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Hardcover. A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theater whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Schanke's examination of his life and legacy allows a rare exploration into this pivotal moment of gay American history. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115750
- ISBN
- 9780230115750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.17
€ 52.90
€ 47.17
Hardcover. By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ANH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115071
- ISBN
- 9780230115071
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.33
€ 52.90
€ 47.33
Hardcover. Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity politics and social justice at the end of the twentieth century, and how urban crises inform the dramaturgy of contemporary playwrights. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSG; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114531
- ISBN
- 9780230114531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.09
€ 52.90
€ 47.09
Hardcover. No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AN; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114074
- ISBN
- 9780230114074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.72
€ 52.90
€ 47.72
Hardcover. Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; ANB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113381
- ISBN
- 9780230113381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.61
€ 52.90
€ 46.61
Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ANF; AS; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113312
- ISBN
- 9780230113312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.01€ 84.43
€ 101.01
€ 84.43
Paperback. Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community. Semmes reveals the political, economic and business realities of cultural production and the institutional inequalities that circumscribed Black life. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; AN; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113152
- ISBN
- 9780230113152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.76
€ 52.90
€ 46.76
Hardcover. The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 319 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; ANB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112445
- ISBN
- 9780230112445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.68
€ 52.90
€ 47.68
Hardcover. Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111448
- ISBN
- 9780230111448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.33
€ 52.90
€ 47.33
Hardcover. This book seeks to fill a major gap in the literature about fictional representations of presidents by studying more than 40 plays, written since 1900, which have had prominent productions on or off-Broadway or in another major city. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 206 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336. 100 Years of Plays About the Presidency. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. 208 pages, Illustrations. This book seeks to fill a major gap in the literature about fictional representations of presidents by studying more than 40 plays, written since 1900, which have had prominent productions on or off-Broadway or in another major city. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AN. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 16. Weight: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110175
- ISBN
- 9780230110175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina's return to democracy and makes a case for performance's transformative power. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; AN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404. 272 pages, Illustrations. Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina's return to democracy and makes a case for performance's transformative power. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; AN. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 18. Weight: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104341
- ISBN
- 9780230104341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. This innovative work uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson's physical encounter with live religious performances in late medieval York. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3H; AN; HBJD1; HBLC1; HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103191
- ISBN
- 9780230103191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.33
€ 52.90
€ 47.33
Hardcover. This new book situates Beckett in a philosophical and literary tradition that has argued for the creative value of stupidity, a key concept in the thinking of philosophers such as Wittgenstein. It investigates the relationship between verbal cliche, revealing the strategies he used to challenge intellectual and social authority in his works. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008335
- ISBN
- 9780230008335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. In the beginning of the 21st century, European theatre-makers have sought to consider the disastrous events of the 20th century as the unfinished business of the contemporary. In this book, Kear argues that by thinking through the logic of the event, contemporary performance offers an affective interrogation of 'the event' of the European century. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; AN; AS; DSG; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008083
- ISBN
- 9780230008083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. How might theatre intervene in violent inter-ethnic conflicts? This book addresses this question through detailed case studies in the Balkans and the Middle East, showing how theatrical facilitations model ways that ethnic oppositions can move towards ethical relationships. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 235 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; HBJD; HBJF; HBLW3; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230005396
- ISBN
- 9780230005396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Features the plays "Misanthrope", "Such Preposterously Precious Ladies", "Tartuffe", "A Doctor Despite Himself", "The Would-Be Gentleman", and "Those Learned Ladies". Translator(s): Wood, John C.; Coward, David. Num Pages: 352 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447309
- ISBN
- 9780140447309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.84
€ 11.84
Paperback. Contains three plays such as "Miss Julie", "The Father", and "Easter" that focus on the tumultuous relationships between men and women, whether they are father and daughter, brother and sister or lovers. Editor(s): Watts, Peter. Translator(s): Watts, Peter. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1958
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140440829
- ISBN
- 9780140440829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.80
€ 15.99
€ 13.80
Paperback. Sophocles' immortal Oedipus plays personify both the cosmic and the all-too-human forces that wreak emotional and physical mayhem upon the lives of a stricken royal family. This title presents a translation of the entire "Oedipus Cycle". Translator(s): Bagg, Robert. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062119995
- ISBN
- 9780062119995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.38
€ 18.99
€ 17.38
paperback. Beautifully illustrated, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 line drawings, 75 b&w photographs, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415912136
- ISBN
- 9780415912136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.12
€ 54.12
paperback. Part of the "Barnes & Noble Shakespeare" series, this title brings us the feisty Katherina (the 'Shrew' of the title) and her peers. It addresses issues of cruelty and gender relations. Editor(s): Radel, Nicholas F. Series: Barnes & Noble Shakespeare. Num Pages: 344 pages, b/w throughout. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 148. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Spark Notes United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781411400412
- ISBN
- 9781411400412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.15
€ 10.99
€ 10.15