Arthur Miller
American Witness
ISBN: PB: 9780300276794,
ISBN: HB: 9780300234923,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights.
Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), the p...
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£12.99
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£16.99
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Remotely
Travels in the Binge of TV
ISBN: HB: 9780300261004,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A leading film critic on the evolving world of streaming media and its impact on society.
The city at night under lockdown, a time of plague and anxiety. It is an exciting new age of television, the light that flutters in every cell in the city. Bu...
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£20.00
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Staging "The Mysterious Mother"
ISBN: HB: 9780300263657,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 169 black&white illus.
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 169 black&white illus.
The first book-length study of Horace Walpole's scandalous "The Mysterious Mother", including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile edition
Horace Walpole's five-act tragedy "The Mysterious Mother" (1768), a sensational tale of inces...
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£55.00
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Jar of Fat
ISBN: PB: 9780300268010,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
128 pp., 22,9x13,8 cm
128 pp., 22,9x13,8 cm
An absurdist comedy and fifteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, exploring family, religion, identity, desire, and beauty in Korean American culture.
In a fantastical fairy-tale world, two Korean American sisters are deemed too fat to fit in their...
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£18.99
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Mel Brooks
Disobedient Jew
ISBN: HB: 9780300244274,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy.
Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century. Having w...
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Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical
ISBN: HB: 9780300223798,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
376 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
376 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture.
You know his work – "Show Boat, Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "The King and I". But you don't really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the...
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£20.00
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Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You too, August Wilson)
ISBN: PB: 9780300261462,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
96 pp., 22,8x13,9 cm
96 pp., 22,8x13,9 cm
The fourteenth winner of the Yale Drama Series prize explores "Blackness" and the reasons why joy and peace might be harder to get than we think.
What does it mean to be safe when you're a person of color in the United States? If you were given the...
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£18.99
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Why Dance Matters
ISBN: HB: 9780300204520,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
272 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
272 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that transcends barriers.
Mindy Aloff, a journalist, an essayist, and a dance critic, analyzes dance as the ultimate expression of human ene...
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£16.50
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Radical Vision
A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
ISBN: PB: 9780300264784,
Yale University Press,
March 2022
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 19 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 19 black&white illus.
In this acclaimed biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Soyica Diggs Colbert narrates a life at the intersection of art and politics, arguing that for Hansberry the theater operated as a rehearsal room for her political and intellectual work. Celebrated f...
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£12.99
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Art of Dramaturgy
ISBN: HB: 9780300233698,
Yale University Press,
November 2021
336 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
336 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
Anne Cattaneo was among the first Americans to fill the role of dramaturg, one of theater's best kept secrets. A combination of theater artist, scholar, researcher, play advocate, editor, and writer's friend, it is the job of a dramaturg to "reflect...
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£37.50
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