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The Unseen Hand and Other Plays by Sam ShepardThe complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays: The Unseen Hand - Forensic and the Navigators - The Holy Ghostly - Back Bog Beast Bait - Shaved Splits - 4-H Club.Author: Sam ShepardPublisher: Applause BooksPublished: 05/01/2000Pages: 236Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.42h x 5.79w x...
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Scapino the TricksterWhen two misers return from abroad, their sons find their romances with two mysterious women in peril. They enlist the services of a wily servant to swindle, hoodwink, and bamboozle their way to a happy ending. Molière's most famous farce marries his signature wit...
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Death By ChocolateMembers of the newly renovated Meadowbrook Health Resort are dropping like flies, including famed chef Edith Chiles On the eve of the grand re-opening, this is not the best advertisement. It's up to John Stone, the manager, to find the cause and the murderer....
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The FieldThe Field is John B. Keane's fierce and tender study of the love a man can have for the land and the lengths of ruthlessness he will go to in order to obtain the object of his desire. It is dominated by the Bull...
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Physical Biology of the CellPhysical Biology of the Cell is a textbook for a first course in physical biology or biophysics for undergraduate or graduate students. It maps the huge and complex landscape of cell and molecular biology from the distinct perspective of physical biology. As a key...
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The Recognition of Shakuntala: Kashmir RecensionThis play was one of the first examples of Indian literature to be seen in Europe; it attracted considerable attention (among others, from Goethe), and indeed pained surprise that such a sophisticated art-form could have developed without the rest of the world noticing. A...
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Selected PlaysContents: Philadelphia, Here I Come; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations Brian Friel was born in County Tyrone in 1929 and worked as a teacher before turning to full-time writing in 1960. His first stage success was in 1964...
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As You Like ItUncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, only to become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust, and mistaken identity. One of Shakespeare's great comedies, As You...
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Many Loves and Other Plays: The Collected Plays of William Carlos WilliamsMany Loves, which ran for nearly a year (1959) in repertory at New York's famous Living Theatre, explores four varieties of human attachment, while A Dream of Love, first produced in 1949, is a penetrating and poetic treatment of infidelity and marriage. Tituba's Children,...
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The Comic Mask in the Commedia Dell'arte: Actor Training, Improvisation, and the Poetics of SurvivalWinner, 2007 University & College Designers Association Design Award Nobody says Shakespeare is dead, Antonio Fava tells us, but Commedia, they say, is dead. Why? Because clearly, he goes on, we have Shakespeare's texts, but nobody knows what to do with the improvisation that...
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Largo DesolatoProfessor Leopold Nettles, the "hero" of Largo Desolato, is the author of a book that contains a troublesome paragraph laying him open to arrest on charges of "disturbing the intellectual peace." Pressed by the government to recant, Nettles is tortured--by internal demons as well...
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First Love and Other ShortsThe volume brings together six previously uncollected works by the Nobel Prize-winning writer, among them a major work of fiction, First Love, which he began in French in 1946 but didn't finish translating into English until 1972. Also included is the stage work, Not...
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Three Days of Rain: A PlaySet in New York, Three Days of Rain centers on a brother Walker, his sister Nan, and their childhood friend Pip who meet to settle their parents' estate. The two fathers were long-time friends and partners in architecture; their legacy is the brilliantly daring...
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The Marriage of Bette and BooNever have marriage and the family been more scathingly or hilariously savaged than in this brilliant black comedy. The marriage of Bette and Boo brings together two of the maddest families in creation in a portrait album of family life's uncertainties and confusion. Bereaved...
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One Act: Eleven Short Plays of the Modern TheaterThese eleven one-act plays present the major figures of the modern theatre in an art form that demands from the dramatist the best in vigor, intensity, and precision. They conduct the reader on a historical tour of the modern play, from the naturalism of...
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HapgoodWith his characteristically brilliant wordplay and extraordinary scope, Tom Stoppard has in Hapgood devised a play that "spins an end-of-the-Cold-War tale of intrigue and betrayal, interspersed with explanations of the quixotic behavior of the electron and the puzzling properties of light" (New York Times)....
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MargaretA triumph . . . the sort of ambitious American storytelling you find too rarely at the movies.-Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Academy Award(R) nominated writer and director Kenneth Lonergan has written a stirring drama that was called extraordinarily ambitious by Time and a film...
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The Death of EmpedoclesOn the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first complete translation of the three versions, along with translations of...
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HamletEach title features: - A selection of the best criticism on the play through the centuries- Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the play in each century- A brief biography of Shakespeare- A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several...
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Artisans of the CrucifixionUse these dramatic monologues for a unique perspective on the events of Jesus' crucifixion. Viewed through the eyes of a Blacksmith, Carpenter, Stone Mason, Tanner, and Basket Maker, the presentations introduce the congregation to those who crafted the whip, wove the crown of thorns,...
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