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The Social Significance of Modern Drama
(1/1/2000) Out of print virtually since its completion in 1914, Emma Goldman's pioneer work Social Significance in Modern Drama bridges modern drama and political philosophy, pointing out the road that remains to be travelled toward a theatre of social empowerment. Activist, feminist, philosopher and anarchist, Emma Goldman was a passionate thinker about all things modern when the 20th century was still raw and new. The emergence of her treatise on the theatre after years of obscurity is certain to arouse ... |
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The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Stage Plays
(2000) A collection of five stage plays from this brilliant writer: Middle of the Night, The Tenth Man, Gideon, The Passion of Josef D., and The Latent Heterosexual. Includes an introduction by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
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My Life with Noël Coward
(2000) Payn, who performed as an actor and singer in several Coward plays, lived with the playwright as part of his extended family for 30 years and now administers his estate. Written with Barry Day, an advertising executive, this effusively affectionate memoir of Coward (1899-1973), best known for his sophisticated comedies (Blithe Spirit, Private Lives), is a giddily gossipy account of the luminary's long theatrical career and glittering social life. Renowned actors-Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrenc... |
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The Best Burlesque Sketches
(2000) Here is the first-ever collection of classic comic sketches from the bawdy, rowdy world of our slum music halls! Habitues of Burlesque (and sons of habitues) will revel in the boisterous stock scenes and blackouts of this uniquely American form of popular entertainment. Features a foreword by Dick Martin. |
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The Best Short Plays of 1988-1989
(2000) Lose yourself in a universe of forces familiar and frightening in the 21 plays presented in this exclusive volume. The playwrights included here succeed in pushing back the boundaries of conventional dramatic expression. Among them, Lanford Wilson dissects a survivor's anguish after his lover's death in A Poster of the Cosmos and Deborah Pryor spins an eerie tale of spellbinding romance in The Love Talker. Richard Greenberg plots a battle of wills between a young writer and his elusive muse, whi... |
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Julius Caesar
(2000) These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of ... |
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The Tempest
(2000) The Applause edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest allows the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Readers and students are faced with real theatrical choices in each speech as the editors point out the challenges and opportunities to the actor and director at each juncture. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will ... |
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King Lear
(2000) These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of ... |
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Environmental Theater
(1973) Here are the exercises which began as radical departures from standard actor training etiquette and which stand now as classic means through which the performer discovers his or her true power of transformation. Available for the first time in fifteen years, this new expanded edition offers a new generation of theater artists the gospel according to Richard Schechner, the guru whose principles and influence have influenced a quarter century of theater. |
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Mastergate and Power Failure: 2 Political Satires for the Stage
(2000) The complete scripts to two of Larry Gelbart's most popular and powerful political satires. Review of Mastergate: "If George Orwell were a gag writer, he could have written Mastergate. Larry Gelbart's scathingly funny takeoff on the Iran-Contra hearings is a spiky cactus flower in the desert of American political theatre." - Jack Kroll, Newsweek. Review of Power Failure: "There is in his broad etching all the ethical outrage of an Arthur Miller kvetching. And, oh, so much more fun!" - Carolyn Cl... |
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The First Lulu
(2000) "The complete script to Frank Wedekind's symphony - or rather a cacophony - of deotic sexual rhetorics. Eric Bentley's achievement here as translator is a beautifully playable and juicy English; his larger gift is the opening to us of what must be ranked as among the supreme masterpieces of nineteenth-century theater." - Donald Lyons, The New Criterion |
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David Merrick - The Abominable Showman
(1993) The chief theater critic for the New York Daily News has written a frank portrait of Broadway's most famous producer, a man as renowned for his outrageous behavior and sharp business practices as for the string of hits that began in 1954 with Fanny , continued through the '60s and '70s with Gypsy , Hello, Dolly! and prestigious British imports like Marat/Sade and climaxed in 1980 with the lavish stage version of 42nd Street , which ran for nine years. As documented in his source notes, Kissel ha... |
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The New Radical Theater Notebook
(2000) This book traces three tumultuous decades of avant-garde theatre in the U.S. It begins with the Living Theatre, and explores diverse ensembles such as The Open Theatre, The Performance Group, and Bread and Puppet Theatre. It also looks at the women's theatre movement, and examines the work of Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman and more. There are sections devoted to ritual concepts, theatre in the streets, radical participation of the spectator, workshops in prisons, spectacles such a... |
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A Flea in Her Rear (or Ants in Her Pants) and Other Vintage French Farces
(2000) Ten French farces as translated by Norman R. Shapiro, including the title play by Feydeau and: The Poor Beggar and the Fairy Godmother (Allais) * Boubouroche, or She Dupes to Conquer (Courteline) * It's All Relative (Labiche) * Mardis Gras (Meilhac and Halevy) * and more. |
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Telling Moments: Fifteen Gay Monologues
(2000) Seventeen men are caught in the limelight of defining moments that range from poignant to crazily funny. Among this vivid cast are a priest sliding towards heresy, a self-styled aristocrat, a hustler looking for security, an enraged abandoned lover, and an overwrought porno director. |
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Creating a Character: A Physical Approach to Acting
(2000) For over 20 years, Moni Yakim has taught his unique blend of physical training and emotional exploration to a generation of American actors that include Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, and Kevin Kline. Now, for the first time, his acting process is available to every actor and theater professional. |
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Complete Works of William Shakespeare
(1997) This complete and unabridged edition contains every word that Shakespeare wrote — all 37 tragedies, comedies, and histories, plus the sonnets. You'll find such classics as The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew. This Library of Literary Classics edition is bound in padded leather with luxurious gold-stamping on the front and spine, satin ribbon marker and gilded edges. Other titles in this series include: Charlotte & Emily Bronte: The Complete Novels; Edgar Allan Poe: ... |
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The Craftsmen of Dionysus: An Approach to Acting
(2000) This book, by Jerome Rockwood and endorsed by actors such as Bruce Willis and Burgess Meredith, has been praised as the best acting textbook on the market today. It covers auditioning, blocking, relaxing, improvisation, standard stage speech, dialects and accents, movement in period plays, and much more. |
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Women on the Verge: Seven Avant Garde Plays
(2000) This anthology gathers together recent work by the finest and most controversial contemporary American women dramatists. Collectively, this magnificent seven seeks to break the mold of the well-wrought psychological play and its rigid emphasis on realisticsocio-political drama. Includes: Occupational Hazard (Rosalyn Drexler) ¥ Us (Karen Malpede) ¥ What of the Night? (Maria Irene Forne) ¥ Birth and After Birth (Tina Howe) ¥ and more. |
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Theatre World 1991-1992, Vol. 48
(2000) Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, has become a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacement producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and much, much more. There are special sections with biographical data, obituary information, listings of annual Shakespeare festivals and major drama a... |
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The Actor and the Text
(2000) These words of Cicely Berry, the voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speak to anyone who needs to speak his or her piece - in any arena, at sales meetings or religious revivals. Berry's book will insure that the speaker and the text gets heard - accurately and with true emotional range. Never again will one be accused of simply "reading a prepared statement." Berry's exercises to develop relaxation, breathing and muscular control will literally help everyone breathe easier when conf... |
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On the Open Road: New York Shakespeare Edition
(2000) Set in a landscape stripped bare by civil war, two "independents" forge an alliance of convenience in order to buy their way into the land of the free, the one safe haven in an otherwise lawless landscape. Hiding from marauding armies, they travel the country, gathering great art treasures from crumbling museums. But with the border to freedom in sight, they're captured by forces from the new coalition government. They can still buy their freedom - if they agree to do one little job for the new ... |
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The Collected Works of Harold Clurman
(2000) For six decades, Harold Clurman illuminated our artistic, social, and political awareness in thousands of reviews, essays, and lectures. His work appeared indefatigably in The Nation, The New Republic, The London Observer, The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, New York Magazine, and more. The Collected Works of Harold Clurman captures over six hundred of Clurman's encounters with the most significant events in American theatre - as well as his regular passionate embraces of dance, music, art an... |
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Theatre World 1990-1991, Vol. 47
(2000) Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, has become a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacement producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and much, much more. There are special sections with biographical data, obituary information, listings of annual Shakespeare festivals and major drama a... |
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The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992
(2000) Scripts for 13 short plays, including: Patricia BosworthÕs "Making Contact," Terrence McNallyÕs "Prelude and Liebestod," Arthur MillerÕs "The Last Yankee," Joyce Carol OatesÕ "Tone Clusters," Shel SilversteinÕs "The Devil and Billy Markham," Migdalia CruzÕ "Dreams of Home," Frank D. GilroyÕs "A Way with Words," A.R. GurneyÕs "The Open Meeting," Arthur KopitÕs "Success," Randy NoojinÕs "You CanÕt Trust the Male," Suzan-Lori ParkÕs "Snails," Murray SchisgalÕs "Extensions," and Jean-Cl... |
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The Life of the Drama
(2000) "Eric Bentley's radical new look at the grammar of theatre...is a work of exceptional virtue...CENTRAL, INDISPENSABLE...The book justifies its title by being precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the theatre...THIS IS A BOOK TO BE READ AGAIN AND AGAIN." - Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books |
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One-Act Comedies of Moliere: Seven Plays
(2000) These are the best of Moli?ere's masterful one-acts, blending broad farce and pointed wit to express his never-ending delight in human foibles. But Moli?re is more than just the "master of the laugh", for behind the comic gestures of these matchless rogues, tight-fisted masters, possessive lovers and elegant ladies lurk fears, insecurities and their consequences. |
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Theater Yearbook 1990-1991: The Complete Broadway and Off-Broadway Sourcebook
(2000) The Applause Best Plays Yearbook was started by Burns Mantle in 1919 and has appeared every year since then, becoming the standard reference book for American Theater. This volume features synposes and excerpts for the ten best plays of the 1990-1991 season, including: The American Plan ¥ Falsettoland ¥ The Good Times Are Killing Me ¥ Lost in Younkers ¥ Miss Saigon ¥ Our CountryÕs Good ¥ Shadowlands ¥ Six Degrees of Separation ¥ The Substance of Fire ¥ The Sum of Us ¥ and a special ci... |
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13 by Shanley
(2000) Thirteen plays by the Oscar-winning author of Moonstruck. Includes: "The Big Funk," "Savage in Limbo," "Danny and The Deep Blue Sea," "Welcome to the Moon," "The Red Coat," "Down and Out," "Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night," "Out West," "A Lonely Impulse of Delight," "Women of Manhattan," "The Dreamer Examines His Pillow," "Italian-American Reconciliation," and "Beggars in the House of Plenty." Also includes an introduction by the author. |
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Recycling Shakespeare
(2000) In the same way that Shakespeare himself continued to meditate and transform his own ideas and the shape they took, Marowitz gives us license to continue that meditation in productions extrapolated from ShakespeareÕs work. Shakespeare becomes the greatest of all catalysts who stimulates a constant re-formulation of the fundamental questions of philosophy, history and meaning. Marowitz introduces us to Shakespeare as an active contemporary collaborator who strives with us to yield a vibrant cont... |
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The Best American Short Plays 1990
(2000) A collection of 12 short plays from 1990. Includes: "Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam" - Ed Bullins; "Naomi in the Living Room" - Christopher Durang; "The Man Who Climbed the Pecan Trees" - Horton Foote; "Teeth" - Tina Howe; "Sure Thing" - David Ives; "Christmas Eve on Orchard Street" - Allan Knee; "Akhmatova" - Romulus Linney; "Unprogrammed" - Carol Mack; "The Cherry Orchard" - Richard Nelson; "Hidden in This Picture" - Aaron Sorkin; "Boy Meets Girl" - Wendy Wasserstein; "Abstinence" - Lanford Wilso... |
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Theatre and Drama in the Making: Antiquity to the Renaissance
(2000) Theatre and Drama in the Making introduces readers not only to important primary sources, but to the uses made of them by distinguished theorists, critics, and historians. Unlike other texts, it discusses theatre as a whole, embracing both the art of dramatic writing and the art of performance. Included in this new edition are greatly expanded sections covering "Latin Theatre and Drama" and "The Golden Age of Spain," as well as all the exciting new archaeological information relating to the exca... |
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Theater Yearbook 1988-1989: The Complete Broadway and Off-Broadway Sourcebook
(2000) The Applause Best Plays Yearbook was started by Burns Mantle in 1919 and has appeared every year since then, becoming the standard reference book for American Theater. This volume features synposes and excerpts for the ten best plays of the 1988-1989 season, including: Aristocrats ¥ The Cocktail Hour ¥ Eastern Standard ¥ Emerald City ¥ Gus and Al ¥ The Heidi Chronicles ¥ Lend Me a Tenor ¥ Other PeopleÕs Money ¥ Road ¥ Shirley Valentine. This value-packed volume also includes Al Hirschf... |
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I Am a Woman: The Journey of One Woman and Many Women
(2000) I Am A Woman is a journey, not through time so much as through realms of consciousness expressed in the haunting voices of some of literatureÕs most powerful women. Together, on the page or in performance, these voices weave a powerful and haunting tapestry. Each womanÕs struggle permeates anotherÕs triumph, and each triumph rings with the irony of its passing. Here is a repertoire of the heart. Among the selections: Pentimento ¥ Diary of Anne Frank ¥ Lady ChatterlyÕs Lover ¥ A Conversati... |
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Speak with Distinction: The Classic Skinner Method to Speech on the Stage
(2000) Widely recognized as the most complete and rigorous text of its kind since it was first published in 1942, Speak With Distinction is an invaluable resource. It presents a comprehensive study of the sounds of Spoken English in their most important phonetic environments. This most recent revision also adds much material for comparisons of speech sounds; suggestions for accurate, efficient and conversational ways of combining the sounds into connected utterance; indications that foster a working kn... |
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Classical Tragedy - Greek and Roman Eight Plays with Critical Essays
(2000) A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" - Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" - Aeschylus; "Oedipus the King" - Sophocles; "Antigone" - Sophocles; "Medea" - Euripides; "The Bakkhai" - Euripides; "Oedipus" - Seneca; "Medea" - Seneca. |
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The Best Short Plays 1989
(2000) A collection of eleven short plays from 1989. Includes: "The AuthorÕs Voice" - Richard Greenberg; "San Antonio Sunset" - Willy Holtzman; "There Is No John Garfield" - Ernest A. Joselovitz; "The Mask of Hiroshima" - Ernest Ferlita; "Penguin Blues" - Ethan Phillips; "Haiku" - Katherine Snodgrass; "Chemical Reactions" - Andrew Foster; "Dolores" - Edward Allan Baker; "April Snow" - Romulus Linney; "Trout" - William R. Lewis; "A Poster of the Cosmos" - Lanford Wilson. |
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The Monologue Workshop: from Search to Discovery in Audition and Performance
(2000) To those for whom the monologue has always been synonymous with terror, The Monologue Workshop will prove an indispensable ally. Jack PoggiÕs new book answers the long-felt need among actors for top-notch guidance in finding, rehearsing, and performing monologues. For those who find themselves groping for a speech just hours before their "big break," this book is their guide to salvation. The Monologue Workshop supplies the tools to discover new pieces before they become over-familiar, excavat... |
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Duo! Best Scenes for the 90s
(2000) Over one-hundred and thirty great scenes erupt from page to stage in this addition to the Applause Acting Series. Each scene has been selected as a freestanding dramatic unit offering two actors a wide range of theatrical challenge and opportunity. Each scene is set up with a synopsis of the play, character descriptions and notes on how to propel the scene to full power outside the context of the play. DUO! offers a full spectrum of age, region, genre, character, level of difficulty, and non-tra... |
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Womenswork: 5 New Plays from the Women's Project
(2000) The voices of five major playwrights offering a vibrant range of styles and themes can be heard here as they resound from the stage of The WomenÕs Project. Cassandra Medley - Ma Rose; Lavonne Mueller - Five in the Killing Zone; Marlane Meyer - Etta Jenks; Maria Irene Forenes - Abingdon Square; Sally Nemeth - Mill Fire. |
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Elizabethan Drama Eight Plays
(2000) Boisterous and unrestrained like the age itself, the Elizabethan theatre has long defended its place at the apex of English dramatic history. Shakespeare was but the brightest star in this extraordinary galaxy of playwrights. The stage boasted a rich and varied repertoire from courtly and romantic comedy to domestic and high tragedy, melodrama, farce, and histories. The Gassner-Green anthology revives the whole range of this universal stage, offering us the unbounded theatrical inventiveness of ... |
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Black Heroes: Seven Plays
(2000) Collected here for the first time are plays - many of which have been unavailable for decades - which pronounce a black American struggle for freedom, advancement and equality from the days of slavery to the era of civil rights. Includes: Emperor of Haiti by Langston Hughes; Nat Turner by Randolph Edmonds; In Splendid Error by William Branch; Harriet Tubman by May Miller; Paul Robeson by Phillip Hayes Dean; I, Marcus Garvey by Edgar White; and Roads of the Mountain Top by Roy Milner. |
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The Tutor
(2000) Pip Broughton has translated the play for The Old Vic with reverence for Brecht, an understanding of the social relationships in the play and last but not least with a fine feeling for the language. |
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Andromache
(2000) "Love? What does love mean in this fearsome drama? Not much that is affirmative. Not much to heat the heart of a sentimental spectator. It signifies a passion that amounts to illness, an alternately aching and frantic desire that cannot be slaked. The three characters who love strive to conquer love by straining their will power to its elastic limits.And what does loved mean here? Not the ecstasy of glowing with selflessness and basking in another's affection, but a tormenting burden that cannot... |
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Plays by American Women 1900-1930
(2000) Includes: Rachel Crothers: A ManÕs World ¥ Susan Glaspell: Trifles ¥ Georgia Douglas Johnson: Plumes ¥ Sophie Treadwell: Machinal ¥ Zona Gale: Miss Lulu Bett. |
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Life Is a Dream and Other Spanish Classics
(2000) A translation of four great Spanish dramas: Calderon de la Barca - Life is a Dream; Miguel de Cervantes - Siege of Numantia; Lope de Vega - Fuente Ovejuna - Tirso de Molina - The Trickster of Seville. |
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The Brute and Other Farces
(2000) All the farces of RussiaÕs greatest dramatist are rendered here in the classic lively translations which audiences and scholars alike applaud on the stage and in the classroom. The blustering, stuttering eloquence of ChekhovÕs unlikely heroes has endured to shape the voice of contemporary theatre. This volume presents seven minor masterpieces: Harmfulness of Tobacco, Swan Song, The Brute, Marriage Proposal, Summer in the Country, A Wedding, The Celebration. |
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Classical Comedy - Greek and Roman: Six Plays
(2000) Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight - varied, stimulating, broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century.- Leonard C. Pronko, author, Theatre East and West, Chair, Dept. of Theatre, Pomona College Includes: Aristophanes: Lysistrata, translated by Donald Sutherland; The Birds, translated by Walter Kerr; Menander: The Grouch, translated by Sheila DÕAtri; Plautus: Th... |
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Medieval and Tudor Drama: Twenty-Four Plays
(2000) The rich tapestry of medieval belief, morality, and manners, shines through this comprehensive anthology of the twenty-four major plays that bridge the dramatic worlds of medieval and Tudor England. Here are the plays that paved the way to the Renaissance and Shakespeare. In John GassnerÕs extensively annotated collection, the plays regain their timeless appeal and display their truly international character and influence. Medieval and Tudor Drama remains the indispensable chronicle of a drama... |
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Senior Square - 12 Monologues and a Rap
(2000) Nothing square about this place. Dreams and fears come in every size and shape as they take their places in John-Michael Williams' arresting new play. No scenery, no elaborate props; Senior Square is set in the human heart, and bursts with humor, wit and a warm understanding of a generation coming of age. Thirteen high school students stand at the crossroads of senior year. Where have they come from and where are they going? Easy to produce and delightful to direct, Senior Square offers challeng... |
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