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Open this book at random to find poems you can understand and feel, or look at the table of contents for categories. Write to me: evymae@hughes.net if you'd like. Author: Evelyn ColeISBN-10: 1456727672ISBN-13: 9781456727673Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/07/2011Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Hesketh PearsonISBN-10: 1447442792ISBN-13: 9781447442790Publisher: Tufts...

A step-by-step detailed training manual for actors that guides you through the process of finding and bringing to life the "perfect" monologue, a monologue that works for you. Includes over 50 original monologues for men and women with tips on approach and delivery. Quotes...

Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power: Trailer Park Royalty explores the phenomenon of child beauty pageants in rural communities throughout the American South. In a bricolage of post-structural feminism, critical ethnographies, critical hermeneutics, and cultural studies lenses, this book analyzes how the performance of participants--most...

A thorough survey of the origins and development of the major distinct American commercial entertainments that emerged between over the course of the 19th century and into the 20th, including P.T. Barnum_s American Museum, freak show, and circus, as well as blackface minstrelry, Buffalo...

This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. Youth from seven urban locales in Australia, the UK, the US and Europe document and reflect on their...

The Twentieth Century Theatre: Observations On The Contemporary English And American Stage is a book written by William Lyon Phelps, first published in 1918. This book is an analysis of the theatre scene in England and America during the early 20th century. Phelps provides...

As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals' engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political transformation in diverse regions of the world to...

Responding to the widespread and continued acceleration of virtual working practices in recent years, Virtual Presenting provides a clear guide to producing, presenting and broadcasting in a remote context. Author: Jamie Cohen,Michael SorrentinoISBN-10: 103227185XISBN-13: 9781032271859Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2023Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w...

This edition of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine includes a wide range of articles, essays, and stories on topics ranging from politics to literature to science. Notable contributions include a report on the opium trade, a review of William Wordsworth's poetry, and a short story by...

This book is a collection of classic English plays written between the 16th and 18th centuries. It includes works by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and many other famous playwrights of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.This work has been selected by scholars as...

This collection of plays by Olive Tilford Dargan includes four works: 'Semiramis', 'The Mortal Gods', 'High Noon', and 'The Shepherdess'. These plays showcase Dargan's skill in crafting complex characters and exploring themes such as love, power, and mortality.This work has been selected by scholars...

In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers-Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley-to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin. She situates each figure within...

During the years 1880 to 1940, the glory days of the American circus, a third to a half of the cast members were women--a large group of very visible American workers whose story needs telling. This book, using sources such as diaries, autobiographies, newspaper...

Though comic women have existed since the days of Baubo, the mythic figure of sexual humor, they have been neglected by scholars and critics. This pioneering volume tells the stories of five women who have created revolutionary forms of comic performance and discourse that...

Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese culture and values. In the twentieth century, however, Chinese operas went through significant changes. During the first four decades of the 1900s,...

Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as nothing but propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Continuous Revolution sets out to explain its legacy. By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda art--music, stage works, prints and posters, comics, and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

In a time of intensifying xenophobia and anti-immigration measures, this book examines the impulse to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural others. Immersions in Cultural Difference takes readers into the heart of immersive simulations, including a simulated terrorist training camp in Utah; mock Afghan...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms.The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction and conflict, but it is also a region with a rich culture, environment,...

FOUR YOUNG MEN FROM THE HOOD PUT TOGETHER A PLAN TO GET MORE MONEY THAN THE HOOD CAN OFFER... LINKING UP WITH SLICK, SCRAP AND A FEW OTHER HOMIES ALONG THE WAY CAUSES THEM TO GET INTO SITUATIONS THAT FORCE THE UNIT ON THE...

"For some years now, a group of American composers and theorists including Babbitt, Teitelbaum, Martino, and Lewin, have been elaborating mathematically based procedures for the analysis of pitch structures in atonal music. In this book, Allen Forte expands the results of their work into...

Haydn's music has been performed continuously for more than two hundred years. But what do we play, and what do we listen to, when it comes to Haydn? Can we still appreciate the rich rhetorical nuances of this music, which from its earliest days...

Mozart: Maestro of Tonality is meant for a music lover, whether novice or aficionado. It is a study of his masterful tonality - "the core of music"-by discussing compositionally dynamic movements of harmony, agile key modulations, and artful character vocalizations. It illustrates Mozart's deft...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions...

Celebrating a cherished friendshipRetired journalist Chuck Schmidt has been covering the ins and outs of the Walt Disney Company for more than four decades, first on the pages of the Staten Island Advance newspaper, then on the paper's website, SILive.com. Since 2014, he's shared...

A spoken word, vignette-structured play about existing softly in a damaged world. NOTE: This piece of writing is purposefully meant to be multidimensional. The first version is straight stanza style-like poetry, and the second version is how it was written to be staged live....

Papa Bois: King of Paradise is a play about a contemporary Caribbean society, battling against the detrimental effects of globalisation, its fruits of prosperity from returning Caribbean Diaspora migrants, and the consequences for their Caribbean-heritage children. Based on the Caribbean folktale, Papa Bois, this...

Magical Musings, A Voyage to Better Magic is a collection of essays and effects by Magic Circle Magician Ian Brennan. In this book you will find advice on character development, scripting, presentation, performance style and much more. Ian's work has received great reviews in...

This book investigates the relationship between performance, technological mediation, and the sense of live presence through a series of case studies related to popular music products. Bratus explores the crucial significance of live performance for the construction of a personal, intimate relationship between performers...

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedians Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, country singer Glen Campbell, playwright Sam Shepard and actor-singer Jim Nabors. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and...

In this study of the development of the worship of Shakespeare by the literary critics of the late eighteenth century, the author destroys the misconception that Shakespeare was rediscovered by the romantic critics of the early nineteenth century and proves that, after the idolatry...

Even as it skirts mainstream contemporary culture, pornography remains a social taboo; there still exist strong biases both in favor and against it. With chapters addressing imagination, gender, power relationships, truth claims, aesthetics, and both pro and anti-porn slants, this book presents a balanced...

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that...

Highly recommended for all serious drama programs." --Choice 8.75 6 Trade Paper 14.95 CUSA 200 Original yAuthor: Laurence SenelickISBN-10: 0933826532ISBN-13: 9780933826533Publisher: PAJ PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/1983Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.77h x 6.07w x 0.60d

The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when virtually the entire repertoire was written. Some of the finest plays were inspired by the eleventh-century masterpiece of court literature, The Tale of Genji. In this...

LGBT Identity and Online New Media examines constructions of LGBT identity within new media. The contributors consider the effects, issues, influences, benefits and disadvantages of these new media phenomena with respect to the construction of LGBT identities. A wide range of mainstream and independent...

Paul Godfrey is "so good, so nervy and alert with imagination and intelligence" (Sunday Times) Includes the plays: Inventing a New Colour "Godfrey's appealing first play is, with its ominous signs of disjunction, like a surrealist painting"(Guardian), Once in a While the Odd Thing...

"An excellent piece of writing, exhibiting splendid communicative sensitivity and command of language, and fully representative of the remarkable mind of the author. . . . A book any musician, or any serious student or concertgoer, will find stimulating, provocative and instructive."-- Robert C....

Originating more than 2500 years ago, cockfighting is one of the oldest documented sports in the world. It has continued to flourish despite bans against it in many countries. In The Cockfight: A Casebook, folklorist Alan Dundes brings together a diverse array of writing...

Twelve masterpieces by Schumann, arranged for guitar duet (in standard notation and tablature). Includes: Almost Too Serious (Op. 15, No. 10); Dreaming (Op. 15, No. 7); The Happy Farmer (Op. 68, No. 10); A Little Romance (Op. 68, No. 19); Lonely Flowers (Op. 82,...

Mister Everywhere is a vivid, globe-spanning portrait of Pierre Rissient-talent scout, filmmaker, producer, cinephile nonpareil-told in his own words. In these conversations with Le Monde critic Samuel Blumenfeld, Rissient reflects on a life lived entirely for cinema: from his days with the Mac-Mahon group...

Selected memorial and obituaries for famous and not-so-famous, based on documentaries, books, and films.Author: William RussoISBN-13: 9798563229983Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2020Pages: 162Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.35d

A play of monologues by Christopher Plumridge.This is the story of a Teddy Bear who became a legend! Detailed across ten adventurous monologues, each one more heroic and entertaining than the last. Through his various exploits you will discover how a simple stuffed toy...

Touching, relatable, with laughs along the way TIME is a new Australian play exploring the conflicts, secrets, and resentments within a family when coming together for a celebration.BUS STOP, MANHOOD and FANTASY are all new plays of about 10 minutes or so, exposing aspects...

A comedy written for the Shakespeare's Globe, telling the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, takes the wrong drug and finds himself transformed into an ass. His subsequent travels lead him to encounter the...

Author: Mabel Lee,Jianmei LiuISBN-10: 1604979461ISBN-13: 9781604979466Publisher: Cambria PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/23/2018Pages: 362Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dReview Citation(s): Choice 02/01/2019

Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the "East" -- witness the popularity of the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing vaudeville magicians, and even the antics...

You, Me, Us is a story about George Dunn, a man who has to come to terms with the fact that he has a de-generative disease that doctors say is incurable. He is told that his memory will fail him and that he should...