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Shakespeare and Virtue: A HandbookThis volume maps Shakespearean virtue in all its plasticity and variety, providing thirty-eight succinct, wide-ranging essays that reveal a breadth and diversity exceeding any given morality or code of behaviour. Clearly explaining key concepts in the history of ethics and in classical, theological, and...
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Pretty Women Curse, Ugly Men SingEnosh runs away from home with his Uncle after the death of his grandfather. He holds the same aspirations of being somebody. He doesn't know that his father has left him with his grandparents. Told his whole life that his parents had died in...
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25 PlaysRobert Heide is a seminal playwright in the Off-Off-Broadway coffee-house theatre movement. His plays have been produced in New York's Greenwich Village at the famed Caffe Cino and in the East Village by Ellen Stewart at La Mama, by Crystal Field and George Bartenieff...
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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar for Kids: 3 Short Melodramatic Plays for 3 Group SizesWho will you be? Caesar? Brutus? The spooky soothsayer?!Julius Caesar like you have never experienced it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 5-17+ actors, kids, families, or anyone who wants to enjoy and perform Shakespeare's classic play. Julius Caesar for Kids...
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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar for Kids: 3 Short Melodramatic Plays for 3 Group SizesWho will you be? Caesar? Brutus? The spooky soothsayer? Julius Caesar like you have never experienced it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 5-17+ actors, kids, families, or anyone who wants to enjoy and perform Shakespeare's classic play. Julius Caesar for...
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ForsakenYou will be captivated by the unique perspective of one couple's experience of trials and tribulations in their blended family. Their dramatic life story will capture your heart and leave you breathless at the challenges they face and the stunning revelations of abuse they...
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The Spirit of Robbie BurnsThe whole world knows the legend that is Scotland's national bard, Robert Burns. But what was the story behind the meteoric success of this literary genius, whose works are still performed and enjoyed to this very day?Appearing in print for the first time, Robert...
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LysistrataThe humor in LYSISTRATA is the focus of this latest adaptation. Playwright Edward Einhorn, known for his comic absurdist plays, translates the ancient Greek humor into something equally amusing to a modern audience, without losing the flavor of the ancient text. Complete with essays,...
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Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman: Six PlaysRich 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....
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The Madman and the Nun and The Crazy Locomotive: Three Plays (including The Water Hen}Startling discontinuities and surprises erupt throughout these avant-garde landscapes by Poland's outstanding modern dramatist where duchesses and policemen, gangsters and surrealist painters, psychiatrists and locomotive engineers wander in and out, kill one another, and carry on philosophical conversations at the same time.Author: Stanislaw Ignacy...
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The Director's Voice: Twenty-One InterviewsForemost stage directors describe their working process: JoAnne Akalaitis, Arvin Brown, Ren Buch, Martha Clarke, Gordon Davidson, Robert Falls, Zelda Fichandler, Richard Foreman, Adrian Hall, John Hirsch, Mark Lamos, Marshall W. Mason, Des McAnuff, Gregory Mosher, Harold S. Prince, Lloyd Richards, Peter Sellars, Andrei...
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Encore! More Winning Monologs for Actors: 63 More Honest-To-Life Monologs for Teenage Boys and GirlsSo great were the reviews and the response to Winning Monologs for Young Actors that we had to develop this sequel This monolog book includes 63 more monologs written expressly for teenagers to use for classroom exercises, speech contests, auditions, or simply as discussion...
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TidelineWahab, a young man born in Montreal, decides to bury his deceased father in his native Lebanon. In Lebanon, along with a few friends, Wahab confronts a country scarred by war, where an additional corpse is one too many. The young Montrealerthen embarks on...
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Oedipus the King and AntigoneTranslated and edited by Peter D. Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy-Oedipus the King and Antigone-for performance and study. The editor's introduction contains a brief biography of the playwright and a description of...
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The God Of VengeanceB B C correspondent David Mazower (Sholem Asch's great-grandson) described THE GOD OF VENGEANCE as "admired, translated, parodied, panned, banned, prosecuted, withdrawn, forgotten, revived, celebrated." An international sensation after its 1907 world premiere in Berlin at Max Reinhard's Deutsches Theater, Asch's play quickly became...
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Eat the RuntA satirical piece which turns its sharp eye on political correctness, office politics, sexual harassment, religious persuasions, and societal and cultural norms. The actors don't know which role they'll play until the audience decides for them at each performance. The actors forge their own...
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Plays By Robert ChesleyThis collection includes two full-length plays, STRAY DOG STORY and JERKER, and three interconnected one-acts, DOG PLAYS. STRAY DOG STORY: In the opening scene a "lonely faggot" named Jon wishes out loud that his faithful Buddy were human and his lover. "If people were...
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Slavs!A fantastical/political/historical exploration of life in the Soviet Union in the earliest dawn of Perestroika. In scenes ranging from the inner chambers of the Politburo to a secret chamber beneath Lenin's Tomb to a medical facility near a radioactive disposal site in Siberia, SLAVS...
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Class Reunion and Other PlaysFive provocative and surprising one-act plays about all manner of need, love, and survival. "Kermit Frazier is one of the most underrated, under-the-radar African American playwrights of his generation.... [His] plays are both lyrical and richly theatrical. And while they typically deal unflinchingly with...
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Shakespeare's WordcraftWritten for readers who have a passion for Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Wordcraft takes a comprehensive look at Shakespeare's stellar use of language devices throughout his plays, devices he used to ink memorable lines like these: - I must be cruel only to be kind -...
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