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Tempest
ISBN: PB: 9780866986625, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, April 2021
106 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Considered by most scholars to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote, The Tempest is a stormy tale of betrayal and forgiveness. After being banished by his brother Antonio, Prospero harnesses the magic of an otherworldly island full of monsters and...
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£8,00
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Theater of the Bauhaus Bauhausbucher 4
ISBN: HB: 9783037786284, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
90 pp., 23x18 cm, illus.
Spatial dance, gestural dance, rod dance, "Triadic Ballet: Oskar Schlemmer" developed his costumed, masked dancer into an "art figure" synthesizing dance, masquerade, and music. The fourth volume of the Bauhausbucher presents the main characteristics...
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£30,00
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Three Plays "Rechnitz", "The Merchant's Contracts", "Charges (The Supplicants)"
ISBN: PB: 9780857427120, Seagull Books, October 2019
480 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contempora...
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£14,99
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Three Plays "Philoctetes", "The Horatian", "Mauser"
ISBN: PB: 9780857427083, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important German dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Muller (1929-1995) still remains relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. This collection of plays aims to change that, presenting...
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£9,99
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Trials of Spinoza
ISBN: PB: 9780857426376, Seagull Books, March 2019
61 pp., 20.8x14.6 cm
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1977) is considered one of the great rationalist thinkers of the seventeenth century. His magnum opus, "Ethics", in which he criticized the dualism of Descartes, solidified his reputation and greatly influenced the Enlightenment...
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£12,99
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Theatre Theory Reader Prague School Writings
ISBN: PB: 9788024635781, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2017
646 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 46 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The "Theatre Theory Reader" provides the first comprehensive and critical anthology of texts reflecting on the development of the theater theory of the Prague School – or Prague Linguistic...
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£30,00
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Trisha Brown Choreography as Visual Art (1962-1987)
ISBN: PB: 9780819576620, ISBN: HB: 9780819576613, Casemate, Wesleyan University Press, December 2016
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 129 illus.
Trisha Brown re-shaped the landscape of modern dance with her game-changing and boundary-defying choreography and visual art. Art historian Susan Rosenberg draws on Brown's archives, as well as interviews with Brown and her colleagues, to track Brown...
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£33,00
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£104,00
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Tumult
ISBN: HB: 9780857423702, Seagull Books, November 2016
296 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany's greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which "Tumult" is an autobiographical record. Derived from old papers, notes, jottings, photos, and letters th...
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£20,50
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Tahrir Tales Plays from the Egyptian Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9780857423412, Seagull Books, August 2016
360 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
The ten plays in this collection offer unprecedented grassroots perspectives on the jubilation, terror, hope, and heartbreak of mass uprising as seen during and in the wake of the Tahrir Square demonstrations. Collectively tracing events as they unfo...
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£34,00
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Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 A Critical Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300206739, Yale University Press, September 2015
546 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
An essential volume for theatre artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century,...
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£25,00
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