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  • Magical Muse

    Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams

    by Philip C. Kolin, Albert J. Devlin, Jeffrey B. Loomis, Robert Siegel, Nancy M. Tischler, Allean Hale, Barbara M. Harris, Michael Paller, Dan Sullivan, George W. Crandell, W. Kenneth Holditch, Jackson R. Bryer ...
    In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal to southern characters and settings. His major plays, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie to A ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    by Louisa May Alcott ...
    Contains 10 illustrations.Little Women is a timeless and beloved classic of American literature that has captivated readers for generations. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, this heartwarming novel follows the lives of the four March sisters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy- as they navigate the trials and tribulations of adolescence, sisterhood, and the pursuit of their dreams in 19th ... Read more

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  • The Actually Complete Works of William Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare ...
    The REAL Complete Works of William Shakespeare Comedy All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love's Labours Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Winter's Tale ... Read more

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  • Twelve Angry Men

    by Reginald Rose ...
    A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David MametA blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Reading William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

    by Michael Cotsell ...
    This study is intended both for first-time readers of The Sound and the Fury andsince it offers new scholarship and critical argument on Faulknerfor established critics and scholars. Chapter 1 provides some general context about Faulkner's life and work in the American South and 'Yoknapatawpha County', and introduces the form and style of Faulkner's novel. Chapter 2 provides a discussion of the ... Read more

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  • A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams

    The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth

    by Michael Hooper, Professor Stephen Bottoms, Prof. Philip Kolin ...
    A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

    The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer

    by Annette J. Saddik ...
    The plays of Tennessee Williams' post-1961 period have often been misunderstood and dismissed. In light of Williams' centennial in 2011, which was marked internationally by productions and world premieres of his late plays, Annette J. Saddik's new reading of these works illuminates them in the context of what she terms a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Close Listening

    Poetry and the Performed Word

    Edited by Charles Bernstein ...
    Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been surprisingly slight. This volume, featuring work by critics and poets such as ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Complete Plays of Jean Racine

    Volume 5: Britannicus

    by Jean Racine ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Alan Argent ...
    This is the fifth volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays. Geoffrey Alan Argent’s translations faithfully convey all the urgency and keen psychological insight of Racine’s dramas, and the coiled strength of his verse, while breathing new vigor into the time-honored form of the “heroic” couplet.Complementing this translation are the Discussion and the ... Read more

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  • Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama

    Edited by David Palmer ...
    This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Ariel Dorfman

    An Aesthetics of Hope

    by Sophia McClennen ...
    Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book about the author in English and the first in any language to address the full range of his writing to date. Consistently challenging assumptions and refusing preconceived categories, Dorfman has published in ... Read more

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  • The Metamorphoses of Lucretia

    Three Eighteenth-Century Reinterpretations of the Myth: Carlo Goldoni, Samuel Richardson and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

    by Anna Livia Frassetto ...
    The virtuous Roman matron Lucretia killed herself in 509 b. C. Her death is considered the cause of the Roman revolt against the Tarquins and the mainspring of the passage from the monarchic to the republican age. It is a myth about private and public dimensions: it tells about woman and revolution. Its themes, permanent features and variations are infinite. The metamorphoses of Lucretia are ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD