Though a staple in high school English classes, Julius Caesar is not a simple play. Seemingly irreconcilable forces are at work: fate and free will, the changeableness and stubbornness of ambitious men, the demands of public service and the desire for private gain. Drawn from history as recorded by Plutarch, the major characters-Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony-are complex, as are the twists and turns of their fortunes. What kind of man rises to power? What price does he pay when he becomes a politician? These questions raised by Shakespeare are relevant in every age, whether ancient Rome, Elizabethan England, or even in our own day.

Heartbreak House, by Shaw, George Bernard - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - A savage and witty critique of European civilization on the brink of the First World War, Heartbreak House is Shaw, George Bernard's favorite among his own works. The play chronicles a dinner party at a British country house, and centers on Ellie, who is engaged to be married to an unscrupulous businessman. Hesione, the party's hostess, is eager to prevent this match, but what can be done when Ellie falls for another unsuitable man - Hesione's husband? The various inhabitants and guests of Heartbreak House are either blissfully ignorant or idealistic but ineffectual, and for Shaw represent those who could have prevented the First World War but were too wrapped up in their own privileged lives to make a difference.

PREFACE: MANY of these Soliloquies have appeared in The Athenaeum, and one or more in The London Mercury, The Nation, The New Republic, The Dial, and The Journal of Philosophy. The authors thanks are due to the Editors of all these reviews for permission to reprint the articles. For convenience, three Soliloquies on Liberty, written in 1915, have been placed in the second group and perhaps it should be added that not a few of the later pieces were written in France, Spain, or Italy, although still for the most part on English themes and under the influence of English impressions. CONTENTS PAGE: PROLOGUE I SOLILOQUIES IN ENGLAND, 1914-1918 I. ATMOSPHERE 2. GRISAILLE . 3. PRAISES OF WATER 4. THE TWO PARENTS OF VISION 5 . AVERSION FROM PLATONISM 6. CLOUD CASTLES . 7. CROSS-LIGHTS 8. HAMLETS QUESTION 9. THE BRITISH CHARACTER . 10. SEAFARING . I I. PRIVACY . 12. THE LION AND THE UNICORN 13. DONS 14. APOLOGY FOR SNOBS I 5. THE HIGHER SNOBBERY . I 6. DISTINCTION IN ENGLISHMEN I 7. FRIENDSHIPS 18. DICKENS . 19. THE HUMAN SCALE 20. ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE . 21. THE ENGLISH CHURCH . 22. LEAVING CHURCH . 2 j. DEATH-BED MANNERS vii 2 SOLILOQUIES IN ENGLAND of song the music of it runs away with the words, and even the words, which pass for the names of things, are but poor wild symbols for their unfathomed objects. So arc these SoIiIoquies compared with their occasions and I should be the first to hate their verbiage, if a certain spiritual happiness did not seem to breathe through it, and redeem its irrelevance. Their very abstraction from the time in which they were written may commend them to a free mind. Spirit refuses to be caught in a vice it triumphs over the existence which begets it. The moving world which feeds it is not its adequate theme. Spirit hates its father and its mother. It spreads from its burning focus into the infinite, careless whether that focus burns to ashes or not. From its pinnacle of earthly time it pours its little life into spheres not temporal nor earthIy, and half in playfulness, half in sacrifice, it finds its joy in the irony of eternal things, which know nothing of it. Spirit, however, cannot Ay from matter without material wings the most abstract art is compacted of images, the most mystical renunciation obeys some passion of the heart. Images and passion, even if they are not easily recognizable in these Soliloquies as now coldly written down, were not absent from them when inwardly spoken. The images were English images, the passion was the love of England and, behind England, of Greece. What I love in Greece and in England is contentment in iinitude, fair outward ways, manly perfection and simplicity. Admiration for England, of a certain sort, was instilled into me in my youth. My father who read the language with ease although he did not speak it had a profound respect for British polity and British power. In this admiration there was no touch of sentiment nor even of sympathy behind it lay something like an ulterior con tempt, such as we fed for the strong man exhibiting at a fair. The performance may be astonishing but the achievement is mean. So in the middle of the nineteenth century an intelligent foreigner, the native of a county materially impoverished, could look to England for a model of that irresistible energy and public discipline which afterwards were even more conspicuous in Bismarckian Germany and in the United States. It was admiration for material PROLOGUE 3 progress, for wealth, for the inimitable gift of success and it was not free, perhaps, from the poor mans illusion, who jealously sets his heart on prosperity, and lets it blind him to the subtler sources of greatness...

Ireland, 2048. Edel and Liam have been married for 37 years. They live in a small, isolated farmhouse at the foot of a mountain. The world is ending and we meet them in their final hour of life before everything is wiped out entirely.Their children have grown up and moved away and now they live together, alone. They take drugs, say goodbye to old friends and former lovers, air old grievances, argue, bicker and ultimately, try to reconcile their relationship.They will do this until the end of time.

A dynamic collection of five absurdist, hilarious, provocative plays exploring everything from power to loneliness to menstruating hippos. The collection contains: Real American Dinner Party - Sometimes you lose your keys, sometimes you lose your temper, and sometimes you lose the most unexpected of things. A particularly tense dinner party can change everything in the blink of an eye... (2f, 2m) Hippos of the Eastern Enclosure - On Thanksgiving, a nervous male zookeeper is overwhelmed by three female hippos, who all get their periods. While the zookeeper, his girlfriend, and his co-worker decide who is on clean-up, the hippos interrogate the nature of ambition. (5f, 1m) The Visitations - Dana has been alone in her home for a bit too long. Either she is losing it or she is having an increasingly intimate relationship with a ghost. (1f) Ubu Anew (A Play for Strange People) - A shortened and extremely loose adaptation of Ubu Roi, featuring Pixy Stix and Hillary Clinton. (2f, 4m) Your Mother in the Night Sky - Your mother leaves a voicemail, the strangest voicemail you've ever received. (1f)

Solamente tu y yo - Narrativa que consta de 11 partes y relata la vida de una mujer que decide enfocarse hacia el exito personal y profesional, pero atraviesa una serie de circunstancias dificiles que giran a su alrededor y le obstaculizan sus metas. Serena Krystal con la intencion de ser feliz contrae nupcias con Ryan Mauricio. Tras algunos anos de matrimonio ella decide re-inventarse, entonces tendra como prioridad cambiar la manera de ganarse la vida. Cuando conoce al periodista Alejandro Rey sus dias comienzan a tener sentido, pero por que el mundo conspira contra esta relacion? Por que no puede desatar las cadenas de un viejo amor que sigue latente en su corazon? Esta es una dramatica historia que presenta a traves de sus personajes parte de la problematica social que padecen estos tiempos: dificultad economica, violencia domestica, enfermedades terminales, adulterio, secuestro y otros.

Emma Gad (1852-1921) was a prolific Danish playwright at the turn of the twentieth century. With sparkling prose and witty dialogue, Gad's ambitious and sophisticated theatrical productions raised important and still pressing questions about sexuality and morality-including the status of women in marriage, divorce, same-sex desire, and marital infidelity. Through her plays she engaged with contemporaries like Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw, yet she is primarily remembered for her etiquette book, Takt og Tone. Laughter and Civility, the first biographical and scholarly volume to examine and contextualize her dramas, deeply explores how and why influential women are so often excluded from the canon. Lynn R. Wilkinson provides insightful readings into all twenty-five of Gad's plays and demonstrates how writers and intellectuals of the time, including Georg and Edvard Brandes, took her critically acclaimed work seriously. This volume rightfully reinstates Emma Gad's work into the repertory of European drama and is crucial for scholars interested in turn-of-the-century Scandinavian drama, literature, culture, and politics.

I have written this play and these poems for countless reasons. May it serve as a guide to the direction less and as a companion to all of those who suffered the same feelings as I had. Academics who are unique and struggling to fit into the modern mould ideally will treasure "Wildest Dreams of a Chandelier Mansion" as though my story is also their own. Undoubtedly, the story is my finest brainstorming about older days coming led with the painful concessions of modernity. This play should provide an intense enjoyment. Truly I champion the cause of students who are impressionable. May they remain true to themselves and may they remain kindhearted and untainted by social pressures. This play offers a tantalyzing mixture of romance, suspicion, conflict without peaceful resolution, and a radical new perspective on the state of "Generation X."

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That's The American Way II is like a pot of chicken soup. You take a big pot, (America) and throw in chicken, vegetables (American People) and seasoning. Cook over a low flame and stir frequently.

Two generations of sisters navigate class, race, love and family on "Mud Row," an area in the East End of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Elsie hopes to move up in the world by marrying into "the talented tenth," while her sister Frances joins the fight for Civil Rights. Decades later, estranged sisters Regine and Toshi are forced to reckon with their shared heritage and each other, when Regine inherits granny Elsie's house. "Morisseau gives exquisite voice to four women occupying the same four walls - and by doing so, an entire community sings." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "Morisseau's writing is rich and authentic. Tense, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring, Mud Row pulses with the the love Morisseau feels for her characters and the real life people who inspire them." - Talkin' Broadway "A tale so exciting and engrossing." - Broad Street Review

Daphne and Ralph are young classics professors who have just made a discovery that's sure to turn them into academic superstars. But something goes disastrously wrong, and Daphne cries out in a panic, "Save me, gods of ancient Greece!"...and the gods actually appear! The Ivy League will never be the same as a pair of screwball deities encounters the carnal complexity of college coeds, campus capers, and conspicuous consumption.

Marquis and Tru are both fourteen-year-old black boys, but they exist in two totally different worlds. Marquis is a booksmart prep-schooler living in the affluent suburb of Achievement Heights, while Tru is a street-savvy kid from deep within the inner city of Baltimore. Their worlds overlap one day in a holding cell. Tru decides that Marquis has lost his "blackness" and pens a how-to manual entitled "Being Black for Dummies." He assumes the role of professor, but Marquis proves to be a reluctant pupil. They butt heads, debate, wrestle and ultimately prove that Nietzsche and 2pac were basically saying the same thing.

Book III of the series of 'Ordinary People' follows the mixed fortunes of our already established characters, from the financial affairs of Lord and Lady Tillington to the performance of the village cricket team. In this part of our saga, Daphne will form an unlikely alliance, as will Will Tucker and Victoria; an alliance which leads them to a most terrible discovery in Victoria's quest to further understand the past life of her beloved Rebecca. Meadow will also make a discovery of a most fundamental nature; something which has been close to her but which she has not seen, and Percival delves deeper into matters which he had perhaps better have left well alone. For there are dark forces at work, and slowly these forces come to bear on the residents of the seemingly quiet village of Middlewapping.