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  • Late Stage

    Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging

    Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging represents the first comprehensive anthology to critically interrogate the intersection of age studies with theater and performance studies. Undoing the notion of a singular, continuous self as we age—an assumption that negatively positions old age in opposition to youth—this volume challenges biological imperatives imposed by essentialist views ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009

    Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

    Series series Decades of Modern American Drama: Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009
    The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, ... Read more

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  • The Sixties, Center Stage

    Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade

    The Sixties, Center Stage offers rich insights into the innovative and provocative political underpinnings of mainstream and popular performances in the 1960s. While much critical attention has been focused on experimental and radical theater of the period, the essays confirm that mainstream performances not only merit more scholarly attention than they have received, but through serious ... Read more

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  • Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics

    When the Democrats retook control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2007 after twelve years in the wilderness, Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker in American history. In Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics, Ron Peters, one of America's leading scholars of Congress, and Cindy Simon Rosenthal, one of America's leading scholars on women and political leadership, ... Read more

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  • Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34

    Series Book 34 - Theatre History Studies
    Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion of the Abydos Passion Play. Sikes challenges the long-held interpretation of that ritualized ... Read more

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  • Butch Queens Up in Pumps

    Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance
    Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey’s rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene ... Read more

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  • Utilitarianism

    A foundational work in ethical philosophy—Mill examines the principles of utilitarianism, exploring the greatest happiness as the measure of right and wrong.

    Step into the enduring principles of ethics and moral philosophy with Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill. This audiobook offers listeners a clear and compelling exploration of the philosophy that emphasizes the greatest happiness for the greatest number, providing a framework for ethical decision-making, personal responsibility, and social justice.Mill examines the foundations of utilitarian ... Read more

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  • Popular Theatre in Political Culture

    Britain and Canada in focus

    The first comparative study on the history and practice of popular theatre in Britain and overseas. The fragmentation of social groups in the face of the global mass media has begun to threaten the survival of popular theatre companies. This study traces the development of various types of community theatre, from the '70s to the present day. Integrating a comparative history of popular theatre ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • The Homecoming

    by Harold Pinter ...
    'An exultant night - a man in total command of his talent.' Observer'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter's plays.' The TimesWhen Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in London, he finds his family still living in the house. In the conflict that follows, it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Republic

    by Plato ...
    Series series Signature Editions
    Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness? What is reality? And what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Alistair McDowall's Pomona

    Series series The Fourth Wall
    ‘It’s all real. All of it. Everything bad is real’ - MoeAlistair McDowall’s Pomona was first staged in 2014 and won properly startling, and startled, acclaim. Its edgeland setting permits a surrealistic disengagement of linear forms of time, which is both dreamlike and wildly funny; nightmarish and ominously enveloping. The play has as its imaginative springboard a landscape which is both real and ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD