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Job by Joseph Roth
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01'Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely commonplace Jew...' So Roth begins his novel about the loss of... -
Giorgio Strehler Directs Carlo Goldoni by Scott Malia 9780739181911
Booksplease Price: $178.21Giorgio Strehler Directs Carlo Goldoni uses Giorgio Strehler's Goldoni productions (and Arlecchino servitore di due padroni in particular) as a means to defining his directorial aesthetic. The book... -
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 49 Professor Markus Wessendorf 9781640141865
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $123.90The Brecht Yearbook, published by Camden House on behalf of the International Brecht Society, is the central scholarly forum for the study of Brecht's life and work and of topics relevant to him. ... -
Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture by Michael Gibbs Hill 9780190278281
Booksplease Price: $94.79Lin Shu, Inc. explores the dynamic interactions between literary translation, commercial publishing, and the politics of "traditional" Chinese culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth... -
The Vanished Musicians: Jewish Refugees in Australia by Albrecht Dumling 9783034319515
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.52About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as... -
The Use of Asian Theatre for Modern Western Theatre: The Displaced Mirror by Min Tian 9783030403676
Booksplease Price: $147.81This book is a historical study of the use of Asian theatre for modern Western theatre as practiced by its founding fathers, including Aurelien Lugne-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats,... -
Rebellion by Joseph Roth
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.18At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded veteran is satisfied with... -
Anna Seghers: The Mythic Dimension by Helen Fehervary 9780472112159
Booksplease Price: $164.76Once celebrated as the author of the bestselling antifascist novel The Seventh Cross, Anna Seghers was largely forgotten within Anglo-American letters during the Cold War era. The release of archival... -
All My Sons Arthur Miller 9781350245822
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.46'His drama is a piece of expert dramatic construction. Mr. Miller has woven his characters into a tangle of plot that springs naturally out of the circumstances of life today.' NEW YORK TIMES ... -
Exiles from Dialogue Jean Baudrillard (.) 9780745639918
Booksplease Price: $33.01Not long ago, two friends Jean Baudrillard and Enrique Valiente Noailles the one having come from Buenos Aires, the other from nowhere, met in Paris. They had a long discussion without any precise... -
Modernity and Metropolis: Writing, Film and Urban Formations by Peter Brooker 9780333801680
Booksplease Price: $176.59A study of urban identity and community looks at selected twentieth century literary and film texts in the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization... -
Brecht and Method by Fredric Jameson
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.35The legacy of Bertolt Brecht is much contested, whether by those who wish to forget or to vilify his politics, but his stature as the outstanding political playwright and poet of the twentieth... -
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater by Joseph Cermatori
RRP: $61.43Booksplease Price: $43.37A groundbreaking study on the vital role of baroque theater in shaping modernist philosophy, literature, and performance.Finalist for the Outstanding Book Award by the Association for Theatre in... -
Messing About in Boats by Michael Hofmann
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $66.85Written by the eminent poet Michael Hofmann, this approachable and companionable book offers readings of four poems on the subject of boats. Based on Michael Hofmann's Clarendon lectures, this... -
The Third Walpurgis Night: The Complete Text by Karl Kraus
Booksplease Price: $59.92The first complete English translation of a far-seeing polemic, written in 1933 by the preeminent German-language satirist, unmasking the Nazi seizure of power"[A] drop-dead analysis of the... -
The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott 9780691206080
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of... -
The Modernist Screenplay: Experimental Writing for Silent Film by Alexandra Ksenofontova 9783030505882
Booksplease Price: $166.69The Modernist Screenplay explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature. It connects the history of screenwriting for silent film to the history of literary modernism in France,... -
Dea Loher: Three Plays by Dea Loher 9781783190621
Booksplease Price: $43.84Dea Loher is one of the most powerful and individual voices in German theatre today. This volume brings together three of her plays to be performed in English.Olga's RoomCommunist. Jew. Revolutionary... -
Capital in the Mirror: Critical Social Theory and the Aesthetic Dimension by Dan Krier 9781438477756
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $135.74Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism's darkest dynamics.Aesthetic objects, crafted as... -
Exiles from Dialogue by Jean Baudrillard 9780745639901
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36Not long ago, two friends Jean Baudrillard and Enrique Valiente Noailles the one having come from Buenos Aires, the other from nowhere, met in Paris. They had a long discussion without any precise... -
Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination by W. Gruber 9781349384495
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $64.80Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination is a study of extrascenic space and how playwrights have used narrative as an alternative to conventional scenic enactment. The book... -
The Creation of an Avant-Garde Brand: Heiner Mueller’s Self-Presentation in the German Public Sphere by Jens Pohlmann 9781800798922
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $83.32"Pohlmann's study of Muller's media presence is one of the few English-language books on this important postwar dramatist in the past two decades. Embedded in a discussion of avant-garde aesthetics... -
PHANTOM GANG by Ciaran O'Rourke 9781838201845
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $27.55With lyric grace and meditative clarity, Phantom Gang offers a daring dissection of civilizational violence in a variety of contexts from the intimate atavisms and inequalities of Irish history to... -
Mary and the Hyenas by Maureen Lennon 9781839044328
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75'I write. I demand. I ask. Not for women to have power over men but over themselves.' Trailblazing writer, feminist philosopher, and fearless campaigner for women's rights, Mary Wollstonecraft... -
Widows by Ariel Dorfman
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07A smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of... -
Writing to Change the World - Anna Seghers, Authorship, and International Solidarity in the Twentieth Century by Marike Janzen 9781640140141
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41This book begins to recover the global history of solidarity as a principle of authorship, taking Anna Seghers (1900-1983) as an exemplar and reading her alongside prominent contemporaries: Brecht,... -
The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy by Martin Puchner 9780199730322
Booksplease Price: $92.84Most philosophy makes little mention of the theater except to denounce it as a place of illusion and moral decay. The theater has tended to respond in kind by steering away from philosophy, driven by... -
Red Aesthetics: Rodchenko, Brecht, Eisenstein by Todd Cronan 9781538147108
Booksplease Price: $65.99Red Aesthetics offers a new way to think about art and politics, focusing on the revolutionary work of Aleksandr Rodchenko, Bertolt Brecht, and Sergei Eisenstein between the wars. Todd Cronan shows... -
![Gay Plays: v.4: "A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep", "Round 2", "Days of Cavafy", "Wild Blue" by Michael Wilcox 9780413618900](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5256879/5334139/9780413618900__18850.1724805814.jpg?c=1 "Gay Plays: v.4: "A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep", "Round 2", "Days of Cavafy", "Wild Blue" by Michael Wilcox 9780413618900")
Gay Plays: v.4: "A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep", "Round 2", "Days of Cavafy", "Wild Blue" by Michael Wilcox 9780413618900
Booksplease Price: $62.13Eric Bentley's Round 2 is a gay version of La Ronde set in New York in the 70s at a time when homosexuals were becoming increasingly visible and confident - in this series of encounters, sex... -
Trilogy of Resistance by Antonio Negri 9780816672943
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53With Trilogy of Resistance, the political philosopher Antonio Negri extends his intervention in contemporary politics and culture into a new medium: drama. The three plays collected for the first... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973 by W. H. Auden
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $147.24W. H. Auden called opera the "last refuge of the High Style," and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after... -
German Writers in Soviet Exile, 1933-1945 by David Pike 9780807865804
Booksplease Price: $113.35German Writers in Soviet Exile, 1933-1945 explores the lives and work of several dozen German Communist writers and cultural functionaries who were given asylum in Stalin's Russia when Hitler came to... -
Poetry for the Many: An Anthology by Jeremy Corbyn 9781682194331
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.43Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal... -
The Lady from the Sea by Simon Stone 9781350605305
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.60You can't lie to family.I think we lie to family more than anyone else.The Lady from the Sea is a thrilling dissection of desire, loss and rebirth for the contemporary age.Fearful she may have... -
The Twilight World: Discover the first novel from the iconic filmmaker Werner Herzog by Werner Herzog
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61In his first novel, Werner Herzog tells a hypnotic tale inspired by the true story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small island for twenty-nine years after the end of WWII1944: Lubang Island,... -
Bohemia in London: The Social Scene of Early Modernism by Peter Brooker 9780230546929
Booksplease Price: $90.25This original study discovers the bourgeois in the modernist and the dissenting style of Bohemia in the new artistic movements of the 1910s. Brooker sees the bohemian as the example of the modern... -
Performing Unification: History and Nation in German Theater after 1989 by Matt Cornish 9780472037568
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.40Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the most important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification. Some have challenged how German history is... -
Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism by Anat Matar 9781501343704
Booksplease Price: $72.97In the last half-century Ludwig Wittgenstein's relevance beyond analytic philosophy, to continental philosophy, to cultural studies, and to the arts has been widely acknowledged. Wittgenstein's... -
Weimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the Weltbuhne and Its Circle by Istvan Deak 9780520305649
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $74.43The Germany between the two world wars, which produced some of the greatest literary lights of the century, also produced a forum worthy of them: the brilliantly edited, crusading, lef-oriented (but... -
Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo by Yasco Horsman
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national...