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9780786470358 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 16, 2015, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This first-ever study of rape in modern American drama examines portrayals of rape, raped women and rapists in 36 plays written between 1970 and 2007, the period during which the feminist movement made rape a matter of public discourse.
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9781496802989 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, November 23, 2015, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American freedom struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays between 1959 and 1969 during the civil rights era.
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9781138018334 | Routledge, November 20, 2015, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Stages of Engagement is a compelling and wonderfully varied account of the relationship between theatre in the United States and the social, cultural, and political forces that shaped it during one of the most formative periods in the nationâs history.
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9781138018341 | Routledge, October 23, 2015, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Stages of Engagement is a compelling and wonderfully varied account of the relationship between theatre in the United States and the social, cultural, and political forces that shaped it during one of the most formative periods in the nationâs history.
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9780760345627 | Voyageur Pr, August 1, 2015, cover price $50.00
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9781137469229 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 13, 2015, cover price $90.00
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9780394743417, titled "Son of Golden Turkey Awards" | 1 edition (Random House Inc, April 1, 1986), cover price $10.95 | also contains Son of Golden Turkey Awards | About this edition: More than two hundred black-and-white photographs illustrate this new roster of Hollywood's worst in categories including the most embarrassing nude scene in Hollywood history, the worst performance by Ronald Reagan, and the worst biker movie of all time
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9780786495160 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 31, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Beginning with early Arab American playwright, poet and novelist Kahlil Gibran and concluding with contemporary playwright Yussef El Guindi, this book provides an historical overview and critical analysis of the plays, films and performances of self-identified Arab Americans.
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9781137437051 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 6, 2014, cover price $95.00
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9780472072323 | Univ of Michigan Pr, October 9, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The âvillainous homosexualâ has long stalked Americaâs cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays.
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9780472052325 | Univ of Michigan Pr, October 9, 2014, cover price $34.50
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9781137359681 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 16, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Slum plays represent the different locations, attractions, and challenges of life in the slums such as tenements and tenants' rights, immigrant neighborhoods and nativist prejudices, and red-light districts and prostitution.
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9780761864004 | Univ Pr of Amer, July 16, 2014, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre.
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9781137353047 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 10, 2014, cover price $95.00
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9781472520074 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, February 13, 2014, cover price $112.00
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9781408134795 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, February 13, 2014, cover price $34.95
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9780679746997 | Vintage Books, September 10, 2013, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Stella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo.
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9781137299567 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 5, 2013, cover price $95.00
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9780814293140 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, March 28, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Childrenâs Plays of the Federal Theatre Project by Leslie Elaine Frost traces how the tumultuous politics of the late 1930s shaped the stories and staging of federally funded plays for children.
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9780814212134 | Ohio State Univ Pr, March 28, 2013, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Childrenâs Plays of the Federal Theatre Project by Leslie Elaine Frost traces how the tumultuous politics of the late 1930s shaped the stories and staging of federally funded plays for children.
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9781438446615 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2013, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Responding to an increasing need for critical perspectives and methodologies, this collection traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama through overviews of major developments, individual playwrights perspectives, and in-depth critical analyses.
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9781438446608 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 2, 2014, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.
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9780263141511, titled "Dating Game" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1995), cover price $19.95 | also contains Dating Game | About this edition: Dating Game
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9780786465125 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 26, 2012, cover price $40.00
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9780786463916 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 26, 2012, cover price $55.00
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9780786470976 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 9, 2012, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by American, British, and European playwrights.
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9780679424437 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 14, 2012, cover price $27.95
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9781443839969 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, August 1, 2012, cover price $67.95
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9780810127623 | Northwestern Univ Pr, June 30, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Rosemarie Tichler and Barry Jay Kaplan take us behind the scenes in conversations with thirteen of todayâs most distinguished playwrights, including Tony Kushner, John Guare, Wallace Shawn, Suzan-Lori Parks, David Henry Hwang, and Sarah Ruhl.
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9780786444557 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 16, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The pain of America's racial legacy has been richly addressed in the nation's literature, often by women who have gone largely unrecognized.
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9780230339958 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2011, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Examines violence against women in contemporary American plays by female dramatists.
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