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  The Dance of Death - Full Text...

  August Strindberg

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  Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
  Strindberg's chilling anatomy of a marriage - in which the two partners duel with each other until one is utterly defeated.
  Edgar and Alice, embittered husband and wife, live on an army base on a Swedish island. Alice calls it 'Little Hell', and it's about to get worse.
  Written in 1900 and consisting of two full-length plays, August Strindberg's The Dance of Death is full of destruction and bitterness, laced with grim humour. Both parts are included in this volume – though usually only the first is staged.
  This version of The Dance of the Death in Nick Hern Books' Drama Classics series is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

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  Drawing the Line (NHB Modern Plays)

  Howard Brenton

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  A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.
  London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited survey information, no expert support and no knowledge of cartography, he is to draw the border which will divide the Indian sub-continent into two new Sovereign Dominions. To make matters even more challenging, he has only six weeks to complete the task.
  Wholly unsuited to his role, Radcliffe is unprepared for the dangerous whirlpool of political intrigue and passion into which he is plunged - untold consequences may even result from the illicit liaison between the Leader of the Congress Party and the Viceroy's wife' As he begins to break under the pressure he comes to realise that he holds in his hands the fate of millions of people.
  Drawing the Line premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London in December 2013.
  'powerful... a fascinating play which views colonial culpability from an unexpected and singularly revealing angle' - Independent
  'Brenton is a masterly storyteller... the play expertly draws you into the maelstrom' - Financial Times
  'Brenton knows how to make history manifest... gives a vivid picture of the pressures of the time' - Guardian
  'fleet and fascinating' - WhatsOnStage
  'crisp, elegant and revelatory... a fascinating story of mixed intentions and rushed folly' - The Stage

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  Victory for the Slain by Hugh...

  Hugh Lofting

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  Hugh John Lofting was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire on January 14th, 1886 to English and Irish parents.  
  Lofting was initially educated at Mount St Mary’s College in Spinkhill, Derbyshire, a Jesuit boarding school from the age of eight. By 1905 at age eighteen he was to study abroad, taking classes at the esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA in civil engineering. Thereafter he embarked on a quest to travel widely before settling down to write of his adventures. 
  Lofting had always leaned towards pacifism but the Great War was about to erupt all over Europe. Initially Lofting worked for the British Government whilst based in New York but by 1918 he had enlisted and was fighting on the front line.  Life on the front line, in the trenches, was hell beyond description.  Lofting didn’t want to include this grim horror in letters to his children.  The answer for them and for him was to write.  With these first letters the imaginative world and the foundations of the very successful Doctor Dolittle novels for children now began. 
  But life, for Lofting, in the battle weary trenches was now rudely interrupted.  In 1918, as the Allies swept forward against the retreating German lines, Lofting was wounded by shrapnel from a hand grenade that lodged in his upper thigh. This injury would plague him for the rest of his life as some of the metal fragments were impossible to remove. 
  After his recovery he was invalided out of the Army.  It was now that the family decided to re-locate and they now moved to Killingworth, Connecticut, in the United States. It was to be from here that the Doctor Dolittle series; the adventures of a country physician who learned to talk with animals would be written. 
  As we know the books were successful around the world and have been adapted for film and television many times, as well as for stage and for radio. 
  Hugh John Lofting died on September 26th, 1947, at age 61 in Topanga, California. 
   This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  Fate

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

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  A talkative New Yorker corrals a writer at a cocktail party and forces him to listen to the story of her life. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater.Recorded before a live audience at Chicago’s Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992.Adapted and directed by Arnold AprillProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergMarge Kotlisky as Bessie GoldMalcolm Rothman as The WriterAdditional voices by David Cromer, Steven Trovillion and Jensen Wheeler Radio Producer: Robert NeuhausRecording Engineer: Larry Rock

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  Shakespeare's Greatest...

  William Shakespeare

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  William Shakespeare, long hailed as the history's greatest dramatic writer, has been lauded for his mastery of poetic expression, his insight into the human condition and his deep exploration into the psyche and motivations of his characters. These skills are perhaps best exemplified in the monologues he gives his various protagonists, villains and bit players.   From King Henry V's inspiring speech to his soldiers on the field of Agincourt to the villainous Merchant of Venice Shylock defending his own cruelty, to the shepherdess Phebe from "As You Like It" grappling with her sudden attraction to a young courtier, to Nick Bottom from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," awaking from the strangest dream in history, Shakespeare's monologues are short distillations of his larger themes - love and loss, fairness and inequity, power and envy, lust and purity.   Fort Raphael Publishing is proud to present - in this complete volume - the best of Shakespeare's greatest monologues, each of which captures a shining, brilliant moment from his plays that gives us a deeper understanding of each character, whether flattering, damning or inspiring.   Enjoy this collection of monologues from the greatest theatrical writer in the English language - William Shakespeare - performed by some of the finest classical actors in the business.

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  Yo vengo desde lejos para...

  Aljure Fortunato

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  Hoy, estoy más orgulloso y más asombrado de mi padre, Fortunato, un médico y cirujano sobresaliente; que salvó vidas de personas y tuvo el alcance universal de la poesía. Fue capaz de trasladar su mente científica a su realidad poética artística. Le pregunto al lector, ¿cómo puede ser esto posible? La respuesta está dentro de este libro. En los poemas de mi padre, usted, el lector, encontrará pistas de cómo ser capaz de tener esa apertura de pensamiento y ese alcance universal.
  / Today, I am prouder and more astonished at my father, Fortunato, who being an outstanding medical doctor and surgeon; who saved lives of people, was able to have the universal scope of poetry. He was able to shift his scientific mind to his artistic poetry reality. I ask the reader, how can this be possible? The answer lies within this book. In my father's poems you, the reader, will find clues on how to be able to have that openness of thought and that universal scope.

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