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  • The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture

    by Paul Maloney ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Focusing on Glasgow’s earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city’s most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the nineteenth century. Shedding light on the increasing diversity of commercial entertainment provided by such venues – offering everything from music ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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    Houdini & The Witch of Beacon Hill

    Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Historical Dramas

    by Paul M. Levitt, Bob Sinfield ...
    Narrated by Michael Maloney, Graham Crowden, Lorelei King, Shelley Thompson, Nigel Anthony, Rajan Datar, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 4 min

    What drove Harry Houdini - magician, escapologist, and one of the most famous men in the world?Whether it was escaping from handcuffs, a straitjacket or from a box filled with water, Houdini wowed audiences with his seemingly death-defying performance... This BBC Radio collection shares the story behind the trickery: in two fascinating full-cast dramas about the life of Harry Houdini, and in ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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    The Ruth Rendell BBC Radio Drama Collection

    Seven full-cast dramatisations

    by Ruth Rendell ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Jamie Glover, Laura Pyper, Michael Maloney, Oona Beeson, Paul Rhys, Peter Wingfield, Rachel Lewis, Reece Shearsmith ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    Full-cast dramatisations of seven of Ruth Rendell's tense psychological thrillers.This collection includes:Tracks 1-2 - The Bridesmaid: A beautiful stone statue and her living double lead Philip into a nightmare of obsession and murder.Tracks 3-4 - Going Wrong: Besotted with his childhood sweetheart, Leonora, psychopathic Guy Curran will do anything to make her his.Tracks 5 - 8 King Solomon’s ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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  • Include Me Out

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    by Farley Granger, Robert Calhoun ...
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  • The Age of Shakespeare

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Series Book 15 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeare’s England, vividly portraying London’s society, its early capitalism, its ... Read more

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  • National Performance

    Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion

    by Erin Hurley ...
    In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ness' for audiences both within and outside the province? In exploring Expo 67, the critical response to ... Read more

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  • Madcap May

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    by Kenneth Turan, Joseph Papp ...
    Free for All is an irresistible behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved and important cultural institutions.Under the inspired leadership of founder Joseph Papp, the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival brought revolutionary performances to the public for decades. This compulsively readable history of those years—much of it told in Papp’s own words—is fascinating, ... Read more

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  • Stage Directions

    Writing on Theatre 1970-2008

    by Michael Frayn ...
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  • The Drama of Ideas

    Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy

    by Martin Puchner ...
    Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in actions, not ideas. Challenging both views, The Drama of Ideas shows that theater and philosophy have been crucially intertwined from the start. Plato is the presiding genius of this alternative history. The Drama of Ideas ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of French Theater

    by Edward Forman ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The term "French theater" evokes most immediately the glories of the classical period and the peculiarities of the Theater of the Absurd. It has given us the works of Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. In the Romantic era there was Alexander Dumas and surrealist works of Alfred Jarry, and then the Theater of the Absurd erupted in rationalistic France with Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean-Paul ... Read more

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