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Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)
by Bill Bryson
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William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill... (read more)

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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
by Ralph Helfer
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Raised together in a small German circus town, Modoc, the elephant, and Bram, his faithful boyhood companion and later trainer, formed a bond that lasted their entire lives. It was an extraordinary friendship that was tested time and again until, in the... (read more)

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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt
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Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about [Shakespeare] than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented... (read more)

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Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse
Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse
by Denis Johnson
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Two plays—hilarious and searing in equal measure—by one of our most essential and original authors In his poetry, short stories, novels, and plays, the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson has explored the story of... (read more)

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Stage Makeup: The Actor's Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials
Stage Makeup: The Actor's Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials
by Laura Thudium
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This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table right as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers. Laura Thudium's new book Stage Makeup is a step by step guide to researching, designing and applying... (read more)

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Timon of Athens
Timon of Athens
by William Shakespeare
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Timon of Athens has struck many readers as rough and unpolished, perhaps even unfinished, though to others it has appeared as Shakespeare's most profound tragic allegory. Described by Coleridge as "the stillborn twin of King Lear," the play has... (read more)

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Salvage: Part III
Salvage: Part III
by Tom Stoppard
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"Salvage" is the third part of "The Coast of Utopia, " Stoppard's long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I.... (read more)

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
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Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worms-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeares play. In... (read more)

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Terry Pratchetts Nation the Play Uk
Terry Pratchetts Nation the Play Uk
by Terry Pratchett
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Alone on a desert island -- everything and everyone he knows and loves has been washed away in a storm -- Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's completely alone -- or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears... (read more)

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Wit
Wit
by Margaret Edson
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Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award Margaret Edsons powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize-winning... (read more)

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Who's Who in Shakespeare's England
Who's Who in Shakespeare's England
by Alan Warwick Palmer
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This major new reference book presents more than 700 biographies of Shakespeare's contemporaries and richly illustrates the variety and complexity of the life of the period he lived. With its useful glossary of unusual terms, and extensive cross... (read more)

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The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
by Peter Brook
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First published in 1968, The Empty Space is a timeless analysis of theatre, from perhaps the most influential director of the twentieth century. In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the... (read more)

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King Lear
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
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FOLGER Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text... (read more)

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Equus
Equus
by Peter Shaffer
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An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to... (read more)

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Tartuffe, by Moliere
Tartuffe, by Moliere
by Moliere
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The translation into English verse of one of Molières most masterful and most popular plays. “A continuous delight from beginning to end” (Richard Eberhart). Introduction by Richard Wilbur.... (read more)

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On Directing
On Directing
by Harold Clurman
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"A straightforward, tasteful, and articulate account of what it is to bring a play to palpitating life upon a stage" (The New York Times Book Review). In this classic guide to directing, we are taken logically from the choice of the play right through... (read more)

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Broadway Musical Mvps: 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons
Broadway Musical Mvps: 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons
by Peter Filichia
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Every year, Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League name a Most Valuable Player - an MVP. The Broadway musical community doesn't. Oh, there are the Tony Awards, the Drama... (read more)

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Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vol. I #1: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vol. I #1: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
by Tennessee Williams
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This book brings together in a matching format the plays of one of America's most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes.... (read more)

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Five Plays
Five Plays
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) overturned the dramatic conventions of his day and laid the groundwork for contemporary approaches to directing and acting. Now, for the first time, the full lyricism, humor, and pathos of his greatest plays are... (read more)

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Brian Friel: Plays 2: Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney (Contemporary Classics)
Brian Friel: Plays 2: Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney (Contemporary Classics)
by Brian Friel
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Plays Two: Dancing at Lughnasa Fathers and Sons Making History Wonderful Tennessee Molly Sweeney Introduced by Christopher Murray, this second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage. From the troubled... (read more)

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