| Magic: A fantastic comedy Publication Date: 1914Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox. " He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. He is one of the few Christian thinkers who are equally admired and quoted by both liberal and conservative Christians, and indeed by many non-Christians. And in his own words he cast aspersions on the labels...
| | Look, No Hans (Acting Edition) Publication Date: June 3, 2011| Series: Acting Edition Genre: Farce Characters: 2 males, 4 females plus 1 optional male Scenery: 1 set This fast paced, fun filled farce by two masters of the genre enjoyed a successful run at London's Strand Theatre, starring David Jason as the hapless Fisher. Peter Fisher is the manager of the West Berlin office of a British car company, where selling British cars is like selling pork chops at a bar mitzvah! He is also an undercover agent for British Security of Industry, a role for which he is singularly ill-equipped. With his wife Monica due to fly home to...
| | Local Boy Makes Good Publication Date: January 1, 1987This book does more than collect three of John Gray’s musical plays in one volume. In his preface to each play, and in his charming and wide-ranging introduction, Gray takes this opportunity to offer his readers some startling insights into the process by which his plays have come about; into his ongoing concern that his audiences not experience his musicals as art,” but as a way of recognizing something about their lives and the lives of those with whom they share their community, and into his own evolution as a playwrighthow a boy ...
| | The principal fragments (The Loeb classical library) ...
| | Look Who's Laughing: Studies in Gender and Comedy (Studies in Humor and Gender) Publication Date: April 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 2881246443 | ISBN-13: 978-2881246449| Edition: 1 Rather than analyzing women's humour in isolation, this study maps the terrain that the genders share and the areas that each holds exclusively. The essays investigate witty heroines, sexual parodies, domestic humour and romantic comedies, as well as erotic language, sexual jokes and humour-charged expression. With its emphasis on the roles that gender plays in the creation, reception and interpretation of comic art, the book looks critically at generic and gender diversity as well as comedy's unde...
| | Love Making Visits Publication Date: April 26, 2002Alfred Jarry's work was a cannon shot fired at the French literary establishment at the end of the nineteenth century. His play "Ubu Roi" set off a riot, announcing the advent of surrealism, absurdist drama and the avant garde. Newly translated by Richard Henrich, Love Making Visits uses a framework of amorous trysts to paint a protagonist ripening from a cocksure fifteen year old, with a passion for experimentation, to a taster of many varieties of love, conventional and bizarre. Metamorphosing through symbolist and hallucinatory stages, he arrives transforme...
| | Lifelines (Acting Edition) Publication Date: August 1997| Series: Acting Edition When Robert misdials, Annie is ready to hang up on what she thinks is a nuisance caller. However, this telephone call is the start of a distant yet significant relationship. Both plagued by love troubles, they enjoy the opportunity to let off steam and take a few tips and so perhaps begin again. ...
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| | Love and Society in Shakespearean Comedy: A Study in Dramatic Form and Content ...
| | Lydgate's "Disguising at Hertford Castle": A Study and Translation ...
| | Letters to George: The Account of a Rehearsal Release Date: September 4, 1992| ISBN-10: 1854590235 | ISBN-13: 978-1854590237A reissued paperback of an account of how a theatre director stages a play, written in the form of letters to George Farquhar, the Restoration writer of THE RECRUITING OFFICER, which describe each part of the rehearsal process. First published in 1989. ...
| | Lives of the Milk Bones Publication Date: December 30, 2005Three One-Act Comedies as Quirkyas They are CharmingSkeleton:A new mother and her best friend reminisce about their pasts and discover that closets can hidemore than the proverbial skeletons.Lives of the Saints:Saint or Superman? Saint Tim reveals the supernatural power found in all of us.Rosemilk:A secretary, meeting a frustrated writer,can't help but share her heart with him.Or rather, he insists. ...
| | Last Scene of All (Acting Edition) ...
| | Life's Loss's Loved Publication Date: January 1, 1998Equal parts poetic invention, theatric repetition,cultural synthesis, metempsychotic transference and simple sequel,Bromley's "Life's Loss's Loved" picks up the action of Shakespeare's"Love's Labour's Lost" six months (and four hundred years) later inorder to investigate once again the timeless themes and motivations ofthe inhabitants of Narvarre. Taking place in modern day Vermont, eachcharacter (save one) has its ghost in the former work. The action notonly acknowledges the facts of the past, but it coordinates itselfwith them in order to render "simulcast ...
| | The Masks of Menander: Sign and Meaning in Greek and Roman Performance Publication Date: July 26, 1991| ISBN-10: 0521401356 | ISBN-13: 978-0521401357This book provides a detailed analysis of the conventions and techniques of performance characteristic of the Greek theatre of Menander and the subsequent Roman theatre of Plautus and Terence. Drawing on literary and archaeological sources, and on scientific treatises, David Wiles identifies the mask as crucial to the actor's art, and shows how sophisticated the art of the mask-maker became. He also examines the other main elements which the audience learned to decode: costume, voice, movement, etc. In order to...
| | Le theatre italien (Societe des textes francais modernes) (French Edition) ...
| | Laurel and Hardy (Pocket Essentials) Publication Date: August 2001| Series: Pocket Essentials British-born Stan Laurel and American Oliver Hardy were teamed up at the struggling Hal Roach studios in the 1920s and embarked on a series of hilarious short silent films. They soon established a classic screen partnership and became instantly recognizable comic icons in their crumpled suits and bowler hats. Laurel and Hardy were the most successful of all the film comics who made the difficult transition from silent shorts to sound and then to feature films, enjoying unparalleled success from the 1920s through the 1950s. Regular and ...
| | The Lost Silk Hat ...
| | Love Freaks (Methuen Modern Plays) Publication Date: May 9, 2002| ISBN-10: 0413772586 | ISBN-13: 978-0413772589A caustic new comedy from the winner of the John Whiting and the Mobile Prize awards, and one of Scotland's most important contemporary playwrightsSet in a modern-day Scotland, this is Iain Heggie's irreverent adaptation of Marivaux's comedy The Double InconstancyLove Freaks is published to coincide with its premiere in May 2002 at the Tron Theatre, Edinburgh ...
| | Marking Time Pb Play (J Hyem) (Acting Edition) Publication Date: October 1998| Series: Acting Edition In a tiny, tatty room in a teachers' centre, Team B are up to their eyebrows in A Level English Literature marking. Elsewhere in the building, the dreaded Team A are coping far better. Doors slam, tempers are lost, and personalities crumble as the situation becomes ever more chaotic. ...
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