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by Mary Magdalina (Author)n the midst of challenging times, we often think we're going through the worst time ever.And when we're in the middle of adversity, we think it never ends. That's why we always say things like, "my life is over!"""Why is my life so worst?""""Why am I not rich like them?""""Why can't I b.. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2021

On Stage with Bette Davis: Inside the Famous Flop of Miss Moffat - Paperback

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by Kevin Lane Dearinger (Author)A reflection on one of Broadway's most iconic flops, this memoir follows a musical that featured one of the silver screen's most powerful personalities. Bette Davis was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and twice won the Best Actress award, starring in classics like Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, All About Eve and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, among many more. In 1974, the living legend agreed to star in Miss Moffat, a musical adaptation of Emlyn W...

Shakespeare's the Comedy of Errors: A Psycho-Semiotic Analysis - Paperback

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by Arthur Asa Berger (Author)Arthur Asa Berger's Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors uses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare's funniest and most interesting comedies.Author BiographyArthur Asa Berger is Professor Emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2022

The Vagrant Trilogy: Three Plays by Mona Mansour: The Hour of Feeling; The Vagrant; Urge for Going - Hardcover

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by Mona Mansour (Author), Michael Malek Najjar (Editor), Hala Baki (Editor)"The [Vagrant Trilogy] extends far beyond the timeline of devastating events, and instead shows us something greater: humanity." -Broadway World The Vagrant Trilogyis a set of three plays by award-winning Arab American playwright Mona Mansour which explores the Palestinian condition prior to, during, and after the infamous Six-Day War. It sketches the devastating effect this conflict had on members of the Palestinian d...

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by Shirley B. Novack (Author)This is the story of Jacob Kalinsky, born in Koretz, Poland, in 1904 to a mean-tempered tyrant of a father and a sweet and loving mother. At the age of twelve, Jacob's mother, Sarah, dies, and Jacob, along with his nine-year-old brother, is sent to live in the care of a brothel run by a loving madam named Jordanna.It takes Jacob's father three long years to send for his sons. During that time, Jacob suffers many indignities, but when he was raped by a Polish soldi...

A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare's London - Paperback

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by Scott Oldenburg (Author)William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague's microhistorical approach uses Muggins's life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and mutual aid, as a gateway into a broader narrative about London's "middling sort" during the plague of 1603.In debt, in pr...

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by Karlene Petitt (Author)The battle continues as Global Air Lines underestimates Captain Darby Bradshaw. Despite management paying for a bipolar diagnosis to medically disqualify Darby from ever flying again, she returns to the sky. Now she fights for justice. Darby filed an AIR21 complaint, under the Whistleblower protection act, and aligned forces with attorney Robert Allen. What they learn in discovery uncovers more deception at the highest levels than anyone could ever imagine. The plot ...

What Is a Playhouse?: England at Play, 1520-1620 - Paperback

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by Callan Davies (Author)This book offers an accessible introduction to England's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses. It builds on recent scholarship and new documentary and archaeological discoveries to answer the questions: what did playhouses do, what did they look like, and how did they function? The book will accordingly introduce readers to a rich and excitin...

Revived with Care: John Fletcher's Plays on the British Stage, 1885-2020 - Paperback

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by Peter Malin (Author)This book presents a ground-breaking, comprehensive study of the modern performance history of plays in the John Fletcher canon, excluding his collaborations with Shakespeare. It examines how seventeen of Fletcher's plays have been interpreted in British productions. In addition, the book offers a consideration of the contexts in which these productions took place, from the early twentieth century 'Elizabethan Revival' to the more politicized theatrical cultures of the...

Ramón María del Valle Inclán, 'Savage Comedies' - Paperback

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by Christopher Colbath (Translator), Luis M. González (Translator)Among the great figures of European modernism, Ramón Maria del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) remains relatively unknown and unappreciated outside his native Spain. His large and diverse oeuvre includes prose, poetry, drama as well as critical and journalistic essays. His deeply personal belletristic style evolved from the symbolist aesthetic to the more mature variant of expressionism of his output in the 1920s and '30s, which he te...

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by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Author)I'm doing this for her because this was my sister's dream. This isn't my natural habitat. I wouldn't normally choose this. But she would have. Two sisters. One dream. The hardest open-water swim in the world. This triumphant play from Olivier Award-winning writer Morgan Lloyd Malcolm moves forwards and backwards in time across the 21 miles between Dover and Calais as a young swimmer harnesses her mind and body to make the crossing. Tackling what it means to gri...

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by Uganda Thegoddess Reed (Author), Daryl Johnson (Notes by), Ashande Holland (Cover Design by)Reviving a Good Man Scorned was inspired by a relationship between two people who learned to love one another for who they were. They were able to recognize that women are not the only humans that operate out of hurt by displaying scorned tendencies. The author was able to see her man's pain and the actions he displayed due to fear of feeling or experiencing the same type of hurt. Once she figured o...

The Passing of the Aborigines - Hardcover

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by Daisy Bates (Author)Daisy May Bates, CBE (born Margaret Dwyer; 16 October 1859 - 18 April 1951) was an Irish-Australian journalist, welfare worker and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society. She was known among the native people as "Kabbarli" (a kin term found in a number of Australian languages which means "grandmother" or "granddaughter").Daisy Bates conducted fieldwork amongst several Indigenous nations in western and southern Australia. She supported herself larg...

Martin Crimp's Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire - Hardcover

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by Vicky Angelaki (Author)This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and public, through an honest look at power structures and shifts, marriages and relationships, sexuality, and desire.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars...

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by Ramon del Valle-Inclan (Author), Victor Fuentes (Editor)Bohemian lights, a classic work of Spanish and world theater, marks the great leap by Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) towards a new aesthetic and ethical political-social commitment, while maintaining the artistic brilliance of his previous work. Its fusion of artistic and political avant-garde gives rise to a new tragic-comic dramatic modality that it baptizes "esperpento", where the tragic sense of Spanish life is exhibited throu...

YOU-niquely H.E.R.: There is a little YOU in H.E.R. A True Story of Deceit, lies, and manipulation - Paperback

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by Kema Banks Johnson (Author)Joss is an independent woman, successful in her own way. She had everything she needed in her life except for love. It was something she felt she needed in order to feel complete. She unknowingly found herself being manipulated by love and sex.HER journey of love came from different platforms of dating, from meeting Drew at work, bumping into Sawyer at a convenience store, simply making a post online, prompting Micah to respond, to even answering a simple hello m...

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by Aparna Sharma (Author)Amelia Somerson, a sixteen-year-old young girl, gets admitted to the city's best high school. His father had a job in which the company used to transfer him from place to place. On the first day of school, she encounters a guy who was a cold guy in nature. He was a very bossy person and never apologized for anything. The cold guy, Steven, and the girl Amelia get into the fight on the very first day. Her luck was really bad that the teacher arranged her seat with Ste...

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by Michael Merson (Author)Mystery Suspense and Action: Once her father was pronounced dead, Shelby Finn inherited a small fortune, a collectible coupe, and an old beach house in Florida. It was the perfect time to dump her cheating boyfriend and start a new life far away from Las Vegas.Some people, who had known her felon of a father and wanted him dead, decided she was on the run with their money. They'd earned it, after all.Truth be told, she was on the run. Shelby just didn't know it yet. ...

Euripides Plays: 2: Cyclops; Hecuba; Iphigenia in Aulis; Trojan Women - Paperback

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by Euripides (Author), J. Michael Walton (Editor), Don Taylor (Translator)Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series Euripides' searching, poetic voice probes the waste and suffering of war in these plays which are set wake of the Trojan defeat to reflect the playwright's changing attitude to the real war between Athens and Sparta in his own day - 4th century BC. Hecuba is a play of ghosts and shadowy death; The Women of Troy is a searing indictment of the aftermath of defeat; I...

Cameron Plays: 1: Can't Stand Up for Falling Down; Pond Life; The Mortal Ash; All of You Mine - Paperback

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by Richard Cameron (Author)Richard Cameron's most popular and acclaimed work together in one volume introduced by the author This volume includes Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, Pond Life, Mortal Ash and All of You Mine. Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, written as interweaving monologues, is a contemporary coming-of-age play set in rural Yorkshire and centres around a death that may not be quite as accidental as it seems "Cameron's play is itself cumulatively and salutarily devastating...bui...

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by Flip Kobler (Author)Remember when the west was wild, the women were soft and the men were brave? Well, think again 'cause the worst dust storm of the 1800s is about to hit town and the men have all skedaddled! They're driving their precious cattle to safe shelter, leaving the women to fend for themselves. Tensions flare and sparks fly when society ladies are forced to take refuge with fallen women in the only safe building in town, the brothel. Now a lone cowboy stumbles in a mysterious st...

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by Peter Whalley (Author)When Alan is accused of murdering a neighbor's daughter, a domestic thriller with surprising twists is set in motion. Alan's father eventually discovers the truth and takes matters into his own hands, with tragic results.2 women, 2 men Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 26, 2015

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)The Rodales seem like an ordinary family, but beneath the surface things are beginning to crack. Jill and Mal have lost the spark in their marriage, their son Sam resents his father and their daughter Chrissie has recently become a mum and is dealing with marriage issues of her own. And while they all share advice on how others should live their lives, nobody is really taking it on board -- until Mal and Jill see things from a dramatically different perspective, that...

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)Another marvelous portrait of middle class, middle aged life by this skillful portrayer of manners and morals. Charming, naturally successful in everything, Anthea and Richard almost unconsciously but ruthlessly dominate the lives of those with whom they are associated in business or as neighbors. Over twelve years Sven, Richard's partner, is virtually nudged out of the firm Brian tries, ineffectually, through a series of girl friends to replace his love, Anthea Hugh...

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by Erin Lerch (Author)When the alien Legion took over, Sheena lost everything. All she has left is one final, unlikely dream: the Rebellion. But when she arrives, it's to a Rebellion shattered by the loss of its leader, pushed to increasingly desperate measures-including working with their alien enemy. As tensions mount, Sheena has to face the question: when you have nothing left, what do you fight for? Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 30, 2023

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by Demosthenes (Author), E. I. McQueen (Volume Editor)This edition is in part a new work, and partly a revised and expanded version of the Pitt Press edition by J.M. MacGregor (Cambridge University Press, 1915). The Introduction is based on MacGregor's, revised and with an additional sections on Olynthos and the Chalcidian League, and Demosthenes' oratory. There is a also a new bibliography. The Greek text follows, along with a completely new commentary by E.I. McQueen, concentrating mainly o...

Real and Phantom Pains: An Anthology of New Russian Drama - Paperback

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by John Freedman (Editor)The plays selected for this anthology reflect the issues and styles typical of the new wave of dramatic writing in Russia. New drama flourished (almost) exclusively in small spaces, often in dingy basements that employed and accommodated small numbers of people. The big theaters largely turned a blind eye to what was happening on small stages and in backrooms in playhouses, libraries and community centers in a few chosen hot spots around Russia - primarily Moscow, Yek...

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by Gail Odom West (Author)Della had walked onto the porch to water some plants. Nellie was in the kitchen finishing supper for the boarders. Della looked up and saw a buggy heading her way. She laughed that Jim had forgotten his usual supper from Nellie. She started down the steps, going toward the buggy, as Jim was turning the buggy to head out. Della came up to Jim and asked him what he had forgotten. When Della looked up and saw him, her face went ashen, and she turned to run, but it was t...

The Feisty Woman's Guide to Surviving Mr. Wonderful:

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by Elizabeth Allen (Author)Feisty Women Helping Feisty Women derives from my ongoing conversations with many women who have stopped by my table at fairs and festivals and revealed their stories because my first two books gave them good laughs and a voice. These feisty women come from varied walks of life and areas of the country, but they share similar experiences. They and their friends and colleagues have had to summon all their ingenuity and compassion in finding ways to cope with an ultim...

The Works of Shakespear: Comedies: The Merchant of Venice. Love's Labour's Lost. As You Like It. the Taming of the Shrew. All's Well That End's - Hardcover

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by Alexander Pope (Author), Nicholas Rowe (Author)This collection of Shakespeare's comedies offers readers a chance to experience some of the Bard's most iconic and beloved plays. Featuring classics like The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice, this volume showcases Shakespeare's unparalleled skill at creating memorable characters and clever, witty dialogue. With insightful notes and helpful annotations, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to a...

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by Molly Davies (Author)We need to start at the start.Yes, yes, we do or the Neurotypicals will be confused. There was something off about the new guy. But now he's dead, and the sirens are fast approaching. Who to trust - what was it he told you that time on the pedalo? Seven friends are in the frame for murder and the police are closing in. They must clear their name and in order to do so, they've enlisted the most unlikely of help. This funny, dark whodunnit will take you on an unexpected ...

All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project - Hardcover

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by Paul Gagliardi (Author)Many of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) plays Paul Gagliardi analyzes in All Play and No Work feature complex portrayals of labor and work relief at a time when access to work was difficult. Gagliardi asks, what does it mean that many plays produced by the FTP celebrated forms of labor like speculation and swindling? All Play and No Work directly contradicts the promoted ideals of work found in American society, culture, and within the broader New Deal itself. Gag...