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Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dream - Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson - Hardcover

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by William Shakespeare (Author), W. Heath Robinson (Illustrator)'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is a comedy play - one of Shakespeare's lighter works, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. Both in text, and on stage, it is one of Shakespeare's most popular narratives, and remains widely performed across the world. This book, originally published in 1912, contains twelve incredible colour illustrations and many beautiful and intricate black and white drawings by W. Heath Robinson. A...

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by Mark Twain (Author)Do you want to read The Mysterious Stranger? If so then keep reading...This story is told by Theodor Fischer, a boy who lives in a small Austrian village and quietly exists with his friends, relatives and community. One day a stranger appears in the village and befriends Theodor and his chums. He tells them that his name is Satan and he is the nephew of "the Satan". He is capable of all types of magic, predictions and apparitions that he reveals in various ways to the bo...

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Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments - Paperback

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by Leah Scragg (Author)A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity.Back JacketDesigned to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress entertainments focuses on a group of entertainments mounted for the monarch in the closing years of her reign. Richl...

Antigone Uninterrupted: Antigone's Biographical Tale of Learning from Tragic Counsel - Paperback

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by Wendy Bustamante (Author)This book argues that while current scholarship on Antigone tends to celebrate work that takes Antigone out of her classical roots and puts her into contemporary frameworks, we do not need to place her in a new context and setting to appreciate what her insights offer. We can simply listen to her whole story and learn from what she learns from her father, Oedipus. While other works boldly claim to be progressively moving beyond the scope of tragic themes of mortali...

Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka - Hardcover

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by Jean-Philippe Marcoux (Editor)This collection of original essays brings together some of the most important critics and scholars of Amiri Baraka's oeuvre. Some Other Blues consists of career-spanning conversations on the many trajectories, bifurcations, and intersections in and of Baraka's black art. Every chapter is grounded in the desire to illuminate Baraka's multilayered creative output-whether through critical analyses, literary historiographies, or musicological and biographical reas...

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by Anthony Clarvoe (Author) "Beautifully written... There is light of understanding cast on the human condition in this play. That light concerns the simple heroism of people who do not abandon their fellows in the dark hours." Marilynne S. Mason, Christian Science Monitor "Set in London as the Black Plague sweeps the city claiming more than 100,000 lives, THE LIVING is not about death. Rather this remarkable, riveting drama is a compelling confirmation of life." Sandra Dillard-Rosen, The De...

Why the Theatre: In Personal Essays, College Teachers, Actors, Directors, and Playwrights Tell Why the Theatre Is So Vital to Them - Paperback

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by Sidney Homan (Editor)Why the Theatre is a collection of 26 personal essays by college teachers, actors, directors, and playwrights about the magnetic pull of the theatre and its changing place in society.The book is divided into four parts, examining the creative role of the audience, the life of the actor, director, and playwright in performance, ways the theatre moves beyond the playhouse and into the real world, and theories and thoughts on what the theatre can do when given form onstag...

Othello: as interpreted by Luigi Lo Cascio - Paperback

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by Luigi Lo Cascio (Author), Gloria Pastorino (Translator)Italian actor Luigi Lo Cascio is best known for his remarkable career in film, which began in 2000 with Marco Tullio Giordana's biopic of Peppino Impastato, a lone mafia fighter in the small town of Cinisi, in The Hundred Steps. However, Lo Cascio's passion for acting began in the theatre, a medium that pushes actors to find their own physical and verbal language. In several interviews, he has commented on how, per force, film flattens...

33 Short Comedy Plays for Teens: Plays for Small Casts - Hardcover

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by Laurie Allen (Author)Laurie Allen has done it again Due to popular demand, she has created another book of short plays for teens, all fresh and original. Thanks to the natural dialogue and believable situations for both inexperienced and veteran performers, teens love the real-life dilemmas in these comedies. With cast sizes ranging from two to seven, most running times between five and ten minutes, and only the simplest of props required, these modern-day complete skits are ideal for cla...

Style for Actors: A Handbook for Moving Beyond Realism - Paperback

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by Robert Barton (Author)Style for Actors is an award-winning handbook and the definitive guide to roles in historical drama. Anyone who has ever struggled with capes, fans, swords, doublets and crinolines should make this third edition their constant companion. The past is a foreign country, and this outstanding book is concerned with exploring it from the actor's point of view. Specific guides to each major period give readers a clear map to discover a range from Greek, Elizabethan, Restora...

The Lamp and the Bell - A Drama in Five Acts: With a Biography by Carl Van Doren - Paperback

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by Edna St Vincent Millay (Author), Carl Van Doren (Contribution by)Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebrated poets in American history, Millay is hailed as the twentieth century's most skilful sonnet writers who expertly married modern attitudes with traditional forms of expression. "The Lamp and the Bell" is a fairy tale drama in five acts written by Millay for a student production a...

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by Dion Boucicault (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN Publication Date: Au...

Two Slatterns and a King: A Moral Interlude - Paperback

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by Edna St Vincent Millay (Author), Carl Van Doren (Contribution by)Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebrated poets in American history, Millay is hailed as the twentieth century's most skilful sonnet writers who expertly married modern attitudes with traditional forms of expression. Though most famous for her poetry, she was an accomplished playwright and wrote numerous successful pla...

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by Novella Bex (Author)She smiled amidst her nightmares and forged War for her Soul. At times conflicted in her spirit, her flaws often were exposed. The wilting of her petals brought new meaning for the SunShe bloomed through Hell and Fury, her thoughts forced to come undone For her to build the Garden she hadn't realized she'd become. Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: September 09, 2020

Pygmalion: a romance in five ats - Hardcover

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by Bernard Shaw (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 118 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: Septe...

Talos/Pandora: AI, CRISPR, and tele-present performance as discourse - Paperback

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by Phillip Baldwin (Author)A STUDY, CHARRETTE, LAB, DESIGN, AND CAD WORKSHOP, IN VIRTUAL, HCI, BRICK MORTAR. We worked in interactive java script programs between Zoom, Hubs social VR, and a number of projects. Number of Pages: 324 Dimensions: 0.68 x 7 x 4.25 IN Publication Date: July 28, 2020

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by Jeanne Follett (Author)Payacita is the epic story, fiction/nonfiction, based upon the life of a Navajo woman who was born in autumn 1888. The story opens with her age beginning at five years old and ends with her death at sixty-seven years old.The story is based upon the testimonies of individuals who really knew her. Her life struggle is exemplified through the many years in which she lived with her family and her coexistence with the "white man."Her journey is one that drives her with th...

Can't Believe I'm Saying This to My Mum: Mark Wheeller Contemporary Duologues - Paperback

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by Mark Wheeller (Author)A brand-new collection of duologues for actors of all ranges and genders, selected by Mark himself from his best-loved plays. Author BiographyMark Wheeller began writing whilst a student at Marlwood Comprehensive School, Bristol. After teaching drama for thirty-six years he retired in July 2015 to concentrate on writing and delivering Drama/Theatre workshops to students and teachers across the world. Mark is one of the most-performed playwrights in Britain. Too Much ...

The Simple French Cookbook: Must Have French Recipes For Any Cook - Paperback

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by Paris Hensley (Author)DISCOVER THESE AMAZING FRENCH COOKING RECIPES WITH THE SIMPLE FRENCH COOKBOOKTODAY!Be A French Masterchef With Recipes In This Book Such As: ★ French Crepe★ Traditional French Country Salad With Lemon Dijon Vinaigrette★ Classic French Onion Bistro Soup★ Fresh French Pea Soup★ Green Vegetable Soup★ Beef Bourguignon - Slow-Cooked★ Entrecote Steak With Red Wine Sauce★ Pan-Seared Steak au Poivre★ Steak Diane★ French Ham & Grilled Cheese Sandwich - Croque Monsieur★ Por...

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by Alice Gerstenberg (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 266 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: S...

Hammered: A Thor & Loki Play - Paperback

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by Christian Borle (Author)As Thor struggles with the stress of final exams, his brother Loki finds himself under a different sort of pressure. Neither are beneath pranks in the endless competition for their parents' favor. But underneath all the thunder and mischief, these two Princes of Asgard discover a bond that will last millennia. Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 11, 2020

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by Emma Stanton (Author)No Candy is a play that centers around a multi-generational community of Bosnian Muslim women who run a gift shop near the Srebrenica memorial. The play follows how each woman copes, both privately and publicly, with the particular trauma she experienced during the war: She dreams of Julie Andrews; She dresses drag in her father's clothes; She sings late-night karaoke to strangers; She allows the ghost of her husband to stay a little while in her home. No Candy is ver...

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by Boo Killebrew (Author)After her release from prison, Lettie is desperate to regain custody of her teenage children. Training to be an iron welder, Lettie will stop at nothing to reclaim her family and start life anew. Inspired by real Chicago stories, Lettie is a powerful, moving, and funny play by playwright Boo Killebrew. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 29, 2020

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by Frank Carney (Author)Boasting the longest run in the history of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, The Righteous Are Bold came to Broadway under the aegis of Eddie Dowling with the original Abbey cast.The play itself opens with the return from England of a young Irish girl. It is apparent that she is strangely different from the girl who left. She bears peculiar marks on her body, and in uncontrolled moments this once-religious girl is fiercely profane and anti-Christ. The doctor and the priest ...

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by Billy Van Zandt (Author), Jane Milmore (Author)The Buckle brothers, Billy and Tom, are in big trouble: Tom's infallible eye for slow horses has drained away all of Billy's savings and he has borrowed from loan shark Pizza Face Petrillo, who now wants his money back or else Involve a stuffy young lawyer, a hard drinking, man hungry housekeeper and a trio of beautiful young women, and you have the recipe for a laugh packed farce of twists, turns, puns and pratfalls as Tom strives mightily t...

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by Harry Kurnitz (Adapted by), Marcel Achard (Author)On Broadway, Julie Harris played the good hearted and guileless child of nature who is hauled before the magistrate on a charge of murder, having been found unconscious, nude, and clutching a gun, with her lover dead beside her. What is most shocking to the magistrate is the complete frankness with which she describes her life as a parlor maid and her affairs with both the dead chauffeur and her aristocratic employer. She is so ingenious th...

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by Rick Abbot (Author)Lovelorn millionaire Oliver Stratton can't recall the name and address of the only woman he'll ever love and decides to go to Tibet, leaving his fortune to nurse Peggy. This causes the entire household (no-good nephew Derek, his lover Sylvia, Oliver's noble son George, Oliver's lady lawyer, and even the butler and maid) to devise complex ways to get the will changed in their favor or get into the safe containing the estate's liquidated assets in cold cash. When a Tibetan...

The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden - Paperback

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by Thornton Wilder (Author)A father, mother and two of their three surviving children drive from Newark, New Jersey to Camden to visit their married daughter, who has recently lost her baby in childbirth. Their journey is punctuated by talk, laughter, memories (some mundane, some happy, some painful), and appreciation of the Now - ham and eggs, flowers, family, sunsets and the joy of being alive. In this family drama, nothing much happens-and yet everything important happens. As Ma Kirby says...

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by Woody Allen (Author) Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 06, 2020

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by Joyce Carol Oates (Author)In Darkest America contains the plays The Eclipse and Tone Clusters. The Eclipse: A middle aged professor lives with her ailing mother. The old lady, once a brilliant teacher, moves in and out of reality, has a fantasy Latin lover, and makes her daughter's life miserable. One night she whirls in a torrid dance with her lover while her daughter sleeps; death has released both from suffering. This haunting play by one of America's foremost authors was commissioned b...

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by Lee Kalcheim (Author)A nerdy, technophobic librarian clutches in his sweaty hands the detonator that will obliterate the library if his beloved card catalog is carted away. He is pitted against a harried police negotiator in this fast paced debate on society's obsession with computers. Jason Alexander and Peter Falk starred in the California premier. Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 07, 2019