The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays

Tom Stoppard

Summary

Culled from nearly twenty years of the playwright’s career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard’s dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard’s sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire.Includes:The Real Inspector Hound”After Margritte”Dirty Linen”New-Found-Land”Dogg’s Hamlet”Cahoot’s Macbeth”

Available since: 05/16/2011.

Other books that might interest you

The Upstart Crow

Vincent Dowling

The story of Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare. In conversation at the Globe Theatre, she meets Richard Burbage, a close friend and colleague of Will and learns the stories that give her understanding of her relationship with her estranged father.

Show book

Behind Enemy Lines and Other...

Joe Ruzvidzo

Behind Enemy Lines is a collection of stories about ordinary people and anti-heroes dragged into a search for meaning in their lives - whether it is a simple search for identity and love or a bigger struggle for Africa's political freedom. The canvas of their actions, motivations, and circumstances is a Zimbabwe of the past, present, and future. Humorous, acerbic, funny, and tragic, the stories cover the whole gamut of emotions.

Show book

The Essential Muriel Rukeyser -...

Muriel Rukeyser

The definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey 
 
Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her impassioned poetry was often seen as a mode of social protest, but it was also heralded for its deep emotional impact; its personal perspective; forthright discussion of the female experience, particularly sex and single parenthood at a time when these topics were largely taboo; and its wide-ranging exploration of genre and form. As Adrienne Rich wrote: “Muriel Rukeyser’s poetry is unequalled in the twentieth-century United States…She pushes us…to enlarge our sense of what poetry is about in the world, and of the place of feelings and memory in politics.” 
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser represents the curation of Rukeyser’s most enduring and urgent work, gathered in one volume that spans the many decades of her life and career, and with an introduction from Natasha Trethewey, one of our most important contemporary poets.

Show book

Precious Sons

George Furth

Judith Ivey recreates her critically acclaimed Broadway performance as a tough, eccentric mother from Chicago's South Side. When she squares off against her husband over the fate of their "precious sons," shattering family secrets come to light. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barry Cullison, Chad Hutchison, Judith Ivey, Fred Savage and Judy Unger.

Show book

Hymn Collection 001

Various Various

Librivox volunteers sing twenty of their favourite hymns.All Glory Laud and Honor - Words translated from the Latin of Theodolph of Orleans; Tune: St. Theodulph by Melchior Teschner; harmony by William H. Monk.Amazing Grace - Tune: New Britain by James P. Carrell and David S. Clayton, Harmony by Edwin Othello Excell.Be Thou My Vision - Tune: Slane (Irish traditional).Blessed Assurance - Tune: Assurance, by Phoebe Knapp. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing - Tune: Nettleton by John Wyeth.Dear Lord and Father of Mankind - Music: Repton by Charles Parry. For The Beauty of the Earth - Tune: Dix by Conrad Kocher. His Eye is on the Sparrow - Tune: His Eye is on the Sparrow by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel.I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Tune first found in Kentucky Harmony by Ananias Davisson.I Sing the Almighty Power of God - Tune: Forest Green (Trad. English), arr. by Ralph Vaughan Williams.I Surrender All - Tune: I surrender all by Winfield Scott Weeden.It is Well with My Soul - Tune: Ville du Havre by Philip Paul Bliss.Just As I Am - Tune: Woodworth by William B. Bradbury.My Jesus I Love Thee - Tune: Gordon by Adoniram J. Gordon.Rock of Ages - Tune: Toplady by Thomas Hastings.Softly and Tenderly - Words and Music by Will Thompson.Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus - Tune: Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus by William James Kirkpatrick.Trust and Obey - Tune: Trust and Obey, by Daniel B. Towner.We Gather Together - Arrangement and Latin translation: Eduard Kremser; English translation: Theodore Baker.

Show book

Midsummer Night's Dream (version 4)

William Shakespeare

Even people who claim to hate Shakespearean comedy have to admit that they love A Midsummer Night’s Dream.The original play is already naturally divided into three realms: the mortal world, the faerie realm and the play within the play, thus it presents the perfect opportunity to double and triple cast the same actors. So it was really only a matter of time till somebody came up with the crazy idea to stage the whole thing with only three people.Those crazy people are Tony Addison, John Burlinson and Sonia. The outcome of their collaboration is a 3 hour tour-de-force full of surprises: special effects, music, songs. True to the Shakespearean spirit, cross-gender casting was a must, so don't be alarmed when Titania (who will shatter all your preconceptions of the term "fairy queen" forever) enters the stage.Now you're forewarned, and if you still think you're ready, settle back in your armchair and let a bit of faerie into your world. We hope you enjoy the ride.(Summary by Tony Addison, John Burlinson and Sonia)

Show book