Author: David Foley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783193972
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The Murders at Argos retells the Oresteia story with Orestes and Electra as murderous teens. Cressida Among the Greeks takes place during the last days of the Trojan War. The story of the doomed lovers is woven together with the foibles of the Trojan royal family as they try to stave off impending disaster. Cressida among the Greeks takes off from Shakespeare and Chaucer, revisting Trolius and Cressida, the classsic tale of love and betrayal amid the chaos of war, with romantic passion and acerbic humor.
Murders at Argos/ Cressida Among the Greeks
Author: David Foley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783193972
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The Murders at Argos retells the Oresteia story with Orestes and Electra as murderous teens. Cressida Among the Greeks takes place during the last days of the Trojan War. The story of the doomed lovers is woven together with the foibles of the Trojan royal family as they try to stave off impending disaster. Cressida among the Greeks takes off from Shakespeare and Chaucer, revisting Trolius and Cressida, the classsic tale of love and betrayal amid the chaos of war, with romantic passion and acerbic humor.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783193972
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The Murders at Argos retells the Oresteia story with Orestes and Electra as murderous teens. Cressida Among the Greeks takes place during the last days of the Trojan War. The story of the doomed lovers is woven together with the foibles of the Trojan royal family as they try to stave off impending disaster. Cressida among the Greeks takes off from Shakespeare and Chaucer, revisting Trolius and Cressida, the classsic tale of love and betrayal amid the chaos of war, with romantic passion and acerbic humor.
A Hole in the Fence
Author: David Foley
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Based on a real-life sex scandal that escalated all the way to Roosevelt, this play is a powerful and pertinent examination of bigotry and injustice. As the debate about homosexuals in the US military still rages, it's a timely reminder that progress is not always forthcoming.
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Based on a real-life sex scandal that escalated all the way to Roosevelt, this play is a powerful and pertinent examination of bigotry and injustice. As the debate about homosexuals in the US military still rages, it's a timely reminder that progress is not always forthcoming.
Deadly Murder
Author: David Foley
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573698309
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
"Camille Dargus has fought her way up from humble beginnings to a glittering Manhattan lifestyle. She has beauty, brains, wealth, and a successful career as a jewelry designer for the leading lights of New York society. She also has a penchant for attractive young men. One night at a society gala she meets Billy, a handsome young waiter, and brings him back to her Soho apartment. But there's more to Billy than meets the eye, and Camille finds herself held hostage at gunpoint by a man who seems frighteningly familiar with the past Camille has struggled to forget. Over the course of one explosive night, Camille must use all her wits and cunning to save her life--and to prevent the dark secrets of her past from destroying everything she's worked for."--Publisher description.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573698309
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
"Camille Dargus has fought her way up from humble beginnings to a glittering Manhattan lifestyle. She has beauty, brains, wealth, and a successful career as a jewelry designer for the leading lights of New York society. She also has a penchant for attractive young men. One night at a society gala she meets Billy, a handsome young waiter, and brings him back to her Soho apartment. But there's more to Billy than meets the eye, and Camille finds herself held hostage at gunpoint by a man who seems frighteningly familiar with the past Camille has struggled to forget. Over the course of one explosive night, Camille must use all her wits and cunning to save her life--and to prevent the dark secrets of her past from destroying everything she's worked for."--Publisher description.
The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women
Author: Catherine Weate
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women is an essential resource for actors participating in acting classes, contests, auditions, and rehearsals. This book collects over fifty speeches from some of the finest plays of the last twenty years, bringing together specially selected speeches by essential modern dramatists.
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women is an essential resource for actors participating in acting classes, contests, auditions, and rehearsals. This book collects over fifty speeches from some of the finest plays of the last twenty years, bringing together specially selected speeches by essential modern dramatists.
Arion
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
A Dictionary of Opera Characters
Author: Joyce Bourne Kennedy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199550395
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
A unique reference work containing over 2,500 A-Z entries on operatic characters. Includes synopses for over 200 operas and operettas, as well as feature articles written by well-known personalities from the world of opera, including Plácido Domingo and Dame Janet Baker. It is an essential book for anyone with an interest in opera.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199550395
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
A unique reference work containing over 2,500 A-Z entries on operatic characters. Includes synopses for over 200 operas and operettas, as well as feature articles written by well-known personalities from the world of opera, including Plácido Domingo and Dame Janet Baker. It is an essential book for anyone with an interest in opera.
The Portable Chaucer
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101127414
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its author’s astonishing learning in fields from philosophy to medicine and astrology. Chaucer’s accomplishment is unequalled by any poet before Shakespeare and—in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida—ranks with that of the great English novelists. Both The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida are presented complete in this anthology, in fresh modern translations by Theodore Morrison that convey both the gravity and gaiety of the Middle English originals. The Portable Chaucer also contains selections from The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, The Bird's Parliament, and The Legend of Good Women, together with short poems. Morrison's introduction is vital for its insights into Chaucer as man and artist, and as a product of the Middle Ages whose shrewdness, humor, and compassion have a wonderfully contemporary ring.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101127414
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its author’s astonishing learning in fields from philosophy to medicine and astrology. Chaucer’s accomplishment is unequalled by any poet before Shakespeare and—in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida—ranks with that of the great English novelists. Both The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida are presented complete in this anthology, in fresh modern translations by Theodore Morrison that convey both the gravity and gaiety of the Middle English originals. The Portable Chaucer also contains selections from The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, The Bird's Parliament, and The Legend of Good Women, together with short poems. Morrison's introduction is vital for its insights into Chaucer as man and artist, and as a product of the Middle Ages whose shrewdness, humor, and compassion have a wonderfully contemporary ring.
The Pohutukawa Tree
Author: Bruce Mason
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864730732
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864730732
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Phaidon Book of the Opera
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Arranged chronologically with an index of operas and a separate index of composers, librettists and literary sources.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Arranged chronologically with an index of operas and a separate index of composers, librettists and literary sources.
The Simon and Schuster Book of the Opera
Author: Riccardo Mezzanotte
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The complete reference guide to 400 glorious years of opera, makes its long-awaited paperback debut. Chronologically arranged, each of the more than 800 entries in this classic, sumptuous, and thorough volume contains something for everyone form the novice opera-goer to the aficionado, including detailed information on composers, performance dates, cities and theaters and principal artists. Outstanding performances and critical and public reaction to the works are noted as well. Discover all the fascinating details behind the origins, creation, and performances of such great operas as Aidu, Rigoletto, Lucia Di Lammermoor, La Boheme, and hundreds of other beloved operas. Accompanied by 400 magnificent full-color and black-and-white illustrations of productions, performing artists, composers and sets. This book provides new appreciation of everything from the most basic to the most subtle aspects of this powerful, versatile art.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The complete reference guide to 400 glorious years of opera, makes its long-awaited paperback debut. Chronologically arranged, each of the more than 800 entries in this classic, sumptuous, and thorough volume contains something for everyone form the novice opera-goer to the aficionado, including detailed information on composers, performance dates, cities and theaters and principal artists. Outstanding performances and critical and public reaction to the works are noted as well. Discover all the fascinating details behind the origins, creation, and performances of such great operas as Aidu, Rigoletto, Lucia Di Lammermoor, La Boheme, and hundreds of other beloved operas. Accompanied by 400 magnificent full-color and black-and-white illustrations of productions, performing artists, composers and sets. This book provides new appreciation of everything from the most basic to the most subtle aspects of this powerful, versatile art.