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Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues - Paperback

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by David Mamet (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross, here is a collection of thirty-two one-act plays and short dramatic pieces that David Mamet himself considers to be some of the best writing he has ever done. In this single volume are all seven plays that makeup Vermont Sketches, which Frank Rich of The New York Times has called 'remarkable . . . as terrifying as a stranglehold." Here also are the six plays that The Blue Hour, The Spanish Prisoner, and Gold...

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by George Chapman (Author), Ethel E. Smeak (Editor) Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 01, 1966

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by Christopher Marlowe (Author), Richard W. Van Fossen (Editor)First performed in 1592, The Jew of Malta was one of the most popular plays of its day and has been a treasure of the Elizabethan Renaissance ever since. Set on the island of Malta when it was a center of Mediterranean trade, it deals with power and power struggles on several levels: between individuals, groups, and empires, and between money, family, and political authority. The title figure of the play is Barabas, grown wealthy ...

Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885 - Hardcover

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by Elaine Hadley (Author)This pathbreaking work analyzes melodrama as not merely a theatrical genre but as a behavioral paradigm of the nineteenth century, manifest in the theater, in literature, and in society. It shows how the melodramatic mode reaffirmed the familial, hierarchical, and public grounds for ethical behavior and identity that characterized models of social exchange and organization.Back JacketThis is a very significant and original contribution to our understanding of melodram...

The Rising Water Trilogy: Plays - Paperback

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by John Biguenet (Author), George Judy (Foreword by)Widely praised by critics and hailed by audiences, the award-winning plays in John Biguenet's The Rising Water Trilogy examine the emotional toll of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Approaching the storm, the levee collapse, and subsequent socioeconomic catastrophe through the lives of three couples and their families, Biguenet conveys insights into the universal nature of trauma and feelings of loss with heart-wrenching intimacy and pal...

Joe Blackburn's a Clown's Log - Paperback

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by Joe Blackburn (Author), Charles H. Day (Author), William L. Slout (Editor)Joseph Blackburn, a clown who juggled on horseback, took a professional trip to England in 1838, accompanied by the noted American vaulter and bareback rider, Levi J. North. His account of their experiences abroad encompasses activity with the circuses of Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2007

Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time - Paperback

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by Nina Auerbach (Author)Nina Auerbach brilliantly reveals the Ellen Terry whose roles, on stage and off, embodied everything that a rapidly changing world exhorted women to be.Back JacketShe was one of the most beloved figures of her time and, after Queen Victoria, the highest-paid working woman in the realm. A boyish child actress in the 1850s, she subdued her energy until her eerie beauty made her the center of an aesthetic cult in the 1870s and '80s. In the 1890s she radiated a queenly be...

Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text - Paperback

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by Zachary Lesser (Author)In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions. Suddenly, the world had to grapple with a radically new--or rather, old--Hamlet in which the characters, plot, and poetry of Shakespeare's most famous play were profoundly and strangely transformed. Q1...

Four Comedies by Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Paperback

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by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Author), Kenneth Muir (Translator)Calderón, the great dramatist of Spain's Golden Age, was a skilled writer of comedy. His serious dramas have long been highly regarded in the English-speaking world, but his many sparkling comedies are an untapped reservoir for the contemporary theater. The four plays in this volume, three of which appear in English for the first time, have been translated by Kenneth Muir, the noted British scholar and director. These are comedi...

Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe - Hardcover

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by Emily C. Bartels (Author)Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 1994 Bartels focuses on Marlowe's preoccupation with "strangers" and "strange" lands, and his use--and subversion--of Elizabethan stereotypes. Setting Marlovian drama in the context of England's nascent imperialism, Bartels probes the significance of the alien as the vital presence on the Renaissance stage and within Renaissance society.Author BiographyEmily C. Bartels is Professor of English at Rutge...

Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America - Paperback

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by Diana Taylor (Author)Latin American theatre is among the most innovative in the world today. The period 1965-1970 was one of intense theatrical production in the region. Dozens of major playwrights and collective theaters produced hundreds of highly original plays. This was also a period of profound ideological and sociopolitical transformation. Hopes for Latin American self-definition and self-determination after centuries of colonization and foreign exploitation began to crumble, while t...

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by William R. Elton (Author)Many critics hold that Shakespeare's King Lear is primarily a drama of meaningful suffering and redemption within a just universe ruled by providential higher powers. William Elton's King Lear and the Gods challenges the validity of this widespread optimistic view. Testing the prevailing view against the play's acknowledged sources, and analyzing the functions of the double plot, the characters, and the play's implicit ironies, Elton concludes that this standard in...

Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney's Poetics - Paperback

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by Michael Cavanagh (Author) Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaney's poetics--his concept of what poetry should be and what its uses are--and relating them to his practice as a poet. The first full-length study of Heaney's poetics, Professing Poetry explores Heaney's unusual concept of influence and t...

American Vaudeville as Ritual - Paperback

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by Albert F. McLean (Author)This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal ...

Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act - Hardcover

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by Oscar Wilde (Author), Joseph Donohue (Translator), Barry Moser (Illustrator)Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde's play Salom (1893) was written originally in French. Joseph Donohue's new translation of the horrific New Testament story has recast Wilde's shockingly radical drama in the natural idiomatic language of our own day. Presenting a colloquial and spare American English version of Wilde's consciously stylized French, Donohue's approach gives full value to the Irish author's dark ru...

T.C. Murray, Dramatist: Voice of the Rural Ireland - Hardcover

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by Albert Degiacomo (Author)Drawing on the archives of libraries in Dublin, New York City, and Boston, Albert J. DeGiacomo assesses T. C. Murray's contribution to the Irish dramatic movement. One of "the Cork realists" of the Abbey Theatre, Murray wrote seventeen plays in one, two, or three acts. A prominent National Teacher and a seemingly apolitical playwright in the Irish Literary Revival, Murray expressed nationalistic aspirations in his peasant tragedies. His characters' drive for self-d...

Selected Plays of Padraic Colum - Paperback

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by Sanford Sternlicht (Editor)At the age of twenty-three, Padraic Colum (1881-1972) was one of the founding fathers of the Abbey Theatre. His contribution to the development of Irish drama continued until his voluntary exile to America in 1914. His play, Broken Soil (1903), was the first commercial success at the Abbey, and it established the long-lived tradition of the peasant play on the Irish stage. This collection comprises the three major forms of his dramatic art: The Land (1905); Betra...

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by James A. Grimshaw (Editor), James A. Perkins (Editor)Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men is one of the undisputed classics of American literature. Fifty years after the novel's publication, Warren's characters still stand as powerful representations of the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in positions of power. All the King's Men had its genesis in Warren's stage play Proud Flesh, unpublished in his lifetime. He also wrote a subsequent unpublished p...

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by Dave Osmundsen (Author)Henry Sullivan, 27, single, gay, and autistic, lives his life vicariously through the heroes and heroines of the 19th Century British novels he devours. But no marriage plot has prepared him for dating as a contemporary gay man. When he meets a potential match in Joseph, every romantic notion of his will finally come true-or will it? Hilarious and heartbreaking, LIGHT SWITCH tells the story of one remarkable young man's journey toward love and acceptance over the spa...

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by Jules Tasca (Author)Various characters (min 2m, 2f - max 12m, 11f) Simple sets Seven famous Chekhov short stories theatriclized for stage presentations. The tales showcase 7 of the master's most fascinating women and their interactions with the men in their lives. From a drama about suicide to a comedy about seduction, this evening of short plays entertains and enlightens. Individual titles include: The Strange Death of Natasha ProbkinYoung VierochkaThe ActressOlga's Number of Pages: 90 ...

Conversations with Arthur Miller - Paperback

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by Matthew C. Roudane (Editor)Arthur Miller clearly enjoys militantly civil conversation. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Miller in interview is his willingness to answer question after question with grace and substance, with a sense of social commitment and metaphysical curiosity.These interviews complement the plays and his more formal and well-known theater essays, revealing his dramatic and aesthetic theories, his concern with language and structure, his awareness of the inner real...

Social Identity in Imperial Russia - Paperback

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by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter (Author)A broad, panoramic view of Russian imperial society from the era of Peter the Great to the revolution of 1917, Wirtschafter's study sets forth a challenging interpretation of one of the world's most powerful and enduring monarchies. A sophisticated synthesis that combines extensive reading of recent scholarship with archival research, it focuses on the interplay of Russia's key social groups with one another and the state. The result is a highly origina...

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by Edwin Sanchez (Author)A twelve year-old transgender child and hir dying father must come to terms with their own destiny. By Destiny sticking to hir guns about who zie is supposed to be, zie frees hir family to face what is unchangeable in their lives. Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 09, 2022

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by Edwin Sanchez (Author)This collection includes three full-length plays: CLEAN, FLOORSHOW: DONA SOL AND HER TRAINED DOG, and TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS. CLEAN: What would happen if you found that impossible love was indeed possible? And what would happen if two of these couples were a drag queen and a woman, and a priest and a boy? FLOORSHOW: DONA SOL AND HER TRAINED DOG: Reality and fantasy collide as a son, just out of a mental institution, and his mother, a former hooker, now a fortune...

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by Bram Stoker (Author), Neil Labute (Adapted by)Neil LaBute brings a rich theatricality and his provocative way with language and story to the world of Count Dracula, Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, and his beloved Mina-this time, with very much a mind of her own-infusing the classic gothic tale of terror, obsession, and pathos with a modern edge. Chilling yet stylish in its atmosphere, dark yet deeply human in its emotional impact, Neil LaBute's DRACULA is a tribute to both LaBute's dramatic ...

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by Rogelio Martinez (Author)"BLIND DATE, Rogelio Martinez's playfully titled and altogether amusing geopolitical romp...might very well be described as a "Ron-com." Ron as in Ronald Reagan, the actor, California governor and 40th President of the United States whose military and foreign policies some say helped bring the Cold War to an end (at least temporarily). Whatever the long-term historical assessment of all that might be, there can be no doubt that one of the most notable events in lat...

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by Tony Kushner (Adapted by), Pierre Corneille (Author)A lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he drove away years before, travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave. There he engages the services of a wizard, who conjures up visions of the romantic, adventurous, perilous life the lawyer's son has been living since his father expelled him from home. THE ILLUSION, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille's L'ILLUSION COMIQUE, is Kushner's most joyfully theatrical play, a wildl...

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by Rudolf Steiner (Author), Ruth Pusch (Translator), Hans Pusch (Translator)Rudolf Steiner's four mystery dramas are powerful portrayals of the complex laws of reincarnation and karma. They transport us into a landscape of the human soul and spirit, where suprasensory beings are active. Through the perception of these hidden worlds, we are given the opportunity to understand the struggles we face in attempting to apply spiritual knowledge to our everyday lives and relationships. Written betwe...

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by Robert Chesley (Author)This collection includes two full-length plays, STRAY DOG STORY and JERKER, and three interconnected one-acts, DOG PLAYS. STRAY DOG STORY: In the opening scene a "lonely faggot" named Jon wishes out loud that his faithful Buddy were human and his lover. "If people were as good-hearted as dogs," he sighs, "we wouldn't be in the mess we're in, that's for sure." No sooner has Jon left the room than presto Buddy's Fairy Dog Mother appears, and his and Jon's wish is gran...

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by Jack Gilhooley (Author)This collection includes three full-length plays: MUMMERS, DANCIN' TO THE CALLIOPE, and SHOOTERS. MUMMERS: Every New Years the Mummers dress up in colorful costumes for the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia, one of the oldest folk traditions in America. MUMMERS is a sympathetic look at their attempts to cope with a changing world. DANCIN' TO THE CALLIOPE: A funny, zany, and strangely touching tale of two performers in a carnival sideshow who plot to assassinate a rural ...

The Complete History of America (Abridged) - Paperback

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by Adam Long (Author), Reed Martin (Author), Austin Tichenor (Author)..".Just as the company's members good-naturedly bash the Bard in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED), so do they cheerfully run riot over five-hundred years of our country's history. During the manic, ninety-minute program... they] mine dozens of landmark events and trends for comic gold... Not only do they know how to give American history an irreverent boost, they actually turn it into something accessibl...

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by Frank Wedekind (Author), Kenneth Tigar (Adapted by), Clayton Koelb (Adapted by)Possibly the ultimate coming-of-age drama. The play follows a group of high-school friends in Victorian-age Germany who begin to experience their first sexual desires in a world where even talking about sex is taboo. Each struggles to travel the route from childhood to adulthood without a roadmap. Along the way they touch the heights of elation and the depths of despair while being forced to confront the problem...