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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeare and Historical Formalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeare Marlowe Jonson New Directions in Biography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Textual Conversations in the Renaissance Ethics Authors Technologies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chiastic Designs in English Literature from Sidney to Shakespeare
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Anonymity in Early Modern England Whats In A Name Annals of English Drama
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Perfection Learning Death of a Salesman Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
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University of Toronto Press Striker Schneiderman
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University of Pennsylvania Press Closet Stages
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Wayne State University Press Hugo Von Hofmannsthal Three Plays Waynebooks Ser No 23
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Taylor & Francis Evolving Synergies
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Chief
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University of Hawai'i Press Kabuki Plays on Stage Villany and Vengeance 17701800 Vol 2 Villainy and Vengeance 17731799
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Josef Weinberger Plays Much Ado About Nothing
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Josef Weinberger Plays The Kings Speech
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Josef Weinberger Plays The Tempest
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Josef Weinberger Plays Murder in the Dark
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Michigan State University Press From Page to Performance
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Silver Spear Publications Break a Leg A Treasury of Theatre Traditions and Superstitions
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Cambridge University Press The Works of John Webster
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Cambridge University Press Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespearean Forest
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Cambridge University Press Performance and Translation in a Global Age
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Cambridge University Press Performance and Postsocialism in Postmillennial China
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre History
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Cambridge University Press The Works of John Webster An Oldspelling Critical Edition Volume 2 The Works of John Webster Series Number 2
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LEGARE STREET PR Alexandra Sive Cassandra
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LEGARE STREET PR Lasst Die Todten Ruhen
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BookBaby Unspoken Truth
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Bloomsbury Academic Before the Millennium
Book SynopsisKarim Khan is an Oxford-based playwright and screenwriter. His award-winning play Brown Boys Swim was a sell-out hit at the Edinburgh Fringe before transferring to Soho Theatre and touring nationally. He is currently developing new work with the Royal Court, National Theatre and Soho Theatre, and recently wrote for All Creatures Great and Small, winning Best Debut at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Wasp
Book SynopsisMorgan Lloyd Malcolm is a playwright and comedy writer. Her play Belongings was produced at the Hampstead Theatre and Trafalgar Studios in 2011 to universal critical acclaim and was shortlisted for The Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award and the Whatsonstage.com Best New Play Award. Other stage work includes five Edinburgh shows, in which she also performed, as part of Trippplicate (with Katie Lyons and Verity Woolnough), Epidemic and Platform for the Old Vic and new commissions for Cleanbreak and Firehouse Productions. In 2013 she was chosen as a member of the Soho Six (Soho Theatre) and is currently under commission with them. Her work has been performed at many theatres including The Old Vic, The Bush, Theatre503, Lyric Hammersmith and Bolton Octagon' and Trafalgar Studios.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Full Monty
Book SynopsisThe Full Monty was Simon Beaufoy's first screenplay. It went on to be nominated for four Academy Awards as well as winning a BAFTA for Best Film in 1997. His other screenplays include the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, 127 Hours, the climate change drama Burn Up, and most recently an adaptation of the novel, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. He is currently adapting the epic poem Sharp Teeth and writing an original screenplay, First We Take Manhattan.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Book SynopsisHenry Shields is an award-winning playwright, best known for his work with Mischief. Co-writer of The Comedy About Spies, he looks forward to returning to the stage in one of the leading roles in 2025. He has been nominated for three Olivier Awards for Best New Comedy, winning in 2015 for The Play That Goes Wrong. Stage Credits Include: The Play That Goes Wrong (West End & Broadway); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (West End & Broadway); The Comedy About a Bank Robbery; Groan Ups; Magic Goes Wrong; Light! Camera! Improvise and Mischief Movie Night.Screen Credits Include: Holby City (BBC); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (BBC); A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (BBC); both series of The Goes Wrong Show (which he co-wrote) and Keep It In The Family (ITV).Henry Lewis is an Olivier Award and Drama Desk Award winning writer, actor, director and producer and is the Artistic Director of Mischief. Henry's work has been produced in over 50 countries worldwide. Broadway Theatre Credits include: The Play That Goes Wrong (Lyceum); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Ethel Barrymore). West End Credits Include: Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (Prince of Wales/Garrick); Magic Goes Wrong (Apollo/Vaudeville); Groan Ups (Vaudeville); Mischief Movie Night (Vaudeville/Arts); The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo); The Play that Goes Wrong (Duchess & UK/International Tour); Austentatious (Arts).Off West End/Off Broadway/Regional Theatre Credits Include: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Ahmanson, Los Angeles); Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (Off Broadway/UK Tour); Good Luck, Studio (UK Tour as director); Mercury Fur (Trafalgar Studios); The Play That Goes Wrong (UK/International Tour); Superior Donuts (Southwark Playhouse as producer); Beasts & Beauties (Hampstead); Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (various). Live Streamed: Mischief Movie Night-In (Immersive LDN/Riverside Studios).Screen Credits Include: The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin (Apple+); Riddiculous (ITV); The Valiant Quest of Prince Ivandoe (Cartoon Network); The Goes Wrong Show (BBC); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (BBC); A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (BBC); Royal Variety Performance 2015 & 2019 (ITV); We are Most Amused and Amazed: Prince Charles' 70th Birthday Celebration (ITV); Children in Need 2020 (BBC) and Comic Relief 2022 (BBC).Henry's first book Mystery Agency: The Museum Heist is available now.Jonathan Sayer is an Olivier award-winning writer, actor and is the Company Director of Mischief Theatre. His work for Mischief has been performed internationally in over forty countries. Training: LAMDA. Theatre credits: The Play That Goes Wrong (Broadway, West End & UK/International Tour - winner of Best New Comedy at the Olivier Awards 2015 and What's On Stage Awards 2014), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (BBC1, West End/UK Tour/Pleasance London - nominated for Best New Comedy at the Olivier Awards 2016), The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (West End - nominated Best New Comedy at the Olivier Awards 2017) Mischief Movie Night/Lights! Camera! Improvise! (The Arts Theatre ann UK Tour- nominated for Best New Comedy at The Olivier Awards 2018 and winner of Spirit of the Fringe Award 2013)). Television Credits: The Goes Wrong Show (BBC1), Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (BBC1), Peter Pan Goes Wrong- TV adaptation (BBC1) We Are Most Amused & Amazed - Prince Charles 70th Birthday Celebration (ITV), Royal Variety Performance (ITV), Keep It in the Family (ITV- writer only), Radio Credits: The Christmas Show That Goes Wrong (BBC R2).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Blubber
Book SynopsisKatie Greenall is a director, theatre maker & writer living in NE London. She specialises in new writing, solo autobiographical work and working with Young People and Communities. She is currently the Associate Director at the Bush Theatre, where she also runs the Young Companies. Their directing credits include: COMMUNION (Bush Theatre); WE ALL KNOW HOW THIS ENDS (Theatre Royal Stratford East); AS WE FACE THE SUN (Offie nominated, Bush Theatre); PASS IT ON (Bush Theatre); HERE, HERE, HERE (Theatre Royal Stratford East); ANTHEM (Bush Theatre); BACK UP! (Bush Theatre). She was also the Associate Director on BARCELONA (Duke of York's Theatre).As a writer, Katie was a member of the Poetry Collective at the Roundhouse and a Resident Artist at the Roundhouse in 2018-19. She was part of the Soho Theatre Writer's Lab programme, long-listed Channel 4 Screenwriting Course in 2021 and a member of VAULT Five. In 2020, she was runner up in Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund for theatre making and in 2024 was on the shortlist for the Popcorn Award.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) An Ark
Book SynopsisSimon Stephens is a celebrated playwright and screenwriter whose writing is distinguished by its emotional resonance, intelligence, and tenderness and his ability to realize the extraordinary in the most ordinary of lives. He is renowned for his outstanding stage adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Directed by Stephens's long-term collaborator Marianne Elliott, the production and play won seven Olivier Awards in 2013 (including Best New Play) and five Tony Awards (including Best New Play) in 2015 and has since been produced in all major territories throughout the world.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire
Book SynopsisAnne Washburn's plays include 10 out of 12, Antlia Pneumatica, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, A Devil At Noon, I Have Loved Strangers, The Internationalist, The Ladies, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Mr. Burns, Shipwreck, The Small, an adaption of The Twilight Zone, and transadaptations of Euripides' Orestes & Iphigenia in Aulis. Her work has been produced nationally, and internationally. Awards include a Whiting, a Guggenheim, an Alpert Award, a PEN/Laura Pels award, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist twice, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo.
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Bloomsbury Academic Most Favoured
Book SynopsisDavid Ireland is from Belfast and trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. His first play, WHAT THE ANIMALS SAY, was produced at Oran Mor, Glasgow in 2009. His other plays include EVERYTHING BETWEEN US (Tinderbox, Belfast) which won the Stewart Parker Award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award, THE END OF HOPE (Oran Mor), HALF A GLASS OF WATER (Field Day), YES SO I SAID YES (Ransom Productions, Belfast), CAN'T FORGET ABOUT YOU (Lyric, Belfast) and I PROMISE YOU SEX AND VIOLENCE (Northern Stage, Newcastle). In 2015, he adapted Lorca's BLOOD WEDDING for Dundee Rep and Graeae. His 2016 play CYPRUS AVENUE (Royal Court London/Abbey Theatre Dublin/Public Theatre NYC) won the Irish Times Award for Best New Play and the James Tait Black Award for Drama and in 2018 ULSTER AMERICAN (Traverse, Edinburgh) won a Scotsman Fringe First, the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh award and the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland Award for Best New Play.He lives in Glasgow with his wife Jennifer and his children Ada and Elijah.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Brainsluts
Book SynopsisDan Bishop is one half of the sketch-duo Mudfish (with Molly Windust) He is the writer of the debut comedy play Brainsluts, shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award and heralded as one of the best shows to see at Edinburgh Fringe in 2025
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Contemporary Plays from Iraq
Book SynopsisJames Al-Shamma is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Belmont University, where he started teaching in 2007. He teaches theatre history and literature, scriptwriting, film, improvisation and other courses. He directs at the university and is an artistic and producing partner for the Five Dollar Recession (FDR) Theatre Company. Dr. Al-Shamma's principal areas of research are contemporary women playwrights and Arabic, and specifically Iraqi, theatre. He has published two books on American playwright Sarah Ruhl and has published articles in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and The Eugene O'Neill Review.A. Al-Azraki is an Iraqi playwright.Table of ContentsForeword General introduction Biographies The Takeover by Hoshang Waziri Introduction Text A Cradle by Abdul-Kareem Al-Ameri Introduction Text Ishtar in Baghdad by Rasha Fadhil Introduction Text Summer Rain by Abdel-Nabi Al-Zaidi Introduction Text Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad by Monadhil Daoud Albayati Introduction Text Me, Torture, and Your Love by Awatif Naeem Introduction Text A Strange Bird on Our Roof by Abdul Razaq Al-Rubai Introduction Text Cartoon Dreams by Kareem Sheghaidil Introduction Text The Widow by A. Al-Azraki Introduction Text
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University of Toronto Press Beau Monde on Empires Edge
Book SynopsisExploring Ukraine's multi-ethnic population, this book presents a critical response to Moscow- and Russo-centric narratives of the Soviet Union.Trade Review"This book offers a necessary reappraisal of the formative Soviet decades in Ukraine and helps us understand better how Soviet culture developed across the Soviet Union… It offers a new and original angle to studying Soviet nationalities policy." -- Olena Palko * European History Quarterly *"This engaging book is a model of interdisciplinary work, undoubtedly facilitated by Fowler’s background in theatre… Her study challenges established historians who ignore cultural production, and it deserves to be read by scholars of diverse disciplines. " -- Susan Costanzo * Slavonic and East European Review *"Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge indeed offers an outstanding account of un-making the late imperial South East and the subsequent development of early Soviet culture in the newly created Soviet Ukraine…[it] presents an elaborate theoretical and contextual account which can help to locate the artists and their art in a specific time and a specific locality. It should be interesting for both academic and non-academic readers." -- Yuliya Yurchuk * Baltic Worlds *"Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge is a tour de force that will have far-reaching consequences for the way we understand Soviet national culture, and how we understand the field of Ukrainian studies itself." -- Oleh Kotsyuba, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University * Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal *"Mayhill Fowler’s account of Soviet Ukraine’s 'beau monde' has managed to accomplish something that the central characters in her book often found elusive: telling a story that is both Soviet and Ukrainian." -- Kathryn David, New York University * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *"An elegantly written and entertaining book, with a well-crafted argument and a timely focus on Ukraine’s cultural diversity and identity politics." -- Myorslav Shkandrij * Slavic Review *"The interaction of minority national cultures, empire, and international modernism is at the heart of Mayhill Fowler’s study of theatre in early twentieth-century Ukraine. Fowler offers several useful ideas for researchers working in the field of Soviet/Russian imperial culture and beyond." -- Uilleam Blacker, Kritika * Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History *"Mayhill Fowler’s book is an engrossing and persuasive new look at the formation of Soviet culture as it took shape within the performing arts. Her basic tenets may be usefully applied to other aspects, among them the way in which émigré culture sought to define itself in opposition to its Soviet counterpart." -- Laurence Senelick * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *"This book is cultural history at its best. Fowler’s subtle reading of forgotten cultural events draws out their significance in a way that opens up new conceptual vistas. Her work makes a major contribution to Ukrainian studies and the field of Soviet cultural history; it can also attract a wider audience of theatre lovers." -- Serhy Yekelchyk * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note to the Reader on Transliteration Abbreviations Introduction: The Beau Monde on the Borderlands Chapter 1: The Russian Imperial Southwest: Theater in the Age of Modernism and Pogroms Chapter 2: The Literary Fair: Mikhail Bulgakov and Mykola Kulish Chapter 3: Comedy Soviet and Ukrainian?: Il'f-Petrov and Ostap Vyshnia Chapter 4: The Officical Artist: Solomon Mikhoels and Les' Kurbas Chapter 5: The Arts Official: Andrii Khvylia, Vsevolod Balyts'kyi, and the Kremlin Chapter 6: Soviet Beau Monde: The Gulag and Kremlin Cabaret Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Coach House Books Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Stagings: Short Scripts for Middle and High School Students
Book SynopsisIntroduce students to the magic of theatre and help them develop important dramatic skills with this enchanting collection of short plays. With characters and story lines that will especially appeal to young people, these reproducible scripts are complete and offer full acting and production opportunities without elaborate sets or costuming.Introduce students to the magic of theatre and help them develop important dramatic skills with this enchanting collection of short plays. With characters and story lines that will especially appeal to young people, these reproducible scripts are complete and offer full acting and production opportunities without elaborate sets or costuming. Designed around the guidelines for the theatre discipline of the National Standards for Arts Education (NSAE), the scripts are short in length and affordable to produce. They offer educators a fresh and simple approach to teaching students acting, design, directing, and research.
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Wits University Press Senkatana
Book SynopsisSenkatana is a tragic play adapted from Sotho folk narrative. The play is regarded as a classic of Sesotho literature.Seen as one of the greatest essayists and dramatists writing in Southern Sotho, Senkatana was Mofokeng's first book, published in 1952 in the African (then Bantu) Treasury Series, an Imprint of Witwatersrand University Press.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 946 : The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
Book SynopsisImagine being told to leave your home… Imagine American soldiers occupying your house and land… Imagine being 12 and angry, with only a cat to tell your secrets to… Well it all happened (most of it anyway) in Slapton Sands, Devon, in 1944. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, this play explodes everything we thought we knew about the D-Day landings. With signature Kneehigh sorcery, 946 uses music, puppetry and foolishness to tell this tale of war, prejudice and love. Tender, political and surprisingly romantic, this story speaks to us all and will finally reveal the secrets the US and British governments tried to keep quiet.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Angry Alan & Fucked: Two Plays by Penelope Skinner
Book Synopsis'Looking out over the country, this country, where I was born and raised, I wonder what's going to become of us. Because this can't be the future, can it? Everyone just... changing the rules?' Roger thinks the world's gone mad. He hates his job, his ex-wife torments him and to top it all, his girlfriend just discovered feminism. Roger's about to lose his shit. Until he discovers Angry Alan: online activist and "voice of reason"... A darkly comic new play about masculinity in crisis from award-winning Penelope Skinner.
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Nick Hern Books The House Party
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Nick Hern Books This is Living
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