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"Quality Street" is a comedy set in Napoleonic times. The story is about two sisters who start a school "for genteel children". The show was produced first on Broadway, and then in London, where it was a hit, running for 459 performances. It was frequently revived until World War II.
Election time. The Students' Association needs a new President, and Akousa's achingly cool flatmates are certain she is perfect for the position. How can they persuade her, and how much is she willing to compromise? From the author of Gone Too Far!, Playing the Game was first staged at the Traverse Theatre, in 2010 as part of the Women, Power & Politics season.Mostra libro
Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. The chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with the creation of open, vocal, spontaneous, and energetic postmodern verse in the tradition of Walt Whitman, Guillaume Apollinaire, Hart Crane, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. Ginsberg's classics Howl, Reality Sandwiches, Kaddish, Planet News, and The Fall of America led American (and international) poetry toward uncensored vernacular, explicit candor, the ecstatic, the rhapsodic, and the sincere—all leavened by an attractive and pervasive streak of common sense. Ginsberg's raw tones and attitudes of spiritual liberation also helped catalyze a psychological revolution that has become a permanent part of our cultural heritage, profoundly influencing not only poetry and popular song and speech, but also our view of the world. The uninterrupted energy of Ginsberg's remarkable career is clearly revealed in this collection. Seen in order of composition, the poems reflect on one another; they are not only works but also a work. Included here are all the poems from the earlier volume Collected Poems 1947-1980, and from Ginsberg's subsequent and final three books of new poetry: White Shroud, Cosmopolitan Greetings, and Death & Fame. Enriching this book are illustrations by Ginsberg's artist friends; unusual and illuminating notes to the poems, inimitably prepared by the poet himself; extensive indexes; as well as prefaces and various other materials that accompanied the original publications.Mostra libro
POEMS FOR HALLOWEEN – An Introduction. I should be whispering this because Halloween is almost upon us. A time of Witches, Ghouls and Hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All Saints Day to wreak….…… I’m glad you’re listening so let us begin- Many of us remember that feeling from childhood when an adult or even our friends would tell us scary stories of things that go bump in the night. It was a time to scare and be scared and no matter how terrifying the stories were it was a good feeling punctuated by yelps and laughs. Halloween is now firmly established in the Calendar as a favourite; to go trick or treating and an excuse for kids everywhere to dress up in outlandish attire and collect vast quantities of sweets. Equally adults everywhere are prone to switch off the lights and pretend to be out! In our collection the poems show that words have been used to enthral and suggest dark mysterious forces beyond our control for quite some time. With authors of the ability of Keats, Poe, Byron, Sheehan & Shakespeare, to nourish these primeval fears the poems have an unsettling nature as all bad things should! This collection of poems is read to you by Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner.Mostra libro
Middle-aged, middle-management Dasha is ordered to quell the anti-government protests in her factory in Belarus by firing sixty workers. Her only escape is a one-way ticket to the US, but as she prepares to flee, she cannot escape memories of her rebellious youth resisting the Soviets. As her country heads to the polls, Dasha must make a decision… The Anarchist is a gripping, timely and deeply moving play, which won the inaugural Woven Voices Prize for migrant playwrights. It was first performed during the Footprints Festival at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2022, directed by Ebenezer Bamgboye. Originally from Kazakhstan, Karina Wiedman lived in Russia and Belarus before moving to the UK. The Anarchist is her first play. 'A beautifully written play for our times' Jatinder Verma, Chair of the Woven Voices Prize judging panelMostra libro
‘From this day forward…’ are words intoned in every conventional marriage ceremony as two people interweave their lives with all its plans, its hopes and dreams on a love-strewn path to the future, even eternity. From here life has its own way of changing, modifying and disrupting the true course of married love for many of us. In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets delve with storied verse into every facet of this institution. From the good, the bad and even the ugly, from the Wedding day to the realisation that divorce and separation maybe the better path. Between these two frontiers other avenues and facets are explored by the pens of many including Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Emily Dickinson and the Rossetti’s. 01 - Fifty Shades of Marriage - An Introduction 02 - The Weddiing Morning by Francis Ledwidge 03 - Marriage Morning by Alfred Lord Tennyson 04 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 05 - Wedding Day by Edith Nesbit 06 - Wedding Song by Jehudah Halevi 07 - A Bridal Song by John Ford 08 - A Bridal Toast by James Madison Bell 09 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson 10 - The Bride by Rainer Maria Rilke 11 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg 12 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 13 - To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage by Katherine Phillips 14 - A Nuptial Verse to Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy by Robert Herrick 15 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte 16 - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare 17 - To the Ladies by Lady Mary Chudleigh 18 - Sonnet to My Wife by Thomas Hood 19 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch 20 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 21 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges 22 - Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 23 - Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar 24 - The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell 25 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence 26 - Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St Vincent Millay 27 - The Bride by Henry Alford 28 - Bridal Birth by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 29 - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran 30 - Song of the Worker's Wife by Alice Gray Jones 31 - Song XIX. Since We Your Husband Daily See by Matthew Prior 32 - The Married Lover by Coventry Patmore.sfk 32 - The Married Lover by Coventry Patmore 33 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay.sfk 33 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay 34 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper.sfk 34 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper 35 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce.sfk 35 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce 36 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear 37 - June, a Tale by William Cowper 38 - Witch-Wife by Edna St Vincent Millay 39 - The Bride by Ambrose Bierce 40 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew 41 - The Bridal Ballad by Edgar Allan Poe 42 - The Wife of Flanders by G K Chesterton 43 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy 44 - A Cry from an Indian Wife by Emily Pauline Johnson 45 - Wife to Husband by Christina Georgina Rossetti 46 - The Golden Wedding of Sterling and Sarah Lanier September the 27th 1868 by Sidney Lanier 47 - On His Deceased Wife by John Milton 48 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron.sfk 48 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 49 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford 50 - Modern Love I by George Meredith 51 - Divorce by Anna WickhamMostra libro
A dark and twisted coming-of-age story by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen. Hendrix is growing up. Or at least he's trying to. But he's sick of his mother and her constant preaching on the virtues of an organic lifestyle. And he's sick of her girlfriend, a twentysomething stunner who winds him up relentlessly. But most of all he is sick of the bullies at school who target him viciously, thinking if his mum is gay then he must be too. In a desperate attempt to prove his masculinity, Hendrix enters a very adult world and gets far more than he bargained for. He meets Luminita - a young girl enslaved into an unbearable life. She finds comfort in Hendrix; a chance to connect, to be seen as a human being. Though from completely different worlds, their secret friendship grows in snatched moments in a sordid room above a Chicken Shop.Mostra libro
