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“amnon kabatchnik”

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  • Courtroom Dramas on the Stage Vol. 1

    by Amnon Kabatchnik ...
    While many books have been published about courtroom fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage courtrooms has been largely ignored. This endeavor aims to fill the void.More than fifty plays are scrutinized and analyzed. The first stage trial on record appears in The Danaid Tetralogy (463 B.C.) by Aeschylus, in which 49 young women are accused of murdering their grooms, their cousins, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bloody Broadway – Plays of Menace, Murder, and Mystery – Volume 1 1900-1930

    by Amnon Kabatchnik ...
    The entity known as Broadway began with several stage contributions by the American playwright-actor-director William Gillette. Gillette's major success was Sherlock Holmes, a compilation of half-a-dozen short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle into a cohesive plot line. It played at Manhattan's Garrick Theatre, garnered positive reviews, and ran for 256 performances. During the decade of 1900–1910, a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murder in the West End Volume II: The Plays of Agatha Christie and Her Disciples

    by Amnon Kabatchnik ...
    During the first two decades of the twentieth century, only a few criminous plays premiered in London's West End. The Tragedy of Nan (1908), by John Masefield, is the story of Nan Hardwick, whose father was hung for stealing sheep and she moves in with her uncle, William Pargetter, a farmer. Soon Nan finds herself under the yoke of Pargetter's shrewish wife and gossipy daughter. The growing ... Read more

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  • Horror on the Stage

    Monsters, Murders and Terrifying Moments in Theater

    by Amnon Kabatchnik ...
    There are numerous publications about the horror genre in film and television, but none that provide information about horror on a legitimate stage until now. This book highlights the most terrifying moments in theater history, from classical plays like Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and Euripides' Medea to the violence of the Grand Guignol company productions in 18th-century France, and present-day ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Courtroom Dramas on the Stage Vol 2

    by Amnon Kabatchnik ...
    Volume 2 concentrates on trial plays mounted in the twentieth century. The first decade featured notable dramas by Leo Tolstoy (The Living Corpse, Russia, 1900), Alexander Bisson (Madame X, France, 1908), and John Galsworthy (Justice, England, 1910). The trend continued with authors of the main stream penning plays populated with judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, witnesses, and the ... Read more

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  • Sherlock Holmes on the Stage

    A Chronological Encyclopedia of Plays Featuring the Great Detective

    by Amnon Kabatchnik ...
    One of the world's most well known fictional characters, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887. The detective was featured in four novels and 56 short stories written by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Within a decade of his creation Sherlock Holmes made his theatrical debut, first in a couple of obscure productions and soon in the celebrated play adapted by and starring William ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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  • Universal Horrors

    The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946, 2d ed.

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