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  • Performance, Style and Gesture in Western Theatre

    by Nicholas Dromgoole ...
    Until the beginning of the 20th Century, when naturalism began to assert its powerful influence on western theatre, acting was a very different business indeed. Rather than attempting to reproduce realistic behaviour, actors conveyed their characters' feelings and intentions by using a vocabulary of minutely prescribed and highly stylised movements and gestures, each with it's own meaning and ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Role of the Critic

    by Nicholas Dromgoole ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    Nicholas Dromgoole has been a prominent and respected drama and dance critic for most of his adult life. Who better therefore to take the reader through the role of this often misunderstood animal?This concise guide to the role of the critic will surely prove to be a great addition to the bookshelves of all theatre lovers. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Medea

    by Euripides ...
    Translated by Alistair Elliot ...
    Series series Oberon Classics
    'What I intend to do is wrong, but the rage of my heart is stronger than my reason – that is the cause of all men’s foulest crimes.'Medea is the archetypal wronged woman driven to despair. When uncontrollable anger is unleashed, the obsessed mind’s capacity for revenge knows no bounds.Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Fuente Ovejuna/Lost in a Mirror

    by Lope De Vega ...
    Series series Oberon Classics
    Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole.Both plays are highly charged emotional works, full of Lope de Vega’s vitality. This adaptation of Fuente Ovejuna was performed in Declan Donnellan’s directorial debut at the Royal National Theatre. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Brittanicus

    A new version by Robert David MacDonald

    by Jean Racine, Robert David MacDonald ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    An Almeida Theatre production that opened at the Albery Theatre with Diana Rigg and Toby Stephens, and then played for a season on Broadway. This political thriller, set in Rome at the beginning of Emperor Nero’s tyranny, lays bare the relationships at the heart of power as a world slips into moral chaos. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman ...
    Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, a landmark work of early modern literature, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this classic of Spanish literature, Don Quixote, chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The City of Mist

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    by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ...
    “Ruiz Zafón’s visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself.”—USA TodayReturn to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumous collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits.Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón conceived of this collection of stories as an appreciation ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    by Thornton Wilder ...
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who witnesses the accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. Is there a direction or meaning in lives ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
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    $6.99 CAD

  • Don Quixote

    by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra ...
    Translated by Tom Lathrop ...
    A cornerstone of literary fiction, this classic book offers both timeless satire and captivating storytelling.Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature.In a new translation that “comes ... Read more

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  • The History of the Siege of Lisbon

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    by José Saramago ...
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    A proofreader realizes his power to edit the truth on a whim, in a "brilliantly original" novel by a Nobel Prize winner ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).Raimundo Silva is a middle-aged, celibate clerk, proofing manuscripts for a respectable publishing house. Fluent in Portuguese, he has been assigned to work on a standard history of the country, and the twelfth-century king who laid siege to ... Read more

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