Drama

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by Herbert Wynford Hill (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 important enough to be preserved...

Queering Translation History: Shakespeare's Sonnets in Czech and Slovak Transformations - Paperback

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by Eva Spisiaková (Author)This innovative work challenges normative binaries in contemporary translation studies and applies frameworks from queer historiography to the discipline in order to explore shifting perceptions of same-sex love and desire in translations and retranslations of William Shakespeare's Sonnets.The book brings together perspectives from poststructuralism, queer theory, and translation history to set the stage for an in-depth exploration of a series of retranslations of th...

Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language - Paperback

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by Jonathan P. a. Sell (Author)Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity. More specifically, it explores how Shakespeare generates experiences of sublime pathos, for which audiences have been prepared by the sublime ethos described in the companion volume, Shakespeare...

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by Molière (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 important enough to be preserved, reproduced,...

Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies - Paperback

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by Pamela M. King (Author), Alexandra F. Johnston (Editor)This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the 'living' traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their origins and the modes of production that are used. Several articles use modern literary theory on aspects of early drama, whilst others consider drama in the context of late medieva...

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Volume II: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics - Paperback

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by Jonathan Locke Hart (Author)Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: 　 Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentrated on related matters, including geography and language. In both volumes, a key focus is close analysis of the text and an attention to Shakespeare's use of signs, verbal and visual, to represent the world in poetry and prose, in dramatic and non-dramatic work as well as some of the contexts before, during and aft...

The Complete Opera Book: The Stories Of The Operas, Together With 400 Of The Leading Airs And Motives In Musical Notation - Hardcover

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by Gustav Kobbé (Author), Katharine Wright (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 important eno...

The Garden of Eloquence, Etc. - Scholar's Choice Edition - Paperback

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by Henry Peacham (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public do...

The Works of John Collier-Tim Bobbin-In Prose and Verse. Edited, with a Life of the Author, by Lieut.-Colonel Henry Fishwick. - Scholar's Choice Editi - Paperback

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by John Collier (Author), Henry Fishwick (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This ...

Agnes de Castro, a Tragedy ... Written by a Young Lady [i.E. Catherine Trotter, Afterwards Cockburn]. - Scholar's Choice Edition - Paperback

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by Inez De Castro (Author), Catharine Trotter (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. ...

The Treasure Ship and other Full-Length Plays: The Glen is Mine, The Treasure Ship, The Lifting, The Inn of Adventure, and Heather Gentry - Paperback

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by John Brandane (Author)1923 saw the performance of what is probably his most important full length play, The Glen is Mine. This work has good characterisation and a strong theme, the future of the Highlands: are industry and progress preferable to the destruction of the old Highland way of life? The ending, however, shies away from a bold resolution and opts for a safer, more sentimental conclusion. The romantic comedy The Treasure Ship (1924) with its background of the salvaging of treasur...

Rory Aforesaid and other One-Act Plays: Glenforsa, The Change-House, Rory Aforesaid, The Happy War, The Spanish Galleon, and Man of Uz - Paperback

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by John Brandane (Author), Alec Wilson Yuill (With)John Brandane (the pen name for Dr John MacIntyre) was arguably Scotland's best known resident dramatist in the 1920s before the emergence of that other great doctor/dramatist James Bridie (O.H. Mavor).When he returned to live in Glasgow he was to become deeply involved in the city's theatrical life. He renewed his acquaintance with A. W. Yuill and together they pushed the cause for a native Scottish drama and began writing for the Scottish N...

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by Tanya Denise (Author), Tanya DeFreitas (Author)"How do you keep two souls apart when they felt so familiar from the very start?" You can't. They'll find their way back to one another. She thought it was over; he knew that it wasn't. When two lovers reconnect after years apart, the connection that seemed to end is only reignited. She ran from him, uncertain and unsure of his intentions and afraid of her own feelings, only to find herself right back where she started...in his arms. The seque...

Monologues and Duologues for the Drama Studio - Paperback

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by Jeffrey Grenfell-Hill (Author)This collection of historical and contemporary scenes offers drama teachers a wide range of topics through an exploration of vividly drawn texts.The opening pantomime dialogue contrasts with such serious issues as cholera and plastic pollution. These scenes give the drama studio a credible opportunity to develop partnerships with other departments within a school environment. Historical scenes provide opportunities for cross-curricular activities in both Histo...

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by Calvin Parsons (Author)Uber is the world's largest taxi company but they don't own any cars. Airbnb is the largest hotel business on the planet but they don't own a single hotel. I had not even heard of Airbnb a few years ago. Now I use the application regularly. The internet continues to change our lives in so many ways. Most of us don't realize how the internet has changed dating and matchmaking. Most people don't care. But almost everyone will be looking for companionship and love at so...

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by Benjamin Holland (Author)This book is about my life and all of my accomplishments. At the age of thirteen, I left home. I had to raise myself. After everything I've been through, I am proud of the man I have become. In this book, I talk about my brothers and sisters, the abuse my sister and I went through, and how I woke up on a park bench in Harlem, New York, after getting high with friends. I knew at that point that this was not going to be my life going forward. From there, I talk about...

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by D. H. Lawrence (Author) Number of Pages: 258 Dimensions: 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 29, 2012

EATON'S During The Second French Revolution - Paperback

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by Kenneth A. Bray (Author)Eaton's During the Second French Revolution is the story of one man's rise from clerk to the youngest management position in all of Eaton's Canada. This story is told of his rise and the glory of the store that once was Montreal's center for shopping. The store may be the star, but the life of this young man and his staff as they try to work through the events happening on the streets of Montreal...the Second French Revolution. will engage and amaze any reader. Neig...

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by Eric Daniel Ryan (Author)Sometimes the truth doesn't set you free.In the final years of the Victorian era, a French fisherman and an English aristocrat team up on a harrowing adventure that brings forth an epic battle of greed, survival, and redemption.In the port city of Grimsby, England, a down on his luck French fisherman named Georges DuFort meets Cornelius Braddock, a widowed aristocrat searching for a reason to live. Georges tells him the tale of a long-lost ship loaded with Spanish ...

Everyone Lies: Love, hatred, family - Paperback

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by Nkemakonam Rosemary (Author)Reiner is a previous skipper of the SWAT group, a spy, a one-time expert rifleman, and a previous guardian of the Whitehouse likewise a fashionable government operative who one of the very rich people Sir Macaulay planted against his two kids Cee C, his step little girl and Alex his most memorable spouse Son who have a lot of scorn on themselves and both have a lot of interest in getting the gold model from the dance hall, a bartering occasion. The distinctions ...

The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre - Hardcover

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by Jade Boyd (Author)Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect of his craft, particularly in terms of colour's psychological, bodily and material agency. Breaking away from scholarly preoccupations with Lorca's sexuality, with the division of his work along temporal and stylistic lines, and with colour symbolism, Jade Boyd's readings of Lorca's ten full-length completed plays (1920-1936) examine how his colour-work forms pa...

History Plays for the Grammar Grades - Hardcover

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by Mary Ella Lyng (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public do...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Charles Praetorius (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the w...

The Shakesperian Referee: A Cyclopedia Of 4200 Words, Obsolete And Modern...in The Plays Of Shakespeare - Hardcover

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by J. H. Siddons (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public doma...

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by Mike Lippman (Translator), Wilfred E. Major (Translator), Jeffrey Henderson (Preface by)Aristophanes' Men and Their Horses, the second-oldest surviving comedy from the ancient world, was first performed in Athens in 424 BCE in the midst of the Peloponnesian War. With demagoguery and national populism in full swing after the death of Pericles in 429, the play demonstrates the power of theater to express dissent against a public figure through dramatic mockery. Nearly 2,500 years later, this...

Upfront Theatre: Why Is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt?; Arsehammers; The Year of the Monkey; Hard Working Families - Paperback

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by Claire Dowie (Author)An anthology bringing together a selection of Claire Dowie's plays for young people, which are ideal for performance with a large cast.The anthology includes the following plays and an introduction by the author.Why Is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt? (Stage2 version, large cast) portrays a 14-year-old girl who dresses like a boy and would rather play football than anything else. This version can be performed by a cast of up to 100.Arsehammers (Stage2 version, large cast) ...

James Graham Plays: 2: This House; The Angry Brigade; The Vote; Monster Raving Loony - Paperback

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by James Graham (Author)The second collection of plays from eminent playwright James Graham, bringing together four of his state-of-the-nation plays. The volume includes the following plays, alongside an introduction by the author: This House (2012) explores Westminster and the 1974 hung parliament through a combination of wit and waspish dialogue, comedy and political comment, and historical and contemporary concerns. The Angry Brigade (2014) takes a look at the story behind the Angry Brigad...

Amasis, King of Egypt: A Tragedy: Together With Some Additional Poems - Hardcover

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by Charles Marsh (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public doma...

Minor Dialogues: Together With the Dialogue On Clemency - Hardcover

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by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Author), Aubrey Stewart (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the wor...

Jonah, the Seatonian Prize Poem - Hardcover

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by James William Bellamy (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the pub...

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by Mark Lord (Author) Must the show always go on? How do you feel about blind casting? What one piece of theatrical memorabilia would you most like to own?Have you ever thought about how YOU might answer each of these questions? Each week, for nearly two years, one theater aficionado and his diverse circle of friends have taken to social media to offer their thoughts on these and other (sometimes) burning issues. The most memorable comments--some surprising, some poignant, some hilarious--hav...

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by Melanie Black (Author)Tom Williams appears to be your average sandy-blond businessman in the Big Apple, with a pair of sea-green eyes that look as if they can see straight through you. But, unfortunately for him, they can't. His suaveness can charm the pants off almost anyone, but that won't help him survive when the universe entwines three of his lovers. A young flowing boho artist named Myra, a successfully anxious commercial realtor named Remi, and a domineering lawyer, Stella, who moon...