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2) Medea
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An empathetic look at the destructive power of female passion from the dramatist Aristotle called "the most tragic of poets."
First performed in 431 BC, Medea is Euripides most powerful and well-known play. Cast aside by Jason when he pursues another woman, Medea seeks the ultimate revenge against her faithless husband by murdering his new wife along with the two people who matter to both Jason and Medea most: their children. In the hands of a Greek...
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Read along with Disney! While out and about in Arendelle, Olaf sees all different types of families. It helps him learn that there is no standard family model, and instead the only thing that counts when making a family is that they all love one another.
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Students and others interested in nineteenth century drama have long been handicapped by the lack of a convenient selection of outstanding plays of the period. The present volume is the first to fill the gap. It contains: Black Ey'd Susan, by Douglas Jerold, Money, by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Masks and Faces, by Charles Reade and Tom Taylor, The Colleen Bawn, by Dion Boucicault, Lady Audley's Secret, by Miss Braddon and C.H. Hazlewood, The Ticket-of-Leave...
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Freedom: A Mixtape is a soulful artistic response to recent and historical violence on Black bodies, presented through a collection of original songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, spoken-word pieces, and musical instrumentation from folks living in Ontario's Niagara Region. A community conversation about our complicated relationship with emancipation and the human right to be free, Freedom: A Mixtape is a compilation album that is part protest and...
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This book acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society. It provides the subject with a degree of detail unmatched in previous books, reflecting a new approach to the study of the performing arts in this region. The book provides an opportunity to discover contemporary material from experts, critics and artists from across the world. The contributions are in a language and style that allow...
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The tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly slays his father and marries his mother, is one of the mythical cornerstones of Western civilization. Nicholas Rudall's new translation remains true to Sophocles original text while fashioning a language of grace and power, with contemporary players and theatergoers in mind.
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CHoeur
Je serai tout au long de ma vie
de deux rives,
de deux continents,
de deux mondes,
comme les lèvres d'une plaie ouverte.
Mais c'est ici que je vivrai,
ici que je travaillerai,
ici que grandira mon fils,
ici que ma fille aura des enfants.
Vous m'avez accueilli un jour
et j'ai saisi la chance à bout de bras.
J'ai peiné.
J'ai sué.
J'ai pleuré.
Je veux rire et vivre maintenant.
J'ai reçu.
Je donnerai.
Nommez votre combat
et j'en serai....
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English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China.
Marionette puppet theater has a rich and ancient history in China, extending back to the Han dynasty and reaching its heyday in the Qing dynasty. While this art form is nearly extinct in northern China today, a handful of troupes in Heyang County in Shaanxi Province, which claims to be the birthplace of marionette theater, continue to perform...
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An anthology of short stories made up from the writers of The Bayside Writers' Group. Most or all of the stories are pure fiction but there are plenty of words in them that relate to actual events in the particular writer's life. It is a real pleasure to present them in this way.
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One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate probing of the nature of human suffering. Mr. Rudall's splendid translation brings a new power and speakability to Sophocles' prose.
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Before Shakespeare, few dramatists had used historical figures as characters in a play, or actual historical events as elements of a plot. Likewise, the Bard was a pioneer of the sonnet, which he took to new heights. Both literary form, including his two historical tetralogies, and his narrative poems, in addition to the particular form of sonnet that now bears his name are examined through engaging text. A brief treatise on the music within and accompanying...
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These thirteen essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry into the urban contexts of literary production. Taking as their departure point the annual comic competitions at the Athenian dramatic festivals, the contributors examine how the polis--as a place, a political entity, a specific social organization, and a set of ideological representations--was enacted on stage from the middle...
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El hidalgo de la Mancha es una versión del Quijote escrita por los siguientes autores del Siglo de oro:
Juan de Matos Fragoso (Alvito, 1608-Madrid, 1689). Portugal.
Estudió filosofía y jurisprudencia en la Universidad de Évora y luego se marchó a Madrid, donde fue amigo de los principales dramaturgos de la época. Pasó un tiempo en Italia, donde se representó alguna comedia suya en la corte del virreinato de Nápoles. Estuvo siempre bien relacionado...
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This fourth volume in the Caribbean Heritage series presents the texts of two short plays, first written in Trinidad in 1832 and 1852—53. The author of Martial Law in Trinidad was E.L. Joseph, an English-born long-time resident of Trinidad, who later published a novel, Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole, and the first history of the island. The author of Past and Present is not known, but may have been G.N. Dessources, a mixed-race Trinidadian...
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Extrait : "LES ÉCREVISSES - Trente-neuf ans, fortune ronde, Célibataire et bon garçon, Depuis qu'on m'avait mis au monde, J'habitais à Pont-à-Mousson. Jamais de mes destins propices, Poursuivant le cours régulier, Je n'avais mangé d'écrevisses, En cabinet particulier."
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In the fall of 2011, The Long Story Shorts One Act Festivalwas launched, featuring performances of short plays written byundergraduate students in the Writing for the Screen and Stage minor, an interdisciplinary, dramatic writing program housed in the Departmentof Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Marking the first five years of the festival, this anthology showcasesworks written to be performed in ten minutes with a...
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Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts culture.
The book features four plays as well as an interview with artist Niall McNeil. In Smudge by Alex Bulmer, a woman details her journey toward Blindness, mourning what she loses and discovering what her other senses provide. Access Me by Boys...
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Although Shakespeare towers over the Elizabethan period, it was a robust time in the evolution of English theater, and many plays beyond the Bard's survive to enthrall modern drama students. This original anthology collects prime examples of the era's tragedies, dramas that both informed and were influenced by Shakespeare's work. Include here are The Spanish Tragedy, by Thomas Kyd; Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe; Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed...
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