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As well as the complete scripts (established by scholars working on the New Cambridge Shakespeare), the student will find a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words, and a wide range of classroom-tested activities to help turn the script into drama.This new edition of King ... More

The New Cambridge Shakespeare presents critical edictions in modern-spelling of Shakespeare's individual plays, of his Sonnets, and of his narrative poems.The series has won a high reputation for its lively new emphases, which are constantly supported by the state-of-the art scholarship and judiciou... More

"This is cultural history at its best. The author's vivid engagement with his material reveals Val Lewton in a bracing new light. Nemerov teases out relationships between film and society with supple writing, imagination, and skill. A critical tour de force."--David M. Lubin, author of "Shooting Ken... More

This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance. Themed sections place the reader: * decoding the sign * the politics of performance * the politics of gender and s... More

What is theatre? What is performance? What are their connections and differences? What events, people, practices, and ideas have shaped theatre and performance in the twentieth century? And where are they heading next? "The Routledge Companion to Theatre and" "Performance "offers answers to these bi... More

The latest volume in the acclaimed "World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre" series provides a country-by-country survey of theatrical developments throughout Asia and the Pacific since 1945. The entries provide first-hand accounts of the major theatrical companies, dramatists and plays in each c... More

This unique A-Z country-by-country account covers theater in the Arab world since the end of World War II. Countries included are: Algeria (Overview); Bahrain (Overview); Comoros Islands; Djibouti; Egypt; Iraq; Jordan (overview); Kuwait (Overview); Lebanon; Libya; Mauritania; Morocco (Overview); Oma... More

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Anyone with an academic, professional, amateur, or recreational interest in the theater is likely to want to look up details of particular plays sometimes--perhaps to check on the author, or on when they were first performed, or perhaps to see how many characters they have, and whether or not they w... More

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Theater, in a variety of forms and contexts, can make, and indeed has made, positive political and social interventions in a range of developing cultures around the world. In this book a distinguished team of theater historians and dramatists explore how theater has a dynamic and often difficult rel... More

This comprehensive handbook profiles the current state of the mass media in all the 25 countries/economies that comprise Asia proper. Following the customary division of the continent into South, Southeast, and East, the 36 contributors provide a dispassionate and exhaustive discussion of the proble... More

Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry... More

Forty-eight true-to-life scenes for guys, girls, and mixed casts of two to four actors. Written as terens speak witht he drama and emotions of adolescence. Themes include bullying, dating, driving, clothes, sports, sibling rivalry, self-esteen, vanity, jobs, sex, responsibility, drugs and many more.... More

What if you bought a 1968 Volkswagen microbus from a stranger, and when you started to clean it out you found an old notebook? And what if that notebook was actually the scrapbook of a Deadhead-telling the incredible story of one young man's groovy experiences traveling the country with his favorite... More

Have you heard the haunting melody of a Native American Flute being played? Would you like to play in this manner yourself? Well, you can! No musical background is assumed or needed to play the flute with beauty and grace. In Flute Dreams, you are shown that playing the Native American Love Flute is... More

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