Women Beware Women and Other Plays (Middleton Thomas)(Paperback)

Women Beware Women and Other Plays (Middleton Thomas)(Paperback)

This volume contains Thomas Middletons four greatest plays, 'A Chaste Maid in Cheapside,' 'Women Beware Women,' 'The Changeling,' and 'A Game at Chess.' 'A Chaste Maid in Cheapside' is the most complex and effective of the city comedies. 'Women Beware Women' and 'The Changeling' (with William

The Trojan Women and Other Plays (Euripides)(Paperback)

This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the

Ion/Orestes/Phoenician Women/Suppliant Women (Euripides)(Paperback)

Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, plays that all explore ethical and political themes. Ion vividly portrays the role of chance in human life and the dynamics of family relationships.In Orestes, the most popular of the

Witches: The Transformative Power of Women Working Together (George-Allen Sam)(Paperback)

A celebration of the revolutionary potential of women working with other women, and a powerful statement about myths like the 'cool girl' or the 'catty workplace' Covens. Girl Bands. Ballet troupes. Convents. In all times and places, girls and women have come together in communities of vocation, of

The Changeling: Thomas Middleton & William Rowley (Bawcutt N.)(Paperback)

Competitive price and format. Compacted and up-to-date version of the earlier Revels Plays edition by the same editor, taking account of more recent critical works. A key Renaissance

Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism (Cook Barb)(Paperback)

Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician's

New Monologues for Women (Colman Geoffrey)(Paperback)

New Monologues for Women features forty monologues from plays published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama recently. The monologues are selected by the editor, Geoffrey Colman, on account of their relevance to drama school students and recent graduates entering the profession. Each monologue is preceded

Surrealist Women: An International Anthology (Rosemont Penelope)(Paperback)

Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project--achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed,

Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists (Pix Mary)(Paperback)

These four plays, written by women dramatists during the Restoration, are now available in a single edition. This volume includes Mary Pix's The Innocent Mistress, Susanna Centlivre's The Busy-Body, Elizabeth Griffith's The Times, and Hannah Cowley's The Belle's Stratagem; thereby introducing

Euripides IV: Helen/The Phoenician Women/Orestes (Euripides)(Paperback)

Euripides IV contains the plays 'Helen,' translated by Richmond Lattimore; 'The Phoenician Women,' translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and 'Orestes,' translated by William Arrowsmith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek

A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays (Heywood Thomas)(Paperback)

Here is a marvelous collection of plays from the English Renaissance period, offering prime examples of the 'domestic drama' genre that first appeared around 1590. These four pioneering works, set in near-contemporary England and concerned with issues of marriage and crime rather than war andpower,

Award Monologues for Women (Tucker Patrick)(Paperback)

Award Monologues for Women is a collection of fifty-four monologues taken from plays written since 1980 that have been nominated for the Pullitzer Prize, the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards in New York, and The Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards in London. The book provides an excellent

Frogs and Other Plays (Aristophanes)(Paperback / softback)

Lysistrata and Other Plays (Aristophanes)(Paperback / softback)

Euripides III: Heracles/The Trojan Women/Iphigenia Among the Taurians/Ion (Euripides)(Paperback)

'Euripides III' contains the plays Heracles, translated by William Arrowsmith; The Trojan Women, translated by Richmond Lattimore; Iphigenia among the Taurians, translated by Anne Carson; and Ion, translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a

Women and Music: A History (Pendle Karin Anna)(Paperback)

This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for

Sunstroke and Other Stories (Hadley Tessa)(Paperback / softback)

Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. These stories about family life are somehow

Of Women and Salt (Garcia Gabriela)(Paperback)

Moving backwards and forwards in time, &i>Of Women and Salt &/i>is the story of five generations of women that shifts between a vivid, lush Cuba on the brink of political upheaval, and the different parts of America the family call home years later. Epic in sweep and significance, it is a story of

100 Great Plays for Women (Kerbel Lucy)(Paperback)

A gem of a book... Lucy Kerbel has done hard-working directors and artistic directors, of spaces large and small, a great service. - Kate Mosse, from her foreword. Lucy Kerbel's 100 Great Plays for Women is an inspiring guide to a hundred plays that put female performers center stage, dispelling

Women in Audio (Gaston-Bird Leslie)(Paperback)

Women in Audio features almost 100 profiles and stories of audio engineers who are women and have achieved success throughout the history of the trade. Beginning with a historical view, the book covers the achievements of women in various audio professions and then focuses on organizations that

Pandemonium's Engine (Horn Thomas)(Paperback)

In every generation, when dangers gather, there is a group of men and women courageous enough to confront evil and inform the populace.Sometimes unpleasant truths need to be presented; most of us would rather stand back and kick a toe in the dirt. You know, let someone else do it. Someone else is

Women in Christian Traditions (Moore Rebecca)(Paperback)

Women in Christian Traditions offers a concise and accessible examination of the roles women have played in the construction and practice of Christian traditions, revealing the enormous debt that this major world religion owes to its female followers. It recovers forgotten and obscured moments in

Lucky Bitch - A Guide for Exceptional Women to Create Outrageous Success (Duffield-Thomas Denise)(Paperback / softback)

A Parisian Affair and Other Stories (Maupassant Guy De)(Paperback)

Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature. They