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  Shakespeare on Stage - Thirteen...

  Julian Curry

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  Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles.
  
  - Brian Cox on Titus Andronicus in Deborah Warner's visceral RSC production
  - Judi Dench on being directed by Franco Zeffirelli as a twenty-three-year-old Juliet
  - Ralph Fiennes on Shakespeare's least sympathetic hero Coriolanus
  - Rebecca Hall on Rosalind in As You Like It, directed by her father, Sir Peter
  - Derek Jacobi on his hilariously poker-backed Malvolio for Michael Grandage
  - Jude Law on his Hamlet, a palpable hit in the West End and on Broadway
  - Adrian Lester on a modern-dress Henry V at the National, during the invasion of Iraq
  - Ian McKellen on his Macbeth, opposite Judi Dench in Trevor Nunn's RSC production
  - Helen Mirren on a role she was born for, and has played three times: Cleopatra
  - Tim Pigott-Smith on Leontes in Peter Hall's Restoration Winter's Tale at the National
  - Kevin Spacey on his high-tech, modern-dress Richard II
  - Patrick Stewart on Prospero in Rupert Goold's arctic Tempest for the RSC
  - Penelope Wilton on Isabella in Jonathan Miller's 'chamber' Measure for Measure  The actors discuss their characters, working through the play scene by scene, with refreshing candour and in forensic detail. The result is a masterclass on playing each role, invaluable for other actors and directors, as well as students of Shakespeare - and fascinating for audiences of the plays.
  Together, the interviews give one of the most comprehensive pictures yet of these characters in performance, and of the choices that these great actors have made in bringing them thrillingly to life.
  Each interview is also available as an individual ebook as part of the Shakespeare on Stage series.
  'These passages of times remembered contribute vividly to the sense of a teemingly creative period when Shakespeare seemed to have been rediscovered.' Trevor Nunn, from his Foreword
  'absorbing and original... Curry's actors are often thinking and talking as that other professional performer, Shakespeare himself, might have done' TLS

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  Edward Elgar - Music Life and...

  Christopher Grogan

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  The first full-length study of the English composer’s complex interaction with his physical environment, and its new relevance in the 21st century. 
   
  More perhaps than any other composer, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) has gained the status of an “icon of locality,” his music seemingly inextricably linked to the English landscape in which he worked. This, the first full-length study of Elgar’s complex interaction with his physical environment, explores how it is that such associations are formed and whether it is in any sense true that Elgar alchemized landscape into music. 
   
  It argues that Elgar stands at the apex of an English tradition, going back to Blake, in which creative artists in all media have identified and warned against the self-harm of environmental degradation and that, following a period in which these ideas were swept away by the swift but shallow tide of Modernism in the decades after the First World War, they have since resurfaced with a new relevance and urgency for twenty-first century society. 
   
  Written with the non-specialist in mind, yet drawing on the rich resources of post-millennial scholarship on Elgar, as well as geographical studies of place, the book also includes many new insights relating to such aspects of Elgar’s output as his use of landscape typology in The Apostles, and his encounter with Modernism in the late chamber music. It also calls on the resources of contemporary social commentary, poetry and, especially, English landscape art to place Elgar and his thought in the broader cultural milieu of his time. A survey of recent recordings is included, in the hope that listeners, both familiar and unfamiliar with Elgar’s music, will feel inspired to embark on a voyage of (re)discovery of its endlessly rewarding treasures.

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  Abbott and Costello: Hunting Guide

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Abbott and Costello talk about the butter and meat shortages. Abbott and Costello go hunting in the north woods with guest Claire Trevor as a guide.

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  Picasso in the atelier

  Teresa Ocaña, Neil Cox, Brigitte...

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  Catalog of the exhibition held at Fundación Mapfre in Madrid in 2014.The book includes all the images from the exhibition and discusses in depth the importance of Picasso workshop space as a place of experimentation for the artist.

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  Scottish Artists in an Age of...

  Bill Hare

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  The visual arts throughout the post-war era have made an invaluable contribution to the cultural development of modern and contemporary Scotland. Joan Eardley, Alan Davie, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Boyle Family, Craigie Aitchison, Barbara Rae John Bellany, Alexander Moffat, John McLean, Bill Scott, Joyce Cairns, Steven Campbell, Ken Currie, Lys Hansen, Alison Watt, Douglas Gordon and Kevin Harman – these are some of the artists whose work reflects the radical and complex transformations of the post-war period. These Scottish artists not only observed and absorbed the socio-economic and technological changes taking place during this era, but also devised a wide range of innovative ways to represent and creatively re-present those changes and their powerful impact on our times. Through a compilation of in-depth interviews with the artists themselves and accompanying critical essays, Bill Hare here examines the richly diverse work of these important figures in modern and contemporary visual culture, revealing the intellectual power and artistic imagination of those who have created one of the greatest eras in the history of Scottish art.

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  Reframing Spirituality

  Joel Kramer, Ph.D. Diana Alstad

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  Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer feel there is a tremendous amount of human potential that is untapped, but we have been stunted by various beliefs, limited identities, and rigid worldviews. In particular, they feel spiritual traditions make people feel inadequate and bad about themselves for not being selfless enough and for being self-centered.

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