Magnum Opus
The Cycle Plays of Eugene O'Neill
ISBN: HB: 9780300248470,
Yale University Press,
June 2021
224 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
224 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
From 1935 to 1939, Eugene O'Neill worked on a series of plays that would trace the history of an American family through several generations. He completed just two of the proposed eleven plays – "A Touch of the Poet" and "More Stately Mansions" – whi...
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47.50 GBP
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No Fixed Points
Dance in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300259322,
Yale University Press,
April 2021
928 pp., 23,5x18,7 cm, 200 black&white illus.
928 pp., 23,5x18,7 cm, 200 black&white illus.
This book chronicles one hundred years of dramatic developments in ballet, modern, and experimental dance for stage and screen in Europe and North America. The volume is magisterial in scope, encompassing the history of theatrical dance from 1900 thr...
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30.00 GBP
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Of Human Kindness
What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy
ISBN: HB: 9780300256413,
Yale University Press,
April 2021
176 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
176 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's...
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22.00 GBP
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Ibsen's Kingdom
The Man and His Works
ISBN: HB: 9780300228663,
Yale University Press,
March 2021
688 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
688 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen achieved unparalleled success in his lifetime and remains one of the most important figures in modern drama. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Evert Sprinchorn's biography constructs Ibsen's life through...
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37.50 GBP
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Drumming
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
ISBN: PB: 9780300253986,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
January 2021
128 pp., 33,0x24,1 cm, 80 illus.
128 pp., 33,0x24,1 cm, 80 illus.
"Drumming" is a widely admired dance piece choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960), set to music by the minimalist composer Steve Reich and featuring costumes by Dries Van Noten, that has been performed continuously around the world sin...
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25.00 GBP
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How to Defend Yourself
ISBN: PB: 9780300251593,
Yale University Press,
October 2020
160 pp., 22,9x14,0 cm
160 pp., 22,9x14,0 cm
Seven college students gather for a DIY self-defense workshop after a sorority sister is raped. They practice using their bodies as weapons. They wrestle with their desires. They learn the limits of self-defense.
This new play by writer, director,...
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19.99 GBP
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Houdini
The Elusive American
ISBN: HB: 9780300230796,
Yale University Press,
May 2020
232 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
232 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, "The Marvelous Adventures of Houdini: The Justly Celebrated Elusive American"...
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18.99 GBP
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Choreographer's Score
Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartok
ISBN: PB: 9780300251296,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
January 2020
248 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 150 black&white illus.
248 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 150 black&white illus.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance. Her 1982 debut with Fase immediately attracted the attention of the international dance scene; since then, De Keersmaeker and her company, Rosas, have creat...
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22.00 GBP
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Sentence to Hope
A Sa'dallah Wannous Reader
ISBN: HB: 9780300221343,
Yale University Press,
May 2019
464 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
464 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
Sa'dallah Wannous is acknowledged to be one of the Arab world's most significant playwrights, writers, and intellectuals of the twentieth century. This first English-language collection brings together his major plays and essays. Selections include t...
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27.50 GBP
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Bottle Fly
ISBN: PB: 9780300235012,
Yale University Press,
November 2018
88 pp., 22,9x14,0 cm
88 pp., 22,9x14,0 cm
Set in a bar in the Florida Everglades, this biting, brutally funny multigenerational family drama concerns a Gulf Coast couple, their disabled young ward, two lesbian tenants, and the bonds that bind them all together. It is a powerful story born ou...
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14.99 GBP
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