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For more than 70 years ÊThe Best American Short PlaysÊ has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception it has identified cutting-edge playwrights Tennessee Williams Edward Albee and others who have gone on to establish award-winning careers.ÞÊThe Best American Short Plays 2014-2015Ê is the next installment from series editor William W. Demastes. This volume takes a look at the trinity Shakespeare coined as the lunatic the lover and the poet. The works in this volume explore whimsical imaginative humorous and romantic themes.ÞIn the introduction Demastes writes What really hits home in Shakespeare's plays is how he uses his own seething brain to put things onstage that cool reason will never be able to comprehend. He shows us that the world is more than facts and figures that humans are connected by more than a balance sheet and that life is more than biology. The wonderful short plays in this collection delve into the spectrum of emotions that bubble beneath cool reason and remind us about the some of the aspects that make life worth living for better or worse ä the insanity the beauty the unbridled joy and the mystery.

The Best American Short Plays 2014-2015

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    Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
    Publication Date: 01/07/2016
    ISBN13: 9781495046483, 978-1495046483
    ISBN10: 1495046486

    Number of Pages: 400

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    For more than 70 years ÊThe Best American Short PlaysÊ has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception it has identified cutting-edge playwrights Tennessee Williams Edward Albee and others who have gone on to establish award-winning careers.ÞÊThe Best American Short Plays 2014-2015Ê is the next installment from series editor William W. Demastes. This volume takes a look at the trinity Shakespeare coined as the lunatic the lover and the poet. The works in this volume explore whimsical imaginative humorous and romantic themes.ÞIn the introduction Demastes writes What really hits home in Shakespeare's plays is how he uses his own seething brain to put things onstage that cool reason will never be able to comprehend. He shows us that the world is more than facts and figures that humans are connected by more than a balance sheet and that life is more than biology. The wonderful short plays in this collection delve into the spectrum of emotions that bubble beneath cool reason and remind us about the some of the aspects that make life worth living for better or worse ä the insanity the beauty the unbridled joy and the mystery.

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