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    This illustrated book is a love letter of positivity to anyone who might need a little encouragement or reassurance, inspired by a rescue pup named Mac.This charming gift is chock-full of playful illustrations and self-care reminders from human's best friend.Hannah Simpson’s lighthearted illustrations perfectly capture the symbiotic relationship between humans and our beloved canine companions. ... Read more

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    From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks

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    This book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American theatre.Published posthumously, this renowned theatre scholar's book considers English dramatic dialogue as exemplified in the verbal invention of particular plays. That invention is traced through ... Read more

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    Series series New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
    Beckett’s plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances – that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as ‘disabled’ in the text. Grounded in the history of disability performance of Beckett’s work and a new theorising of Beckett’s treatment of the impaired body, Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance examines ... Read more

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  • Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness

    Pain in Post-War Francophone Drama

    Series series Oxford English Monographs
    Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical ... Read more

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