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“prof alan ackerman”

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  • A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller

    All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Broken Glass

    by Prof. Alan Ackerman, Prof. Alan Ackerman, Susan C. W. Abbotson, Stephen Marino, Prof. Toby Zinman, Prof. Enoch Brater ...
    A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller's plays: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge and Broken Glass. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Reader in Comedy

    An Anthology of Theory and Criticism

    Edited by Magda Romanska, Prof. Alan Ackerman ...
    This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlighting the relationships between comedy, politics, economics, philosophy, religion, and other arts and genres. Students of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works

    by Thomas Nashe ...
    Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. Mingling the devout and the bawdy, scholarship and slang, they express throughout an irrepressible, inexhaustible wit and an astonishing command of language. This collection of Nashe's finest works includes The ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Waiting for Godot

    A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts', and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', En attendant Godot was first performed at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and Waiting for Godot opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955.'Go and see Waiting for Godot. At the worst you will ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Dancing at Lughnasa

    by Brian Friel ...
    It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Lonesome West

    by Mr Martin McDonagh ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    The Lonesome West was first presented as a Druid Theatre company and Royal Court co-production in the summer of 1997.'The play combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is both hilarious and viscerally exciting' Daily TelegraphValene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find it impossible to exist without massive and violent ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Audience

    by Peter Morgan ...
    For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve prime ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life. It is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses.The Audience breaks this contract of silence. It imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The School for Scandal and Other Plays

    by Richard Sheridan ...
    The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots, witty repartee, farcical situations and flamboyant characters. And while he never overtly moralizes, Sheridan uses brilliant comedy to deflate hypocrisy and satirize the manners of his age. In The Rivals, Captain Absolute becomes his own rival for the hand of Lydia ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Harold Pinter Plays 1

    The Birthday Party; The Room; The Dumb Waiter; A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; A Night Out; The Black and White; The Examination

    by Harold Pinter ...
    This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party.The Birthday PartyStanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.'Mr Pinter's terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.' Sunday TimesThe Room and The Dumb WaiterIn ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Long Day's Journey Into Night

    Critical Edition

    by Eugene O'Neill ...
    Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged five wars against African states with the intent of destroying their military might and political independence and unifying southern Africa under imperial control. This is the first work to tell the story of this cluster of conflicts as a single whole and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Homecoming

    by Harold Pinter ...
    'An exultant night - a man in total command of his talent.' Observer'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter's plays.' The TimesWhen Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in London, he finds his family still living in the house. In the conflict that follows, it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Three Uses of the Knife

    On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

    by David Mamet ...
    The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion . . . is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackles these questions with bracing directness and aphoristic authority. He believes that the tendency to dramatize is essential to human nature, that we ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD