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by Yale University Press (Author), George Steiner (Author)""This book is important--and portentous--for if it is true that tragedy is dead, we face a vital cultural loss. . . . The book is bound to start controversy. . . . The very passion and insight with which he writes about the tragedies that have moved him prove that the vision still lives and that words can still enlighten and reveal.""-R.B. Sewall, New York Times Book Review Number of Pages: 382 Dimensions: 1.13 x 8.15 x 5.31 IN Public...

Shakespeare, the King's Playwright - Paperback

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by Alvin Kernan (Author)Soon after James Stuart became king of England in 1603, William Shakespeare, while still working in the public theater, became the royal playwright, and his acting troupe became the premier playing company of the realm. How did this courtly setting influence Shakespeare's work? What was it like to view, perform in, and write plays conceived for the Stuart king? In this fascinating and lively book, one of our most eminent literary critics explores these questions by tak...

Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles Tragic Hero and His Time - Paperback

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by Bernard MacGregor Walke Knox (Author)In this widely praised book, an eminent classicist examines Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus in the context of fifth-century B.C. Athens. In attempting to discover what the play meant to Sophocles' contemporaries-and in particular in disentangling Sophocles' ideas from Freud's psychoanalytical interpretations-Bernard Knox casts fresh light on its timeless and universal nature. For this edition, Knox has provided a new preface and a list of suggested readings...

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by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Author), Nancy K. Anderson (Translator)In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that comprise the "little tragedies." The "little tragedies" stand among the great masterpieces of Russian literature, yet they were last translated into English a quarter-centur...

Of All the Nerve: Deb Margolin Solo - Paperback

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by Lynda Hart (Author), Deb Margolin (Author), Lynda Hart (Editor)The "Critical Performance" series pairs a performance artist or playwright with a critical theorist in a dialogue aimed to elucidate both disciplines. This volume focuses on Deb Margolin, one of the three founding members of the American performance troupe Split Britches. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.64 x 8.4 x 5.32 IN Publication Date: July 01, 1999 Award: Lambda Literary Awards (1999)

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by Clarence Coo (Author), John Guare (Foreword by)The 2012 winner of the Yale Drama Series A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac isAuthor BiographyClarence Coo is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and a 2012-2013 Dramatists Guild fellow. He received his MFA in Playwriting at Columbia University, wher...

Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism - Hardcover

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by Millicent Bell (Author), Lee J. T. White (Editor), Amy Vedder (Editor)Readers of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of Shakespeare's greatest characters: why does Hamlet delay his revenge for so long? Why does King Lear choose to renounce his power? Why is Othello so vulnerable to Iago's malice? But while many critics have chosen to overlook these omissions or explain them away, Millicent Bell demonstrates that they are ...

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by Yukio Mishima (Author)Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by using it for plays that preserve the style and inner spirit of No and are at the same time so modern, so direct, and intelligible that they could, as he suggested, be played on a bench in Central Park. Here are five of his No plays, stunning in their contemporary nature a...

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by William Faulkner (Author)This sequel to Faulkner's most sensational, Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in Sanctuary. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder of Temple and Gowan's child. Told partly in prose, partly in play form, Requiem for a Nun is a haunting exploration of the impact of the past on the present.Author B...

Regretfully, So the Birds Are - Paperback

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by Julia Izumi (Author)Arson. Affairs. Incest. Murder...are only the beginning of problems for the Whistler siblings. Mora's gotta find her birth mother, Neel's gotta find himself, and Illy's gotta keep her piece of the sky...but the birds have other plans. Julia Izumi's Regretfully, So the Birds Are is a madcap comedy that gleefully flips the human quest for self-discovery on its head. Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 27, 2024

The First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Texts and Contexts - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Barbara Hodgdon (Editor)This teaching edition of Shakespeare's The First Part of King Henry the Fourth responds to the needs of instructors using a variety of approaches to Shakespeare, including historical and cultural studies approaches. The play is accompanied by 6 sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. The texts include fa...

The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera: Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's Novel and Its Progeny - Paperback

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by J. Hogle (Author)This is the most comprehensive analytical study ever done of The Phantom of the Opera in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the present day. It proposes answers to the question, 'why do we keep needing this story told and retold in the Western world?' by revealing the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each major adaptation. Using extensive historical and textual evidence and drawing on perspectives from several ...

The Actor and the Alexander Technique - Paperback

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by Kelly R. McEvenue (Author), Patsy Rodenburg (Foreword by)F.M. Alexander developed the Alexander Technique of movement in the early 20th century. Combining vocal clarity and body movement, Alexander developed a performance coaching method that is used by dancers, actors, singers, etc. In The Actor and the Alexander Technique, Kelly McEvenue writes the first basic book about how this unique technique can help actors feel more natural on the stage. She provides warm-up exercises, balance and ...

Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas - Paperback

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by Spike Walker (Author)When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can. One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from America's most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman...

The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama - Hardcover

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by N. Liebler (Editor)This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in...

Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents - Paperback

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by Dan Savage (Author), Noelle Howey (Editor), Ellen Samuels (Editor)Out of the Ordinary is a truly unique anthology, a groundbreaking collection of essays by the grown children of lesbian, gay, and transgender parents. Ranging from humorous to poignant, the essays touch on some of the most important and complicated issues facing them: dealing with a parent's sexuality while developing an identity of one's own; overcoming homophobia at school and at family or social gatherings; and defining t...

Play the Scene: The Ultimate Collection of Contemporary and Classic Scenes and Monologues - Paperback

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by Michael Schulman (Author), Eva Mekler (Author), Michael Schulman (Editor)Alexander Dumas * Christopher Durang * Beth Henley * Kenneth Lonergan * Donald Margulies * Steve Martin * Nicky Silver * Bernard Shaw * Alfred Uhry * Paula Vogel A collection of the greatest scenes and monologues ever written-ranging from Elizabethan to Tony Award-winning plays-this comprehensive anthology spans over five hundred years of theatre. Play the Scene: The Ultimate Collection of Contemporary and Classic Sce...

The Copenhagen Papers: An Intrigue - Paperback

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by Michael Frayn (Author), David Burke (Author)One day, during the British run of Copenhagen, winner of the Tony Award for best play in 1999, Frayn was presented with a curious package from a London housewife that contained a few faded pages of barely legible German. These pages, apparently found concealed beneath some floorboards, seemed to cast a remarkable new light on the mystery at the heart of the play. While Frayn began to lose all sense of certainty, actor David Burke, who played Niel...

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by Alan Bennett (Author)Alan Bennett's award-winning series of solo pieces is a classic of contemporary drama, universally hailed for its combination of razor-sharp wit and deeply felt humanity. In Bed Among the Lentils, a vicar's wife discovers a semblance of happiness with an Indian shop owner. In A Chip in the Sugar, a man's life begins to unravel when he discovers his aging mother has rekindled an old flame. In A Lady of Letters, a busybody pays a price for interfering in her neighbor's l...

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by Ayad Akhtar (Author)The author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced explores the conflict that erupts within a Muslim family in Atlanta when an independent-minded daughter writes a provocative novel that offends her more conservative father and sister. Zarina has a bone to pick with the place of women in her Muslim faith, and she's been writing a book about the Prophet Muhammad that aims to set the record straight. When her traditional father and sister discover the man...

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by Lee Strasberg (Author)Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Hopper, Robert DeNiro, Marilyn Monroe, and Joanne Woodward-these are only a few of the many actors trained in "Method" acting by the great and legendary Lee Strasberg. This revolutionary theory of acting-developed by Stanislavsky and continued by Strasberg-has been a major influence on the art of acting in our time. During his last decade, Strasberg devoted himself to a work that would explain once and for ...

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by Jennifer Birkett (Author) Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 09, 1987

Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral - Paperback

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by T. Eliot (Author)Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE and A Level coursework requirements, this book contains details on T.S. Eliot, background to Murder in the Cathedral, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of characterization, and sample questions with guideline answers. Number of Pages: 57 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 31, 1993

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by P. Pugliatti (Author)In a major reassessment of Shakespeare's dominant dramatic genre, Paola Pugliatti explores the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories. Her main assumption is that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiography. In particular, multi-perspectivism in the treatment of political issues produced a problem-oriented kind of historical perspective. This exploited the opportunities offered by the theatrical medium, and inaugurated a ...

Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare: Looking Through Language - Hardcover

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by A. Thorne (Author)This major new interdisciplinary study argues that Shakespeare exploited long-established connections between vision, space and language in order to construct rhetorical equivalents for visual perspective. Through a detailed comparison of art and poetic theory in Italy and England, Thorne shows how perspective was appropriated by English writers, who reinterpreted it to suit their own literary concerns and cultural context. Focusing on five Shakespearean plays, she situat...

Onstage and Offstage Worlds in Shakespeare's Plays - Paperback

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by Anthony Brennan (Author)Originally published in 1989, this book focuses on the handling of the relationship between the onstage world and the offstage world, between the world that Shakespeare shows us and the one he tells us about. It is developed in two parts. Initially examined is the way reports are used in Shakespeare to relate the offstage and onstage worlds, building from simple examples within individual scenes in various plays to related sequences of reports which can be evaluated...

Public and Private Man in Shakespeare - Paperback

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by J. M. Gregson (Author)The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists. Where many of them used the Machiavellian picture to draw one fair-faced scheming villain after another, Shakespeare absorbed more deeply the problem of the tensions between the public and private face of man.Originally published in 1983, this book examines the ways in which this psychological insight is developed and modified as a sourc...

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by Tulasi Ranganathan (Author)Tia is an ambitious young Indian woman who has moved to the U.S. to achieve her dreams. She is willing to put in the hard work, and focuses on making her life better. She is excited to explore her new country, her new colleagues, her new friends, and herself. Her life has just started and she could not be happier. She then decides to marry the man of her dreams she was dating back in India. She brings him to her new country and they get married, but soon things t...

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by John Bayley (Author)Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G. Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an author of the same calibre was long overdue.In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens as well as the four major tragedies. He shows how Shak...

Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Drama of the Greatest Courtroom Clash of the Century - Paperback

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by Jerome Lawrence (Author), Robert E. Lee (Author)A classic work of American theatre, based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in defense of a schoolteacher accused of teaching the theory of evolution The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowe...

Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural - Paperback

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by Nandini Das (Editor), Nick Davis (Editor)This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the instabilities of 'enchanted' and 'disenchanted' practic...

Short Plays with Great Roles for Women - Paperback

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by Suzette Coon (Editor)Short Plays with Great Roles for Women is an antidote to the traditional underrepresentation of women on stage, by offering twenty-two short plays that put women right at the centre of the action. The push for more women's roles has gathered force over the last few years, and this collection is part of that movement, with rich, intelligent roles for women of all ages and backgrounds. This anthology offers a vital slice of life, addressing relevant and diverse topics s...