Product Description: The ninth winner of the Yale Drama Series is a searing and powerful drama of slave litigation, injustice, institutional racism, and the rule of law. The winner of the 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competition was selected by Nicholas Wright, former Associate Director of London’s Royal Court...read more

Product Description: A powerful anthem for the youth of World War One that offers a compassionate look at war and its devastating effects. Adapted from Pat Barker's Booker Prize-nominated novel.Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland 1917. Poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon has been institutionalised in an attempt to undermine his public disapproval of the war...read more

Product Description: Featuring over 100 recipes, this handy cookbook will walk you through the different ways to optimize the performance of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g. Essential reading for administrators, developers, and architects. Overview Tune the Java Virtual Machine to get the best out of the underlying platform Learn how to monitor and profile your Oracle SOA Suite applications Discover how to design and deploy your application for high-performance scenarios Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in your Oracle SOA Suite infrastructure In Detail Oracle SOA Suite 11g forms the heart of many organisations’ Service Oriented Architecture...read more

Product Description: This research takes an integrative approach to the study of Hellenistic cult and cultic practices in an important part of western Asia by employing a combination of archaeological, numismatic and historical evidence. Although any thorough investigation of Seleukid religion would prove illuminating in itself, this research uses religion as a lens through which to explore the processes of acculturation and rejection within a colonial context...read more

Product Description: A funny and fascinating tribute to the European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood's Golden Age, from award-winning dramatist Nicholas Wright. Set in 1900 in the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and 1940s Hollywood, Travelling Light is a delightful comedy-drama about revolutionary storytelling and the cost of fulfilling one's dreams, fresh from its premiere at The National Theatre...read more

Product Description: An exciting audio theater production of Philip Pullman s beloved fantasy trilogyA box set containing the BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatizations of Philip Pullman s three books "The Amber Spyglass," "Northern Lights "(also published as "The Golden Compass"), "The Subtle Knife "set in a world which is like, yet very unlike, our own...read more

Set in London, Saigon, San Francisco - and East Anglia - in the late 1960s, this title tells a true story of James Mossman, a difficult but brilliant BBC reporter and ex-MI6 agent, who killed himself in 1971.

Product Description: Lulu is a walking, talking object of sexual desire. Each of the first four acts of the play sees her married to a different man, each of whom dies at the end. In the fifth act, Lulu has become a prostitute in late-Victorian London where she encounters Jack the Ripper, who she deliberately leads on...read more

The companion volume to a six-part PBS television series, a tour of the British and American stage covers the gamut, from Pygmalion to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Copenhagen, in a richly illustrated volume that chronicles the history of twentieth-century theater on both sides of the Atlantic. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Examining the soldier-peasant relationship in the context of the Hundred Years War, this work draws on the late-medieval literature of chivalry and political commentary in England and, especially, France. It seeks an understanding of different attitudes: how aristocratic soldiers reconciled the ideals of chivalry with exploitation of non-combatants, and how French peasants reacted to the soldiery. The book also offers a description, based on additional documentary material which includes the largely unpublished records of the French royal chancery, of the ways in which individual peasants and village communities were exploited by soldiers, and how, in order to survive, they adjusted to and reacted against their treatment. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Ranging back over twenty years, this volume contains a rich selection of work by a writer who has also been a quiet power behind the scenes of British theatre for three decades. Includes: Treetops, One Fine Day, The Custom of the Country, The Desert Air, and Mrs. Klein. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: John Shank is an actor, talent-scout and trainer of boy players in the seedy and glamorous backstage world of London theatre in 1630s. Women are still not allowed on stage, their roles being taken by precocious boys. Shank has been one of the best, but is now grudgingly reduced to teaching others the tricks of the trade...read more

Product Description: The first major revival of a 1988 West End and Broadway hit about the controversial child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein.

Product Description: This multi-authored work provides a comprehensive account of both general and systemic pathology in the modern context. Each chapter has been written by a panel of internationally acknowledged experts and incorporates the most recent advances in the field...read more

Product Description: The air is thick with Freud and sex as eminent psychoanalyst Melanie Klein comes roaring to life in a 1930s drawing room. London offers the witty, overbearing Mrs. Klein refuge from rising European fascism. But perhaps her children are still in need of refuge from her...read more

Product Description: This multi-authored work provides a comprehensive account of both general and systemic pathology in the modern context. Each chapter has been written by a panel of internationally acknowledged experts and incorporates the most recent advances in the field...read more

Product Description: This multi-authored work provides a comprehensive account of both general and systemic pathology in the modern context. Each chapter has been written by a panel of internationally acknowledged experts and incorporates the most recent advances in the field...read more