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“a d nuttall”

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  • Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?

    by A. D. Nuttall ...
    Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? A. D. Nuttall's wide-ranging, lively and engaging book offers a new answer to this perennial question. The 'classical' answer to the ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

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  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art

    by Wassily Kandinsky ...
    It is no common thing to find an artist who, even if he be willing to try, is capable of expressing his aims and ideals with any clearness and moderation. Some people will say that any such capacity is a flaw in the perfect artist, who should find his expression in line and colour, and leave the multitude to grope its way unaided towards comprehension. This attitude is a relic of the days when "l ... Read more

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  • The Smile Revolution

    In Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Colin Jones CBE ...
    You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Life Is a Dream

    by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Gregary Racz ...
    Translated by Gregary Racz ...
    The masterwork of Spain’s preeminent dramatist—now in a new verse translationLife Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and predestination, illusion and reality, played out against the backdrop of court intrigue and the restoration ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Schimmelpfennig: Plays One

    The Animal Kingdom; Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God; Idomeneus; The Four Points of the Compass 

    by Roland Schimmelpfennig ...
    Translated by David Tushingham ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Roland Schimmelpfennig is the most performed contemporary German playwright. This collection demonstrates the breadth and formal innovation of his writing.The Animal Kingdom depicts the unremitting battle for human survival in a merciless environment: the theatre.Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of Godhas been likened to a post-colonial Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Here two doctors who have returned ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Curtain Up

    Agatha Christie: A Life in the Theatre

    by Julius Green ...
    "[Julius] Green turned detective himself and scoured archives around the world to uncover a number of unpublished, unknown works . . . This book is a treat." — Independent (UK)From the producer of numerous Agatha Christie stage plays comes the first book to examine the world's bestselling mystery writer's career and work as a playwright, published to commemorate her 125th birthday.Agatha Christie ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Howard Barker Interviews 1980–2010

    Conversations in Catastrophe

    Edited by Mark Brown ...
    Mark Brown is a theater critic for the Sunday Herald and lecturer in theater studies at the University of Strathclyde. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson

    Edited by Sandra G. Shannon, Sandra L. Richards ...
    Series Book 140 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • The Florentine Artist, Illustrated.

    by E H & E W Blashfield ...
    An essay written and illustrated by the Blashfields on the Florentine Artist and their role in the renascence. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Seven Acts of Mercy

    by Mr Anders Lustgarten ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    You have to be tough to be kind. That's what I've learned from you, Granddad. Tough and fearless and strong. So that's what I'm going to be.Naples, 1606. Inside an unfinished church, a painting is emerging from the darkness. The Seven Acts of Mercy is Caravaggio's masterpiece - and his first painting since he killed a man and fled Rome. As the artist works, he is fueled by anger, self-loathing and ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Dream in Shakespeare

    From Metaphor to Metamorphosis

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    " Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination-one's deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream becomes, in the tragedies and late romances, a transforming experience which leads the dreamer toward a moment of self-awareness. In this illuminating ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Wild Honey

    by Anton Chekhov, Michael Frayn ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Oh, Misha, it's terrible to be an educated woman. An educated woman with nothing to do. What am I here for? Why am I alive? They should make me a professor somewhere, or a director of something ... If I were a diplomat I'd turn the whole world upside down ... An educated woman ... And nothing to do.Village schoolmaster Mikhail Vasilyevich has it all: wit, intelligence, a comfortable and ... Read more

    $18.79 USD