A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)
A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)

Author: Sam Shepard

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 0822233312

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As a young man, Oedipus is told by a seer that he will grow up to kill his own father and marry his mother. He flees from home to avoid this terrible fate, but there is no escape—the dreadful prophecy finally catches up with him. Celebrated playwright Sam Shepard reimagines this Ancient Greek tale as a modern thriller. A murder is committed. Who is the victim? Who is responsible? What are the consequences for generations to come? There are many versions of the crime in this intriguing tale. People are hiding from the truth, even when it stares them in the face.

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Euripides
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Euripides

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 679

ISBN-13: 9004299815

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Euripides provides a comprehensive account of the influence and appropriation of all extant Euripidean plays since their inception: from antiquity to modernity, across cultures and civilizations, from multiple perspectives and within a broad range of human experience and cultural trends, namely literature, intellectual history, visual arts, music, opera and dance, stage and cinematography. A concerted work by an international team of specialists in the field, the volume is addressed to a wide and multidisciplinary readership of classical reception studies, from experts to non-experts. Contributors engage in a vividly and lively interactive dialogue with the Ancient and the Modern which, while illuminating aspects of ancient drama and highlighting their ever-lasting relevance, offers a thoughtful and layered guide of the human condition.

The Cure at Troy
The Cure at Troy

Author: Seamus Heaney

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1466864052

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The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because of a wounded foot, Philoctetes nevertheless possesses an invincible bow without which the Greeks cannot win the Trojan War. They are forced to return to Lemnos and seek out Philoctetes' support in a drama that explores the conflict between personal integrity and political expediency. Heaney's version of Philoctetes is a fast-paced, brilliant work ideally suited to the stage. Heaney holds on to the majesty of the Greek original, but manages to give his verse the flavor of Irish speech and context.

Timelines of Nearly Everything
Timelines of Nearly Everything

Author: Manjunath.R

Publisher: Manjunath.R

Published: 2021-07-03

Total Pages: 2658

ISBN-13:

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This book takes readers back and forth through time and makes the past accessible to all families, students and the general reader and is an unprecedented collection of a list of events in chronological order and a wealth of informative knowledge about the rise and fall of empires, major scientific breakthroughs, groundbreaking inventions, and monumental moments about everything that has ever happened.

Duchess of Death
Duchess of Death

Author: Richard Hack

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 161467003X

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Although she is the most popular novelist in history, with over two billion books sold worldwide, Agatha Christie lived a life shrouded in secrecy and fueled by curiosity. Nearly as notorious for her aversion to the press as she was for her 80 books and collections of short stories, Christie made no secret of her need for privacy. Utilizing over 5,000 previously unpublished letters, notes, and documents, award-winning biographer Richard Hack allows Christie to write again, 33 years after her death. Duchess of Death is her story, as full of romance, travel, wealth, and scandal as any mystery Christie ever crafted. There have been numerous biographies of the Queen of Crime, all of which claim to be definitive. However, Duchess of Death is the first to draw from such an enormous number of previously unpublished correspondence and notes, effectively establishing it as the most authoritative, penetrating look at the personal and literary life of Christie.

A Lie of the Mind
A Lie of the Mind

Author: Sam Shepard

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780822206569

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Currently a critical and box office sensation, Sam Shepard's newest play is amasterpiece of poetic and theatrical brilliance that looks unerringly at loveand family in the American West. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The God of Hell
The God of Hell

Author: Sam Shepard

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780822220640

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THE STORY: An uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma. Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm.

Theatre Studies
Theatre Studies

Author: Robert Leach

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0415426383

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This is an essential read for anyone setting out to consider the world of live theatre, in-depth and for the first time. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus to Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's controversial Behzti, and including chapter summaries and pointers to further reading, Theatre Studies: The Basics has all you need to get your studies off to a flying start.

Ages of the Moon
Ages of the Moon

Author: Sam Shepard

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2015-04-08

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 0822224623

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A gruff, affecting and funny play by Sam Shepard. Byron and Ames are old friends, reunited by mutual desperation. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun.

Breaking Into Song: Why You Shouldn't Hate Musicals
Breaking Into Song: Why You Shouldn't Hate Musicals

Author: Adam Lenson

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-02

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781914228025

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People rarely say they hate books, or television, or films. But they often say they hate musicals. Moreover everyone seems to have a fixed idea of exactly what a musical is; what it sounds like, looks like, or is about. Why is the collision and integration of music, song and storytelling so polarising and why have we allowed a form so full of possibility to become so repetitive and restrictive? Through a series of essays Breaking Into Song asks what audiences can do to stay open minded and what creatives can do to make new musicals better. Examining both sides of the divide, Adam Lenson asks how those who both love and hate musicals can further expand the possibilities of this widely misunderstood medium.