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Book Dramatic Re visions

Download or read book Dramatic Re visions written by Susan M. Steadman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students and theatre practitioners should find this comprehensive bibliography a vital resource for any investigation into feminist drama, theatre and performance. Throughout this book the author presents the feminist challenge to re-vision the ways we look at, teach, practice, and represent our culture.

Book Ottemiller s Index to Plays in Collections

Download or read book Ottemiller s Index to Plays in Collections written by John Henry Ottemiller and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.

Book Contemporary Women Dramatists

Download or read book Contemporary Women Dramatists written by Kathryn Ann Berney and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of contemporary women playwrights, written by subject experts.

Book The Spanish Civil War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stanley G. Payne
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-08-06
  • ISBN : 1139536249
  • Pages : 475 pages

Download or read book The Spanish Civil War written by Stanley G. Payne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker revolution in the history of Western Europe. Stanley Payne explains the character of the Spanish revolution and the complex web of republican politics, while also examining the development of Franco's counter-revolutionary dictatorship. Payne gives attention to the multiple meanings and interpretations of war and examines why the conflict provoked such strong reactions at the time, and long after. The book also explains the military history of the war and its place in the history of military development, the non-intervention policy of the democracies and the role of German, Italian and Soviet intervention, concluding with an analysis of the place of the war in European affairs, in the context of twentieth-century revolutionary civil wars.

Book The Crow Trap  A Vera Stanhope Novel 1

Download or read book The Crow Trap A Vera Stanhope Novel 1 written by Ann Cleeves and published by Pan. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crow Trap is the first book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major TV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera. Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie's Cottage on the North Pennines, to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal... Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after a double betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Anne, a botanist, sees the survey as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman, hiding plenty of her own secrets. Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, where she discovers the body of her friend, Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide - a verdict Rachael refuses to accept. When another death occurs, a fourth woman enters the picture - the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope...

Book Learning to Live Out Loud

Download or read book Learning to Live Out Loud written by Piper Laurie and published by Back Stage Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted actress recounts her early shyness and anxieties, her years as a contract actress at Universal, her break with the studio system, her subsequent career in film, the theater, and television, and her personal life.

Book The Wheel Spins

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ethel Lina White
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2018-03-22
  • ISBN : 3746034272
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book The Wheel Spins written by Ethel Lina White and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Carr is on her way home to England from a vacation in a remote corner of Europe. Feeling alone and afraid, she is quite glad to become acquainted with a strange woman: Miss Froy. But then Miss Froy vanishes - and no one on the train seems to remember her.

Book Epigrams from Martial

Download or read book Epigrams from Martial written by Martial and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Step Right Up    I m Gonna Scare the Pants Off America

Download or read book Step Right Up I m Gonna Scare the Pants Off America written by William Castle and published by William Castle Productions. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nostalgia vies with rollicking good fun in these anecdote-studded memoirs of legendary horror director William Castle. Remember the Lloyds of London life insurance policy that protected moviegoers if they were frightened to death by "Macabre"? Or the theatre seats that buzzed when "The Tingler" came on screen...and refunds for cowards who could not face the last terrifying minutes of "Homicidal"?

Book Finn Family Moomintroll

Download or read book Finn Family Moomintroll written by Tove Jansson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moomintroll and his friends, Snufkin and Sniff, find a hat with magical powers.

Book The African Queen

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  • Author : C. S. Forester
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 1984-06
  • ISBN : 9781417648535
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The African Queen written by C. S. Forester and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1984-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Sayer joins forces with the Cockney pilot of a dilapidated steam launch in a desperate journey along a Central African river

Book The Judge s House

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  • Author : Bram Stoker
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2022-02-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book The Judge s House written by Bram Stoker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the story, a student arrives in a small town looking for a quiet place to stay while preparing for his examination. Making light of the local superstitions, he moves into an old mansion where a notorious hanging judge once lived. He is comfortably settled and engrossed in his work when, in the middle of the night, he is visited by an enormous rat with baleful eyes. As soon as the giant rat appears, other rats that infest the old house fall silent. When the great rat returns on the second night, the student begins to feel uneasy. He soon learns why the locals fear the Judge's House.

Book Viet Rock

    Book Details:
  • Author : Megan Terry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-12-11
  • ISBN : 9780881457216
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Viet Rock written by Megan Terry and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the use of dialogue, music, chant, dance, pantomime, and image, the play satirizes attitudes toward the Vietnam war. It attempts to present the very complicated, tragic, and helplessly divided atmosphere that prevailed in America, and to look at hapless emotions in a hopelessly complex mythology of war. With the technique of "transformations" the play unfolds. People change from flowers to individuals to machines, from one character to another, from character into actor into bystander and back to character or abstract image or comment; women change to men and back to women again. Americans change into Vietnamese into Viet Cong and back to American soldiers. The line of the play follows several soldiers from birth, to induction, to indoctrination, to overseas, to battle, to fraternization, and to death. Along the way we meet their mothers, their instructors, their superiors, their elected officials, their friends and their enemies, their tormentors and finally their ghosts. A strong ensemble spirit emerges via the actors' technique and interaction with one another and with the audience. The form of the play is constructed so as to manifest the reality of theatre--not as a replica of or comment upon life but as a part of life--and thus restore its urgency and relevance. ..".the best new play since THE BRIG and THE CONNECTION...the theme and scope the variety and density of VIET ROCK would have excited Brecht." Richard Schechner, T D R "VIET ROCK vividly expressed is a breakthrough...extraordinary on at least two counts. It is the first realized theatrical statement about the Vietnam war...and a rare instance of theater confronting issues broader than individual psychology...I would like to assert my admiration." Michael Smith, Village Voice "Wild...an acid indictment...ensemble acting effects that have to be seen to be believed...VIET ROCK has been brilliantly staged, these Open Theater types are contributing something new to the concept and technique of stagecraft." Tomo., Variety

Book The Burial of the Rats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bram Stoker
  • Publisher : Read Books Ltd
  • Release : 2019-02-15
  • ISBN : 1528786556
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book The Burial of the Rats written by Bram Stoker and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Burial of the Rats” is a 1914 short story by master story-teller Bram Stoker. Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847 – 1912) was an Irish author most famous for his 1897 Gothic novel “Dracula”, a seminal book that continues to influence the vampire genre in print and film to this day. This short, shiver-inducing story is perfect for lovers of the macabre and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Bram Stoker's bone-chilling horror fiction. Other notable works by this author include: “Miss Betty” (1898), “The Mystery of the Sea” (1902), and “The Jewel of Seven Stars” (1903). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Book The Primer of Humor Research

Download or read book The Primer of Humor Research written by Victor Raskin and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.

Book Twelve Angry Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Reginald Rose
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2006-08-29
  • ISBN : 9780143104407
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Twelve Angry Men written by Reginald Rose and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them—and of America, at its best and worst. After the critically acclaimed teleplay aired in 1954, this landmark American drama went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. More recently, Twelve Angry Men had a successful, and award-winning, run on Broadway. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.