The Folger Guide to Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
The authoritative guide to teaching Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Folger Guide to Teaching A Midsummer Night’s Dream is an invaluable resource for teachers, students, and Shakespeare fans alike. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love trian...
Roger Piper is married, middle-aged and middle-rung; he is a man who has elevated failure to an art form. His wife thinks he is up all night writing a novel. In fact, he's writing a suicide note, a long farewell letter to Angela Caxton, the girl with the marmalade-coloured hair, with whom he has shared a wild but hopeless affair. OUR SONG traces their entanglement from its carefree beginnings to its inevitable yet unexpected tragic end. Pouring out his heart, the former advertising executive - h...
Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama fills a gap in the literature by examining the origins of these texts, and investigating their growing importance and influence in the theatre of the period. This topic-led discussion of prologues and epilogues deals with the origins of these texts, the difficulty of definition, and the way in whi...
Gerade Goethes Faust eignet sich als Vorlage fur Hollywoodfilme. Allerdings handelt es sich dabei um Adaptionen und Transformationen der Thematik, nicht um direkte UEbernahmen. Grunde dafur liegen u. a. in den unterschiedlichen politischen, kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Situationen, die das Deutschland der Goethezeit und das moderne Amerika kennzeichnen. Doch wie schon im Faust zahlen heute die positive Aufloesung des Konfliktes und eine Liebesbeziehung zu den Bestandteilen eines modernen Hol...
Spaces of Irish Drama, The: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays
by Helen Heusner Lojek
Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Cove
by Thomas Morton
John Connolly's "The Boys from Siam" has been chosen as the first winner of the "Yale Drama Series". This play was selected by contest judge, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Edward Albee. Based loosely on the lives of Chang and Eng Bunker, the nineteenth-century brothers and source of the term 'Siamese twins', "The Boys from Siam" is the haunting and lyrical story of conjoined twins Pigg and Pegg. Edward Albee in his foreword writes that the work is "a beautifully realized concentrated univers...
J. M. Synge and the Western Mind (Liverpool English Texts and Studies (Hardcover), #4)
by Weldon Thornton
Duchess of Malfi, The Paper (Study Texts S.)
by John Webster, Roy Blatchford, and Trevor Millum
Webster's tragedy unfolds against a background of decadence and deception, established in the opening scenes of the play. The conversation and business of the court characters are lit up by shafts of satirical observation and brilliant, startling images. A level: WJEC; NEAB; OCR
What makes a home for you? _x000D_ Victor Esses is Jewish-Lebanese, Brazilian, and gay. In 1975, Victor's mother flees Lebanon as a refugee of the Civil War. In 2017, Victor visits Lebanon for the first time. In 2018, amidst the elections that will see Brazil choose a far-right president, he travels from London to Sao Paulo to show his partner the city of his childhood. _x000D_ Where to Belong is the tender, moving story of these journeys - an exploration of how to find your place in a ric...
Oeuvres Completes de Eugene Scribe, Operas-Comiques. Ser. 4, Vol. 18 (Litterature)
by Eugene Scribe
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" (Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary S.)
by Matt Simpson
Nestled in the heart of Snowdonia, the small town of Milky Peaks is nominated for ‘Britain’s Best Town’. However, the award brings with it a dark, insidious right-wing agenda, threatening the heart and soul of the town. _x000D_ Can the community club together to save the identity of their beloved Milky Peaks?
In a fractured and divided city, two men, 'A' and 'B', meet to recreate the killings of a famous gay serial killer, for their own pleasure...and the right price. "Everything else is tumbling down Falling apart But not you and me You and me are going to hold tight You and me are just right" Sex/Crime is a darkly comic queer thriller: an exciting, challenging play that explores sex, violence, language, fear and queerness.
The School for Scandal (Dover Thrift Editions) (New Mermaids)
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheridan's most successful play, often considered the apex of English comedy.
Hadrian VII (Picador Books) (Acting Edition S.)
by Frederick William Rolfe
Contrite priests suddenly bestow Holy Orders on a wretched failure who was expelled from the seminary for lack of a true vocation. He is soon in Rome with his bishop to elect a new Pope. The stymied conclave elects the dedicated new priest: Hadrian VII. The new Pope decides to sell Vatican art treasures to finance feeding the world's poor. He smokes on the throne and entertains old friends like his landlady and new ones like a seminarian who is having a hard go of it until an assassin puts an en...