolde, Hamlet, Ghosts, The Cherry Orchard, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Noah, Murder in the Cathedral--the author shows how all playwrights seek to "hold the mirror up to nature" and how in this respect the art of drama is always the same, varying only with the philosophical and aesthetic concepts of ...

T.S. Eliot's Dramatic Theory and Practice: From Sweeney Agonistes to the Elder Statesman - Paperback

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by Carol H. Smith (Author)Although there have been innumerable studies of T. S. Eliot, this is the first to examine closely the changes in his dramatic practice and to relate them to his artistic and intellectual development. Professor Smith finds Eliot's dramatic theory rooted in his conception of the need for order in religion and art; she traces this concept as it evolved from the overtly religious The Rock and Murder in the Cathedral through such symbolic drawing-room plays as The Family ...

Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642 - Paperback

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by Fredson Thayer Bowers (Author)A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations of the plays. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting ...

Tween Talk: A Tween's Guide to Social Success - Paperback

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by Erainna Winnett (Author)Child education and counseling expert Erainna Winnett brings more than 20 years of experience in teaching, counseling, and raising children to the hot-button issues every tween faces today. Written in a conversational style and chock full of concrete steps and tips, this interactive guide helps children make a smoother transition from preteen to teen by equipping them with proven strategies for social success.Although Tween Talk was written with a tween reading audi...

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by Joseph Zettelmaier (Author)A Christmas play. It's a cold Christmas Eve in London, and Ebenezer Scrooge sits in a hospital room. 15 years have passed since his miraculous transformation by the Ghosts of Christmas. Now renowned for his generosity and selflessness, his spirit still yearns to bring cheer to the world, but his flesh is weak. Such a little thing isn't likely to stop the old man, though, for he has a plan up his sleeve that he hasn't shared with his two troubled companions - Miss...

Destined: The unspoken revealed - Paperback

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by Katherine L. McGibbon (Author)The hardest battles are not those our eyes can see, but rather the subtle attacks of the unseen. The daily battles that manage to leech themselves onto our flaws, disguising themselves as who we are, or who we think we are, are the hardest. Destiny, a young girl completely oblivious to such war, falls victim to the unseen enemies who have made her their specific target. In search of love and acceptance, Destiny's choices, fueled by undirected emotion, leads he...

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by Suzanne Sumner Ferry (Editor), Wayne Grind (Author)Love, Loyalty, & BETRAYAL by author Wayne Grind is a great urban hood story about young kids growing up in the city streets, adapting quickly to the street life, and having the privilege to be schooled by an old gangsta by the name of Silk. Silk preached all the time about the coldness of this world, and the game. But after Silk was hospitalized from a gunshot wound, the hang was worried and disappointed. It showed on their faces. Silk...

A Tale Of Two Cities: A Play - Paperback

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by Charles Dickens (Author), Christopher M. Walsh (Author)The Reign of Terror sweeps through Paris, destroying both the high and low, and two Londoners are confronted with impossible choices. Will former aristocrat Charles Darnay abandon his family and brave the revolutionary storm to protect an innocent man? And can depressive barrister Sydney Carton find the strength to make the ultimate sacrifice for the unrequited love of his life? Darnay and Carton join a host of unforgettable characters...

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by Federico Garcia Lorca (Author)"This excellent edition is most welcome. A select bibliography, a brief vocabulary, several footnotes to explain points of difficulty, fourteen long endnotes.. and even the music of the songs, make the edition an extremely valuable and interesting volume, offering the reader the text of the play itself and important new insights into its structure, its significance and indeed its success."Professor Leo Hickey, 'Modern Languages' Bodas de sangre is arguably the...

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by Carl Sternheim (Author), Laurence Senelick (Translator)Life's meaning lies in the persistence of its creatures to establish their uniqueness and freedom in confrontation with their environment. The heroes of Sternheim ae not of the traditional cast-good, but not too good. They are, in fact, repulsive, malicious, cynical, morally degenerate creatures who nevertheless seem to win the approval of the author as exemplary representatives of vital principles in the order of things.Carol A Melill...

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by Jenny Stafford (Author)Thirty-five year old Kate is a professor of Ethics, with only one rule for her students-do not lie to her. She asks her students to answer the question, "Is your greatest ethical responsibility to yourself, or others?" However, as Kate and her husband struggle to have a baby, she finds herself unable to answer it as she faces an ethical dilemma of her own. A new play exploring womanhood, motherhood, and the space between right and wrong. "SECRET HOUR is a masterly, t...

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by Jenny Stafford (Author)Steve and Marty Martin are two brothers on the brink of closing their failing pet funeral home, "A Nice Farm Upstate With Plenty of Room to Run Around". That is, until an eccentric, rich old lady offers them a fortune for the funeral of her nearly dead racehorse, Sir Trots-A-Lot. There's only one problem: the horse won't die.BEATING A DEAD HORSE is the recipient of the 2017 Reva Shiner Comedy Award "For theatregoers who like to laugh and think, BEATING A DEAD HORSE i...

Fatal Desire: Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660-1720 - Hardcover

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by Jean I. Marsden (Author)Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration to the early eighteenth century--a period when for the first time female actors could perform in public. Jean I. Marsden maintains that the feminization of serious drama during this period is tied to the cultural function of theater. Women served as symbols of both domestic and imperial propriety, and so Marsden links...

Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media - Paperback

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by Diana E. Henderson (Author)"Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges. Frozen in time on the page or screen, some of those collaborations continue to speak, but denuded of their immediate moment and surroundings; we are left to supplement the traces. In recovering that past, the present takes on greater clarity and contrast. But the proof must be in the telling. A writer lifts a pen. Enter the multiple forces--political...

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by Graham Bradshaw (Author)Just at the moment when conflicts between critical "isms" are threatening to turn the study of English literature into a game park for endangered texts, Bradshaw arrives with a work of liberating wit and insight. His subject is double: the Shakespeare he reads and the Shakespeare whom critics in the ranks of the new historicists and cultural materialists are representing (or misrepresenting).Author BiographyGraham Bradshaw is Reader in English at the University of S...

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by Friedrich Solmsen (Author), G. M. Kirkwood (Foreword by)Friedrich Solmsen provides a new approach to Hesiod's personality in this book by distinguishing Hesiod's own contributions to Greek mythology and theology from the traditional aspects of his poetry. Hesiod's vision of a better world, expressed in religious language and imagery, pictures the savagery and brutality of the earlier days of Greece giving way to an order of justice. In this new order, however, the good aspects of the past ...

Conversations with and about Beckett - Paperback

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by Mel Gussow (Author)Mel Gussow, the longtime drama critic for The New York Times, has put together a revelatory book of conversations with the famously reticent author and his chief collaborators. In this revealing and poignant collection, Gussow paints a portrait of Samuel Beckett, the novelist and playwright whose body of work is unmatched for its intensity and cohesiveness. Although Beckett never allowed an interview, he did talk informally with Gussow over a ten-year period. Conversatio...

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by Samuel Beckett (Author)In Happy Days, Samuel Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, top time past and time present. Once again, stripping theater to its barest essentials, Happy Days offers only two characters: Winnie, a woman of about fifty, and Willie, a man of about sixty. In the first act Winnie is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth, but still has the use of...

Waiting for Godot/En Attendant Godot - Paperback

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by Samuel Beckett (Author), Samuel Beckett (Translator), S. E. Gontarski (Introduction by)From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Théâtre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, "Time catches up with genius. . . . Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the centur...

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by Jon Robin Baitz (Author), Honor Moore (Introduction by)In OTHER DESERT CITIES, Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents after a six-year absence. A once-promising novelist, she announces to her family the imminent publication of a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history - a wound that her parents don't want reopened. Brooke has come home to draw a line in the sand and is daring her family to cross it. Her brother won't play her game; her ...

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by Bernard Pomerance (Author)The Elephant Man is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A horribly deformed young man, who has been a freak attraction in traveling side shows, is found abandoned and helpless and is admitted for observation to Whitechapel, a prestigious London hospital. Under the care of a famous young doctor, who educates him and introduces him to London society, Merrick changes from a sensational object of pit...

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by Bertolt Brecht (Author)Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileo explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the demands of the Inquisition. Through the dramatic characterization of the famous physicist, Brecht examines the issues of scientific morality and the difficult relationship between the intellectual and authority. This version of the pla...

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by David Mamet (Author)Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action -- where closing a sale can mean a bran...