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Three More Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Politics - Paperback

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by Jeffrey Henderson (Author)This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These plays, originally a series, are the world's earliest political satires, and are made available here for the first time in one volume, augmented by full introductions and notes.In these three works, Aristophanes launched satirical attacks on Cleon, the world's first demagogue, and explored the vulnerability of democracy to populist manipulation and disinforma...

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by Mary Angelon Young (Author)Finally the voice of Gwenhyfar, the Queen of Cymry, resounds across the centuries... In the complex world of sixth century Briton, where ancient Celtic traditions conflict with Saxon invaders, Rome, and the influences of its new religion, Christianity, the story of Queen Gwenhyfar and her king, Arthur, unfolds a struggle for power laced with intrigue, action, betrayal, death and a love that transcends all barriers. As the sovereign of her people, Gwenhyfar finds ...

Shakescenes: Short plays for Shakespeare lovers - Paperback

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by Andrew Wetmore (Author)Four short plays drawing on Shakespeare's works and our modern-day use of them. In 'Twenty-Minute Tragedy', minor cast members take over a production of Timon of Athens and lead it in a new direction. 'Sprite Fight' takes place backstage at a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, in the aftermath of a confrontation among the sprites. In 'A Shakespearean Fragment', a shady fixer is trying to negotiate the sale of a fragment of something that was once precious to Th...

Greed: The Path Away from Eternal Life - Paperback

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by David Ivy (Author), Justice (Author)Three childhood friends found themselves entwined in the vicissitudes of life on the mean streets of the South Bronx, where the invisible hands of greed lacked empathy. In a desperate attempt to escape poverty, Malcolm, Eric, and Yadiel actuated by a feeling of hopelessness, embraced a path in the streets that lead them into a life of gangs, arson, murder, and drugs. By 1977, on the gritty streets of the South Bronx, buildings were going up in smoke all ...

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by Deniece Lady Stormer (Author)The Black Silhouette is a glamourous horror story of cause and effect with a fairytale twist. This juicy read will educate while entertaining you as you go through each chapter and events with the main characters. Asia, the main character, will expose you to some mind-blowing scenarios and situations as she ventures into a new underworld. This secret world-under the direction of the mobster madame called "Blac"-is filled with chaos, sex, money, and most of all,...

The Devil Wears Timbs 4: The Realest Killaz - Paperback

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by Tranay Adams (Author)THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT TO THE FANTASTIC THE DEVIL WEARS TIMBS SERIES!FEAR is given a $500,000 dollar contract to bust a snitch out of prison and deliver him to his crime boss father in Brazil. There's only one problem though, he keeps running into a highly skilled assassin that's hell bent on killing him, ANTON. The young hitter is determined to avenge his father's murder even if it means sacrificing himself for his cause. Will Fear fulfill his contract before Anton ca...

Oyinbo Pepe White Face: My African Story - Paperback

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by Danuta 'Dana' Mason (Author)"YOU WILL TRAVEL OVER THREE OCEANS, LIVE ON THREE DIFFERENT CONTINENTS, AND YOU WILL BE VERY SUCCESSFUL." PREDICTED THE FORTUNE TELLERAt that time, this prediction sounded ridiculous, and yet, this is exactly what happened.My destiny was written in the stars.Life is a great and wonderous mystery. Don't miss it. In Oyinbo Pepe, Danuta recounts the strange and unusual circumstances that left her stranded in Nigeria, and the surreal adventures that followed her the...

Oyinbo Pepe White Face: My African Story - Hardcover

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Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven - Paperback

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by Reina Hardy (Author)"A masterpiece of deft, taut, economical writing. Hardy introduces, defines and develops characters with laser-like precision, creating sympathetic, likable folks the audience can't help caring about and a fast-moving and engaging story with a good dose of humor."Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Showrunners take note. Hardy...takes the best elements of contemporary cultural references, social media, and pop science and turns them into something more than the sum of those par...

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by Claire Contreras (Author) Crees en las maldiciones?Yo nunca creí en ellas...Pero todo cambió una noche hace seis años, cuando me senté en La silla del diablo y pedí un deseo y se hizo realidad.Más tarde conocí al propio River Caliban, el heredero de todas las maldiciones. Mi enemigo a muerte.Sabía que debía haberme mantenido alejada de él. Debería haber huido cuando gritó mi nombre, cuando en sus labios se dibujó esa sonrisa pecaminosa, pero en cambio caminé hacia él, dejando la luz atrás....

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by Marie Joseph-Charles (Author)Growing up in a devout household, Grace was always told she was special and would change the world. She was a Holy Child, born on Palm Sunday. Her childhood was spent in church, Latin lessons, and prayer. She was shunned by her classmates and community. More than anything, she just wanted to be normal. The one person who let her be herself was her best friend, Aaron. Together as outcasts, Grace and Aaron faced their difficult childhoods together until he was fo...

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by Samuel D. Hunter (Author)In the fictional mining town of Greater Clements, Idaho, wealthy out-of-staters have begun purchasing properties, leaving lifelong residents - largely blue-collar workers - disenfranchised and disenchanted. Practical, unpretentious Maggie, the divorced owner of a failing Mine Tour and Museum business, cares for her troubled adult son, who has moved back home to recover. As Maggie contemplates closing her business, an old flame visits and asks her to join him in a n...

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by Will Eno (Author)The Underlying Chris is a life-affirming and high-spirited look at how a person comes into their identity, and how sometimes it's life's tiniest moments that most profoundly change our lives. In these divided times, The Underlying Chris serves as a celebration of our differences, our individuality and the many mysterious, difficult and beautiful things we share simply by being alive. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 19, 2021

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by Lisa B. Thompson (Author)The Mamalogues portrays what it's like to parent while Black, unmarried, sand middle class. During a retreat, three single mothers share their angst about racial profiling on the playground, navigating social minefields during soccer season, and their child being the "only one." The satirical comedy follows the agonies and joys of motherhood as these moms lean in, stress out, and guide Black children from diapers to college in a dangerous world. Number of Pages: 7...

Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life - Paperback

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by Daniel P. Thompson (Author)The book "" Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 264 D...

The Gaspards of Pine Croft: A Romance of the Windermere - Paperback

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by Ralph Connor (Author)The book "" The Gaspards of Pine Croft: A Romance of the Windermere, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 246 Dimensions: 0.5...

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by Eugene O'Neill (Author)The book "" Anna Christie, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 2...

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by A. D. Nelson (Author)The book "" The Fairy and the Witch, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 22 Dimensions: 0.05 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: No...

A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre Since the 1950s - Paperback

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by Jeanette R. Malkin (Editor), Eckart Voigts (Editor), Sarah Jane Ablett (Editor)The first of its kind, this companion to British-Jewish theatre brings a neglected dimension in the work of many prominent British theatre-makers to the fore. Its structure reflects the historical development of British-Jewish theatre from the 1950s onwards, beginning with an analysis of the first generation of writers that now forms the core of post-war British drama (including Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter and A...

Humanizing Education with Dramatic Inquiry: In Dialogue with Dorothy Heathcote's Transformative Pedagogy - Paperback

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by Brian Edmiston (Author), Iona Towler-Evans (Author)Humanizing Education with Dramatic Inquiry provides a comprehensive rationale for why and how dramatic inquiry can be used by any teacher to humanize classroom communities and the subject areas being explored with students.Written by teacher educators Brian Edmiston and Iona Towler-Evans, the book re-evaluates the radical humanizing dramatic enquiry pedagogy of British educator Dorothy Heathcote, as developed by the authors in their own te...

Hamlet Translations: Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe - Hardcover

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by Márta Minier (Editor), Lily Kahn (Editor)This interdisciplinary collection discusses how Shakespeare's Hamlet has been translated into different languages and cultures at various historical moments and for different purposes: performance, reading, artistic experimentation, language-learning, nation-building and personal identity-formation. There are many Hamlets, and rather than straightforward replicas of the original (indeed, which one?) they are texts that carry traces of their own time...

The Routledge Introduction to American Drama - Paperback

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by Paul Thifault (Author)This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature. Designed to support students in reading, discussing, and writing about commonly assigned American plays, this text offers timely resources to think critically and originally about key moments on the American stage. Combining comprehensive coverage of the core plays from the post-Revolutionary era to the present, each chapter includes: historical and cultural context...

In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue - Paperback

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by Yussef El Guindi (Author)In A Clear Concise Arabic Tongue is a collection of 10 of Yussef El Guindi's one-acts and monologues. Here are reviews of some of them: "PICKING UP THE SCENT is a heart-breaking opener about life in a war zone. Archeologist Hisham discovers a lost perfume bottle. His wife Nisrin, a poet, begs him not to pursue its history further, what with the risk of the falling bombs and military advances. What follows is a stripped-down, actor en actor tear jerker. These are g...

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by Frank Winters (Author)An existential thriller in one act, THE GREAT FILTER is an exploration of everything that could possibly go wrong on the way to a bright new something-and why it's probably a good idea to try getting there anyway. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 06, 2021

Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle: Finding English National Identity in the Plays - Paperback

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by Brian Carroll (Author)This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of Shakespeare's history plays are not principally the plots or facts of the dramas but the attitudes and imaginings they elicited in audiences. Reading Shakespeare through the lens of national identity is a study almost as old as the plays themselves, and many scholars have found various articulations of nationhood in Shakesp...

A Selection of Armenian Poems - Paperback

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by Alice Stone Blackwell (Transcribed by) Number of Pages: 218 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 07, 2012

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by Bennett Hinds (Author)It's about time. This is the first true story about a much-decorated African American New York city police officer.In the 1960s in Harlem, NYC, street crime was rampant on all levels. To most of the city's two million blacks and Hispanics, conditions were worse than ever. These conditions existed due to white racism over the years that was entangled with political and social greed.The political powers then held a meeting in city hall. Included in this meeting were the...

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by Billie Dureyea Dureyea Shell (Author)Moneca Robinson had to grow up fast when, at a young age, she was forced to care for her mother after a nervous breakdown. Living the fast life way before her adult years, she finally met her match when she fell in love with Rex. Although she thought he was everything she'd been missing, she soon learned Rex was not the man she thought. Now over twenty years later, she's desperate to find her long lost daughter who she was forced to abandon all those ye...

Marian, or The True Tale of Robin Hood: Teen Edition - Paperback

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by Adam Szymkowicz (Author)A gender-bending, patriarchy-smashing, hilarious new take on the classic tale, adapted for performance by teen actors for family audiences. Robin Hood is (and has always been) Maid Marian in disguise, and leads a motley group of Merry Men (few of whom are actually men) against the greedy Prince John. As the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, who will stand for the vulnerable if not Robin? What is the cost of revealing your true self in a time of trouble?Modern...

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Report copyright infringementby David Greenspan (Author)Six-time Obie Award-winning actor and playwright David Greenspan has adapted Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a wryly lyrical fable of fate, love and the transformative magic of theater. This quiet masterpiece - a dazzling rumination on the nature of love - is a richly multifaceted tale of five travelers in colonial Peru who are hurled to their deaths by a collapsing bridge."Beautifully scripted... Greenspan's version...

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by Susan Connolly (Author), Cormac P. Walsh (Author), Emilie Pine (Foreword by)This stage play is the compelling true story of Susan Connolly's 11 years as a child in Dublin's notorious Goldenbridge Industrial School. Told from the viewpoint of a child I Am Edel is a story of courage, friendship and compassion. Although set in a tragic environment it is often comic in telling the ingenuity of a child survivor. Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 12, 2022

The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939: Engagement and Experimentation - Paperback

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by Rania Karoula (Author)Investigates the explosive phenomenon of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) from a transatlantic perspective Offers the first comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP in a book form Contributes significantly to the study of Hallie Flanagan as the bridge between the FTP and the European avant-garde; it will also contribute to the study of Flanagan's own plays Draws and exposes further links between American modernism and its European coun...