wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals): The Permanent Rebel
ISBN: 9780415835282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A.S. Neill was arguably the most famous child educator of the 20th century. He was certainly the most controversial. All over the world, countless parents and teachers have been shocked, delighted or inspired by his subversive ideas about education, or by a visit to 'that dreadful school' which continues to this day - Summerhill. This sympathetic but critical exploration of his iconoclastic ideas and personality is the result of interviews with 200 ex-pupils, parents and teachers about life at Summerhill, and of the practicality of Neill's philosophy about child freedom.
A.S. Neill was arguably the most famous child educator of the 20th century. He was certainly the most controversial. All over the world, countless par...
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252,64 zł |
John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star
ISBN: 9781408179451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. New in paperback, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of the finest classical actor of the twentieth century. This entertaining but critical biography charts the ups and downs of Gielgud's long and glittering career, from his young ground-breaking Hamlet to his later success in plays by Pinter, Storey, Bond and Bennett, and his recognition as a major movie star following his role in Arthur. It also reassesses his complex relationship with his great rival Laurence Olivier and throws fresh light on his personal... New in paperback, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of the finest classical acto... |
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139,19 zł |
From Silent Film Idol to Superman: The Life and Career of John Stuart
ISBN: 9781476689548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As a popular romance actor, John Stuart was frequently mobbed by his adoring fans. With access to Stuart's private archive, his films, press cuttings, reviews, interviews, profiles, features, and gossip columns, this work presents a detailed account of an actor who made a significant contribution to the British film industry of the 20th century.
As a popular romance actor, John Stuart was frequently mobbed by his adoring fans. With access to Stuart's private archive, his films, press cuttings,...
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268,92 zł |
Performing King Lear: Gielgud to Russell Beale
ISBN: 9781474223867 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world.
Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of... King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is per...
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489,92 zł |
Gielgoodies!: The Wit and Wisdom (& Gaffes) of John Gielgud
ISBN: 9781849434485 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 'A glorious compendium of John's scintillating irreverences and fabulous faux pas... He was one of the greatest of all theatrical personalities, and these utterly characteristic throwaway squibs bring him vividly back to life.' Simon Callow
This delicious feast of -Gielgoodies-, compiled by Gielgud's biographer, reveals a less well-known side to this celebrated man of the theatre: his lightning wit, his love of scandal and gossip, his wicked delight in putting down his fellow-artists, his relish of bawdy humour. Full of startling new material, drawn from many unpublished letters... 'A glorious compendium of John's scintillating irreverences and fabulous faux pas... He was one of the greatest of all theatrical personalities, and t...
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66,99 zł |
Gielgoodies!: The Wit and Wisdom (& Gaffes) of John Gielgud
ISBN: 9781783190072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. -A glorious compendium of John's scintillating irreverences and fabulous faux pas... He was one of the greatest of all theatrical personalities, and these utterly characteristic throwaway squibs bring him vividly back to life.- Simon Callow
-What a lovely idea, and such fun to dip into.... a wonderful theatrical stocking filler for Christmas.- Dame Eileen Atkins -Truly delightful Gielgud stories. Laugh out loud and glorious - Derek Jacobi This delicious feast of -Gielgoodies, - compiled by Gielgud's biographer, reveals a less well-known side to this celebrated man of the theatre:... -A glorious compendium of John's scintillating irreverences and fabulous faux pas... He was one of the greatest of all theatrical personalities, and t...
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56,68 zł |
Performing Hamlet: Actors in the Modern Age
ISBN: 9781350030756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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139,19 zł |
All the Best, Neill (Routledge Revivals): Letters from Summerhill
ISBN: 9781138813359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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170,13 zł |
Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals): The Permanent Rebel
ISBN: 9780415830942 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A. S. Neill was arguably the most famous child educator of the twentieth century. He was certainly the most controversial. All over the world, countless parents and teachers have been shocked, delighted or inspired by his subversive ideas about education, or by a visit to 'that dreadful school' which continues to this day - Summerhill. First published in 1983, this sympathetic but critical exploration of his iconoclastic ideas and personality is the result of interviews with two hundred ex-pupils, parents and teachers about life at Summerhill, and of the practicality of Neill's philosophy...
A. S. Neill was arguably the most famous child educator of the twentieth century. He was certainly the most controversial. All over the world, countle...
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902,49 zł |
Buzz Buzz!: Playwrights, Actors and Directors at the National Theatre
ISBN: 9781408105207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteenyears with leading directors, actors and writers at the NationalTheatre, "Buzz Buzz " is a fantastic compendium that offers unrivalled insight into the work and practice of the best theatre talent. In these illuminating interviews playwrights such as Michael Frayn, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, David Hare, Pam Gems and TonyKushner and many others talk about the roots of their work, theirmethods of research, and how they collaborate with their directors, while actors from Fiona Shaw to Kenneth Branagh, and... Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteenyears with leading directors, actors and writers at the NationalTheatre, "Buzz ... |
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128,88 zł |
Don't You Know There's a War On?: The People's Voice 1939-45
ISBN: 9781138124356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Was the country really united in the face of the common enemy? Did people actually put the community’s needs before their own? Or were such ideas simply a series of myths created at the time and nurtured ever since. The recollections of this book, first published in 1989, attempt to answer such questions by evoking the reality of life on the home front during the war years. Here is a uniquely personal portrait of a nation at war, extensively illustrated with photographs, diaries, letters, poems, and other memorabilia belonging to the men and women whose wartime lives fill this absorbing... Was the country really united in the face of the common enemy? Did people actually put the community’s needs before their own? Or were such ideas... |
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170,13 zł |
Performing King Lear: Gielgud to Russell Beale
ISBN: 9781474223850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world. Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of creation and... King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is perform... |
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139,19 zł |
Don't You Know There's a War On?: The People's Voice 1939-45
ISBN: 9781138124332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Was the country really united in the face of the common enemy? Did people actually put the community s needs before their own? Or were such ideas simply a series of myths created at the time and nurtured ever since. The recollections of this book, first published in 1989, attempt to answer such questions by evoking the reality of life on the home front during the war years. Here is a uniquely personal portrait of a nation at war, extensively illustrated with photographs, diaries, letters, poems, and other memorabilia belonging to the men and women whose wartime lives fill this absorbing... Was the country really united in the face of the common enemy? Did people actually put the community s needs before their own? Or were such ideas s... |
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696,20 zł |
All the Best, Neill (Routledge Revivals): Letters from Summerhill
ISBN: 9781138809864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A. S. Neill, founder of Summerhill, the most admired and most feared of all progressive schools, was famous as a schoolteacher, educational reformer, and author of illuminating and stylish books about education and the mind of the child. But few people know he was also a dedicated, prolific, uninhibited, witty and often mischievous letter writer. This selection of gems, first published in 1983, has been chosen from hundreds of his letters by his biographer. It includes letters about education, children, politics, writing, fatherhood, the Bomb, old age and death. 'All the best, Neill' was the...
A. S. Neill, founder of Summerhill, the most admired and most feared of all progressive schools, was famous as a schoolteacher, educational reformer, ...
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515,71 zł |
Peter Hall's 'Bacchai': The National Theatre at Work
ISBN: 9781840028171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Jonathan Croall's book offers an intimate and absorbing picture of how a team of world-class theatrical artists brought one of the masterpieces of Greek theater to the stage. This new edition includes an extra chapter on the production's visit to the ancient theater of Epidaurus in Greece, and a new foreword by Peter Hall. Jonathan Croall's book offers an intimate and absorbing picture of how a team of world-class theatrical artists brought one of the masterpieces of ... |
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82,46 zł |