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The Presence of the Actor by Joseph Chaikin Publisher Comments Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic 
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Anton Chekhov by Rose Whyman Publisher Comments Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this major playwright. Rose Whyman provides an insightful assessment of Chekhov's life and work and places his innovative theatrical approach in a modern critical and cultural... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $32.68 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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My Friend Moe...Memories of a Stoogeboomer by Richard P Sanner Publisher Comments There have been many books written about the Three Stooges in the past 30 years, but none quite like this one. Here, a life-long Stooges fan tells what it was like growing up watching the Stooges during the 1960's, and shares the ultimate experience of... (read more) Your price: $6.00 DRM-Free PDF - Electronic
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School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold, or Sganarelle by Jean Baptiste Poquelin De Molière Publisher Comments Richard Wilbur's world-renowned verse translations of Moli re's brilliant farces.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Last Journey of Marcus Omofuma: An Account of Prison Experience by Emmanuel Obinali Chukwujekwu Publisher Comments This is the story of Black African immigrants and their experiences with European immigration politics. The book describes the lives of a group of African men of various African nationalities who attempted to migrate to Austria and were met by inadequate... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Acting by Paul Baldwin Publisher Comments Provides advice for amateur and professional actors about theater skills, auditions, rehearsals, openings, and how to become a professional, and discusses the benefits of acting for non-professionals.... (read more) Your price: $15.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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101 Things You Didn't Know about Shakespeare: His Secret Loves! His Artistic Feuds! His Biggest Flops! by Janet Ware Publisher Comments Every student encounters the work of William Shakespeare somewhere in the course of his or her academic life. But how many people know that Shakespeare himself never attended university? Or that some people think he was a plagiarist? And others don't... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $9.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw Publisher Comments "Mrs. Warren's Profession" is George Bernard Shaw's classic play that centers on the relationship between Mrs. Warren, a prostitute, and her prudish Cambridge-educated daughter Vivie, who is horrified to discover that her mother's wealth was acquired... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $11.49 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater by Eric Csapo Publisher Comments Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines the realities of everyday life for actors -- and their popular reception -- from the time of theater's emergence in Classical Greece to its subsequent demise during the Roman Empire. In a series of six... (read more) Your price: $109.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Francis Bacon Tudor Equals William Shakespeare by Andrew Stevens Peck Publisher Comments 'The Shakespeare Controversy', otherwise known as 'Who Wrote Shakespeare?', has been a literary problem for generations. Countless attempts have been made to show that someone other than Shakespeare, or some group of people, wrote the Plays and The... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $16.60 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Children of Herakles by , Euripides Publisher Comments One of the shortest plays in Greek drama, The Children of Herakles offers enough action for two or three plays of normal length. But this very richness and complexity have made the play elusive, subject to dismissive readings, and extraordinarily... (read more) List Price $14.35 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Life of Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments The drama about King Henry V's attempt to unite England under his rule, with notes and... (read more) Your price: $4.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Joseph Andrews Vol 1 by Fielding Henry Publisher Comments There are few amusements more dangerous for an author than the indulgence in ironic descriptions of his own work. If the irony is depreciatory, posterity is but too likely to say, Many a true word is spoken in jest; if it is encomiastic, the same... (read more) Your price: $4.45 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity by Biodun Jeyifo Publisher Comments This collection of the most significant and illuminating critical essays about the works of Wole Soyinka over the past three decades is evidence of the international esteem he has achieved. This Nobel Prize winner from Nigeria is arguably Africa's... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Shakespeare's Plays in Performance by John Russell Brown Publisher Comments John Russell Brown demonstrates just how much is in Shakespeare's texts; how the language is awakened, colored, emphasized, sensualized and extended in performance. Shakespeare's intended readers were his collaborators, not his commentators. Brown... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Perform or Else by Jon McKenzie Publisher Comments Performance has become one of the key terms for the new century. But what do we mean by performance? In today's world it can refer to experimental art; productivity in the workplace; and technological and scientific breakthroughs. Do these disparate... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $24.01 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe Publisher Comments First performed by Shakespeare's rivals in the 1590s, Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta was a trend-setting, innovative play whose black comedy and final tragic irony illuminate the darker regions of the Elizabethan cultural imagination. Although... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $18.24 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Theatre of Genocide: Four Plays about Mass Murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia by Robert Skloot Publisher Comments In this pioneering volume, Robert Skloot brings together four plays—three of which are published here for the first time—that fearlessly explore the face of modern genocide. The scripts deal with the destruction of four targeted populations... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Salome by Oscar Wilde Publisher Comments Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome. Salome dances the Dance of the Seven Veils so well that she receives a boon from her stepfather Herod Antipas. Much to his dismay and her mother's delight she... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $4.39 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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