Ivan R Dee imprint: 116 books

by Henrik Ibsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990

Ibsen's psychological masterpiece is a mordant attack on society and its standards as viewed through the tragedy of a woman's life.
by Aldous Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993

A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity-these are the elements of Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely. With his customary wit and intellectual sophistication, Huxley pursues...

Ape and Essence

A Novel

by Aldous Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1992

When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia...
by Aristophanes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991

Aristophanes' great anti-war drama glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Mr. Rudall's new translation recaptures the splendid variety of diction in Aristophanes, so that instead of a heavily poetic presentation the play becomes highly theatrical.

Working on the Play and the Role

The Stanislavsky Method for Analyzing the Characters in a Drama

by Irina Levin, Igor Levin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992

In order to create a living character on the stage, the actor needs more than masterful technique. He must work on the play in a way that will enable him to understand the meaning of each of the roles in it, and the nature of the relations between these roles. Stanislavsky developed his method of...

Mis-directing the Play

An Argument Against Contemporary Theatre

by Terry McCabe
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008

Terry McCabe, himself an accomplished stage director and teacher of theatre arts, here attacks what he calls the growing decadence that plagues contemporary stage directing. He argues for a radical reorganization of the director's view of his role. It has become an article of faith in the theatre,...
by Henrik Ibsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007

Nicholas Rudall, whose acclaimed translations of Ibsen and the Greek classic playwrights have brought a fresh perspective to the American theater, turns his talents to one of the Norwegian dramatist's most provocative plays. In a rebuke to the Victorian notion of community as well as to the blessings...

Invasions

New Poems

by Adam Kirsch
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008

In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life. His connected poems use traditional forms to create a free, contemporary music amidst the omens of the post-September 11 world. Mr....
by Linda Apperson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998

Here is a practical, accessible introduction to one of the most complex jobs in theatre. Linda Apperson clearly and concisely leads the reader through the procedures and responsibilities of stage management, from auditions to closing night. What is “blocking”? How do you “call” a show? Who...

A Fever in Salem

A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials

by Laurie Winn Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 1999

This new interpretation of the New England Witch Trials offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused, Laurie Winn Carlson focuses on the afflicted. Systematically comparing the symptoms recorded in colonial...

Abstraction and Empathy

A Contribution to the Psychology of Style

by Wilhelm Worringer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997

Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but also for generations of creative writers and intellectuals is almost unprecedented. Starting from the notion...
by Geoffrey Blainey
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2003

A superb history of the world's people during the last four million years, beginning before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. Mr. Blainey explores the development of technology and skills, the rise of major religions, and the role of geography, considering...

Behemoth

The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944

by Franze Neumann
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009

Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine seriously the problem...
by Kenneth T. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992

For decades the most frightening example of bigotry and hatred in America, the Ku Klux Klan has usually been seen as a rural and small-town product–an expression of the decline of the countryside in the face of rising urban society. Kenneth Jackson's important book revises conventional wisdom about...
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