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One of Shakespeare's late plays, The Winter's Tale falls into two distinct parts: the first part tragedy and the second, comedy. John Pitcher's lively introduction and commentary explores the extraordinary merging of theatrical forms in the play and its success in performance.

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In partnerships with the website sonnetsofshakespeare.com, which contains video recordings of the author reciting each sonnet, The Wit and Wisdom of Shakespeare thoroughly demystifies 32 of Shakespeare's sonnets. Each is presented and illuminated by a short Essence Statement, ...

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In partnerships with the website sonnetsofshakespeare.com, which contains video recordings of the author reciting each sonnet, The Wit and Wisdom of Shakespeare thoroughly demystifies 32 of Shakespeare's sonnets. Each is presented and illuminated by a short Essence Statement, ...

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Theater of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses on how dramatists from the Northern Mexico border territories utilize theater as a means to present the US-Mexico Borderlands in a sociohistorical and political context.

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Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses on how dramatists from the Northern Mexico border territories utilize theater as a means to present the US-Mexico Borderlands in a sociohistorical and political context.

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This study succinctly views some works of nine black women playwrights, who flourished between 1916 and 1935, and explores--in some detail--some characteristics of selected plays of Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Ntozake Shange.

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James S. Baumlins Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature offers a revisionist history of discourse, taking Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton as its touchstones. Their works mark stages in die Entzauberung or disenchantment, as Max Weber has termed it: that is, in the elimination of magic from the world.

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Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. This book provides the solution to different intellectual questions from staging any other canonical drama in the form of an interdisciplinary dialogue, inspired by a conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama.

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John Ford's tragedy "Tis Pity She's A Whore" was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including TV and film adaptations.

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John Ford's tragedy "Tis Pity She's A Whore" was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including TV and film adaptations.

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Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' soliloquy is quoted more often than almost any other passage in Shakespeare. Part of the "Shakespeare Now!" series, this title takes this famous speech and looks at it's meaning to reveal the questions and problems it raises. It reads the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's speech in 'slow motion'.

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Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' soliloquy is quoted more often than almost any other passage in Shakespeare. Part of the "Shakespeare Now!" series, this title takes this famous speech and looks at it's meaning to reveal the questions and problems it raises. It reads the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's speech in 'slow motion'.

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With its engaging alteration between past and present "Arcadia" offers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory, entropy, the Second Law of thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, fractals, and other concepts culled the realms of math and science. This guide provides students a comprehensive critical introduction to the play.

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Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights. "Arcadia" is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his early career love for words and ideas with his later career emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement. This guide provides an introduction to the play.

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Long accustomed to writing in the tradition of the flamboyant kabuki, Japanese dramatists had a more difficult struggle in modernizing their art than did writers of fiction and poetry. The work of Kishida Kunio, however, established and matured modern Japanese drama, modeled on the western psychological drama of Ibsen and Chekhov. J. Thomas Rimer

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