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The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.43The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church... -
Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience Professor Sherry Kramer (Bennington College, USA) 9781350338265
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.95" 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... -
Beyond Method: Stella Adler and the Male Actor by Scott Balcerzak 9780814344897
Booksplease Price: £72.60Stella Adler (1901-92) trained many well-known American actors yet throughout much of her career, her influence was overshadowed by Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio. In Beyond Method:... -
Beyond Method: Stella Adler and the Male Actor Scott Balcerzak 9780814342916
Booksplease Price: £22.66Stella Adler (1901-92) trained many well-known American actors yet throughout much of her career, her influence was overshadowed by Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio. In Beyond Method:... -
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... -
Puto: Plays Ricardo A Bracho 9781478032908
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Ricardo A. Bracho is a queer Chicano Marxist playwright from Los Angeles whose theatrical works dramatize the lives of gay Black and Brown partisans of anti-capitalism and decolonization... -
Teacher Representations in Dramatic Text and Performance: Portraying the Teacher on Stage by Melanie Shoffner
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.38This book examines representations of the teacher on stage - in both theatrical performances and dramatic text - in order to demonstrate how these representations have shaped society's perceptions of... -
Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes by Henry Van Dyke 9781946022882
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.32In a small Michigan town, in the late 1950s, the widow Etta Klein - wealthy and Jewish - has for more than thirty years relied for aid, comfort, and companionship on her Black housekeeper Harriet... -
Plain Pleasures: With an Introduction by Chris Power Jane Bowles 9781474620437
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf' Ali Smith'The most important... -
Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition by William W. Demastes 9780817308377
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Any review of 20th-century American theatre invariably leads to the term ""realism"". Yet despite the strong tradition of theatrical realism on the American stage, the term is frequently... -
Puto: Plays Ricardo A Bracho 9781478029496
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.00Ricardo A. Bracho is a queer Chicano Marxist playwright from Los Angeles whose theatrical works dramatize the lives of gay Black and Brown partisans of anti-capitalism and decolonization... -
Leading Men: 'A timeless and heart-breaking love story' Celeste Ng by Christopher Castellani
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.99Soon to be a film, written by Matthew Lopez (Olivier Award winner for The Inheritance), produced by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name)'Movie stars in Italy, a longtime affair, and a missing... -
The History of Southern Drama by Charles S. Watson
Booksplease Price: £39.11Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for "Stella!" or laments for "gentleman callers." Yet southern drama depends on much more than a... -
Two Serious Ladies: With an introduction by Naoise Dolan Jane Bowles 9781474620406
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'My favourite book. I can't think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic' Tennessee Williams'The book I give as a gift . . . It feels like giving someone an exotic fruit' Sheila... -
Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26No American dramatist has had more plays adapted than Tennessee Williams, and few modern dramatists have witnessed as much controversy during the adaptation process. His Hollywood legacy, captured... -
Modern American Drama on Screen William Robert Bray 9781107000650
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.02From its beginnings, the American film industry has profited from bringing popular and acclaimed dramatic works to the screen. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive account, focusing on key... -
War and Imagination: Perspectives from the Hudson Review by Ronald Koury 9780815611677
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.13Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination... -
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 2, Williams, Miller, Albee by C. W. E. Bigsby 9780521277174
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £43.00This is the second volume in Christopher Bigsby's critical history of the important American dramatists and theatrical movements in the twentieth-century. Volume 1 brought the story to 1940 and... -
Audrey Wood and the Playwrights by Milly S. Barranger 9781137270627
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.60From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet... -
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr 9781250066350
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £17.64Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world. Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted... -
Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters: Gender Dissent and Heterosocial Bonding in Gay Culture by Stephen Maddison 9780333776612
Booksplease Price: £46.28Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters is a provocative account of the importance of women and cross-gender identification in gay male culture. It offers a range of cultural readings from Tennessee William's... -
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar Cynthia Carr 9781250371744
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250371744Author Cynthia CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Castle Point BooksPublisher... -
Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters: Gender Dissent and Heterosocial Bonding in Gay Culture by Stephen Maddison 9780333776629
Booksplease Price: £46.74Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters is a provocative account of the importance of women and cross-gender identification in gay male culture. It offers a range of cultural readings from Tennessee William's... -
Contemporary American Drama by Annette J. Saddik 9780748624935
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that... -
Text & Presentation, 2008 by Stratos E. Constantinidis 9780786443666
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £39.58Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary... -
American Drama of the Twentieth Century by Gerald M. Berkowitz 9780582016019
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £59.77In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s... -
Text & Presentation, 2010 by Kiki Gounaridou 9780786447305
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £39.58Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. This new volume represents a selection of the best research presented at the 34th international,... -
Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations by Richard S. Kennedy 9780807122730
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.59This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers - George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin - as well as three prolific... -
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 9780752864365
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29'One of the great crime novels of all time' Tony Parsons, Express'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe'It is no accident that... -
Personal Souths: Interviews from the Southern Quarterly by Douglas B. Chambers 9781617032912
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Personal Souths, a collection of 20 interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the 50th anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated... -
Personal Souths: Interviews from the Southern Quarterly by Douglas B. Chambers 9781617032905
Booksplease Price: £88.90Personal Souths, a collection of 20 interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the 50th anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated... -
Broadway Theatre by Andrew B. Harris
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51'Broadway' has been the stuff of theatrical legends for generations. In this fascinating and affectionate account of a unique theatrical phenomenon, Andrew Harris takes an intriguing look at both the... -
Mama's Boy: Momism and Homophobia in Postwar American Culture by Roel Van den Oever 9781137274052
Booksplease Price: £46.74In postwar America, the discourse of Momism advanced the idea that an over-affectionate or too-distant mother hampers the social and psychosexual development of her children, in particular her sons... -
Movies and Moral Dilemma Discussions: A Practical Guide to Cinema Based Character Development by Stewart Waters 9781648021718
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.74Movies and Moral Dilemma Discussions: A Practical Guide to Cinema Based Character Development explores the values, attitudes, and beliefs depicted on film. Since the beginning of the film industry... -
Movies and Moral Dilemma Discussions: A Practical Guide to Cinema Based Character Development by Stewart Waters 9781648021725
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.12Movies and Moral Dilemma Discussions: A Practical Guide to Cinema Based Character Development explores the values, attitudes, and beliefs depicted on film. Since the beginning of the film industry... -
A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles by Millicent Dillon 9780520211933
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.56Tennessee Williams called Jane Bowles "the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters." John Ashbery said she was "one of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language,"... -
The Camp 100: Glorious flamboyance, from Louis XIV to Lil Nas X Simon Doonan 9780711289963
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68'Simon Doonan's CAMP 100 is majestic, life-enhancing, packed with info and bang up to date. And, yes, I am featured. Surprised?' - Alan CarrCelebrate the unapologetically, outrageously CAMP with this... -
The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present by J. Clum 9780230338401
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £62.54In 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... -
My Dear Mother: Stormy, Boastful, and Tender Letters by Distinguished Sons - from Dostoevsky to Elvis by Karen Elizabeth Gordan 9781565121218
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00This fascinating collection of letters between sons and mothers offers an intimate and unexpected glimpse into the mind and heart of the artist. Here are letters by over fifty writers, painters, and...