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  • Postmodern Theatric(k)s

    Monologue in Contemporary American Drama

    by Deborah R. Geis ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Postmodern Theatric(k)s focuses on the voices that have emerged from American experimental theater of the 1960s, voices shaped by the culture of television, film, Pop Art, and rock music. Increasingly, these writers have brought a distinctly new approach to the use of monologue. Deborah Geis argues that in place of the psychological revelation of the Shakespearean soliloquy, these postmodern ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Culinary Cinema

    Appetite, Narrative, and Community in Contemporary Film

    by Deborah R. Geis ...
    In this book, Deborah Geis offers a new approach to the evolving genre of culinary films that center on the acts of eating and cooking through close analyses of ten different films. These films range from the classics, like Big Night (1996) and Babette’s Feast (1987) to later box-office hits, like Chef (2014) and to films that deserve a second look, like East Side Sushi (2014), Burnt (2015), and ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Read My Plate

    The Literature of Food

    by Deborah R. Geis ...
    Whether perusing a recipe or learning what a literary character eats, readers approach a text differently when reading about food. Read My Plate: The Literature of Food explores what narrators and characters (in fiction, in performance, and in the popular genre of the “food memoir”) cook and eat. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, the inmates of the Terezin concentration camp, performance artist Karen ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • Beat Drama

    Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as other less well-known Beat figures, also wrote plays-and these, together with their countercultural ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights

    by Tom Adler, Professor Scott T. Cummings, Jochen Achilles, Dr. Ken Urban, Klaus Benesch, Russell Vandenbroucke, James Fisher, Christopher Innes, Christopher Innes, Prof. Toby Zinman0, Susan Abbotson1, Annalisa Brugnoli2, Ilka Saal3, Aurélia Sanchez4, Deborah Geis5, Annette J. Saddik6, Jorge Huerta7, Joanna Mansbridge8, Pia Wiegmink9, Frazer Lively0, Sandra G. Shannon1, Birgit Daewes2, Dr. Peter Paul Schnierer3, Dr. Peter Paul Schnierer5, Prof. Martin Middeke6, Prof. Martin Middeke8, Katherine Weiss9, Professor Kerstin Schmidt0, Dr. Matthew C. Roudané2, Professor Jill S. Dolan3 ...
    Series series Guides to Contemporary Drama
    Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years.This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

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  • Harold Pinter Plays 1

    The Birthday Party; The Room; The Dumb Waiter; A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; A Night Out; The Black and White; The Examination

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  • Copenhagen

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    **TONY AWARD WINNER • An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.“Endlessly fascinating…. The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year…. An electrifying work of art.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times**In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish ... Read more

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  • Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923

    by Dorothy Parker ...
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  • Murmuring Judges

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    A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the seams.Murmuring Judges is the second play in David Hare's highly acclaimed trilogy about British institutions. Racing Demon, which won four awards as Play of the Year in 1990, was the first part of the trilogy and examined the Church. The Absence of War ... Read more

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