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The Normal Heart (NHB Modern Plays): National Theatre edition by Larry Kramer
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Larry Kramer's passionate, polemical drama, set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The Normal Heart traces the story of one man who, while his friends are dying around him,... -
Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism by Peter Staley 9781641608442
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25"Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who's thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world." -Tony Kushner, Pulitzer... -
Moving Lives: Narratives of Nation and Migration among Europeans in Post-War Britain by Kathy Burrell
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Immigrants in Britain are often viewed as just that - 'immigrants'. Their experiences as migrants are sidelined in favour of discussions about assimilation and integration - how 'they' adapt to 'us'... -
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights by Peter Paul Schnierer
Booksplease Price: $67.22Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to... -
Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62 by G. Schaffer 9780230008922
Booksplease Price: $90.25From 1930-62 the idea of race was studied across a range of academic disciplines. This book explores expert thinkings on race in the period and explains the relationship between scientific racial... -
Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature: Ethics and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity by Donald R. Wehrs 9781611494426
Booksplease Price: $233.22In thirteen essays on writers ranging from Virginia Woolf and A. A. Milne to J. M. Coetzee and Cormac McCarthy, Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature puts the thought of the twentieth century's... -
Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature: Ethics and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity by Donald R. Wehrs 9781611496505
Booksplease Price: $117.76In thirteen essays on writers ranging from Virginia Woolf and A. A. Milne to J. M. Coetzee and Cormac McCarthy, Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature puts the thought of the twentieth century's... -
Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People by Richard Eyre
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.70A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it. In Talking Theatre, Richard Eyre uses his unrivalled access to leading theatre people to allow us to... -
Sugarless: A Novel by James Magruder
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.92Things look bad for Rick Lahrem, a high school sophomore in a cookie-cutter Chicago suburb in 1976. His mother's second husband is a licensed psychologist who eats like an ape, his stepsister is a... -
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 ... -
Out of the Depths: The First Collection of Holocaust Songs Joseph Toltz 9781526165671
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.19Available for the first time in English translation, this collection of songs is a powerful memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.In June 1945, before the full devastation of the Holocaust had... -
Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life Amy Gluckman 9780415913799
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Homo Economics is the first honest account of the tense relationship between gay people and the economy. This groundbreaking collection brings together a variety of voices from the worlds of... -
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Sharon Friedman
Booksplease Price: $208.79The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips... -
American Drama in the Age of Film by Zander Brietzke
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $67.78Is theater really dead? Does the theater, as its champions insist, really provide a more intimate experience than film? If so, how have changes in cinematic techniques and technologies altered the... -
Lincoln: A President for the Ages by Karl Weber 9781610392631
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30The First American. Frontiersman and backwoods attorney. Teller of bawdy tales and a spellbinding orator. A champion of liberty some called a would-be tyrant. Savior of the Union and the Great... -
Rise Up! by Mr Chris Jones
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $43.37Penned by one of America's best-known daily theatre critics and organized chronologically, this lively and readable book tells the story of Broadway's renaissance from the darkest days of the AIDS... -
Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism by Peter Staley
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $36.19"Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who's thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world." -Tony Kushner, Pulitzer... -
Wandering Stars: A Novel by Sholem Aleichem 9780143117452
Booksplease Price: $33.40In a small shtetl in Bessarabia in the early twentieth century, a traveling Yiddish acting company comes to town. The townspeople react in unison: 'What is this? Actor-types? Comedians? Who needs... -
American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century by Patrick Colm Hogan 9781032125688
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37In recent years, cognitive and affective science have become increasingly important for interpretation and explanation in the social sciences and humanities. However, little of this work has... -
What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters by Udi Aloni 9780231157599
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $40.01In the hopes of promoting justice, peace, and solidarity for and with the Palestinian people, Udi Aloni joins with Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler to confront the core issues of the... -
Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature by Brian Norman 9781421407524
RRP: $76.05Booksplease Price: $56.76Brian Norman uncovers a curious phenomenon in American literature: dead women who nonetheless talk. These characters appear in works by such classic American writers as Poe, Dickinson, and Faulkner,... -
Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes by Kathleen Archambeau 9781633535503
Booksplease Price: $25.88Stories of success, happiness and hope from the LGBT communityStories that comprise the best of LGBT history: Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroestells the stories of queer... -
The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies by Donald Bloxham 9780199677917
Booksplease Price: $89.64Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European... -
Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity by Jonathan Freedman 9780231142786
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.93Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations... -
Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature by Brian Norman
RRP: $49.73Booksplease Price: $38.69Brian Norman uncovers a curious phenomenon in American literature: dead women who nonetheless talk. These characters appear in works by such classic American writers as Poe, Dickinson, and Faulkner... -
Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak by Maurice Sendak
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $51.25The most comprehensive survey of the work of Maurice Sendak, the most celebrated picture book artist of all time-with previously unpublished archival materials Published in conjunction with the... -
Affair of the Heart: British Theatre from 1992 to 2020 Michael Billington 9781350367258
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.48A book of selected theatre reviews from 2020 from one of the foremost authorities on British theatre. Starting each chapter is a brief commentary on the developments of that era and the social,... -
Inter-Actions: Relationships of Religion and Drama by Nelvin Vos 9780761844693
Booksplease Price: $80.65This 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... -
The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal 9781840027686
Booksplease Price: $103.86Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs - and the occasional disaster. This definitive... -
Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays by Ellen Schiff 9780292712904
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.47Jewish theatre-plays about and usually by Jews-enters the twenty-first century with a long and distinguished history. To keep this vibrant tradition alive, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture... -
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Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays: From the New Play Commission of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture by Ellen Schiff 9780292709850 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $2.44Jewish theatre-plays about and usually by Jews-enters the twenty-first century with a long and distinguished history. To keep this vibrant tradition alive, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture... -
How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?: Writings on Theater--and Why It Matters by John Heilpern
Booksplease Price: $91.24First Published in 2000. Why do we go to the theater? There's a question! Or put it this way: Why, oh why, do we go to the theater? If we go to a movie and it isn't any good, well it's not the end of... -
History and Hope in American Literature: Models of Critical Patriotism by Ben Railton 9781442276369
Booksplease Price: $158.87Throughout history, creative writers have often tackled topical subjects as a means to engage and influence public discourse. American authors-those born in the States and those who became... -
Life and Love in Nazi Prague: Letters from an Occupied City by Marie Bader 9781350237759
Booksplease Price: $33.97Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of... -
Life and Love in Nazi Prague: Letters from an Occupied City by Marie Bader
Booksplease Price: $72.23Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of... -
Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation by Paul Finkelman
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74"When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed. Lincoln understood this, and said as much in his first inaugural... -
Before All The World by Moriel Rothman-Zecher 9781472157430
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43'A mesmeric, enrapturing read' Eimear McBride'Beautiful and original' Colm Toibin'In startling language filled with the flavor of Yiddish's combination words, [Before All the World] moves forward and... -
Internment during the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA by Rachel Pistol 9781350106048
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $58.48The internment of 'enemy aliens' during the Second World War was arguably the greatest stain on the Allied record of human rights on the home front. Internment during the Second World War compares... -
Before All The World Moriel Rothman-Zecher 9781472157416
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.58'ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh''I do not believe that all the world is darkness'In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former... -
Literary Landscapes: New York Evan Joseph 9781911663027
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $31.30A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors' neighbourhoods in the Big Apple. Literary Landscapes: New York...