Drama
Discover the best drama books and captivating romance drama novels at our online bookstore, featuring top picks for adults and drama enthusiasts. Find good drama books and best-selling titles that showcase the finest drama in literature, perfect for your next read.
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The Taming of the ShrewA robust and bawdy battle of the sexes, this ever popular comedy captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills-and love-with her bridegroom, Petruchio. Their boisterous conflict is set off against a more conventional romantic plot involving...
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Theory/Theatre: An IntroductionThis edition of Theory/Theatre is a highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance. It is a comprehensive and accessible examination of current theoretical approaches, from semiotics and poststructuralism, through to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies, queer and feminist theories.Author:...
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The Missing Face"'The Missing Face' is Beholding...In this meticulously paced play, Ida...a true optimist about love, family and her culture, takes a great leap in rearing her son, Amaechi...until she decides to leave the masculine formation of her young man-child to his father, who is domiciled...
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The Last Judgment of Kings / Le Jugement Dernier Des Rois: A Bilingual EditionFirst performed the day after Marie-Antoinette's beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europe--paraded in chains like animals, made to brawl over a barrel of crackers, and finally obliterated by a spectacular volcanic eruption....
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The Drover's WifeTarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the indomitable Leah Purcell. Henry Lawson's story of the Drover's Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent'it's our frontier myth captured...
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Swallows and AmazonsAll aboard The Swallow Follow Captain John and his able crew as they set sail to Wildcat Island on an exotic adventure to encounter savages, capture dastardly pirates and defeat mortal enemies. An action-packed musical adventure, Swallows and Amazons is a story of an...
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Staging the Lyric: Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse DramaVerse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Caribbean, Staging the Lyric seeks to explain the 21st-century resurgence of Anglophone...
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Shakespeare's Political Spirit: Negative Theology and the Disruption of PowerAuthor: Nicholas LukePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/19/2024Pages: 284Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781009348249This title is not returnable
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SearedBrilliant, hot-headed chef Harry scores a mention in a food magazine with his signature scallops, and his business partner Mike finally sees profits within reach. The only problem is Harry refuses to recreate his masterpiece for the masses. Mix in a shrewd restaurant consultant...
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Packing Up PollyPolly Porter, famous 1970s gospel singer of the group Polly Porter & the Praise His Name Singers, has gone on up to heaven. Her daughter, Caroline, has come home to Savannah, Georgia, to pack up Miss Polly's house, but there is just one little...
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None a Stranger There: England And/In Europe on the Early Modern StageNone a Stranger There offers a collection of wide-ranging essays that explore the creation and understanding of English identity through the lens of early modern drama. Drawing together a rich array of disciplines--literary criticism, theater history, linguistics, book history, and performance studies--the scholars in...
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Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre: A Politics of Hope/lessnessPostmodern theatre is dead. A new theatre is rising - one that combines the well-worn postmodern aesthetics of irony, detachment, and deconstruction with a paradoxical interest in authenticity, engagement, and re-construction. Whilst recent scholarship has treated these evolving interests as unrelated shifts in performance...
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Man CaveImaculada has gathered her friends in the fortress-like mansion belonging to her absent employer, a wealthy Republican Congressman living high on a hill in Sedona, Arizona. Together they convert his luxurious basement man cave into their own spiritual war room and protective sanctuary from...
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ManahattaA gripping journey from the fur trade of the 1600s to the stock trade of today, Mary Kathryn Nagle's Manahatta tells the story of Jane Snake, a brilliant young Native American woman with a Stanford MBA. Jane reconnects with her ancestral homeland, known as...
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Macbeth"Macbeth," de William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare fue un dramaturgo y poeta ingl s, uno de los m s c lebres escritores de la literatura universal (1564-1616)Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 10/30/2014Pages: 54Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11dISBN: 9781503041813Language: SpanishThis...
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I'll Never Love AgainI'll Never Love Again is a theatrical chamber piece about first love, first heartbreak and how those early teenage experiences haunt the rest of our lives - created from the playwright's actual high school diary. It's performed by a chorus of 12+ people, and...
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Funny, You Don't Look Like a GrandmotherFunny You Don't Look Like a Grandmother is a humorous heartwarming revue that looks at modern grandmothers in a whole new light. These are the women who have thrown away the granny glasses shapeless black dresses and Red Cross shoes and replaced them with...
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Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital: The World of Extreme Happiness; Snow in Midsummer; The King of Hell's Palace"Some playwrights have a gift to amuse; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has a darker gift. Anyone with romantic notions of Chinese culture will be unsettled by the jagged, unsentimental portrait of modern urban China."(Chicago Reader) Poetic and devastating, sensuous and politically acute, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's...
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Country GirlsFourteen-year-old Megan hates country music singer Rick Montgomery, and she and her best friend Kimmy have decided tonight's concert will be his last. The two teens hatch an ill-conceived plot to kidnap the country music star in this laugh-out-loud, off beat comedy. Songs will...
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Contemporary Indigenous PlaysFive plays from around the country that illustrate the rich tradition of Indigenous storytelling as it flourishes in contemporary theatre. 'Each play is a durable, resilient stone that both builds upon Indigenous traditions but also lays the foundation for the generations that will follow.'...
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