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F. Murray Abraham offers a joyful personal commentary on playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, his favourite role in a forty-year career. This lively account charts his journey from rehearsals to performance, with observations on the craft of acting, on playing Shakespeare in America, and a survey of the play itself.

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Boitani's presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative.

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When the author travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during his years in England. In this book, he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp.

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An illustrated tour of the landscapes of Mississippi that have inspired the states many lauded writers, from Faulkner and Welty to Morris and Ward.

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This concise guide to staging an Ayckbourn play includes information on: plot breakdown, hints on production, details of female and male characters, where to apply for permissions and music, and much more.

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This guide contains a full introduction, historical and theatrical analysis, plus details of productions around the world, to enable theatregoers and students to enjoy and understand the work of these three writers.

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""A Poet's Mind gives an excellent introduction to a major American poet in his own thoughtful, engaging, and often funny words"--Provided by publisher"--

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Includes poems that connect and radiate like the spokes of a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a sea sequence set on the Suffolk coast, and - long overdue - the author's own version of the old Irish poem where his namesake is turned into a bird.

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A continuation of the study that began with A Gentle Madness and Patience & Fortitude considers the issues that surround the role of books in contemporary society, including book and library destruction and preservation in various parts of the world. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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This is a revised and enlarged edition. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's "Selected Poems" by identifying and explaining the wide and often baffling range of quotations, allusions and references, literary, factual and historical.

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The world-renowned novelist shares quotations on subjects such as life and opportunity, the frontier, knowledge and learning, poverty and wealth, women, wild life, law and justice, and more from the pages of his best-selling novels.

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Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of life behind the scenes during the Second World War.

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"Fully updated second edition"--Page 4 of cover.

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Offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent times. His survey includes a concise biography, in-depth analysis of Sarah Kane's work, and interviews with Kane and those who helped to put her work on stage.

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In About Stoppard, Jim Hunter charts the work of one of Britain's leading playwrights.

An indispensable reference collection focusing on the most important contributions in the field of adaptation studies.

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A poetics appropriate to the digital era that connects digital poetry to traditional poetry's concerns with being.

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From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the worlds favourite fictional detective.

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One of six new additions to the acclaimed Poet to Poet series.

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Introduction by Olga Broumas Winner of the 1990 Barnard New Women Poets Prize