"New-Generation African Poets is an ambitious, vital project that delivers exactly what it promises...As a group, the chapbooks dispel stereotypes abo ut African writing. They also illustrate what editors Dawes and Abani note about the many ways poets can understand or redefine their ties to Africa. These insights are poignant and valuable, especially at a time when million s around the globe find themselves somewhere between new countries and ance stral lands they've left behind." --Washington Post "Full of the music, inventiveness, passion and coolness that make him once of the most exciting... View More...
A bitter marriage unravels in Edward Albee's darkly humorous play--winner o f the Tony Award for Best Play. "Twelve times a week," answered actress Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With its razor-sharp dialogue an... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. An entertaining anthology of more than two hundred fifty verses by some eighty authors ranges from satire to nonsense and from Shakespeare to Philip Larkin. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's extraord inary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by den ying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly a nd deeply desired. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of for ci... View More...
ABOUT LYRICAL POEMS (1930-1950) Sri Aurobindo once wrote that he wanted his short poems published in two separate books, one of sonnets and the other of "(mainly) lyrical poems". His sonnets were published in 1980. This book contains all other significant short poems composed between 1930 and 1950. Most of the poems included are "lyrical" in the technical sense: they are s hort and express the writer's personal thoughts and feelings. Unlike most o ther examples of the genre, however, their lyricism is spiritual and psychi c. Along with the later sonnets and the epic Savitri, they represent Sri... View More...
For the first time, Alan Ayckbourn shares all of his tricks of the playwrig ht's trade. From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, the book pr ovides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for the more expe rienced. Written in Ayckbourn's signature style that combines humor, seriou sness, and heady air of theatrical sophistication that Noel Coward would en vy, The Crafty Art of Playmaking is a must-have for aspiring playwrights an d students of drama. View More...
Coleridge's theories, insights and practical criticism underlie nearly all subsequent criticism in English. It was not only that he turned decisively away from eighteenth century views (clearly and usefully surveyed in the fi rst chapter). His powerfully general theories of the imagination and of poe tic language and structure provided permanent insights. He saw the plays as organic structures of poetic effects, the product of conscious artistry. T hese served Shakespeare's deep human insight, both psychological and moral. Dr Badawi provides a lucid analysis of the elements of Coleridge's crit... View More...
Blues for Mister Charlie is James Baldwin's second play, a social commentar y drama in three acts. It was first produced and published in 1964. View More...
Penned Up: Writing Out the Pandemic is a product of the shared work of the Applegate Poets: Lisa E Baldwin, Diana Coogle, Beate Foit, Seth Kaplan, H. Ní Aódagaín, Joan Peterson, and Christin Lore Weber. Some poems in this boo k are intensely personal. Some are spiritual, some humorous, some political , some thought-provoking or challenging. The poems are varied, as are the b ackgrounds of the poets, but we all have a love of poetry and a love of our home in the beautiful Applegate region of Southern Oregon. All of the poem s come from an interior depth, the spiritual, psychological, and creati... View More...
"The pages of Asparagus Roots aren't lined with words. Rather, they're pain ted with vivid word pictures that I couldn't help but pause to admire, ling er over, and then let go to fully submerge myself in." Laurie Buchanan, PhD , author of Note to Self: A Seven-Step Path to Gratitude and Growth, Intern ational Book Awards Winner, Body, Mind, Spirit Book Awards Winner, Forward Indies Winner, Nautilus Book Awards Winner ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬____________ _________________________ "Banning is a master of the spot-on metaphor, the intriguing title, the dazzling verb, the credible personification. Th... View More...
As well as being the author of the greatest of all children's plays, Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political satir e. The Admirable Crichton and What Every Woman Knows are shrewd and enterta ining contributions to the politics of class and gender, while Mary Rose is one of the best ghost stories written for the stage. For this edition, the texts of these plays have been newly edited and are supplemented with an i n-depth introduction and detailed annotations. View More...
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, "Wait ing for Godot" has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, "Time catches up with genius. . . . "Waiting for Godot" is o ne of the masterpieces of the century." The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone--or something--named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consc... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Bejerano crosses boundaries as a matter of fact, giving voice to the first female Job (perhaps not only in Hebrew, but the world over) as if this wer e the most natural expressive venue for a single mother in Tel Aviv of the 1990s."--Professor Yael Feldman, New York University Maya Bejerano was born in Israel in 1949. She has published ten volumes of poetry in Israel, including her collected poems, Frequencies (2005). The Hy mns of Job and Other Poem... View More...
