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Winter Passages: Reflections on Theatre and Society

Product Description: Winter Passages is Robert Brusteinâs nineteenth book of criticism. It includes his considerations of culture and politics over the past four years of American life, demonstrating how the imperfections of the government and economy have plunged the country into an artistic winter in which there is a troubling lack of support for, and understanding of, Americaâs arts and artists...read more

By Robert Brustein

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9781412854733 | Transaction Pub, October 7, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Winter Passages is Robert Brusteinâs nineteenth book of criticism.

Rants and Raves: Opinions, Tributes and Elegies

By Robert Brustein

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9781575257778 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, June 30, 2011, cover price $16.95

Demons

Product Description: Demons is a free adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, set in modern times. In Doctor Faustus a learned Doctor of Divinity sells his soul to the devil Mephostophilis for forbidden knowledge. In Demons, Dr Faustus has become Peter Proud, a Professor of Christian Values at Harvard Divinity School, and this adaptation also ads a whole new section to the play, with a new character, the hero s dead wife, and a new motive behind his quest for knowledge: the desire to resurrect her...read more

By Richard Benjamin (other contributor), Robert Brustein, Fox (other contributor), Jonathan Fried (other contributor) and Jeremy Geidt (other contributor)

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9781580817073 | L A Theatre Works, July 25, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Demons is a free adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, set in modern times.

Beckett in an Hour

By Robert Brustein (introduced by) and E. Teresa Choate

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9781936232086 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 8, 2010, cover price $9.99

Shaw in an Hour

Product Description: The optimistic George Bernard Shaw watched happily as the steely modern world made its debut. Shaw hoped that World War I would sweep away the flawed Victorian world and lead to significant social change and a socialist utopia. When postwar Europe gave way to totalitarianism and a second final war, Shaw s optimism waned...read more

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9781936232246 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: The optimistic George Bernard Shaw watched happily as the steely modern world made its debut.

Miller in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSIS With the TV lighting up his living room, Arthur Miller watched his director friend, Elia Kazan, identify fellow dramatists as communists during the house on un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings. Miller feared that his own communist activities would be revealed...read more

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9781936232031 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSIS With the TV lighting up his living room, Arthur Miller watched his director friend, Elia Kazan, identify fellow dramatists as communists during the house on un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings.

Aristophanes in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSISDuring the Peloponnesian war, Aristophanes watched as the people of Attica, living on the outermost edge of Athens, suffered and died from the raids and invasions that came with six years of warfare. Frustrated, but infusing a touch of levity in everything he did, Aristophanes put his pen to paper to write the world's very first anti-war comedy, Acharnians...read more

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9781936232079 | Reprint edition (Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSISDuring the Peloponnesian war, Aristophanes watched as the people of Attica, living on the outermost edge of Athens, suffered and died from the raids and invasions that came with six years of warfare.

Williams in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSIS A young Tennessee Williams listened as the doctor diagnosed him with diphtheria, a disease that kept him housebound for months. Since he couldn t play outside with the other boys, his mother told him to read and write stories...read more

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9781936232321 | 1 edition (Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSIS A young Tennessee Williams listened as the doctor diagnosed him with diphtheria, a disease that kept him housebound for months.

Wilder in an Hour

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9781936232314 | Reprint edition (Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010), cover price $9.99

Hansberry in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSISA child, Lorraine Hansberry was in the front yard of her new home, located in an all-white neighborhood, when a mob of angry neighbors gathered. She ran inside, where a brick came crashing through the living room window, narrowly missing her...read more

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9781936232154 | 1 edition (Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSISA child, Lorraine Hansberry was in the front yard of her new home, located in an all-white neighborhood, when a mob of angry neighbors gathered.

Moliere in an Hour

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9781936232192 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99

O'neill in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSIS In 1912, a twenty-four-year-old Eugene O Neill was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium. There, O Neill pondered his recent suicide attempt and his family s struggles with alcohol and drugs. It was there, too, that he decided to be a playwright after spending his days reading great works of literature and drama...read more

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9781936232055 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSIS In 1912, a twenty-four-year-old Eugene O Neill was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium.

Stoppard in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSIS In 1954, Tom Stoppard began working for the Western Daily Press, with the dream of becoming a hard-boiled journalist reporting from war-torn areas of the world however, the position open was that of a lower-tier theater critic...read more

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9781936232277 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSIS In 1954, Tom Stoppard began working for the Western Daily Press, with the dream of becoming a hard-boiled journalist reporting from war-torn areas of the world however, the position open was that of a lower-tier theater critic.

Coward in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSISNoel Coward was a child when he saw an advertisement in the Daily Mirror calling on "a talented boy of attractive appearance" to act a lead role in a play about fairies called The Goldfish. Coward reasoned: I am "a talented boy, God knows, and, when washed and smarmed down a bit, passably attractive...read more

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9781936232109 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSISNoel Coward was a child when he saw an advertisement in the Daily Mirror calling on "a talented boy of attractive appearance" to act a lead role in a play about fairies called The Goldfish.

Shakespeare in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSIS In 1587, when William Shakespeare was twenty-three, the acting troupe Queen s Men played in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon with one player short. Shakespeare s childhood fascination with theater suddenly found a perfect outlet -- he joined the Queen s Men and replaced the missing actor...read more

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9781936232048 | 1 edition (Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, June 30, 2010), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSIS In 1587, when William Shakespeare was twenty-three, the acting troupe Queen s Men played in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon with one player short.

Rebeck in an Hour

Product Description: Theresa Rebeck is a contemporary American playwright noted for both the fierceness of her social commentary and the hilarity of her wit. Influenced by writers and movements as diverse as Chekhov and David Mamet, 19th-century melodrama and 20th-century feminism, Rebeck has created a wide-ranging and frequently produced body of work...read more

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9781936232222 | In an Hour Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Theresa Rebeck is a contemporary American playwright noted for both the fierceness of her social commentary and the hilarity of her wit.

Brecht in an Hour

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9781936232093 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99

Strindberg in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSIS Instability marked the life of August Strindberg. One of eleven children --- only seven survived to adulthood --- Strindberg s mother died when he was thirteen years old, just a few years after his father declared bankruptcy...read more

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9781936232284 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSIS Instability marked the life of August Strindberg.

Wedekind in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSIS In 1904, Frank Wedekind nearly landed himself in jail. His play, Pandora s Box, was confiscated by the authorities for its lascivious passages, thought to undermine the social moral order. But Wedekind was no playboy --- which is perhaps why he was acquitted in the trial over Pandora s indecency...read more

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9781936232291 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSIS In 1904, Frank Wedekind nearly landed himself in jail.

Euripides in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSISAccording to legend, on the day of the greatest naval battle of the Persian wars, when Athens finally defeated the Persian Empire, Euripides was born. Throughout his life, while Athens secured its decline with its ceaseless warfare, Euripides sought sanctuary in a cave on the island of his birth, Salamis...read more

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9781936232116 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSISAccording to legend, on the day of the greatest naval battle of the Persian wars, when Athens finally defeated the Persian Empire, Euripides was born.

Shepard in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSIS In 1962, a nineteen-year-old Sam Shepard escaped from his dysfunctional home in Duarte, California and headed to New York City, where he launched his successful career as an actor, director, and playwright. Though he left his family, the memory of his family especially his father, a World War II veteran, alcoholic, and recluse never left him...read more

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9781936232253 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 30, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSIS In 1962, a nineteen-year-old Sam Shepard escaped from his dysfunctional home in Duarte, California and headed to New York City, where he launched his successful career as an actor, director, and playwright.

Ayckbourn in an Hour

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9781936232024 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99

Albee in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSISAfter twenty-one-year-old Edward Albee flunked out of college, he came home drunk and packed his bags, intending to leave home forever. He never spoke to his father again; and he would be estranged from his mother for seventeen years...read more

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9781936232017 | 1 edition (Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, June 30, 2010), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSISAfter twenty-one-year-old Edward Albee flunked out of college, he came home drunk and packed his bags, intending to leave home forever.

Chekhov in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSISAs a schoolboy, Anton Chekhov stole into the local theater at night, dressed as his father, and marveled at the plays of Shakespeare and Moliere. Mesmerized by the characters on the stage, he went on to write his own tragicomedies: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard...read more

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9781936232000 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, June 30, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSISAs a schoolboy, Anton Chekhov stole into the local theater at night, dressed as his father, and marveled at the plays of Shakespeare and Moliere.

Aeschylus in an Hour

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSISA thirty-five-year-old Aeschylus enlisted in the Athenian army and fought in the battle of Marathon (490 BCE) and Salamis (480 BCE). These battles were not only the prelude to Athenian military hegemony in the region but also to Athenian cultural dominance...read more

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9781936232062 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: BOOK SYNOPSISA thirty-five-year-old Aeschylus enlisted in the Athenian army and fought in the battle of Marathon (490 BCE) and Salamis (480 BCE).

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