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Macbeth
ISBN: PB: 9780866986601, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, March 2021
122 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Migdalia Cruz's Macbeth, the Witches run the world. The Macbeths live out a dark cautionary tale of love, greed, and power, falling from glory into calamity as the Witches spin their fate. Translating Shakespeare's language for a modern audience,...
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£8,00
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mPalermu, Dancers, and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780997228755, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2020
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Emma Dante's passionate and brutal plays stem from a need to confront important familial and societal realities in contemporary southern Italy. Her twenty-first century tales challenge stereotypes of the country and stage acts of resistance against t...
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£24,00
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Melodramatic Moment Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820
ISBN: HB: 9780226543659, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 8 line drawings
We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look – from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein's creation, and from Louise Brooks's exaggerated acting in "Pandora's Box" to the vicissitudes endlessly re...
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£41,00
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Medical Clowning The Healing Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780857423870, Seagull Books, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
Clowns are not just the stuff of backyard children's parties anymore. These days, clown doctors see patients – especially children – to introduce humor and imagination into an anxiety-filled and painful experience. The origins of medical clowning can...
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£26,50
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Moses Complex Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet
ISBN: HB: 9783037346235, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
336 pp., 21.6x16.5 cm, 42 colour plates, 15 halftones
Moses has long been a source of modern fascination. For Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Moses was a particularly fruitful subject for the study of memory and historiography. He also held great interest for the visual and performing arts. In the 192...
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£33,50
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Moscow Yiddish Theater Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300115130, Yale University Press, January 2008
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 39 colour images, 49 black&white illus.
The Moscow Yiddish Theater (later called GOSET) was born in 1919 and almost immediately became one of the most remarkable avant-garde theaters in Europe. It flourished in the 1920s but under Bolshevik pressure soon lost much of the originality that h...
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£38,00
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