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"The Oxford Guide to Plays"
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"Oxford Paperback Reference" series; The Oxford Guide to Plays provides information on 1000 of the most important plays in world theatre. Each entry contains essential information including title, author, dates of composition and first performance, genre, composition of the cast, a synopsis of the plot, and a brief commentary. Paperback, 560 pages. Size: 196 x 129 mm. Weight: 411g.
Author: (Patterson, Michael, ed.)
ISBN: 0198604181
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Plays & Playwrights
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"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy"
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"Norton Critical Editions" series; A new edition of this work, including the five plays of the first edition, The Country Wife, The Man of Mode, The Way of the World, The Conscious Lovers and The School for Scandal, as well as The Rover by Aphra Behn. The book stresses the relationship between theatre and society. With ill.. 2 rev ed. Hardback, 648 pages. Size: 210 x 128 mm. Weight: 607g.
Author: (McMillin, Scott, ed.)
ISBN: 0393963349
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
Date: 1997 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Plays & Playwrights
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"The Spanish Golden Age in English"Perspectives on Performance
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Paperback, 300 pages. Size: 210 x 130 mm. Weight: 413g.
Author: (Boyle, Catherine, ed.)
ISBN: 1840028157
Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Plays & Playwrights
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"Traditional Japanese Theater"An Anthology of Plays
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"Translations From the Asian Classics" series; The first book of its kind: a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance--noh, kyogen, kabuki, and puppet theater--in one comprehensive, authoritative volume. With 200 illus. Hardback, 464 pages. Size: 260 x 186 mm. Weight: 1280g.
Author: (Brazell, Karen, ed.)
ISBN: 0231108729
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 1998 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Plays & Playwrights
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"World Drama"
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Paperback, 673 pages. Size: 204 x 138 mm. Weight: 693g.
Author: (Clark, Barrett H., ed.)
ISBN: 0486200590
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Date: 2003 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Plays & Playwrights
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"Tragedy and Metatheatre"
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Identifying the modern, existential dilemma (for both playwright and audience), this book sets out to provide a theory for its resolution. With bibliographical references , index. Paperback, 250 pages. Size: 205 x 135 mm. Weight: 318g.
Author: Abel, Lionel
ISBN: 0841913536
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
Date: 2003 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Plays & Playwrights
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"Antigone"
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"Student Editions" series; Bray, Barbara (trans.) Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny. New ed. Paperback, 144 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 122g.
Author: Anouilh, Jean (Freeman, Dan, ed.)
ISBN: 0413695409
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Date: 2000 (United Kingdom)
Readership: A / as Level Plays & Playwrights
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"The Rover"
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"Student Editions" series; This work is the best known and most frequently performed play by the 17th-century poet, novelist and playwright, Aphra Behn, and is set in a 17th-century Spanish colony during carnival time. Three sisters, dissatisfied with their destinies, wander in search of tolerable husbands. With illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 176 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 160g.
Author: Behn, Aphra
ISBN: 0413668800
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Date: 1993 (United Kingdom)
Readership: A / as Level Plays & Playwrights
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"Origin of German Tragic Drama"
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Osborne, John (trans.) This title is Benjamin's most sustained and original work. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. George Lukacs singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the 20th century. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 189 x 136 mm. Weight: 301g.
Author: Benjamin, Walter
ISBN: 1859844138
Publisher: Verso Books
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
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"Drama Through the Ages"
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"Cambridge School Anthologies" series; A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards. With 1 colour book. Paperback, 112 pages. Size: 247 x 190 mm. Weight: 264g.
Author: Berry, Mary Clamp, Michael
ISBN: 0521598753
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Primary & Secondary Education Plays & Playwrights
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"Harold Pinter"
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Harold Pinter has acted on stage, screen and radio, he has appeared on countless political platforms, and his work has been celebrated in festivals at Dublin's Gate Theatre and New York's Lincoln Center. In 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and in 2006, the European Theatre Prize. With illustrations. Rev ed. Paperback, 464 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 469g.
Author: Billington, Michael
ISBN: 0571234763
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Plays & Playwrights
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"Lear"
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"Student Editions" series; Setting his play around the symbolic building of a great wall, the author exposes false morality as the source of the aggressive tension which may ultimately destroy society. With photographs, notes. New ed. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 124g.
Author: Bond, Edward (Hern, Patricia, ed.)
ISBN: 0413519503
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Date: 1983 (United Kingdom)
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"The Caucasian Chalk Circle"
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"Student Editions" series; Stern, James (trans.) This volume contains expert notes on the author's life and work, historical and political background to the play, photographs from stage productions and a glossary of difficult words and phrases. With photographs, glossary. New ed. Paperback, 176 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 148g.
Author: Brecht, Bertolt (Rorrison, Hugh, ed.)
ISBN: 0413544508
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Date: 1984 (United Kingdom)
Readership: A / as Level Plays & Playwrights
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"Mother Courage and Her Children"
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"Student Editions" series; Willett, John (trans.) One of Brecht's most famous plays and a classic of modern literature/theatre With photographs, glossary, bibliography. Paperback, 160 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 94g.
Author: Brecht, Bertolt (Rorrison, Hugh, ed.)
ISBN: 0413492702
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Date: 1983 (United Kingdom)
Readership: A / as Level Plays & Playwrights
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"The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui"
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"Student Editions" series; Manheim, Ralph (trans.) Described by Brecht as a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all, this play is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. This volume contains notes, commentary and questions for study. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 162g.
Author: Brecht, Bertolt (Worrall, Non, ed.)
ISBN: 0713685115
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: A / as Level Plays & Playwrights
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