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Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens by David Kawalko Roselli Publisher Comments The first comprehensive study of the diverse populations that attended Athenian dramatic festivals from the Classical to the Hellenistic periods.... (read more) Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper 
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The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate by Peter Brook Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Metaphors of Oppression in Lusophone Historical Drama. by Bonnie S Wasserman Publisher Comments New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. Lusophone playwrights who wrote under repressive regimes and during politically chaotic times often depicted events in their nations' histories that were oppressive in nature - including the... (read more) Your price: $82.50 New - Hardcover
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The Astaires: Fred & Adele by Kathleen Riley Publisher Comments Before "Fred and Ginger," there was "Fred and Adele," a show-business partnership and cultural sensation like no other. In our celebrity-saturated era, it's hard to comprehend what a genuine phenomenon these two siblings from Omaha were. At the height of... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic by Bertolt Brecht Publisher Comments This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Aint Sorry for Nothin I Done : August Wilson's Process of Playwriting (98 Edition) by Joan Herrington Publisher Comments The most successful African-American playwright of his time, August Wilson is a dominant presence on Broadway and in regional theaters throughout the country. Herrington traces the roots of Wilson's drama back to the visual artists and jazz musicians who... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Shakespeare's English Kings : History, Chronicle, and Drama (2ND 00 Edition) by Peter Saccio Publisher Comments Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sweat, Tears, and Jazz Hands: The Official History of Show Choir from Vaudeville to Glee by Mike Weaver Publisher Comments Featuring more than 100 competitive show choirs from around the United States in photos, quotations, and stories, this edutainment-style book details the pop culture and theater influences that, over time, built this unique entertainment genre into the... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance (Theater--Theory/Text/Performance) by Jon Whitmore Synopsis An introduction to theatrical directing using the concepts and terminology of semiotic theory... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Trade Paper
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Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama by Michael Paller Publisher Comments "Tennessee Williams was America's most original dramatic talent. He was also gay. The significance of this fact is explored by Michael Paller in a book full of striking insights into the man, the plays, and the theatre of which he was a part. What... (read more) Your price: $40.25 New - Hardcover
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Musical Scene Study (07 Edition) by Tom Briggs Synopsis The Rodgers & Hammerstein Musical Scene Study Guide is the first book of its kind, featuring both comic and dramatic scenes and songs from 10 R&H musicals (Oklahoma , Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King and I, Me and Juliet, Flower Drum Song, The... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Endgame, & other plays :notes - Study Notes by James Roberts Publisher Comments A true innovation for the stage, Waiting for Godot is one of the greatest successes of the Theater of the Absurd. Although the subject and play is bleak in appearance, a semblance of nobility emerges as the two characters maintain hope. This volume also... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Pamphlet
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Stanislavski and the Actor (98 Edition) by Jean Benedetti Publisher Comments In Stanislavski and the Actor, Stanislavski scholar and biographer Jean Bendetti has recovered materials that can stand as a final, last work by the great director and teacher. In this volume readers will find the first English text of Stanislavski s... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Vakhtangov Sourcebook by Andrei (edt) Malaev-babel Synopsis Yevgeny Vakhtangov was the creator of Fantastic Realism, credited with reconciling Meyerhold's bold experiments with Stanislavski's naturalist technique. The Vakhtangov Sourcebook compiles new translations of his key writings on the art of theatre... (read more) Your price: $31.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore Synopsis Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the... (read more) Your price: $14.50 New - Trade Paper
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'tis Pity She's a Whore (97 Edition) by John Ford Publisher Comments John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest between brother and sister. It is one of the most studied and performed of all plays of the period, and has... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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No Applause -- Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous by S.d. Trav Publisher Comments A seriously funny look at the roots of American Entertainment When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Theatre, Community, and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London (Studies in Theatre History & Culture) by Mark Bayer Publisher Comments Taking to heart Thomas Heywood’s claim that plays “persuade men to humanity and good life, instruct them in civility and good manners, showing them the fruits of honesty, and the end of villainy,” Mark Bayer’s captivating... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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Self and Space in the Theater of Susan Glaspell by Noelia Hernando-real Book News Annotation The vice president of the Susan Glaspell Society bemoans that the award-winning playwright/author (1876-1948) is "timidly acknowledged as the mother of modern American drama" as a founder of the innovative Providencetown Players (which moved to New... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Trade Paper
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