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Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts: The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures

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Report copyright infringementby Ann C. Hall (Editor), Alan Nadel (Editor)Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about the belief systems of their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical production. As illusions of illusions, they for...

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Report copyright infringementby Oliver Emanuel (Author), Gareth Williams (Author)Winner of a Fringe First Award 2024What use is paper? To speak.To imagine. To remember. It starts when she puts a note through his letterbox. 'Hello Number 4, this is Number 6. Please could you SHUT THE **** UP? Ta.' Not a promising beginning, but... they meet, they fall in love, they get married. Then one day a letter arrives that will change them, and the world, forever... Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams's A...

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Report copyright infringementby Aristophanes (Author), Alan H. Sommerstein (Editor), Alan H. Sommerstein (Translator)Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic. This edition attempts to set the play, more closely than has usually been done, ag...

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Report copyright infringementby Mario Luxxor (Author) Number of Pages: 278 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: March 03, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Edith Nesbit (Author)Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a collection of twenty stories retold by the great Edith Nesbit. First released in 1907 with the goal of making the great plays that have influenced western culture easily understandable for children, these re-tellings have been a perfect introduction to 'The Bard' for over a century. This edition is presented with all the original page decorations and over eighty illustrations rearranged to match Amble...

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Report copyright infringementby Plato (Author), F. J. Church (Translator), Robert D. Cumming (Introduction by) Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 30, 2024

Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles

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Report copyright infringementby Luis Alfaro (Author), Boni B. Alvarez (Author), Madhuri Shekar (Author)A first-of-its-kind anthology that explores adaptations of 17th century Hispanic comedia within contemporary Los Angeles theater. Performed outdoors for audiences of all classes and genders, comedias questioned orthodox ideologies and power systems of the 17th-century Hispanic world: 400 years later, these stories are still being used to call for change, but within modern-day America. Gold...

Eight Obscene Plays from the French Erotic Theatre of the 18th and 19th Centuries (hardback)

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Report copyright infringementby John Franceschina (Author)The eight obscene plays in this collection are notable examples of French erotic theatre from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first series of five plays comes from the two-volume Le Th tre gaillard, revu et augment , 1776-1865 (Bawdy Theatre, revised and expanded, 1776-1865): from volume one, the three-act comedy, The Bordello, and the three-act verse tragedy, Vasta, Queen of Bordelleo; from volume two, the one-act verse ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nellie Bly (Author)In 1887, Nellie Bly stormed into the office of the New York World, one of the leading newspapers in the country. She expressed interest in writing a story on the immigrant experience in the United States. Although, the editor declined her story he challenged Bly to investigate one of New York's most notorious mental hospitals. Bly not only accepted the challenge, she decided to feign mental illness to gain admission and expose how patients we...

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Report copyright infringementby Tanika Gupta (Author)I'm falling through a world which makes no sense An ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality loosening, they are faced with an impossible choice. As Raj, Gopal and Kamala battle to reconcile their life-long duty to their mother, the ramifications of their decision take on a heartbreaking permanence. A vivid and heart-breaking family drama, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anji Van Aken (Author)Pier is a young Navy man, recently discharged from the military after a life-altering injury, who travels to Malta intending to find his father. Instead, he finds a complicated, beautiful islander, Opal, who is deeply entangled in a close-knit island community and emotionally bound by a tormenting and secret history of her own. Pier takes up residence in Opal's family inn, quickly becoming entrenched in Maltese life and embroiled in a dang...

Seeing with Free Eyes: The Poetic Justice of Euripides

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Report copyright infringementby Marlene K. Sokolon (Author)Examines the ideas of justice in Euripidean tragedy, which reveals the human experience of justice to be paradoxical, and reminds us of the need for humility in our unceasing quest for a just world.Responding to Plato's challenge to defend the political thought of poetic sources, Marlene K. Sokolon explores Euripides's understanding of justice in nine of his surviving tragedies. Drawing on Greek mythological stories, Euripides examine...

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Report copyright infringementby Cherry Vooght (Author) Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 06, 2001

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Report copyright infringementby Olubunmi Familoni (Author)When Big Masquerades Dance Naked is a biting satire on power, corruption, and greed in the fictional town of Ilekoro, a town where political officeholders connive with traditional rulers to trample on the rights and commonwealth of the masses. But their oppression does not go without opposition as manifested in the character of Ijoba and his ilk, who struggle relentlessly to light a torch of hope for the people through the long, tortuo...

Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions

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Report copyright infringementby Fintan Walsh (Author), Anja Hartl (Editor), William C. Boles (Editor)'Tender and rigorous, this book invites readers to linger with difficult pasts and consider how best to grasp their hauntings, demands and manifestations in the present. This is a book about mourning as well as holding, a simultaneous act of exhumation and a laying to rest.' anna six, author of Madness, Art, and Society: Beyond Illness 'This is an extraordinary book, in which queer theatre an...

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Muse (Author), Patrick Lonergan (Editor), Jr. (Editor)In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, one of the most critically acclaimed playwrights in the United States today and winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur "genius" grant, Amy Muse analyzes Baker's plays and other work. These include The Flick, John, The Antipodes, the Shirley Vermont plays, and her adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Muse illuminates their intellect...

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Report copyright infringementby Lucy Prebble (Author), Rachel Clements (Editor)The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did. One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became 'the most vilified figure from the financial scandal of the century.' Thi...

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Report copyright infringementby J. M. Synge (Author)Edmund John Millington Synge was born on April 16th 1871 born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin on 16 April 1871 the youngest son of eight children. Synge was educated privately at schools in Dublin and Bray, and was later to study piano, flute, violin, music theory and counterpoint at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. After graduating, Synge, with plans to be a professional musician went to Germany. He stayed at Coblenz during 1...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Bovell (Editor), Patricia Cornelius (Author), Melissa Reeves (Author)Five plays are intertwined in one in this story of fringe dwellers living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly without work, and politically disengaged, they work at survival. 'With intelligence, well-judged humour and the searching qualities of truly memorable theatre, the play peels away political propaganda and notions of correctness to present a candid, diffic...

The Grouch: A Modern Version of the Misanthrope

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Report copyright infringementby Moli?re (Author), Ranjit Bolt (Adapted by)"How I deplore the bogus waysOf society these days -A sort of national contestTo find out who can a se-lick best!"In this witty cutting version of Le Misanthrope Moli?re's angry hero Alceste becomes Alan - journalist, intellectual and free spirit-who finds himself adrift in a social whirl of false flattery and schmooze. In a world where nobody calls a spade a spade (or even knows what a spade is for), how can the cantan...

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Report copyright infringementby Kieran Lynn (Author)"When we came for a romantic walk in the park, we didn't think we would be involved in an international crisis...This side of the line, that side of the line. Does it really make that much of a difference which side I am from?"When a country's new border is drawn, a couple are divided by the line. Under the rigorous eyes of a brand new border guard, they are trapped in an increasingly absurd nightmare, stuck in between two aggressive nations...

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Report copyright infringementby Qui Nguyen (Author)"In a dark (darkly awesome!) future, New York's boroughs have grown too dangerous to police. Shoguns reign, vampires infest Brooklyn, and most terrifying of all, it's still stylistically the '70s. After losing her lover to some undead hoodlums, Dewdrop gets herself a training montage and a sidekick, and sets off for revenge. Explosively funny nonsense ensues. SOUL SAMURAI kicks the Vampire Cowboys recipe up a notch; the script has the complex...

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Kluger (Author)Here is a comedy of manners set in the first class smoking lounge of the Titanic on the night she took fifteen hundred people into the depths. It highlights the nobility of those who chose for varying reasons to remain on board. Ida Straus could not let her beloved husband of thirty-nine years die alone. To John Jacob Astor the richest man in the world the self-sacrifice was a matter of etiquette. Discrimination played a part for those like...

St. Katharine of Alexandria: A Dramatic Legend

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Report copyright infringementby Noell Radecliffe (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work...

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Report copyright infringementby Malcolm Ross (Author)Title: The Earl of Ross: a tragedy in five acts and in verse].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 collections include around 14 million books, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Cornelius (Adapted by)In Lovely Lovely Sometimes Ugly, a collection of four plays by one of Australia's most fearless playwrights, Patricia Cornelius displays all her skill, wit, beauty and anger, and serves them up like a still beating heart on a chipped plate.Cornelius's signature grungy poetic style is at its finest in the early play Love, a brutally beautiful journey into the emotional core of three broken souls in a broken world.In SLUT, a short, ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)Hamlet, Shakespeare's most popular play, is always fresh and intriguing, even after four centuries. Written at the same time as Montaigne's essays, it addresses many of the same philosophical concerns. Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: November 04, 2017

Study Guide for Decoding Othello: With Typical Questions and Answers

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Smith (Author)"Decoding Othello" provides an in-depth exploration of William Shakespeare's tragic play. The guide probes into the narrative, exploring key themes like love, jealousy, betrayal, manipulation, racial otherness, gender dynamics, and power structures. Character analyses focus on the five main characters - Othello, Iago, Desdemona, Cassio, and Emilia - whose intricate relationships drive the plot. Linguistic and rhetorical devices, such as ver...

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Report copyright infringementby T. R (Author)Title: Jamaica, a poem by T. R., a Jamaican.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 collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial add...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Soland (Author)Truth Be Told is a full-length play that consists of eleven, one-person stories shared by a variety of personalities, all focused on getting at the truth. "Lisa Soland's characters are quirky, heartbreaking and enchanting. In these short, expertly-tuned monologues, we understand the entire life of the characters by focusing in on events that define their lives. The characters stay with us because there are pieces of them in us all." -Lloyd N...

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Report copyright infringementby Suzy McKee Charnas (Author) "The device for the play is that of a modern and successful psychoanalyst who finds herself strangely attracted to her patient, a renowned anthropology professor who claims to be a vampire. The doctor of course, knows there are no such things as vampires but his sophisticated and erudite manner becomes an obsessive fascination... Charnas's dialogue is stylish and witty--a contemporary comedy with an unsettling mixture of romance, mys...

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Report copyright infringementby Tania Caas (Author), Caroline Wake (Author)Introducing Staging Asylum, Again, an anthology that exposes Australia's mistreatment of people seeking refuge. Building on the success of its predecessor, this collection presents a timely and powerful exploration archive of artistic resistance to one of Australia's most enduring and unjust policies.The anthology showcases a diverse range of plays that delve into different facets of seeking asylum. Tribunal, devised ...