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All My Sons: A Drama in 3 Actsby Arthur Miller, C. W. E. BigsbyISBN 0141185465 (0-14-118546-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bacchae and Other Playsby Philip Vellacott, EuripidesISBN 0140440445 (0-14-044044-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bacchae and Other Plays'Book summary:The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing "Phoenician Women", "Bacchae", "Iphigenia at Aulis", "Orestes", and "Rhesus" completes the new editions of "Euripides in Penguin Classics". [via]
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The Bacchae and Other Playsby Trans. John Davie Euripides, John Davie, Richard RutherfordISBN 0140447261 (0-14-044726-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bacchae and Other Plays'Book summary:[via]The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesus
completes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.- Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes, bibliography, and glossary
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The Birth of Tragedyby Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael TannerISBN 0140433392 (0-14-043339-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Tragedy'Book summary:Dedicated to Richard Wagner, The Birth of Tragedy is rich in Nietzche's current enthusiams for Greek literature and especially tragedy, for Schopenhauer and Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. Its central vision is the idea that "only as an aesthetic phenomenon are existence and the world justified." Making his celebrated distinction between the Apolline and the Dionysiac spirit, Nietzche presses us to consider why it is that we derive pleasure from tragic art, and what is the relationship between our experiences of suffering in life and in art. The Birth of Tragedy was his first book. Occasionally flawed and impetuous in argument, it is non the less a triumph of passionate energy and insight. [via]
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Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar Wilde, Vyvyan HollandISBN 006096393X (0-06-096393-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century. [via]
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Confessions of an Actor: An Autobiographyby Laurence OlivierISBN 0140068880 (0-14-006888-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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The Costumer's Handbook: How to Make All Kinds of Costumesby Rosemary Ingham, Liz CoveyISBN 0131812556 (0-13-181255-6)
Softcover, Prentice-Hall
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Cymbelineby William Shakespeare, Robert H. HeilmanISBN 0140714286 (0-14-071428-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cymbeline'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most perplexing and unclassifiable late plays, Cymbeline is often labelled a "Romance", due to its themes of pastoralism, exile and familial reconciliation which critics notice recur throughout Shakespeare's last plays, from Pericles to The Tempest. Set in ancient Roman Britain at the court of the British king Cymbeline, the main action of the play revolves around the relationship between Cymbeline's daughter, Imogen, and Posthumous Leonatus. Attempting to marry Imogen off to Cloten, the grotesque son of Cymbeline's second wife, the king banishes Posthumous in a rage when he discovers he has secretly married Imogen. As the personal relationships in the play deteriorate, on the public stage Rome prepares to invade Britain due to Cymbeline's failure to pay tribute to his imperial master. As the play builds to its militaristic climax, Posthumous returns to Britain, where he eventually contrives a reunion with Imogen and Cymbeline's long-lost sons, who unite in their attempt to resist the might of Rome.
The ending of the play, with its series of mystical riddles, unlikely coincidences and extraordinary reunions has baffled critics for centuries. Some read it as a heavy-handed political allegory of Jacobean national union under the new sovereign of the time, King James I, whilst others see in it Shakespeare pushing theatrical realism to its furthermost limits, with its decapitated bodies, complex staging and unlikely mistaken identities. Cymbeline remains a puzzling, enigmatic play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Deathtrapby Ira LevinISBN 0140481796 (0-14-048179-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Essential Theatreby Oscar Gross BrockettISBN 0030130123 (0-03-013012-3)
Softcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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Softcover, Harcourt College Pub - The Essential Theatre: ISBN 0155015982 (0-15-501598-2)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub - The Essential Theatre: ISBN 0030493714 (0-03-049371-4)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston - The Essential Theatre: ISBN 0030898102 (0-03-089810-2)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston - The Essential Theatre: ISBN 0030130123 (0-03-013012-3)
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The Essential Theatreby Robert Ball, Oscar Gross BrockettISBN 0155072293 (0-15-507229-3)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Theatre'Book summary:This introductory text acquaints students with the theatre its artistic and social functions, its development, and how each of the theatre arts functions as a unit. In the thirty-five years since it was first published, The Essential Theatre has established a reputation as one of the most comprehensive, authoritative surveys of the theatre in academia. The Essential Theatre works in tandem with its companion anthology, Plays for the Theatre (7th edition), edited by Oscar G. Brockett with Robert Ball. The scripts in Plays serve as the foundation for discussion of the various types of theatrical experience explored in The Essential Theatre. The Essential Theatre is intended to meet the needs of two courses: Introduction to Theatre (an overview serving as a foundation for students who expect to major in theatre, focusing on the theatrical experience from the viewpoint of the players) and Theatre Appreciation (an overview providing insight for non-majors, focusing on the theatrical experience from the viewpoint of audience members). [via]
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Farming:a Hand Book: A Hand Bookby Wendell BerryISBN 0151304084 (0-15-130408-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
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Five Playsby Thomas MiddletonISBN 0140432191 (0-14-043219-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Government Inspector and Other Russian Playsby Joshua CooperISBN 014044579X (0-14-044579-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Harcourt Brace Anthology of Dramaby WorthenISBN 0155020870 (0-15-502087-0)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Henry VIIIby William Shakespeare, F. D. HoenigerISBN 0140714367 (0-14-071436-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Higglety Pigglety Pop!by Maurice SendakISBN 0064430219 (0-06-443021-9)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Higglety Pigglety Pop!'Book summary:As a tribute to his dearly departed pooch, Maurice Sendak wrote this odd little tale in 1967 about Jennie, a Sealyham terrier who is not content with having everything but must go out in the world to find something she doesn't have. Right off the bat, she comes across a pig wearing sandwich boards advertising the need for a leading lady in the World Mother Goose Theatre. Jennie leaps at the opportunity. Unfortunately, the position requires someone with experience, so she sets off to find it. One hungry lion and a stubborn un-hungry baby later, Jennie definitely has experience, if nothing else anymore, and off she goes to play the leading role in a nursery-rhyme-turned-theatrical-production:
Higglety-pigglety pop!
This dreamy, slightly dark story, illustrated in Sendak's renowned pen-and-ink style, tells of a gluttonous dog's transformation from someone who cares only about her next salami sandwich to one who would risk her life for a weaker being (while still wondering where that next sandwich is coming from). Caldecott Medal artist Sendak is the brilliantly quirky creator of such classics as Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. (Ages 5 to 9) --Emilie Coulter [via]
The dog has eaten the mop!
The pig's in a hurry
The cat's in a flurry
Higglety-pigglety pop!
Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Lifeby Maurice SendakISBN 0060254882 (0-06-025488-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life'Book summary:As a tribute to his dearly departed pooch, Maurice Sendak wrote this odd little tale in 1967 about Jennie, a Sealyham terrier who is not content with having everything but must go out in the world to find something she doesn't have. Right off the bat, she comes across a pig wearing sandwich boards advertising the need for a leading lady in the World Mother Goose Theatre. Jennie leaps at the opportunity. Unfortunately, the position requires someone with experience, so she sets off to find it. One hungry lion and a stubborn un-hungry baby later, Jennie definitely has experience, if nothing else anymore, and off she goes to play the leading role in a nursery-rhyme-turned-theatrical-production:
Higglety-pigglety pop!
This dreamy, slightly dark story, illustrated in Sendak's renowned pen-and-ink style, tells of a gluttonous dog's transformation from someone who cares only about her next salami sandwich to one who would risk her life for a weaker being (while still wondering where that next sandwich is coming from). Caldecott Medal artist Sendak is the brilliantly quirky creator of such classics as Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. (Ages 5 to 9) --Emilie Coulter [via]
The dog has eaten the mop!
The pig's in a hurry
The cat's in a flurry
Higglety-pigglety pop!
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Incarnations : Three Playsby Clive BarkerISBN 0061053295 (0-06-105329-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Les/Jeux Sont Faitsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0135306752 (0-13-530675-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Life and Death of King John/The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII: 2 in 1by William Shakespeare, Claire McEachernISBN 0140714596 (0-14-071459-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Death of King John/The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII: 2 in 1'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most unpopular history plays, King John deals with the life and death of King John, who reigned from 1199 to 1216. This is as early as Shakespeare goes in his treatment of English history, concentrating more successfully on the later 14th and 15th centuries in the plays which stretch from Richard II to Henry VI. As a result, King John suffers from being so historically distant in time, as well as offering a rather weak and vacillating king, who lacks the charisma and authority of Richard III or Henry V. The play begins with King John struggling to retain his throne, under attack from rebellious courtiers and Philip, the king of France. As the quarrel escalates into war with France, the plays begins to take on a contemporary Elizabethan flavour--the feared invasion from a foreign (Catholic) nation, and the extent to which such an invasion is based on the questionable paternity of King John (like Queen Elizabeth, John is accused of being a bastard and is excommunicated). The play is saved from its rather colourless political machinations by Philip the Bastard, John's favourite, a dramatic forerunner of dubious but charismatic malcontents like Edmund in King Lear. It is also Philip who is given the most powerful and patriotic lines, when he claims that "This England never did, nor never shall, / Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror". King John's mysterious and anticlimactic death through illness at the end of the play deflates expectations--something that could be said of the play as a whole. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Life of Noel Cowardby Cole LesleyISBN 0140046313 (0-14-004631-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Life of Timon of Athensby William Shakespeare, Frances E. DolanISBN 0140714871 (0-14-071487-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Living Theatre: A Historyby Edwin Wilson, Alvin GoldfarbISBN 0073514128 (0-07-351412-8)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - Living Theater: An Introduction to Theater History: ISBN 0070707324 (0-07-070732-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill - Living Theater: A History: ISBN 0070707332 (0-07-070733-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College - Living Theater: A History: ISBN 0072562579 (0-07-256257-9)
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Major Barbaraby Bernard Shaw, Elizabeth T. Forter, Dan H. Laurence, Margery MorganISBN 0140437908 (0-14-043790-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Major Barbara'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing table, with the lady herself busy at it; a smaller writing table behind him on his left; the door behind him on Lady Britomart's side; and a window with a window seat directly on his left. Near the window is an armchair. Lady Britomart is a woman of fifty or thereabouts, well dressed and yet careless of her dress, well bred and quite reckless of her breeding, well mannered and yet appallingly outspoken and indifferent to the opinion of her interlocutory, amiable and yet perem-ptory, arbitrary, and high-tempered to the last bearable degree, and withal a very typical managing matron of the upper class, treated as a naughty child until she grew into a scolding mother, and finally settling down with plenty of practical ability and worldly experience, limited in the oddest way with domestic and class limitations, conceiving the universe exactly as if it were a large house in Wilton Crescent, though handling her corner of it very effectively on that assumption, and being quite enlightened and liberal as to the books in the library, the pictures on the walls, the music in the portfolios, and the articles in the papers. [via]
Maskeradeby Terry PratchettISBN 006105691X (0-06-105691-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Periclesby P. EdwardsISBN 0140707298 (0-14-070729-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles'Book summary:Controversy has surrounded Pericles for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1607 and 1608 by one of Shakespeare's inferior collaborators, and that it shows in both its style and content. However, Shakespeare was clearly the driving force behind the play, and it is important to remember that it was one of the most popular plays of its time.
Famous for its resurrection of John Gower, the 14th-century English writer, who acts as the play's chorus, Pericles is a play which is obsessed with incest. The dramatic action begins in Antioch, where Pericles travels to solve the riddle of King Antiochus, who "to incest did provoke" his daughter. When Pericles realises Antiochus' terrible secret, he flees, wandering the seas, where he meets his wife Thaisa, who apparently dies whilst giving birth to her daughter Marina during a terrible storm. Pericles' grief is compounded by the apparent death of his daughter whilst staying at Tarsus some months later. She has in fact been sold into sexual slavery, and as Pericles resumes his wanderings, 16 years later Marina battles to retain her "peevish chastity". As with many of Shakespeare's later plays, or romances, recognition and reunion occurs in the most unlikely of circumstances. Despite questions of authorship and textual corruption, Pericles continues to fascinate audiences and critics with its dark and ambivalent account of the relations between fathers and daughters. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Periclesby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0140714693 (0-14-071469-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles'Book summary:Controversy has surrounded Pericles for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1607 and 1608 by one of Shakespeare's inferior collaborators, and that it shows in both its style and content. However, Shakespeare was clearly the driving force behind the play, and it is important to remember that it was one of the most popular plays of its time.
Famous for its resurrection of John Gower, the 14th-century English writer, who acts as the play's chorus, Pericles is a play which is obsessed with incest. The dramatic action begins in Antioch, where Pericles travels to solve the riddle of King Antiochus, who "to incest did provoke" his daughter. When Pericles realises Antiochus' terrible secret, he flees, wandering the seas, where he meets his wife Thaisa, who apparently dies whilst giving birth to her daughter Marina during a terrible storm. Pericles' grief is compounded by the apparent death of his daughter whilst staying at Tarsus some months later. She has in fact been sold into sexual slavery, and as Pericles resumes his wanderings, 16 years later Marina battles to retain her "peevish chastity". As with many of Shakespeare's later plays, or romances, recognition and reunion occurs in the most unlikely of circumstances. Despite questions of authorship and textual corruption, Pericles continues to fascinate audiences and critics with its dark and ambivalent account of the relations between fathers and daughters. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Pericles, Prince of Tyreby William Shakespeare, James G. McManawayISBN 0140714383 (0-14-071438-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Playsby Oscar WildeISBN 0140480161 (0-14-048016-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The Portable Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0140150935 (0-14-015093-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Includes the following works: NovelsThe Portrait of Dorian Gray; PlaysSalome and The Importance of Being Earnest; WritingsDe Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance.
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Prometheus Bound/the Suppliants/Seven Against Thebes/the Persiansby Philip VellacottISBN 0140441123 (0-14-044112-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prometheus Bound/the Suppliants/Seven Against Thebes/the Persians'Book summary:[via]Your kindness to the human race has earned you this.
A god who would not bow to the gods anger you
Transgressing right, gave privileges to mortal menAeschylus (525456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The Suppliants tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes.
Philip Vellacotts evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology.
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The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marloweby Charles NichollISBN 0151759812 (0-15-175981-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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Replayby Sharon CreechISBN 0060540214 (0-06-054021-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Replay'Book summary:Sharon Creech explores the hopes and longings of an introspective middle child from a boisterous Italian clan in this humorous, character-driven novel. Leo's family calls him "Sardine" because the quiet twelve year old often finds himself sandwiched between his more outgoing siblings. One rainy day in the attic, he discovers his father's teenage journal. In it, he reads that his careworn parent used to dream of being a dancer, a writer, a famous athlete, just like Leo! He also discovers a photo of his father's family that includes an unfamiliar girl in the background. Could it be the mysterious Aunt Rosaria no one speaks of? As he tries to untangle this family mystery, he is also preparing for his school play--a tale of an old man whose life is revived by weaving his childhood memories into stories for his neighbors. How can Leo convince his father that, like the old man in the play, he needs to talk about Rosaria to heal the hole she left in his life? Through the parallel dramas of the play and his chaotic home life, Leo begins to understand the importance of stories and our need to share them, whether they are treasured memories or future dreams. Creech includes the full text of the play, Rumpopo's Porch, in the back of the book. Middle grade fans of Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park or The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going are sure to enjoy this heartfelt, thoughtful read. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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RhinocErosby Eugene IonescoISBN 0030137314 (0-03-013731-4)
Softcover, Harcourt School
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› Find signed collectible books: 'RhinocEros'Book summary:"Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat." Tout langage stéréotypé devient aberrant. C'est ce que Ionesco démontre dans Rhinocéros, pièce qui a tout d'abord vu le jour sous la forme d'une nouvelle. Partisan d'un théâtre total, il porte l'absurde à son paroxysme en l'incarnant matériellement.
Allégorie des idéologies de masse, le rhinocéros, cruel et dévastateur, ne se déplace qu'en groupe et gagne du terrain à une vitesse vertigineuse. Seul et sans trop savoir pourquoi, Bérenger résiste à la mutation. Il résiste pour notre plus grande délectation, car sa lutte désespérée donne lieu à des caricatures savoureuses, à des variations de tons et de genres audacieuses et anticonformistes. La sclérose intellectuelle, l'incommunicabilité et la perversion du langage engendrent des situations tellement tragiques qu'elles en deviennent comiques, tellement grotesques qu'elles ne peuvent être que dramatiques.
On a dit du théâtre de Ionesco qu'il était engagé ; il l'est, en faveur de l'individu, menacé de marginalisation quand, malgré ses faiblesses, il parvient à résister aux tentations avilissantes qu'il a lui-même fait naître. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Robbers and Wallensteinby Johann Christoph Friedrich Von SchillerISBN 0140443681 (0-14-044368-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Scene Design and Stage Lightingby W. Oren Parker, R. Craig Wolf, Harvey K. SmithISBN 0030642485 (0-03-064248-5)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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Scene Design and Stage Lighting With Infotracby W. Oren Parker, R. Craig Wolf, Dick BlockISBN 0155061143 (0-15-506114-3)
Hardcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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The School for Scandal and Other Playsby Richard Brinsley SheridanISBN 014043240X (0-14-043240-X)
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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Rollby Eric BogosianISBN 0060984015 (0-06-098401-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Shakespeare Stealerby Gary BlackwoodISBN 0141305959 (0-14-130595-9)
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The Shifting Point 1946-1987by Peter BrookISBN 0060390735 (0-06-039073-5)
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Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Playsby Mark Musa, Luigi PirandelloISBN 014018922X (0-14-018922-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Six Yuan Playsby Jung-En LiuISBN 0140442626 (0-14-044262-6)
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The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theaterby Leah Hager CohenISBN 0142000965 (0-14-200096-5)
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Surviving The Applewhitesby Stephanie S. TolanISBN 0064410447 (0-06-441044-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surviving The Applewhites'Book summary:Jake Semple is a scary kid. Word has it that he burned down his old school and then was kicked out of every other school in his home state. Only weeks into September, the middle school in Traybridge, North Carolina, has thrown him out, too.
Now there's only one place left that will take him -- a home school run by the most outrageous, forgetful, chaotic, quarrelsome family you'll ever meet. Each and every Applewhite is an artist through and through -- except E.D., the smart, scruffy girl with a deep longing for order and predictability. E.D. and Jake, so nearly the same age, are quickly paired in the family's first experiment in "cooperative education."
The two clash immediately, of course. The only thing they have in common is the determination to survive the family's eccentricities.
In Stephanie S. Tolan's hilarious tale, a local production of The Sound of Music directed, stagecrafted, choreographed, and costumed by Apple-whites -- brings the family together and shows E.D. and Jake the value of the special gifts they've had all along.
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The Theater Experienceby Edwin WilsonISBN 0073125555 (0-07-312555-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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The Theater Experience: With Theater Goer's Guideby WilsonISBN 0079132022 (0-07-913202-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Theatreby Robert CohenISBN 007256492X (0-07-256492-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Theatre: Brief Versionby CohenISBN 0072564911 (0-07-256491-1)
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Theatrical Design and Production: An Introduction to Scene Design and Construction, Lighting, Sound, Costume, and Makeupby J. Michael GilletteISBN 0072562625 (0-07-256262-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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The Theatrical Imaginationby James Ludwig, Brant L. Pope, Jeffrey H. HubermanISBN 0030308321 (0-03-030832-1)
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Titus Andronicusby William Shakespeare, Russ McDonaldISBN 014071491X (0-14-071491-X)
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Troilus and Cressidaby William Shakespeare, Jonathan V. CreweISBN 0140714863 (0-14-071486-3)
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Within the walls of Troy, Prince Troilus falls madly in love with Cressida, daughter of the deserter Calchas. His love is intense and frenetic--"I am giddy, expectation whirls round me," but turns to bitter disillusion when Cressida defects to the Greek camp and flirts with Diomedes. As the war and conflict over the abduction of Helen whirls around the doomed romance, the play delights in its complex syntax and cynical images of waste, decay, corruption and mutability, summed up in Ulysses' comment that, "Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all / To envious and calumniating time." The play's cynical open-ended quality has frustrated many readers, but gives the play a remarkably modern, contemporary sensibility. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Underfoot in Show Businessby Helene HanffISBN 0140058680 (0-14-005868-0)
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William Shakespeare & the Globeby AlikiISBN 0064437221 (0-06-443722-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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William Shakespeare and the Globeby AlikiISBN 006027820X (0-06-027820-X)
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