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by Mojisola Adebayo (Author)My husband died and it's taken my whole life but Dr, I've never had one and I want one, before I die... My orgasm has got to be out there - somewhere! I know you all think I'm losing it, that I'm some kind of a space cadet and you might just be right about that! So one last job for you Dr: I'll be needing a medical certificate to prove I am fit for travel. I am going away... Meet Mrs: an old lady who goes into outer space... in search of her own orgasm. Isn't that ...

The Poems of Catullus: Selected and Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges - Paperback

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by Gaius Valerius Catullus (Author), Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard (Author)Edited by Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard, 'The Poems of Catullus Selected and Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges' provides an introduction to the poetry of ancient Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus. The collection features a selection of Catullus' most famous poems, with each poem accompanied by historical context and analysis.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the kno...

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by Antje Simunac (Author)I WILL DANCE AGAIN depicts life at the end and during the aftermath of the Second World War from the point of view of a German child and her mother. It is a novel inspired by the life of the author's mother, a gritty memoir full of suffering, frightening and uncomfortable places. It tells the story of a young, courageous mother's fight to survive and save her children. Number of Pages: 476 Dimensions: 0.96 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 10, 2023

Love Verses of Thought from My Heart - Paperback

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by Sister Leanna Evans (Author)This book is meant to inspire everyone, because everyone has a story, and as a collective human race, we are all the different shades of a story. We individually hold a beauty that is within us. I seek to encourage each individual to express one's inner beauty and allow each other to shine. That all would realize the individual beauty within one's own self and share it with others from a place of self love, that transfers even more love. Greetings to all readers...

Courtroom Dramas on the Stage Vol 2 (hardback) - Hardcover

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by Amnon Kabatchnik (Author)Volume 2 concentrates on trial plays mounted in the twentieth century. The first decade featured notable dramas by Leo Tolstoy (The Living Corpse, Russia, 1900), Alexander Bisson (Madame X, France, 1908), and John Galsworthy (Justice, England, 1910). The trend continued with authors of the main stream penning plays populated with judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, witnesses, and the accused, often charged with murder in the first degree -- Elmer Rice, ...

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by Don Nigro (Author)This collection of seven shorter plays and monologues includes Mata Hari, about the last night of the beautiful and mysterious exotic dancer before her execution as a spy; Marina, a monologue play about the great Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva; Queens, about a young woman obsessed with the complex and tragic sex lives of the face cards in her deck of playing cards; The Wood Where Things Have No Names, in which a young woman tries to deal with what she now understands as t...

Elegy on Sir W. Forbes, Bart. of Pitsligo. with Other Pieces in Verse. [with an Autograph Letter by the Author.] - Paperback

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by George Galloway (Author)Title: Elegy on Sir W. Forbes, Bart. of Pitsligo. ... With other pieces in verse. With an autograph letter by the Author.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collection...

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by M. Y. Lermontov (Author)This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's finesse to Oscar Wilde's wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim's Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immers...

The Imaginary Invalid: (Or The Malade Imaginaire) - Paperback

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by Moliere (Author)This masterpiece is the last comedy written by Moli re, one of France's best known playwrights. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: January 06, 2009

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by Luigi Jannuzzi (Author)Twelve romances come to life at the Metropolitan Museum of Art A fast-paced series of eight comedic love plays and four comedic monologues that includes over fifty exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Statues, paintings, and fertility gods emerge from their molds and frames. Mix in some famous artists, guards, curators, and one love-seeking tour guide on one special night and you have this comedic hit. In fact, even the artwork speaks to the ...

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by Enda Walsh (Author)It's eleven o'clock in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road in London. In two hours' time, as is normal, three Irish men will have consumed six cans of Harp, fifteen crackers with spreadable cheese, ten pink biscuit wafers, and one oven-cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours' time, as is normal, five people will have been killed. A remarkable play about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives. Visceral and...

Oxford Bookworms Library: A Midsummer Nights Dreamlevel 3 - Paperback

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by R. J. Corrall (Author), Fausto Bianchi , William Shakespeare Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny because they cannot act, so it is also a story that makes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a story about mischief a...

The Cruzan: A Melanated Man in America - Paperback

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by E. Audain Jr. Naughton (Author)This book shows the ongoing effects of racism in the United States. It shares the journey of one man victimized by the systemic injustices of bigotry. The Cruzan: A Melanated Man in America chronicles the life of a Black man in this republic, a man in the Land of the Free always having to focus on the Latin words fidem, patientiam, operatur! Yes, faith and perseverance delivered him from the vicious cycle of prejudice and discrimination! Number of Pages: 142 ...

The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums - Paperback

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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...

Shakespeare & Collaborative Writing - Paperback

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by Will Sharpe (Author)Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. We see him afresh as a poetic innovator in continual flux, and in continual artistic debt: an author shaped by others in a collaborative network of intellectual influence and dynamic interchange, and, the book argues, one that he helped substantially to create. In considering collaboration as a practice defining almost all of his earli...

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by Meg Braem (Author), Samantha MacDonald (Director), William John Pratt (Contribution by)World War II veteran Hank Dunfield is about to turn one hundred years old. The staff at Ponderosa Pine Lodge have recruited Sarah, a young nursing student, to keep Hank safe, comfortable, and in the building while they plan a grand centenarian celebration. There's one problem: Hank doesn't want to live that long. Seemingly opposites, Hank and Sarah kindle a deep friendship. Sarah fears the future with mu...

La Fierecilla Domada: Comedia En Cinco Actos Y Un Progo... - Hardcover

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by William Shakespeare (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved,...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius because she loves Lysander, and her friend Helena loves Demetrius. The romantic confusion thickens when Puck - a troublesome sprite - interferes. Shakespeare's beloved comedy ends happily after a string of mishaps and mistaken identities have been resolved. Number of Pages: 134 Dimensions: 0.29 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 25, 2011

Project Dictator: Or 'Why Democracy Is Overrated and I Don't Miss It at All' - Paperback

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by Clay (Author)It's time you realised that your show is a thing of the past. It's dead. A fragment of history. This is the future and I need you to come on board. Their choice? To die onstage - or off it. Beautiful and bonkers - it's the clown show about totalitarianism you never knew you needed. Rhum + Clay's Project Dictator was informed and inspired by conversations with international artists living under authoritarian regimes. It returned for a UK tour after critically-acclaimed runs at ...

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The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare: With A Life Of The Poet, Explanatory Footnotes, And A Glossarial Index; Volume 10 - Hardcover

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by William Shakespeare (Author)A comprehensive edition of all 38 plays and 154 sonnets of William Shakespeare, with a biographical sketch of the author, detailed annotations, and an extensive glossary. The edition was edited by the renowned 19th-century Shakespeare scholar Henry N. Hudson and includes critical apparatus and interpretive essays. This edition is a must-have for lovers of Shakespeare and literary scholars alike.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally importan...

Staging Existence: Chekhov's Tetralogy - Hardcover

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by Svetlana Evdokimova (Author)Anton Chekhov is justly famous as an author and a playwright, with his work continuing to appear on stages around the world more than a century after his death. However, he is rarely studied for his intellectual and philosophical theories. His disinterest in developing a "unified idea"-in vogue for Russian intellectuals of his time-and his aversion to the maximalism characteristic of contemporary Russian culture and society set him apart from his fellow writers....

The Children's Hour (Acting Edition) - Hardcover

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by Lillian Hellman (Author)Cast 2 men, 12 women. One of the great successes of this distinguished writer. A serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youngster starts a rumor about the two women, the rumor soon turns to scandal. As the young girl comes to understand the power she wields, she sticks by her story, which precipitates tragedy for the women. It is later discovered that the gossip was pure invention, but it is too late. Irreparable damage ...

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by Susan Glaspell (Author)Susan Glaspell was an American novelist who won a Pulitzer Prize for her plays. Her writing is known for developing sympathetic characters and understanding the complexities of life. Her interest in philosophy and religion is seen in her works. The four plays in this collection are; The Outside, Trifles, The Verge and Inheritors. Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.37 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: July 28, 2008

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by Kenneth Rothwell (Author)Aristophanes' Wasps (422 B.C.) is an entertaining comedy that plunges us into the life of a family in classical Athens, while treating themes that readers of any time and place can appreciate. A father and son argue about politics, household servants try to please their master, a disruptive gang of the father's friends decide to intervene, a dog becomes a lightning-rod for his antics in the kitchen, attempts are made at reform and reconciliation, and it all ends wi...

Twelve Short Plays and One Long One: Ideal for College Drama Departments, Community Theaters and Even Off Broadway - Paperback

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by Melvyn Chase (Author)Teachers of the Theatre Arts will find this unique collection of twelve one-act plays ideally suited for classes in acting and directing. Most of the pieces are two-handers, some serious, some comedic. By design, the format is simple and flexible, allowing for effective classroom performances without sets or props, and with a minimum of stage business. Importantly, each play can also serve as the foundation for a variety of creative interpretations-an excellent startin...

Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the Stage - Paperback

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by Carolyn M. Dunn (Editor), Eric Micha Holmes (Editor), Les Hunter (Editor)Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and underrepresented storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters hegemonic methods.A collection of short essays and exercises by leading teaching artists, playwrights, and academics in the fields of playwriting and dramaturgy, this book focuses ...

Mental Arsenal Youth Empowerment Manual: Youth Empowerment - Paperback

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by Charlton Earle' Jennings (Author)Mental Arsenal Youth Empowerment Manual is written for today's youth who feel helpless and powerless in an intersocietal society. By exploring reflective tips on self-improvement and empowerment, you will learn that true power begins with the understanding of yourself and others. Charlton Earlé Jennings My main purpose of writing this manual is to communicate and enlighten youth who have questions about how to deal with difficult situations and others they ...

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by Rabindranath Tagore (Author), Devabrata Mukerjea (Author)This vintage book contains Rabindranath Tagore's 1912 play, 'The Post Office'. The play revolves around Amal, a child confined to his adopted uncle's house by an incurable disease who, inspired by the construction of a local post office, fantasizes about receiving a letter from the king or being a postman. The play was translated into English by W. B. Yeats, and was performed in English for the first time in 1912, by the 'Irish Theat...

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by Arthur Miller (Author), Christopher W. E. Bigsby (Introduction by), Harold Clurman (Introduction by)A Penguin Classic This classic collection--the only one-volume selection of Arthur Miller's work available--presents a rich cross section of writing from one of our most influential and humane playwrights, containing in full his masterpieces The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. This essential collection also includes the complete texts of After the Fall, The American Clock, The Last Yankee...

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by Matthew Francis (Author) Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 01, 1994

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by Theresa Ikoko (Author)Why is everyone so bloody obsessed with hashtags? What on earth do you want to do with a hashtag? Can you use it to shoot your way out of here? Tisana, Ruhab and Haleema are three normal teenage girls who have been best friends forever. But when they are kidnapped from their hometown, each must find their own way to survive. Girls explores enduring friendship, girlhood and the stories behind the headlines that quickly become yesterday's news. Theresa Ikoko's funny and...