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In this book, first published in 1991, David Mann argues for more
attention to the performer in the study of Elizabethan plays and
less concern for their supposed meanings and morals. He
concentrates on a collection of extracts from plays which show the
Elizabethan actor as a character onstage. He draws from the texts a
range of issues concerning performance practice: the nature of
iterance; doubling and its implications for presentational acting;
the importance of clowning and improvisation; and the effects of
audience and venue on the dynamics of performance. The author
suggests that the stage representation of players is in part a
nostalgic farewell to the passing of an impure but perhaps more
vital theatre, and in part an acknowledgement of the threat the
adult theatre's growing sophistication offered to its institutional
and adolescent rivals. This title will be of interest to students
of Drama and Performance.
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J. Albert Mann
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Eve and Lidia have been friends since Kindergarten. Eve was born
with severe scoliosis. Lidia was born with one hand. Their
structural deviations are not what brought them together, but they
are what rips them apart. Trapped and alone inside of an un-working
body following surgery and filled with obvious regret, Eve is
forced into her mind, an unhappy place since her split with Lidia.
Under an increasing dependence on opiates and struggling to tell
the difference between what is real and what is imagined, Eve
strikes up a relationship--and a pact--with the devil. She wishes
for everything to go back to the way it was, to have Lidia in her
life again. But as she starts to unravel the past, she comes to
realize that her memory is far from reliable and must come to grips
with what she thinks she knows. Told in non-linear format, Eve
relives what she believes happened, while piecing together what
actually was. Fix explores dependency, self-acceptance, jealousy,
physical pain, regret, addiction, and the greatest of human trials,
grief.
In the tradition of Girl, Interrupted, this fiery historical novel follows four young women in the early 20th century whose lives intersect when they are locked up by a world that took the poor, the disabled, the marginalized-and institutionalized them for life.
The Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded is not a happy place. The young women who are already there certainly don’t think so. Not Maxine, who is doing everything she can to protect her younger sister Rose in an institution where vicious attendants and bullying older girls treat them as the morons, imbeciles, and idiots the doctors have deemed them to be. Not Alice, either, who was left there when her brother couldn’t bring himself to support a sister with a club foot. And not London, who has just been dragged there from the best foster situation she’s ever had, thanks to one unexpected, life-altering moment. Each girl is determined to change her fate, no matter what it takes.
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Report On The Diatoms Of The Albatross Voyages In The Pacific
Ocean, L888-1904, Volume 10; Volume 10, Issue 5 Of Contributions
From The United States National Herbarium; United States National
Museum; Bulletin (United States National Museum); Report On The
Diatoms Of The Albatross Voyages In The Pacific Ocean, L888-1904;
Percy Leroy Ricker Albert Mann, Percy Leroy Ricker Govt. print.
off., 1907 Science; Life Sciences; Biology; Marine Biology;
Diatoms; Fragilariaceae; Science / Life Sciences / Biology / Marine
Biology; Science / Life Sciences / Botany
A world weary homicide detective and an arrogant, ambitious doctor
on parallel tracks. One driven to right wrongs; the other driven to
self-destruction.
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