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The Dance of Death by August Strindberg 9780393008203
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.23During the past two decades, The Dance of Death, Strindberg's long and taxing family drama, has come to be considered his masterpiece. Produced by major companies in New York and London, filmed once... -
A History of Modern Drama, Volume II: 1960 - 2000 by David Krasner 9781405157582
RRP: £68.95Booksplease Price: £63.42A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama... -
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Tennessee Williams's evocation of loneliness and lost love, The Glass Menagerie is one of his most powerful and moving plays. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a new introduction by... -
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age by Jennifer Wallace
Booksplease Price: £95.94In this book leading scholars come together to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging overview of tragedy in theatre and other media from 1920 to the present. The 20th century is often considered to... -
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age by Jennifer Wallace 9781350416819
Booksplease Price: £31.31In this book leading scholars come together to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging overview of tragedy in theatre and other media from 1920 to the present. The 20th century is often considered to... -
Equus by Peter Shaffer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the... -
Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience Professor Sherry Kramer (Bennington College, USA) 9781350338265
Booksplease Price: £22.11" Reading and digesting the lessons in this book can be of greater value to an aspiring dramatist than years in an MFA program. Whether you are writing for the stage, screen or audio, this book is an... -
Midcentury Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Atomic Age by Cecelia Tichi 9781479816651
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91A delightful history of cocktails from the era of new interstate highways, sprouting suburbs, and atomic engineering America at midcentury was a nation on the move, taking to wings and wheels along... -
The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present by J. Clum 9780230338401
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £63.26In studying performances of marriage in modern and contemporary British and American drama, Clum highlights the fact that - paradoxically - at a time when theatre was both popular entertainment and... -
Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience by Professor Sherry Kramer 9781350338272
Booksplease Price: £75.18" Reading and digesting the lessons in this book can be of greater value to an aspiring dramatist than years in an MFA program. Whether you are writing for the stage, screen or audio, this book is an... -
The Vital Lie: Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama by Anthony Abbott 9780817312022
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are... -
OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture by Julie R. Enszer 9781978828049
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £48.32Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emerging canon. OutWrite provided a space where literary... -
OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture by Julie R. Enszer 9781978828032
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emerging canon. OutWrite provided a space where literary... -
Our Lady of 121st Street: Jesus Hopped the a Train and in Arabia, We'd All Be Kings by Stephen Adly Guirgis
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571211883Author Stephen Adly GuirgisFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Faber & FaberPublisher... -
The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature by Reinhard Kuhn
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Kierkegaard claimed that the gods created man because they were bored, and Baudelaire predicted that the "delicate monster" of boredom would one day swallow up the whole world in an immense yawn... -
Goodnight Architecture: Poems by Gretchen Matox
Booksplease Price: £13.94This delicate, beautiful yet often heartbreaking collection peels back the layers of daily social convention and hardened family mythologies to reveal the viscous and resonant sorrows beneath. It... -
The Theatres of Moliere Gerry McCarthy 9780415259477
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Moliere's plays are the cornerstone of the French Classical dramatic repertoire. Adapted and exploited in his day by dramatists of the English Restoration, they are now again growing in popularity... -
Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman by Arnold Weinstein 9780691148243
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32Northern Arts is a magnificent and provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us... -
Grenadine by Neil Wechsler 9780300149920
Booksplease Price: £23.05Neil Wechsler's "Grenadine" has been chosen as the second winner of the Yale Drama Series. The play was selected by Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright and contest judge Edward Albee... -
Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas by Stephen Marino 9783030372927
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his... -
Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas by Stephen Marino 9783030372958
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his... -
Text & Presentation, 2013 by Graley Herren 9780786478934
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £39.58Text & Presentation, 2013 gathers some of the best work presented at the 2013 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore. Subjects ranging from Ancient Greece to 21st century America are covered... -
Lanford Wilson: Early Stories, Sketches, and Poems David Crespy 9780826223517
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.42Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, with such celebrated productions as The Hot l Baltimore, Fifth of July, Talley's Folly, and Burn This, he wrote dozens of short... -
Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing by David Yaffe 9780691123578
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature,... -
Plays of Impasse: Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions by Charles Rosen 9780691613260
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.43This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military... -
House of Several Stories by A. John Boulanger 9780573700088
Booksplease Price: £14.79Genre: Dark Comedy Characters: 2m, 3f Scenery: Interior Bastian returns home for Thanksgiving with news of "joining the service." Mother suggests he join a gym. Bastian's news takes a backseat when... -
Finding Our Place: 100 Memorable Adoptees, Fostered Persons, and Orphanage Alumni by Nikki McCaslin 9780313342707
Booksplease Price: £81.53This unique one-volume reference guide provides positive and empowering biographical sketches of 100 famous and well-known adoptees throughout time, serving to counter the many negative stereotypes... -
The Flu Season by Will Eno 9781840023701
Booksplease Price: £12.27No one in the middle of being in love ever sat down to write a love story. It's only after the belongings are sorted and the shirts returned that the pencils are sharpened and the notebooks opened... -
Virginia Woolf Icon by Brenda R. Silver 9780226757452
Booksplease Price: £92.50This text is about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so... -
Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard by Robert M Dowling 9781501195730
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £20.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501195730Author Robert M DowlingFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair by Frank Hauser 9781937295028
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.49Some years ago, Frank Hauser, then a retired freelance director, and writer Russell Reich, his former student, self-published Notes on Directing in hardcover. It was immediately acclaimed as "a... -
Staging America: Twenty-First-Century Dramatists by Christopher Bigsby
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.80This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Many of the American playwrights who dominated the 20th century are no longer with us:... -
The Stage Lives of Animals: Zooesis and Performance Una Chaudhuri 9781138818477
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14The Stage Lives of Animals examines what it might mean to make theatre beyond the human. In this stunning collection of essays, Una Chaudhuri engages with the alternative modes of thinking, feeling,... -
Stages of Struggle: Modern Playwrights and Their Psychological Inspirations by John Louis DiGaetani 9780786431571
Booksplease Price: £29.44One way or another, all playwrights use their work to explore the issues that interest them. The characters in a play may trumpet their creator's political views from the stage, or an unusual... -
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh 9780062078216
Booksplease Price: £11.78Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood. From the Dutch settlers... -
Virginia Woolf Icon Brenda R. Silver 9780226757469
Booksplease Price: £35.10This text is about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so... -
Paula Vogel by Joanna Mansbridge 9780472052394
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Paula Vogel's plays, including the Pulitzer-prizewinning How I Learned to Drive, initiate a conversation with contemporary culture, staging vexed issues like domestic violence, pornography, and AIDS... -
Second Act Trouble: Behind the Scenes at Broadway's Big Musical Bombs by Steven Suskin 9781557836311
Booksplease Price: £22.82If Broadway's triumphant musical hits are exhilarating the backstage tales of Broadway failures are tantalizing soap operas in miniature. ESecond Act TroubleE puts you with the creators in the... -
Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama by David Palmer 9781474276924
Booksplease Price: £96.35This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of... -
Gay Artists In Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy by Michael S. Sherry 9781469628417
Booksplease Price: £39.90Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-twentieth-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel...