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  • The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700

    by Deborah C. Payne ...
    Deborah C. Payne's ground-breaking study traces the historical origins of a dilemma still bedevilling theatre companies: how to reconcile audience demand for novelty with profitability. As a solution, English acting companies in 1660 adopted an unprecedented theatrical duopoly. Implicit to its economic logic were scarcity, prestige, and innovation: attributes that, it was hoped, would generate ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • Art and Artifact in Austen

    by Peter Sabor, Elaine Bander, Nancy E. Johnson, Deborah C. Payne, Cheryl A. Wilson, Marilyn Francus, Barbara M. Benedict, Natasha Duquette, Tonya J. Moutray, Juliette Wells, Jocelyn Harris ...
    Jane Austen distinguished herself with genius in literature, but she was immersed in all of the arts. Austen loved dancing, played the piano proficiently, meticulously transcribed piano scores, attended concerts and art exhibits, read broadly, wrote poems, sat for portraits by her sister Cassandra, and performed in theatricals. For her, art functioned as a social bond, solidifying her engagement ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company

    by Drew Lichtenberg, Deborah C. Payne, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper, Peter Holland, Stephen Purcell ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    Co-authored by the resident dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company and a long-time scholarly consultant, this bookchronicles how a small repertory troupe at the Folger Theatre on Capitol Hill became an internationally renowned company performing in a lavish, multi-venue performing arts centre in downtown Washington, D.C.The artistic vision and business acumen of Michael Kahn, the founding ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play

    Cardenio/Double Falsehood in the Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Deborah C. Payne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald’s 1727 adaptation of the “lost” play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In a departure from most scholarship to date, the contributors fold Double Falsehood back into the milieu for which it was created rather than searching for traces of Shakespeare in the text. Robert D. Hume’s ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

    Edited by Deborah Payne Fisk ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time. No longer seen as a privileged arena for select dramatists and elite courtiers, the Restoration theatre is revealed in all of its tumult, energy and conflict. The fourteen newly-commissioned ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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    The Nightjar

    by Deborah Hewitt ...
    Narrated by Tamaryn Payne ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Nightjar Duology

    Unabridged

    13 hours 30 min

    "[Narrator Tamryn Payne] draws the listener into Alice's newly discovered world, infusing her narration with near-perfect depictions of emotions that add to her realistic character portrayals... A delightful listen for those who like paranormal elements in their fantasy." — AudioFile MagazineThe Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt is a stunning contemporary fantasy debut about another London, a magical ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

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    Dangerous Remedy

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    The first in a dazzling, commercial, historical adventure series set in the extravagant and deadly world of the French Revolution. A whirlwind of action, science and magic reveals, with a diverse cast of fearless heroines, a band of rebels like no other.Camille, a revolutionary's daughter, leads a band of outcasts – a runaway girl, a deserter, an aristocrat in hiding. As the Battalion des Morts ... Read more

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    The Library of the Unwritten

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    Narrated by Lisa Flanagan ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - A Novel from Hell's Library

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    In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing—a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors ... Read more

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    A Girl Made of Air

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    The English Monster

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    London, 1811. The twisting streets of Wapping hold many an untold sin. Bounded by the Ratcliffe Highway to the north and the Dock to the south, shameful secrets are largely hidden by the noise of Trade. But two families have fallen victim to foul murder, and a terrified populace calls for justice.Based on the real-life story of the gruesome Ratcliffe Highway murders, The English Monster takes us ... Read more

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    Subject Twenty-One

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    Brought to you by Penguin.What if our future lies 40,000 years in our past? Subject Twenty-One is an astonishing debut novel in which a young woman's refusal to accept the status quo opens her eyes to the lies her society is built on.Elise's world is forever changed when she is given the opportunity of a lifetime - to work at the Museum of Evolution and be a Companion to the Neanderthal, Subject ... Read more

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