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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mother Courage and Her Children A Chronicle of the Thirty Years War English Touring Theatre
Book SynopsisMother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht''s best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was published to coincide with the UK tour by English Touring Theatre in 2006.In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War of the seventeenth century, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. As the action of the play progresses between the years 1624 and 1646 she loses her children to the war but remains indomitable, refusing to part with her livelihood - the wagon. The play is one of the most celebrated examples of Epic Theatre and of Brecht''s use of alienation effect to focus attention on the issues of the play above the individual characters. It remains regarded as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century and one of the great anti-war plays of all time. The Berlin
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hitchcock Blonde Methuen Drama Methuen Drama Modern Plays
Book SynopsisTerry Johnson has won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 1994 and 1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, Critics Circle Best New Play 1995, Writers' Guild Best Play 1995, the Meyer-Whitworth Award 1993 and the John Whiting Award 1991. His plays include Insignificance, Hysteria and Piano/Forte. His other work includes Dead Funny, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, The Graduate, and The London Cuckolds. He has also directed The Memory of Water and The Libertine.
£16.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Penhall Plays 2 2 BlueOrange Dumb Show Wild Turkey v 2 Contemporary Dramatists
Book SynopsisPenhall''s 1994 play Some Voices was described as ''the most thrilling playwriting debut in years'' by the Sunday Times. He has consistently lived up to and exceeded that early promise as the plays in this second volume of his work testify. Characterised by a taut mood, a grappling with moral dilemmas, and tough, eloquent dialogue, punctuated by outrageously comic moments, the plays in this volume are: Blue/Orange: An incendiary tale of race, madness and power set in a psychiatric hospital. ''Britain''s best new play since Michael Frayn''s Copenhagen ... thrillingly original'' Financial Times Dumb Show sees TV star Barry caught in a tense game of manipulation and entrapment in this satire on the fame game and the media industry: ''Penhall brings the same sharpness and wit to Dumb Show that he did to his hugely successful Blue/Orange'' The Times Wild Turkey (1993): a characteristically tTrade Reviewon Wild Turkey: 'a taut morality tale about why mixing business with friendship is always a bad idea.' Time Out London 14/08/08Table of ContentsBlue/Orange; Dumb Show; Wild Turkey
£26.48
Saint Andrew Press Making the Known World New
Book SynopsisKenneth Steven’s reflections, inspired by his garden, have been compiled into a collection of short, enlightening pieces full of wonder at the variety, beauty, determination and sheer audacity of nature in a confined space.Trade Review‘Kenneth Steven has written a paradoxical and beautiful book: gentle and fierce, local and global, metaphysical and tactile.’ -- Robert Macfarlane‘I find myself dipping very naturally into the poems, which have great freshness and honesty, often amounting to a striking purity and a real grasp of the physical essence of things. They’re full of arresting phrases and images, and they’re full of heart.’ -- Graham Swift‘Questioning, delicate, wise and full of love.’ -- Jay Griffiths
£14.86
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Homer The Odyssey
Book SynopsisMartin Hammond was Head of Classics and Master in College at Eton College. He was also Headmaster of City of London School, and Tonbridge School, Kent. His acclaimed translation of the Iliad was published by Penguin Classics.Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics representthe beginning of the Western canon, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.
£35.38
Xlibris Corporation Rimbaud The Works A Season in Hell Poems Prose Illuminations
£18.99
Xlibris Corporation Myrmecophile Selected Poems 19802000
£14.00
AuthorHouse Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver
£11.67
AuthorHouse I Wouldnt Take Nothing for My Journey
£11.67
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CSS Publishing Company They Worshiped Him A Christmas Play with Carols
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CSS Publishing Company No Stable Too Small Fifteen Christmas Plays for Churches of All Sizes
£14.96
Scholars Press Hymns Prayers and Songs An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry 8 Writings from the Ancient World
£19.32
Human & Rousseau (Pty) Ltd Katalekte artefakte vir die stadige gebruike van doodgaan
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Theban Plays Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone
Book SynopsisThis elegant and uncommonly readable translation will make these seminal Greek tragedies accessible to a new generation of readers.Trade Review"I would recommend the translation without reservations. I expect that students and the general public will find these works newly exciting. This is clearly a translation well suited to success both in the classroom and in the theater." - Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University"Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionMapTime LineOedipus the KingOedipus at ColonusAntigoneNotesGlossary of Terms from Greek TragedyGlossary of NamesSuggested for Further Reading
£22.50
LSU Press Living on the Surface New and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisThe poems in this collection cover thirty years of loving contact with the endlessly varied surfaces of the world. They are poems in which the common furniture of our lives is always present, in which the universal resides in the local, in which elegance is born of clarity.
£20.61
LSU Press Memories of the Future The Daybooks of Tina Modotti
Book SynopsisTina Modotti, known to a few as the beautiful Italian actress in Erich von Stroheim's silent film Greed, was also a dedicated political activist and photographer whose best work has a powerful dignity and integrity. Margaret Gibson's Memories of the Future is based on Modotti's vivid but enigmatic life.
£15.95
LSU Press Black Face Maligned Race The Representation of Blacks in English Drama from Shakespeare to Southerne
Book SynopsisConsiders the influence of English political, social, and theatrical history on the depiction of black characters on the English stage from 1589 to 1695. Anthony Barthelemy shows that almost without exception blackness was associated with treachery, evil, and ugliness.
£33.41
LSU Press Sparks from a NinePound Hammer Poems Southern Messenger Poets
Book SynopsisSometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hammer down and sparks fly up. This, then, is a collection of facts.Trade Review"Tell me a story / of speed and tell it to me fast for the light is / gaining and I will wake and with this body / break the barrier between what I dream / and what my dreaming means."
£17.80
LSU Press Late Wife Poems Southern Messenger Poets
Book SynopsisA woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. The most personal of Claudia Emerson's poetry collections, Late Wife is both an elegy and a celebration of a rich present informed by a complex past.Trade Review"Late Wife tells the story of love lost and redeemed. In Emerson's hands, heartbreak and healing turn as tangible as the material world she observes with such love and such precision." - Mark Jarman"
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Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres Selected Plays
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Embodiment of Knowledge
Book SynopsisWCW, The Embodiment of Knowledge. Early essays.
£11.39
Wayne State University Press Hlderlin Poetics of Being Annotated Bibliography and Guide
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive introduction for the English reader to the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin.
£51.21
Wayne State University Press Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance
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Wayne State University Press From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot
Book SynopsisIsrael Zangwill was Anglo Jewry's renowned writer. Uniting Zangwill's three plays and containing an in-depth introduction by the author, this volume includes a biography of Zangwill that pertains to these works and situates them within the Anglo-American theater of the time.
£33.26
Wayne State University Press Looking WithinMirar Adentro Selected Poems 19542000 African American Life Selected PoemsPoemas escogidos 19542000 African American Life Series
Book SynopsisThe African Cuban poet Nancy Morejon set out at a young age to explore the beauty and complexities of the life around and within her. This anthology contains poems which present themes icluding: social and political concern, African identity, women's experiences, and hope for Cuba's future.
£27.50
Wayne State University Press What Mama Said An Epic Drama African American Life African American Life Series
Book SynopsisA drama set in the metaphorical state of Sufferland, whose people are starving and routinely exploited and terrorized by corrupt government officials and multinational oil companies - that is, until a voice erupts and moves the wounded women and youths to rise up and demand justice.
£25.60
Wayne State University Press In Line for the Exterminator Great Lakes Books Series
Book SynopsisExplains the urban working-class landscape. This title presents blue-collar culture both in and out of the workplace, showing its influence on the lives of workers and their families. It deals with the specter of urban violence that haunts the community and threatens to tear it apart.
£17.05
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) To Our Bodies Turn We Then
Book SynopsisFrom his early love poetry to his late religious writing, John Donne speaks of the human body as a book to be read and interpreted. Unlike modern thinkers who understand the body as a purely material phenomenon or post-modern critics who see in it a text produced by culture, Donne understands the body as a (scriptural) text written by God. In this study, McDuffie offers a comprehensive interpretation of Donne''s reading of the body. In Donne''s imaginative universe, the human person lies at the center of the great interconnected web of God''s signs and acts. As such, he makes it the touchstone of his own theology. While his anthropology is basically orthodox, the emphasis Donne places on the body and the role it plays in his religious poetics are distinctive. Refusing to restrict God''s revelation to the written words of Scripture, Donne turns habitually to the book of the human body as a collection of signs that indicate God''s nature, his intent, and the human condition. He also, at Trade Review"In this essay, Felecia McDuffie retireves the full theological significance of the "body" in Joh Donne's theology. Eschewing partisan paradigms, McDuffie instead embraces faithful close-reading of Donne in context. Her rigor and attentiveness richly reward the reader with a bench-mark study in the history of Donne scholarship that upends much of what we thought we knew of his theology." -David S. Pacini, Emory University * Blurb from reviewer *Title mention/ brief summary in Church Times * Church Times *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Created Body; 2. The Fallen Body; 3. Bodies Redeemed and Redemptive; 4. The Eschatological Body; 5. Reading the Trajectory of Salvation in the Book of the Body; Appendix A: Literature Review - The Body in the Context of Donne Scholarship; Appendix B: Donne's Representations of the Body in the Their; Historical Context; Works Cited
£37.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Twelfth Night
Book SynopsisAims to promote sophisticated literary analysis through the concept of character. This study demonstrates the necessity of linking character analysis to texts' themes, issues and ideas, and encourages students to embrace the complexity of literary characters and the texts in which they appear.Trade Review"Each book in the ‘Character Studies' series edited by Ashley Chantler is a recommended pick for high school and college-level libraries alike, providing fine literary analysis through concept of character which makes this an excellent choice for drama as well as literary students." -Midwest Book Review -- James A. Cox'Great starting points for first-timers, and food for thought for familiars.' - Will Sharpe, The Shakespeare Bookshop Newslettermention in Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Tome LXXII (2010) Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface; Introduction: An Overview of Twelfth Night; 1. 'Characters' in Early Modern Drama; 2. Orsino; 3. Viola; 4. Sir Toby, Maria and Sir Andrew Aguecheek (and Fabian); 5. Feste; 6. Malvolio; 7. Olivia; 8. Antonio and Sebastian; Conclusion: Through the Characters to the Key Themes and Issues Bibliography of Further Reading; Index.
£26.48
Penguin Random House LLC One Hundred Frogs From Renga to Haiku to English
£16.51
Gracewing A Theatre of Envy
£23.52
Gracewing Collected Poems of Therese of Lisieux
£16.59
Gracewing The Dream of Gerontius
£11.64
Mercier Press The Field
Book SynopsisA fascinating play about a man's greed for land.
£13.29
George Ronald Publisher Prison Poems
£17.58
O'Brien Press The Midnight Court
Book SynopsisAward-winning edition of this outstanding translation of Brian Merriman's eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece.
£13.62
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Choephoroe Aeschylus Choephori Greek Texts
Book SynopsisAnthony Bowen is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
£29.44
St. Martins Press-3PL New Poems
Book SynopsisOriginally published in two volumes in 1907 and 1908, this collection of poetry, now available in a superlative new translation, by the acclaimed poet includes such works as "The Panther" and "Archaic Torso of Apollo."
£15.00
North Point Press Sonnets To Orpheus
Book SynopsisA collection of sonnets written four years before Rilke's death explores death through the Greek myth of Orpheus, imagining death as one of many transformative experiences in the human condition. Reprint.
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North Point Press Wrecks and Other Plays
£12.34
North Point Press Red Light Winter A Play
£10.44
Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3pl Conversations in Tusculum
£8.99
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Fantasy Fashion Affection
£14.20
HarperCollins Publishers Human Wishes American Poetry Series
£12.19
