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Instant Shakespeare: A Proven Technique for Actors, Directors, and Teachers by Louis Fantasia 9781566634328
Booksplease Price: $33.88Allows 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 Bourgeois Gentleman by Moliere 9781566633031
Booksplease Price: $17.11Moli re's beloved comedy features a rising member of the middle class who lusts for social status and higher learning. Plays for Performance Series.Book InformationISBN 9781566633031Author... -
Ivanov by Anton Chekhov 9781566634090
Booksplease Price: $18.92The first of Chekhov's full-length dramas, Ivanov treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragic melodrama.Book InformationISBN 9781566634090Author Anton ChekhovFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Nashville 1864 by Madison Jones 9781566636391
Booksplease Price: $19.65This 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: $9.97In 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... -
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen 9781566631693
Booksplease Price: $17.11The 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... -
Electra by E.A. Sophocles 9781566630214
Booksplease Price: $17.11The 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... -
The Bacchae: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudal by Euripides 9781566630689
Booksplease Price: $17.11Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason as well as pure sensuality. Plays for Performance... -
Wasted: The Plight of America's Unwanted Children by Patrick T. Murphy 9781566631631
Booksplease Price: $23.45The public guardian of Cook County, Illinois, charges that the child welfare bureaucracy, designed to help children, is instead helping to destroy them. Murphy explains the facts and failures of the... -
The Bourgeois Gentleman by Moliere 9781566633048
Booksplease Price: $11.24Moliere's beloved comedy features a rising member of the middle class who lusts for social status and higher learning. The strength of the play lies in its rich comic invention and its sure... -
Locke in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern 9781566632614
Booksplease Price: $19.84In Locke in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Locke's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book... -
The Trojan Women by Nicholas Rudall 9781566632232
Booksplease Price: $17.11As bleak and agonizing a portrait of war as ever to appear on the stage,The Trojan Women is a masterpiece of pathos as well as a timeless and chilling indictment of war's brutality. Plays for... -
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen 9780929587431
Booksplease Price: $11.24Ibsen'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... -
Veil and Cowl: Writings From the World of Monks and Nuns by James B. Simpson 9781566632515
Booksplease Price: $18.37This 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... -
The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich Von Kleist 9780929587448
Booksplease Price: $9.97Von Kleist's last work and his masterpiece is an historical tragedy in which a prince's love for a woman confounds his orders of battle.About the AuthorThe Plays for Performance series is edited by... -
Paradise Hotel by Georges Feydeau 9780929587455
Booksplease Price: $11.24A 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... -
In His Steps: Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Mystique by Paul R. Henggeler 9781566637169
Booksplease Price: $26.70This is an intimate personal and political history of Lyndon Johnson's frustration with the Kennedy mystique, based on exhaustive new research. "Solidly researched, well written, carefully analyzed..... -
A Synopsis of American History: Through Reconstruction by Neil R. McMillen 9781566631617
Booksplease Price: $23.45Updated through the 1996 elections to reflect current historical thinking, the 8th edition A Synopsis of American History continues to provide a chronological summary of major political, economic,... -
A Synopsis of American History: Since the Civil War by Neil R. McMillen 9781566631624
Booksplease Price: $27.97Updated through the 1996 elections to reflect current historical thinking, the 8th edition A Synopsis of American History continues to provide a chronological summary of major political, economic,... -
Doctor Faustus: In a New Adaptation by Nicholas Rudall 9780929587561
Booksplease Price: $11.24Marlowe's classic treatment of the myth of man's greed has contemporary reverberations that make it compelling drama. Mr. Rudall has streamlined the story and turned it into fast-paced theatre.About... -
Macbeth by Alistair McCallum 9781566633604
Booksplease Price: $18.37In this handbook for Macbeth, 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... -
Modern Sex: Liberation and Its Discontents by Myron Magnet 9781566633833
Booksplease Price: $27.97These beautifully written essays add up to the deepest, most informative appraisal we have of how and why the sexual revolution has failed. Compelling and original.... Highly recommended. -Kevin... -
A Synopsis of American History--Complete by Neil R. McMillen 9781566631600
Booksplease Price: $41.06Updated through the 1996 elections to reflect current historical thinking, the 8th edition A Synopsis of American History continues to provide a chronological summary of major political, economic,... -
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen 9781566630061
Booksplease Price: $11.24Ibsen'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... -
Oedipus the King by Sophocles 9781566633086
Booksplease Price: $11.24The tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly slays his father and marries his mother, is one of the mythical cornerstones of Western civilization. Nicholas Rudall's new translation remains true to... -
Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall by Sophocles 9781566632119
Booksplease Price: $11.24One 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 War the Women Lived by Walter Sullivan 9781566635134
Booksplease Price: $20.91Selections from the Civil War diaries and memoirs of twenty-three Southern women form an account of the war as it was lived and endured on the domestic front in the South.About the AuthorWalter... -
The Father by August Strindberg 9780929587868
Booksplease Price: $9.97By 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... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9780929587882
Booksplease Price: $11.24Chekhov's treatment of theatre and love against the background of a magical lake attempts to define the role of the artist in the modern world. Plays for Performance Series.About the AuthorThe Plays... -
Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides 9781566631112
Booksplease Price: $11.24Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Trojan War is, despite its heroic background, in many respects a domestic tragedy. Mr. Rudall's new... -
On the Waterfront by Budd Schulberg 9781566638418
Booksplease Price: $18.37Building on his Academy Award-winning screenplay of the classic film, Budd Schulberg's On the Waterfront is the story of ex-prizefighter Terry Malloy's valiant stand against corruption on the New... -
Lysistrata by Aristophanes 9780929587578
Booksplease Price: $11.24Aristophanes' 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: $11.24Sophocles' 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... -
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen 9781566630429
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.13The 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: $11.24Ibsen'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... -
Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution by Ivan Bunin 9781566635165
Booksplease Price: $26.42The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9781566631099
Booksplease Price: $11.24The 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... -
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello 9780929587585
Booksplease Price: $11.24Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality, follows a group of characters who try to fashion their fife stories into acceptable drama. Mr. Brustein's new rendering is accessible,... -
The Bacchae by Euripides 9781566630672
Booksplease Price: $11.24Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason as well as pure sensuality. Mr. Rudall's fresh... -
From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover by Athan Theoharis 9780929587677
Booksplease Price: $27.09Documents from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in spying on prominent Americans and political groups. A grimly fascinating-and...