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  • Eight Men Speak

    A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.

    by Oscar Ryan, Edward Cecil-Smith, Frank Love, Mildred Goldberg ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be considered as one stage–the published text–of a meta-text that culminated in 1934 at Maple Leaf ... Read more

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    The bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck brilliantly and hilariously resuscitates Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy—two bigger-than-life feuding writers—to give them a post-mortem second act, and the chance to really air their differences.Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American ... Read more

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  • Arrival

    The Story of CanLit

    by Nick Mount, 3M National Teaching Fellowship ...
    “The most important book to be written in more than 40 years about the rise of Canadian literature… Arrival: The Story of CanLit brims and crackles, in equal measure, with information and energy.” — Winnipeg Free PressA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookNational Post 99 Best Books of the YearIn the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an ... Read more

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  • Brecht Collected Plays: 2

    Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim, Gerhard Nellhaus, Chester Kallman, W. H. Auden ...
    Series Book 2 - World Classics
    Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of his most glittering Berlin successes including The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Seven Deadly Sins, Man ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams

    The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth

    by Michael Hooper, Professor Stephen Bottoms, Prof. Philip Kolin ...
    A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Daniel David Moses

    Spoken and Written Explorations of His Work

    Edited by Tracey Lindberg, David Brundage ...
    Series Book 42 - Essential Writers Series
    This work is a compelling examination and discussion of the work of Daniel David Moses. Including pieces by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, storytellers, playwrights, academics and artists, participating in narratives, writing and dialogues about Moses and his work, the book is at once engaging, grounded in comparative analysis and forceful. ... Read more

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  • Performing Autobiography

    Contemporary Canadian Drama

    by Jennifer Stephenson ...
    In Performing Autobiography, Jenn Stephenson presents an innovative new approach to autobiography studies that links the growing field of research to drama. Stephenson’s analysis engages with performance histories to demonstrate the extent to which the dramatic form, which recasts autobiography as ambiguously fictive, ensures that the experience of the plays remains open to revision, alteration, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The God of Gods: A Canadian Play

    A Critical Edition

    by Carroll Aikins ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    Carroll Aikins’s play The God of Gods (1919) has been out of print since its first and only edition in 1927. This critical edition not only revives the work for readers and scholars alike, it also provides historical context for Aikins’s often overlooked contributions to theatre in the 1920s and presents research on the different staging techniques in the play’s productions.Much of the play’s ... Read more

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  • Solidarity Transformed

    Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America

    by Mark S. Anner ...
    Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found himself in the middle of violent raids, was detained and interrogated in a Salvadoran basement prison cell, and survived a bombing in a union cafeteria. This experience as a participant observer informs and enlivens Solidarity Transformed, an illustrative, ... Read more

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  • Canadian Drama and the Critics

    Revised Edition

    Edited by L. W. Conolly ...
    The editor of this lively, updated assortment of reviews, interviews and other critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama has gathered material from books, theatre and scholarly journals; from major daily newspapers in Canada and abroad; from critics, academics, journalists and playwrights. This new expanded and updated edition of Canadian Drama and the Critics now includes commentary ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Trucking Country

    The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy

    by Shane Hamilton ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America
    Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Essays on George F. Walker

    Playing with Anxiety

    by Chris Johnson ...
    From his plundering of elements from B-movies and melodrama in early plays like Zastrozzi and Beyond Mozambique to the uneasy satire and the class politics of the East End and the Power plays, and now most recently in the shape of “Suburban Motel,” a cycle of six new plays, George F. Walker has not only created a substantial and impressive body of work, but impressed it all with his unique ... Read more

    $17.99 USD