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Best of Godzilla, Vol. 1
James Stokoe, Bobby Curnow, Chris Mowry; Illustrated by Dean Haspiel, Dave Wachter
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Newest research into drama and performance of the middle ages.
Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre
studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes
articles on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up
to the opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the
civic mystery cycles, and also includes contributions on European
and Latin drama, together with analyses of modern survivals or
equivalents, and of research productions of medieval plays. This
volume features essays on stagecraft, performance, and reception
across a wide range of theatrical genres. Overlapping themes
include a return to the York Corpus Christi Play, the
practicalities of pageant waggon construction and maintenance,
mechanical stage effects, international influences, East Anglian
theatre and "folk" happenings, academic Latin drama, and private
gentry festivities. Contributors include Jamie Beckett, Phil
Butterworth, Peter Happe, James McBain, Tom Pettitt, James Stokes,
and Diana Wyatt.
Essays on the performance of drama from the Middle Ages, ranging
from the well-known cycles of York to matter from Iran. Medieval
English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies.
Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles
on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the
opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic
mystery cycles, and also includes contributions on European and
Latin drama, together with analyses of modern survivals or
equivalents, and of research productions of medieval plays.
Theatrical performance is central to the groups and communities
discussed in this volume, and to their particular and local
expressions of faith. The articles presented explore the drama of a
variety of different communities from religious orders and houses,
through local, medieval and post-medieval lay communities, to
contemporary worshippers. Contributors examine complex
relationships between theatrical performance and faith,
understanding religious theatre as a mode of worship and a method
of exploring belief, as well as a site for the study of synchronous
and asynchronous connections and fractures within communities.
Particular topics addressed include the fragments of play-scripts
surviving from the monastery at Mont-St-Michel; the Barking Abbey
Easter celebrations; and how the sixteenth-century community which
owned the surviving copy of the Towneley plays might have
understood them in relation to their own faith. The volume is
completed with an exploration of traditional Iranian religious
theatre from an ethnographic perspective, in a bid to uncover and
understand its very particular effects on the contemporary
communities who perform and attend it in the twenty-first century.
ELISABETH DUTTON and OLIVA ROBINSON run the Medieval Convent Drama
project, based at the University of Fribourg and funded by the
Swiss National Science Foundation, which provides the impetus for
this special issue of Medieval English Theatre. Contributors:
Aurelie Blanc, Eleanor Lucy Deacon, George Gandy, Camille Marshall,
James Stokes
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Sullivan's Sluggers (Hardcover)
Mark Andrew Smith; Illustrated by James Stokoe
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Essays on festive drama - plays, pageantry and traditional
ceremonies - of the European middle ages, with comparative
material. Festive drama, in these studies, includes processions and
folk-customs as well as full-blown plays, from Spain, the
Netherlands, France, Germany, Britain, Denmark, and Bohemia (now
the Czech Republic). The main focus is the middleages, but style
and approach are as relevant as time-scale, reflecting a culture in
which there are no firm divisions between drama and pageantry and
traditional ceremonies. Common themes emerge: the world turned
upside-down of Shrovetide; the emotive power of religious
celebration; and the links between commerce and the demonstration
of civic pride. Festive customs are viewed as hidden agendas of
popular culture, and performances are reconstructed. Thisis the
obverse of art and power: the means by which the people, not the
princes, rule the world. Professor MEG TWYCROSS teaches at the
Department of English at Lancaster University. Contributors: PETER
H. GREENFIELD, OLGA HORNER, SHEILA LINDENBAUM, CLAIRE SPONSLER,
RONALD E. SURTZ, RAFAEL PORTILLO, MANUEL J. GOMEZ LARA, PAMELA M.
KING, ROBERT POTTER, JOHN CARTWRIGHT, DAVID MILLS, JAMES STOKES,
ALAN E. KNIGHT, MARJOKE DE ROOS, FEMKE KRAMER, TOM PETTITT, LEIF
SNDERGAARD, WIM HUESKEN, JEAN-MARC PASTREE, SALLY-BETH MACLEAN,
MALCOLM JONES, CHRISTINE RICHARDSON, JARMILA F. VELTRUSKY, JOHN
COLDEWEY.
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First Knife (Paperback)
Simon Roy, Daniel M. Benson; Artworks by Artyom Trakhanov, Jason Wordie, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, …
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From SIMON ROY (Prophet), Sideways Award-winning author DANIEL M.
BENSEN (Junction), ARTYOM TRAKHANOV (UNDERTOW), JASON WORDIE (GOD
COUNTRY), and HASSAN OTSMANE-ELHAOU (Red Sonja) comes a sci-fi
adventure equal parts Conan the Barbarian, Mad Max, and The
Expanse. In the hot ruins of far-future North America, a slave
stumbles across an ancient and bloody power and a conqueror
bargains with godlike beings. The remaining humans of Earth find
themselves standing between the forces that once nearly destroyed
it. Collects FIRST KNIFE #1-5.
Had Will Alexander not shunned the limelight, he might already be a
national legend, for he was one of the greatest white champions of
the Negro cause in the South from 1915 to 1954. A farm boy who
worked his way through Vanderbilt University and became a Methodist
minister, he was a tireless enemy of the abuses, large and petty,
which he saw around him. In 1919 Will Alexander helped establish
the Commission on Interracial Co-operation in Atlanta. During the
Depression he became assistant administrator of the Resettlement
Administration and, later, director of the Farm Security
Administration; under his supervision, the tide was finally turned
against the spread of sharecropping. In World War II he served as
adviser on minority problems to the War Manpower Commission. He was
the driving force in founding Dillard and Atlanta universities.
These were some of his achievements in public life. In addition, he
helped and encouraged individual Negroes such as Marian Anderson,
Ralphe Bunche, and Robert Weaver and influenced eminent white
southerners, including Ralph McGill, Lillian Smith, and Brooks
Hays. His real impact must be measured also in the numbers of
southerners giving leadership today who owe to him their start in
the fight against prejudice.
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