Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama
Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama

Author: A. D. Cousins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1316782034

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Encompassing nearly a century of drama, this is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy. Considering the antecedents of the form in Roman, late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century drama, it analyses its diversity, its theatrical functions and its socio-political significances. Containing detailed case-studies of the plays of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Middleton and Davenant, this collection will equip students in their own close-readings of texts, providing them with an indepth knowledge of the verbal and dramaturgical aspects of the form. Informed by rich theatrical and historical understanding, the essays reveal the larger connections between Shakespeare's use of the soliloquy and its deployment by his fellow dramatists.

To See the Stars
To See the Stars

Author: Cynthia Mercati

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780871299970

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It's 1909 and the shirtwaist industry in New York is making profits of $50 million. But the young girls who work in the factories earn barely enough to live on, and their working conditions are brutal. When their pleas for help are rejected by the male-dominated union, the young girls who work at Johannsen's Shirtwaist Factory band together to fight for a better life. They endure beatings, starvation, and even prison but ultimately prevail ... This play is based on real people and actual events.

The Actor's Book of Movie Monologues
The Actor's Book of Movie Monologues

Author: Marisa Smith

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 1986-12-02

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780140094756

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For actors, acting students, and film buffs, this book of more than 100 movie monologues has the juiciest roles that will help you create the perfect audition. Whether you need a long or short part, you'll find great selections of male and female characters for all types across diverse age ranges. Use this reference for the featured scenes from screenplays of such classics as Adam’s Rib by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, The Goodbye Girl by Neil Simon, The French Lieutenant’s Woman by Harold Pinter, and The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, among others.

Vital Signs
Vital Signs

Author: Jane Martin

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780573625671

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This suite of theatrical miniatures over thirty two minute monologues. The two men in the cast are optional foils for the six women who perform a collage about contemporary woman in all her warmth and majesty, her fear and frustration, her joy and sadness.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists

Author: Ton Hoenselaars

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-11

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1107494338

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While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford, this book devotes particular attention to their personal and professional relationships, occupational rivalries and collaborations. Overturning the popular misconception that Shakespeare wrote in isolation, it offers a new perspective on the most impressive body of drama in the history of the English stage.

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World
Virginia Woolf and the Natural World

Author: Kristin Czarnecki

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 194295414X

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Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, exploring Virginia Woolf’s complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic.