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Product Description: Theatrical playing, Hamlet famously averred, holds a mirror up to nature. But unlike the reflections in the mirror, the theater's images are composed of real objects, most notably bodies, that have an independent existence outside the world of reflection, and throughout Western theater history there have been occasions when the reality behind the illusion was placed on display...read more

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9780472119851 | Univ of Michigan Pr, May 28, 2016, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Theatrical playing, Hamlet famously averred, holds a mirror up to nature.

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By Marvin Carlson (foreword by), Dario Fo, Jane House (editor), Franca Rame and Jack D. Street (editor)

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9781495503696 | Edwin Mellen Pr, October 15, 2015, cover price $159.95

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9780199669820 | New upd edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2014), cover price $11.95

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By Marvin Carlson (editor), Ibn Daniyal and Safi Mahfouz (editor)

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9780984616046 | Martin E Segal Theatre Center, July 30, 2013, cover price $20.00

By Marvin Carlson (editor)

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9780984616022 | Martin E Segal Theatre Center, February 9, 2016, cover price $20.00

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Product Description: An exciting collection of Jean-François Ducis' radical reworkings of William Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, penned on the eve of the French Revolution. Following the rules of French neoclassicism, the result is a trio of almost totally different works...read more

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9780984616039 | Martin E Segal Theatre Center, March 5, 2013, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: An exciting collection of Jean-François Ducis' radical reworkings of William Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, penned on the eve of the French Revolution.

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Product Description: Speaking in Tongues presents a unique account of how language has been employed in the theatre, not simply as a means of communication but also as a stylistic and formal device, and for a number of cultural and political operations...read more

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9780472115471 | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 5, 2006, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Speaking in Tongues presents a unique account of how language has been employed in the theatre, not simply as a means of communication but also as a stylistic and formal device, and for a number of cultural and political operations.

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9780472033928 | Univ of Michigan Pr, August 7, 2009, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Speaking in Tongues presents a unique account of how language has been employed in the theatre, not simply as a means of communication but also as a stylistic and formal device, and for a number of cultural and political operations.

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Product Description: In almost every area of production, German theatre of the past forty years has achieved a level of distinction unique in the international community. This flourishing theatrical culture has encouraged a large number of outstanding actors, directors, and designers as well as video and film artists...read more

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9781587298141 | Univ of Iowa Pr, September 15, 2009, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: In almost every area of production, German theatre of the past forty years has achieved a level of distinction unique in the international community.

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By Marvin Carlson (editor)

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9780979057021 | Martin E Segal Theatre Center, September 1, 2008, cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Four plays based on the Oedipus legend by four leading dramatists of the Arab World.
By Marvin Carlson (editor)

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9780966615289 | Martin E Segal Theatre Center, August 16, 2006, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Four plays based on the Oedipus legend by four leading dramatists of the Arab World.

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Product Description: Includes the proceedings of a symposium on this subject held at the CUNY Graduate Center in February of 1999, along with the first English translations of three short plays by leading Egyptian playwrights who spoke at the symposium: Alfred Farag's The Last Walk; Gamal Maqsoud's The Absent One; and Lenin El-Ramley's The Nightmare...read more
By Marvin Carlson (editor)

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9780966615227 | Martin E Segal Theatre Center, September 30, 2004, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Includes the proceedings of a symposium on this subject held at the CUNY Graduate Center in February of 1999, along with the first English translations of three short plays by leading Egyptian playwrights who spoke at the symposium: Alfred Farag's The Last Walk; Gamal Maqsoud's The Absent One; and Lenin El-Ramley's The Nightmare.

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9780966615241 | Martin E Segal Theatre Center, May 1, 2002, cover price $20.00

Product Description: Patrice Pavis is one of France's most brilliant academics and a leading expert internationally in the theory of theatre. Dictionary of the Theatre is an English translation of Pavis's acclaimed Dictionnaire du thé?tre, now in its second printing in France...read more

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9780802043429 | Univ of Toronto Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $96.00 | About this edition: Patrice Pavis is one of France's most brilliant academics and a leading expert internationally in the theory of theatre.

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Product Description: Born in the final years of the seventeenth century, and dying a decade before the beginning of the French Revolution, Voltaire was a quintessential figure of the eighteenth century, so much so that this era is sometimes called the Age of Voltaire...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313303029 | Praeger Pub Text, October 30, 1998, cover price $122.00 | About this edition: Born in the final years of the seventeenth century, and dying a decade before the beginning of the French Revolution, Voltaire was a quintessential figure of the eighteenth century, so much so that this era is sometimes called the Age of Voltaire.

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9780801429354 | Exp sub edition (Cornell Univ Pr, October 1, 1993), cover price $57.50

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9780801481543 | Enlarged edition (Cornell Univ Pr, August 1, 1993), cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Theatre Semioticians have to date concerned themselves primarily with the semiotics of the literary dramatic text, the semiotics of the physical enactment of this text, or the relationship between the two. Theatre Semiotics offers a broader, differently oriented analysis, balancing consideration of the ways theatrical signs are produced with the ways they are received and creatively interpreted by a public...read more

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9780253313157 | Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Theatre Semioticians have to date concerned themselves primarily with the semiotics of the literary dramatic text, the semiotics of the physical enactment of this text, or the relationship between the two.

Product Description: Play's The Thing, The: An Introduction To Theatre, by Carlson, Marvin And Yvonne Shafer

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9780801301858 | Subsequent edition (Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, January 1, 1990), cover price $37.75 | About this edition: Play's The Thing, The: An Introduction To Theatre, by Carlson, Marvin And Yvonne Shafer

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