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Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens
Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens
by David Kawalko Roselli
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The first comprehensive study of the diverse populations that attended Athenian dramatic festivals from the Classical to the Hellenistic periods.... (read more)

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Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Performance Studies)
Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Performance Studies)
by Rosamund (edt) Bartlett
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The futurist opera Victory Over the Sun—written by Aleksei Kruchenykh and first performed in St. Petersburg in December 1913—was central to the Russian avant-garde, important for its libretto, its fragmentary, modernistic score, and... (read more)

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Star Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the First Voyages of the Starship Enterprise
Star Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the First Voyages of the Starship Enterprise
by Mark Clark
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Star Trek FAQ tells the complete story of Star Trek, from the before the beginning (the books, films, and TV shows that inspired producer Gene Roddenberry to create Star Trek) until after the end (when the show emerged as a cultural phenomenon in... (read more)

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The Columnist: A Play
The Columnist: A Play
by David Auburn
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A new play from the Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning author of Proof, coming to Broadway this April In midcentury America, newspaper columnists are kings—and Joseph Alsop wears the biggest crown. Joe sits at the nexus of Washington life... (read more)

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Peter and Alexis
Peter and Alexis
by Frank J. Morlock
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Based on the novel by Russian writer Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1867-1941), Morlock's dramatic adaptation tells the tragic story of Russian Tsar Peter the Great's conflict with his only surviving son and heir, Tsarevitch Alexis. Peter, an autocrat who was... (read more)

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Celestina (Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Celestina (Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by Fernando De Rojas
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Winner of the 2010 Lewis Galantiere Award sponsored by the American Translators Association. Lewis Galantiere... (read more)

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One Man, Two Guvnors: U.S. Edition
One Man, Two Guvnors: U.S. Edition
by Richard Bean
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Nominated for seven 2012 Tony Awards, including Best Director and Best Actor. Winner – 2011 Evening Standard Award for Best Play Winner – 2011 Critics Circle Award for Best Play Nominee – 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Play This hilarious... (read more)

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The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by Frank J. Morlock
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Based on the novel by Stendhal (Henri Beyle, 1783-1842), The Red and the Black tells the story of Julien Sorel, a talented and ambitious young peasant. Sorel manages to cynically and hypocritically manipulate those around him to gain a position as a... (read more)

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Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880-1930: An Anthology of Plays by British and American Women from the Modernist Period (Women, Theatre and Performance)
Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880-1930: An Anthology of Plays by British and American Women from the Modernist Period (Women, Theatre and Performance)
by Maggie B. (edt) Gale
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This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women. Included in the volume are texts by Beatrice Herford... (read more)

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Justine
Justine
by Frank J. Morlock
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Based on the Marquis de Sade's infamous novel of the same name, this new dramatic version of JUSTINE closely follows the original story, both in spirit and in action. De Sade, with his relentless logic, attempts to prove that virtue as practiced by most... (read more)

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The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Folger Shakespeare Library)
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
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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 of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines... (read more)

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The Irving Berlin Reader (Readers on American Musicians)
The Irving Berlin Reader (Readers on American Musicians)
by Benjamin Sears
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Without any formal training in music composition, Irving Berlin took a knack for music and turned it into the most successful songwriting career in American history. Berlin was the first Tin Pan Alley songwriter to go uptown to Broadway with a complete... (read more)

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Thrombo and Other Plays
Thrombo and Other Plays
by Albert Bermel
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Albert Bermel writes comedies with a dark twist. The Times of London hailed Bermel's Workout as one of the most expert pieces of comic writing to come out of America for some time. This volume includes nine witty, suspenseful plays - six of them full... (read more)

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A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us about Justice
A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us about Justice
by Kenji Yoshino
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Celebrated legal scholar Kenji Yoshino's first book, Covering, was acclaimed—from the New York Times Book Review to O, The Oprah Magazine to the American Lawyer—for its elegant prose, its good humor, and its brilliant insights into civil... (read more)

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Fuenteovejuna (Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Fuenteovejuna (Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by Lope De Vega
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bQuien mato al comendador? bFuenteovejuna lo hizo.La frase que todos los habitantes de Fuenteovejuna responden, al unisono, trascendio el nombre de esa lejana aldea espanola y se convirtio en el grito de lucha de los pueblos oprimidos que hacen... (read more)

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The Tragic Paradox
The Tragic Paradox
by Leonard Moss
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Paradox informs the narrative sequence, images, and rhetorical tactics contrived by skilled dramatists and novelists. Their literary languages depict not only a war between rivals but also simultaneous affirmation and negation voiced by a tragic... (read more)

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The Evil behind the Law, Volume I: What Love Cannot Do, Prayer Will Do
The Evil behind the Law, Volume I: What Love Cannot Do, Prayer Will Do
by Tchinda Fabrice Mbuna
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Mr. Fabrice is a young Cameroonian, a poet, and playwright, who just arrives America, a country that had witnessed the feminist movement and civil right movement and activist. He has not got papers and has to stay with one of his classmate who picks him... (read more)

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The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art
The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art
by Ann Millett-gallant
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The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art is the first book to cross the disciplines of art history and disability studies. Millett-Gallant visually analyzes images of the body in visual culture - from painting, sculpture, photography, and performance art to... (read more)

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Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform
Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform
by Stephen Hinton
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In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures. Hinton shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genres--... (read more)

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The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (New Kittredge Shakespeare)
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (New Kittredge Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare
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George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments, all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. These... (read more)

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