Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Cole Escola (Author)Mary Todd Lincoln is tired of Washington, DC. The nation's capital is so boring; she would much rather be onstage, where she belongs, starring in a cabaret. And if she can't do that, she might as well drink. Or push her chaperone down the stairs. Or drink. The entire White House is fed up with Mary's antics, most of all her bore of a husband, who can't focus on anything except his silly Civil War. To get her out of his hair, Abe hires a hand...

My Little Golden Book about Greek Gods and Goddesses

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Report copyright infringementby John Sazaklis (Author), Elsa Chang (Illustrator)Introduce young readers to the powerful and mysterious gods and goddesses of ancient Greece with this Little Golden Book! Young children love hearing about the larger-than-life characters and amazing tales of Greek mythology. My Little Golden Book About Greek Gods and Goddesses is full of exciting, colorful illustrations and descriptions of Athena, Zeus, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Hermes, and many more. Look for more Li...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Barbara a. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)Love and marriage are the concerns of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Lucentio's marriage to Bianca is prompted by his idealized love of an apparently ideal woman. Petruchio's wooing of Katherine, however, is free of idealism. Petruchio takes money from Bianca's suitors to woo her, since Katherine must marry before her sister by her father's decree; he also arranges the dowry ...

Peter Pan and Other Plays: The Admirable Crichton/Peter Pan/When Wendy Grew Up/What Every Woman Knows/Mary Rose - Paperback

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by J. M. Barrie (Author), Peter Hollindale (Editor)For some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed enormous commercial success with a wide variety of plays, but he is best known for Peter Pan. It retains its popularity today, both in the original and in adaptations. As well as being the author of the greatest of all children's plays Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political satire, much of it now newly topical. The Admirable Crichton and What Every Woman...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Link Wynn (Author)Based on true stories and inspired by real-life events, Thalia Salazar's story is a powerful journey of pain, survival, and justice. From a young age, she endures unimaginable hardships-including human trafficking and deep betrayal, forcing her to confront the darkest sides of humanity while fighting to reclaim her life.From deep controversial events, blending drama, thriller, and suspense, this gripping novel weaves heart-pounding...

Poetic People Power: Three Spoken Word Shows for Social Change - Paperback

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by Tara Bracco (Editor)For 20 years, the New York City-based spoken word group Poetic People Power has creatively explored social and political topics, offering insights and solutions to issues that affect our everyday lives and the world around us. This debut anthology invites readers to explore three of their shows about environmental heroes, women's voices, and human rights abuses. Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions: 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 15, 2024

Same Team -- A Street Soccer Story - Paperback

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by Robbie Gordon (Author), Jack Nurse (Author)No.1 - Players always come firstNo.2 - We look to the futureNo.3 - We never leave anyone behindNo.4 - We place others before ourselvesNo.5 - We keep our promises Five women have come together with one goal, one dream. Coming from very different backgrounds in life they have to work together as a team if they want to do what no one from Scotland has ever done before. To win the Homeless World Cup, and bring the trophy home. A joyful story of commun...

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Report copyright infringementby Clifford Gordon Wayne (Author)The three plays forming the French Defense trilogy, center on the Paul Morphy Chess Club of New Orleans and a club member's psychotic breakdown - a modern ghost story. Playing serious chess, of course, provides an excellent metaphorical vehicle for depicting Player's struggle. However there are other issues explored in these plays than that of having a breakdown in New Orleans. The other characters in the French Defense have their ...

Meet Me at 10: Some Secrets Can't Stay Hidden

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Report copyright infringementby Vicky Jones (Author), Claire Hackney (Other)Would you have the courage to risk your life for what is right?Shona, Cuban, Elbie and Chloe. Four lives inextricably linked. Will tragic events part them forever?It's 1958 and Shona Jackson is on the run for her life again, she was forced to flee Mississippi and the town she'd called home. Arriving in Alabama, she hopes to save up enough money to continue her journey to safety, and convinces Jeffrey Ellis, the wealth...

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Report copyright infringementby Nora Ephron (Author), Delia Ephron (Author)This evocative and moving play features monologues and ensemble pieces about women, clothes and memory. Based on the bestselling book by Ilene Beckerman, the show covers important subjects - mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses and why we only wear black. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 20, 2026

POW: Peace Over War: Using Mediation and Conflict Resolution to Reconcile International and Local Disputes

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara G. Melamed (Author)Rooted in her lifelong commitment to peacebuilding and social justice, this groundbreaking book draws upon the author's extensive experience as an activist with the Gandhi International Institute of Peace and Mediators Beyond Borders. Integrating the renowned Harvard Law School Negotiation Principles of Mediation, the book offers a powerful framework for understanding and resolving some of the world's most traumatic and complex confli...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Hamill (Author)This isn't your grandmother's Austen! Bold, surprising, boisterous and timely, this Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. The outspoken Lizzy Bennet is determined to never marry, despite mounting pressure from society. But can she resist love, especially when that vaguely handsome, mildly amusing and impossibly aggravating Mr. Darcy keeps popping up at eve...

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Report copyright infringementby Tennessee Williams (Author)As The New York Times describes, "The play tells of a woman storekeeper and a handsome, guileless youth who comes in off the highway. A guitar-player, he is a rural Orpheus who descends to rescue his love-not in Hades, precisely, but amid the intrigue, gossip and violence of a hot-tempered town...Orpheus Descending is one of Mr. Williams' pleasant plays, with characters determined to free themselves from corruption, with some sensitiv...

Shakespeare's Hamlet bound with The Problem of Hamlet

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Report copyright infringementby A. Clutton-Brock (Author), J. M. Robertson (Author)This volume combines two classic works on Hamlet, first published in 1919 and 1922. The first book's original description says that it contains a theory which attempts to explain an everlasting problem - it insists that Hamlet is neither a failure not an accident, but a very great work of art. In a final chapter, the play is examined as an aesthetic document. It is a profoundly interesting and not unprovocativ...

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Report copyright infringementby Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Author), Laurence Boswell (Translator)Don Pedro has it all - high position, wealth, a beautiful family - and enjoys the good life in the heart of the Spanish capital. But now he faces a challenge that would test the patience of a saint. It is time to marry off his daughters. It's bad enough that his eldest Beatriz is both obsessed by the latest fashions and talks like a university professor, but his youngest Leonor is already enjoyin...

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Report copyright infringementby David Pinner (Author)"If I was French, it would be simple; I'd commit crime passionel in a riot of garlic and vin ordinaire. And if I was German, I'd invoke the phantom of the Fuhrer and get hacking. In America, the husband generally shoots the family first, then takes a dozen high-powered rifles up some bell tower and blasts away at the town. But I knew the English way was the only way, God help me. You make a bloody great speech - and then you have a stiff dr...

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Report copyright infringementby Ed Simpson (Author)Comedy / 5mNot long after moving to the small town of Randolphsburg PA uptight lawyer Joel Bixby is invited by Leo Applegate an avuncular fast food connoisseur to join a group of townsmen who meet in a ramshackle room at the edge of town. Leo has chosen Joel as a replacement for the late - and greatly beloved - Walter Deagon. Despite protesting that he's just not an organizational man Joel finds himself mesmerized by Leo's ebullient manner an...

Placeness and the Performative Production of Space

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Report copyright infringementby Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic (Author), María José Martínez Sánchez (Author)How can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this study of the relationship of performance to urban space. Marrying theory with a series of international case studies of performance practice and interviews with practitioners, this interdiscipl...

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Report copyright infringementby John Galsworthy (Author)âThe Skin Gameâ is a compelling tragi-comedy in three acts by John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright and novelist. The play explores the tensions between an old, established family and a newly wealthy one, as they clash over land and social standing. The Hillcrists, representing tradition and aristocracy, find themselves in conflict with the Hornblowers, who embody the rising power of industry and commerce. This cl...

Chinese Feminisms and The Vagina Monologues

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Report copyright infringementby Yingjun Wei (Author)This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues (TVM, 1996), a radical-feminist play by the North American artist and activist Eve Ensler: Yin Dao Du Bai (The Vagina Monologues, 2003), Yin Dao Zhi Dao (Vagina's Way, 2013), and Dao Yin (Saying Vagina, 2021). Each production was staged in and informed by the changing landscape of Chinese feminism: from 2003 to the early 2010s, the making of TVM was a process of explo...

Peace: A Classical Comedy of War and Reconciliation

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Report copyright infringementby Aristophanes (Author)Aristophanes' Peace is a classical Athenian comedy that satirizes war and celebrates the restoration of harmony through wit, absurdity, and political insight.In Peace, first performed in 421 BCE during the Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes presents the story of Trygaeus, an ordinary Athenian who grows weary of endless conflict and resolves to take matters into his own hands. Mounting a fantastical journey to the heavens, he seeks to rescue th...

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Report copyright infringementby Sonia Massai (Author)Sonia Massai's central claim in this book is that the texts of early printed editions of Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare's, did not simply 'degenerate' or 'corrupt' over time, as subsequent editions were printed using the immediate predecessor as their basis. By focusing on early correctors of dramatic texts for the press, this book identifies a previously overlooked category of textual agents involved in the process of their trans...

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Report copyright infringementby Juan N. Der Wildnis (Author)This fictional narrative is the product of a father and son who waged a seven-year battle against the civil authorities to be together. The story is neither autobiographical nor historical, but represents an effort to capture their challenges and blessings as seen through the lens of first-hand experience, and by observation of human nature, all recollected now in tranquility. The purpose of this work is to somehow give hope to the o...

Psycho-logist: She listens. She understands. She eliminates.

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Report copyright infringementby Diana Nuri (Author), Sofia Gutkin (Translator)'She heals the wounded. She kills the predators. She plays God - and gets away with it. For now'.Behind her flawless smile and polished wardrobe, psychologist Heleina Nuri hides a secret darker than her patients' traumas. By day, she counsels victims of abuse. By night, she becomes something else - judge, jury, and executioner for those the system failed to stop.But she's no longer hiding. She's leaving a trail, dar...

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Report copyright infringementby Henrik Johan Ibsen (Author)"IT GIVES ME A SENSE OF FREEDOM TO KNOW THAT A DEED OF DELIBERATE COURAGE IS STILL POSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD--A DEED OF SPONTANEOUS BEAUTY." Hedda Gabler, a classic play set in the late nineteenth century, was written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890. Blending comedy and tragedy, the work was universally condemned when it was first written. Today, however, Hedda Gabler is one of Ibsen's most performed and studied plays. It i...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Sanaye Dring (Author)Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling. Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play, and ultimately fight. Akio arrives as an angry, ambitious 18-year-old with a lot to learn. Expecting validation, dominance, and fame, and desperate to move up the ranks, he slams headlong into his fellow wrestlers. With sponsorship money at stake, their bodies on the line, and their futures at risk, t...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Jonathan Bate (Editor), Eric Rasmussen (Editor)A continuation of the major series of individual Shakespeare plays from the world renowned Royal Shakespeare Company, edited by two brilliant, younger generation Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric RasmussenIncorporating definitive text and cutting-edge notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works-the first authoritative, modernized edition of Shakespeare's First Folio in m...

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Report copyright infringementby H. S. Higgins (Author)A set of 6 bible play scripts with story notes and discussion prompts. Suitable for adults and children. Can also be used in sermons. Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.35 x 8.47 x 5.32 IN Publication Date: February 12, 2025

The Storm Or, the Howler (After Plautus)

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Report copyright infringementby Plautus (Author), Peter Oswald (Adapted by)Descending from the heavenly sphere of the gods to the mortal world below, Arcturus raises a mighty storm. For Labrax, a 'procurer' of women, the storm brings shipwreck and ruin. For his two female captives it offers a chance of escape. Washed up on a rocky coastline the two women seek refuge in the shrine of Venus, but it seems that the goddess alone cannot protect them. They are forced to rely instead on the help of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Katie Greenall (Author)In the beginning, Katie and Body were best friends. In the beginning, Katie and Body were infinite with possibilities... Katie's taken up synchronised swimming. She's buoyant and beautiful, but it's a lot harder than they thought. When the promise of campy fun and liberation fails to materialise, Katie feels further from her body than ever before. Join Katie and Body on their quest traversing forgiveness, beauty and whales as they ask: wh...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael K. Perry (Author)Tom Bollinger came from a bitter and troubled background. Growing up, he had experienced a myriad of horrible situations, but had managed to turn his life around despite the odds against him. Now he had everything to live for, he was blessed with a wonderful wife and loving children. He had just finished a long overseas military assignment and it was good to be home. But, something had changed within him. There was this strange sense of...

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Report copyright infringementby J. a. Fitts (Author)A past we can't escape, a love we were never meant to have.Tuck & MiaI shouldn't want her, my family would never approve of us being together. Not with everything that's true to our past. A past neither her nor I had any involvement in. My grandfather murdered her biological father, her biological father abused, and stalked my mother, but the hold Mia Willigham has over me I can't fucking break loose of! My parents had always hoped I wou...