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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mother Courage and Her Children A Chronicle of the Thirty Years War English Touring Theatre
Book SynopsisMother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht''s best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was published to coincide with the UK tour by English Touring Theatre in 2006.In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War of the seventeenth century, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. As the action of the play progresses between the years 1624 and 1646 she loses her children to the war but remains indomitable, refusing to part with her livelihood - the wagon. The play is one of the most celebrated examples of Epic Theatre and of Brecht''s use of alienation effect to focus attention on the issues of the play above the individual characters. It remains regarded as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century and one of the great anti-war plays of all time. The Berlin
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hitchcock Blonde Methuen Drama Methuen Drama Modern Plays
Book SynopsisTerry Johnson has won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 1994 and 1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, Critics Circle Best New Play 1995, Writers' Guild Best Play 1995, the Meyer-Whitworth Award 1993 and the John Whiting Award 1991. His plays include Insignificance, Hysteria and Piano/Forte. His other work includes Dead Funny, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, The Graduate, and The London Cuckolds. He has also directed The Memory of Water and The Libertine.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Penhall Plays 2 2 BlueOrange Dumb Show Wild Turkey v 2 Contemporary Dramatists
Book SynopsisPenhall''s 1994 play Some Voices was described as ''the most thrilling playwriting debut in years'' by the Sunday Times. He has consistently lived up to and exceeded that early promise as the plays in this second volume of his work testify. Characterised by a taut mood, a grappling with moral dilemmas, and tough, eloquent dialogue, punctuated by outrageously comic moments, the plays in this volume are: Blue/Orange: An incendiary tale of race, madness and power set in a psychiatric hospital. ''Britain''s best new play since Michael Frayn''s Copenhagen ... thrillingly original'' Financial Times Dumb Show sees TV star Barry caught in a tense game of manipulation and entrapment in this satire on the fame game and the media industry: ''Penhall brings the same sharpness and wit to Dumb Show that he did to his hugely successful Blue/Orange'' The Times Wild Turkey (1993): a characteristically tTrade Reviewon Wild Turkey: 'a taut morality tale about why mixing business with friendship is always a bad idea.' Time Out London 14/08/08Table of ContentsBlue/Orange; Dumb Show; Wild Turkey
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Ugly One
Book SynopsisMarius von Mayenburg is a German playwright and translator whose previous plays include Fireface, which premiered at the Royal Court in 2000 and was published by Methuen Drama, Parasites and The Cold Child. Trade ReviewFor all its humour and satire on beauty and the homogenisation of the human race, the play is also a deeply complex reflection on identity that sees four actors take on eight roles, switching between characters and scenes with surreally seamless fluidity. The Independent "Marius von Mayenburg's savage social satire...highlights the dangers of living in a society with rigidly conformist notions of physical perfection...Mayenburg's point [is] that we inhabit a modern vanity fair where identity is up for grabs." Michael Billington, Guardian, 13.06.08 "A cautionary fairytale for the modern age. Maybenburg takes his scalpel to the current fixation with makeovers, botox and surgery, with size zero and the struggle to preserve youth at all costs...But...he does all this with a twinkle in his eye." Sarah Hemming, Financial Times, 17.06.08 "The Ugly One...is a metaphysical teaser and a theatrical dare." Susannah Clapp, Observer
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Mary Eleven Days to Die
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Xlibris The Case Against Socrates
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Rlpg/Galleys Chinese Lesbian Cinema
Book SynopsisThe emergence of lesbian film in the first decade of the twenty-first century symbolizes a breakthrough through the creation of new cinema that opens up a space that was not previously available or accessible in China. These motion pictures present a new breed of charactersnamely, lesbiansas well as a new sexual subject on the screen for the first time in the history of Chinese cinema. Blending historicist and comparative approaches, this book begins with a critical genealogy of Chinese homosexual traditions in the first two chapters. This strategy allows the author to examine a number of films individually through contextualizing their historical and cultural articulations and interpretations through the remainder of the book.Trade ReviewThe term ‘groundbreaking’ is not strong enough to adequately characterize the insightful contents of Chinese Lesbian Cinema. Utilizing a variety of critical approaches, Liang Shi identifies and explores an important subgenre of underground films that have to date been virtually ignored by media scholars. This book offers incisive analyses of little-seen lesbian-themed films from mainland China, informed by interview responses from their (perhaps unexpectedly) heterosexual, non-activist makers who have little hope of ever reaping profits from their creations. The end result is a must-read text that effectively challenges typical conceptions of lesbian filmmaking as it is characterized in contemporary global discourse. -- Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Texas Christian UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Mirror Rubbing: A Critical Genealogy of Pre-Modern Chinese Female Same-Sex Eroticism Chapter 2: From Mirror Rubbing to Lesbianism: A Critical Genealogy of Modern Chinese Female Same-Sex Eroticism Chapter 3: Prototypes of Lesbian Relations Chapter 4: Discovering and Normalizing Lesbians: Fish and Elephant Chapter 5: Sacrifice of Innocence: Redefining Sexuality in Zhu Yiye’s Film Lost in You Chapter 6: Lost and Found: Fluidity of Sexuality in Love Mime Chapter 7: Love in a Forgotten Corner: Female Same-Sex Desire in Rural China
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Simon & Schuster Othello Folger Shakespeare Library
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AuthorHouse Giving Up War Three Screenplays
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AuthorHouse Renaissance Women Five Plays
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AuthorHouse Renaissance Women Five Plays
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AuthorHouse Einstein A Biographical Drama
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AuthorHouse Slick
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AuthorHouse Slick
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AuthorHouse Exits Exist A Drama
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AuthorHouse Killing Dick and Other
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AuthorHouse Killing Dick and Other
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AuthorHouse Honey
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AuthorHouse Jean and Dinah Who Have Been Locked Away in a World Famous Calypso Since 1956 Speak Their Minds Publicly
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AuthorHouse Renaissance Men 1 3 Plays Renaissance Anthology
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AuthorHouse Renaissance Men I 3 Plays
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AuthorHouse Renaissance Solos 12 Plays Renaissance Anthology
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AuthorHouse Renaissance Solos 12 Plays Renaissance Anthology
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CSS Publishing Company They Worshiped Him A Christmas Play with Carols
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CSS Publishing Company No Stable Too Small Fifteen Christmas Plays for Churches of All Sizes
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Barry John Cohen Let the Storm Burst
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Another Kind Of Poverty
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LSU Press Black Face Maligned Race The Representation of Blacks in English Drama from Shakespeare to Southerne
Book SynopsisConsiders the influence of English political, social, and theatrical history on the depiction of black characters on the English stage from 1589 to 1695. Anthony Barthelemy shows that almost without exception blackness was associated with treachery, evil, and ugliness.
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Hill & Wang Brecht on Theatre
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht''s groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects in directing, acting, and writing, and discusses, among other works, The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, and Galileo. Also included is A Short Organum for the Theatre, Brecht''s most complete exposition of his revolutionary philosophy of drama. Translated and edited by John Willett, Brecht on Theater is essential to an understanding of one of the twentieth century''s most influential dramatists.
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Paulist Press To Thine Own Self Be True
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Wildside Press The Perfect Wagnerite A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs
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Wildside Press Three Plays for Puritans
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Wildside Press Three Plays for Puritans
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Wildside Press John Bulls Other Island
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Wildside Press John Bulls Other Island
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Wildside Press The Doctors Dilemma Getting Married and The ShewingUp of Blanco Posnet
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Wildside Press The Doctors Dilemma Getting Married and The ShewingUp of Blanco Posnet
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Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres Selected Plays
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Northwestern University Press Three Plays Melissa Arctic Orange Flower Water and the Pavilion
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Poems of Dylan Thomas
Book SynopsisThe most complete and current edition of Dylan Thomas' collected poetry in a beautiful gift edition celebrating the centenary of his birthTrade Review"Dylan Thomas blistered and jolted readers thanks to an infatuation with words that became voracious love. It is impossible to overstate the invigorating influence of his work and the tragedy of his early death. John Goodby, a Thomas scholar at the University of Swansea, provides a nimble introduction to the poet and the man." -- Barbara Berman - The Rumpus"A beautiful addition to any library. One of the 20th century’s greatest poets." -- Brazos Bookstore"Thomas meant much to me and my generation, he is still singing in his chains like the sea—a force driving the flowers." -- Seamus Heaney"As I wrote fifty years ago, there is no one like Dylan Thomas in poetry today." -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Ohio State University Press Archive Feelings
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Wayne State University Press Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance
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Wayne State University Press From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot
Book SynopsisIsrael Zangwill was Anglo Jewry's renowned writer. Uniting Zangwill's three plays and containing an in-depth introduction by the author, this volume includes a biography of Zangwill that pertains to these works and situates them within the Anglo-American theater of the time.
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Wayne State University Press What Mama Said An Epic Drama African American Life African American Life Series
Book SynopsisA drama set in the metaphorical state of Sufferland, whose people are starving and routinely exploited and terrorized by corrupt government officials and multinational oil companies - that is, until a voice erupts and moves the wounded women and youths to rise up and demand justice.
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Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Ultimate Scene Monologue Sourcebook The Updated Expanded Edition An Actors Reference to Over 1000 Monologues and Scenes from More Than 300 Contemporary Plays
Book SynopsisAll actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. This unique format is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book also includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Pity of Achilles
Book SynopsisIn The Pity of Achilleus, Jinyo Kim examines how the major themes of the IliadAchilleus'' ''wrath,'' heroic values such as honor and glory, and human mortality and suffering, to mention the most widely recognizedare connected to each other in a way that reveals the poem''s structural coherence and unity. Kim asks whether Achilleus'' pity toward Priam at the poem''s close is, as is widely believed, a poetic deus ex machina. In other words, is the conception of Achilleus'' pity an expression of a ''later'' and ''more civilized'' era, as a way of ''correcting'' the warlike savagery that is an undeniable and significant part of the poem? She concludes, rather, that Achilleus'' final reconciliation with the old king of Troy his ''enemy'' according to the warrior ethos in the Iliad represents the integral and ultimate resolution of the theme of Achilleus'' ''wrath'' that is announced in the poem''s opening lines. This book will be valuable for students and scholars of classical literature anTrade ReviewA valuable new contribution. Kim's book is a useful contribution to the study of formulaic language and themes in the Iliad, and may be read with profit by anyone interested in these questions..... * Political Theory *Kim covers much familiar ground, but she has some fresh things to say about pity and its implications in Iliad. * Greece & Rome *Offers a compelling argument. * Classical World *Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *A valuable new contribution. Kim's book is a useful contribution to the study of formulaic language and themes in the Iliad, and may be read with profit by anyone interested in these questions. * Political Theory *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Achilles' Pity Chapter 3 The Meaning of Pity Chapter 4 The Tripartite Structure Chapter 5 Achilles' Menis Chapter 6 Conclusion
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