Plays, playscripts, drama
Penguin Putnam Inc The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
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Penguin Putnam Inc Cyrano de Bergerac
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£7.69
Penguin Random House Australia Joe Turners Come And Gone A Play in Two Acts
Book SynopsisFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and Gone—Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. “The glow accompanying August Wilson’s place in contemporary American theater is fixed.”—Toni Morrison When Harold Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man—in body. But the scars of his enslavement and a sense of inescapable alienation oppress his spirit still, and the seemingly hospitable rooming house seethes with tension and distrust in the presence of this tormented stranger. Loomis is looking for the wife he left behind, believing that she can help him reclaim his old identity. But through his encounters with the other residents he begins to realize that what he really seeks is his rightful place in a new world—a
£12.60
The University of Michigan Press Footpaths and Bridges
Book SynopsisCelebrates the vitality and diversity of Native American women, collecting plays by leading contemporary playwrights in forms ranging from realism to dramatic poetry, from a children's story to a musical, and from full-length plays to one-acts. The collection represents the best of a burgeoning theatrical movement.
£32.25
The University of Michigan Press Drama in the Language Classroom
Book SynopsisWeaves together cutting-edge research and practices from the fields of theatre and TESOL. After providing an overview of how drama can be used in the language classroom, the authors present a collection of resources teachers need to begin using drama, including practical classroom-tested and evidence-based techniques.
£12.95
The University of Michigan Press Plays by Early American Women 17751850
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The selection of works is excellent. I can't imagine teaching a nineteenth-century American theater history course without it. With this book, such courses can set female dramatists side-by-side with novelists, essayists, and poets." —Rosemarie K. Bank, Kent State University ". . . an excellent resource for students and instructors of American literature and drama that helps to demonstrate the range of women's literary skill and theatrical involvement from 1775-1850." —Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
£38.48
The University of Michigan Press Stages of Conflict
Book SynopsisPresents an array of dramatic texts, tracing the intersection of theater and social and political life in the Americas. This book includes historical pieces, which highlight the encounter between indigenous tradition and colonialism.Trade ReviewAn invaluable resource to teachers of Latin American theater, with texts that provide an accurate panorama of Latin American theater. - Adam Versenyi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
£88.88
University of Michigan Press The Courtesans Memory Voice and Late Ming Drama
£76.50
The University of Michigan Press The Hero and the City
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£22.75
University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisA collection of poetry and plays that presents annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from author's middle and late writing years (1958-1988), with commentaries on each of the five books, The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, Bending the Bow, and the two volumes of Ground Work.Trade Review"Includes some of Duncan's finest essays ... a great help to all readers." CHOICETable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Discovery Making The Opening of the Field (1960) Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow - The Dance The Law I Love Is Major Mover The Structure of Rime I The Structure of Rime II A Poem Slow Beginning The Structure of Rime III The Structure of Rime IV The Structure of Rime V The Structure of Rime VI The Structure of Rime VII Three Pages from a Birthday Book This Place Rumord to Have Been Sodom The Ballad of the Enamord Mage The Ballad of Mrs Noah The Maiden The Propositions Four Pictures of the Real Universe Evocation Of Blasphemy Nor Is the Past Pure Crosses of Harmony and Disharmony A Poem of Despondencies Poetry, a Natural Thing Keeping the Rhyme A Song of the Old Order The Question The Performance We Wait For At Christmas Proofs Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face, A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar The Structure of Rime VIII The Structure of Rime IX The Structure of Rime X The Structure of Rime XI A Storm of White Atlantis Out of the Black Bone Dance Under Ground The Natural Doctrine The Structure of Rime XII The Structure of Rime XIII Another Animadversion After Reading Barely and Widely Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal Food for Fire, Food for Thought Uncollected Work 1957--1960 A Stray Poem (Notes Reading from Rene Fulop-Miller's The Power and Secrets of the Jesuits) Melville after Pierre Solitude The Song of the River to Its Shores Pre-face I Saw the Rabbit Leap Roots and Branches (1964) Roots and Branches Roots and Branches What Do I Know of the Old Lore? Night Scenes A Sequence of Poems for H.D.'s Birthday A Letter Nel Mezzo del Cammin di Nostra Vita A Dancing Concerning a Form of Women The Law Apprehensions Sonneries of the Rose Cross Now the Record Now Record Variations on Two Dicta of William Blake Cover Images Come, Let Me Free Myself Risk Four Songs the Night Nurse Sang Structure of Rime XV Structure of Rime XVI Structure of Rime XVII Structure of Rime XVIII Osiris and Set Windings Two Presentations After a Passage in Baudelaire Shelley's Arethusa Set to New Measures After Reading H.D.'s Hermetic Definitions Strains of Sight Doves Returning to the Rhetoric of an Early Mode Two Entertainments The Ballad of the Forfar Witches' Sing A Country Wife's Song What Happened : Prelude A Set of Romantic Hymns Thank You for Love From The Mabinogion Forced Lines A New Poem (for Jack Spicer) Sonnet 1 Sonnet 2 Sonnet 3 Answering Adam's Way: A Play upon Theosophical Themes Cyparissus A Part-Sequence for Change Structure of Rime XIX Structure of Rime XX Structure of Rime XXI The Continent Uncollected Work 1961--1964 A Play with Masks Weaving the Design Old Testament New Testament Bending the Bow (1968) Introduction Sonnet 4 Structure of Rime XXII 5th Sonnet Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing Bending the Bow Tribal Memories Passages 1 At the Loom Passages 2 What I Saw Passages 3 Where It Appears Passages 4 The Moon Passages 5 The Collage Passages 6 Envoy Passages 7 Structure of Rime XXIII As in the Old Days Passages 8 The Architecture Passages 9 These Past Years Passages 10 Shadows Passages 11 Wine Passages 12 Structure of Rime XXIV Structure of Rime XXV Reflections The Fire Passages 13 Chords Passages 14 Spelling Passages 15 A Lammas Tiding My Mother Would Be a Falconress Saint Graal (after Verlaine) Parsifal (after Wagner and Verlaine) The Currents Passages 16 Moving the Moving Image Passages 17 The Torso Passages 18 The Earth Passages 19 Structure of Rime XXVI: For Kenneth Anger An Illustration Passages 20 The Multiversity Passages 21 In the Place of a Passage 22 Benefice Passages 23 Orders Passages 24 Up Rising Passages 25 The Chimeras of Gerard de Nerval El Desdichado (The Disinherited) Myrtho Horus Anteros Delphica Artemis The Christ in the Olive Grove Golden Lines Earth's Winter Song Moira's Cathedral A Shrine to Ameinias Narrative Bridges for Adam's Way The Soldiers Passages 26 An Interlude Transgressing the Real Passages 27 The Light Passages 28 Eye of God Passages 29 Stage Directions Passages 30 God-Spell Epilogos Uncollected Work 1965--1968 At the Poetry Conference: Berkeley after the New York Style We heard it as a cry. It was the Word. Keeping the War Inside Yes I care deeply and yet Christmas Present, Christmas Presence! From a Poem by John Ashbery If I Had Kin Ground Work: Before the War (1984) Some Notes on Notation Achilles' Song Ancient Questions A Song from the Structures of Rime Ringing as the Poet Paul Celan Sings Despair in Being Tedious The Concert Passages 31 (Tribunals) Ancient Reveries and Declamations Passages 32 (Tribunals) Transmissions Passages 33 (Tribunals) The Feast Passages 34 (Tribunals) Before the Judgment Passages 35 (Tribunals) Santa Cruz Propositions A Glimpse And If He Had Been Wrong for Me For Me Too, I, Long Ago Shipping Out with the Cantos And Hell Is the Realm of God's Self-Loathing Childhood's Retreat Fragments of an Albigensian Rime O! Passages 37 Bring It Up from the Dark Structure of Rime XXVII Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens Over There The Museum Interrupted Forms Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn's Moly Preface to the Suite The Moly Suite Near Circe's House Rites of Passage: I Moly Rites of Passage: II A Seventeenth Century Suite in Homage to the Metaphysical Genius in English Poetry (1590--1690) 1. Love's a great courtesy to be declared 2. Sir Walter Ralegh, What Is Our Life? 3. Go as in a dream 4. Robert Southwell, the Burning Babe 5. "A pretty Babe"--that burning Babe 6. George Herbert, Jordan (I) 7. George Herbert, Jordan (II) 8. These Lines Composing Themselves in My Head as I Awoke Early This Morning, It Being Still Dark, December 16, 1971 Passages 36 9. Ben Jonson, Hymenaei: Or the Solemnities of Masque, and Barriers 10. John Norris of Bemerton, Hymne to Darkness Coda Dante Etudes Preface Book One We Will Endeavor Secondary Is the Grammar A Little Language To Speak My Mind Everything Speaks to Me In the Way of a Question Speech Directed Enricht in the Increment The Individual Man Of Empire The Meaning of Each Particular The Whole Potentiality The Work The Household Let Him First Drink of the Fountain And Tho They Have No Vowel Letting the Beat Go Book Two A Hard Task in Truth Lovely The One Rule Our Art but to Articulate In Nothing Superior Enacted On Obedience Zealous Liberality We Convivial in What Is Ours! Mr. Philip Wicksteed Stumbling into Rime in Prose in Translating Dante's Convivio Go, My Songs, Even as You Came to Me Book Three My Soul Was as If Free Nor Dream in Your Hearts For the Sea Is God's Where the Fox of This Stench Sulks In Truth Doth She Breathe Out Poisonous Fumes Then Many a One Sang In My Youth Not Unstaind And a Wisdom as Such Four Supplementary Etudes Of Memory Hers I Too Trembling But We, to Whom the World Is The Missionaries Passages The Torn Cloth Songs of an Other Empedoklean Reveries Passages Jamais Passages An Interlude of Winter Light "Eidolon of the Aion" The Presence of the Dance{ths}/{ths}The Resolution of the Music Circulations of the Song Uncollected Work 1969--1982 O tree of lights! tree of colors Childless After Shakespeare's Sonnet 76 Second Take on Shakespeare's Sonnet 76 She Something Is Moving A Fantasy Piece for Helen Adam Feb. 22, 1973 I have{ths}/{ths}nothing to go on A Prepucal Face for Nigel Roberts Johnny's Thing An Epithalamium Poe et Cie Let Me Join You Again This Morning, Walt Whitman Ground Work II: In the Dark (1987) An Alternate Life In the South Homecoming Supplication The Quotidian To Master Baudelaire Toward His Malaise Among His Words The Face At Cambridge an Address to Young Poets Native to the Land of My Mothertongue Le Sonnet Ou Sonne la Sonnette des Dernieres Jours Toujours Fait Son Retour Pour Souffrir l'Envie Jusqu'a l'Amour en Vie Sets of Syllables, Sets of Words, Sets of Lines, Sets of Poems Addressing: Veil, Turbine, Cord, & Bird Preliminary Exercise Notes during a Lecture on Mathematics The Recall of the Star Miraflor The Naming of the Time Ever I Pour Forth My Life from This Bough The Turbine What the Sonnet Means the Sonnet Means For the Assignment of the Spirit The Cherubim (I) The Cherubim (II) Styx The Sentinels An Eros/Amor/Love Cycle Et Passages In Wonder Passages Constructing the Course of a River in the Pyrenees In Waking From the Fall of 1950, December 1980 Two Sets of Tens: Derived from Confucian Analects Regulators Set of Passages The Dignities Passages The First Passages Stimmung Passages Enthralld Passages Quand le Grand Foyer Descend dans les Eaux Passages In Blood's Domaine Passages After Passage Passages With In Passages Seams Passages You, Muses Passages Structure of Rime: Of the Five Songs The Five Songs Whose Passages Close At the Door Illustrative Lines After a Long Illness Uncollected Work 1983--1988 In Passage Hekatombe Appendix: Table of Contents for Roots and Branches Notes Selected Bibliography Index of Titles and First Lines
£42.50
University of California Press AvantGarde
Book SynopsisAvant-Garde: The Experimental Theater in France explores the evolution and significance of the avant-garde theater in France from its inception in the late 19th century to its flourishing in the mid-20th century. The book examines the works of pioneering dramatists like Alfred Jarry, who laid the foundation with Ubu Roi, and traces their influence through movements like Dadaism, Surrealism, and Expressionism. It highlights the resurgence of experimental theater with figures such as Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot) and Eugène Ionesco (The Bald Soprano), whose plays challenged conventional narrative forms and explored themes of absurdity, existentialism, and the human condition. The study emphasizes the avant-garde's break from realism and naturalism, embracing symbolic, ritualistic, and non-verbal expressions to redefine theatrical norms. It underscores the avant-garde's revolutionary spirit, focusing on artistic innovation rather than personal rebellion. By integrating theatrical
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University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Includes some of Duncan's finest essays . . . a great help to all readers." * CHOICE *"The Collected Later Poetry and Plays represents the assured completion of the vital gathering already underway with The Collected Early Poetry and Plays. With these two volumes the canon of Duncan's poetry is fully established and readily available to a broad audience." * Bookslut *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Discovery Making The Opening of the Field (1960) Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow - The Dance The Law I Love Is Major Mover The Structure of Rime I The Structure of Rime II A Poem Slow Beginning The Structure of Rime III The Structure of Rime IV The Structure of Rime V The Structure of Rime VI The Structure of Rime VII Three Pages from a Birthday Book This Place Rumord to Have Been Sodom The Ballad of the Enamord Mage The Ballad of Mrs Noah The Maiden The Propositions Four Pictures of the Real Universe Evocation Of Blasphemy Nor Is the Past Pure Crosses of Harmony and Disharmony A Poem of Despondencies Poetry, a Natural Thing Keeping the Rhyme A Song of the Old Order The Question The Performance We Wait For At Christmas Proofs Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face, A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar The Structure of Rime VIII The Structure of Rime IX The Structure of Rime X The Structure of Rime XI A Storm of White Atlantis Out of the Black Bone Dance Under Ground The Natural Doctrine The Structure of Rime XII The Structure of Rime XIII Another Animadversion After Reading Barely and Widely Ingmar Bergman’s Seventh Seal Food for Fire, Food for Thought Uncollected Work 1957–1960 A Stray Poem (Notes Reading from Rene Fulop-Miller’s The Power and Secrets of the Jesuits) Melville after Pierre Solitude The Song of the River to Its Shores Pre-face I Saw the Rabbit Leap Roots and Branches (1964) Roots and Branches Roots and Branches What Do I Know of the Old Lore? Night Scenes A Sequence of Poems for H.D.’s Birthday A Letter Nel Mezzo del Cammin di Nostra Vita A Dancing Concerning a Form of Women The Law Apprehensions Sonneries of the Rose Cross Now the Record Now Record Variations on Two Dicta of William Blake Cover Images Come, Let Me Free Myself Risk Four Songs the Night Nurse Sang Structure of Rime XV Structure of Rime XVI Structure of Rime XVII Structure of Rime XVIII Osiris and Set Windings Two Presentations After a Passage in Baudelaire Shelley’s Arethusa Set to New Measures After Reading H.D.’s Hermetic Definitions Strains of Sight Doves Returning to the Rhetoric of an Early Mode Two Entertainments The Ballad of the Forfar Witches’ Sing A Country Wife’s Song What Happened : Prelude A Set of Romantic Hymns Thank You for Love From The Mabinogion Forced Lines A New Poem (for Jack Spicer) Sonnet 1 Sonnet 2 Sonnet 3 Answering Adam’s Way: A Play upon Theosophical Themes Cyparissus A Part-Sequence for Change Structure of Rime XIX Structure of Rime XX Structure of Rime XXI The Continent Uncollected Work 1961–1964 A Play with Masks Weaving the Design Old Testament New Testament Bending the Bow (1968) Introduction Sonnet 4 Structure of Rime XXII 5th Sonnet Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing Bending the Bow Tribal Memories Passages 1 At the Loom Passages 2 What I Saw Passages 3 Where It Appears Passages 4 The Moon Passages 5 The Collage Passages 6 Envoy Passages 7 Structure of Rime XXIII As in the Old Days Passages 8 The Architecture Passages 9 These Past Years Passages 10 Shadows Passages 11 Wine Passages 12 Structure of Rime XXIV Structure of Rime XXV Reflections The Fire Passages 13 Chords Passages 14 Spelling Passages 15 A Lammas Tiding My Mother Would Be a Falconress Saint Graal (after Verlaine) Parsifal (after Wagner and Verlaine) The Currents Passages 16 Moving the Moving Image Passages 17 The Torso Passages 18 The Earth Passages 19 Structure of Rime XXVI: For Kenneth Anger An Illustration Passages 20 The Multiversity Passages 21 In the Place of a Passage 22 Benefice Passages 23 Orders Passages 24 Up Rising Passages 25 The Chimeras of Gérard de Nerval El Desdichado (The Disinherited) Myrtho Horus Anteros Delphica Artemis The Christ in the Olive Grove Golden Lines Earth’s Winter Song Moira’s Cathedral A Shrine to Ameinias Narrative Bridges for Adam’s Way The Soldiers Passages 26 An Interlude Transgressing the Real Passages 27 The Light Passages 28 Eye of God Passages 29 Stage Directions Passages 30 God-Spell Epilogos Uncollected Work 1965–1968 At the Poetry Conference: Berkeley after the New York Style We heard it as a cry. It was the Word. Keeping the War Inside Yes I care deeply and yet Christmas Present, Christmas Presence! From a Poem by John Ashbery If I Had Kin Ground Work: Before the War (1984) Some Notes on Notation Achilles’ Song Ancient Questions A Song from the Structures of Rime Ringing as the Poet Paul Celan Sings Despair in Being Tedious The Concert Passages 31 (Tribunals) Ancient Reveries and Declamations Passages 32 (Tribunals) Transmissions Passages 33 (Tribunals) The Feast Passages 34 (Tribunals) Before the Judgment Passages 35 (Tribunals) Santa Cruz Propositions A Glimpse And If He Had Been Wrong for Me For Me Too, I, Long Ago Shipping Out with the Cantos And Hell Is the Realm of God’s Self-Loathing Childhood’s Retreat Fragments of an Albigensian Rime O! Passages 37 Bring It Up from the Dark Structure of Rime XXVII Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens Over There The Museum Interrupted Forms Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn’s Moly Preface to the Suite The Moly Suite Near Circe’s House Rites of Passage: I Moly Rites of Passage: II A Seventeenth Century Suite in Homage to the Metaphysical Genius in English Poetry (1590–1690) 1. Love’s a great courtesy to be declared 2. Sir Walter Ralegh, What Is Our Life? 3. Go as in a dream 4. Robert Southwell, the Burning Babe 5. “A pretty Babe”—that burning Babe 6. George Herbert, Jordan (I) 7. George Herbert, Jordan (II) 8. These Lines Composing Themselves in My Head as I Awoke Early This Morning, It Being Still Dark, December 16, 1971 Passages 36 9. Ben Jonson, Hymenæi: Or the Solemnities of Masque, and Barriers 10. John Norris of Bemerton, Hymne to Darkness Coda Dante Études Preface Book One We Will Endeavor Secondary Is the Grammar A Little Language To Speak My Mind Everything Speaks to Me In the Way of a Question Speech Directed Enricht in the Increment The Individual Man Of Empire The Meaning of Each Particular The Whole Potentiality The Work The Household Let Him First Drink of the Fountain And Tho They Have No Vowel Letting the Beat Go Book Two A Hard Task in Truth Lovely The One Rule Our Art but to Articulate In Nothing Superior Enacted On Obedience Zealous Liberality We Convivial in What Is Ours! Mr. Philip Wicksteed Stumbling into Rime in Prose in Translating Dante’s Convivio Go, My Songs, Even as You Came to Me Book Three My Soul Was as If Free Nor Dream in Your Hearts For the Sea Is God’s Where the Fox of This Stench Sulks In Truth Doth She Breathe Out Poisonous Fumes Then Many a One Sang In My Youth Not Unstaind And a Wisdom as Such Four Supplementary Études Of Memory Hers I Too Trembling But We, to Whom the World Is The Missionaries Passages The Torn Cloth Songs of an Other Empedoklean Reveries Passages Jamais Passages An Interlude of Winter Light “Eidolon of the Aion” The Presence of the Dance{ths}/{ths}The Resolution of the Music Circulations of the Song Uncollected Work 1969–1982 O tree of lights! tree of colors Childless After Shakespeare’s Sonnet 76 Second Take on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 76 She Something Is Moving A Fantasy Piece for Helen Adam Feb. 22, 1973 I have{ths}/{ths}nothing to go on A Prepucal Face for Nigel Roberts Johnny’s Thing An Epithalamium Poe et Cie Let Me Join You Again This Morning, Walt Whitman Ground Work II: In the Dark (1987) An Alternate Life In the South Homecoming Supplication The Quotidian To Master Baudelaire Toward His Malaise Among His Words The Face At Cambridge an Address to Young Poets Native to the Land of My Mothertongue Le Sonnet Où Sonne la Sonnette dès Dernières Jours Toujours Fait Son Retour Pour Souffrir l’Envie Jusqu’à l’Amour en Vie Sets of Syllables, Sets of Words, Sets of Lines, Sets of Poems Addressing: Veil, Turbine, Cord, & Bird Preliminary Exercise Notes during a Lecture on Mathematics The Recall of the Star Miraflor The Naming of the Time Ever I Pour Forth My Life from This Bough The Turbine What the Sonnet Means the Sonnet Means For the Assignment of the Spirit The Cherubim (I) The Cherubim (II) Styx The Sentinels An Eros/Amor/Love Cycle Et Passages In Wonder Passages Constructing the Course of a River in the Pyrenees In Waking From the Fall of 1950, December 1980 Two Sets of Tens: Derived from Confucian Analects Regulators Set of Passages The Dignities Passages The First Passages Stimmung Passages Enthralld Passages Quand le Grand Foyer Descend dans les Eaux Passages In Blood’s Domaine Passages After Passage Passages With In Passages Seams Passages You, Muses Passages Structure of Rime: Of the Five Songs The Five Songs Whose Passages Close At the Door Illustrative Lines After a Long Illness Uncollected Work 1983–1988 In Passage Hekatombé Appendix: Table of Contents for Roots and Branches Notes Selected Bibliography Index of Titles and First Lines
£27.00
Cambridge University Press The Works of John Webster Volume 1 The White Devil The Duchess of Malfi An OldSpelling Critical Edition v 1
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume to appear in the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster, beginning with the plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi. The following volume planned for publication will include the other plays as well as the poems and prose. While both The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi are available in modernized versions, the Cambridge edition incorporates the more recent editorial scholarship including valuable information on Webster's biography, critical methods, and textual theory. In particular, the edition integrates theatrical aspects of the texts with their bibliographical and literary features in a way not previously attempted for a scholarly edition of a Jacobean dramatist. The edition also presents previously unpublished material including a fragment of an otherwise lost play and a hitherto unknown poem and provides a brief biography of Webster, a history of the Webster canon, and reception history for each play.Trade Review'… immense browsability' Anthony Burgess, The Observer'… an indispensable and indeed path-breaking guide.' The L.A. Times'… conceptually generous … on overall points Cambridge wins. Its breadth of vision is the chief reason.' The Guardian'The editors provide careful and comprehensive notes to each of the texts as well as separate literary, textual, and theatrical introductions to each of the plays. the volume is an indispensable addition to Webster scholarship.' Studies in English Literature'This is an extremely satisfying edition. Essentially a reference book, it will promote both scholarly and theatrical engagement with these other Webster plays.' Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations; General Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; The Webster canon; Part I. General Introductions: 1. The life of John Webster; 2. General critical introduction; 3. General theatrical introduction; 4. General textual introduction; Part II. The White Devil; Date of the Play; Critical Introduction; Theatrical Introduction; Textual Introduction; The White Devil; Part III. The Duchess of Malfi.
£69.34
Cambridge University Press The Works of John Webster v2 Volume 2 the Devils LawCase A Cure for a Cuckold Appius and Virginia Devils Lawcase a Cure for a Cuckold The Works of John Webster Series Number 2
Book SynopsisThis is the second volume to appear in the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster and includes The Devil's Law-Case, A Cure for a Cuckold and Appius and Virginia. This critical edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays; incorporates editorial scholarship, including valuable information on Webster's share in the collaborative plays; and employs alternative critical methods and textual theory. In particular, the edition integrates theatrical aspects of the plays with their bibliographical and literary features in a way not previously attempted in a scholarly edition of a Jacobean dramatist. The edition presents all of Webster's plays (with the exception of those collaborative plays already published in the Cambridge editions of Dekker, and Beaumont and Fletcher) and provides a brief biography, an account of Webster canon, illustrations, and critical and theatrical history of each play.Trade Review"One of this year's most significant editions." Studies in English Literature"This is an extremely satisfying edition. Eseentially a reference book, it will promote both scholarly and theatrical engagement with these other Webster plays." Sixteenth Century Journal Richard Grinnell, Marist CollegeTable of ContentsList of illustrations; General preface to Volume two; General textual preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; The Devil's Law-Case; A Cure for a Cuckold; Appius and Virginia; Corrigenda Volume one: music.
£69.34
Cambridge University Press A Critical Introduction to TwentiethCentury American Drama
Book SynopsisDr Bigsby gives a full account of the early unpublished plays and the major works of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee. He draws on biographical detail and political background to illuminate his reading of the plays, which are illustrated by photographs of important productions.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Tennesse Williams; 2. Arthur Miller; 3. Edward Albee; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
£42.74
Cambridge University Press Terence Adelphoe Cambridge Greek and Latin
Book SynopsisThe Adelphoe (The Brothers) of Terence is a Latin adaptation of a comedy of the same name by the Greek comic playwright Menander. The theme of the play is the perennially interesting question of the relationship between the generations and the proper way to bring up a son. In the introduction Mr Martin considers Terence in the context of Roman comedy generally and discusses the background of the Adelphoe. There is also a section on metre and scansion and a short analysis of the textual tradition. The full and detailed commentary, besides elucidating the text, seeks at all times to help the reader to understand the work as a play to be enjoyed. The edition is intended for use by students at school and university and for anyone wishing to read and appreciate the play in the original.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Commentary; Appendices; Bibliography; Index to the commentary.
£26.99
Cambridge University Press Aeschylus The Oresteia
Book SynopsisThis is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. The volume's clear structure and guide to further reading will make this an invaluable guide for students and teachers alike.Trade Review'… Goldhill's deep knowledge and love of his subject matter is demonstrable and his Guide will prove an excellent starting point for those undergraduates and beyond who are studying Aeschylus either in the original or in translation.' The Journal of Classics TeachingTable of ContentsPreface; Chronology; 1. Drama and the city of Athens; 2. The Oresteia; 3. The influence of the Oresteia.
£25.60
Cambridge University Press Euripides Medea Cambridge Greek and Latin
Book SynopsisThis up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of motivation that lead to her tragic insistence on killing her own children, and assesses the potential sympathy of a Greek audience for a character triply marked as other (barbarian, witch, woman). A unique feature of this book is the introduction to tragic language and style. The text, revised for this edition, is accompanied by an abbreviated critical apparatus. The commentary provides morphological and syntactic help for inexperienced students and more advanced observations on vocabulary, rhetoric, dramatic techniques, stage action, and details of interpretation, from the famous debate of Medea and Jason to the 'unmotivated' entrance of Aegeus and the controversial monologue of Medea.Trade Review'… predictably fine, thoughtful and polished … a nicely self-contained teaching-tool … Throughout, Mastronarde displays virtues known from his previous activity as a commentator: clarity of exposition; fairness in the treatment of controversial issues; philological acumen; command of the primary and secondary literature … a keen eye for the theatrical dimension of drama; and an openness to engage with broader, and often complex, non-philological aspects of interpretation.' Mouseion, Journal of the Classical Association of Canada'We may confidently say now that future students will face a less difficult task thanks to the work of D. J. Mastronarde, whose knowledge of Greek theatre and uncommon talent as a teacher have combined to produce a most valuable book. It is easy to foresee that students will be grateful to M. for his admirably concise and useful treatment of language, style and metre … Mastronarde's book is an outstanding contribution to the understanding of Medea and a valuable introduction to Greek tragedy as a whole. It deserves to take pride of place on the shelves of Euripidean scholars beside the time-honoured commentary of Page.' Journal of Hellenic Studies'… this series has consistently proven itself to provide high quality commentaries for teaching Greek texts in the original. Mastronarde's fine work does not disappoint. … this is a volume which will prove very useful to students of Greek tragedy in the original and will also be a valuable resource for professional colleagues.' HermathenaTable of ContentsGeneral introduction; Structural elements of Greek tragedy; Language and style; Prosody and metre; MEDEA; Commentary; Appendix: Medea's great monologue.
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Cambridge University Press Nine Medieval Latin Plays 1 Cambridge Medieval Classics Series Number 1
Book SynopsisThis first volume of Cambridge Medieval Classics offers the text of nine of the most outstanding plays composed and performed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the period of the finest flowering of medieval Latin drama. Newly edited and translated, the texts are given in both Latin and English, with detailed notes and apparatus to aid interpretation. They are selected to represent the range of dramatic achievement between about 1050 and 1180, when the use of sung play-texts, within a context of liturgical ceremony as well as for secular entertainment, was at its peak. The plays chosen are boldly inventive and compellingly imaginative, revealing the depth and range of the medieval dramatic mind. Included are works from France and Germany, a piece by Hildegard of Bingen, and the Passion Play from the Carmina Burana.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Eleventh-Century Plays: I. Sponsus (The Bridegroom); 2. Officium stelle (The Play of the Star); 3-4. Tres filie, Tres clerici (The Three Daughters and The Three Students); Twelfth-Century Plays: 5-6.Verses pascales de tres Maries, Versus de pelegrino (Easter Verses of the Three Maries and Verses about the Stranger); 7. Danielis ludus (The Play of Daniel); 8. Ordo Virtutum (The Play of the Virtues); 9. Ludus de passione (The Passion Play, from the Carmina Burana); Textual and Explanatory Notes.
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Cengage Learning, Inc The Basics of Communication Research with
Book SynopsisCombining the time tested classical work of Earl Babbie with the insights of one of the most recognized and respected names in speech communication research, THE BASICS OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH is the book for the Communication research methods course. With the authors' collective experience teaching research methods and as active researchers themselves you will find this text to be the authoritative text for your course. The authors frame research as a way of knowing, and provide balanced treatment to both quantitative and qualitative research traditions in communication research and present it in a student friendly and engaging format. It provides in-depth treatment of the role of reasoning in the research enterprise and how this reasoning process plays itself out in planning and writing a research proposal and report.Trade ReviewPart One: INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY ABOUT COMMUNICATION. 1. Human Inquiry and Scientific Inquiry about Communication. 2. Basic Building Blocks in Conducting Communication Research. 3. Paradigms of Knowing in Communication Research. 4. Logic Systems and Theory in Communication Research. 5. The Ethics of Communication Research. Part Two: QUANTITATIVE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH. 6. Conceptualization and Operationalization. 7. The Logic of Sampling. 8. Survey Research. 9. Experiments. 10. Quantitative Text Analysis. 11. The Basics of Quantitative Data Analysis. 12. Inferential Statistics in Quantitative Data Analysis. Part Three: QUALITATIVE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH. 13. Participant Observation. 14. Qualitative Interviewing. 15. Social Text Analysis. 16. Qualitative Data Analysis.Table of ContentsPart One: INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY ABOUT COMMUNICATION. 1. Human Inquiry and Scientific Inquiry about Communication. 2. Basic Building Blocks in Conducting Communication Research. 3. Paradigms of Knowing in Communication Research. 4. Logic Systems and Theory in Communication Research. 5. The Ethics of Communication Research. Part Two: QUANTITATIVE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH. 6. Conceptualization and Operationalization. 7. The Logic of Sampling. 8. Survey Research. 9. Experiments. 10. Quantitative Text Analysis. 11. The Basics of Quantitative Data Analysis. 12. Inferential Statistics in Quantitative Data Analysis. Part Three: QUALITATIVE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH. 13. Participant Observation. 14. Qualitative Interviewing. 15. Social Text Analysis. 16. Qualitative Data Analysis.
£218.57
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Greek Drama Bantam Classics
Book SynopsisIn power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. His introduction explores the religious origins, modes of productions, structure, and conventions of the Greek theater, individual prefaces illuminate each play and clarify the author's place in the continuity of Greek drama.
£7.98
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Billy Budd Sailor and Other Stories
Book SynopsisIf Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. 'Billy Budd, Sailor,' his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his 'quarrel with God.' It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in 'Bartelby the Scrivener,' his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic—and ultimately disastrous—extreme; and in 'Benito Cereno,' his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie 'The Encantados,' the beautiful, romantic 'The Piazza,' and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, 'The Bell-Tower.'
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Random House Publishing Group Four Comedies
Book SynopsisThe Taming of the ShrewRobust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills-and love-with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee. A Midsummer Night''s DreamFairy magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood turn the mismatched rivalries of four young lovers into a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between dreams and the waking world.The Merchant of VeniceThis dark comedy of love and money contains one of the truly mythic figures in literature-Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The “pound of flesh” he demands as payment of Antonio’s debt has become a universal metaphor for vengeance. Here, pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglements, to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best.Twelfth NightSet in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy juxtaposes a romantic plot involving separated twins and mistaken identity with a more satiric one about the humiliation of a pompous killjoy. The hilarity is touched with melancholy, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s plaintive song.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Henry VI Parts 13 Parts One Two and Three
Book SynopsisDisplaying the bold vision and growing skill of a young playwright, these are Shakespeare’s first three history plays, covering some sixty tumultuous years of English history. Their pageantry, violence, and stirring speeches excite audiences with action as well as character, and midway through the final play in this trilogy, a shocking, clever, inimitably evil new voice is heard—that of Richard of Gloucester, destined to become England’s most fearsome and hated ruler of all time, Richard III.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Hamlet
Book SynopsisOne of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet’s feigned madness, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, the “closet scene” in which Hamlet accuses his mother of complicity in murder, and breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet an enduring masterpiece of the theater.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Julius Caesar
Book SynopsisIn this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings–“Beware the ides of March”–and of moving public oratory, “Friends, Romans, countrymen!” Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc King Lear
Book SynopsisA king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, perhaps more than any other work in literature, challenges the notion of a coherent and just universe. The king and others pay dearly for their shortcomings-as madness, murder, and the anguish of insight and forgiveness that arrive too late combine to make this an all-embracing tragedy of evil and suffering.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Macbeth
Book SynopsisNo dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters’ prophecy and kill his king-and thus, seals his own doom. Fast-moving and bloody, this drama has the extraordinary energy that derives from a brilliant plot replete with treachery and murder, and from Shakespeare’s compelling portrait of the ultimate battle between a mind and its own guilt.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with
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Random House USA Inc Romeo and Juliet
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Cyrano De Bergerac
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Random House USA Inc Ten Plays by Euripides
Book SynopsisThe first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the 'pure and noble form' of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.
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Random House Publishing Group Pygmalion and Major Barbara
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Penguin Putnam Inc Seven Plays Buried Child Curse of the Starving
Book SynopsisBrilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best.'One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today.'—The New Yorker'The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, [he] is the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society.'—New York Magazine'If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard.'—Time'Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage.'—Marsha Norman, Pulitzer prizewinning author of ‘Night, Mother.'One of our best and most challenging playwr
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BiblioLife Realidad
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Faber & Faber Proof A Play
Book SynopsisDavid Auburn''s Proof won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was adapted to film by director John Madden, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, and Jake Gyllenhaal.One of the most acclaimed plays of its time, Proof is a work that explores the unknowability of love as much as it does the mysteries of science.It focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician in his youth who was later unable to function without her help. His death has brought into her midst both her sister, Claire, who wants to take Catherine back to New York with her, and Hal, a former student of Catherine''s father who hopes to find some hint of Robert''s genius among his incoherent scribblings. The passion that Hal feels for math both moves and angers Catherine, who, in her exhaustion, is torn between missing her father and resenting the great sacrifices she made for him. For Catherine has inherited at least a
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux How to Stop Acting
Book SynopsisThe Great Guskin (John Lahr, The New Yorker) shares the approach he uses to help actors land roles, develop them, and keep them alive Harold Guskin is an acting doctor whose clients include Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda, and dozens more. In How to Stop Acting, Guskin reveals the insights and techniques that have worked wonders for beginners as well as stars. Instead of yet another method, Guskin offers a strategy based on a radically simple and refreshing idea: that the actor''s work is not to create a character but rather to be continually, personally responsive to the text, wherever his impulse takes him, from first read-through to final performance. From this credo derives an entirely new perspective on auditioning and the challenge of developing a role and keeping it fresh, even over hundreds of performances. Drawing on examples from his clients'' work and his own, Guskin presents acting as a constantly evolving exploratio
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Take Me Out A Play A Play by Richard Greenberg
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Faber & Faber Our Lady of 121st Street Jesus Hopped the A Train
Book SynopsisStephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York''s hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Gathered in this volume is his current off-Broadway hit, Our Lady of 121st Street, a comic portrait of the graduates of a Harlem Catholic school reunited at the funeral of a beloved teacher, along with his two previous plays: the philosophical jailhouse drama Jesus Hopped the A Train and In Arabia, We''d All Be Kings, an Iceman Cometh for the Giuliani era that looks at the effect of Times Square''s gentrification on its less desirable inhabitants.
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Samuel French Ltd I Have Been Here Before
Book SynopsisA British wife, her elderly husband and her lover meet a German professor at an Inn in Yorkshire. His probing questions reveal that they are unhappy and confused. They have played out their scene many times, always ending in suicide and poverty. The professor warns them that they must now break the pattern.2 women, 4 men
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Samuel French Ltd Time of My Life
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Samuel French Ltd Stitchers
Book SynopsisBased on a true story, this is an inspiring and heart-warming debut play by best-selling novelist Esther Freud
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Samuel French Ltd Funeral Flowers
Book SynopsisMY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FLOWERS IS BARE STRONG. COS DAT''S WHAT I''M DOING AT COLLEGE. I CAN TALK ABOUT FLOWERS FOREVER. HOWEVER, I SHARE A NAME WITH DESE... ANGELIQUE.Funeral Flowers follows the story of Angelique, a seventeen-year-old whose dreams of being a florist are a refuge from a complicated adolescence. With her mum in prison, Angelique faces bullying, abuse and growing up in the care system.
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Samuel French Ltd Cinderella The True Story
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Concord Theatricals Dont Drink the Water
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Samuel French Inc Theophilus North
Book SynopsisMatthew Burnet Based on the Thornton Wilder novel Comedy/Drama Characters: 4 male, 3 female to play over 20 characters Simple sets Helen Hayes Award nomination, Outstanding New Play It is the spring of 1926. Thirty year old Theophilus North quits his teaching post in New Jersey and embarks on a quest for fun, adventure and his place in the world. His used car breaks down in Newport, Rhode Island, and he is stranded in this city of renowned wealth. Theophilus becomes involved in the lives and troubles of Newport's residents and is changed by the lessons he learns through them. Effective with minimal sets, properties and costumes, this touching, funny and insightful charmer is exceptionally easy to produce. Hope pulses so strongly through Theophilus North...Burnett injects his script with cosmic scope...Imaginative, forceful theater...Charming and breathtaking all at once...In the spirit of Wilder and with a dramatic vigor all its own, the play turns large-hearted living into art. --V
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Samuel French Ltd Dead City
Book SynopsisFull Length, Comic Drama / 3m, 4f / Unit SetIt''s June 16, 2004. Samantha Blossom, a chipper woman in her 40s, wakes up one June morning in her Upper East Side apartment to find her life being narrated over the airwaves of public radio. She discovers in the mail an envelope addressed to her husband from his lover, which spins her raw and untethered into an odyssey through the city.... a day full of chance encounters, coincidences, a quick love affair, and a fixation on the mysterious Jewel Jupi
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Samuel French Inc Diverting Devotion
Book SynopsisLittle Theatre / Comedy / 3m., 4f / 2 Interior, 1 Exterior New love and an old secret emerge in this richly drawn sentimental comedy by the author of Three Years from Thirty. Three men approaching age thirty gather to attend a friend's wedding. One still adores an old love who is due to attend the wedding. His best friend arrives with his intended, both of them showing the stress of planning their own wedding. While the third member of the group finds a new romance, revelations about a one night stand involving the fiancee cast shadows over a friendship and an engagement.
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Concord Theatricals Chess
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