Plays, playscripts, drama
Newest Press Ugly Man
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Newest Press Poor Super Man
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Ariadne Press Slackers Other Plays Studies in Austrian
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Ariadne Press Siberia Other Plays Studies in Austrian
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Euripides Medea Focus Classical Library
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Acharnians Lysistrata Clouds
Book SynopsisThis anthology offers English translations of three of Aristophanes'' greatest comedies,Acharnians, Clouds, and Lysistrata,by Jeffrey Henderson, one of the most important scholars and translators of Greek comedy. Each comedyis also available in a single-play edition from Hackett Publishing''s Focus imprint.
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Brothers
Book SynopsisThis is an English translation of Terence''s Roman comedy that deals with questions of perennial interest: How best to raise children? and How to give self-disinterested moral advice?. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Roman culture. A video of performance of the play The Terence Project, Vassar 1996 is available.
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co The Birds
Book SynopsisThis is an English translation of Aristophanes' greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
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Playdead Press Infinite Riches
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Playdead Press Chicken
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Playdead Press Broken Rose
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Playdead Press Just One Day
Book SynopsisWhen Girl 29 is drug raped the friendship between Shona, Sheldon and Janet is stretched. When Janet''s fiancé Gary is accused of the rape, the women are forced to take sides and reassess their friendship and personal values. What will be their priority? Protecting an alleged'' rape victim? Or protecting an accused'' rapist? JUST ONE DAY is a beautifully told account of female solidarity and ultimately a story about recovery and hope. The play was inspired by the writing of Jewish Militant Feminist Andrea Dworkin, who had one wish that there could be JUST ONE DAY each year when women and children would be free from sexual violence being perpetrated against them. The script was written and researched with the assistance and support of MANCHESTER RAPE CRISIS, the (Pankhurst Centre Manchester). And STAR Surviving Trauma after Rape (based in Wakefield)
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Playdead Press Obama the Mamba President of the Slums
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Playdead Press But I cd Only Whisper
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Playdead Press A Guide to Second Date Sex
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Playdead Press 8th Wave
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Playdead Press Hidden
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Playdead Press Gari Jones Three Plays Wretch Somewhere Else and
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Playdead Press Speed Twins
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Playdead Press Metamorphoses
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Flintlock Theatre The Government Inspector A New Adaptation for
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Random House USA Inc Moment Work
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Edition of Works of Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea
Book SynopsisFor the first time in print, this complete, critical edition presents reconstructions of obliterated poems, alongside surviving plays of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. This first volume provides established texts of Finch's early manuscript books, including poems written under her pen name, Ardelia.Trade Review'With remarkable success and rigor, Jennifer Keith's and Claudia Kairoff's first volume of the Works of Anne Finch investigates and analyzes complex sets of evidence and revisions in manuscript and in print, providing an extensive scholarly apparatus and historical notes on the conditions of production, not just of Finch's own writing but of its reception and publication. Rivaling the best examples of traditional critical editions, the Works of Anne Finch offers fresh approaches to questions of variants and emendations while supplying a clean, readable text of Finch's extensive literary production.' Citation, Society for Textual Scholarship'… a major event in English literary studies … The literary world is fortunate that Finch's complicated canon met its match in the editorial skills and intellectual commitment of Jennifer Keith and the team of talented experts she assembled … Anne Finch's poetry is the expression of her heart, the expression of an age, and the expression of the general human condition. In other words, she is a major poet whose works are finally accorded in this edition the establishment of texts and contexts needed for literary history to begin to acknowledge that fact.' Elizabeth Kraft, The Scriblerian'Henceforth, no scholar of Anne Finch's poetry can write about her oeuvre without studying these two volumes.' Ellen Moody, The Eighteenth-Century IntelligencerTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Chronology; Abbreviations; Note; General introduction Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Jennifer Keith and Jean I. Marsden; Textual introduction Jennifer Keith; Account of the texts Jennifer Keith; Works excluded from this edition Molly Hand and Jennifer Keith; From Poems on Several Subjects written by Ardelia (The Northamptonshire Manuscript); Miscellany Poems with Two Plays by Ardelia (The Folger Manuscript); Some peices out of the First Act of the Aminta of Tasso; The Triumphs of Love and Innocence: a tragecomedy; Aristomenes, or the Royal Shepheard: a tragedy; Aditional Poems Cheifly upon Subjects Devine and Moral; Explanatory and textual notes; List of source copies; Select bibliography; Index of titles; Index of first lines.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea
Book SynopsisPresenting uncollected poems and letters, some of which are unpublished, this second volume in the first complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Wilchelsea, provides established texts of her later collections in print and manuscript form, Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713) and The Wellesley Manuscript.Trade Review'One of the many virtues of the splendid new edition - the fullest ever presentation of Finch's oeuvre - is that it displays more clearly than ever before the extraordinary diversity, versatility, and virtuosity of her talents. The edition is beautifully printed, stoutly bound, and the pages are properly sewn in sections. The edition will be an essential purchase for all serious libraries …' David Hopkins, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Chronology; Abbreviations; Note; General introduction Claudia Thomas Kairoff and Jennifer Keith; Textual introduction Jennifer Keith; Account of the texts Jennifer Keith and R. Carter Hailey; From Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions; The Wellesley Manuscript; Additional poems; Explanatory and textual notes; Correspondence; A reception and transmission history of Finch's work: illustrative cases from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries Rachel Bowman; List of source copies; Select bibliography; Index of titles; Index of first lines.
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Cambridge University Press TwentyFirst Century American Playwrights
Book SynopsisThe early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for the American theatre but also marked the emergence of a new generation of exciting playwrights. In this book, Christopher Bigsby explores the work of nine of these developing talents, and the importance of issues including race, gender and politics for their writing. Increasingly, these new figures are gaining their reputations not on Broadway but in small theatres and small towns or even abroad, bringing fresh and diverse perspectives to contemporary American drama. With a focus on female writers and on issues of personal and public identity in contemporary society, this volume investigates the styles and techniques these playwrights favour, the themes they raise, and their role in a changing America and a changing world.Trade Review'By looking at emerging voices who are slowly but surely making a mark on the US stage and building their reputations, Bigsby charts changes in American theater and drama not just in terms of its thematic focus on the politics of identity, but also in terms of the degree to which such themes now penetrate small theaters across the country. Recommended.' ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Annie Baker; 2. Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; 3. Katori Hall; 4. Amy Herzog; 5. Tracy Letts; 6. David Lindsay-Abaire; 7. Lynn Nottage; 8. Sarah Ruhl; 9. Naomi Wallace.
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Cambridge University Press Plays 16821696 Volume 4 the Plays 16821696
Book SynopsisAphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extended over two decades, encompassing remarkable generic range and diversity. Her last five plays, written and performed between 1682 and 1696, include city comedies (The City-Heiress, The Luckey Chance), a farce (The Emperor of the Moon), a tragicomedy (The Widdow Ranter), and a comedy of family inheritance (The Younger Brother). These plays exemplify Behn''s skills in writing for individual performers, and exhibit the topical political engagement for which she is renowned. They witness to Behn''s popularity with theatre audiences during the politically and financially difficult years of the 1680s and even after her death. Informed by the most up-to-date research in computational attribution, this fully annotated edition draws on recent scholarship to provide a comprehensive guide to Behn''s work, and the literary, theatrical and political history of the Restoration.Trade Review'This is an encyclopaedic edition, with a full command of modern historical scholarship and of contemporary plays, pamphlets and polemics … Behn's is a witty, humorous, indignant, but pessimistic and truly distinctive voice. This fine edition allows it to be heard clearly for our time and, with luck, will lead to more performances of her plays. In the meantime, one thing is sure: that Aphra Behn would have relished the new attention and publicity it brings and, since she complained about the negligence of her printers, the extreme care of the production.' Derek Hughes and Janet Todd, The Times Literary Supplement'No doubt this richly annotated collection will facilitate a wealth of further inspiring discussion on Behn in the future.' Amelia Mills, Women's Writing'an impressive production that does full justice to Behn's now canonical status… this first glimpse into the Cambridge Edition offers a refreshing presentation of Behn's oeuvre, setting her texts in light of recent scholarly interests and in a wealth of contextual detail regarding Restoration English culture that has become increasingly available in recent years … the series promises to become not only the indispensable scholarly resource for all serious research on Behn, but also an indispensable collection for all serious research on Restoration culture.' The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Editorial Conventions; 1. The City-Heiress; 2. The Luckey Chance; 3. The Emperor of the Moon; 4.The Widdow Ranter; 5. The Younger Brother.
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Kessinger Publishing Strife
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Overlook Press Letters to Sala A Play
Book Synopsis “A stirring drama” (Broadway World) adapted by award-winning playwright Arlene Hutton from the book Sala’s Gift by Ann Kirschner, Letters to Salais a remarkable play about a young girl’s personal and emotional Holocaust journey. Sala Garncarz, daughter of a rabbi and the youngest of 11 children, was 16 in 1940 when she volunteered to take her sister’s place in a Nazi work camp. Over the next five years, she endured seven camps and collected, at great risk to herself, a cache of more than 350 letters, postcards, photographs, and other documents sent to her and others during that time. Sala survived the war and moved to America, where, more than 50 years later, she and her family donated her remarkable collection of letters and documents to the New York Public Library, where it went on to earn wide attention. Through these letters that Sala managed to hide and keep safe, Letters to Sala t
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Camelot
Book SynopsisCamelot: The Shining City is a modern re-telling of the myth of King Arthur, by award-winning playwright James Phillips.Developed in collaboration with Slung Low, specialists in spectacular theatrical experiences, and Sheffield People''s Theatre, Camelot: The Shining City is written for a company of over 150 actors, bringing the medieval story to breathtaking life. An epic story told in three parts, this edition was published to coincide with the world premiere, staged on 9 July 2015.Trade ReviewJames Phillips's script is a smart piece of work, superimposing elements of mythology on to a near-future dystopian tale of "a world where people have decided that the best way to go forwards is to go backwards". . . . a provocative vision of how riskily we might reinvoke "British values" * Financial Times *
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform if i should die before i wake Volume 2
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Broadview Press Ltd The Clandestine Marriage
Book SynopsisDavid Garrick, the leading actor of his time, was also one of its most accomplished dramatists, and The Clandestine Marriage is perhaps his finest play. Its story centres on the household of a wealthy merchant, Mr. Sterling, whose main concern is that his two daughters marry men of wealth. Fanny has defied her apprentice; her sister Betsey is engaged to be married to Sir John Melvil. But Melvil and his friend Lord Ogleby both fall in love with Fanny. It is up to Lovewell to persuade both men that marriage to Fanny is out of the question—without revealing to them that he has already married her.The action of the play and also its setting (a landscape garden designed after the fashion of the time to provide artificial wildness and ‘commanding’ views) give ample scope for Garrick and Coleman to satirize the mercantile mind—yet the play’s comic spirit holds appeal to those on all points of the political compass. First produced in 1766, The Clandestine Marriage was revived to great acclaim in 1995 in a London production starring Nigel Hawthorne.Full-length plays of the late eighteenth century were usually performed together with short plays (or ‘afterpieces’) to form a full evening of entertainment. In accordance with that tradition this edition is completed by two of the most interesting examples of the genre: Charles Burney’s The Cunning-Man (which in fact was several times performed alongside The Clandestine Marriage during the 1766-67 season) and The Rehearsal; or Bayes in Petticoats by Catherine Clive (who played Mrs. Heidelberg in the original production of The Clandestine Marriage).Trade Review“This imaginative collection takes us to the London theatre c. 1766 for an ‘evening’s entertainment’ of sparkling comedies (a mainpiece and two afterpieces), with Chevalier as our knowledgeable and genial guide.” — Peter Sabor, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsPREFACEINTRODUCTIONAn Evening’s EntertainmentStage Tradition and the PastoralSources and Stage HistoriesBibliographyTHE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGEAdvertisementPrologueDramatis PersonaeAct IAct IIAct IIIAct IVAct VEpilogueTHE CUNNING-MANAdvertisementDramatis PersonaeAct IAct IITHE REHEARSAL, OR BAYES IN PETTICOATSAdvertisementPersonsAct IAct IITEXTUAL NOTESThe Clandestine MarriageThe Cunning-ManThe Rehearsl, of Bayes in PetticoatsAPPENDIX A: CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS The Clandestine Marriage The Cunning-Man APPENDIX B: NOTES ON THE ACTORS
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Broadview Press Ltd Doctor Faustus
Book SynopsisDoctor Faustus is a classic; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative? Michael Keefer’s early work helped to establish the current consensus that the 1604 text was censored and revised; the Keefer edition, praised for its lucid introduction and scholarship, was the first to restore two displaced scenes to their correct place. Most competing editions presume that the 1604 text was printed from authorial manuscript, and that the 1616 text is of little substantive value. But in 2006 Keefer’s fresh analysis of the evidence showed that the 1604 quarto’s Marlovian scenes were printed from a corrupted manuscript, and that the 1616 quarto (though indeed censored and revised) preserves some readings earlier than those of the 1604 text. This edition has been updated and revised. Keefer’s critical introduction reconstructs the ideological contexts that shaped and deformed the play, and the text is accompanied by textual and explanatory notes and excerpts from sources.Trade Review“This edition is absolutely essential for any serious student or teacher of this perpetually intriguing and vexing play.” — Peter G. Platt in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 48.2 (Spring 2008)“Michael Keefer’s revised edition of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is now all the more an indispensable text for students, teachers, and scholars of early modern English drama. It combines immense learning with perfect clarity and accessibility. It gives us a solidly reconceived text and also a brilliant historical introduction that fills each line of this strange and moving play with the sounds of a world in intellectual and religious crisis.” — Paul Yachnin, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to the Revised Edition, 2006Preface to the First Edition, 1991IntroductionChristopher Marlowe: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Tragical History of Doctor FaustusAppendix A: Non-parallel Scenes from The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1616 version)Appendix B: Excerpts from The Historie of the damnable life, and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus (1592)Appendix C: Excerpts from Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum (1530), and De occulta philosophia libri tres (1533)Appendix D: Excerpts from Jean Calvin, The Institution of Christian Religion (1561)Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd Midlife
Book Synopsis[I tell her] "golf is sacred. Holy. Sacrosanct." I like that. Sacrosanct. So she tells me about this article she read, about the attitude of the average middle-aged guy toward the game of golf...Anyway, according to Darlene, the idea behind this stupid article is that at a certain age, men give up on sex and spend all their time and energy on golf instead. To which I asked, So what's your point? That didn't go down so well. (Jack in Act I)The landscape of middle-aged male bravado and angst that Eugene Stickland populates here with Calgary oilmen and their romantic difficulties has been visited before—by John Updike, Richard Ford, and other prose writers of the past generation. But rarely has it been visited in dramatic form with the combination of broad humor and gentle wit that Stickland brings to this new comedy. Midlife was published in conjunction with its world premiere as part of Alberta Theatre Projects playRites Festival, February/March 2002.Trade Review“In a word: intoxicating.” — Lori Montgomery, FFWD Magazine
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Broadview Press Ltd Doc
Book SynopsisWhen Catherine returns home on the eve of ceremonies honouring her physician father, she unleashes a kaleidoscope of memories as father and daughter attempt to lay old ghosts to rest. While public service has been the keynote of Doc's life it has covered the private anguish of a family in crisis. Interacting with figures from the past (including wife and mother Bob, best friend Oscar, and Catherine herself as the young child Katie), the characters retrace and relive past triumphs and tragedies, culminating in Bob's death.Humour leavens this drama of a father and daughter's struggle to love, to forgive, and to understand in order to go on. Doc was first produced in 1984 at Theatre Calgary and has since been produced widely elsewhere. The play received the Governor General's Award for Drama in 1986.Trade Review“An emotional steamroller of a play.” — Toronto Star“Doc will have the same impact wherever it is performed…what happens on the stage has the truth of good theatre.” — Saint John Telegraph-Journal“Doc emerges as Pollock’s finest work yet…she has made a strong personal statement for universal applications.” — Calgary Herald
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Broadview Press Ltd Mrs Warren's Profession
Book SynopsisOne of Bernard Shaw's early plays of social protest, Mrs Warren's Profession places the protagonist's decision to become a prostitute in the context of the appalling conditions for working class women in Victorian England. Faced with ill health, poverty, and marital servitude on the one hand, and opportunities for financial independence, dignity, and self-worth on the other, Kitty Warren follows her sister into a successful career in prostitution. Shaw's fierce social criticism in this play is driven not by conventional morality, but by anger at the hypocrisy that allows society to condemn prostitution while condoning the discrimination against women that makes prostitution inevitable.This Broadview edition includes a comprehensive historical and critical introduction; extracts from Shaw's prefaces to the play; Shaw's expurgations of the text; early reviews of the play in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain; and contemporary contextual documents on prostitution, incest, censorship, women's education, and the "New Woman."Trade Review“L.W. Conolly’s edition of Mrs Warren’s Profession will be exceedingly helpful to readers of all sorts—undergraduate students, Shaw specialists, and general readers alike. Insight into Shaw’s play benefits from a knowledge of its various late-19th-century contexts, and this edition includes a wealth of contextual materials, in areas ranging from prostitution to Cambridge University. This thorough, well-researched edition is a major contribution to everyone’s understanding of Shaw’s always-up-to-date dramatic study of prostitution and capitalism.” — Jonathan Wisenthal, University of British Columbia“This edition of Mrs Warren’s Profession, with its astonishing range of associated documents, provides an invaluable resource for students and Shaw enthusiasts, and has a good deal to offer to the seasoned Shaw scholar as well. The introduction offers a wonderfully detailed and informative account of the social, political, and theatrical contexts of Shaw’s first major play, and Conolly’s analysis of the dramatic texture of Mrs Warren’s Profession allows insight into the qualities of the play itself and why, despite the excitement of the early scandals, it has more than historic interest, and lives on today’s stage.” — Jean Chothia, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionBernard Shaw: A Brief ChronologyA Note on British CurrencyA Note on the TextMrs Warren’s ProfessionAppendix A: From Shaw’s Prefaces to Plays Unpleasant and Mrs Warren’s Profession From the Preface to Plays Unpleasant (1930) From the Preface to Mrs Warren’s Profession (1930) Appendix B: The Expurgated Text of Mrs Warren’s Profession (1898) Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews St James’s Gazette (7 January 1902) J.T. Grein, The Sunday Special (12 January 1902) New York Times (31 October 1905) New York Times (31 October 1905) Manitoba Free Press (1 May 1907) Glasgow News (11 April 1913) Birmingham Gazette (28 July 1925) The Times (29 September 1925) Appendix D: Prostitution in Victorian England From The Unknown Mayhew: Selections from the Morning Chronicle, 1849-50 From James Miller, Prostitution Considered in Relation to Cause and Cure (1859) From Parliamentary Papers, 1865, XX, Children’s Employment Commission From William Acton, Prostitution Considered in its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects (1870) From Alfred S. Dyer, The European Slave Trade in English Girls (1882) From An Act to Make Further Provision for the Protection of Women and Girls [The Criminal Law Amendment Act] (1890) From General [William] Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890) From Clementina Black, Married Women’s Work (1915) Appendix E: Incest From the Old Testament: Leviticus 18. 6-18 From the House of Lords Debate on the Incest Bill (16 July 1903) From the House of Commons Debate on the Incest Bill (26 June 1908) From An Act to Provide for the Punishment of Incest (1908) Appendix F: Censorship of the Stage From An Act for Regulating Theatres, (1843) A Memorandum from the Lord Chamberlain to the Examiner of Plays (1895) “The Censorship of Plays,” The Times (29 October 1907) From the Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons (1909) Appendix G: Vivie Warren’s Cambridge Petitions and Resolutions on Degrees for Women (1896-97) From the Senate Debate on Degrees for Women (March 1897) The May 1897 Riots An Undergraduate at Newnham College (1896-99) Appendix H: The New Woman From Grant Allen, “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review (October 1889) From Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” North American Review (March 1894) From Alys W. Pearsall Smith, “A Reply from the Daughters,” Nineteenth Century (March 1894) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Edward II
Book SynopsisDepicting with shocking openness the sexual and political violence of its central characters' fates, Edward the Second broke new dramatic ground in English theatre. The play charts the tragic rise and fall of the medieval English monarch Edward the Second, his favourite Piers Gaveston, and their ambitious opponents Queen Isabella and Mortimer Jr., and is an important cultural, as well as dramatic, document of the early modern period.This modernized and fully annotated Broadview Edition is prefaced by a critical but student-oriented introduction and followed by ample appendix material, including extended selections from Marlowe's historical sources, texts bearing on the play's complex sexual and political dynamics, and excerpts from contemporary poet Michael Drayton's epic rendition of Edward the Second's reign.Trade Review“This is a first-rate edition of an increasingly important play. Mathew Martin’s editing of the quarto text of Edward the Second is detailed and thoughtful, with copious, insightful annotations, and his critical introduction lucidly explores the play’s theatrical contexts, historiographical concerns, and thematic imperatives. The extensive appendices that conclude the volume are invaluable for understanding the larger historical, political, and sexual contexts of the work. All in all, this is an edition that will greatly benefit both the student reader and the experienced scholar.” — Ian Munro, University of California, Irvine“Mathew Martin’s new edition of Edward the Second will serve well the needs of students. The introduction contains a succinct and helpful summary of the pertinent aspects of Marlowe’s life and of the practical concerns of the Elizabethan stage, details the reign of the historical Edward II, and considers early modern and postmodern evaluations of “sodomitical” relationships. Appendices offer important cultural contexts, including passages from Marlowe’s historical sources in Holinshed and Stow, Michael Drayton’s very different poetic account of Edward’s reign, a selection of early modern versions of the tradition of amity (or friendship between men), and Renaissance legal and moral descriptions of sodomy.” — Ian McAdam, University of LethbridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChristopher Marlowe: A Brief Chronology of His Life and TimesA Note on the TextEdward the SecondAppendix A: Marlowe’s Historical Sources From Raphael Holinshed, The Third Volume of Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1587) From John Stow, The Annals of England (1592) Appendix B: From Michael Drayton, Mortimeriados (1596)Appendix C: The Diana-Actæon Myth From Arthur Golding, The XV Books of P. Ovidius Naso (1567) Sonnet V of Samuel Daniel’s Sonnet Sequence Delia (1592) Appendix D: On Friendship Thomas Elyot, “The True Description of Amity or Friendship” (1580) From Francis Bacon, “Of Friendship” (1625) From Richard Barnfield, “The Tears of an Affectionate Shepherd Sick for Love or The Complaint of Daphnis for the Love of Ganymede” (1594) Appendix E: Sodomy “An Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggerie” (1587) Edward Coke, “Of Buggery, or Sodomy” (1644) From Philip Stubbes, The Anatomy of Abuses (1583) From Thomas Beard, The Theatre of God’s Judgements (1597) Appendix F: Kings and Tyrants From An Homily against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion (1570) From Hugh Languet, Vindiciae contra Tyrannos: A Defence of Liberty against Tyrants (1648) From James I of England and VI of Scotland, The True Law of Free Monarchies (1603) Works Cited and Further Reading
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University of Alberta Press Painted Faces on the Prairies: Cantonese Opera
Book SynopsisThis exhibition catalogue traces more than one hundred years of Cantonese opera in Edmonton within the changing dynamics of the Chinese community. It tells a story of life experiences on the Prairies by highlighting the inextricable relationship between Cantonese opera and the Edmonton Chinese community as this cultural practice moves deftly through historical periods between 1890 and 2009. This period has been selected to coincide with the arrival of the first Chinese in Edmonton in 1890 and the inscription of Cantonese opera onto the Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2009. The text brings to life many stories of the struggles and successes of the Chinese in Edmonton, highlighting their resiliency and love of life through the cultural practice of Cantonese opera.
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University of Alberta Press The Thinking Heart: The Literary Archive of
Book SynopsisThis exhibition catalogue celebrates the life and work of avant garde poet and playwright Wilfred Watson. Drawing on the rich collection of letters, notebooks, manuscripts and sketchbooks in the University of Alberta Archives’ Wilfred Watson Fonds, this exhibition traces Watson’s development from his early encounters with the work of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Emily Carr to his decades-long engagement with the writing of Gabriel Marcel, Wyndham Lewis, and Marshall McLuhan, and from his initial work on stage to his career-changing involvement in the Edmonton theatre community centred on Studio Theatre, Walterdale Theatre and the Yardbird Suite. The archives include a rich correspondence between Wilfred Watson and his wife, Sheila Watson, and many notebook entries describing the two writers' lifelong dialogue.
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Broadview Press Ltd Pizarro
Book SynopsisRichard Brinsley Sheridan’s last play, an adaptation of August Von Kotzebue’s Die Spanier set in Peru and first performed in 1799, was one of the most popular of the entire century. Set during the Spanish Conquest of Peru, Pizarro dramatized English fears of invasion by Revolutionary France, but it is also surprisingly and critically engaged with Britain’s colonial exploits abroad. Pizarro is a play of firsts: the first use of music alongside action, the first collapsing set, the first production to inspire such celebratory ephemera as cartoons, portraits, postcards, even porcelain collector plates. Pizarro marks the end of eighteenth-century drama and the birth of a new theatrical culture.This edition features a comprehensive introduction and extensive appendices documenting the play’s first successful performances and global influence. It will appeal to students and scholars of Romantic literature, theatre history, post-colonialism, and Indigenous studies.Trade Review“This exemplary edition of Sheridan’s spectacular melodrama demonstrates how the play made history in multiple ways—theatrically, technically, nationally, and imperially. The editors expertly bring together source materials and stage history to revivify the original context of the play, its production, and its reception.” — Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater, Yale University“The new Broadview edition of Pizarro has thus the great merit of helping a modern-day readership to rediscover this classic hit of Romantic drama through an innovative commentary and appendices, including a wide selection of historical sources on the invasion of Peru and dramatical testimonies of the invasion of the Americas by the Spanish, along with contemporary reviews and criticism resulting from the play’s representation. This edition demonstrates once again that English Romantic drama, even when adapted from already existing texts, possessed an innovative momentum that can be recognized at different levels: technical, theatrical, and, last but not least, political.” — Carlotta Farese, European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionRichard Brinsley Sheridan and Pizarro: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextPizarro: A Tragedy in Five ActsAppendix A: Deleted “Diego” SceneFrom Sheridan’s Original Manuscript Draft Adapted fromGerman TranslationAppendix B: Historical Sources on the Spanish Conquest ofPeru From Bartolomeo de Las Casas, Tears of the Indians (1656) From Abbé Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies (1770) From Jean-François Marmontel, The Incas: or, the Destruction of the Empire of Peru (1777) From William Robertson, The History of America (1777) Appendix C: The Spanish Invasion of Peru in British Theatre From William Davenant, The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru (1658) From John Thelwall, The Incas, or The Peruvian Virgin (1792) From Thomas Morton, Columbus, or, A World Discovered, an historical play (1792) Appendix D: Reviews of the First Production of Pizarro From “Theatre,” Morning Chronicle (25 May 1799) From “PIZARRO,” Morning Post and Gazetteer (25 May 1799) From “Theatre—Drury Lane,” General Evening Post (25 May 1799) From “Theatre,” Evening Mail (27 May 1799) From Account of Royal Command Performance, The Star (6 June 1799) From “The Theatre,” True Briton (6 June 1799) Appendix E: Critiques of Pizarro From [William Gifford], “Remarks on Kotzebue’s Pizarro,” The Anti-Jacobin Review (1799) From A Critique of the Tragedy of Pizarro (1799) From Samuel Bardsley, Critical Remarks on Pizarro (1800) From John Britton, Sheridan and Kotzebue … (1799) From “Mr. Sheridan,” Public Characters of 1799–1800 (1799) From [Frederic Reynolds], “Some Account of a Dreadful Disease Called the Kotzebue-Mania,” The Oracle Appendix F: Sheridan’s Speeches, Rolla’s Address, and the Address to the People From “Proceedings against Warren Hastings” (1788) From “Union of Ireland with Great Britain” (23 January 1799) “Mr. Sheridan’s Pizarro,” The Monthly Mirror (January 1800) Sheridan’s Address to the People (1803) From William Cobbett, “Letter IV,” Political Proteus (1804) Works Cited and Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The Melting-Pot
Book SynopsisIsrael Zangwill, an Anglo-Jewish author and son of immigrants, wrote The Melting-Pot to demonstrate how immigrants could become good American citizens, hoping to forestall the kinds of restrictions—particularly against Russian Jews—that had been enacted in his home country. In 1908, when the play first appeared on an American stage, rates of immigration were high and many Americans feared that these particular newcomers would unalterably change the nation’s character. Politicians and others called for restricted immigration and stringent tests for citizenship. The Melting-Pot did not prevent the US government from enacting stringent immigration restrictions in 1924. But it became Zangwill’s most popular and most continuously performed play, and it popularized a metaphor for America—the melting pot—that has been discussed and debated ever since.This edition presents the play in its historical context, with readings from the time on immigration and intermarriage, as well as the settlement house movement and the Kishinev pogrom, which both figure prominently in the drama. Excerpts from the many and diverse reviews of the play highlight why it was so controversial. The Melting-Pot evokes questions about diversity and national identity that are still a contentious part of the national conversation.Trade Review“It took a British Jew to write one of the most iconic of American texts, one that goes to the heart and soul of the nation’s self-understanding. Meri-Jane Rochelson’s edition of Israel Zangwill’s The Melting-Pot, contextualized and with a splendid and insightful introduction, should be hailed as an important contribution to a contemporary and heated debate about America, difference, and immigration.” — Hasia R. Diner, New York University“Israel Zangwill’s The Melting-Pot, first produced more than a century ago, is as topical today as it was then. Meri-Jane Rochelson illuminates the play’s engagement with questions of immigration, assimilation, intermarriage, multiculturalism, and race. Adding essays that provide an extraordinary range of reviews, debates, and pressing issues of the day, she has given us the definitive edition of this important play.” — Anita Norich, University of MichiganTable of ContentsCONTENTSAcknowledgementsIntroductionIsrael Zangwill: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Melting-PotAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews From “The Theater: Columbia Theater,” Evening Star (6 October 1908) From “The Alien’s Opportunity,” Washington Post (7 October 1908) From Burns Mantle, “News of the Theaters: The Melting Pot,” Chicago Daily Tribune (20 October 1908) From Constance Skinner, “‘Melting Pot,’ at Grand, Play to Remember,” Chicago Evening American (21 October 1908) From Amy Leslie, “Grave Play at Grand,” Chicago Daily News (21 October 1908) From “Grand Opera House,” Chicago Israelite (23 October 1908) From Leon Zolotkoff, “Zangwill’s Great Success,” Daily Jewish Courier (13 November 1908) From [Adolph Klauber?,] “New Zangwill Play Cheap and Tawdry,” New York Times (7 September 1909) From Adolph Klauber, “A Spread-Eagle Play by Israel Zangwill,” New York Times (12 September 1909) From “Zangwill Play Opens New Comedy Theatre,” New York Herald (7 September 1909) From J.J. [?], “The Tragedy of Kishineff: Israel Zangwill’s ‘Melting Pot,’” American Hebrew and Jewish Messenger (10 September 1909) From [A.B. Walkley,] “Some New York Plays,” Times (24 November 1909) From “Court Theatre. ‘The Melting-Pot,’” Star (27 January 1914) From “‘The Melting Pot.’ Mr. Zangwill’s Play at the Court Theatre,” Jewish Chronicle (30 January 1914) From J.T. Grein, “The Week’s Premieres, (1) Court: ‘The Melting Pot,’” Sunday Times (1 February 1914) Appendix B: Intermarriage and Assimilation Debates From Rupert Hughes, “Should Jews Marry Christians?,” New York Herald, Sunday Magazine (8 November 1908) From “Shall the Jew Intermarry? Views of Prominent New Yorkers on this Subject,” Jewish Tribune (4 December 1908) From “Mentor,” “In the Communal Armchair: The ‘Melting Pot’ and the Jew. Some Stray Thoughts,” Jewish Chronicle (30 January 1914) Appendix C: The Kishinev Pogrom From “The Kishineff Outbreak. Russian Publication’s Account of the Assault on Jews in Streets and Synagogues,” New York Times (11 May 1903) From [A Correspondent,] “The Anti-Semitic Riots in South Russia,” Times (2 May 1903) Photographs of the Aftermath of the Kishinev Pogrom from the Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York From Chaim Nachman Bialik, “The City of Slaughter” Appendix D: Ellis Island and Arrival in America Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus” (1883) Illustrated Postcard, published in England by Raphael Tuck & Sons (n.d.) Israel Zangwill, “The Land of Promise,” “They That Walk in Darkness”: Ghetto Tragedies (1899) Appendix E: The Settlement House From Jane Addams, “Chapter VI: Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements,” Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) From Jane Addams, “Chapter XI: Immigrants and Their Children,” Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) The Settlement House Pledge to the Flaga. [From Our Correspondent,] “New York Municipal Celebration,” Times (27 May 1903)b. From “Father Knickerbocker Celebrates Birthday,” New York Times (27 May 1903)c. From H.G. Wells, Chapter IX, “The Immigrant,” The Future in America: A Search After Realities (1906) Documents of Various Programs at the Educational Alliance, from the Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York From Israel J. Zevin, “Melting Pot Square, ‘Most Efficiently Populated Spot in World,’ Welds Individuals of Many Races and Creeds to Make Real Americans,” New York Herald (5 March 1916) Appendix F: Anti-Immigrant Images and Texts Political Cartoons From Edward Alsworth Ross, Chapter XII, “American Blood and Immigrant Blood,” The Old World in the New (1914) From [William Jennings Bryan,] “The Yellow Peril,” Commoner (6 December 1901) Appendix G: Alternatives to the Melting-Pot Model From Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912) From Horace M. Kallen, “Democracy Versus the Melting- Pot: A Study of American Nationality,” The Nation (18/25 February 1915) From W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Economic Revolution in the South,” The Negro in the South (1907)
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Broadview Press Antigone
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Christian Publishers LLC More Scenes That Happen
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Christian Publishers LLC Multicultural Theatre: Scenes & Monologs from New
Book SynopsisIn our media-saturated society, multicultural writers have discovered the stage as their medium of choice. These scenes and monologues by new writers of the multicultural experience are certain to inspire actors and directors.
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Christian Publishers LLC Multicultural Theatre 2: Contemporary Hispanic,
Book SynopsisTeachers nationwide have a great need for good, up-to-date writing on themes related to cultural diversity for literature classes, oral interpretation and forensics. A valuable text for literary, forensics or theatrical applications.
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Christian Publishers LLC Flip Side: 64 Point of View Monologues for Teens
Book SynopsisA collection of sixty-four original monologues for teenage boys and girls portraying life''s funny situations and it''s pathos. Two monologues from contrasting points of view are presented for each subject. Every situation has a ''Flip Side''. No special settings, minimal props and costumes. Written as teens talk and think today. Excellent for: Speech Competitions; Variety Shows; Discussion Starters; Auditions; Classroom Use.
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Christian Publishers LLC Acting Scenes & Monologs for Young Women
Book SynopsisSomething more than just scenes! Now a collection of wonderfully ''gender specific'' scenes about the joys and heartaches of growing up female. Sixty characterisations in monologues, duets, trios and quartets. Titles include: Winners, Losers; Dear Dad; Just a Date; Hurricane Force; Talk to the Trees; Easy Come, Easy Go; Cyber Romance; The Last Kiss of Summer; Scream... and fifty more. Lengths vary from two to six minutes each.
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Christian Publishers LLC Teens Have Feelings, Too!: 100 Monologs for Young
Book SynopsisA collection of original monologues for young people from 11--15 years of age. Each monologue runs from 1--3 minutes in length and is perfect for acting exercises or audition pieces.
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Christian Publishers LLC Tough Acts to Follow: 75 Monologs for Teens
Book SynopsisThese short perceptive monologues reveal the humour and strength of teens as they deal with a wide range of situations and dilemmas both poignant and funny. Death, divorce, dating and dieting -- violence in schools, gangs, dreams and dumb stuff -- it''s all included in a mixed collection of monologues for performers of all types. Excellent for classroom or speech contests, auditions or discussion starters.
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