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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro
Book SynopsisRosa Andújar is Deputy Director and Lecturer in Liberal Arts at King's College London, UK. She has co-edited two volumes which address her research expertise in ancient Greek tragedy and its modern reception: Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy (2018) and Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (2020).Luis Alfaro is a Chicano writer/performer known for his work in poetry, theatre, short stories, performance and journalism. Alfaro held a six-season tenure as the Mellon Playwright-in-Residence at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2013-2019). He was a member of the Playwright's Ensemble at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theatre (2013-2020). Alfaro is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, popularly known as a genius grant, presented to people who have demonstrated expertise and exceptional creativity in their respective fields. Alfaro is a Joyce Foundation Fellow. In 2019, Alfaro was awarded the PEN America/Laura Pels IntTrade ReviewIn these plays, Luis brilliantly transplants Sophocles’s Electra and Oedipus and Euripides’s Medea into the modern-day streets of Los Angeles and New York. In doing so, he gives voice to the rich, complex lives of the Chicanx and Latinx communities and neighborhoods that he knows and loves. This book is a must-own for any student and lover of contemporary, American plays. * LA Review of Books *A Bloomsbury translation: In this way, the entire book constitutes more than a simple collection of Alfaro's plays. Each of the sections of the anthology reiterates the creation of an archive ... Andújar's work thus contributes to the preservation of the memory of these communities which have turned to the theatre as a venue through which to tell and connect their own stories with other cultures, geographies and temporalities, constantly and necessarily crossing all kinds of borders. * Latin American Theatre Review *Andújar not only offers a richly annotated introduction at the beginning of this volume: each of the three plays also begins with a separate introduction that contextualizes the dramatic work in a way that is both enthralling and enlightening … A must-read for any student and fan of contemporary theatre. And for those of us who have a particular love of Chicanx and Latinx drama, this volume will bring immeasurable reading pleasure and enlightenment. * La Bloga *From the opening scene, the cultural combination is intoxicating … A fascinating trilogy. * British Theatre Guide *Equipped with Andújar’s excellent introduction to Alfaro’s work generally and to each adaptation, plus a production history and interview with Alfaro, this book not only makes the scripts of three very successful plays available for the first time for everyone, but also presents a unique and fascinating way of engaging with the ancient Greek dramas of which Alfaro’s plays are adaptations. * Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies *A welcome addition to the bookshelves of those with an interest in the afterlives of Athenian tragedy ... The volume as a whole exemplifies the way in which collaboration between academics and practitioners enhances classical reception studies: this reviewer would be delighted to see more contemporary classical reception texts being given similar treatment. * Greece & Rome *Table of ContentsEditor’s Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Luis Alfaro’s Griego Drama: An Introduction 2. Electricidad: A Chicanx Tragedy between Family and Feminism 3. Electricidad 4. Blind Love and the Chains of Destiny: Oedipus el Rey 5. Oedipus el Rey 6. Mojada: Dramatizing Latinx Migrations 7. Mojada 8. Production History 9. Glossary 10. Interview with Luis Alfaro 11. Further Reading
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Penguin Putnam Inc Twelve Angry Men
Book SynopsisA landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David MametA blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them—and of America, at its best and worst. After the critically acclaimed teleplay aired in 1954, this landmark American drama went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which R
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Shadow of the Owl
Book SynopsisShadow of the Owl is Matthew Sweeney's final collection, bringing together the poems he wrote during a year of debilitating illness. He died from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018 shortly after publishing My Life as a Painter, written before he became ill, but – like all his previous collections – preparation for this final work. In a sequence of dark fables, a hapless figure is hounded by a procession of invisible enemies who want him dead. These jokers – kidnappers, assassins, liars all – have many methods at their disposal, from crucifixion or hanging to bombing or mauling by crocodile… A menacing owl comes to the garden each night for twelve nights, but refuses to deliver its devastating news. All of Sweeney’s verve and spiky humour are present in these last poems, following, as always, the unnerving logic of dreams. But the dream has become a nightmare, and the catastrophe, impending in all the earlier collections, has now come to pass. The man on the run needs to reach new heights of ingenuity, if he is to escape, repeatedly, the most horrible of deaths. The poet is writing for his life. For more than forty years Matthew Sweeney sought to capture, in poetry, the life of a body menaced and condemned to wander in a terrifying place – but a body fully alive to the sensuous pleasures of the world, and the vulnerability of exposure to its loss. His final poems are imbued with a lyrical beauty and great sadness at leaving that world just as the spirit was burning as brightly as ever.Trade ReviewMatthew had the courage of his own idiosyncratic sensibility; nobody now writing has Matthew’s gift for employing language and images of fable to such a dark and unsettling effect, ringing the changes from tenderness to dark comedy with such power and verve. -- Theo Dorgan * The Irish Times *One of the most adventurous, life-enhancing and distinctive poets of his gifted generation. -- Bill Swainson * The Guardian *Matthew Sweeney has been a singular presence in Irish poetry for decades, and the much-travelled, Donegal-born poet had finished two reassuringly characteristic new books before his death in August. One of them, My Life as a Painter, includes many new signature poems, tales whose surprising images suddenly gather additional narrative force. -- John McAuliffe * The Irish Times *Table of Contents11 Foreword by Mary Noonan The owl 17 1–12 The sequence 31 The Albatross 32 The Director 33 The Target 34 The Assassins 35 The Ancient Crane 36 The Exit 37 Crocodile 38 The Chess Match 39 The Angel 40 The Glider 41 Sweet Song 42 Crucifixion 43 Shadow of the Owl 44 The New Lighthouse 45 The Portrait Painter 46 The Gallows 47 Butterflies 48 An Invitation to Dinner 49 Stench 50 The Drawer 52 The Tube 53 The Sick Bed 54 Plum Saké Other poems 59 Dubrovnik 60 The Rain 61 The Juggler 63 Onions 64 Ballycotton 65 The Log Cabin 66 Returning to a Borrowed House 67 The Ice Cream Van 68 The Hedgehog 70 Pizza à Sète 72 The Sleeping Woman 73 Taxi à Sète 74 Three Heads 76 Translating Paul Valéry 78 The Port 79 Fernfeld 80 What a True Fan Has to Do 81 The Lamppost, Plaza Mayor, Chinchón 82 Monsieur Lapin 83 Trauma 84 The Snow 85 The Grinners 86 The Bathroom Devils 87 The Heron 88 Tennis 89 The Danube Book 90 The Descent into Limbo 91 No-Man’s-Land 93 The Mountebank Last poems 97 Tree Trunks 98 Coloured Hair in the Garage 99 The Builder’s Singing 100 Hook Head 101 Homage 102 Phlegm 103 Mouse Sandwich
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Button Poetry I'll Fly Away
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Nick Hern Books two Palestinians go dogging
Book Synopsis'Your hobbies are limited to Arab Idol and cooking lentils and having sex in fields late at night.' The year is 2043, and Reem and her husband Sayeed are going to share a 'Serious Play about Palestine'. Things are tense. People are on the edge. The Fifth Intifada is right around the corner. But on a contested piece of land near their village of Beit al-Qadir, Reem and Sayeed are about to go dogging. Don't worry, you're allowed to laugh. Sami Ibrahim's play two Palestinians go dogging uses the lens of humour to explore how the everyday becomes political and the political becomes everyday in a conflict zone. The play won the Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award in 2019 and was premiered in May 2022 at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London, directed by Omar Elerian.Trade Review'A devastatingly human portrait of conflict that sears itself on the mind. Sami Ibrahim's play is a startlingly bold tragicomedy and a furious call to action... as devastatingly epic as Greek tragedy... a show that comes with an enormous gut-punch, and is all that theatre should strive to be' * Guardian *'A darkly comic political drama, shot through with absurdism and bleak humour' * The Stage *'A dose of harsh reality... This play matters and is truly memorable' * Broadway Baby *'Entertaining and timely... a comedy that skilfully holds humour in uneasy tension with its characters' pain' * Telegraph *'Occasionally bleak, utterly brilliant... hilarious and harrowing... a stunningly insightful and entertaining play, one of the cultural high points of this year' * Broadway World *
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Dedalus Press Some Lives
Book SynopsisIn Leeanne Quinn’s poetry, both her way of seeing and her way of saying not only draw in the reader but open up and expand that reader’s experience. Before You (2012) Quinn’s impressive first collection, included poems that explored relationships, loss, art, urban life and a sequence prompted by Elizabeth Bishop’s letters. Her second is even more assured and its modest title belies its range and power. Those some lives, especially those of dissident, courageous activists Osip and Nadezha Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Jakob van Hoddis, are given voice and presence in this compelling collection, in poems that are challenging, allusive and engagingly mysterious. The heroic lives of others, artist Nano Reid’s paintings, an elegy for her sister and Quinn’s own life in Munich are brought before us in vivid, sensuous poems.Narrative and lyric poems are in counterpoint, as are past and present, now and then, in a beautifully orchestrated collection and Quinn’s handling of rhythm and repetition is pitch perfect. Magical moments as in ‘The sun disappears like the sun,/ going down as a favour to the moon’ and moments of clear-sighted intelligence and resilience – ‘Don’t sit out the storm,/ don’t pray that it passes./ Move as it moves/ and move in it’ – are captured by this poet in her own unique voice. — Niall McMonagle
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisThe selected poems of a legendary romantic.Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his literary work. Yet he produced some of the most daring and exuberant poetry of the Romantic age, from 'To Caroline' and 'To Woman' to the satirical English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, his exotic Eastern tales and the colourful narrative of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the work that made him famous overnight and gave birth to the idea of the brooding Byronic hero.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. RTable of ContentsSelected Poems (Byron)IntroductionTable of DatesFurther ReadingA Note on This EditionA Fragment ('When, to their airy hall, my fathers' voice')To WomanThe CornelianTo Caroline ('You say you love, and yet your eye')English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A SatireLines to Mr Hodgson (Written on Board the Lisbon Packet)Maid of Athens, ere we partWritten after Swimming from Sestos to AbydosTo Thyrza ('Without a stone to mark the spot')Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Cantos I-IIPreface to the First and Second CantosTo IantheCanto the FirstCanto the SecondAppendix to Canto the SecondAn Ode to the Framers of the Frame BillLines to a Lady WeepingThe Waltz: An Apostrophic HymnRemember Thee! Remember Thee!The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish TaleThe Bride of Abydos: A Turkish TaleThe Corsair: A TaleOde to Napoleon BuonaparteStanzas for MusicShe walks in beautyLara: A TaleThe Destruction of Sennacherib Napoleon's Farewell (From the French)From the French ('Must thou go, my glorious Chief')The Siege of CorinthWhen we two partedFare thee well!PrometheusThe Prisoner of Chillon: A Fable and Sonnet on ChillonDarknessChilde Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Canto IIIEpistle to Augusta ('My sister! my sweet sister!' &c.)Lines (On Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill)Manfred: A Dramatic PoemSo, we'll go no more a rovingChilde Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Canto IVEpistle from Mr Murray to Dr Polidori ('Dear Doctor, I have read your play')Beppo: A Venetian StoryEpistle to Mr Murray ('My dear Mr Murray')MazeppaStanzas to the PoThe Isles of GreeceFrancesca of Rimini. From the Inferno of Dante, Canto the FifthStanzas ('When a man hath no freedom')Sardanapalus: A TragedyWho kill'd John Keats?The Blues" A Literary EclogueThe Vision of JudgmentOn This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth YearNotesWorks Cited in the NotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines
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Penguin Publishing Group Fasti lxviii Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisWritten after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves together tales of gods and citizens together to explore Rome's history, religious beliefs and traditions. It may also be read as a subtle but powerful political manifesto which derides Augustus' attempts to control his subjects by imposing his own mythology upon them: after celebrating the emperor as a Jupiter-on-earth, for example, Ovid deliberately juxtaposes a story showing the king of the gods as a savage rapist. Endlessly playful, this is also a work of integrity and courage, and a superb climax to the life of one of Rome's greatest writers.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelTrade Review"Fasti has burst upon the scholarly scene as a work of tremendous importance for our understanding of religion under the Principate...have provided us with what must be seen as a new commentary upon the poem...But the real value of this new Fasti, of course, lies not in its front or back material but in the lively rendition of Ovid's own words...Boyle and Woodard have given us a fresh-sounding poem with updated diction." —Christopher Brunelle, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsTranslated and Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Glossary by A.J. Boyle and R.D. WoodardPrefaceMaps:The World of Ovid's FastiGreece in Ovid's FastiItaly and Sicily Ovid's FastiOvid's Rome: Major Sites and MonumentsIntroductionFurther ReadingTranslation and Latin TextSummary of FastiOmissions from FastiOvid's FastiBook 1Book 2Book 3Book 4Book 5Book 6NotesList of AbbreviationsGlossary
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Penguin Books Ltd Canzoniere
Book SynopsisThe ''Canzoniere'', a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch''s intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and her effect on him after she died in 1348. The collection is an examination of the poet''s growing spiritual crisis, and also explores important contemporary issues such as the role of the papacy and religion.
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Penguin Publishing Group The Poems Translated With An Introduction By
Book SynopsisOne of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and includes his lyrics to the notorious Clodia Metelli - married, seductive and corrupt - charting the course from rapturous delight in a new affair to the torment of love gone sour; poems to his young friend Iuventius; and longer verse, such as the extraordinary tale of Attis, a Greek youth who castrates himself in a fit of religious ecstasy. Ranging from the tender, moving and passionate to the vicious and even obscene, these are poems of astonishingly modern force and content.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres anTable of ContentsThe PoemsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe PoemsGlossary of Proper Names
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Penguin Books Ltd Plays Political
Book SynopsisWhile some of Shaw's earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, frankly, it is doubtful how seriously we can now take Shaw as a political thinker. Despite writing in the 1930s, he has little to say of the nature of totalitarianism: although he satirises Fascist dictators in Geneva, the satire is disappointingly mild. Neither did Shaw appear to foresee (on the evidence of these plays, at least) the imminent collapse of the British Empire.But it is Shaw the dramatist rather than Shaw the political philosopher who still holds our attention even in plays as explicitly political as these. He had a sharp intellect and a quirky sense of humour, and his dialogue still glints and sparkles: he couldn't write a dull line if he tried. No matter how serious the themes he addresses, the crispness of his writing and his lightness of touch still scintillate.Shaw seems, pe
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Penguin Books Ltd Hidden Words
Book SynopsisSpike Milligan''s Hidden Words: Collected Poems is an emotional, surprising collection of tender(ish) moments.The complete poems of Spike Milligan, Hidden Words consists of three individual volumes now collected together (SMALL DREAMS OF A SCORPION, OPEN HEART UNIVERSITY and THE MIRROR RUNNING) as well as a number of previously unpublished poems. The famously funny and rude poems are there, as well as a number of darker poems written during the war.''Milligan is the Great God to all of us'' John Cleese ''The Godfather of Alternative Comedy'' Eddie Izzard ''That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man'' Stephen Fry Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show write
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Penguin Books Ltd Incident at Vichy Penguin Modern Classics
Book SynopsisIn Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the street and taken there is obvious enough. They are, for the most part, Jews. But how serious an offence this is, and how they are to suffer for it, is not clear, and they hope for the best. But as rumours pass between them of trains full of people locked from the outside and furnaces in Poland, and although they reassure themselves that nothing so monstrous could be true, their panic rises.Arthur Miller''s claustrophobic play of how the inconceivable becomes allowed to pass, Incident at Vichy is one of the most indispensable, moving pieces of art about the Holocaust.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
Book SynopsisThis poem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde''s two year''s hard labour in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky and silently drinks his beer ration. Heart-wrenching and eye-opening, the ballad also expresses perfectly Wilde''s belief that humanity is made up only of offenders, each of us deserving a greater charity for the severity of our crimes.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Master Builder and Other Plays With Little
Book SynopsisHenrik Ibsen’s most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen seriesThis new Penguin Classics series of Henrik Ibsen’s plays will offer the best available editions in English of the great works by “the father of modern drama,” all under the general editorship of Ibsen scholar Tore Rem. All plays included here are newly translated and based on the recently published, definitive Norwegian texts. The Master Builder and Other Plays collects his last four plays: Little Eyokf, John Gabriel Borkman, and When We Dead Awaken, in addition to the title play.For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to pr
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Penguin Books Ltd Four French Plays
Book SynopsisThis new Penguin volume includes the ''greatest hits'' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed English translations. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and Phaedra - span only thirty-seven years, but make up the defining period of French theatre. In Corneille''s Cinna (1640), absolute power is explored in ancient Rome, while Molière''s The Misanthrope (1666), the only comedy in this collection, sees its anti-hero outcast for his refusal to conform to social conventions. Here also are two key plays by Racine: Andromache (1667), recounting the tragedy of Hector''s widow after the Trojan War, and Phaedre (1677), showing a mother crossing the bounds of love with her son.John Edmunds'' translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and was subsequently praised by Harold Pinter. This is the first time Trade ReviewRacine's plays...create in performance a terrifying and inescapable velocity - they are grippingly exciting -- Alan Hollinghurst
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Oxford University Press Cymbeline
Book Synopsis''I see a man''s life is a tedious one.''Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a play of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. When the King of Britain Cymbeline discovers his daughter''s secret marriage, he banishes her husband to Rome, who then accuses Innogen of being unfaithful. Innogen must evade deadly plots and homicidal jealousy to restore her name. Long recognised as a response to James VI and I''s project to unite England and Scotland, the play conjures ancient British history at a moment when that history was eroding, revealed as a medieval invention. This sense of historical endings is entangled with Cymbeline as a late play, and its numerous apparent callbacks across Shakespeare''s career.The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare''s works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare''s work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare''s work.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Oxford University Press Oxford Student Texts John Webster The Duchess of
Book SynopsisEach book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to students'' understanding, comments to explain literacy and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading.
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Oxford University Press The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Book SynopsisCoriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in Ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics. The introduction to this new edition considers Shakespeare''s adaptation of his historical material (Plutarch''s Lives) in relation to the social and political conditions in London and Stratford at the time of the play''s composition, also offering new evidence that it was written in 1608. Professor Parker examines the play''s history and particularly its staging at the Blackfriars theatre, where it was probably the first of Shakespeare''s plays to be presented and for which it may have been written. A thorough commentary pays special attention to the needs of actors and directors. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the mostTrade Review'Stanley Wells' OUP Complete Works of Shakespeare is now eight years old and has spawned a new Oxford Shakespeare which appears now in splendidly affordable volumes in that nonpareil of libraries of good reading The World's Classics.' The Oxford Times * English Studies Offprint from vol.77 Number 1, January 1996 *
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Oxford University Press Henry V The Oxford Shakespeare
Book SynopsisHenry V, the climax of Shakespeare''s sequence of English history plays, is an inspiring, often comic celebration of a young warrior-king. But it is also a study of the costly exhilarations of war, and of the penalties as well as the glories of human greatness.Introducing this brilliantly innovative edition, Gary Taylor shows how Shakespeare shaped his historical material, examines controversial critical interpretations, discusses the play''s fluctuating fortunes in performance, and analyses the range and variety of Shakespeare''s characterization. The first Folio text is radically rethought, making original use of the First Quarto (1600). ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to c
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Oxford University Press Troilus and Cressida The Oxford Shakespeare
Book SynopsisTrade Review`authoritatively tackles one of the most textually troubling plays' Sunday Times'Stanley Wells' OUP Complete Works of Shakespeare is now eight years old and has spawned a new Oxford Shakespeare which appears now in splendidly affordable volumes in that nonpareil of libraries of good reading The World's Classics.' The Oxford Times
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Yale University Press The Complete Poems of John Wilmot Earl of
Book SynopsisJohn Wilmot, the notorious Earl of Rochester, was the darling of the profligate court of Charles II. He was one of the finest poets of the Restoration and model for countless witty young rakes in Restoration comedies. This edition of his poetry is annotated and introduced by David M. Vieth.
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Hodder & Stoughton Ten Poems To Change Your Life
Book SynopsisLife-changing wisdom from ten poems that illuminate and inspire change.Trade ReviewA perfect gift * The Good Book Guide *
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WW Norton & Co The Odyssey
Book SynopsisA lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life.Trade Review"The first version of Homer's groundbreaking work by a woman will change our understanding of it for ever... Emily Wilson’s crisp and musical version is a cultural landmark. Armed with a sharp, scholarly rigour, she has produced a translation that exposes centuries of masculinist readings of the poem." -- Charlotte Higgins, Poetry Book of the Day - The Guardian"Wilson’s approach has been to translate the text in a way that resonates with today’s politics. Her translation, spare and provocative, will engage a new generation of students." -- Times Literary Supplement"... Emily Wilson proves an appropriately beguiling female translator... This is certainly an Odyssey for our moment … [a] swift, unornamented text." -- The Spectator"The joy of Homer is precisely the generosity and suppleness of the material, the fact that it resists being read in a single way. That’s why a new kind of guide through his wild landscapes, across his wine-dark seas, is to be welcomed." -- The Guardian"Wilson’s Odyssey feels like a restoration of an old, familiar building that had over the years been encrusted with too much gilt. Wilson translates as though translation is a moral choice — you owe fidelity not to the author, nor to the protagonist, but to the truth behind the words and the times. She scrapes away at old encrusted layers, until she exposes what lies beneath." -- Financial Times"It is immensely satisfying to see The Odyssey in the hands of such a careful and creative scholar who can pore over the semantic nuances of Homer's Greek as well as those of her own English. Considerations of gender aside, perhaps Wilson's greatest achievement is to disprove the increasingly held view that versions of ancient texts require an established poet to be parachuted in, like a literary James Bond, to rescue their English lines from the prosaic. For a translation of The Odyssey that knows what it is talking about and sings as it speaks, this is the one to read." -- New Statesman"A masterpiece of translation—fluent, elegant, vigorous." -- Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge"As the first English translation of this ancient tale by a woman, this lively, fast-paced retelling of Homer’s epic is long overdue. Much as Homer did in his time, Wilson whisks the audience into a realm both familiar and fantastical. The world of Odysseus and his adventures take shape before the reader’s eyes, luminescent once more, in this engaging new translation." -- Justine McConnell, King’s College London" This will surely be the Odyssey of choice for a generation." -- Lorna Hardwick, The Open University"I am not quite sure why, but this instantly hot-wired me into tears." -- Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent"I think this is a really significant literary moment." -- Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"Friends, believe the hype. This translation is a marvel!... The sheer energy of the iambic pentameter is revelatory. Her word choices! The rhythm and the politics so delicious, so alive. And the man is devious and quick and fit to bursting with arrogance and cunning. He's perfect. It's sublime." -- Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers"The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson. One of the great narratives of all time. You think you know it ? Not until you read this one. Stunning translation/interpretation." -- Susan Hill"Now we have an excellent new translation of the epic by the British classicist Emily Wilson. Norton trumpets it as “the first English translation of the ‘Odyssey’ by a woman.”... But Wilson’s rendering is remarkable in other ways as well." -- The International New York Times"Emily Wilson wipes the dust of ages from Homer’s prose in her new translation of The Odyssey. Accessible and entertaining, she provides an elegant rendering of the classic." -- Peter Campbell, Favourite reads of 2017 - as chosen by scientists - The Guardian"There are many other [other than being the first female translation] stunning things about Wilson’s translation, from the five-beat lines to the straightforward speech, free from the elegant clunkiness that we usually see when scholars try to carry words over from one language to another. But one of them is certainly an awareness of her own daring." -- Eidolon"... Emily Wilson’s brilliant introduction to her new translation of The Odyssey shows the classical world as capable of feminist inflections." -- The Observer"... a monumental piece of work on her part..." -- Stig Abell - BBC Radio 4 Front Row"I thought this was just moving, it was musical, it was direct, it was straightforward […] anyone could read it and really, really enjoy it." -- Rosie Goldsmith - BBC Radio 4, Saturday Review"All the artistic choices work. I must admit when I heard we were reviewing The Odyssey, I thought ‘Oh no, it’s going to be wordy and dull’ […] but it wasn’t, it really felt fresh and alive and exciting." -- Sophie Hannah - BBC Radio 4, Saturday Review"... Emily Wilson's terrific new translation..." -- The i Paper"Poetry that reads like a thriller." -- R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps series"The new Emily Wilson translation of The Odyssey is brilliant and sharp and swift and funny and will repay the reader a thousand times over." -- Katherine Rundell"Wilson’s translation is a superb achievement and a striking departure from the tradition of Homeric translation into English... [She] has produced a wonderfully distinctive—and modern—version of the poem." -- London Evening Standard"The real reason why Emily Wilson’s version of this nearly three-millennia-old poem is so important is that it combines intellectual authority with addictive readability." -- Edith Hall - The Sunday Telegraph"Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Odyssey speaks of 'a complicated man' with an 'old story for our modern times'." -- The Spectator"Emily Wilson... is the first woman to translate Homer's entire epic into English, and she has produced something extraordinary. In her hands, a work believed to have been written at around the end of the eighth century BC is transformed into something that might have been written yesterday: vivid, exciting and utterly immersive... her accessible and fascinating introduction explains the poem's origins and reception, and such crucial concepts as 'guest-friendship' (xenia)." -- The Lady"Emily Wilson, […] whose translation of The Odyssey – the first translation by a woman, might I add – is currently destroying me, so it’s good. You can just tell from the way she writes and from her very ballsy interpretive translation that she’s got a wicked, daring mind, and a deeply poetic one." -- Hannah Epperson - Female First"... this new version of The Odyssey... is a fresh and worthwhile addition to the many existing translations, both for newcomers and veteran readers... Wilson offers a neat, accurate and lively verse translation..." -- Minerva"... a perceptive reading of The Odyssey... Readers who want to get a feeling for the poem will find Wilson’s translation full of insights..." -- London Review of Books
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Bloomsbury Academic Festen Modern Plays
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Taylor & Francis John Miltons Paradise Lost
Book SynopsisJohn Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness.Designed for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this sourcebook:* outlines the often unfamiliar contexts of seventeenth-century England which are so crucial to Paradise Lost* completes the contextual study with a chronology and reprinted documents from the period* examines and reprints a broad range of responses to the poem, from early reactions to recent criticism* reprints the most frequently studied passages of the poem, along with extensive commentary and annotation of unfamiliar or significant terms used in Milton's work* provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and critical sections of the sourcebook, to show how all the materials can be called upon in an individual reader's encounter with the text* suggests further reading for those facing the huge array of critical work on the poem.With an emphasis on enjoying as well as understanding what can be a somewhat daunting work, this sourcebook will be a welcome resource for anyone new to Paradise Lost.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shelley Selected Poems
Book SynopsisPercy Bysshe Shelley (17921822) was one of the major Romantic poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English Language. In this volume, the editors have selected the most popular, significant and frequently taught poems from the six-volume Longman Annotated edition of Shelley's poems. Each poem is fully annotated, explained and contextualised, along with a comprehensive list of abbreviations, an inclusive bibliography of material relating to the text and interpretation of Shelley's poetry, plus an extensive chronology of Shelley's life and works. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary for an informed reading of Shelley's richly varied and densely allusive verse, making this an ideal anthology for students, classroom use, and anyone approaching Shelley's poetry for the first time; however the level and extent of commentary and annotation will also be of great value for resTrade Review'This new Shelley: Selected Poems offers the outstanding editorial expertise and critical acumen of the complete Longman Poems in a single judiciously organized volume. It will be of great interest to everyone who cares about one of the most challenging of Romantic poets.'Professor William Keach, Emeritus Professor, Brown University, USATable of ContentsContentsTitle PagePrefaceChronological Table of Shelley’s Life and PublicationsAbbreviationsThe Poems1 Stanzas. — April, 18142 ‘O! there are spirits of the air’3 To Wordsworth4 Mutability5 Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude6 Verses written on receiving a Celandine in a letter from England7 Hymn to Intellectual beauty8 Mont Blanc. Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni9 Ozymandias10 To Constantia (‘Thy voice, slow rising like a Spirit, lingers’)11 Sonnet (‘Lift not the painted veil which those who live’)12 The Two Spirits. An Allegory13 Lines Written among the Euganean Hills. October, 181814 Stanzas written in dejection — December 1818, near Naples15 Prometheus Unbound16 Julian and Maddalo17 To Night18 The Mask of Anarchy19 Ode to Heaven20 To S[idmouth] and C[astlereagh]21 England in 181922 Ode to the West Wind23 On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci, In the Florentine Gallery24 Love’s Philosophy25 ‘Thou art fair, and few are fairer’26 To —— ("I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden’)27 On a Dead Violet: To ——28 Goodnight29 ‘What men gain fairly, that they should possess’30 An Exhortation31 Song: To the Men of England32 To —— (‘Corpses are cold in the tomb’)33 The Sensitive-Plant34 To —— [Lines to a Reviewer]35 ‘Arethusa arose’36 ‘Arethusa was a maiden’37 ‘God save the Queen!’ [A New National Anthem]38 Song (‘Rarely, rarely comest thou’)39 Song of Apollo40 Song of Pan41 The Cloud42 Evening. Ponte a Mare, Pisa43 Letter to Maria Gisborne44 To a Sky-Lark45 To —— [the Lord Chancellor]46 To —— [Lines to a Critic]47 The Witch of Atlas48 Sonnet: Political Greatness49 ‘Ye hasten to the [grave]! What seek ye there?’50 ‘Rose leaves, when the rose is dead’ [To —— (‘Music, when soft voices die’)]51 Epipsychidion52 A Lament (‘O World, O Life, O Time’)53 ‘When passion’s trance is overpast’54 Adonais55 The Aziola56 Written on hearing the news of the death of Napoleon57 The Indian Girl’s Song58 Autumn: a Dirge59 ‘The flower that smiles today’ [Mutability]60 ‘A widowed bird sate mourning for her love’61 ‘Art thou pale for weariness’62 To — (‘The serpent is shut out from Paradise’)63 To Jane. The invitation64 To Jane — The recollection65 ‘Swifter far than summer’s flight’ / Remembrance [A Lament]66 ‘When the lamp is shattered’ [Lines]67 ‘One word is too often profaned’68 With a guitar. To Jane 69 The magnetic lady to her patient70 The Triumph of Life71 To Jane (‘The keen stars were twinkling’)72 ‘Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven’ [Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici]Index of TitlesIndex of First Lines
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Dover Publications Inc. Claude Mckay Selected Poems
Book SynopsisJamaican-American poet Claude McKay (18891948) came to the U.S. in 1912 and became an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. This inexpensive edition includes a representative sample of his Jamaican dialect verse, but concentrates on poems from Harlem Shadows (1922) and uncollected verse. Edited and with an introduction by Joan R. Sherman.
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Dover Publications Inc. Wild Nights
Book SynopsisSoul-stirring collection of timeless poetry that appeals to the heart features five legendary poets from ancient to modern eras: Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Includes illustrations by Claire Whitmore.
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Faber & Faber RAIN
Book SynopsisIn this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and simultaneously offer some protection against them. Whether outwardly elemental in their address, or more personal in their direction, these poems - to the rain and the sea, to his young sons or beloved friends - never shy from their inquiry into truth and lie, embracing everything in scope from the rangy narrative to the tiny renku. Rain, which includes the winner of this year''s Forward Prize for the Best Individual Poem and an extended elegy for the poet Michael Donaghy, is Don Paterson''s most intimate and manifest collection to date.
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Faber & Faber Pearl
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATIONPearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl is here brought to vivid and intricate life in the care of one of the finest poets writing today.
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Faber & Faber The Nether
Book SynopsisI''ve read the studies. No one has been able to draw a conclusive correlation between virtual behaviour and behaviour in-world.The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. But when a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imagination.Winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Nether is both a serpentine crime drama and haunting sci-fi thriller that explores the consequences of living out our private dreams.Jennifer Haley''s The Nether received its UK premiere in July 2014 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in a co-production with Headlong.
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Faber & Faber Field Work
Book SynopsisSeamus Heaney was ''the greatest poet of our age'' (Guardian). From his remarkable debut in 1966, he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.Field Work, his fifth volume, from 1979, is a collection of poems that were among the finest he would ever write. Inspired by the four years that Heaney and his family spent in rural County Wicklow after leaving the violence of Belfast, Field Work is one of the poet''s most celebrated volumes.The collection contains some of his best-loved poems, ''Oysters'', ''Casualty'', ''The Otter'', ''The Strand at Lough Beg'', and ''The Skunk'', as well as his defining sequence ''Glanmore Sonnets''.
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Faber & Faber Apex Predator
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Samuel French Ltd The Great Privation
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Samuel French Ltd Absent Friends
Book SynopsisColin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancee so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and Marge and her husband are perpetually out of circulation with trivial illnesses are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross-marital emotional ties. By the time Colin arrives for tea, their tenseness contrasts dramatically with his air of cheerful relaxation. He is the only happy one among them and his happiness and insensitive analyses of their troubles causes each of them to break down.
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Samuel French Ltd Lettice and Lovage
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Samuel French Ltd The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Book SynopsisLittle Voice (LV) lives alone with her mother Mari, whose sole purpose in life is to find a man. When Mari's latest catch hears LV's impersonations of famous singers, he rushes to exploit it, and the result destroys LV. Finally, however, LV regains the courage to speak and sing in her own voice.
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Samuel French Ltd The Dumb Waiter
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Samuel French Ltd Play
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Samuel French Ltd Bedroom Farce
Book SynopsisTrevor and Susannah, whose marraige is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest: three couples whose own relationships are tenuous at best. Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples'' bedrooms during one endless Saturday night of co-dependence and dysfunction, beds, tempers, and domestic order are ruffled, leading all the players to a hilariously touching epiphany.
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Samuel French Ltd The Revlon Girl
Book SynopsisSet eight months following Aberfan Disaster of 1966 (in which 144 people were killed; 116 of them children) The Revlon Girl tells the real life story of a group of bereaved mothers who met every week above a local hotel to talk, cry and even laugh without feeling guilty. At one of their meetings, the women looked at each other and admitted how much they felt they’d let themselves go. So afraid that people would think them frivolous, they secretly arranged for a representative from Revlon to come and give them a talk on beauty tips.
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Samuel French Ltd Constellations
Book SynopsisOne relationship. Infinite possibilities. ''Let''s go for a drink. I don''t know what I''m doing here anyway. One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'' Nick Payne''s Constellations is a play about free will and friendship; it''s about quantum multiverse theory, love and honey. Constellations premiered at the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2012. It transferred to the Duke Of York''s Theatre, London, in November, and was awarded the Evening Standard award for Best New Play 2012.
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Samuel French Ltd Butter in a Lordly Dish
Book SynopsisSir Luke Enderby, eminent prosecution barrister and seasoned womaniser, bites off more than he can chew, when the case of a serial killer comes back to haunt him. A tense one act thriller that''s contains one of Christie''s most gruesome murders.
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Samuel French Ltd Private Peaceful A Play For A Small Ensemble
Book SynopsisThe Peaceful brothers, Tommo and Charlie, have a tough rural childhood facing the death of their father, financial hardship and a cruel landlord. Their fierce loyalty to each other pulls them through, until one day they both fall for the same girl. And then the Great War comes.It tells the story of a country lad fighting a war he doesn''t understand for people he cannot respect. We join 18-year-old Private Tommo Peaceful in the trenches as he tells us a story of courage, devotion and sibling rivalry on what may be his last night on earth.Private Peaceful was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, won the Red House Children''s Book Award and the Blue Peter Book Award and is acknowledged by Michael Morpurgo (War Horse, The Butterfly Lion) to be his favourite work. This new, small ensemble version by Simon Reade was commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse.
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Samuel French Inc A Thousand Clowns
Book SynopsisHerb Gardner Comedy Characters: 4 male, 1 female, 12 year-old boy 2 Interior scenes This benchmark of Broadway comedy produced one of the theatre's most beloved roles: unconventional Murray, uncle to precocious nephew, Nick. Tired of writing cheap comedy gags for Chipper the Chipmunk, a children's television star, Murray finds himself unemployed with plenty of free time with which to pursue his...pursuits. Lectured by his conventional brother Arnold and hounded by the system, Murray is paid a visit by bickering, uptight social workers, Sandra and Albert, and finds himself solving their problems as well as most of his own. Would be a standout comedy in any season. Filled with laughter and warmth and sweetness and inspired daffiness. One of the quintessential New York comedies.-New York Daily News An extraordinarily funny play with some brilliantly offbeat lines.-The New York Post
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