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Penguin Books Ltd Abigails Party
Book SynopsisTHE 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF 40TH MIKE LEIGH''S CLASSIC PLAY - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE PLAYWRITE.Forty years on from its first performance at the Hampstead Theatre and original screening on BBC1 soon after, Mike Leigh''s Abigail''s Party - telling of two marriages spectacularly unravelling at an awkward neighbourhood drinks party - remains a pinnacle of British theatre.Here is the original script, complete with a new introduction by Mike Leigh describing the play''s unlikely genesis, how it came to be made and where he believes it fits within his oeuvre as one of the country''s leading writers and directors.''The play came from my intuitive sense of the spirit and the flavour of the times, and from a growing personal fear of, and frustration with the suburban existence'' Mike Leigh, from his new introduction''Leigh''s play isn''t simply about marriage and Essex, but also about the unhappy state of the realm'' GuardianTrade ReviewA deep, dark, moving and beautifully-observed period piece. * Guardian *
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Penguin Books Ltd Advertisements for Myself
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Penguin Books Ltd To Read and Dream
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University of Notre Dame Press Times Beach
Book SynopsisWinner of the Notre Dame Review Book Prize, this ambitious collection of poems evokes the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and meditates on how its rivers are ceaselessly shaping, and shaped by, the lives around them. John Shoptaw guides us from the Mississippi's headwaters in Lake Itasca to its delta in the Gulf of Mexico, weaving together episodes in the life of the river systemthe New Madrid earthquakes, the 1927 flood, the EPA's eradication of the dioxin-laced town of Times Beachwith his own memories of growing up in the Missouri Bootheel: picking cotton, being baptized in a drainage ditch, and working in a lumber mill. Formally renovative, the poems in Times Beach ring the changes on the big muddy place and hymn its everlasting possibilities.Trade Review“Times Beach is brimming, teeming with life. John Shoptaw, with breathtaking expanse and lasting intricacy, somehow writes a book in which we traverse the vastness of the American landscape—its gorgeous yet misguided rivers, its achingly honest and flawed humans, its forgotten bayous and wildlife—with a hand made nimble by reverence. In this, he revivifies American poetry into an optimism that is nearly as infinite as it is pained. This, however, is the only true kind of optimism, and how good it is to have a book of poetry that restores us into that abundance.” —Katie Ford, author of Colosseum and Blood Lyrics“Times Beach is, like most interesting American books, an original. It’s about a place, the watershed of the Mississippi River, and it is an ecopoetics. Best, perhaps, to think of it as a hybrid of Hart Crane, the depression photographs of Dorothea Lange, and a nineteenth-century lantern show—they called them ‘panoramas’—of the human and environmental history of our mightiest river system. It comes from a deep sense of the rhythms and dialect of a place and from a deeply literary and inventive imagination.” —Robert Hass, poet laureate of the United States (1995–1997) and author of The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems"The uncanny combination of experience and skills is what places John Shoptaw at the very summit of nature poets. He anchors his personal experiences in the Bootheel of southeast Missouri as touchstones while he floats the Mississippi watershed through time. An amazing feat." —Foreword Reviews"John Shoptaw, a poet and professor at Berkeley, has written a book of poems that is as intricate and profound as the Mississippi River with its history, tributaries and deltas. Times Beach is an extremely well-made work that hearkens to Hart Crane and Walt Whitman, rhythm and blues, and the American experience of individual voices." —St. Louis Magazine"There’s much to like about Times Beach, even for the casual poetry fan. John Shoptaw’s strength is unhooking poetry from its past form—a strategic uncoupling of couplets—to turn the medium into its own monstrous and vital form of energy, all the while telling stories of great depth and enchanting readers with its realism. . . . Shoptaw’s 'undercurrents' run deep, and give us a taste of what true originality represents." —PopMatters.com“Winner of the Notre Dame Review Book Prize, Times Beach is an ambitious collection of poems by John Shoptaw that evokes the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and meditates on how its rivers are ceaselessly shaping, and shaped by, the lives around them . . . . A seminal body of work, Times Beach is very highly recommended for personal, community, and academic library Contemporary American Poetry collections and reading lists.” —The Midwest Book Review
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SPCK Publishing Love Set You Going
Book SynopsisAn unmissable anthology of touching, humorous, quirky, disconcerting, affirming, erotic and intriguing poems, sensitively interpreted by Janet Morley - renowned poet, critic, theologian and teacherTrade Review[Morley’s] comments are gentle, meditative, and perceptive. She avoids the overly devotional and sentimental, and has a gift for picking out the killer line or the telling stanza. * Church Times *[On OUR LAST AWAKENING] Morley writes with clarity and without simplification. Her theology is humane, experiential, and fed by the same poetry of scripture which Donne held so close. Morley’s God is not some object of our knowledge but the deepest cause for our wonder, through death as much as through life. She doesn’t unweave the poems by over-commenting on them, but allows enough unsaid for them to continue their work. I think Donne would be more than happy to have this book named after one of his own reflections on "our last awakening". -- Mark Oakley, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral * Church Times *As always [Morley] is both alert to the literary nature of the poems she discusses and also profound, drawing the reader into meditating on what is being said without seeking to be at all "preachy" or to push a particular religious message. -- Michael Cayley * Julian Meetings Magazine *[On HAPHAZARD BY STARLIGHT] Janet Morley has the great gift of being able to write simply and succinctly about a poem in a way that invites the reader into the heart of the poem. A fine poet herself, and one of the best liturgical crafters of prayer in our time (her first book, All Desires Known is, to my mind, one of the best collections of prayers in the modern era), Morley brings to her writing the poet’s sensitivity to language, the critic’s capacity to analyse and interpret, the theologian’s discernment of the sacred with the teacher’s ability to communicate insight in fresh and memorable ways. -- Nicola Slee[On THE HEART'S TIME] Varied, beautiful, provocative and nurturing. * The Times *Morley takes a poem, interprets it and applies it, marking a pilgrimage of the heart . . . each interpretation making me feel as if I was gently taken apart and remade anew. * Church Times *There’s a freedom and rashness in these poems sometimes lacking in religious writing. A wonderful idea, and nicely done. * The Tablet *[On ALL DESIRES KNOWN] A beautiful book, made newly useful. * thegoodbookstall *
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University of Washington Press Post Romantic
Book SynopsisExpansive poems connect personal, national, and global historiesIn her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses personal memory with national and ecological upheaval, interweaving narratives of family, nuclear history, love of country, and a dangerous age moving too fast. Flenniken takes these challenging momentsbits and pieces of childhood, marriage, cultural touchstonesand holds them up to the light, seeking comfort in a complicated world that is at once heartbreaking, confounding, and dear.Trade Review"Concerned with nostalgia, masculinity, and the state of America, the 2014 Washington State Poet Laureate’s latest collection holds a magnifying glass to the personal and political past to understand how it shapes our present." * Ampersand Magazine *"Post Romantic explores and weaves together the politics of country and self... clear, straightforward yet nuanced poems." * Poetry Northwest *
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University of Washington Press A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive collection of modern Chinese poetry in English translation available todayThis volumea completely overhauled and updated version of Michelle Yeh's 1992 classic Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetrybrings together modern poetry from the Chinese-speaking world dating from the 1910s to the 2010s. Featuring the work of 85 poets from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, it contains more than 280 poems that span the entire history of modern Chinese poetry. Poets include those regarded as canonical as well as some who have been newly discovered or reevaluated in recent years, each selected for their distinctive voice and inimitable style. Also, for the first time, contemporary song lyrics are included as poetry. This diversity of perspectives, along with its geographic reach and expansive timeframe, make the anthology a much-needed contribution to the study of Chinese poetry and world literature. With short biographies of t
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Yale University Press Some Trees
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Yale University Press Mass for ShutIns
Book SynopsisThe 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worldsTrade Review“Against humans creating hell on earth, Daniel draws on animistic, Islamic, and syncretic Christian traditions from her native Nigeria to unleash potent incantations, rituals and spells, electric as St. Elmo’s fire. Buckle up.”—Rae Armantrout, judge“Mass for Shut-Ins is a ground-breaking, earth-shaking collection by a poet possessed of uncanny powers. Every poem, every line, is wildly original yet loyal to the art form’s mysterious, sacred origins. This is a book to which readers will return throughout their lives, and that will also, surely, awe readers yet to be born.”—Laura Kasischke, author of Where Now“Brilliant and astonishing, unfolding as a sequence of epistles from the checkpoints at various borders of hell. At times, these psalms of passage seem to have been sent from a soothsayer in some future world.”—David St. John, author of The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems“Mass for Shut-Ins challenges and delights through lived rituals flowing together. Multiple worlds move with a lyrical jest of fantastic leaping where a personal surrealism manifests.”—Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth“The fevered brilliance of Mary-Alice Daniel’s poems—rich with improvisations, tabu-breaking transgressions, and elegant lines of beautifully managed verse—sets her apart as one of the truly exciting new voices in poetry.”—Kwame Dawes, author of UnHistory “Busts toppled, artifacts cracked, perfected by ruin, every bump and nudge premeditated as the poet dervishes through the Museum of World Culture, her one exhibit, to create Mass for Shut-Ins.”—Gregory Pardlo, author of Digest
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Hachette Books The Leaf and the Cloud
Book SynopsisAn astonishing book-length poem in seven parts from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. With piercing clarity and craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery, about what is observable and what is not, about what passes and what persists. 'It's hard to imagine anyone putting down Oliver's book-length poem and not sighing with satisfaction, so sensible is every word and thought.' --Virginia Quarterly Review
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Little, Brown & Company This Is the Honey
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of anthems for our time, at turns tender and piercing, and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Claudia Rankine, Ross Gay, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Amanda Gorman, Terrance Hayes, and Nikki Giovanni, This is the Honey is a rich and abundant offering of language from the poets giving voice to generations of resilient joy. This essential collection, in the tradition of Dudley Randall''s The Black Poets and E. Ethelbert Miller''s In Search of Color Everywhere, contains poems exploring joy, love, origin, resistance, and praise. Jacqueline A.Trimble likens Black woman joy with indigo, tassels, foxes, and peacock plumes. Tyree Day, Nate Marshall, and Elizabeth Acevedo reflect on the meaning of home through food, from Cuban rice and beans to fried chicken gizzards. Clint Smith, Rachel Long, and Cameron Awkw
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Pan Macmillan The Day Room
Book SynopsisThe play opens in a hospital; the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold - in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour - our sense of normalcy is rocked from under us. Are these doctors and nurses really just patients from the Arno Klein Psychiatric Wing? Or are they something else entirely: people who are playing psychiatric patients playing doctors and nurses? And who, exactly, is Arno Klein? Described by the Boston Globe on its first performance as ''an unselfconscious, fizzing, inventive black comedy that is enormously funny'', The Day Room displays Don DeLillo''s extraordinary talents in the brightest of lights.
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Pan Macmillan Afterburner
Book SynopsisFollowing the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this fuel-injected work. From his lengthening perspective and high vantage, no one is better placed than Porter to give these subtle meditations on art, life and the social mores - and few could manage them with such compassion and humour. Afterburner will further enhance his reputation as one of the finest poets writing in English today.
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Pan Macmillan November
Book SynopsisA brilliant new collection from the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize winning poet
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Hodder Education Bold Girls
Book SynopsisExam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2014First Exam: June 2015This play, a set text for National 5 English, is the story of three women in war-torn Belfast. Although their men have been killed or imprisoned for their political activities, everyday life must go on. However, the arrival of a disturbing young girl and the revelations which follow threaten to disrupt their friendship. The main themes are largely domestic - relationships between women and within families, dreams and homemaking. The language is colloquial with Irish idioms, and many contemporary references, and there is a poignant ending. The play is aimed at students of English, particularly those studying National 5 English. In 1991 Rona Munro won the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and The Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award for Bold Girls.Table of Contents: Bold Girls
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Lulu.com Because I Understand
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry
Book SynopsisComprised of contributions from leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition. This volume grounds itself in the present moment and, from it, examines the transformations of the fifteen-century Arabic poetic tradition through readings, re-readings, translations, reformulations, and co-optations. Furthermore, this collection aims to deconstruct the artificial modern/pre-modern divide and to present the Arabic poetic practice as live and urgent, shaped by the experiences and challenges of the twenty-first century and at the same time in constant conversation with its long tradition. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry actively seeks to destabilize binaries such as that of East-West in contributions that shed light on the interactions of theTable of ContentsPrefaceArabic Poetry in Late Antiquity: The Rāʾiyya of Imruʾ al-QaysPamela KlasovaParody and the Creation of the Muḥdath GhazalAhmad AlmallahDescription of Architecture in Classical Arabic Poetry from the Perspective of Interarts StudiesAkiko SumiAndalusī Heterodoxy and Colloquial Arabic Poetry: “Zajal 145” by Ibn Quzmān (d. AH 555 / AD 1160)James T. MonroeAndalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic TraditionRoss BrannWa-matā ilā dhāka al-maqāmi wuṣūlu: Poetry, Performance and the Prophet in the Andalusian Music Tradition of MoroccoCarl DavilaIbn Khamīs and the Poetics of Nostalgia in the Tilimsāniyyāt (Poems on Tlemcen)Nizar F. HermesThe Homeland at the Threshold of World LiteratureYaseen NooraniKaʿb ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s PoetryC. Ceyhun ArslanLewis Awad Breaks Poetry’s Back in Plutoland (1947)Levi ThompsonThe Ṣaʿālīk Poets of Modern Iraq: The Vagabonds Ḥusayn Mardān and Jān DammūSuneela MubayiCinematography in Modern Arabic Poetry: Redefining the Philosophy and Dynamics of Poetic ImagerySayed ElsisiDisturbing Vision: Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma and Semiotics of Denial in Modern and Contemporary Arabic PoetryClarissa BurtThe Poet as Palm Tree: Muḥammad al-Thubaytī and the Reimagining of Saudi IdentityHatem Alzahrani
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Playwrights Canada Press,Canada WROL Without Rule of Law
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Playwrights Canada Press,Canada Iphigenia and the Furies On Taurian Land
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WW Norton & Co The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of
Book SynopsisA full-size photographic facsimile of one of the essential books of English literature and culture that has won the admiration of actors and scholars throughout the world.
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WW Norton & Co Singing School
Book SynopsisA bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past.Trade Review"Singing School is nothing like the usual anthology of safe and sane selections. Instead, it is a gathering of poetry designed to stimulate the young and startle the old practitioner, with a surprise around every corner. Where else might you find Sterling Brown's 'Harlem Happiness' next to Queen Elizabeth I’s 'When I Was Fair and Young,' and two poems away from Plath's 'Nick and the Candlestick'?…a book that will instruct and charm every reader." -- Alicia Ostriker"Robert Pinsky is, everyone knows, one of the great poetry teachers of our time. The tone of his discussion always combines patience and delight, and he is especially valuable to us because the knowledge he imparts is systematic—to read one of his explications of a poem is to understand something more about all the poems you'll read from that moment on." -- Tony Hoagland
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WW Norton & Co Mahabharata
Book Synopsis"Astonishing…[Satyamurti's Mahabharata] brings [the] past alive…as though it were a novel in finely crafted verse.".”—Vinay DharwadkerTrade Review"Carole Satyamurti’s Mahabharata, crucially not a translation, uses previous English versions as a springboard for her blank-verse "modern retelling". Her aim has been to produce a readable and gripping narrative, focusing on the story, for the reader who may have little or no previous knowledge of the epic, and in this she has been resoundingly successful." -- New Statesman"A bold new English translation captures the excitement and scope of the original Sanskrit epic poem." -- The Tablet
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WW Norton & Co Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Book SynopsisLatin America's great poet rendered into English by the world's most celebrated translator of Spanish-language literature.Trade Review"It is almost impossible to read the Selected Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz...without becoming fascinated by its author...[She] proves a remarkably supple, diverse writer." -- The Independent
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WW Norton & Co Luxury Poems
Book SynopsisWith humour, irony and celebration, Luxury explores the comfort and sustenance of life, the bittersweet clarity of ageing and the anxiety of existence.Trade Review"Compelling… [Schultz’s] works are replete with insights and nuggets of wisdom." -- The Washington Post
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WW Norton & Co The Undressing Poems
Book SynopsisCelebrated poet Li-Young Lee returns with a breathtaking new volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love.
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WW Norton & Co The Canterbury Tales
Book SynopsisAbout Sheila Fisher’s translation.
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WW Norton & Co The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write Poems
Book SynopsisA master of the lyric poem (Paris Review) at the top of his form writes indelibly of grief and love.
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WW Norton & Co Best Barbarian Poems
Book SynopsisThe poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night after the police have killed a Black man. Daring and formally elegant, Best Barbarian asks the reader: Who has not been an entryway shuddering in the wind / Of another's want, a rose nailed to some dark longing and bled? Reeves extends his inquiry into the work of writers who have come before, conversing withand sometimes contradictingWalt Whitman, James Baldwin, Sappho, Dante, and Aimé Césaire, among others. Expanding the tradition of poetry to reach from Gilgamesh and the Aeneid to Drake and Beyoncé, Reeves adds his voice to a long song that seeks to address itself only to freedom. Best Barbarian asks the reader to stay close as it plunges into catastrophe and finds surprising moments of joy and intimacy. This fearless, musiTrade Review"Best Barbarian, Roger Reeves’s terrific second collection, eruditely sets out to unite the Western literary canon with its omissions and oppressions... What I find most moving in this collection is the way fatherhood frames Reeves’s sense of the future and his reworking of the past." -- Sandra Simonds - New York Times Book Review"[A] substantial and prodigiously intertextual new collection... Names, quotes, and allusions [are] fundamental elements of the warp and weft of the net of Reeves’s verse, and his own art is both adroit and capacious enough to probe or connect, to complicate or amplify all he catches there... Amid the brutalities of abuse, death, and decay, these poems both apprehend and enact a sometimes terrifying beauty." -- Heather Green - Poetry Foundation"Roger Reeves conjures the losses—no, the thefts—at the root of the American story. Best Barbarian is a revelation and a form of reparation." -- Tracy K. Smith"Best Barbarians is a twenty-first-century masterpiece. Borrowing and turning on its head the Western canon’s repeated warnings of civilization’s fall, Roger Reeves counters that the apocalypse ran contiguously with the inception and height of Western civilization because the white man’s rise was contingent upon the destruction of Black personhood. From that perspective, Reeves sees America as a necropolis to which he leads us—like Virgil—down into the underworld, where we meet the shades of Emmett Till, Oya, and Ezra Pound, among others. Best Barbarians is rich, intertextual, brilliant, and unforgettable." -- Cathy Park Hong"I cannot overstate the brilliance of Roger Reeves. A sentence inside a Reeves poem is a score of breath; a scripture with texture and subtext; a tightrope of expansive, existential syntax. Best Barbarian is a monumental and elegiac tour de force. Peerless and unprecedented, it is one of the best books I’ve read in years." -- Terrance Hayes"From Grendel to Gilgamesh, Best Barbarian reviews and retells the most ancient of stories so that Roger Reeves can tell his own. The capaciousness of these elegiac poems, their Whitmanian need to hold and see it all, mirrors this speaker’s need to be known fully as a black father, a man in love, a surviving citizen, a son to his mother, and an investigator of his father’s whereabouts even after death. This book is an education on this history of the soul." -- Jericho Brown"Best Barbarian is a wide-ranging, capacious, and deeply felt meditation on ruptures, the violences enacted across time and space, where myth and history collide. Through dazzling riffs and leaps of imagination across linguistic registers, Roger Reeves offers an alchemy for repair. The sheer musicality of the language—the way resilience and love sing—makes a once-broken thing even more beautiful." -- Natasha Trethewey"The mesmerizing second collection from Reeves reflects intergenerational racial trauma and personal tragedy with a remarkable balance of acute feeling and lyrical precision… With vivid images and haunting, evocative language, Reeves memorably places the reader in the space where life and death intersect." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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WW Norton & Co Oedipus Tyrannos
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Norton Critical Edition of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos offers an ideal introduction to the most famous and influential of all Greek tragedies. Emily Wilson’s translation is fluid and compelling, and the surrounding materials present a wealth of information and insight suited both to new and more experienced readers." -- Joshua Billings, Princeton University
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WW Norton & Co Living Nations Living Words
Book SynopsisA powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native American poets writing today.
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WW Norton & Co Middle Distance
Book SynopsisA probing and commanding final volume from a master poet facing his own mortality.Trade Review"In these beautiful pages, his last gift to us, Stanley Plumly has gathered his beloveds in a single space: the landscapes, the poets, the light of evening, and ‘the one true angel’ of childhood. In poems so easy with cadence you might almost imagine that nature herself had invented the stately stanzas and the five-beat line. In prose so rapt with noticing you can almost believe the page remembers the tree it was. This is the poet’s final blessing: to hold the precious world in two good hands and say goodbye." -- Linda Gregerson"When Stanley Plumly died of cancer on April 11, 2019, I reread everything I could get my hands on, from In the Outer Dark to Against Sunset; the beautiful prose books, too. Nothing, or everything, prepared me for his Middle Distance. Scary, forth" -- James Longenbach
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WW Norton & Co Aurora Leigh
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds’ variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fo Plays Mistero Buffo Accidental Death Trumpets
Book SynopsisBrings together three major political plays, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Mistero Buffo and Trumpets and Raspberries, along with two previously unpublished short farces - The Virtuous Burglar and One was Nude and One Wore Tails.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Complete Plays The Master Playwrights The
Book SynopsisThis work brings together all the theatrical works of the groundbreaking Irish playwright Brendan Behan. As well as containing his famous full-length plays, such as The Hostage, the book also showcases three intensely autobiographical one-act plays, originally written for radio.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Road Modern Classics
Book SynopsisJim Cartwright is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter. His plays are consistently in production, have been translated into over 35 languages, and have been performed in most major theatres of the world, including the West End of London, Royal Court, National Theatre and Broadway. His theatre works include, amongst many others, Bed, Two, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Raz, and Mobile Phone Show. His extensive television and film work includes Road, Johnny Shakespeare, Vroom, Wedded, and King of the Teds.Trade ReviewA surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape...uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze. * Sunday Times *Road is indeed an original, affecting, rumbustious and truly remarkable piece of work, let alone a superb first play * Financial Times *the writing [is] so immediate and entertaining too. As a first piece of work it [is] absolutely seminal. * Guardian *
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Made in Scotland
Book SynopsisAn anthology of new Scottish plays selected by Ian Brown (former director of the Traverse theatre) and Mark Fisher (Editor of Theatre Scotland)Table of ContentsAnthology of New Scottish Plays The Cut; The Life of Stuff; Bondagers; Julie Allardyce
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Cherry Orchard
Book SynopsisThis Student Edition of Chekhov's last and most elusive play, a study of the effect of social change on the values of individuals, includes notes on the life and career of the playwright, an introduction giving the background to the play and a guide to its interpretation.Trade Review'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive ... will be acted again and again' New Statesman
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Heinemann Educational Books After Miss Julie Methuen Modern Plays
Book SynopsisThis play transposes August Strindberg's 1888 play about about sex and class to 1945 and an English country house on the eve of Labour's landslide election victory.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays Some Voices Pale Horse Love and Understanding The Bullet Vol 1 Methuen Contemporary Dramatists 1 Some Voices Pale Horse Love and Understanding the Bullet
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Medea
Book SynopsisWronged and discarded by her husband, Medea gradually reveals her revenge in its increasing horror, while the audience is led to understand the incomprehensible. This Student Edition contains a full introduction, commentary and questions for study and includes J. Michael Walton's classic translation.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Glengarry Glen Ross
Book SynopsisDavid Mamet was born in Chicago in 1947. He studied at Goddard College, Vermont - later becoming Artist in Residence - and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York. His first and many subsequent plays were first performed by the St Nicholas Theatre company, Chicago, of which he was a founding member and Artistic Director. In 1978 he became Associate Artistic Director of the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, where American Buffalo had been first staged in 1975, subsequently winning an Obie Award and opening on Broadway in 1977 and at the National Theatre in 1978. His greatest hits, Glengarry Glen Ross and Oleanna followed in 1983 and 1993 respectively.Trade ReviewThe finest American playwright of his generation Sunday Times A chillingly funny indictment of a world in which you are what you sell Guardian Nobody alive writes better American...Here at last, carving characters out of language, is a play with real muscle Observer David Mamet, screenwriter of The Verdict and The Postman Always Rings Twice, is alongside Sam Shepard and Michael Weller, one of the most distinctive voices on the contemporary American stage Michael Coveney, Financial Times
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Little Sweet Thing Author Roy Williams published on January 2005
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Metre Rhythm and Verse Form The New Critical
Book SynopsisPoetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from the iambus to the bob-wheel stanza, and forms from the Spenserian sonnet to modern 'rap', with clarity and comprehensiveness. It is an essential guide through the terminology which will be invaluable reading for undergraduates new to the subject.Trade Review'An excellent guidebook.' - EnglishTable of ContentsChapter 1 Metre and rhythm; Chapter 2 Blank verse; Chapter 3 The heroic couplet; Chapter 4 Rhyme and pararhyme; Chapter 5 Sprung verse; Chapter 6 Quantity and syllabics; Chapter 7 Free verse; Chapter 8 Verse forms (I); Chapter 9 Verse forms (II);
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Othello A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
Book SynopsisThis volume is a broad-ranging guide to Othello, providing an introduction to the contexts of the play, the range of critical responses to the play and the play in performance.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Contexts Contextual Overview Chronology Contemporary Documents: Giraldi Cinthio, Gli Hecatommithi (1566) Leo Africanus (John Leo) The History and Description of Africa, trans. John Pory (1600) Fynes Moryson An Itinery Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell (1617) Thomas Coryat Coryat's Crudities (1611) Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta (c. 1590) Robert Greene Selimus, Emporer of the Turks (1594) William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus (c.1594) 2. Interpretations Critical History Early Reception: Thomas Rymer, from A Short View of Tragedy (1693) Samuel Johnson, from The Plays of Shakespeare (1765) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from 'Notes on the Tragedies' (published 1836-9) from Table Talk (1835) Edward Dowden, from Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art (1875) A. C. Bradley, from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (1904) Twentieth-Century Criticism: G. Wilson Knight The Othello Music E. E. Stoll 'Iago' (1940) William Empson Honest in Othello (1951) F. R. Leavis, from Diabolic Intellect and the Noble Hero (1952) Marvin Rosenberg from The Masks of Othello (1961) G. K. Hunter, Othello and Colour Prejudice (1967) Terry Eagleton Nothing (1986) Karen Newman 'And wash the Ethiop white': femininity and the monstrous in Othello (1987) David McPherson Othello and the Myth of Venice (1990) Lisa Jardine 'Why should he call her a whore?': Defamation and Desdemona's case (1990) Andrew Hadfield The 'gross clasps of a lascivious Moor': The Domestic and Exotic Contexts of Othello (1998) The Work in Performance: Virginia Mason Vaughan Othello on the English Stage 1604-1754 Sir Richard Steele The Tatler, no. 167 (2 May 1710) William Hazlitt 'Mr Macready's Othello' (13 October 1816) Virginina Mason Vaughan 'Paul Robeson's Othello' (1930, 1943) Patricia Tatspaugh 'Orson Welles Othello' (1952) Stanley Wells 'Trevor Nunn's Othello' (1989) 3. Key Passages Introduction Key Passages: Act 1, scene 1, lines 81-80, Act 1, scene 3, lines 1-294, Act 2, scene 3, lines 255-357, Act 3, scene 3, lines 90-281, Act 3, scene 3, lines 333-482, Act 4, scene 1, lines 60-142, Act 4, scene 2, lines 30-92, Act 5, scene 2, lines 257-369 Further Reading Editions and Text Collections of Essays Background Reading Critical Interpretations Stage History Index
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Book SynopsisFrom the benighted Old Man with a Beard to the erudite Perpendicular Purple Polly, Edward Lear''s world is inhabited by a bewildering variety of oddities. One of the world''s most loved writers, Lear''s verse has delighted whole generations of readers. Here, after 140 years, is the original edition of A Book of Nonsense, from the original publishers. Complete with Lear''s own remarkable illustrations, this treasure trove of nonsense is guaranteed to hold readers spellbound for generations more!Trade Review'I really don't know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred authors.' - John Ruskin'A magic song-writer, with something like a reverence for the absurd.' - Times Literary Supplement'I really don't know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred authors.' - John RuskinTable of ContentsA book of Nonsense, Publisher's Note, Nonsense poems.
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Book SynopsisPoet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can sense its unique use of rhythm. From this starting point they suggest an entirely fresh, jargon-free approach to reading poetry. Illustrating their 'beat/offbeat' method with a series of exercises, they help readers to appreciate the use of rhythm in poems of all periods and to understand the vital relationship between meter and meaning.Beginning with the very basics, Meter and Meaning enables a smooth progression to an advanced knowledge of poetic rhythms. It is the essential guide to meter for anyone who wants to study, write, better appreciate, or simply enjoy poetry. Carper and Attridge make studying meter a pleasure and reading poetry a revelation.Trade Review'This is far and away the most accessible, effective and enjoyable introduction to meter I have come across. I have nothing but admiration for what the writers have done.' - Rob Pope, Oxford Brookes UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Basic Rhythms. Further Practice. 2. Beats: B , b, [B]. Further Practice. 3. Offbeats: o , O , -o- , [o] , ô. Further Practice. 4. Scan-ning Poems. Further Practice. 5. Rhythmic Figures. 6. Names and Labels. 7. Meter and Meaning. 8. Identifying Meters and Stanza-forms. Where to Go from Here. Scansion Symbols. Afterword. Index
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