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Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644242940Author J a CoronadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm)...

This collection of Chinese shadow plays contains seven selected traditional shadow plays from the Qing and early Republican periods from Shaanxi and Shanxi. A minor operatic genre, the Chinese shadow theatre provides one of the best avenues for examining...

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Aeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent...

When the National Socialist German Workers' party (Nazis) assumed power they vowed to cleanse the German theater of all things "un-German," which ostensibly included comedy. During the Third Reich nearly all German theaters, supported by...

In Homeric Megathemes D.N. Maronitis puts forward war, homilia, and homecoming as three themes central to Homer's two epic poems, the Illiad and the Odyssey. Branching out from each of these themes are certain semiotic and structural characteristics that...

Hyacinth is dead. Well no not yet; he's lost in the Nether Place. But what happened? Who killed him? Wait did someone kill him? And where's Apollo? That's all Hyacinth can remember at first: that his life truly began the night he locked eyes with the...

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This Element considers the concept of performance diagrams and shows their historical, epistemic and aesthetic functions in theatre and dance. In three sections, the author surveys the architectural model of theatre by Vitruvius, the woodcut of Marlow's...

Doctor Zhivago is a heartbreaking epic romance set during the final daysof Czarist Russia. Raised as an aristocrat Zhivago is a political idealist physician and poet whose life is tossed by the tides of history as he is tornbetween a life with his close...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987563427Author Bruce F KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Bruce F Katz, AuthorPublisher Bruce F Katz, AuthorWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

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Gracia is a Chicana writer and DREAMer. In order to draw attention to her work but not her undocumented status Gracia convinces her white and US-born best friend Mariza to perform her poetry. When Gracia's words launch Mariza into gaining a following as...

Dreamland (or a musical riff on Shakespeare's Midsummer set during the declassification of Area 51)is exactly what the title says it is or is it? Who thought it would be a good idea to give a group of honor students free rein over a top-secret military...

SIX DRAMA DESK AWARD NOMINATIONS INCLUDING OUTSTANDING MUSICALWINNER: THE NOVA SCOTIA MASTERWORKS AWARDWINNER: TORONTO CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS FOR BEST NEW MUSICAL & BEST DIRECTORWINNER: SEVEN THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA MERRITT AWARDS INCLUDING OUTSTANDING...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557834461Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

The Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps Oscar Wilde's most popular play - since its first performance in 1895, it has seen countless productions and three film adaptations, and, in the words of the journalist Mark Lawson, is 'the second most known and...

Bringing together in English translation eleven Francophone African plays dating from 1970 to 2021, this essential collection includes satirical portraits of colonizers and their collaborators (Bernard Dadie's Beatrice du Congo; Sony Labou Tansi's I,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956412048Author Michael MersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint N3Publisher N3Weight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm

This wonderful collection of Spanish drama from the golden age features four plays translated into English by Roy Campbell, and expertly edited by Eric Bentley: Siege of Numantia (Miguel de Cervantes), Fuente Ovejuna (Lope de Vega), The Trickster of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736492307Author Joan P MorencyFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Epiphany Artistic LicensePublisher Epiphany Artistic LicenseWeight(grams)...

This book is an exploration of the linguistic, structural, historical, and thematic relationships of religion and drama. It is not an attempt to sacralize drama so that it becomes a substitute for religion, nor will it reduce religion to its aesthetic...

Confessional literature stretches beyond autobiography and overlaps every literary genre. It is eminently dramatic and always performative, it is a hopeful crying out in response to crisis, and a plea for reconciliation with community. It is an...

This Instructor's Manual is intended as a handbook to accompany, clarify, and supplement the philosophy, methodology, and procedures presented in the text, A Road Map to Education, THE CRE-ACT WAY. It includes the CREative ACTing Principles and guide...

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Written by acclaimed playwright and fiction writer Rosemary Jenkinson, Billy Boy is a fiery new play about Belfast bonfire builders. Aaron is looking after the biggest and most controversial "boney" in the East side of Belfast and is determined to fight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776920266Author Hemi KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Te Herenga Waka University PressPublisher Te Herenga Waka University Press

Sixteen-year-old Keyonna and her older brother Samuel live on the brink of eviction while dreaming of a better tomorrow. Too smart "too gay" and too lonely to fit in Keyonna escapes into a world of rom coms red carpets and all the iconic characters...

Two Latina sisters sell their family home on a reality TV show hoping tocapitalize on gentri cation in the neighborhood. But once the cameras arerolling the family's turbulent past and uncertain future collide as the sistersreckon with the secrets held...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067437Author Holly MallettFormat PaperbackPage Count 65Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressWeight(grams) 84g

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Thomas Pavel has written extensively on poetics, linguistics, and narratology. In this book he proposes an original theory and methodology of plot analysis-a reading that draws upon the most fruitful aspects of literary structuralism and upon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557834614Author Richard StrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437610979Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones Catedra, S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra, S.A.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557832191Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557834522Author Glenn YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557832320Author Glenn YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...