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by Glyn Maxwell (Author)A contemporary retelling of Euripides' Women Of Troy, and Hecuba, After Troy exposing the cruelties of war both then and now.Author BiographyGlyn Maxwell has long been regarded as one of Britain's major poets.He has been awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Prize, and the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as being shortlisted three times for both the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. Three of his books wer...

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by Sophocles (Author), Nick Payne (Adapted by)When a young Electra's father is murdered by her mother, her world changes irrevocably. Ten years on, bound by grief and unwilling to forgive, Electra surrenders to an all-consuming desire for revenge that propels her towards a bloody and terrifying conclusion. This is a haunting new version by Nick Payne of Sophocles' tragic masterpiece, Electra.Author BiographyNick Payne won the 2009 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. In 2010, he...

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by Ruth Finnegan (Author)Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its orig...

King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series - Hardcover

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Ronald Knowles (Editor), Ann Thompson (Editor)This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2 as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the English renaissance theatre, with its exploration of power politics and social revolution and its focus on the relationship between divine justice and sin. An extensive discussion of performance history traces the play's progress on stage from abridgement and adaptation to full historical epic. A survey of criticism di...

Timon of Athens: Third Series - Hardcover

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Anthony Dawson (Editor), Gretchen E. Minton (Editor)Timon of Athens has struck many readers as rough and unpolished, perhaps even unfinished, though to others it has appeared as Shakespeare's most profound tragic allegory. Described by Coleridge as the stillborn twin of King Lear', the play has nevertheless proved brilliantly effective in performance over the past thirty or forty years.This edition accepts and contributes to the growing scholarly consensus th...

Scenes for Young Performers to Enjoy: Vol II, Duologues - Paperback

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by Eleanor McLeod (Author) Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 14, 2012

To Take Upon Us the Mystery of Things - Paperback

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by Martin Lings (Author), Ira B. Zinman (Editor)A collection of previously unpublished lectures by the late Martin Lings, Shakespearean scholar and Sufi master. The main plays are seen in the light of universal and perennial metaphysics, psychology and eschatology, with many insights into the mystical and alchemical symbolism. The spiritual reach and meaning of the major plays is discussed in these talks. Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 03, 2014

French Cinema in Close-Up: La Vie d'Un Acteur Pour Moi - Paperback

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by Michael Abecassis (Editor), Marcelline Block (Editor)Illustrated mini dictionary of actors and actresses of the French Cinema. An insight into French film through its actors: profiles of 175 actors and actresses of the French Cinema, illustrated with caricatures of each actor by Jenny BATLAY and Igor BRATUSEK. - Not just biographies, but personal sketches of the actors and actresses, looking at their personalities, acting, and careers. The book is presented alphabetically in mini-dictionar...

From Calcedonies to Orchids: Plays Promoting Humanity in Health Policy - Paperback

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by Jeff Nisker (Author)Jeff Nisker has been writing plays since the early 1990s. He did this in order to bring audiences to the position of persons immersed in the vortex of new scientific capacity and its social implications. Jeff ultimately aims to promote humanity in health policy development. From Calcedonies to Orchids: Plays Promoting Humanity in Health Policy is a collection of plays based on Jeff's experiences, those experiences shared with him, and interviews conducted by Jeff. His f...

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by Antonio Gil y. Zarate (Author), Montserrat Ribao Pereira (Editor)On November 2 1837 the opening of Carlos II el Hechizado (Charles II the bewitched) at the Teatro del Principe in Madrid, Spain, became one of the greatest scandals of its times. The play is about an alleged spell cast on Charles II, the last Habsburg who reigned in Spain, by a young girl accused of the crime by a libidinous priest, father Froilan. The king condemns the girl to burn at the stake, in spite of knowing that she ...

Touchable Love: An Untraditional Love Story - Paperback

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by Becky Due (Author)Christy is a woman who avoids love and commitment because she hasn't been careful with her choices, and she's afraid of her future. When two men enter her life, they teach her everything she needs to know about the fears that hold her back. Will Christy face her past and her anxiety about the future? Will she let somebody love her? Number of Pages: 138 Dimensions: 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 12, 2012

Narcissus, or The Lover of Himself - Paperback

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by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Author), Daniel Boden (Translator), Simon Critchley (Afterword by)Narcissus, or The Lover of Himself is a play of staggering mediocrity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, better known as a social thinker than as a playwright, claims to have written it as a young man of eighteen, some twenty years before it was performed for King Louis XV on December 18, 1752. It flopped and never saw the stage again in Rousseau's lifetime. In his preface to the play, penned after its failed pro...

Advice and Consent: A Play in One Act - Paperback

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by Yxta Maya Murray (Author), Kathleen Kim (Introduction by)On September 27, 2018, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings concerning Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's allegations that then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in the mid-1980s. Advice and Consent is a play formed of interviews, found text, and transcripts, re-arranged, selected, and edited for poetic and provocative effect. The drama is designed as a thought experiment about power, pat...

Gyoergy Ligeti: Beyond Avant-garde and Postmodernism. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch - Hardcover

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by Constantin Floros (Author)The first part of the book centers on questions of biography, art and music theory, the psychology of creation and general aesthetics and concerns basic traits of Ligeti's personality and work. The more extensive second part comprises discussions of his most representative works, with special emphasis on the processes of creation.Author BiographyConstantin Floros is professor emeritus of Musicology at the University of Hamburg. Among his works are volumes on the o...

Inexactart--The Autopoietic Theatre of Augusto Boal: A Handbook of Theatre of the Oppressed Practice - Paperback

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by Birgit Fritz (Author), Ralph Yarrow (Translator), Lana Sendzimir (Translator)This handbook not only provides a very wide-ranging introduction and orientation to the world of the Theatre of the Oppressed, but Birgit Fritz also presents concrete and practical assistance for structuring basic workshops in process-oriented theatre work and in developing Forum Theatre plays. Birgit Fritz explores the working principles of emancipatory theatre work and somatic learning in depth. She gives numero...

Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Passion Unspent - Paperback

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by Joseph Farrell (Author)In the official citation explaining the decision to award the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature to Dario Fo, the Swedish Royal Academy stated that he had emulated the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden. It went on to add that with a blend of laughter and gravity, he opens our eyes to abuses and injustices in society: Fo is an extremely serious satirist. Since the award of the Nobel prize, Dario Fo has never st...

Drawing Cartoons: A Quick Guide on Acceptable Manners & Etiquette - Paperback

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by Editorial Board V&s Publishers (Editor)Such fears often haunt many of us.And at the root of such thinking lies a lack of confidence about our etiquette and manners . In fact, good manners today are in a state of flux as they were never before. Sound manners and etiquette are based on the most endearing human traits such as kindness, thoughtfulness and consideration for others. It is therefore very important to teach the children-and even grown-ups- the basics of manners so that they im...

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by Shrimali (Author)This book is a complete study of practical hypnotism. It seeks to explain the science of hypnotism in a simple, straightforward and unambiguous language. The book makes an integral study of the acclaimed ideas and theories of the East. The western thinkers have heavily drawn upon the valuable contemplations of the Indian seers of yore. Having achieved a fine blending of the two strains of scholarship, the book has become a very reliable guide for all types of readership.Dr...

Arabic Love Poetry from the Desert: Majnun Leyla, Arabic Text, Commentary and Translations - Paperback

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by Joyce Akesson (Author)The main body of the present book is a presentation of 62 Arabic poems in the original from the 7th century of the work of Qays b. al-Mulawwah (d. 688), also known as Majn n Leyla "the one who was mad about Leyla". Each Arabic poem has an English translation on the facing page. The English text has footnotes referring to comments that are placed at the end of the work. The poems tell the story of Qays' love to his cousin, Leyla bint Mahdıy (d. 688), better known as Le...

Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World Volume 2 - Hardcover

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by E. A. Bucchianeri (Author)A comprehensive exploration of Dr. Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil, and those who dared to tell his tale. Volume 2 of "Faust My Soul be Damned for the World" features a unique, in-depth account of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his masterpiece, Faust. Not only Part One but also the enigmatic Part Two of Goethe's drama that has puzzled readers for generations. His biography and creative process are revealed in the crafting of his great magnum opus lik...

Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums - Hardcover

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by Nicola J. Watson (Author)The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer's house museum, The Author's Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativit...

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by Mariko Hori Tanaka (Editor), Yoshiki Tajiri (Editor), Michiko Tsushima (Editor)Samuel Beckett and trauma, the collection of eight essays by leading academics, broadens and enriches the present fields of both trauma studies and Beckett studies by illuminating the uniqueness of the trauma in Beckett's work in relation to historical contexts. It also provides new perspectives for discussing trauma and literature more generally.Front JacketBeckett's works are strongly related to the psychologi...

Never Forget Us: A Story of Poverty, Pain, and Hope - Paperback

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by Eunice Menja (Author)"Never Forget Us" is a true, painful and inspiring memoir that will strike a chord with millions of people. Listen to the author's tone as she shares her honest childhood stories of pain and abuse. Abuse occured at home, school, church and work place. Both sexual and physical abuse became real to this village girl and someone was needed to do something. On the day she left Kenya, children begged, "teacher Eunice please never forget us when you go to America." Passion a...

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by Luke Barnes (Author)A humorous and heartfelt look into the lives of the youth of one northern new town, where the weight of identity, place, and masculinity threaten everything they've ever known.Author BiographyLuke Barnes is an award-winning northern playwright from Formby, Liverpool. Avid Liverpool fan, average cook and below average musician, his writing concentrates on trying to make work that is, at the same time, a good night out and packed full of big ideas that affect our every da...

One-Hour Shakespeare: The Comedies - Paperback

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by Julie Fain Lawrence-Edsell (Author)The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, The Comedies, includes the following plays: As You Like It Love's Labour's Lost Much Ado About Nothing Twelfth Night These accessible and versatile scripts are supported by: an introduction with emphasis on the evolution of the series and the creative process of editi...

One-Hour Shakespeare: The Early Comedies and Romances - Paperback

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by Julie Fain Lawrence-Edsell (Author)The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, The Early Comedies and Romances, includes the following plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream Two Gentlemen of Verona The Tempest The Winter's Tale. These accessible and versatile scripts are supported by: an introduction with emphasis on the evolution of the series and the creat...

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by Carla Miller-Dowdle (Author)Into Overtime: Sudden Death is about love at its finest with such a brutal ending one may not be able to recover. It tells of true soul mates and teaches that destiny is real. This nonfiction story is extremely powerful. Only the names and some of the places have been changed for better storytelling. There's absolutely nothing better than young love. For this blossoming couple, it was so much more. When they met, Bob Russell was an OSU Buckeye recruited by Woody...

I Know A Blessing When I See One - Paperback

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by Clifton Jones Jr. (Author)Setting is the late 60's in the deep south region of the country (New Orleans, LA) during the civil rights movement. Three young black women's lives have been forged together by the needs of one and her unborn child. An emotional rollercoaster ride begins as they cope with the situation and how one child can affect so many lives bringing the women a climatic resolution. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 16, 2019

When the Fairytale Ends: The Journey to Overcome Abuse - Paperback

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by Marisa Russo (Author)When you think about abuse, do you think of someone being slapped? Or punched? I did too until I found myself in a toxic marriage in which I was emotionally, verbally, mentally, and financially abused. I did not even know I was being abused until I was taken out of the situation and started seeing a therapist. This is my story of how the abuse changed my life, of how I had to fight to rebuild my life.I want to educate others to know that abuse is not just physical-to k...

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by Frank Wedekind (Author), Francis J. Ziegler (Translator)"Spring Awakening" is German playwright's Frank Wedekind's controversial and shocking drama of sexuality and repression. First performed in 1906 in Berlin, though written by Wedekind several years earlier, the play focuses on the lives on several adolescents coming of age in late nineteenth century Germany. Three teenage boys, Melchior, Moritz, and Wendl, and girls Wendla and Martha, struggle with abuse, a lack of information and acce...

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by Betty Viamontes (Author)Por la autora de la novela Waiting on Zapote Street (Esperando en la calle Zapote) ganadora del premio Latino Books Into Movies. Esta historia pica, basada en hechos reales, transporta a los lectores a la provincia de Camag ey, en el coraz n de Cuba. En el a o 1955, la germinaci n de las semillas de la revoluci n Castrista conllevar a los habitantes de un pueblecito a presenciar un cambio radical en sus costumbres y en su forma de vida. El pueblo, Arroyo Blanco, c...

Heart Healthy Cookbook for Two: 75 American and English Low Sodium & Low Cholesterol Heart Healthy Recipes for any Budget - Paperback

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by Ann Brown (Author)50% OFF FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY HURRY UP Heart Health is that every American and over the world citizen should be concerned about. Different heart diseases are one of the main death reasons for both men and women. Moreover, cardiovascular diseases often called as "the silent killer" because it cannot be any warning signs before a heart attack strikes.Fortunately, heart health is under your control. Surely, there're many factors that cannot be changed, such as age or fam...