Drama History category: 1664 books
U.P. Reader -- Issue #1
Bringing Upper Michigan Literature to the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure chest of writers and poets, all seeking to capture the diverse experiences of Yooper Life. Now U.P. Reader offers a rich collection of their voices that embraces the U.P.'s natural beauty and way of life, along with a few surprises.
The...
The City and the Stage
Performance, Genre, and Gender in Plato's Laws
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
What role did poetry, music, song, and dance play in the social and political life of the ancient Greek city? How did philosophy respond to, position itself against, and articulate its own ambitions in relation to the poetic tradition? How did ancient philosophers theorize and envision alternatives...
Somebody in the White House Looks Like Me
Thoughts and Poems of Ordinary Black People on the Election of President Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In 2008, the United States made history when it elected the first African American to serve as its countrys president. This was a momentous occasion for both black and white Americans. In Somebody in the White House Looks like me, author Rosetta L. Hopkins shares interviews of average people in the...
by Dava Sobel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Using her deep knowledge, her skills as a storyteller, and her imagination, Dava Sobel illuminates one of history's most significant and far-reaching meetings. In the spring of 1539, a young German mathematician--Georg Joachim Rheticus--journeyed hundreds of miles to northern Poland to meet the legendary,...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Euripides was one of the greatest Greek tragedians and is considered one of the most important figures in ancient literature. Euripides is thought to have written close to 100 plays and almost 20 of them have survived. This edition of Rhesus includes a table of contents.
Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings (LOA #190)
Some Chinese Ghosts / Chita / Two Years in the French West Indies / Youma / selected journalism and letters
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A translator of Flaubert and Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn was the master of a gaudy and sometimes self-consciously decadent literary style, but he was also a tough-minded and keenly observant reporter, with an eye for the offbeat, the sensual, and occasionally the gruesome. The writings of his American...
Julius Caesar In Plain and Simple English
(A Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Julius Caesar has been helmed one of the greatest tragedies of all times--it has it all! Love! Conspiracy! Murder! Betrayal! And if you just don't understand it, then you are not alone.
If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then we can help you out. Our books and apps have...
Cornelius
The Origins of The Dragon.
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2012
The young Cornelius marches with the fifth legion to chastise the barbarian hordes of Dacia who dared cross Roman borders; he dreams of glory, wealth and power, even thinking of a later life of ease in the senate. Dreams are but dust in the wind and in a decisive battle the legion is crushed....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he has also published numerous volumes of poetry; biographies of William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and...
Blood Orchid
An Unnatural History of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden’s dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own reality, Bowden visits dying friends in skid...
by Gil Lefebvre
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Growing up an orphan in the care of the Benedictine Sisters in post World War II Germany, Lina clings to the simplicity of her sheltered life, even as she longs for a taste of adventure and an identity of her own. As a college student, on a trip to the Louvre in Paris, she becomes transfixed- haunted...
Greek Tragedy and the Emotions (Routledge Revivals)
An Introductory Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
According to Aristotle the main purpose of tragedy is the manipulation of emotions, and yet there are relatively few accessible studies of the precise dynamics of emotion in the Athenian theatre.
In Greek Tragedy and the Emotions, first published in 1993,W.B. Stanford reviews the evidence for...
Frenchtown Chronicles of Prairie du Chien
History and Folklore from Wisconsin's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Albert Coryer, the grandson of a fur trade voyageur-turned-farmer, had a gift for storytelling. Born in 1877, he grew up in Prairie du Chien hearing tales of days gone by from his parents, grandparents, and neighbors who lived in the Frenchtown area. Throughout his life, Albert soaked up the local...
Futures of Chinese Cinema
Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
With the burgeoning interest in Chinese film, this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints and shifting viewing practices have shaped perceptions of Chinese screen cultures. Futures of Chinese Cinema contains essays by international scholars...