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9780398053642 | Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, January 1, 1987, cover price $55.95 | also contains In the Company of Legends

Paperback:

9780398063733 | Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, cover price $38.95 | also contains Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor

CD/Spoken Word:

9781848940147 | Hodder & Stoughton, December 31, 1925, cover price $25.15

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Product Description: King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's day as a series of bewildering changes in national and personal allegiance and represents 'history' as the product of varied and contradictory testimony...read more

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9780174436119 | Arden Shakespeare, June 1, 1996, cover price $13.99 | also contains Medieval Roles for Modern Times: Theater and the Battle for the French Republic | About this edition: King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism.
9780415026901 | Reprint edition (Arden Shakespeare, January 1, 1991), cover price $9.95 | also contains The Legal Guide for Museum Professionals | About this edition: King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism.

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Hardcover:

9780878300242 | Routledge, June 1, 1961, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Explains how an actor should study a part, give it life, and put it into physical form

Paperback:

9780878300310, titled "Creating a Role" | 1 edition (Theatre Arts Books, November 30, 2014), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: F 0000000000000 0000000000 0000000000000
9780878309818, titled "Creating a Role" | Reprint edition (Routledge, June 1, 1989), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Creating a Roleis the culmination of Stanislavski's masterful trilogy on the art of acting.

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Thin Otto laughs at his sister for eating so much until the times come when he is thankful for her foraging skills

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9780393002102 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1963, cover price $13.95 | also contains The Rainman's Third Cure: An Irregular Education | About this edition: Otto ridicules his sister for eating so much and having a pot belly, but the time comes when he appreciates her foraging abilities and fearlessness.

Hardcover:

9780448080604, titled "The Bobbsey Twins' Mystery of the King's Puppet" | Grosset & Dunlap, June 1, 1967, cover price $4.50 | also contains Trumbo

Library:

9780448180601, titled "The Bobbsey Twins' Mystery of the King's Puppet" | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1978, cover price $3.29

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A racy comedy of intrigue, action and amorous adventures set in Naples at carnival time during the exile of Charles II. This edition takes account of critical approaches as well as the play's stage history, and contains commentary notes on language and staging.

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9780415146661 | Routledge, May 1, 1996, cover price $80.00 | also contains Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind, Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind | About this edition: In a collaboration between the BBC and the Women's Playhouse Trust, this is an opportunity to see the stage production of Aphra Behn's restoration comedy on video.

Paperback:

9780713666717 | New edition (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, September 1, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A racy comedy of intrigue, action and amorous adventures set in Naples at carnival time during the exile of Charles II.
9781854591784, titled "The Rover" | Nick Hern Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A rollicking Restoration comedy.
9780393900767, titled "The Rover" | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $13.85 | About this edition: New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays.
9780413668806 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 1, 1993, cover price $9.95
9780803253506, titled "The Rover" | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1, 1967, cover price $14.00

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Microwave Theory and Applications [Jun 01, 1969] Adam, Stephen F. ...

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9780963428400 | Adam Microwave Consulting, December 1, 1992, cover price $60.00
9780135814888 | Prentice Hall, June 1, 1969, cover price $50.00 | also contains Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror | About this edition: Microwave Theory and Applications [Jun 01, 1969] Adam, Stephen F.

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Product Description: A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella. The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) not only revolutionized dance in the twentieth century but blazed a path for other visionaries who would follow in her wake...read more

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9780871403186 | Reprint edition (Liveright Pub Corp, May 27, 2013), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella.
9780871401588 | Reissue edition (Liveright Pub Corp, February 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Unquestionably brave, creative, and erudite, the free spirit Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) captivated the American, European, and Soviet cultural scenes with her innovative modern dance and un-self-conscious lifestyle.
9780060907488 | Harpercollins, January 1, 1980, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The daughter of a courtesan and a Bonapartist major, convent-educated Aurore Dudevant rebelled against her disappointing marriage, moved to Paris to take up writing, and emerged as the brilliant and notorious George Sand
9780871402745 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1972, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: My Life, the classic autobiography first published just after Duncan's death, is a frank and engrossing life account of this remarkable visionary and feminist who took on the world, reinvented dance, and led the way for future great American modernists Ruth St.

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Product Description: An intimate and candid portrait of the great comedian by the man who know him best. This book abounds with vignettes of the celebrities drawn into the Marx orbit with close-ups of Groucho's famous siblings and of his three wives.

Paperback:

9780720601435 | Peter Owen Ltd, May 1, 1973, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An intimate and candid portrait of the great comedian by the man who know him best.

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In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dom­inated by the glamour of David Gar­rick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 por­traits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.

Hardcover:

9780809315260, titled "Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800" | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, June 28, 1991, cover price $62.00
9780809305179 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, May 1, 1982, cover price $62.00
9780809308323, titled "A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London: 1660-1800" | Revised edition (Southern Illinois Univ Pr, July 1, 1978), cover price $62.00 | About this edition: In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dom­inated by the glamour of David Gar­rick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown.
9780809308330, titled "A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800," | Revised edition (Southern Illinois Univ Pr, January 1, 1978), cover price $62.00 | About this edition: In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dom­inated by the glamour of David Gar­rick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown.
9780809305186, titled "A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800," | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: To be completed in 12 volumes, this monumental work here begins publica­tion with the first two volumes—Abaco to Bertie and Bertin to Byzard.

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Product Description: Harold George Scott captures the most memorable moments of Lelia Haller�scareer with lavish illustrations and photographs. A pictorial biography ofone of the twentieth century�s most notable ballerinas, Leliadocuments the career of the only American honored as premi�re danseuse ofthe Paris Op�ra...read more

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9780882890753 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, June 1, 1975, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Harold George Scott captures the most memorable moments of Lelia Haller�scareer with lavish illustrations and photographs.

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Seeking the opportunities of Europe, Isabel Archer, a young American, is courted by three men, comes to rely on a invalid cousin, an falls prey to a scheming, sophisicated older woman (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780393966466, titled "The Portrait of a Lady: An Authoritative Text Henry James and the Novel Reviews and Criticism" | 2 sub edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1995), cover price $22.75 | About this edition: Seeking the opportunities of Europe, Isabel Archer, a young American, is courted by three men, comes to rely on a invalid cousin, an falls prey to a scheming, sophisicated older woman
9780393092592 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1975, cover price $10.00 | also contains I, Migrant: A Comedian's Journey from Karachi to the Outback

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Product Description: This is the autobiography of the man who brought Upstairs Downstairs to the television screen, the mastermind behind one of the most successful series ever worldwide.

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9780720605136 | Peter Owen Ltd, June 1, 1976, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is the autobiography of the man who brought Upstairs Downstairs to the television screen, the mastermind behind one of the most successful series ever worldwide.

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