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9 Contemporary Jewish Playsby Ellen Schiff, Michael Posnick, Theodore BikelISBN 0292712901 (0-292-71290-1)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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An Actor and His Timeby John Gielgud, John Powell, John MillerISBN 0283985739 (0-283-98573-9)
Hardcover, Sidgwick & Jackson
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Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, Antigoneby Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307743 (0-226-30774-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Aristophanes Acharniansby S. Douglas OlsonISBN 0199275866 (0-19-927586-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Black Musicby Imamu Amiri BarakaISBN 0261631578 (0-261-63157-8)
Hardcover, MacGibbon & Kee
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Blessings in Disguiseby Alec GuinnessISBN 0241116813 (0-241-11681-3)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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Brecht: A Biographyby Ronald HaymanISBN 0297782061 (0-297-78206-1)
Softcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment. -
Candideby Burton Raffel, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
Children of the Revels: The Boy Companies of Shakespeare's Time and Their Playsby Michael ShapiroISBN 0231041128 (0-231-04112-8)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, a Puppet Playby Donald KeeneISBN 0231035314 (0-231-03531-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Donald Keene's translation of the original text is presented here with a new preface and an introduction and notes to aid readers in their comprehension and enjoyment of the play.
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Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performanceby Joseph RoachISBN 0231104618 (0-231-10461-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Compass: The Improvisational Theatre That Revolutionized American Comedyby Janet ColemanISBN 0226113450 (0-226-11345-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripidesby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307662 (0-226-30766-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides:
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophoclesby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307654 (0-226-30765-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles:
Computers As Theatreby Brenda LaurelISBN 0201550601 (0-201-55060-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Contractorby David StoreyISBN 0224618997 (0-224-61899-7)
Hardcover, Cape
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Costumes for the Stage: A Complete Handbook for Every Kind of Playby Sheila JacksonISBN 0273011715 (0-273-01171-5)
Hardcover, Herbert Press
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Death of Al Hallaj: A Dramatic Narrativeby Herbert MasonISBN 0268008434 (0-268-00843-4)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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The Dramatic Concepts of Antonin Artaudby Eric SellinISBN 0226747859 (0-226-74785-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Dramatic Works of George Peele: The Arraignment of Parisby George Peele, R. Mark BenbowISBN 0300011857 (0-300-01185-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movementby Yolanda Broyles-GonzalezISBN 0292708017 (0-292-70801-7)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement'Book summary:Born in 1965 as an organizing tool within César Chávez's United Farm Workers union, El Teatro Campesino became the premier Chicana/o performance ensemble to emerge out of the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This study demythologizes and reinterprets the company's history from its origins in California's farm labor struggles to its successes in Europe and on Broadway until the disbanding of the original collective ensemble in 1980 with the subsequent adoption of mainstream production techniques.
Yolanda Broyles-González corrects many misconceptions concerning the Teatro's creation and evolution. She draws from a rich storehouse of previously untapped material, such as interviews with numerous ensemble members, production notes, and unpublished diaries, to highlight the reality of the collective creation that characterized the Teatro's work.
Writing within contemporary cultural studies theory, Broyles-González sheds light on class, gender, race, and cultural issues. Her work situates the Teatro within working-class Mexican performance history, the Chicano movement, gender relations, and recent attempts to mainstream.
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Elia Kazan: A Lifeby Elia KazanISBN 0233982922 (0-233-98292-2)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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Euripides IIby Richmond Lattimore, Euripides, David GreneISBN 0226307816 (0-226-30781-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Euripides IIIby Euripides, Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307824 (0-226-30782-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Euripides IV: Four Tragedies Rhesus, the Suppliant Women, Orestes and Iphigenia in Aulisby Richmond Lattimore, Euripides, David Grene, Frank JonesISBN 0226307832 (0-226-30783-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Euripides V: Electra, the Phoenician Women, the Bacchaeby Richmond Lattimore, Euripides, David GreneISBN 0226307840 (0-226-30784-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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An Evening at the Garden of Allah: A Gay Cabaret in Seattleby Don Paulson, Roger SimpsonISBN 0231096984 (0-231-09698-4)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage and Screenby Sarah Blacher CohenISBN 0253203708 (0-253-20370-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theaterby Karin BarberISBN 0253216176 (0-253-21617-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Greek Lyricsby Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226469441 (0-226-46944-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Greek Tragediesby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307905 (0-226-30790-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Histrionics: Three Playsby Thomas Bernhard, Peter K. Jansen, Kenneth NorthcottISBN 0226043959 (0-226-04395-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Histrionics: Three Plays'Book summary:Although he is best known in the United States as a novelist, Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard has been hailed in Europe as one of the most significant and controversial of contemporary playwrights. George Steiner has predicted that the current era in German-language literature will be recognized as the "Bernhard period"; John Updike compares Bernhard with Kafka, Grass, Handke, and Weiss. His dark, absurdist plays can be likened to those of Beckett and Pinter, but their cultural and political concerns are distinctly Bernhard's. While Austria's recent political history lends particular credibility to Bernhard's satire, his criticisms are directed at the modern world generally; his plays grapple with questions of totalitarianism and the subjection of the individual and with notions of reality and appearance.[via]More editions of Histrionics: Three Plays:
The Ibsen Cycle: The Design of the Plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awakenby Brian JohnstonISBN 0271008741 (0-271-00874-1)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State University Press
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Images of the Greek Theatreby Richard Green, Eric Handley, J. R. Green, British MuseumISBN 0292727828 (0-292-72782-8)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedyby Michael NeillISBN 019818493X (0-19-818493-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boysby Andrew Birkin, Sharon GoodeISBN 0300098227 (0-300-09822-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Kenneth Tynan: A Lifeby Dominic ShellardISBN 0300099193 (0-300-09919-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Laurence Olivierby John CottrellISBN 0297769839 (0-297-76983-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Lion and the Jewelby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0199110832 (0-19-911083-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Lower Depths and Other Playsby Maksim GorkiiISBN 0300001002 (0-300-00100-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Magic Lanternby Ingmar Bergman, Joan TateISBN 0226043827 (0-226-04382-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Making of Modern Drama: A Study of Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Handkeby Richard GilmanISBN 0300079028 (0-300-07902-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Management and the Artsby William J. ByrnesISBN 0240803345 (0-240-80334-5)
Softcover, Butterworth-Heinemann
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The Meaning of Shakespeareby GoddardISBN 0226300420 (0-226-30042-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Moon for the Misbegottenby Eugene O'Neill, Stephen A. BlackISBN 0300118155 (0-300-11815-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles Dickens, Leon GarfieldISBN 0233972579 (0-233-97257-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Noel Coward: A Biographyby Philip HoareISBN 0226345122 (0-226-34512-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Education
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Now More Than Everby Aldous Huxley, James Sexton, David BradshawISBN 0292731221 (0-292-73122-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Nuremberg in the Sixteenth Century: City Politics and Life between Middle Ages and Modern Timesby Gerald StraussISBN 0253341493 (0-253-34149-3)
Hardcover, Indiana University Press
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On Actingby Laurence OlivierISBN 0297788647 (0-297-78864-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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On Broadwayby Fred Fehl, William Stott, Jane StottISBN 0292760108 (0-292-76010-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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On Directing Shakespeareby Ralph BerryISBN 0241126894 (0-241-12689-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Opera-dead Or Alive: Production, Performance, And Enjoyment Of Musical Theatreby Ronald E. MitchellISBN 029905814X (0-299-05814-X)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Ovid Metamorphosesby Naso Publius OvidiusISBN 0253200016 (0-253-20001-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid Metamorphoses'Book summary:"The Metamorphoses of Ovid offers to the modern world such a key to the literary and religious culture of the ancients that it becomes an important event when at last a good poet comes up with a translation into English verse." -John Crowe Ransom"... a charming and expert English version, which is right in tone for the Metamorphoses."Â -Francis Fergusson"This new Ovid, fresh and faithful, is right for our time and should help to restore a great reputation." -Mark Van DorenThe first and still the best modern verse translation of the Metamorphoses, Humphries' version of Ovid's masterpiece captures its wit, merriment, and sophistication.Everyone will enjoy this first modern translation by an American poet of Ovid's great work, the major treasury of classical mythology, which has perennially stimulated the minds of men. In this lively rendering there are no stock props of the pastoral and no literary landscaping, but real food on the table and sometimes real blood on the ground.Not only is Ovid's Metamorphoses a collection of all the myths of the time of the Roman poet as he knew them, but the book presents at the same time a series of love poems-about the loves of men, women, and the gods. There are also poems of hate, to give the proper shading to the narrative. And pervading all is the writer's love for this earth, its people, its phenomena.Using ten-beat, unrhymed lines in his translation, Rolfe Humphries shows a definite kinship for Ovid's swift and colloquial language and Humphries' whole poetic manner is in tune with the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet. [via]
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Ovid: Metamorphosesby Publius Ovidius NasoISBN 0253337550 (0-253-33755-0)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, And Styleby Francis Hodge, Michael McLainISBN 0205419232 (0-205-41923-2)
Hardcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Playwrights' Theatre: The English Stage Company at the Royal Courtby Terry BrowneISBN 0273007580 (0-273-00758-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Playwriting: The Structure of Actionby Sam Smiley, Norman A. BertISBN 0300107242 (0-300-10724-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal, 1996-1998by Alec GuinnessISBN 0241137888 (0-241-13788-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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Regional Theatre: The Revolutionary Stageby Joseph Wesley ZeiglerISBN 030680056X (0-306-80056-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Richard Wagner and Festival Theatreby Simon WilliamsISBN 0275936082 (0-275-93608-2)
Softcover, Praeger Pub Text
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Script Analysis For Actors, Director And Designersby James ThomasISBN 024080662X (0-240-80662-X)
Softcover, Focal Pr
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Sejanusby Ben Jonson, Jonas A. BarishISBN 0300094698 (0-300-09469-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, Stephen BoothISBN 0300024959 (0-300-02495-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Savor the most celebrated love poems in the English language. Written almost 400 years ago, the sonnets of William Shakespeare are passionate and exalted, rich in imagery and alliteration, and full of mystery and intrigue.
This selection presents all 154 sonnets composed from 1593-1601. In words and rhyme, he reveals his infatuation with the "Dark Lady," his relationship with a rival poet, and his private thoughts on love, death, beauty, and truth: timeless themes that span the centuries to touch our hearts today. [via]
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Stephen BoothISBN 0300085060 (0-300-08506-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Skit Book: One Hundred and One Skits from Kidsby Margaret Read MacDonald, Marie-Louise ScullISBN 020802283X (0-208-02283-X)
Softcover, Shoe String Press, Incorporated
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Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, David Greene, Richard LattimoreISBN 0226307921 (0-226-30792-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone:
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Sophocles IIby Sophocles, David GreeneISBN 0226307867 (0-226-30786-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Staging in Shakespeare's Theatresby Andrew Gurr, Mariko IchikawaISBN 0198711581 (0-19-871158-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Stanley Holloway Monologuesby Stanley Holloway, Michael MarshallISBN 0241103061 (0-241-10306-1)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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Straight Acting: Popular Gay Drama from Wilde to Rattiganby Sean O'ConnorISBN 0304328642 (0-304-32864-2)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Theater and the Adolescent Actor: Building a Successful School Programby Camille L. PoissonISBN 0208023801 (0-208-02380-1)
Hardcover, Shoe String Press, Incorporated
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Theatre of the Book 1480-1880 : Print, Text and Performance in Europeby Julie Stone PetersISBN 0198187149 (0-19-818714-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Theatre through the Agesby Cesare MolinariISBN 0304294489 (0-304-29448-9)
Hardcover, Cassell
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True Rites and Maimed Rites: Ritual and Anti-Ritual in Shakespeare and His Ageby Linda Woodbridge, Edward BerryISBN 0252062434 (0-252-06243-4)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Twentieth-Century Italian Drama: An Anthology The First Fifty Yearsby Jane House, Antonio AttisaniISBN 0231071183 (0-231-07118-3)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twentieth-Century Italian Drama: An Anthology The First Fifty Years'Book summary:This volume of Twentieth-Century Italian Drama covers the period spanning from the end of the nineteenth century to that immediately following World War II, displaying the rich breadth of Italian theater in the modern age, from the comedic legacy carried on by such writers as Eduardo De Filippo to the delicate tragedy of playwrights like Federigo Tozzi.Included are seven full-length plays, five one-act plays, one variety sketch, and three futurist sintesi (sketches). Brief introductions preceding each play contextualize the piece within the various movements in Italian theater, and biographies of the editors and translators appear at the end of the volume. An extensive bibliography offers many suggestions for further reading in English.The playwrights included are Gabriele D'Annunzio, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ettore Petrolini, Raffaele Viviani, Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo, Federigo Tozzi, Massimo Bontempelli, Achille Campanile, Italo Svevo, Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, and Ugo Betti.
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Understanding Playsby Milly S. BarrangerISBN 0205150969 (0-205-15096-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Women in Power in the Early Modern Dramaby Theodora A. JankowskiISBN 0252062388 (0-252-06238-8)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The World of the Castrati : The History of an Extraordinary Operatic Phenomenonby Patrick BarbierISBN 0285634607 (0-285-63460-7)
Softcover, Souvenir Press Limited
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Writing About Theatreby Rick Davis, Christopher J. ThaissISBN 0205280005 (0-205-28000-5)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Writing Your First Playby Roger A. HallISBN 024080290X (0-240-80290-X)
Softcover, Focal Pr
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Birds: Greek Textby Aristophanes, Nan DunbarISBN 0198721773 (0-19-872177-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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