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  Faust ( First Part)

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  Goethe’s Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two.

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  Spid the Spider Plans a Birthday...

  John Eaton

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  It’s almost Bid’s birthday and Spid is worried. He wants it to be Bid’s best birthday ever because she is his most favourite spidling in the whole wide world. But there’s a problem. No matter how hard he thinks, he doesn’t have a single birthday present idea anywhere in his worried head …

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  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare

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  Magic, fairies, young lovers chasing each other through a forest, a man with a donkey's head, and impish Puck wreaking havoc right and left.  What's going on here?  It's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare at his most fanciful.  The play opens with Theseus, Duke of Athens, preparing for his wedding.  Egeus complains to Theseus that his daughter Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius.  When Hermia is given the choice between marriage to Demetrius or life as a nun, she and her true love Lysander flee into the forest.  Demetrius follows them; and Helena, who loves Demetrius, follows him.  Also in the forest are Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, at odds with one another.  At Oberon's behest, Puck causes Demetrius to fall in love with Helena -- oops, he missed, that was Lysander instead.  Mayhem ensues.  In the meantime, a group of bumbling craftsmen rehearses a play.  Puck gives one of them, Bottom, the head of an ass and makes Titania fall in love with him.  Further hilarity results as Bottom sees nothing at all odd about this.  Eventually everything is straightened out, Bottom and the rest "perform" their play, there is a triple wedding, and Puck assures us the whole thing has been a dream.  Number of quotes you know: 5 (what fools these mortals be).  Useful insults: 19.  (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden) 
  Cast: 
  Theseus, Duke of Athens – Mark F. SmithEgeus, father to Hermia; and Snout, a tinker – John LiederLysander, in love with Hermia – mbDemetrius, in love with Hermia – David O'ConnellPhilostrate, master of the revels – PhilippaQuince, a carpenter – Brian EdwardsSnug, a joiner – Elizabeth KlettBottom, a weaver – Simon TaylorFlute, a bellows-mender – David NicolStarveling, a tailor – Jessica MillerHippolyta, queen of the Amazons – Cori SamuelHermia, daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander – Laurie Anne WaldenHelena, in love with Demetrius – Rosalind WillsOberon, king of the fairies – Fr. Richard Zeile of DetroitTitania, queen of the fairies – Deborah IrvingPuck, or Robin Goodfellow – Karen SavagePeaseblossom – Larysa JaworskiCobweb – Charlene V. SmithMoth – Alana JordanMustardseed – Jamie Ash YoungStage directions – Paul Williams 
  Fairy song composed and performed by Rosalind Wills; performed by Rosalind Wills</a&gt

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  Abbott and Costello: Costello...

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Bud has had a cold. Spring is officially here. Lou is going steady with Sylvia Specticals. They talk about Frank Nelson coming on the show. AC talk about hunting. Professor Melonhead helps Lou with his posture. Bud wants Frank Nelson to teach Lou how to get women. A director wants Lou to be a stunt man for Mr Nelson.

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  Antony Gormley on Sculpture

  Antony Gormley

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  One of the most exciting sculptors of our time, Antony Gormley is the creator of breathtaking public installations. Even casual fans will recognize Event Horizon, a collection of thirty-one life-size casts of the artist’s body that have been installed atop buildings in places like London’s South Bank and New York’s Madison Square, and Field, formed by tens of thousands of standing clay figurines overflowing across a room’s floor. Projects like these demonstrate Gormley’s ongoing interest in exploring the human form and its relationships with the rest of the material world, and in Antony Gormley on Sculpture, he shares valuable insight into his work and the history of sculpture itself. Combining commentary on his own works with discussions of other artists and the Eastern religious traditions that have inspired him, Gormley offers wisdom on topics such as the body in space, how to approach an environment when conceiving an installation, bringing mindfulness and internal balance to sculpture, and much more. Lavishly illustrated, this book will be of interest to not only art lovers, curators, and critics, but also artists and art students. Dynamic and thought-provoking, Antony Gormley on Sculpture is essential reading for anyone fascinated by sculpture and its long and complex history as a medium.

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  A Subversive Gospel - Flannery...

  Michael Mears Bruner

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  Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL) Book of the Year - Literary Criticism
  The good news of Jesus Christ is a subversive gospel, and following Jesus is a subversive act.
  These notions were embodied in the literary work of American author Flannery O'Connor, whose writing was deeply informed by both her Southern context and her Christian faith. In this Studies in Theology and the Arts volume, theologian Michael Bruner explores O'Connor's theological aesthetic and argues that she reveals what discipleship to Christ entails by subverting the traditional understandings of beauty, truth, and goodness through her fiction. In addition, Bruner challenges recent scholarship by exploring the little-known influence of Baron Friedrich von Hügel, a twentieth-century Roman Catholic theologian, on her work.
  Bruner's study thus serves as a guide for those who enjoy reading O'Connor and—even more so—those who, like O'Connor herself, follow the subversive path of the crucified and risen one.
  The Studies in Theology and the Arts  series encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.

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