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DULCE PAJARO DE JUVENTUD
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El Amante Escuela Nocturna Sketches De Revista
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Liverpool University Press Terence Phormio
Book SynopsisTerence's Phormio , based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. With its lively action, based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, the play provides an ideal introduction to the genre of New Comedy.Trade Review"Maltby has produced an admirably informative, elegant, and accessible edition. I highly recommend it to readers of Terence at all levels."Goran Vidovic, Cornell University, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Manuscripts of Terence containing Phormio Production notice & summary Character list Terence: Phormio Prologue ACT ONE ACT TWO ACT THREE ACT FOUR ACT FIVE Commentary Bibliography Indexes
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Cambridge University Press Staging the WorkingClass Subject
Book SynopsisThis Element focuses on the frequent staging of the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry, academy and audiences that are dominated by the cultural fraction of the middle class. It interrogates the staging of an abjectified figure as a means of challenging the stigmatisation of the poor in political discourse, defined here as an ideological imaginary of moral and cultural deficit. The Element argues that in seeking to subvert such an imaginary, theatre that stages the abjectified subject may risk consolidating two further imaginaries of working class deficit that have been confected in political discourse from the 1990s to the 2020s. In conclusion, the Element reflects on the political potential of theatre that rather seeks to eradicate class descriptors, conflicts and hierarchies altogether. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press Performance and Postsocialism in Postmillennial
Book SynopsisThis Element examines performance in postmillennial China through the lens of postsocialism. It explores how the ideological ambivalence and cultural paradoxes that characterise the postsocialist condition are embodied and represented in performance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sarah Kanes 4.48 Psychosis
Book SynopsisEverything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls 4.48 PsychosisHow on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note? The question comes from a review of 4.48 Psychosis' inaugural production, the year after Sarah Kane took her own life, but this book explores the ways in which it misses the point. Kane's final play is much more than a bizarre farewell to mortality. It's a work best understood by approaching it first and foremost as theatre as a singular component in a theatrical assemblage of bodies, voices, light and energy. The play finds an unexpectedly close fit in the established traditions of modern drama and the practices of postdramatic theatre.Glenn D'Cruz explores this theatrical angle through a number of exemplary professional and student productions with a focus on the staging of the play by the Belarus Free Theatre (2005) and Melbourne's Red Stitch Theatre (2007). Trade Review"D’Cruz offers a compelling argument for the theatrical possibilities of the play, its place in the field of postdramatic theatre, and its ability to resonate with audiences twenty years after its first performance. Succinct and engaging, this short book [...] is a useful source for educators teaching Kane’s work, or theatre practitioners bravely considering the challenge of producing it."Sarah Peters, Flinders University, Australia, in Australasian Drama StudiesTable of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Contextualising 4.48 Psychosis: 'Everybody loves a dead girl' – Sarah Kane as innovator and iconChapter 2: Reading 4.48 Psychosis: The flaw in love (and psychiatry)Chapter 3: Theorising 4.48 Psychosis: 4.48 Psychosis as postdramatic theatreChapter 4: Teaching 4.48 Psychosis: Performance and pedagogyChapter 5: Performing 4.48 Psychosis: From Minsk to MelbourneChapter 6: Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Contemporary Plays from Iraq
Book SynopsisAmir Al-Azraki is a theatre scholar and an Associate Professor of Arabic language, literature, and culture at University of Waterloo, Canada. Playwright: Waiting for Gilgamesh: Scenes from Iraq, The Mug, and The Widow. Author: The Discourse of War in Contemporary Theatre (in Arabic). Translator: Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary. Co-editor and co-translator of Contemporary Plays from Iraq. Jeffery P. Casey is Associate Professor of Theatre and Theatre Director at Norwich University, USA. His scholarly articles have appeared in Theatre Topics, Modern Drama, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Ecumenica.
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De Gruyter Darstellung bei Walter Benjamin
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Manchester University Press Feminism femininity and popular culture
Book SynopsisAccessible, introductory student guide which identifies key feminist approaches to popular culture from the 1960s to the present. -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Feminism, cultural studies and popular culture3. Film studies and the woman's film4. Reading romantic fiction5. Soap operas and their audiences6. Consumption and material culture7. Fashion and beuaty practices8. Youth cultures and popular music9. Conclusions
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Iter Press English Women Staging Islam 16961707
Book SynopsisDelarivier Manley and Mary Pix were among the groundbreaking female wits, who debuted their original plays for the public stage in 169596. Two of these plays contain explicitly Islamicate themes. Manley'sThe Royal Mischiefexpands onThe Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia(1686), and Pix'sIbrahimdraws on Rycaut'sHistory of the Turkish Empire(1687). Continuing this interest, Manley'sAlmyna(17067) responds to the newly translatedArabian Nights Entertainments(170417), and Pix'sThe Conquest of Spain(1705) engages the history of Islamic Spain recounted inThe Life of the Most Illustrious Monarch Almanzor(1693). These plays have been modernized and annotated in this edition, most for the first time. This edition also includes appendices with excerpts from historical sources and a select bibliography.Trade Review"This important edition of plays by Delarivier Manley and Mary Pix brings a welcome gendered perspective on the representations of Islam on the late 17th century English stage. Bernadette Andrea is the scholar who has worked most extensively on this subject. The general introduction showcases her expertise, and serves as an excellent overview and context for the plays presented here. The introductions to Manley and Pix and to the individual plays provide a helpful history of scholarship and criticism; the supplementary texts included in the appendixes are well chosen and help to contextualize the works." * -Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements xiNote on the Text xiiAbbreviations xivGeneral Introduction: Early Modern English Women Staging Islam, 1696–1707 1Introduction: Delarivier Manley (c. 1670–1724) 17The Royal Mischief (1696) 41Appendix A: Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies (1686) 133Almyna: or, The Arabian Vow (1707) 139Appendix B: Arabian Nights Entertainments (1713) 235Introduction: Mary Pix (1666–1709) 255Ibrahim, The Thirteenth Emperor of the Turks (1696) 269Appendix C: The History of the Turkish Empire, from the Year 1623 to the Year 1677 (1687) 345The Conquest of Spain (1705) 373Appendix D: The Life of the Most Illustrious Monarch Almanzor (1693) 479Select Bibliography 493Index 501
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Northwestern University Press Tolstoy v 1 185686 Plays European Drama Classics
Book SynopsisComprises translations of Tolstoy's work providing an insight into Tolstoy's life and his development as a writer.Table of ContentsA Family of Gentlefolk; ""A Practical Man""; ""An Uncle's Blessing""; ""Free Love""; ""An Infected Family""; ""The Nihilist""; ""Dramatization of the Legend about Aggeus""; ""The First Moonshiner"".
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Northwestern University Press Tolstoy 188689 v 2 Plays European Drama Classics
Book SynopsisA collection of translated plays from Tolstoy.
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Northwestern University Press Seven Black Plays
Book SynopsisShowcases a selection of award-winning African American drama. The seven plays represent a wide range of talents, experience and perspectives brought to bear on diverse themes, from a unique moment in the history of baseball's Negro League to a working-class couple contending with a bully.
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Northwestern University Press Metamorphoses Play A Play
Book SynopsisThis play is based on Ovid's 15-volume work of transformation myths. Positioned in and around a large pool on the stage, the characters enact adaptations of Ovid's tales, juxtaposing the ancient and contemporary in both language and image. The volume includes a production history and photographs.
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Northwestern University Press A Long Gay Book A Play Based on the Writings of
Book SynopsisA new musical about Gertrude Stein by a Tony Award-winning director; Frank Galati's dramatic adaptation of Gertrude Stein's texts begins with Stein at age 60 as she is lecturing at the University of Chicago in 1934.Trade ReviewGalati's adaptation of various Stein texts, along with a moving account of Stein's last days written by Toklas, deals with Stein as writer, thinker, and lover in gently impressionistic fashion. The results are user-friendly in the extreme and quite charming. -Chicago Tribune
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Northwestern University Press Monstrrous Martyrdoms Three Plays For These Times
Book SynopsisThe citizens of Charles Dickens' Coketown have entertained readers since the 19th century. In this adaptation of Hard Times, Heidi Stillman brings these iconic characters to the stage, revealing the universality of their hopes and suffering in their times and in ours.
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Northwestern University Press Finished from the Start and Other Plays
Book SynopsisA collection of plays from Juan Radrigan. It includes: Testimonies to the Deaths of Sabina, The Beasts and Funeral Drums for Lambs and Wolves.
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Northwestern University Press Victory Gardens Theater Present
Book SynopsisFeatures seven plays by talented authors from the twelve-member Playwrights Ensemble at Victory Gardens. Their work tackle a wide range of topics from a colorful and imaginative retelling the Medea legend set in the Caribbean to the desperation. In 2001, Victory Gardens Theater received the Tony Award for Region Theatre.Table of ContentsPecong by Steve Carter; Flyovers by Jeffrey Sweet; Voice of Good Hope by Kristine Thatcher; Battle of the Bands by Dean Corrin; Affluenza by James Sherman; Free Man of Color by Charles Smith; Hanging Fire by Claudia Allen.
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Northwestern University Press Four Places A Play
Book SynopsisA brother and sister have received word from their parents' caretaker that their elderly parents may be a danger to each other. The brother breaks his routine to join his sister and mother on their weekly lunch date in hopes that together he and his sister can get a clearer picture of the situation.
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Northwestern University Press The Unmentionables A Play
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Northwestern University Press Dollhouse A Play
Book SynopsisNora seems to have it all - a successful husband, three adorable children, and a beautiful home in the tiny Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. But what looks like the perfect life is woefully incomplete, propped up by dark secrets and bitter betrayals.
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Northwestern University Press Lovestories or But You Will Get Used to It Five
Book SynopsisFeaturing a collection of plays, this title focuses on the gap between art and experience.
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Northwestern University Press Harriet Jacobs A Play
Book SynopsisThroughout her meteoric rise into the upper ranks of young playwrights, Lydia R. Diamond has boldly challenged assumptions about African American culture. In Harriet Jacobs, she turns one of the greatest of American slave narratives, Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, into a penetrating, rousing work of theatre.
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Northwestern University Press Katrina on Stage Five Plays
Book SynopsisThe plays collected in this volume give artistic expression to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, especially at the level of individual lives forever altered. Besides telling the kinds of stories that the news media could not, these plays explore the deeply rooted problems plaguing New Orleans and illuminate many social, political, and environmental issues central to American life.
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Northwestern University Press Sons of the Prophet A Play
Book SynopsisA deeply humorous, unflinching portrait of grief and loss, Sons of the Prophet depicts a Lebanese-American family in rural Pennsylvania beset by an absurd string of tragedies. At the play's centre is Joseph Douaihy, a once-promising world-class runner now sidelined by injury.Trade ReviewTo observe that a play about extreme suffering is also explosively funny might seem absurd. But one of the many soul-piercing truths in Sons of the Prophet, the absolutely wonderful new comedy-drama by Stephen Karam, is that life rarely obeys the rules of dramatic consistency, or, for that matter fair play...And with unerring sensitivity he finds the sweet spot at which laughing at the horrors of life and feeling compassion for those who must endure them intersect." —Charles Isherwood, The New York Times "'Ravising' is the best word for Stephen Karam's new comedy. At once deep, deft, and beautifully made, Sons of the Prophet stares unflinchingly at the Gorgon's head of grief—the kind of grief on which words have no purchase, the indigestible pain that never really goes away...Some things are lost; some are found; some are gone forever. Sons of the Prophet ponders this hard truth; it makes us consider the unacceptable.” —John Lahr, New Yorker"Devastating and thrilling...by turns grave, poetic, wrenching, wry, and madcap, Sons of the Prophet...defies easy categorization. And it confirms [Karam]...as a major voice in American theater." —Adam Green, Vogue
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Northwestern University Press Grace A Play
Book SynopsisThe difference between belief and knowledge and the consequences of mistaking one for the other are at the heart of Craig Wrightâs play Grace. An evangelical Christian couple, Sara and Steve, leave a dreary life in Minnesota for sunny Florida and the hope of fast money from turning abandoned hotels into a chain of gospel-themed inns. Their new neighbour, Sam, is struggling to emerge from the trauma of a car accident that killed his fiancÃe and left him badly maimed. And the buildingâs pest exterminator, Karl, is still tormented by a dark childhood episode. As their stories converge, Wrightâs characters find themselves face-to-face with the most eternally vexing questionsâthe nature of faith, the meaning of suffering, and the possibility of redemption. Acidly funny and relentlessly searching, Grace is a trenchant work from an immensely gifted playwright.
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Northwestern University Press Bethany A Play
Book SynopsisAt the height of the foreclosure crisis, single mother Crystal loses more than her house. She struggles to stay positive, though with plenty of help from a roommate with conspiracy theories, a motivational speaker with a secret, and her colleagues at the local Saturn dealership. But optimism is no match for a bad economy, and before long Crystal's desperate quest to regain what she's lost turns into the fight of her life. This darkly comic thriller explores just how far we'll go to get back what's ours.
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Northwestern University Press The Goodman Theatres Festival Latino Six Plays
Book SynopsisDrawn from the first ten years of the Goodman Theatre's renowned biennial festival of Latino plays, the works in this collection expand the definition of Latino theatre, resisting the confines of a particular language, locale, or assumed audience. Instead of focusing on similarities that outline the boundaries of Latino identity, these plays look outward, representing the multiplicity of actual Latino experience. The plays were written and performed sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish; their stories are set in heterogeneous milieus; they're directed at both Latino and non-Latino audiences; and they incorporate cultural or theatrical elements from vastly different traditions. As a group, these plays indicate the extraordinary range of the festival's offerings and show how it has contributed to a more complex notion of what Latino theatre is and can be.
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Northwestern University Press The Jacksonian A Play
Book SynopsisIn The Jacksonian, Beth Henley returns to the Southern Gothic storytelling that made her reputation with both critics and audiences. Set in a seedy motel in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, the play centres around Rosy, a troubled teenager, and Bill, her dentist father who has been living at the motel for several months as his wife, Susan, considers the disgrace of divorce.
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Northwestern University Press Pike St.
Book SynopsisIn Pike St., the highly praised second play by New Yorker Nilaja Sun, creator of the solo show No Child... a Lower East Side family comes vividly to life.Trade ReviewSuch is Ms. Sun’s ability to transmit the strong personalities of her characters that I had to keep stopping myself, as I wrote this review, from checking the program to look up the names of the actors playing Manny and the rest. The small Abrons stage seems to have been populated by a large, multitalented cast."" - New York Times
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Northwestern University Press Exit Strategy
Book SynopsisRighteously angry, riotously funny, and wise to the tensions between abstract policy and lived experience, Ike Holter's play Exit Strategy centres on vivid, unforgettable characters struggling to maintain faith in a vocation that is being determinedly undermined.
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Northwestern University Press Comfort Stew A Play
Book SynopsisWhat could be more painful than a missing child? And how might the community better support families - especially young, single mothers and their children? In Comfort Stew, acclaimed Chicago poet and playwright Angela Jackson addresses these questions in what she has called a meditation on motherhood and what it means to love.Trade ReviewTradition, Jackson is saying, must be combined with personal empowerment and responsibility. And the love of community, family and a life partner can help overcome negative social forces . . . Jackson has a fine facility for language, sending her characters on complex but intriguing lyrical journeys." —Chicago Tribune
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Northwestern University Press Underground Monroe and The Mamalogues
Book SynopsisFeatures new plays by Lisa B. Thompson, author of Single Black Female. In these three plays, the black feminist playwright and scholar thoughtfully explores themes such as the black family, motherhood, migration, racial violence, and trauma and its effect on black people from the early twentieth century to the present.Trade Review“Underground is more than a play. It's a powerful weapon of change—a truth bomb that will get conversations started.” —T. Lynn Mikeska, Austin Chronicle “Monroe is a wonderful new play that contains charming characters, witty dialogue and an examination of the horrific effects of racial terrorism in a way that entertains while it educates.” —Frank Benge, Broadway World “The Mamalogues . . . treats [motherhood] in a way that everyone can recognize . . . Sisters in the BBSM—Black Bougie Single Mothers—are here to share, and in this case, that can be fun. But alongside ‘bougie’ and ‘mothers’ in the support group's name are the words ‘single’ and ‘black,’ and they carry a weight that must be acknowledged. Thompson does so in dramatic moments that live side by side with the comic ones, just as it happens in life.” —Robert Faires, The Austin Chronicle “The lushness of Lisa B. Thompson’s singular theatrical imagination is on full display in this dazzling trio of plays. Writing with remarkable urgency, creativity, humor, and humanity, Thompson crafts complex characters and worlds that affirm and invite us to delight in the beauty of black life.” —Isaiah Matthew Wooden, coeditor of Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance, and Collaboration “We expect our storytellers to bring truth to the madness, and the stage has been where so much of that madness has been scripted in life-sized proportions. Lisa B. Thompson understands this better than most, and with her new collection, Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues, she captures the magic, trauma, and most importantly, the humor and laughter of Black life, and offers us a lifeline to the could-have-beens and should-have-beens that we can take for our own.” —Mark Anthony Neal, author of Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities “Captivating, funny, and smart, Lisa B. Thompson’s Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues: Three Plays portrays the vitality and complexity of blackness. Drawing from rich histories that pull audiences into specific places and times, the collection enriches our understanding of the black middle class through multifaceted, complicated, and always compelling narratives.” —Soyica Colbert, author of Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics “Scored with laughs joyously and tenderly musical, Thompson’s plays capture symphonies of humor and pathos shared between friends and family. Colloquialisms, vernacular riffs, and style trends condition characters that plumb and challenge notions of race and gender as well as conflicts of language and culture. Thompson marvelously works rhythms and breaks of sincerity, irony, love, and social critique to engage the epic experiences of being Black in America. These plays, like her celebrated Single Black Female, make for deceptively light stage work around intense histories and trenchant reflections.” —Stephanie Leigh Batiste, playwright, actor, and author of Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American PerformanceTable of Contents Foreword by E. Patrick Johnson Acknowledgments Underground Monroe The Mamalogues Interview by Joan Morgan
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Northwestern University Press Sweet Tea
Book SynopsisPresents the text of the stage version of E. Patrick Johnson's Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South - An Oral History, a groundbreaking text for the fields of black studies, queer studies, and Southern oral history and ethnography.Trade ReviewSweet Tea takes on some complicated subject matters - a father's recounting of coming out to his four-year-old son is particularly moving - but overall its tone feels more personal than provocative. When he is telling his story through his own eyes rather than the eyes of those he's interviewed, it's a pleasure to get to know Johnson himself . . ." - Missy Frederick, WashingtonianTable of Contents Foreword by Jane M. Saks Production History Preface Sweet Tea: A Play
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Northwestern University Press Pony
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Catholic University of America Press Selected Plays Irish Drama Selections
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Ohio State University Press Complete Works of Aphra Behn Poetry 001
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Ohio State University Press Complete Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV Seneca
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Ohio State University Press Complete Works of Aphra Behn V3 Volume III the
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Ohio State University Press The Complete Works of Aphra Behn V7 The Complete
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Ohio State University Press The Complete Works of Aphra Behn V6 The Complete
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The University of Arizona Press Barrio Dreams Selected Plays Camino del Sol
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University Alabama Press Theatre Symposium Vol. 32
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University of Hawai'i Press Alternative Japanese Drama Ten Plays American
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University of Hawai'i Press Eyes of the Heart
Book SynopsisA collection of six plays by award-winning playwright Catherine Filloux: Eyes of the Heart, Kidnap Road, Lemkin's House, Mary and Myra, Selma ’65; and Silence of God. Subjects include key figures in the history of human and civil rights; genocide; crimes against women during armed conflicts; international human rights law; US Civil Rights Movement; and woman's suffrage.
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University of Missouri Press The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 5 Plays
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the plays written by Langston Hughes between 1930 and 1942, alone and in collaboration. Almost all the plays were performed during the same period; a few have never seen the stage, but are included because they indicate the range of Hughes's artistic and political concerns.
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University of Missouri Press The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 6
Book SynopsisAlthough Langston Hughes had a lifelong engagement in theatre and other performance arts, his work in this area is the least known of his contributions to African American expressive culture. This volume focuses on Hughes's plays after 1942, along with all of his other work written for performance.
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