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  • Theatre for Shakespeare

    Series series Heritage
    Here is a book to hearten playgoers, stimulate young actors, lead theatrical executives to reconsider methods of management, and encourage benefactors to open their wallets. In this new book (containing the Alexander Lectures for 1954-55), Mr. Harbage, distinguished critic and scholar, advocates a movement to give Shakespeare back to the audiences. He complains that, in greater or less degree, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Marivaux

    Series series University of Toronto Romance Series
    The last thirty years have seen a renewed interest in the novels, plays, and essays of Marivaux. Each year more of his work is made available to the public in partial editions. More and better studies have appeared, superseding the old and, in the last thirty years, almost all of his plays have been performed. Today no corder of his work remains unexplored: our knowledge of his life, which had ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Red Lipstick and Clean Underwear

    Red Lipstick and Clean UnderwearThis insightful book takes a humorous but accurate look at how women (baby boomers, plus those a few years this side of that generation) were taught to view and prepare for life as young girls, vs. the reality of being a woman and handling all that women do, every day, day in and day out. As adults, moms, wives, sisters, friends, lovers and professionals, we are ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Night of January 16th

    by Ayn Rand ...
    The definitive edition of Ayn Rand's famous play, incorporating the author's final changes.On one level, Night of January 16th is a totally gripping drama about the rise and destruction of a brilliant and ruthless man. On a deeper level, it is a superb dramatic objectification of Ayn Rand's vision of human strength and weakness. Since its original Broadway success, it has achieved vast worldwide ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • The Art of Dramatic Writing

    Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

    by Lajos Egri ...
    Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows! Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books out there, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay.Examining a play from the inside out, Egri ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Crispin Ier

    La Vie et l'œuvre de Raymond Poisson comédien-poète du XVIIe siècle

    Edited by A. Ross Curtis ...
    Series series University of Toronto Romance Series
    Raymond Poisson, a contemporary of Molière, was the leading comic actor with the troupe of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and later at the Comédie Française during the first five years of its existence. He popularized one of the French stage's best-loved stock characters, the impudent servant Crispin, while finding time to supply his troupe with short comedies in which he himself starred. This study is ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A Celebration of Ben Jonson

    Series series Heritage
    The papers in this volume were given by some of the world’s foremost Jonsonian scholars at a conference at the University of Toronto which marked the 400th anniversary of his birth. Each contributor came from a different institution, and Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and New Zealand were represented. The balance of papers likewise reflects the range of Ben Jonson’s achievement and the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Striker Schneiderman

    by Jack Gray ...
    Series series Heritage
    A comedy set in Winnipeg during the 1919 General Strike, Striker Schneiderman was first presented in 1970 at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto. Its protagonist, Moische Schneiderman, is a tailor whose possessions include a small business, a large mortgage, a devoted wife, three beautiful daughters, and a sense of the ridiculous. Moische also believes passionately in law, order, good ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Some Facets of King Lear

    Essays in Prismatic Criticism

    Edited by Rosalie Colie, F.T. Flahiff ...
    Series series Heritage
    The image of the prism, with its multiple refractions, offers some sense of the inexhaustible variety of a work of art. Like a prism, King Lear is attractive; like a prism, it is a multiply shaped thing; like a prism, it is an object of admiration, as well as an instrument of analysis.The essays in this book – forming neither a casebook nor a 'perplex' – were written because their authors wanted ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • My Sister's Keeper

    by Ted Allan ...
    Series series Heritage
    In a tight, dramatic, two-character, two-act play Ted Allan, one of Canada's best-known playwrights, challenges us to think again about love and guilt, about madness and normalcy. My Sister's Keeper was first produced at the 1976 Lennoxville Festival in Quebec. (an earlier version, entitled 'I've Seen You Cut Lemons,' had been directed by Sean Connery at the Fortune Theatre in London in 1970.) It ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Silenced Theatre

    Czech Playwrights without a Stage

    Series series Heritage
    Since the Soviet occupation of 1968 censorship has closed the curtain on free expression in Czechoslovakia. But plays continue to be circulated in typescript within the country, are regularly smuggled out for publication abroad, and continue to be produced without restriction in the West. This book is the first full-length study of Czechoslovak drama of the sixties and seventies.The author ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • After the Fall

    by Arthur Miller ...
    Series series Penguin Plays
    Often called the most autobiographical of Arthur Miller's plays, After the Fall probes deeply into the psyche of Quentin, a man who ruthlessly revisits his past to explain the catastrophe that is his life. His journey backward takes him through a troubled upbringing, the bitter death of his mother, and a series of failed relationships. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Subscribe Now!

    Building Arts Audiences Through Dynamic Subscription Promotion

    by Danny Newman ...
    "Buy it, borrow it, steal it, but get your hands on it! If you follow Danny's advice on how to sell tickets, you won't have an unsold seat in the house all season long!"--Ralph Black, American Symphony League ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Masks of the Prophet

    The Theatrical World of Karl Kraus

    by Karl GRIMSTAD ...
    Series series Heritage
    'When the name "Hitler" is mentioned, nothing occurs to me' – so said Karl Kraus. For this leading Viennese Jewish critic and intellectual the touchstone of art was ethics. How could he be speechless in the face of a threat to all that ethics means?To answer this question, the author makes a detailed chronological study of Kraus's intellectual activity as reflected in his work on the theatre. The ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Stanislavski System

    The Professional Training of an Actor; Second Revised Edition

    This clearly written guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among students and teachers of acting. Now, in light of books and articles recently published in the Soviet Union, Sonia Moore has made revisions that include a new section on the subtext of a role. She provides detailed explanations of all the methods that actors in training have found indispensable for more than ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Theatre in French Canada

    Laying the Foundations 1606-1867

    Series series University of Toronto Romance Series
    It is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before the twentieth century. Their practice had been to trace the roots of theatre to mid-1930s, to the appearance of Father Emile Legault and his troupe, the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent, dismissing what had gone before. In this innovative history, Leonard Doucette sets out deal ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Price

    by Arthur Miller ...
    Series series Penguin Plays
    Now a Broadway play starring Mark Ruffalo, Tony Shalhoub, Danny DeVito, and Jessica Hecht, Miller’s riveting story about family, sacrifice, and the struggle to make peace with the past.Years after an angry breakup, Victor and Walter Franz are reunited by the death of their father. As they sort through his possessions in an old brownstone attic, the memories evoked by his belongings stir up old ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Incident at Vichy

    A Play

    by Arthur Miller ...
    Series series Penguin Plays
    “one of the most important plays of our time” --Howard Taubman, The New York TimesIn Vichy France in 1942, eight men and a boy are seized by the collaborationist authorities and made to wait in a building that may be a police station. Some of them are Jews. All of them have something to hide—if not from the Nazis, then from their fellow detainees and, inevitably, from themselves. For in this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Churchill

    Plays One

    The plays in this volume represent the best of Churchill's writing up to and including her emergence onto the international theatre scene with "Cloud Nine." The volume also contains a new introduction by the author as well as short prefaces to each play. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence

    by John N. Grant ...
    Series series Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    The textual tradition of the Latin dramatist Publius Terentius Afer (second century BC) is unusually rich and complex. Over six hundred manuscripts containing some or all of Terence's six comedies have survived, but only one codex and three small fragments date from antiquity. All the rest were copied in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance when Terence was very popular. Recently scholars have been ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • W.B. Yeats

    Metaphysician as Dramatist

    W. B. Yeats spent a great deal of his life immersing himself in magical, mystical, and philosophic studies in order, as he claimed, to devise a personal system of thought “that would leave [his] ... imagination free to create as it chose and yet make all that it created, or could create, part of the one history, and that the soul's.” He succeeded in developing a cohesive metaphysics, and one which ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Actor's Book of Classical Monologues

    More Than 150 Selections from the Golden Age of Greek Drama, the Age of Shakespeare, the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Stefan Rudnicki ...
    A challenging, wide-ranging collection of monologues from history’s greatest dramatic worksFrom the stately and poetic Greek tragedies to the lively, bawdy Restoration comedies, the classical repertoire is a treasure trove of often-overlooked materials for male and female, young and old. The solo pieces collected here vary widely in mood, style, and level of challenge; they include a generous ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Eleanor Parker

    Woman of a Thousand Faces

    This is the first book on enduring Hollywood star Eleanor Parker, long underrated despite three best actress Academy Award nominations (Caged, 1950; Detective Story, 1951; Interrupted Melody, 1955).Parker was a beauty as well as a versatile actress, and her achievements approach those of more publicized colleagues Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn. With Parker's blessing and her son Paul Clemens' ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • A Companion to the Medieval Theatre

    Vince has provided a useful and, for the most part, usable reference work. His introduction should be required reading for anyone approaching medieval theater. ChoiceScholars increasingly see medieval theatre as a complex and vital performance medium related more closely to political, religious, and social life than to literature as we know it. Reflecting the current interest in performance, A ... Read more

    $67.99 USD