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By Anton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick. 2010
P Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight…
into the human condition P In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov s most popular and beloved plays Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master playwright and his groundbreaking dramas P He brings this timeless trial of art and love to life as memorable characters have clashing desires and lose balance in the shifting eruptions of society and a modernizing Russia P Supplementing the play is an account of Chekhov s life a note on the translation an introduction to the work and variant lines often removed due to government censorship which illuminate the context in which they were written P This edition is the perfect guide to enriching our understanding of this great dramatist or to staging a productionBy William Shakespeare. 1995
Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's more popular comedies, with a long history of success on the stage.…
Much of its appeal lies in its two stories of romantic love with their quite different journeys to comedy's happy ending. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight; their union has the blessing of the older generation (in the persons of Hero's father, Leonato, and Claudio's prince, Don Pedro).By William Shakespeare.
By William Shakespeare.
By Julie Watson. 2009
In the 450 years since Jacques Cartier s arrival Prince Edward Island s history has…
been tied to the sea and to ships From the first explorers through immigrants traders sailors and fishermen thousands of seafaring people and their ships have come and gone many lost to the relentless sea Julie Watson has dug through the archives and unearthed harrowing accounts from the expulsion of the Acadians to the amazing 1836 adventure of Tommy Tuplin age six who was washed overboard in a storm then washed back into the ship s rigging This book includes fascinating stories of buried treasure legends of ghost ships and tales of storms that have become part of the island s history and folklore Add to these stories of seal hunts waterspouts U-boats and ice boats and you start to share in what it means to be an islander and what the unforgiving sea can yieldBy Eugene O'Neill. 1989
Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University…
Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, which opens in Chicago in January 2002 and in New York in April.By Douglas Century, Andrew Hogan. 2018
Una combinaci n de las pel culas Manhunt Killing Pablo y Zero Dark Thirty esta sensacional…
obra de misterio y de alta tecnolog a de investigaci n de Andrew Hogan y Douglas Century que pronto ser una gran pel cula producida por Sony es una cr nica impresionante de un cap tulo en la guerra contra las drogas en el siglo veinte la experiencia exclusiva de un agente federal estadounidense y sus ocho a os de cacer a tras El Chapo el capo de la droga m s buscado del mundo que evadi a la ley por m s de una d cada Toda generaci n tiene un criminal Jesse James Billy the Kid John Dillinger Al Capone John Gotti Pablo Escobar Pero cada uno de estos notorios delincuentes ten a a un investigador rastreando sus pasos Wyatt Earp Pat Garrett Eliot Ness Steve Murphy Para el se or de la droga Joaqu n Archivaldo Guzm n Loera mejor conocido como El Chapo ese polic a es Andrew Hogan exagente especial de la Drug Enforcement Administration Oficina de Control de Drogas DEA por sus siglas en ingl s En el 2006 recien graduado de la Academia de la DEA Hogan se dirige a Arizona en donde r pidamente se encuentra dentro de una serie de espeluznantes casos encubiertos que lo coloca sin darse cuenta tras la pista de Guzm n el jefe del c rtel de Sinaloa un multimillonario seg n Forbes y enemigo p blico 1 de Estados Unidos Seis a os despu s como jefe de la Oficina de la DEA en la ciudad de M xico a cargo del c rtel de Sinaloa Hogan se da cuenta que su vida y la del Chapo est n ir nicamente en sendas paralelas ambos se obsesionan por los detalles En una nueva versi n de los cl sicos del oeste pero a escala mundial Cazando a El Chapo relata la b squeda de Hogan por lograr lo que parec a imposible desde infiltrarse en el c rculo ntimo de El Chapo a dirigir una cacer a humana con una brigada elite de oficiales de la marina mexicana derribando una a una las fortalezas del cartel y en ltima instancia llevando al Chapo a la justicia Este relato cinematogr fico que narra la implacable investigaci n de Hogan y su equipo se desarrolla a gran velocidad llevando al lector tr s bastidores en una de las operaciones antinarc ticos m s sofisticadas y peligrosas en la historia de Estados Unidos y M xicoBy Tamler Sommers. 2018
A controversial call to put honor at the center of moralityTo the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated,…
sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of honor has come at great cost. Reliant only on Enlightenment liberalism, the United States has become the home of the cowardly, the shameless, the selfish, and the alienated. Properly channeled, honor encourages virtues like courage, integrity, and solidarity, and gives a sense of living for something larger than oneself. Sommers shows how honor can help us address some of society's most challenging problems, including education, policing, and mass incarceration. Counterintuitive and provocative, Why Honor Matters makes a convincing case for honor as a cornerstone of our modern society.By Jean Baptiste Racine, Robert Bruce Boswell.
By Marjorie Garber. 2005
In this text for scholars and general readers, Garber (English, Harvard U. ) considers the language, characters, and themes in…
the plays of William Shakespeare. Individual readings examine each of the 38 plays in chronological sequence, allowing the reader to trace Shakespeare's development as a writer and creator of dramatic scenarios. The volume also includes listings of film adaptations, an extensive bibliography, and background information on Shakespeare's life and times. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)By Henrik Ibsen, Thornton Wilder. 1997
"In [Wilder's] A Doll's House . . . the relationship of dialogue to action is very special, like nothing that…
had been heard on stage before."--David Hammond, PlayMakers Repertory CompanyNot staged since its Broadway premiere starring Ruth Gordon in 1937, the first-ever publication of this adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic drama is revitalized through the shrewd lens of American drama master, Thornton Wilder. With his famous, clarifying dialogue, Wilder uproots this classic from Norway and funnels it through an American lens. The marriage of Ibsen's famed naturalistic style melds with Wilder's knack for emotional nuance to create a rich, demonstrative edition of the revered standard A Doll's House.Henrik Ibsen has often been referred to as the father of realistic drama. The Norwegian playwright is best known for his major works Brand, Peer Gynt, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder.Thornton Wilder was an accomplished novelist and playwright in the twentieth century. Two of his four major plays garnered Pulitzer Prizes, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). His play The Matchmaker was later adapted into the record-breaking musical Hello, Dolly! The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of his seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and his next-to-last novel, The Eighth Day received the National Book Award (1968). Our Town continues to be the most produced American play in the world.By Jim Grimsley. 1998
George Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Playwright; Bryan Prize for Drama by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In this…
collection, critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley reveals his great gifts as a playwright in four powerful, award-winning plays presenting different worlds in collision and convergence. In "Mr. Universe," the rescue of a mute bodybuilder from the gritty streets of New Orleans by a couple of drag queens brings out the best and worst in them. In "The Lizard of Tarsus," an imprisoned Jesus (called J.) is interrogated by an ambitious follower, Paul of Tarsus. In "The Borderland," neighboring families representing two very different social classes are brought together during a storm. And in "Math and Aftermath," the two worlds of pornography and nuclear testing collide during a film shoot in the Marshall Islands. These plays (introduced by Romulus Linney, Reynolds Price, Kaye Gibbons, and Craig Lucas) demonstrate the differences that are matters of perception; together they establish Grimsley as a dramatist with imagination and nerve. A STAGE AND SCREEN BOOK CLUB selection.By William Shakespeare. 1994
First performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare's tragedies. Probably written between Othello…
and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic power, Lear's themes of filial ingratitude, injustice, and the meaninglessness of life in a seemingly indifferent universe are explored with unsurpassed power and depth.The plot concerns a monarch betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Greed, treachery, and cruelty are rife and the denouement of the play is both brutal and heartbreaking. In fact, so troubling is its vision of man's life that, until the mid-19th century, the play was performed most often with a non-Shakespearean happy ending, with Lear back on his throne and Cordelia, the daughter nearest his heart, happily married to the noble Edgar. But there is a dark magnificence to Shakespeare's original vision of the Lear story, and the play is performed today essentially as he wrote it, uncompromised by later "improvements." King Lear is reprinted here from an authoritative British edition, complete with explanatory footnotes.Classic trilogy by great tragedian deals with the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Grand in style, rich in…
diction and dramatic dialogue, the plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods.By William Shakespeare, Shane Weller.
In this most famous of Shakespeares comedies four mismatched lovers and a troupe of actors become tangled in a quarrel…
between the fairy king and queen. Love portions and transformed identities create a night of confusion that must be set right.By William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine. 1992
This edition makes the plays and poems of Shakespeare fully understandable for modern readers using uncompromising scholarship. Professors Barbara Mowat…
and Paul Werstine have produced this New Folger Shakespeare for a new generation of readers.By Anton Chekhov.
By Ged Martin, Nathan Tidridge, Ray Argyle, Rosemary Sadlier, Peggy Dymond Leavey, Edward Butts, D T Lahey, Valerie Knowles, Julie H Ferguson, Nicholas Maes, Tom Henighan, Wayne Larsen, Andr Vanasse, Anne Cimon, Heather Kirk, Tom Shardlow, Deborah Cowley, Gary Evans, Francine Legar, Marguerite Paulin, Lian Goodall, Margaret Macpherson, Sharon Stewart, Roderick Stewart, Kathryn Bridge, John Wilson, Arthur Slade, Raymond Plante, T F Rigelhof, Kate Braid, Michelle Labr che-Larouche, Judith Fitzgerald. 1812
This special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who…
have had a profound effect on their country and the world. Some of these figures are truly famous, while others were quietly influential. Among the wide variety of people we meet are: prime ministers (Mackenzie King, Macdonald, Laurier, and more); artists (Emily Carr, Tom Thomson); explorers (David Thompson, Samuel de Champlain), politicians (René Lévesque, Joey Smallwood), writers (Robertson Davies, Gabrielle Roy), entertainers (Emma Albani, Mary Pickford), activists (Nellie McClung, Louis Riel, Harriet Tubman), and many, many more. Let this series be your primer on the greatest figures in Canadian history. Includes Emma Albani Emily Carr George Grant Jacques Plante John Diefenbaker John Franklin Phyllis Munday Wilfrid Laurier William Lyon Mackenzie King René Lévesque Samuel de Champlain John Grierson Lucille Teasdale Maurice Duplessis David Thompson Mazo de la Roche Susanna Moodie Gabrielle Roy Louis Riel James Wilson Morrice Vilhjalmur Stefansson Robertson Davies James Douglas William C. Van Horne George Simpson Tom Thomson Simon Girty Mary Pickford Harriet Tubman Laura Secord Joey Smallwood Prince Edward, Duke of Kent John A. Macdonald Marshall McLuhanBy Richard J. Finneran, William Butler Yeats. 2002
Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century --…
produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer technical virtuosity. T. S. Eliot pronounced Yeats "the greatest poet of our time -- certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language" and "one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them."The Yeats Reader is the most comprehensive single volume to display the full range of Yeats's talents. It presents more than one hundred and fifty of his best-known poems -- more than any other compendium -- plus eight plays, a sampling of his prose tales, and excerpts from his published autobiographical and critical writings. In addition, an appendix offers six early texts of poems that Yeats later revised. Also included are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for a projected collection that never came to fruition. These are supplemented by unobtrusive annotation and a chronology of the life.Yeats was a protean writer and thinker, and few writers so thoroughly reward a reader's efforts to essay the whole of their canon. This volume is an excellent place to begin that enterprise, to renew an old acquaintance with one of world literature's great voices, or to continue a lifelong interest in the phenomenon of literary genius.By William Shakespeare, Russ Mcdonald, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller. 2001
The New York Theater Workshop's new production of Othello is coming to Broadway in December 2016, starring Daniel Craig, David…
Oyelowo and directed by Sam Gold. This production is sponsored in part by The Pelican Shakespeare and Penguin Classics. This edition of Othello is edited with an introduction and notes by Russ McDonald and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia.The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With stunning new covers, definitive texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.From the Trade Paperback edition.