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Elizabeth Cooper: A Comedy in Three Acts
ISBN: 9781144864734 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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80,92 |
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OEuvres Complètes De Voltaire: Précédée De La Vie De Voltaire, Par Condorcet Et D'autres Études Biographiques
ISBN: 9781145034877 / Angielski / Miękka / 626 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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137,90 |
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Remembering Patrick White : Contemporary Critical Essays
ISBN: 9789042028494 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Remembering Patrick White presents the first major study of the full range of White's work in over twenty-five years, and aims to bring this important author up to date for new generations of readers and scholars. Patrick White is a writer of moods and perspectives and the essays collected here range in their focus over his public presentations, his formal challenges, his spiritual leanings and dramatic gestures. They examine the breadth and significance of White's intellectual contribution and consider the ongoing legacy of his thought and his art within national and international frames. As...
Remembering Patrick White presents the first major study of the full range of White's work in over twenty-five years, and aims to bring this important...
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293,20 |
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Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals : Eleven Early Chinese Plays
ISBN: 9781603842013 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This magnificent collection of eleven early [1250--1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic literature during an extraordinarily eventful period in Chinese history. Not only are the eleven plays in this volume expertly translated into lively, idiomatic English; they are each provided with illuminating, scholarly introductions that are yet fully intelligible to the educated lay reader. A marvelous volume.--Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania
This magnificent collection of eleven early [1250--1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic l...
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244,89 |
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Essays: Authoritative, complete edition
ISBN: 9780983170815 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspiring essays from America's most famous poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. This edition is one of the most complete, affordable editions of Emerson's essays available. Reprinted here is the full content of all twelve "First Series" essays and all eight "Second Series" essays. Emerson provides insightful commentary on Love, Friendship, History, Nature, and Politics. Bonus feature: Emerson's "New England Reformers" lecture.
Inspiring essays from America's most famous poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. This edition is one of the most complete, affordable editions of Emerson's essa...
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72,83 |
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American Politics in Hollywood Film
ISBN: 9780748640249 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is the American political landscape represented in cinema? What is the relationship between Hollywood and Washington? From Arnold Schwarzenegger's rise to the Governorship of California through to the drama of the celebrity-fuelled 2008 Presidential election, Hollywood and politics have never been more intimate. This thoroughly updated and revised new edition continues to analyse the theoretical and conceptual relationship of Hollywood to national politics and the way film content and criticism has aligned itself to political culture and debate.Chronicling the evolution of American...
How is the American political landscape represented in cinema? What is the relationship between Hollywood and Washington? From Arnold Schwarzenegger's...
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514,26 |
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Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney's Poetics
ISBN: 9780813218564 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaneys poeticshis concept of what poetry should be and what its uses areand relating them to his practice as a poet.
Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four d...
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97,90 |
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Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre
ISBN: 9780230120181 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides a comparative approach to the internationally wide-spread phenomenon of the contemporary director-auteur in the theatre, urging a historical and theoretical exploration of the visions, methods, and stage idioms in the work of established artists. Sidiropoulou examines prominent examples of both older and more recent director-auteur work, aiming at re-asserting - to its artistic and academic audience - the value of balancing the established emphasis on the diegetic aspects of theatre with the ever-spreading varieties of dramatic de-"centering" and "dis-semination." This exciting work...
Provides a comparative approach to the internationally wide-spread phenomenon of the contemporary director-auteur in the theatre, urging a historical ...
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201,24 |
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his Life, and Notes on his Lives of the Poets
ISBN: 9781108031714 / Angielski / Miękka / 636 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 1 is entirely devoted to a biography of Johnson by Hawkins, his close friend. Although Boswell's 1791 Life is much better known, Hawkins had been acquainted with Johnson for far longer,...
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, ed...
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358,76 |
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets
ISBN: 9781108031738 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 3 contains the second part of his Lives of the Poets, his last major work. This was a commission to provide short accounts of over fifty poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,...
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, ed...
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266,51 |
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets
ISBN: 9781108031752 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 5 contains the first part of The Rambler, the periodical published by Johnson twice a week between 1750 and 1752. Modelled on Addison's Spectator, the essays address a wide range of...
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, ed...
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302,38 |
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Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind
ISBN: 9781593937393 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Show business legends... EDDIE CANTOR DANNY THOMAS GEORGIE JESSEL Music legends... JOHN LENNON & THE BEATLES LITTLE RICHARD BRIAN WILSON PHIL SPECTOR NEIL SEDAKA JAN & DEAN CAROLE KING THE CARPENTERS DAVID CASSIDY GLEN CAMPBELL Songwriting legends... STEPHEN SONDHEIM MARVIN HAMLISCH ANTHONY NEWLEY Comedy legends... GEORGE CARLIN CHRIS ROCK ROBIN WILLIAMS RODNEY DANGERFIELD SOUPY SALES JERRY STILLER Acting legends... KATHARINE HEPBURN MIA FARROW Political legends... BOBBY KENNEDY And many more Featuring many previously unpublished photos BRIAN GARI wrote all the songs for the Broadway...
Show business legends... EDDIE CANTOR DANNY THOMAS GEORGIE JESSEL Music legends... JOHN LENNON & THE BEATLES LITTLE RICHARD BRIAN WILSON PHIL SPECTOR ...
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107,90 |
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Paradise Regain'd
ISBN: 9781612032450 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paradise Regain'd is a poem by the English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost and deals with the Temptation of Christ. As implied by its title, Milton sets out to show the reversal of the loss of Paradise and that everything that was lost in the first epic will be regained by the end of the mini-epic. Paradise Regain'd also focuses on the idea of hunger, both in a literal and in a spiritual sense. After wandering in the wilderness for forty days Jesus is starved of both food and the Word of God. Satan tempts...
Paradise Regain'd is a poem by the English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Parad...
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Joost Van Den Vondel (1587-1679): Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age
ISBN: 9789004217539 / Angielski / Twarda / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) was the most prolific poet and playwright of his age. During his long life, roughly coinciding with the Dutch Golden Age, he wrote over thirty tragedies. He was a famous figure in political and artistic circles of Amsterdam, a contemporary and acquaintance of Grotius and Rembrandt, and in general well acquainted with Latin humanists, Dutch scholars, authors and Amsterdam burgomasters. He fuelled literary, religious and political debates. His tragedy 'Gysbreght van Aemstel', which was played on the occasion of the opening of the stone city theatre in 1638, was...
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) was the most prolific poet and playwright of his age. During his long life, roughly coinciding with the Dutch Golden ...
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926,36 |
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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3, Expressionism and Epic Theatre
ISBN: 9780521227391 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Buchner is the forerunner of expression, followed by Wedekind and Strindberg. The style is then traced from Kaiser and Toller to O'Neill, Wilder and the later O'Casey. Important producers are Reinhardt and Meyerhold. Epic theatre is studied from Piscator and Brecht to Durrenmatt and Weiss, Arden and Bond, and is seen as flourishing in offshoots of documentary theatre. This book was first published in 1981."
Buchner is the forerunner of expression, followed by Wedekind and Strindberg. The style is then traced from Kaiser and Toller to O'Neill, Wilder and t...
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368,21 |
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A Selection of Armenian Poems
ISBN: 9781618950543 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,25 |
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The Expressive Actor: Integrated Voice, Movement, and Acting Training
ISBN: 9780415669306 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael Lugering's The Expressive Actor presents a foundational, preparatory training method, using movement to unlock the entire acting process. Its action-based perspective integrates voice, movement and basic acting training into a unified approach. A wealth of exercises and diagrams guide the reader through this internationally taught program, making it an ideal step-by-step course for both solo and classroom use. Through this course, voice and body training becomes more than a simple skill-building activity - it is the central prerequisite to any actor training
Michael Lugering's The Expressive Actor presents a foundational, preparatory training method, using movement to unlock the entire acting process. Its ...
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710,17 |
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How to Write a Good Play
ISBN: 9781446082423 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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133,75 |
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Poems of Passion
ISBN: 9781604443448 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850-October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. It includes poems such as: Love's Language; Impatience; Individuality; Friendship after Love; Reunited; What Shall We Do; Through the Valley; the Duet and much more.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850-October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. It includes poems s...
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40,74 |