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“prof alan ackerman”

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  • A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller

    All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Broken Glass

    by Prof. Alan Ackerman, Prof. Alan Ackerman, Susan C. W. Abbotson, Stephen Marino, Prof. Toby Zinman, Prof. Enoch Brater ...
    A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller's plays: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge and Broken Glass. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Reader in Comedy

    An Anthology of Theory and Criticism

    Edited by Magda Romanska, Prof. Alan Ackerman ...
    This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlighting the relationships between comedy, politics, economics, philosophy, religion, and other arts and genres. Students of ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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  • The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works

    by Thomas Nashe ...
    Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. Mingling the devout and the bawdy, scholarship and slang, they express throughout an irrepressible, inexhaustible wit and an astonishing command of language. This collection of Nashe's finest works includes The ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Lonesome West

    by Mr Martin McDonagh ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    The Lonesome West was first presented as a Druid Theatre company and Royal Court co-production in the summer of 1997.'The play combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is both hilarious and viscerally exciting' Daily TelegraphValene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find it impossible to exist without massive and violent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The School for Scandal and Other Plays

    by Richard Sheridan ...
    The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots, witty repartee, farcical situations and flamboyant characters. And while he never overtly moralizes, Sheridan uses brilliant comedy to deflate hypocrisy and satirize the manners of his age. In The Rivals, Captain Absolute becomes his own rival for the hand of Lydia ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Long Day's Journey Into Night

    Critical Edition

    by Eugene O'Neill ...
    Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged five wars against African states with the intent of destroying their military might and political independence and unifying southern Africa under imperial control. This is the first work to tell the story of this cluster of conflicts as a single whole and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Three Uses of the Knife

    On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

    by David Mamet ...
    The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion . . . is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackles these questions with bracing directness and aphoristic authority. He believes that the tendency to dramatize is essential to human nature, that we ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Eleven Comedies - Complete

    by Aristophanes ...
    Series series Start Publishing LLC
    Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Light Princess

    by Samuel Adamson, Tori Amos ...
    I'm done, Father,Keep your crown,I swear you'll never bring me down!I am not queen material!Once, in opposing kingdoms lived a princess and a prince who had lost their mothers. Althea, unable to cry, became light with grief and floated, and so was locked away. Digby, so heavy-hearted that he could never smile, one day declares war. Althea, forced out of hiding, escapes, only to encounter the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Six Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedies

    The Spanish Tragedy; Doctor Faustus; Sejanus His Fall; Women Beware Women; The White Devil; 'Tis Pity She's A Whore

    Edited by Brian Gibbons ...
    Series series New Mermaids
    This anthology contains scholarly and annotated editions of six major Elizabethan and Jacobean plays:The Spanish TragedyDoctor FaustusSejanusWomen Beware WomenThe White Devil'Tis Pity She's a Whore ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Drama of Ideas

    Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy

    by Martin Puchner ...
    Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in actions, not ideas. Challenging both views, The Drama of Ideas shows that theater and philosophy have been crucially intertwined from the start. Plato is the presiding genius of this alternative history. The Drama of Ideas ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Edition

    by Simon Stephens ...
    Series series GCSE Student Editions
    Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at Key Stage 4.Whether for use in the classroom or independent study, these editions offer a fully comprehensive and lightly glossed play text with accompanying notes specifically directed towards readers of this ... Read more

    $13.99 USD