This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 3 features George Henry Boker, with "The World a Mask," "Glaucus," and "The Bankrupt."
This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 4 features "Across the Continent," by J.J. McCloskey; "Rosedale," by Lester Wallack, "Davy Crockett," by Frank Murdock; "Our Boarding House," by Leonard Grover; and "Sam's of Posen," by G.H. Jessop.
This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 1 features Dion Boucicault's work, with "Forbidden Fruit," "Louis XI," "Dot," "Flying Scud," "Mercy Dodd," and "Robert Emmet."
A collection of the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 2 features William Dunlap's work, with "False Shame" and "Thirty Years."
This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-century American playwrights. Volume 7 features James A Herne, with "Within an Inch of His Life," "The Minute Men of 1774-1775," "Drifting Apart," and "The Reverend Griffith Davenport." Includes a Bibliography.
This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-century American playwrights. Volume 8 features "The Great Diamond Robbery," by Edward M Alfriend and A C Wheeler; "A Royal Slave," by Clarence Bennett; "From Rags to Riches," by Charles A Taylor; "No Mother to Guide Her," by Lillian Mortimer; and "Billy the Kid," by Walter Woods.
This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-century American playwrights. Volume 6 features John Howard Payne, with his plays "The Last Duel in Spain," "Woman's Revenge," "The Italian Bride," "Romulus, the Shepherd King," and "The Black Man."
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. We’ve been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago – amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago – many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. Hancock's research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient "New World" cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected "Old World" cultures. Have archaeologists focused for too long only on the "Old World" in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the "New World"? America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock's body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact, rendering them unable to think sensibly about politics. In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas E. Patterson explains the rise of a world of “alternative facts” and the slow-motion cultural and political calamity unfolding around us. We don’t have to search far for the forces that are misleading us and tearing us apart: politicians for whom division is a strategy; talk show hosts who have made an industry of outrage; news outlets that wield conflict as a marketing tool; and partisan organizations and foreign agents who spew disinformation to advance a cause, make a buck, or simply amuse themselves. The consequences are severe. How America Lost Its Mind maps a political landscape convulsed with distrust, gridlock, brinksmanship, petty feuding, and deceptive messaging. As dire as this picture is, and as unlikely as immediate relief might be, Patterson sees a way forward and underscores its urgency. A call to action, his book encourages us to wrest institutional power from ideologues and disruptors and entrust it to sensible citizens and leaders, to restore our commitment to mutual tolerance and restraint, to cleanse the Internet of fake news and disinformation, and to demand a steady supply of trustworthy and relevant information from our news sources. As philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote decades ago, the rise of demagogues is abetted by “people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas E. Patterson makes a passionate case for fully and fiercely engaging on the side of truth and mutual respect in our present arms race between fact and fake, unity and division, civility and incivility.
This unique volume includes eight early dramas that mirror American literary, social, and cultural history: Royall Tylers The Contrast (1789); William Dunlap'sAndre (1798); James Nelson Barker's The Indian Princess (1808); Robert Montgomery Bird's The Gladiator (1831); William Henry Smith's The Drunkard(1844); Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion (1845); George Aiken's Uncle Tom's Cabin(1852); and Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon (1859). For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.