Analyzes the roles of both strong-minded and antagonistic women in the plays of seventeenth-century English authors including Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Dekker

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Product Description: Is directing an art? Do directors need to be trained? What do directors actually do? These questions and more are answered in this accessibly written survey of the art of theatre direction. Its broad scope ranges across the theatres of both America and Europe, looking at practices from Stanislavski up to the present day...read more

Product Description: What is implied when we refer to the study of performing arts as 'drama', 'theatre' or 'performance'? Each term identifies a different tradition of thought and offers different possibilities to the student or practitioner. This book examines the history and use of the terms and investigates the different philosophies, politics, languages and institutions with which they are associated...read more

Drawing upon new empirical research and the latest theoretical models, this is a comprehensive account of the history of English drama. Through a focus upon key historical moments and modes, in medieval drama, Renaissance and Restoration drama, melodrama, naturalist and modern dramatic practices, it provides insights into theatrical history and, inextricably, the formation of the nation's identity. As a cultural history, the book gives account of the processes of discovery and reception: how Renaissance drama is thought about after the Renaissance, and how, for example, naturalism leads an unlikely afterlife in the work of those who try to deconstruct it. The book tells readers where modern assumptions about drama have come from - what "getting into character" might involve, what being "melodramatic" is, what's modern about drama - in short, what proper theatre is and why.

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Product Description: Nonprofit organizations face a special set of rules governing everything from how they charter their organization, to their methods of measuring unrelated business income, and how they lobby (and if, in fact, they should continue to be allowed to lobby)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix Médicis in FranceLike a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties...read more

Return to Baker Street.…Spanning events over thirty years, Volume I of The Papers of Sherlock Holmes relates narratives of Holmes and Watson's days in Baker Street, as well as particulars of Holmes's supposed retirement.Follow along as The Master and his Boswell travel from the streets of London to the Kent countryside, to Oxford and Sussex.Written in traditional canonical style, these stories provide fresh details of Holmes's world. Join us as we climb the seventeen steps to the Baker Street sitting room, where Holmes and Watson prepare to begin their next adventure. The game is afoot!This work is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

Product Description: Studying Plays is a comprehensive introduction to understanding plays which examines and explains the key elements of drama such as character, dialogue, plot, action, the body and space, and draws on classic and contemporary plays...read more