Filter By
Books (118)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Instant Shakespeare: A Proven Technique for Actors, Directors, and Teachers by Louis Fantasia 9781566634328
Booksplease Price: €31.42Allows performers, directors, and teachers of all cultures and levels to demystify Shakespeare and perform his texts in ways that are clear, fresh, and unpretentious.Book InformationISBN... -
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen 9781566631693
Booksplease Price: €15.78The only play in which Ibsen denies the validity of revolt, The Wild Duck suggests that under certain conditions, domestic falsehoods are entirely necessary to survival. Plays for Performance Series... -
Nashville 1864 by Madison Jones 9781566636391
Booksplease Price: €18.12This award-winning novel follows twelve-year-old Steven Moore and his slave companion on a nightmarish journey behind Union lines.Book InformationISBN 9781566636391Author Madison JonesFormat... -
Hamlet by Alistair McCallum 9781566633598
Booksplease Price: €9.20In this handbook for Hamlet, Alistair McCallum guides readers through the difficulties of plot and language, leaving them free to enjoy the depth, beauty, and vitality of Shakespeare's work. It is a... -
Electra by E.A. Sophocles 9781566630214
Booksplease Price: €15.78The classic drama of a daughter's revenge of her father's murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series.ReviewsA marvel of compression and spare, evocative... -
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen 9780929587431
Booksplease Price: €10.36Ibsen's psychological masterpiece is a mordant attack on society and its standards as viewed through the tragedy of a woman's life.About the AuthorThe Plays for Performance series is edited by... -
Paradise Hotel by Georges Feydeau 9780929587455
Booksplease Price: €10.36A consummate farce in which a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a seedy little hotel with the beautiful young wife of his best friend.About the AuthorThe Plays for Performance series is edited... -
Veil and Cowl: Writings From the World of Monks and Nuns by James B. Simpson 9781566632515
Booksplease Price: €16.95This thoughtful, inspiring, often humorous, and intensely spiritual collection brings together for the first time the most searching writings from the world of monks and nuns. They reveal and explore... -
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen 9781566630061
Booksplease Price: €10.36Ibsen's great social drama of a caged woman in the late nineteenth century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom. Mr. Rudall's new translation... -
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen 9781566630429
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.43The most gripping of Ibsen's later, brooding self-portraits, The Master Builder explores the nature of a messianic hero pulled down from the heights to reside in the community of men, and now... -
When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen 9780929587905
Booksplease Price: €10.36Ibsen's last work concludes the series of autobiographical dramas begun with The Master Builder which deal with the aging rebel, despairing of life and racked with guilt, who experiences an ambiguous... -
Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall by Sophocles 9781566632119
Booksplease Price: €10.36One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate... -
The Father by August Strindberg 9780929587868
Booksplease Price: €9.20By far Strindberg's most aggressive work, The Father is a feverish nightmare of the struggle he saw between defiant masculinity and the treacherous weakness of woman. Plays for Performance Series... -
Lysistrata by Aristophanes 9780929587578
Booksplease Price: €10.36Aristophanes' great anti-war drama glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Mr. Rudall's new translation recaptures the splendid variety of diction in Aristophanes, so that... -
Electra by E.A. Sophocles 9781566630221
Booksplease Price: €10.36Sophocles' classic drama of a daughter's revenge of her father's murder has been translated into playable language for modern audiences. As an example of Sophoclean tragedy, with its fatalistic... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9781566631099
Booksplease Price: €10.36The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic young woman and her valet. Ms. Stockenstrom's new translation retains the rhythm and emotional feel of... -
State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work by Barbara Isenberg 9781566636315
Booksplease Price: €19.29If California is a state of mind, Barbara Isenberg's interviews with more than fifty of California's prominent painters, writers, composers, architects, directors, and performers help explain why... -
James Joyce in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern 9781566636490
Booksplease Price: €20.72Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He... -
Hour Chicago: Twenty-five 60-Minute Self-guided Tours of Chicago's Great Architecture and Art by Ann Slavick 9781566637435
Booksplease Price: €18.12Chicago's marvelous architecture and the great paintings and sculpture of its famous museums are the stars and focus of this unique new tour guide. In a compact, easy-to-carry, and easy-to-follow... -
The Flowering of the Third America: The Making of an Organizational Society, 1850-1920 by Maury Klein 9781566630306
Booksplease Price: €10.36In a provocative new interpretation of a transforming era in American history, Maury Klein examines the forces that turned the United States from a rural agricultural society to an urban industrial... -
A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression by Dwight W. Hoover 9781566637022
Booksplease Price: €26.62Despite beautiful landscapes and bountiful harvests, farming is hard work and always has been. The Great Depression in rural America, which began in the 1920s and lasted until World War II, made it... -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Booksplease Price: €10.36Ibsen's seminal play, which changed modern drama, is a searing view of a male-dominated and authoritarian society, presented with a realism that elevates theatre to a level above mere entertainment... -
Woyzeck: Georg Buchner by Nicholas Rudall 9781566634496
Booksplease Price: €11.52In a new translation and adaptation by Nicholas Rudall. Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck is one of drama's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes money by allowing a... -
From Palace to Prison: Inside the Iranian Revolution by Ehsan Naraghi 9781566637671
Booksplease Price: €40.69An unusual and illuminating account of the Iranian revolution of 1979, based upon the author's long conversations with the Shah in the weeks before his downfall, and upon his own 33-month experience... -
Boss Tweed's New York by Seymour J. Mandelbaum 9780929587202
Booksplease Price: €15.78At the height of his power in New York City, around 1870, William Marcy (Boss) Tweed's hands were everywhere in city government and party politics. His success in looting the city treasury and using... -
Machiavelli in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern 9781566632126
Booksplease Price: €18.41In Machiavelli in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Machiavelli's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world... -
Unfinished Rabbi: Selected Writings of Arnold Jacob Wolf by Arnold Wolf 9781566637732
Booksplease Price: €25.80A long-awaited collection of the most important writings from a lifetime of work by one of the most influential Jewish thinkers in American life over the last half-century. 'He has written with... -
Trollope the Traveller: Selections from Anthony Trollope's Travel Writings by Anthony Trollope
Booksplease Price: €21.17One of the most popular and beloved writers of the 19th century, Anthony Trollope was also an insatiably curious traveler. He was the quintessential Victorian voyager-adventurous and energetic, with... -
McKinley, Bryan and the People by Paul W. Glad 9780929587493
Booksplease Price: €13.44The election of 1896-the subject of Paul Glad's expert study-marked the emergence of new forces and new voices in American life which were to win power and impact in the 20th century. The campaign... -
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni 9781566635363
Booksplease Price: €10.36"First I've got no master, then all of a sudden I've got two!...I can't wait on both of them....Wait a minute....Get two pay packets, and eat and drink for two? Why not?" Carlo Goldoni's crafty... -
Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944 by Franz Neumann 9781566638197
Booksplease Price: €24.99Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian... -
On Being Told That Her Second Husband Has Taken His First Lover, and Other Stories by Tess Slesinger 9780929587325
Booksplease Price: €19.29One need only read the first lines of Tess Slesinger's title story-or indeed any of her stories-to know that hers is a unique literary voice, one that rivets a reader's attention to the page from the... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9781566635530
Booksplease Price: €10.81Dorothy Louise's remarkable new adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic story rescues it from simplistic notions of horror and fear. She remains faithful to Shelley's intention to show how the Creature... -
On the Waterfront: The Play by Budd Schulberg 9781566633680
Booksplease Price: €11.45Budd Schulberg's classic story of the New York waterfront and the kid who "coulda been a contender" is best known in its memorable movie version with Marlon Brando. But here, adapted for the stage by... -
The Baseball Entertainer by Robert Kuenster 9781566638203
Booksplease Price: €9.20Here's the perfect leisure-time and take-along book for baseball fans: a compendium of challenging quizzes, crossword puzzles, rules interpretation problems, brain teasers, humorous anecdotes,... -
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller 9781566632713
Booksplease Price: €20.92Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the... -
Medea by Euripides 9781566633215
Booksplease Price: €10.36Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children-a... -
To Save a Nation: American Extremism, the New Deal and the Coming of World War II by Geoffrey S. Smith 9780929587974
Booksplease Price: €19.29In this brilliant study of the relationship between domestic politics and the shaping of foreign policy, Geoffrey Smith shows how fascists, anti-Semites, and other right-wing extremists became... -
The Hustler's Handbook by Bill Veeck 9781566638272
Booksplease Price: €17.39What is the difference between a promoter and a hustler?" Bill Veeck asks. "Well, let's look at it this way. Neither one of them is an advertiser. An advertiser pays for his space. A promoter works... -
Poems for the People by Carl Sandburg
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.33Seventy-three poems from Sandburg's early years in Chicago, almost all of them never before in print. They show him as a critic of fast-changing conditions in urban America; a walker in the city; a...