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The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics - Paperback

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by Vittorio Hösle (Author), Steven Rendall (Translator)No overall history of the philosophical dialogue has appeared since Rudolf Hirzel's two-volume study was published in 1895. In The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics, Vittorio Hösle covers the development of the genre from its beginning with Plato to the late twentieth-century work of Iris Murdoch and Paul Feyerabend. Hösle presents a taxonomy and a doctrine of categories for the complex literary genre of the philosophic...

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 2: Bajazet - Paperback

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by Jean Racine (Author), Geoffrey Alan Argent (Other)An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Bajazet (1672). Includes critical notes and commentary.Author BiographyGeoffrey Alan Argent is an independent scholar residing in Pennsylvania. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 15, 2014

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 3: Iphigenia - Paperback

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by Jean Racine (Author), Geoffrey Alan Argent (Other)An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Iphigenia. Includes critical notes and commentary.Author BiographyGeoffrey Alan Argent is an independent scholar residing in Pennsylvania. He has received a 2011 American Book Award for The Fratricides, the first volume of The Complete Plays of Jean Racine. Number of Pages: 168 Dimensions: 0.39 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 15, 2015

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by Noah Haidle (Author)Ernestine Ashworth spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough, it's her 18th birthday. Even sooner, her 41st. Her 70th. Her 101st. Five generations, an infinity of dreams, and one cake baked over a century.This poignant and funny play will take you through the highlights, heartbreaks, and extraordinary moments that make up one woman's ordinary life. Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 08,...

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by Simon Stephens (Author), Mark Eitzel (Author)"t was then that I decided to write you these letters. One crisp winter day in New York, Willem receives a phone call - it's time to go home.Home to Amsterdam - to an estranged family and forgotten relationships. As he reflects on his life, unwilling to face the future, he finds himself reaching out to the brother he has lost. This revised edition of Simon Stephens's landmark play, is published to coincide with the revival at HOME Manchester, Fe...

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by Ava Wong Davies (Author)There was a cliff on the horizon. I didn't know, but then again, maybe I did, and I just didn't want to look. She meets him at an old friend's barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy from too much beer. He stands away from everyone else, beautiful and aloof. Their stories couldn't be more different, but they flirt, and then they fall in love. Everything is perfect, until it isn't. Or maybe it never was. Ava Wong Davies's new play Graceland was develope...

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by Pranav Joshipura (Author)'South African Indian Drama' explores plays written by Indians in South Africa. South African Indian playwrighting is rich both in quantity as well as in quality. Playwrights like Ronnie Govender, Muthal Naidoo, Kessie Govender, Kriben Pillay, Rajesh Gopie, Ashwin Singh and Ismail Mahomed have experimented with the stage space as well as themes. Their plays reflect the predicament of the Indians living in South Africa for more than 150 years. Many of them, in fact,...

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by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Author)Go deeper into the groundbreaking, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning series with this must-have collection--"a completist's dream of a book, including the show's full scripts and Waller-Bridge's commentary" (Vogue). NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY EVENING STANDARD "Her coat falls open. She only has her bra on underneath. She pulls out the little sculpture of the woman with no arms. It sits on her lap. Two women. One real. One not. Both with their innate ...

The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy - Paperback

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by Casey Dué (Author)The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a voice to classes who otherwise would have been marginalized and silenced in Athenian society: women, foreigners, and the enslaved. The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy addresses the possible meanings ancient audiences...

Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy - Paperback

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by Victoria Wohl (Author)Exchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedy-and almost always with catastrophic results. Instead of cementing bonds between men, such exchanges rend them. They allow women, who should be silent objects, to become monstrous subjects, while men often end up as lifeless corpses. But why do the tragedies always represent the transferal of women as disastrous? Victoria Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles' Trachinia...

Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca: Perlimplin, Yerma, Blood Wedding - Paperback

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by Rupert C. Allen (Author)Symbol and psyche are twin concepts in contemporary symbological studies, where the symbol is considered to be a "statement" by the psyche. The psyche is a manifold of conscious and unconscious contents, and the symbol is their mediator. Because Lorca's dramatic characters are psychic entities made up of both conscious and unconscious elements, they unfold, grow, and meet their fate in a dense realm of shifting symbols. In Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federic...

Eight Plays for Children: The New Generation Play Project - Paperback

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by Coleman a. Jennings (Editor)The New Generation Play Project was a daring experiment in American children's theatre. Begun in 1989 by a consortium that included the Seattle Children's Theatre, The Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Stage One: The Louisville Children's Theatre, and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, the NGPP raised half a million dollars to commission major American dramatists to create new works for young people and to produce these plays over a several-year period. Th...

Traditional Chinese Plays, Volume 2: Longing for Worldly Pleasures/Fifteen Strings of Cash - Paperback

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by A. C. Scott (Author), Lynne Diebel (Author)Green Travel Guide to Southern Wisconsin surveys the best green restaurants, lodgings, shops, and activities southern Wisconsin has to offer. Dine at independent, locally owned eateries that serve up delicious fare grown and raised by farmers right down the road. Overnight at peaceful inns that sponsor workshops on topics ranging from cheesemaking to sustainability. Scour markets that sell locally foraged mushrooms, berries, and syrups as well as ...

The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon: Two Plays - Paperback

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by Frank Chin (Author)When first produced in 1972 and 1974, these two plays created an enormous stir. Some critics condemned the playwright, others praised him. In susequent years his work has had a profound impact on a generation of young Asian American writers. With the publication of this volume, the plays can now be read and debated and enjoyed by a larger audience.Back JacketBook of Plays: The Year of the Dragon barges through the comfortable stereotypes of the Asian American-the quiet, ...

The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience - Paperback

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by Timothy J. Moore (Author)The relationship between actors and spectators has been of perennial interest to playwrights. The Roman playwright Plautus (ca. 200 BCE) was particularly adept at manipulating this relationship. Plautus allowed his actors to acknowledge freely the illusion in which they were taking part, to elicit laughter through humorous asides and monologues, and simultaneously to flatter and tease the spectators. These metatheatrical techniques are the focus of Timothy J. Moore...

The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 2: Six Plays - Paperback

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by Robert Skloot (Editor)This second volume of The Theatre of the Holocaust, when combined with the first, represents the most significant and comprehensive international collection of plays on the Holocaust. Since the appearance of Volume 1 in 1982, theatre and Holocaust studies have undergone astonishing transformations. In Volume 2, Skloot presents six plays acknowleding the most recent theatrical forms in our post-modern age. Number of Pages: 424 Dimensions: 0.91 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN Illustrat...

Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study of Chekhov's Prose and Drama - Paperback

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by Donald Rayfield (Author)The world of traditional Chinese drama can be at once fascinating and bewildering to the uninitiated Western observer. Attuned to his own dramatic conventions, he is hard put to apprehend the delicate fusion of poetry, music, and subtle gesture which is the essence of Chinese theatre. Because of these difficulties, the task of translating traditional Chinese drama must go far beyond the conventional literary treatment and evoke the entire world of stagecraft and dir...

City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire - Paperback

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by Angeliki Tzanetou (Author)After fending off Persia in the fifth century BCE, Athens assumed a leadership position in the Aegean world. Initially it led the Delian League, a military alliance against the Persians, but eventually the league evolved into an empire with Athens in control and exacting tribute from its former allies. Athenians justified this subjection of their allies by emphasizing their fairness and benevolence towards them, which gave Athens the moral right to lead. But Athen...

Greek and Roman Comedy: Translations and Interpretations of Four Representative Plays - Paperback

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by Shawn O'Bryhim (Editor)Much of what we know of Greco-Roman comedy comes from the surviving works of just four playwrights-the Greeks Aristophanes and Menander and the Romans Plautus and Terence. To introduce these authors and their work to students and general readers, this book offers a new, accessible translation of a representative play by each playwright, accompanied by a general introduction to the author's life and times, a scholarly article on a prominent theme in the play, and a bi...

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by Eugene Webb (Author)In The Plays of Samuel Beckett Eugene Webb first summarizes the western philosophical tradition which has culminated in the void--the centuries of attempts to impose form and meaning on existence, the failure of which has left experience in fragments and man a stranger in an unintelligible universe. Succeeding chapters take up the plays work by work, interpreting each individually and tracing recurrent motifs, themes, and images to show the continuity in the underlying ...

Asinaria: The One about the Asses - Paperback

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by Plautus (Author)Jaime Manrique weaves into his own memoir the lives of three important 20th-century Hispanic writers: the Argentine Manuel Puig, the author of Kiss of the Spider Woman; the Cuban Reinaldo Arenas, author of Before Night Falls; and Spanish poet and playwright Frederico Garcia Lorca. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.66 x 9.08 x 6.08 IN Publication Date: September 01, 2006

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by Sophocles (Author)In 1973, a sweet-tempered, ferociously imaginative ten-year-old boy named Patrick Horrigan saw the TV premiere of the film version of Hello, Dolly starring Barbra Streisand. His life would never be the same. Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies traces Horrigan s development from childhood to gay male adulthood through a series of visceral encounters with an unexpected handful of Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s: Hello Dolly, The Sound of Music, The Po...

Plays of Josefina Niggli: Recovered Landmarks of Latino Literature - Paperback

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by Josefina Niggli (Author)Winner of the 2002 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, this collection explores the gestures of hurtfulness and compassion. Whether set in a shelter for battered women, in the midst of a political demonstration, or at the centre of an orchestra, the poems pursue the place of language in an injurous world. Number of Pages: 328 Dimensions: 0.68 x 8.99 x 6.36 IN Publication Date: August 12, 2002

Theatre of Genocide: Four Plays about Mass Murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia - Paperback

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by Robert Skloot (Editor)In this pioneering volume, Robert Skloot brings together four plays - three of which are published here for the first time - that fearlessly explore the face of modern genocide. The scripts deal with the destruction of four targeted populations: Armenians in Lorne Shirinian's Exile in the Cradle, Cambodians in Catherine Filloux's Silence of God, Bosnian Muslims in Kitty Felde's A Patch of Earth, and Rwandan Tutsis in Erik Ehn's Maria Kizito. Taken together, these four...

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by Aeschylus (Author)The sexualized serial murder of women by men is the subject of this provocative book. Jane Caputi argues that the sensationalized murders by men such as Jack the Ripper, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and the Yorkshire Ripper represent a contemporary genre of sexually political crimes. The awful deeds function as a form of patriarchal terrorism, disappearing women at a rate of some four thousand annually in the United States alone. Caputi asks us not only to name the phe...

Goethe's Faust: Its Genesis and Purport - Hardcover

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by Eudo C. Mason (Author)This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967. Number of Pages: 436 Dimensions: 1.13 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date...

Squirrel Girl Goes to College: A Squirrel Girl Play - Paperback

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by Karen Zacarías (Author)Doreen arrives at Empire State University to make new friends - and protect them from super villains - by keeping her super hero identity a secret. But when a beloved computer science professor suddenly disappears, can Doreen trust her friends with her inner squirrel so she can save the day? Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 11, 2020

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Enchanted Edition) - Paperback

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by Richard Rodgers (Author), Oscar Hammerstein (Author)The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance. Originally presented on television in 1957 starring Julie Andrews, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella was the most widely viewed program in the history of the medium. Its recreation in 1965 starring Lesley Ann Warren was no less successful in transporting a new generation to the miraculous kingdom...

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by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (Author), William L. O'Neill (Author)Hughie, the only surviving manuscript from a series of eight one-act monologue plays that O'Neill planned in 1940, was completed in 1941. In the play, only two characters appear on stage; Hughie, the third and most important one, is dead. It is Hughie's innocence, gullibility, and need to believe in a far more exciting existence than he ever knew that gives purpose to the shabby livs of the two who remain. O'Neill here again wri...

Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander: A Tragicomedy in Five Acts - Paperback

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by Venedikt Erofeev (Author), Marian Schwartz (Translator)The first major English translation of a masterful seriocomic theatrical work by one of the most prominent writers of the Soviet epochWalpurgis Night, by acclaimed Russian writer Venedikt Erofeev, is considered a classic in the pAuthor BiographyVenedikt Erofeev (1938-1990) was prominent in the Russian postmodernism movement and a major literary figure in Soviet underground culture. His prose poem, Moscow to the End of the Line, has bee...

Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett - Paperback

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by Bennett Simon (Author)One of the most important characteristics of tragic drama-as of psychoanalysis- is the focus on the family. Dr. Bennett Simon here provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea, Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, and Beckett's Endgame, six plays from ancient to modern times which involve a particular form of intrafamily warfare: the killing of children or of the possibility of children. "A clinici...

Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought - Paperback

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by George Steiner (Author)According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the order of Creon, king of Thebes. Sentenced to death by Creon, she forestalled him by committing suicide. The theme of the conflict between Antigone and Creon-between the state and the individual, between man and woman, between young and old-has captured the Western imagination for more than 2000 years. George Steiner here examines the far-reaching legacy of thi...