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Harlan Ellison's Movie: The Screenplay
By Harlan Ellison. 2008
Herein lies in written form Harlan Ellison's Movie, the full-length feature film Ellison created when a producer at 20th Century-Fox…
said, "If we gave you the money, and no interference, what sort of movie would you write?" Well, that producer is no longer at the studio; he left the entire venue of moviemaking after Harlan Ellison's Movie was seen by the Suits. There is no use even trying to describe what the film is about, except to confirm the long-standing rumor that it contains a scene in which a 70-foot-tall boll weevil chews and swallows an entire farmhouse and silo on-camera. (It is Scene 33C.)The Prude
By Voltaire. 2012
This comedy is partly imitated from an English piece, called the Plain Dealer. It does not suit very well for…
the French stage; the manners are too rough and bold, though much less so than in the original. The English seem to take too much liberty, and the French too little. -Voltaire Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.Terence
By Sander M. Goldberg. 2013
Terence's Hecyra raises social, literary and theatrical issues of great interest to modern students of Roman comedy and, indeed, of…
Roman culture more broadly. The play pays strikingly close attention to the domestic problems of women and experiments boldly with traditional comic forms, not only in its creation of anticipatory suspense, but through its variations on traditional situations and roles and its metatheatrical qualities. In addition, Terence's response in his prologues to the play's two putative failures is important, if tendentious, evidence for the mechanics of theatrical performance in the second century, especially the conjunction of theatrical and gladiatorial shows. This edition opens the play's many interpretive challenges to wider scrutiny while remaining attentive to the linguistic needs of students at all levels.Comic Tragedies
By Louisa May Alcott. 2012
Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember the elaborate plays which the March sisters loved to perform. This…
volume, published after Alcott's death, is a compilation of the real plays written by her and her sisters, which were fictionalized in Little Women.The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays
By Paula Vogel. 1996
The Baltimore Waltz, Vogel's most personal play, centers around the memory of a loved one lost to AIDS; the other…
plays include, Desdemona, The Oldest Profession, And Baby Makes Seven, and Hot 'n' Throbbing.The Apple Family
By Richard Nelson. 2014
This critically acclaimed, searing play cycle about loss, memory and remembrance follows the Apple family of Rhinebeck, NY as they…
grapple with events both personal and current in the immediate present: the 2010 election (That Hopey Changey Thing), the tenth anniversary of 9/11 (Sweet and Sad), Obama's re-election (Sorry) and the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, which premieres in November.Pillars of Society
By Henrik Ibsen, R. Farquharson Sharp.
Peace
By Aristophanes.
Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre
By Chantal Bilodeau, Larry Tremblay. 2008
Absurd, hilarious and haunting, Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre is an unforgettable mystery that asks the question: How can…
we ever know who we are and what is true when the world we know is shifting beneath us? Its answer is simple: John Wilkes Booth was the ?rst American star-the actor who kidnapped reality to transform it into theatre.The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov, Sharon Marie Carnicke. 2010
Drawn from Sharon Marie Carnicke's volume of Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes (Hackett), this edition of The Cherry Orchard…
features Carnicke's groundbreaking translation of a play that has been called Chekhov's ultimate theatrical coup d'etat.** Donald Rayfield, The Cherry Orchard: Catastrophe and ComedyGod and the Indian
By Drew Hayden Taylor. 2014
While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman, is shocked to recognize a face from her childhood, which…
was spent in a Native American boarding school. Desperate to hear him acknowledge the terrible abuse inflicted on her and other children at the school, Johnny follows Anglican assistant bishop George King to his office to confront him.Ojibway writer Drew Hayden Taylor is the author of twenty-one publications. Hailed by the Montreal Gazette as one of Canada's leading Native dramatists, he writes for the screen and the stage, and contributes regularly to national newspapers.From the Old Country
By T. M. Mcclellan, Lihe Zhong, Tiejun Zhong. 2014
Though he lived mostly in rural South Taiwan, Zhong Lihe (1915--1960) spent several years in Manchuria and Peking, moving among…
an eclectic mix of ethnicities, classes, and cultures. His ficitonal portraits unfold on Japanese battlefields and in Peking slums, as well as in the remote, impoverished hill-country villages and farms of Zhong Lihe's native Hakka districts. His scenic descriptions are deft and atmospheric, and his psychological explorations are acute. The first anthology to present his work in English, this volume features two novellas, ten short stories, and four short prose works.What I Meant Was
By Craig Lucas. 1999
A major new collection by the author of Reckless and A Prelude to a Kiss, this collection includes his most…
ambitious work God's Heart, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in 1997, and his newest play The Dying Gaul, which premieres this spring in New York. Also included ar 13 one-act plays written over the past five years.Golden Child
By David Henry Hwang. 1998
A new play by the author of M. Butterfly which premieres on Broadway in April. Golden Child travels across time…
and place from contemporary America to mainland China in 1918 and depicts the challenges of a culture in transition to the influences of western civilization.Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays
By Prof. Lawrence Manley, Prof. Sally-Beth MacLean. 2014
In this major contribution to theater history and cultural studies, authors Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean paint a lively portrait…
of Lord Strange's Men, a daring company of players that dominated the London stage for a brief period in the late Elizabethan era. During their short theatrical reign, Lord Strange's Men helped to define the dramaturgy of the era, performing the works of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, and others in a distinctive and spectacular style, exploring innovative new modes of impersonation while intentionally courting political and religious controversy.On the basis of thermodynamic considerations and the Earth s historical processes this book argues the physical…
inevitability of life s generation and evolution i e Why did life generate Why does life evolve Following an introduction to the problem the hypothesis Darwinian Evolution of Molecules is proposed which explains how when and where life was instigated through successive chemical reactions and the survival of selected molecules The individual processes described are all scientifically reasonable being verifiable by experiment The hypothesis is supported by extensive reference to the scientific literature published in academic journals including some experimental reports from the author s own research group The readers of this book will learn that the decreasing temperature of the early Earth led to a reduction in its entropy inducing the Earth s materials to order which entailed ordering of the light elements as organic molecules with subsequent further ordering i e evolution to systems that can be considered alive i e life Researchers and students as well as the non-academic audience interested in the interdisciplinary problem of the origin of life will find suggestions and possible approaches to the scientific and conceptual problems they may be facingThe Cabin
By David Mamet. 1992
In these mordant, elegant, and often disquieting essays, the internationally acclaimed dramatist creates a sort of autobiography by strobe light,…
one that is both mysterious and starkly revealing.The pieces in The Cabin are about places and things: the suburbs of Chicago, where as a boy David Mamet helplessly watched his stepfather terrorize his sister; New York City, where as a young man he had to eat his way through a mountain of fried matzoh to earn a night of sexual bliss. They are about guns, campaign buttons, and a cabin in the Vermont woods that stinks of wood smoke and kerosene -- and about their associations of pleasure, menace, and regret.The resulting volume may be compared to the plays that have made Mamet famous: it is finely crafted and deftly timed, and its precise language carries an enormous weight of feeling.From the Trade Paperback edition.Three Sisters
By Anton Chekhov, Paul Schmidt. 1992
The Gospel at Colonus
By Lee Breuer. 1989
Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle
By Jonathan Edmondson, Alison Keith. 2016
Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across…
four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors explore Latin texts both famous and obscure, from Roman drama and Menippean satire through Latin elegies, epics, and novels to letters issued by Roman emperors and compilations of laws.Each of the essays in this volume combines close reading of Latin literary texts with historical and cultural contextualization, making the collection an accessible and engaging combination of formalist criticism and historicist exegesis that attends to the many ways in which classical Latin literature participated in ancient Roman civic debates.