In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice. Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a structural principle and a tool to investigate theater itself (August Strindberg, Maurice Maeterlinck, F. T. Marinetti, Samuel Beckett, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Caryl Churchill), the book explores four episodes in the history of very short theater, all ch...

When Roman junior senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger has a chance to join a diplomatic mission to Alexandria, he welcomes the opportunity to temporarily elude his enemies in the Eternal City-even though it means leaving his beloved Rome. Decius is just beginning to enjoy the outpost's many exotic pleasures when the suspicious death of an irascible philosopher occurs, coinciding with the puzzling and apocalyptic ravings of a charismatic cult leader. Intrigued, Decius requests and...

Dear President Bush,My name is Kimberly Anne Muse. I am writing this letter not for me but for my father, Kurt Frederick Muse. As you should know by now, he is a political prisoner in Panama. . ..Born in the United States and raised in Panama, Kurt Muse grew up with a deep love for his adopted country. But the crushing regime of General Manuel Noriega in the late 1980s threatened his, and a nation's, freedom. A nightmare of murder and unexplained disappearances compelled Kur...

Ben Patton is a genuis, a mathematician and a man on the verge of a scientific discovery that could change the world -- if the math he's invented for it works. Ben's secret to his success: A muse, Hestia, who helps him, cares for him and in many ways is the love of his life, as muses so often are for those they inspire.Hestia is Ben's secret -- but Hestia has secrets of her own. As the two of them race toward the completion of their work, Ben discovers the price of having a muse, a...

This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, telling her story for the first time. In a score of paintings created between 1906 and 1912, John Singer Sargent documented the idyllic teenage summers of Rose-Marie and his own deepening affection for her serene beauty and good-hearted, candid charm. Rose-Marie married Ro...

In 'The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts,' John Dee offers a profound glimpse into the life and intellectual pursuits of a Renaissance polymath. This meticulously compiled work encompasses Dee's personal reflections, his engagements with alchemy, astrology, and the mystical sciences, revealing a tapestry of knowledge that bridges the medieval and early modern eras. Dee's literary style is characteristically reflective, rendered with an impressive...

How can there be humour in a medical waiting room or even visiting a physiotherapy clinic? Well Mild Muses does find the funny side. Also the royal game of tennis is taken to task. What about a national sales meeting? Can it be funny with out anyone realizing? Read Mild Muses for the answer.

Maybe You Don’t Have to Figure It All Out YourselfA currency trader receives a million-dollar algorithm as a “mental download.” A financial advisor has ominous dreams three nights in a row, then warns her clients to cash out. Three days later markets plummet as COVID hits. Two years into a bogus lawsuit, a CEO chooses to forgive. His attorney calls four minutes later—case settled. These ideas did not come from within these people, but from a power outside themselve...

Grammy-winning music producer, Ian Brennan's seventh book, Muse-Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes, acts as a primer on how mass production and commercialization have corrupted the arts. Broken down into a series of core points and actions plans, Muse-Sick is a concise and affordable pocket primer follow-up to Brennan's two previous music missives, How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the arts and Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth....

John Zedolik has come to organize his poetry based upon three primary sources of inspiration: observation, recollection, and rumination. This collection includes approximately ninety lyric poems ordered by these themes. These poems demonstrate the importance of paying attention to aspects of one's mental, emotional, and physical life--even apparently minor aspects--as every moment is sui generis and a source of inspiration for not only the composition of poetry but the continuing appreciat...

In "Notes of a Private," John Milton Hubbard presents a poignant and reflective account of military life during the early 20th century, integrating a rich tapestry of personal anecdotes with keen observations on the human condition. Written in a candid, almost confessional style, Hubbard's narrative oscillates between moments of levity and profound introspection, capturing the psychological complexities faced by soldiers. The text is grounded in the historical context of World War I, offer...

Cuban International Relations at 60 brings together the perspectives of leading experts and the personal accounts of two ambassadors to examine Cuba’s global engagement and foreign policy since January 1959 by focusing on the island’s key international relationships and issues. Thisbook’s first section focuseson Havana’s complex relationship with Washington and its second section concentrates on Cuba’s other key relationships with consideration also being given to Cuba's external trade and...