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Episodes - Season 4 (DVD)
Matt LeBlanc, Mircea Monroe, Stephen Mangan, John Pankow, Andrea Savage, …
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R138
Discovery Miles 1 380
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All nine episodes from the fourth series of the BBC comedy starring
Matt LeBlanc, Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig. Sean and Beverly
Lincoln (Mangan and Greig) are co-writers of American sitcom
'Pucks!' with the lead role played by Matt LeBlanc (as himself). In
this series, Sean and Beverly are summoned back to LA to film six
more episodes of 'Pucks!' as they also try to launch new show 'The
Opposite of Us'. Meanwhile, Matt experiences financial troubles
after being conned by his accountant and, as a result, considers
remarrying his ex-wife.
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Personals (Paperback)
David Crane, Seth Friedman, Marta Kauffman
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R371
Discovery Miles 3 710
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Musical revue Words by David Crane, Seth Friedman and Marta
Kauffman. Music by William Dreskin, Joel Philip Friedman, Seth
Friedman, Alan Menken, Steven Schwartz and Michael Skloff.
Characters: 3 male, 3 female Unit set. This is a wonderful
collection of songs about people who place lonely hearts ads:
lonely people looking for that certain someone. In other words:
Personals is about Most of Us, about the unending search for love
in the Post Me Decade. "Are you looking for that "special' night
where everything is going to be peachy, and you are going to meet
the swellest little show of your dreams?...Personals is a winner,
destined to find, apart from anything else, its own special place
on the singles scene, the date show for the young in heart, the
Jacques Brel of the '80s."-- N.Y. Post.
This book is a systematic attempt to establish Sheridan as a major
figure in the history of English comedy. Leading scholars address
Sheridan's role not only as an outstanding playwright, but also as
the manager of Drury Lane Theatre, and his subsequent career as a
Member of Parliament. The essays examine the theatrical world in
which Sheridan worked, discuss his major plays, and include a
modern director's observations on the production of his work today.
This is combined with an important re-evaluation of Sheridan's
achievements as a master of rhetoric in the political arena, to
provide a much needed contemporary assessment of this multifaceted
man and his work.
A groundbreaking work of Romantic biography; David Crane's book is
an astonishingly original examination of Byron, and a radical
approach to biography. Crane focuses on the lifelong feud between
Augusta - Byron's half-sister with whom he had a passionate affair
- and Annabella, his society wife. Recreating a meeting between the
two, years after Byron's death - the Romantic 'High Noon' - he
explores the emotional and sexual truth and the human vulnerability
that lie at the heart of the Byron story. 'The Kindness of Sisters'
is not only rigorous in its scholarship, but also superbly
compelling drama. Crane's book combines passion, revenge and
recrimination in 19th-century Britain with all the intensity of a
Greek tragedy.
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its
up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series
features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays
and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of
new critical, stage and screen interpretations. In this second
edition of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor David Crane
emphasises the liveliness of the play in stage terms. He also
claims that this citizen comedy was an expression of Shakespeare's
fundamental understanding of human life, conveyed centrally in the
character of Falstaff. In the process he examines Shakespeare's
free and vigorous use of different linguistic worlds. An account of
the play's textual history concludes that at the time of its
earliest performances Shakespeare's text was being adapted to
specific theatrical needs, and as much in the possession of its
players as of its author.
The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May
- written and kept in secret and published now for the first time.
A born storyteller, Charlie May's vivid eye for detail and warm
good humour brings his experience in the trenches (and the
experience of millions of ordinary men like him) to life for a
21st-century readership. Captain Charlie May was killed, aged 27,
in the early morning of 1st July 1916, leading the men of 'B
Company', 22nd Manchester Service Battalion (the Manchester Pals)
into action on the first day of the Somme. This tolerant and
immensely likeable man had been born in New Zealand and - against
King's regulations - he kept a diary in seven small, wallet-sized
pocket books. A journalist before the war and a born storyteller,
May's diaries give a vivid picture of battalion life in and behind
the trenches during the build-up to the greatest battle fought by a
British army and are filled with the friendships and tensions, the
home-sickness, frustrations, delays and endless postponements, the
fog of ignorance, the combination of boredom and terror to which
every man that has ever fought could testify. His diaries reflect
on the progress of the war, tell jokes - good and bad, give details
of horse-rides along the Somme valley, afternoons with a fishing
rod, lunch in Amiens, a gastronomic celebration of Christmas 1915
and concerts in 'Whiz Bang Hall'. He describes battles not just
with the enemy, but with rats, crows and on the makeshift football
pitch - all recorded with a freshness that brings these stories
home as if for the first time. The diaries are also written as an
extended and deeply-moving love letter to his wife Maude and baby
daughter Pauline. 'I do not want to die', he wrote - 'Not that I
mind for myself. If it be that I am to go, I am ready. But the
thought that I may never see you or our darling baby again turns my
bowels to water.' Fresh, eloquent and warm, these diaries were kept
secret from the censor and were delivered to his wife after his
death by a fellow soldier in Charlie's company. Edited by his
great-nephew and published for the first time, these diaries give
an unforgettable account of the war that took Charlie May's life,
and millions of others like him.
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. The
extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War
One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian
Ware. In the wake of the First World War, Britain and her Empire
faced the enormous question of how to bury the dead.
Critically-acclaimed author David Crane describes how the horror of
the slaughter motivated an ambulance commander named Fabian Ware to
establish the Commonwealth war cemeteries. Behind these famous
monuments - the Cenotaph, Tyne Cot, Menin Gate, Etaples amongst
them - lies a deeply moving story; 'Empires of the Dead' chronicles
a generation coming to terms with grief on a colossal scale.
First World War Poets by Alan Judd and David Crane. This collection
of short biographies of those remarkable men who sought to record
and convey the horrors of the Great War in poetry draws on letters,
memoirs and portraits in a variety of media. Key poems by each of
the poets are reproduced in full, and familiar images of Rupert
Brooke, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are presented along with
the haunting faces of lesser-known poets such as Isaac Rosenberg
and Ivor Gurney to provide a new approach to one of the most
devastating events of the last century. Published to coincide with
the centenary of the start of the Great War.
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its
up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series
features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays
and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of
new critical, stage and screen interpretations. In this second
edition of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor David Crane
emphasises the liveliness of the play in stage terms. He also
claims that this citizen comedy was an expression of Shakespeare's
fundamental understanding of human life, conveyed centrally in the
character of Falstaff. In the process he examines Shakespeare's
free and vigorous use of different linguistic worlds. An account of
the play's textual history concludes that at the time of its
earliest performances Shakespeare's text was being adapted to
specific theatrical needs, and as much in the possession of its
players as of its author.
Escape From Reality is a collection of short stories encompassing
several genres of fiction such as magic realism, fantasy, romance,
mystery, science fiction and fantasy. In this book there are heroes
and villains, moral and physical challenges, time travel, vampires,
alternate worlds and nonstop action that brings forth the true
measure of a man. It's time to escape from reality...
3,500 A.D. Thanks to the revolutionary gravity wings technology,
mankind was finally able to leave the confines of the Earth's solar
system and seek out earth type planets capable of supporting human
life. Professor Peter Blackwood, a former soldier, planetary
explorer and teacher is a citizen of a powerful interstellar
Confederation. Deciding to retire from decades of working in space
and confronting hostile alien environments, he seeks a
well-deserved retirement on an exotic planet of New Caledonia,
where he plans to settle down and start a family. But on the way to
his new home a mysterious energy cloud snatches him from his
hyperspace tunnel, takes control of his ship and throws him into
another part of the galaxy where he is forced to land on an alien
planet many light years away from home. The alien planet to
Blackwood's surprise does contain life, an intelligent human life.
Saved from native predators by an enigmatic young female with
godlike powers, he learns that humans on planet Enigma are all
descendants of the original crews of starships forced to land on
this planet by the red cloud centuries ago. And on Enigma human
beings are divided into commoners and powerful overlords, humans
with immense powers of creation and destruction. Blackwood's
arrival was foretold by an ancient prophecy. Forced into a
dangerous sociopolitical game by a powerful alien intelligence,
Blackwood has no choice but to transform himself from a scientist
into a revolutionary. With millions of innocent lives at stake
failure is not an option.
The ways in which identities were created throughout the Atlantic
World have been the subject of many recent works. Scholars have
studied identity formation in Europe, Africa, and the Americas from
the beginning of European colonization in the fifteenth century
through the independence movements of the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. Native American identities followed similar
patterns of construction in the Carolinas compared with others in
the Atlantic World. Become As One People investigates the ways in
which Spanish and English colonists identified Native Americans in
the Carolinas from their earliest voyages in the sixteenth century
to the first United States census in 1790. It argues that
colonists' identifications for Native Americans reflected the
usefulness of Native American polities to the Spanish and English
in achieving their goals of colonization, their preconceptions
about Native Americans they intended to colonize, and the nature of
their relationship with Native American polities in the Carolinas.
The book should be of use to those interested in identity, the
Atlantic World, and Native American History.
Living in 22nd century America fifty years after the Second Civil
War, detective Nina Tarot is a member of SPEAR, Special Police
Emergency Advanced Response, an elite crime fighting unit that
knows no equal. Robots are an integral part of human society,
assiting mankind in exploration of space and oceans as well as
construction and law enforcement. By law it is forbidden to advance
the power of Artificial Intelligence beyond the prescribed limits
and build machines that look and act like humans. But someone broke
that law, declaring war against the organized crime. In pursuit of
a ruthlessly efficient and elusive assassin who looks like a young
teenage girl, Nina suspects that the killer may not be human at
all. Following the trail of blood, Nina will come face to face with
a shocking conspiracy that stretches back to the last days of the
Second Civil War. But Nina's own success as a SPEAR agent is based
on her own dark secret that if revealed will taint her life and
honor forever.
This book is a systematic attempt to establish Sheridan as a major
figure in the history of English comedy. Leading scholars address
Sheridan's role not only as an outstanding playwright, but also as
the manager of Drury Lane Theatre, and his subsequent career as a
Member of Parliament. The essays examine the theatrical world in
which Sheridan worked, discuss his major plays, and include a
modern director's observations on the production of his work today.
This is combined with an important re-evaluation of Sheridan's
achievements as a master of rhetoric in the political arena, to
provide a much needed contemporary assessment of this multifaceted
man and his work.
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