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By William Shakespeare. 2018
A fully dramatized recording featuring performances by the cast of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2017 stage production, directed by Shana…
Cooper. Julius Caesar is a marked man. Adoring commoners celebrate his battlefield victories, but those higher up the Roman political ladder worry that his ambition has grown too large. On a stormy night, Cassius persuades Caesar's friend Brutus to help him assassinate Caesar for the good of the Republic. But death doesn't stop Caesar, whose spirit haunts the destinies of his friends and enemies. 2018.By Manuel Puig, Thomas Colchie. 1984
Compiled together for the first time, here are three plays by Argentine novelist and playwright Manuel Puig, who died in…
1990. The centrepiece of the volume is Puig's "Kiss of the Spider Woman", made into an acclaimed film starring William Hurt. Also included are the compelling works "Under a mantle of stars" and "Mystery of the rose bouquet". 1984. Uniform title: Beso de la mujer araña.By William Shakespeare, Mike Reeves, Phil Viner, Jools Viner. 2007
Lear, the King of Britain, has three daughters. Wishing to ease himself of the burden of rule, he determines to…
divide his kingdom between them, giving the largest share to she who can say she loves him the best. Contains the complete play with analysis, commentary, additional review, and study content. For senior high readers. 2007.By William Shakespeare, Simon Potter, Phil Viner, Jools Viner, David Cottis. 2009
By Tom Stoppard. 1986
By Sean O'Casey. 1980
Set in the tenements in Ireland during the "Troubles", this play mingles the vulgar, comic and the tragic; its entertaining…
braggarts and parasites are contrasted with the women who suffer and endure. 1980.By William Shakespeare, Norman Sanders. 1967
Loved by the Roman crowd but more and more feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire…
to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the most famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. 1967, c1599.By Bill Crow. 1990
By Henrik Ibsen, Hiro Kanagawa. 2016
Rita and Alfred Allmers live in an isolated family cabin on native leasehold land overlooking Indian Arm, a still untamed…
glacial fjord just north of Vancouver, BC. With Alfred now struggling with his latest work, Rita has been tasked with caring for their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations teen who has been designated as 'special needs' for much of his life. Rita's resentments and frustrations are further embittered by her younger half-sister, Asta, a constant reminder of the innocence, idealism and sexual allure Rita once had and yearns for again. Winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Drama. 2016.By Christopher Ward. 2016
On August 31, 1984, the Nation’s Music Station launched. The dream child of TV visionary Moses Znaimer and John Martin,…
Much was live and largely improvised, and an entire generation of Canadians grew up watching the VJs and embraced the new music that became the video soundtrack of our lives. Stories of the bands, the music, the videos, the specialty shows, the style and the improvisational approach to daily broadcast life at Much are told by the people who were there - the colourful cast of on-air VJs, the artists who found their way into our living rooms as never before, and the people behind the cameras. 2016.This music myth-debunking volume is organized by subjects such as song lyrics, deaths, and the origins of album and song…
titles. Some of the rumours and mysteries Edwards untangles are old favourites, such as Paul McCartney's alleged death, Robert Johnson's purported sale of his soul to the devil, and the subject of Carly Simon's "You're so Vain." Others are more recent and obscure, such as Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro's death, what's not tattooed on Tom Waits's chest, and the inspiration for the White Stripes's "Hotel Yorba." Some descriptions of sex, strong language. 2006.By Andrew Blauner. 2017
An anthology of essays from a chorus of twenty-nine luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs. Arranged chronologically…
by the date of the song's release, these essays highlight both the Beatles' evolution as well as the span of generations their music affected. 2017.By Tim Falconer. 2016
The author is part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia -- tone-deafness. The book chronicles his…
quest to understand human evolution and music, the brain science behind tone-deafness, his search for ways to retrain the adult brain, and his investigation into what we really hear when we listen to music. 2016.By John Patrick Shanley. 2005
The Bronx, 1964. Sister Aloysius, stern principal of St. Nicholas Catholic School, is convinced that school chaplain Father Flynn is…
a pedophile, and that instead of mentoring the school's only black student, he has seduced him. Through meetings with Flynn, young teacher Sister James, and the student's mother, she gathers her evidence and plans a course of action. No one is totally right or truthful, keeping everyone in a state of doubt. Pulitzer Prize winner. 2005.By Bob Suren. 2018
A small-town Florida teenager discovers punk rock through a loaned mix tape, and punk music and culture slowly takes over…
all aspects of his life. His new passion causes him to form a band, track down out-of-print records he loves and reissue them, open a record store, start a record distribution operation as a public service, mentor a host of young musicians, and befriend all manner of punk luminaries along the way. Slowly his life's pursuit pushes him to the point of personal ruination and, ultimately, redemption. 2018.Wolff braids three disparate strands--Calumet, Michigan; Woody Guthrie; and Bob Dylan--together to create a revisionist history of twentieth-century America. This…
book chronicles the struggles between the haves and have-nots, the impact changing labour relations had on industrial America, and the way two musicians used their fury to illuminate economic injustice and inspire change. 2017.By David Byrne. 2012
A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and…
responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history. 2012.By Laura Amy Schlitz. 2008
Nineteen monologues and two dialogues about the ten- to fifteen-year-old sons and daughters of nobility and paupers living near an…
English manor in 1255. Interspersed between dramatic readings are background pieces on medieval customs and events, such as farming, falconry, the Crusades, and pilgrimages. Grades 5-8. 2008.By Peter Meineck. 2005
In this course, New York University professor Peter Meineck discusses the historical, social, political and cultural context of ancient Greek…
drama, concentrating on the four playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aristophanes. 2005.By William Shakespeare, Mike Reeves, Phil Viner, Jools Viner. 2006