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New Arrivals $74.25 Hardcover add to wishlist Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance) Bruce Mcconachie $74.25 Hardcover add to wishlist Staging Stigma: A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History) Michael M. Chemers $10.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist King Henry VIII: Or All Is True (Oxford World's Classics) William (con) Shakespeare $10.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Henry VI, Part Two (Oxford World's Classics) William Shakespeare $19.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Beckett (Guides for the Perplexed) Jonathan Boulter $24.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Actor Training the Laban Way: An Integrated Approach to Voice, Speech, and Movement Barbara Adrian $19.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Harold Pinter (Writers Lives) William Baker $40.25 Trade Paper add to wishlist Christopher Marlowe: Merlin's Prophet Judith Weil $74.25 Hardcover add to wishlist On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre: Cocteau, Oedipus, and the Monster (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History) Irene Eynat-confino $14.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Revenger's Tragedy (New Mermaids) Thomas Middleton $16.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Sarah Kane's Blasted (Modern Theatre Guides) Helen Iball $9.50 Trade Paper add to wishlist Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) Bill Bryson Shakespeare Plays Hamlet (New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines... (read more) Your Price $5.99 New - Mass Market check for used and sale copies Sale Books Julius Caesar (Cliffs Complete) - Study Notes by Diana Sweeney Publisher Comments Dramatizing the political battles in Rome during the height of the Pax Romanum, Shakespeare pits Caesar against an untold number of conspirators and lets the daggers fly. Antony comes in at the end to clean up the mess and carry on the rule of the... (read more) Your Price $3.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books Hamlet (Sparknotes No Fear Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare containsThe complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that... (read more) Your Price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in Drama to your inbox General The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles And Fagles Publisher Comments Three Theban Plays entitled Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus.... (read more) Your Price $5.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Shakespeare Criticism Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill... (read more) Your Price $9.50 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Women/Ethnic Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Publisher Comments Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In... (read more) Your Price $4.50 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Plays The Miracle Worker by William Gibson Publisher Comments NO ONE COULD REACH HER Twelve-year-old Helen Keller lived in a prison of silence and darkness. Born deaf, blind, and mute, with no way to express herself or comprehend those around her, she flew into primal rages against anyone who tried to help her... (read more) Your Price $3.50 Used - Mass Market check for new and sale copies American Anthology Laramie Project (01 Edition) by Moises Kaufman Publisher Comments For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project-whose previous play, Gross Indecency, was hailed as a work of unsurpassed originality-conducted hundreds of interviews with the citizens of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Reference Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig Publisher Comments The author of Free Culture shows how we harm our childrenaand almost anyone who creates, enjoys, or sells any art formawith a restrictive copyright system driven by corporate interests. Lessig reveals the solutions to this impasse offered by a... (read more) Your Price $25.95 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies Playwriting Art of Dramatic Writing Rev Edition by Lajos Egri Powells.com Staff Pick If you begged me to give you the title of one "how-to" book on the topic of screenwriting and wouldn't give up until I told you, then it would have to be this classic introduction to the craft. Often used as a textbook in screenwriting classes... (read more) Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Shakespeare Sonnets William Shakespeare Poetry by Faber & Faber Publisher Comments An essential choice of classic verse in a new series from Faber. Contemporary figures select the work of poets they particularly admire and offer a personal and critical introduction. Nicely produced, very collectable.... (read more) Your Price $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Production General Discoveries: Age of Shakespeare (Discoveries) by Francois Laroque Publisher Comments Here is a richly detailed, up-to-date account of the known facts of Shakespeare's life, integrated into the background of Elizabethan politics, social conditions, and theater. Includes chronology, list of works, and 235 illustrations, 174 in full color.... (read more) Your Price $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies

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