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Better by the dozen! This book of twelve royalty-free mystery plays
allows you to choose from a wide variety of plays to fit whatever
your current staging and casting needs may be. They are especially
workable for middle grades and high school, but they may be
performed by actors of all ages. Each of the plays has an element
of mystery that is often laced with comedy. The Mother Goose
Mystery features a cast of suspicious nursery-rhyme-quoting
characters. In Queen of Hearts, a young Shakespeare helps solve a
crime. Clue in the Library is perfect for a library fund-raiser.
Mommy's a Zomblel is a classic farce. All of the plays are fun to
perform on stage or in the classroom. Plays include: Queen of
Hearts, Clue in the Library, The Mermald, A Very Cold Case, Mystery
of the Magical Forest, For Better or Worse, Mommy's a Zomblel, The
Mother Goose Mystery, Case of the Dangerfield Diamond, The Little
Women Mystery, into Thin Heir, Where Did Everybody Go?
Based on the remarkable true story of Helen Keller and her teacher
Annie Sullivan, this inspiring and unforgettable play has moved
countless readers and become an American classic.
Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in
danger of being sent to an institution because her inability to
communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation,
her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them
a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor
their daughter. Despite the Kellers' resistance and the belief that
Helen "is like a little safe, locked, that no one can open," Annie
suspects that within Helen lies the potential for more, if only she
can reach her. Through persistence, love, and sheer stubbornness,
Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and
teaches her to communicate, bringing her into the world at
last.
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Bacchae
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Euripides, Robin Robertson, Daniel Mendelsohn
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Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, WJEC Level & Subject: A Level
English Literature First teaching: September 2015 First
examination: June 2017 This edition of Hamlet is perfect for
A-level students, with the complete play in an accessible format,
on-page notes, introduction setting the context, timeline,
character and theme indexes. Affordable high quality complete play
for Hamlet Demystify vocabulary with notes on the page and concise
commentary Set the scene with perfectly pitched introductions that
introduce key contexts, concerns and stylistic features, and
examine different performances and interpretations Recall plot
summaries at the beginning of each scene Support A Level revision
and essay writing with theme and character indexes Help with
social, historical and literary context with the bespoke timeline
of Shakespeare's life and times
Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl. She wants
to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy
from school. There's one big difference though - Susie is dead.
Add: Now she can only observe while her family manage their grief
in their different ways. Susie is desperate to help them and there
might be a way of reaching them... Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely
Bones is a unique coming-of-age tale that captured the hearts of
readers throughout the world. Award-winning playwright Bryony
Lavery has adapted it for this unforgettable play about life after
loss.
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Control
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Keziah Warner
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All My Sons
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Arthur Miller; Introduction by Christopher Bigsby
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In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial
to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn
down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's
past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the
court case that put Joe's partner in jail, or the cracked engine
heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twenty-one
pilots out of the sky ...
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the incredible comedy about
unrequited love, both hilarious and heartbreaking, now presented by
the Folger Shakespeare Library with valuable new tools for
educators and dynamic new covers. Named for the twelfth night after
Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays
with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own
household, attracts Duke Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her
pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Onto this
scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; previously caught in a
shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises
herself as a male page and enters Orsino's service. Orsino sends
her as his envoy to Olivia--only to have Olivia fall in love with
the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles,
these relationships. The authoritative edition of Twelfth Night
from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used
Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -The
exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference -Hundreds
of hypertext links for instant navigation -Freshly edited text
based on the best early printed version of the play -Full
explanatory notes conveniently linked to the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play's famous lines
and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language -An
essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern
perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare
Library's vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to
further reading -An essay by a leading Shakespeare expert
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The Glass Menagerie
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Tennessee Williams; Edited by E. Browne; Introduction by Robert B. Ray
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Tennessee Williams's evocation of loneliness and lost love, The
Glass Menagerie is one of his most powerful and moving plays. This
Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a new introduction by
Robert Bray. Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts
herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in
Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son
Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and
escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy
crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda
is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the
long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic
illusions are crushed. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in
Columbus, Mississippi. When his father, a travelling salesman,
moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his
sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered
college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to
take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two
years, spending the evenings writing. He received a Rockefeller
Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin
have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire
(1947), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet
Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small
Craft Warnings (1972). If you enjoyed The Glass Menagerie, you
might like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, also available in Penguin Modern
Classics. 'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself'
Peter Shaffer, author of Equus
'Joyous, wise, reassuring and laugh-out-loud funny. I love these
two women so much.' Elizabeth Day 'I can say with full confidence
that Jane Garvey and Fi Glover are the two funniest women on planet
earth right now.' Dolly Alderton 'A book like no other. Honest and
very, very funny. Some bits made me want to cheer - a sentence on
parenting teenage girls was so good I may get it tattooed on
myself, possibly in Hebrew.' Sara Cox 'You'll laugh, you'll nod
your head so vigorously in agreement that you'll end up with
whiplash and you'll buy a copy of this book for all your friends
for Christmas. If you loved the late, great Victoria Wood, then
you'll love Fi and Jane too.' Red magazine Award-winning
broadcasters Fi Glover and Jane Garvey don't claim to have all the
answers (what was the question?), but in these hilarious and
perceptive essays they take modern life by its elasticated waist
and give it a brisk going over with a stiff brush. They riff
together on the chuff of life, from pet deaths to broadcasting
hierarchies, via the importance of hair dye, the perils and
pleasures of judging other women, and the perplexing overconfidence
of chino-wearing middle-aged white men named Roger. Did I Say That
Out Loud? covers essential life skills (never buy an acrylic
jumper, always decline the offer of a limoncello), ponders the
prudence of orgasm merchandise and suggests the disconcerting
possibility that Christmas is a hereditary disease, passed down the
maternal line. At a time of constant uncertainty, what we all need
is the wisdom of two women who haven't got a clue what's going on
either.
Prewriting Your Screenplay cements all the bricks of a story's
foundations together and forms a single, organic story-growing
technique, starting with a blank slate. It shows writers how to
design each element so that they perfectly interlock together like
pieces of a puzzle, creating a stronger story foundation that does
not leave gaps and holes for readers to find. This construction
process is performed one piece at a time, one character at a time,
building and incorporating each element into the whole. The book
provides a clear-cut set of lessons that teaches how to construct
that story base around concepts as individual as the writer's
personal opinions, helping to foster an individual writer's voice.
It also features end-of-chapter exercises that offer step-by-step
guidance in applying each lesson, providing screenwriters with a
concrete approach to building a strong foundation for a screenplay.
This is the quintessential book for all writers taking their first
steps towards developing a screenplay from nothing, getting them
over that first monumental hump, resulting in a well-formulated
story concept that is cohesive and professional.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. Bianca is beautiful and demure,
with a plethora of wood-be suitors, but marriage is forbidden until
her older sister Katherina finds a suitable match. The hitch? Fiery
Katherina has sworn to deny the hand or demands of any would-be
suitor. That is, until she meets her match in the wily Petrucio. As
Katherina's own sharp tongue is met by Petrucio's feigned cruelty,
the 'shrew' apparently capitulates. Or does she? This controversial
comic tale, famously adapted into Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate and 10
Things I Hate About You, has divided and amused audiences for over
400 years in an unforgettable battle of wits.
Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the
relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for
upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading
Shakespeare's plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature -
how-to books on self-improvement - this book demonstrates the ways
that the pursuit of personal improvement was accomplished by the
simultaneous stigmatization of particular kinds of difference. The
widespread belief that one could better, or cultivate, oneself
through proper conduct was coupled with an equally widespread
belief that certain markers (including but not limited to
"blackness"), indicated an inability to conduct oneself properly,
laying the foundation for what we now call "racism." A careful
reading of Shakespeare's plays reveals a recurring critique of the
conduct system voiced, for example, by malcontents and social
climbers like Iago and Caliban, and embodied in the struggles of
earnest strivers like Othello, Bottom, Dromio of Ephesus, and
Dromio of Syracuse, whose bodies are bruised, pinched, blackened,
and otherwise indelibly marked as uncultivatable. By approaching
race through the discourse of conduct, this volume not only exposes
the epistemic violence toward stigmatized others that lies at the
heart of self-cultivation, but also contributes to the broader
definition of race that has emerged in recent studies of
cross-cultural encounter, colonialism, and the global early modern
world.
According to Robert Brustein, the theater should be taken seriously
as one of the fine arts, but it should also be considered a means
to reflect on our world, times, and culture from a different
perspective. However, this presents a great challenge-the masses
must come to appreciate the theater as a means of leisure, but also
one of learning. If Word Plays tickles your funny bone as well as
touches your mind, then Brustein will have achieved his goal. Word
Plays, a collection of Brustein's articles, satires, and skits, is
his attempt to both entertain and educate about the current
political and cultural environment in America. Openly positioning
himself as a left-leaning political observer, Brustein's material
is wide-ranging and witty. His provocative views on contemporary
politics and his ease with a broad range of subjects, from
Shakespeare to The Sopranos, makes this an enjoyable, engaging, and
reflective volume. The book is divided into three sections. The
first is a set of short essays, many of which link political themes
to the dramatic arts and others that are purely political
commentary. The second includes a series of "dramatic
commentaries"-short skits- lampooning contemporary politics and
modern American life. The final section consists of "elegies and
eulogies" honoring recently deceased icons of the American theater.
Exam board: AQA & Edexcel (A Level) , WJEC & Eduqas (GCSE)
Level & Subject: A Level, GCSE 9-1 English Literature First
teaching: September 2015 First examination: June 2017 This edition
of Othello is perfect for A-level and GCSE 9-1 students, with the
complete play in an accessible format, on-page notes, introduction
setting the context, timeline, character and theme indexes.
Affordable high quality complete play for Othello Demystify
vocabulary with notes on the page and concise commentary Set the
scene with perfectly pitched introductions that introduce key
contexts, concerns and stylistic features, and examine different
performances and interpretations Recall plot summaries at the
beginning of each scene Support GCSE and A Level revision and essay
writing with theme and character indexes Help with social,
historical and literary context with the bespoke timeline of
Shakespeare's life and times
What money?! This ends when you end. This experiment is about the
survival of the fittest. Nothing more - nothing less. Imprisoned in
an abandoned warehouse, a desperate group of failing actors are
trapped in a dark experiment. After months of endlessly rehearsing
George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion with no director to guide them,
some of the ensemble have disappeared leaving the others paranoid
and subservient. Sleep-deprived and half-starved, their fragile
social bonds shatter and implode as a stranger breaks in and
incites them to rebel. This new dystopian thriller about a group of
aspiring actors trapped in a dark social experiment is a
collaboration from writers Martin Travers and Chloe Wyper. This
edition was published to coincide with the run presented by the
Citizens Theatre's WAC Ensemble in April 2022.
Alongside Spenser, Sidney and the early Donne, Shakespeare is the
major poet of the 16th century, largely because of the status of
his remarkable sequence of sonnets. Professor Cousins' new book is
the first comprehensive study of the Sonnets and narrative poems
for over a decade. He focuses in particular on their exploration of
self-knowledge, sexuality, and death, as well as on their ambiguous
figuring of gender. Throughout he provides a comparative context,
looking at the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The relation
between Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse and his plays is also
explored.
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