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  • Hester

    by Christopher W. E. Bigsby ...
    In his first novel, British scholar Christopher W.E. Bigsby provides a prequel to The Scarlet Letter, introducing readers to a younger Hester Prynne. He tells of her attempts to flee an oppressive marriage to Roger Chillingworth, her love affair with Arthur Dimmesdale, and her life in the New World. In the process, Bigsby condemns the obstacles and prejudices that strong, intelligent women faced ... Read more

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  • The Arthur Miller Tapes

    A Life In His Own Words

    Edited by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Christopher Bigsby and Arthur Miller shared a regular correspondence which stretched over nearly three decades of friendship. Their interaction and collaboration included a unique series of recorded interviews which now bring fresh and surprising perspectives to the life, thought and creative motivations of one of the greatest modern dramatists. The conversations range richly across topics such as ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Arthur Miller

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Biography of one of the greatest of modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005).This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim.Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over sixty years, writing a wide variety of plays - including The ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Four Contemporary American Playwrights

    Exploring Identity

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    The fourth in a series of books exploring the careers of 28 contemporary American playwrights, this book covers the work of four male writers, Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Karam and Tarell Alvin McCraney.The dramatic strategies of these award-winning playwrights range widely in styles and approach. Christopher Bigsby interweaves critical analysis of their work with biographical ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • American Dramatists in the 21st Century

    Opening Doors

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. In addition to covering all their plays, including several as yet unpublished, he notes their critical reception while drawing on their own commentary on ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Viewing America

    Twenty-First-Century Television Drama

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no interest in writing for television, indeed who often despised it, suddenly realised that it was where America could have a dialogue with itself. The new television drama was where writers could engage ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Beautiful Dreamer

    A Novel

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    In a small Southern town, a white man tries to prevent a lynching and finds himself branded by the mob --- and worse, finds himself sheltering the dead man's son. When the killers come around to finish the job, the two victims are forced to flee across the country in the hopes of escaping men with nothing but vengeance on their minds.Just one step behind the vigilantes a solitary lawman tracks the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Crucible

    by Arthur Miller ...
    A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural communityThe place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Death of a Salesman

    Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

    by Arthur Miller ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dreamEver since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Arthur Miller

    1962-2005

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    The second volume of the definitive biography of one of the greatest modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005).The first volume of Christopher Bigsby's award-winning biography of Arthur Miller was hailed as a masterpiece and the definitive account of Miller's early years. This is the second half of Miller's captivating story, covering his life from 1962 to his death in 2005.In 1962, Miller's ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Routledge Revivals: David Mamet (1985)

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, C.W.E Bigsby examines the career and work of playwright David Mamet. Bigsby shows that Mamet is a fierce social critic, indicting an America corrupted at its core by myths of frontier individualism and competitive capitalism. Mamet has created plays whose bleak social vision and ironic metaphysics are redeemed, if at all, by the power of imagination. No American playwright ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Twenty-First Century American Playwrights

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    The early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for the American theatre but also marked the emergence of a new generation of exciting playwrights. In this book, Christopher Bigsby explores the work of nine of these developing talents, and the importance of issues including race, gender and politics for their writing. Increasingly, these new figures are gaining their reputations not ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD