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.
Ungoverning Dance examines the work of progressive contemporary dance artists in continental Europe from the mid 1990s to 2015. Placing this within its historical and political context - that of neoliberalism and austerity - it argues that these artists have developed an ethico-aesthetic approach that uses dance practices as sites of resistance against dominant ideologies, and that their works attest to the persistence of alternative ways of thinking and living. In response to the way that the r...
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers (Palgrave Studies in Comedy)
This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists. It explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Carolyn Wells, Lucille Clifton, Mary McCarthy, Lynne Tillman, Constance Rourke, Roz Chast, Amy Schumer and Samantha Bee, and the ways in which their humor challenges gendered norms and assumptions through the use of irony, satire, parody, and wit. The chapters draw from the experiences of women from a variety of racial, class, a...
Importance of Being Earnest, The: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
by Oscar Wilde
As the World Burns: The Sonnets of George W. Bush and Other Poems of the 43rd Presidency
by Ken Waldman