Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Munday (Author), Henry Chettle (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, tha...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen F. Austin (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is import...

In Ole Virginia: Or, Marse Chan and Other Stories

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Nelson Page (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is impor...

Shakespear Illustrated: Or the Novels and Histories, On Which the Plays of Shakespear Are Founded: Collected and Translated From the Original

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Report copyright infringementby Charlotte Lennox (Author), Samuel Johnson (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, ...

Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres From the Beginnings to the Restoration

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Quincy Adams (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is impo...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Ashe (Author)Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy argues that Chaucer's fictions engage with the most urgent questions of modern political and moral philosophy. Close analysis of Troilus and Criseyde, the Canterbury Tales, and the Book of the Duchess reveals the ways in which Chaucer anticipates modern philosophical debates, using his fictions to explore the ethics of subjectivity and recognition, agency and moral responsibility; concerns that Chaucer experimenta...

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by Henrik Ibsen (Author), Jon Robin Baitz (Adapted by), Susan Faludi (Foreword by)In 1890, Henrik Ibsen premiered Hedda Gabler, a play questioning the role of women in Victorian society. Some audiences have viewed Gabler as a woman driven to desperation simply because her world has turned out to be less charmed than she hoped. For others, she is a victim of her times, unwilling to devote herself, as was expected of her, to the duties of home. Jon Robin Baitz has brushed away the cobwebs, and ...

Beckett's Drama: Mis-Movements and the Aesthetics of Gesture - Paperback

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by Charlotta P. Einarsson (Author), Håkan Larsson (Photographer)Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson takes a closer look at the often peculiar, sometimes incongruous physical movements and gestures that characters perform in Samuel Beckett's drama, viz. mis-movements. Sensitivity to the embodied aspects of life is topical in Beckett's drama, but such mis-movements underwrite the intrinsic connections between sense and sense-making to safeguard an ethics of interpretation founded on embodied cognit...

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Report copyright infringementby W. A. Frankonis (Author) Family Musical Book by W.A. FrankonisMusic by Will Severin and George David WeissLyrics by George David Weiss Characters: 5 male 5 female 5 children plus chorus of 6 male 6 female (doubling possible) A delightful new spin on the classic tale set in Venice this musical has lots of Italian spice and fire. To find love and happiness a self reliant strong and beautiful Cinderella must overcome a powerful amuletto d'amore to free her fath...

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Report copyright infringementby Laural Meade (Author)Harry Thaw Hates Everybody is a genre-bending high-speed turn-of-the-century romp in four acts - each in a different theatrical style: vaudeville living newspaper courtroom farce and post-modern collage. Set against a backdrop of gilded-age opulence and accompanied by authentic period songs the play takes as its starting point the real-life 1906 murder of New York's architectural eminence Stanford White at the hands of deranged coal baron H...

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Furman Johnson (Author) Tom Oliver, businessman, in the 1970's, is ready for a change. After some research by his assistant Mike, he and his dog Chester get in his old truck, Lillie Belle, and head west. He arrives in the little town of Hope and finds not much happening. Tom meets some of the townspeople and decides to stay. Soon after his arrival changes seem to start taking place in Hope.As a teacher, lifelong learner, gardener, artist, and mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Rose Goodbody (Author), Oliver Harrington (Director)CASSANDRA paces for a little while, her tenuous connection with reality wavering. Could she have convinced CLYTEMNESTRA not to kill her, if she'd said the right words? If she did, would that have spared AGAMEMNON? How would she have felt if that was so?Cassandra, a Trojan princess, has been taken captive by the king who destroyed her home to live as his new consort. But the god Apollo has other plans, Cassandr...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard A. Basquill (Author)Under Fire and Fury A Tom Archer WWII NovelThe gripping sequel to Under Fire, Under Command.As the world collapses, Archer and his men hold the line.May 1940. France is in flames. The British Expeditionary Force is retreating towards Dunkirk, desperate to escape the advancing German army. Lieutenant Tom Archer and the survivors of his platoon have fought their way back through the chaos-only to be ordered to stand fast at the strateg...

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Report copyright infringementby Dominique Wohlschlag (Author), Deborah Bell (Translator)The present essay is a reflection on the nature of bhakti, the Krishnaite way of devotion, and an impassioned attempt to unveil some of the hidden links between mystical experience and the traditional art of theatre. It is based on The Ocean of Nectar of the Flavours of Devotion (Bhaktirasāmṛtasindhu), a major work by Rūpa Gosvāmī (1489-1564).In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Bengal was alive with...

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Report copyright infringementby Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Author)Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton's handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M'Closky has other plans--for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0...

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Report copyright infringementby John Masefield (Author)"The Coming of Christ" is a profound and lyrical mystery play written by the celebrated poet John Masefield. This verse drama revitalizes the medieval tradition of mystery plays for a modern audience, exploring the spiritual significance of the Nativity through a rich tapestry of poetic dialogue and theological reflection.The play opens with a celestial debate among four angels who discuss the inherent risks and divine necessity of the In...

Voltaire Anthology: Candide, Zadig and Seventeen Plays

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Report copyright infringementby Voltaire (Author), Fran Ois-Marie Arouet (Author), William F. Fleming (Author)Included in this omnibus edition are Candide Zadig and seventeen of Voltaire's most important plays including Brutus Socrates Alzire Orestes Catiline Sémiramis Pandora The Scotch Woman Nanine The Prude Mérope Olympia The Orphan of China Mahomet Amelia R_x0001_dipus and Mariamne. During his life time Voltaire was far and away the most successful French playwright these are the plays th...

Storey Plays: 1: The Contractor; Home; Stages; Caring

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Report copyright infringementby David Storey (Author)"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian) The Contractor: "A subtle and poetic parable about the nature and joy of skilled work, the meaning of community and the effect of its loss" (Observer); Home: "about the solitude and dislocation of madness and...the decline of Britain itself...part of the play's appeal is that Storey leaves it to us to draw our own conclusions...a play that contains within its...

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Report copyright infringementby Zainab Khan (Author) Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 21, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Justin Borak (Author), Erika Kuhn (Author)When Maeve's father passes away and she inherits the family grocery store, her future feels uncertain, especially when her ex-best friend Harper comes back to town. Amidst the aisles of food, employees, family, and friends, a series of vignettes introduces us to the community as they navigate love, loss, forgiveness, and the highs and lows of life during one of the most simple and consistent parts of it: grocery shoppin...

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Report copyright infringementby Lilia Burton (Author)To my family that James Burton Jr. and I started fifty years ago, that blessed us with blossoming daughters Kim Mahal and Jennifer Ligaya, thank you all for your unwavering support. Your continued belief that I have the power to help others made a difference in my pursuits and ambitions to write my book. To my grandchildren Solomon, Najidah, Kwesi, Azubuike, and Kingston who have patience, creativity, compassion, generosity, and hard-workin...

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Report copyright infringementby David Epstein (Author)In these three plays (Exact Change, Hair of the Dog, and Shades), dramatist and screenwriter David Epstein brilliantly sketches the bleak, despairing-and howlingly funny-underside of contemporary American life. "I haven't laughed so much in a theater all year. With Epstein's blackish sense of humor and wry relish of the odd, his play fizzes with talent."-Benedict Nightingale, The Times of London "You begin by watching unexplained actions; ...

World Premieres from Horse Cave: Plays by Kentucky Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Warren Hammack (Editor), Liz Bussey Fentress (Editor), Pamela White (Introduction by)During Warren Hammack's 25 years of leadership as artistic director at Horse Cave Theatre, 17 world premieres were produced. This collection of 14 of those scripts is documentation of an exciting and prolific period in Kentucky's literary, artistic and theatrical history. Playwrights whose work appears in the book are Billy Edd Wheeler, Jim Wayne Miller, Sallie Bingham, Liz Bus...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Miller (Author)One of the most acclaimed plays in the American theatrical canon, this exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem is a gripping and timely parable of contemporary society, as well as a studied historical tale. The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie - and the monstrous course ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Mamet (Author)Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr. Faustus. Mamet's Faustus--like Marlowe's and Goethe's before him--is a philosopher whose life's work has been the pursuit of "the secret engine of the world." He is also the distracted father of a small, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Jonson (Author)"Sejanus His Fall" is a Roman tragedy by Ben Jonson, first performed in 1603. The play tells the story of Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the ambitious and ruthless Praetorian Guard prefect under the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Sejanus manipulates and eliminates his rivals in his ruthless pursuit of power, gaining increasing influence over Tiberius and effectively ruling Rome. However, his arrogance and unchecked ambition eventually lead to his downfall, ...

Whispers of Blue Ridge: One Night. One Cabin. There's No Going Back.

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Report copyright infringementby Nina Purtee (Author)Secrets at a historic vineyard ignite when a rodeo champion returns for answers.Who holds the truth when a family's past starts to unravel? Whispers of Blue Ridge is an emotionally layered women's fiction novel set in the North Georgia mountains that follows Savannah Gray as long-hidden secrets, a historic vineyard, and a rodeo champion named Jake Rollins collide in the North Georgia mountains.As rodeo season unfolds, loyalties shift, tensio...

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Report copyright infringementby Luke Hereford (Author)"he / him / they / them / him / they / he / us / you / I don't know / how do you keep getting this so wrong?"Nice Things: A Queer Love Storyfinds a gay couple, in the midst of their comfortable years. The two of them have everything; a beautiful flat, three holidays a year and truly envious Instagram grids. Nothing could ripple their idealistic world. Except for each other. When one of them comes out as nonbinary, their idealised gay picke...

Ecology and Climate in Theatre and Australian Performance

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Report copyright infringementby Peta Tait (Author), Denise Varney (Author), Lara Stevens (Author)Charting a history of theatrical resistance to environmental exploitation, this study places drama and theatrical performance staged in Australia within the context of international scholarship to address changing ecological systems. Exploring the staging of disasters ranging from droughts and floods to forest fires and rising seas, it examines a strikingly diverse body of work that reflects the e...

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Report copyright infringementby Julie Marie Myatt (Author)For many urban dwellers, daily life includes walking the dog surrounded by strangers and neighbors for whom you have only a passing acquaintance, whose personal stories you can only guess, imagine, or project upon them through the various waves hello, small talk about the the weather, or random gestures of kindness. What happens when you cross through the threshold of strangers, into their apartment? What stories have they been keeping...

O Freedom!: Afro-American Emancipation Celebrations

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Report copyright infringementby William H. Jr. Wiggins (Author) Winner of the B. A. Botkin Prize for a First Book in American Folklore (American Comparative Literature Association) and received an honorable mention for the Chicago Folklore Prize (University of Chicago). O, Freedom! is the first full scholarly treatment of not only Juneteenth, but also May 28, August 9, January 1, and other dates that were regionally celebrated as "emancipation day" in America. This lively account traces the e...

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Report copyright infringementby Jerrod Bogard (Author), Sky Seals (Author), Emily Fellner (Author)TYA Children's MusicalCharacters: 6 male 2 female possible doublingFollow Jack up the beanstalk once more in this zany 45-minute musical romp! Times have changed though and Jack faces new obstacles on his journey - like how to make his truck go without gasoline and how to stop his mother from selling off his precious video games! Jack learns sometimes you have to take a leap of faith but that whe...