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How would you feel about sitting in front of that nice old village pub on a sunny afternoon while convoys of 40-ton tankers roll past six feet away? Deerland Energy's plans to drill for shale gas in the pretty village of Fenstock are going well. The company is looking at big profits. They...

A trio of compelling, cutting edge plays on notorious rebels including radical feminist and Warhol attacker Valerie Solanas ("SCUM: The Valerie Solanas Story"), Dada instigator Arthur Cravan ("Art Was Here"), and a twisting tale of Jack the Ripper and T.S. Eliot ("Jack the...

The Third Daughter is a nonfiction and fiction adaptation of the story of how Princess Diana proved Viscount Althorps desire for a male child wrong by giving birth to future kings of the English dynasty. The characters are presented in the great chain of being, and the language of presentation is...

Some poems are better written in flesh . . . After Wall Street and Tahrir Square, after ISIS and the NSA, after Ferguson and Eric Garner: here come the poets. In a downtown poetry slam with a place on the team to be won, eight young poets prepare to do battle. But backstage it's all...

This excellent introduction to the six extant plays of Aeschylus is fully revised and updated, with additional further reading, ideal for the student unfamiliar with these earliest of Greek tragedies. Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians and lived from 525/524 to 465/455. He...

A scandal half-stifled is worse than a scandal. One is at everybody's mercy. Backstage at a hung parliament, visionary Independent Henry Trebell is co-opted by the Tories to push through a controversial Bill. Pursuing his cause with missionary zeal, he's barely distracted by his brief affair...

La bruja, poema, cuento, pequeña obra en cuarenta y dos instantáneas, es la historia de cómo la maldad toca tres vidas y las maldice. La bruja sale de su casa para marcar, ultrajar con su pestilente paso todo lo que toca, hiriendo al cuerpo, secuestrando al alma. La bruja es una metamorfosis que...

John Griffith "Jack" London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with his mother Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. Although her wounds...

Everything can be quantified. All worth can be quantified. Artistic worth. Human worth. Material worth. Everything. Some food is simply better than other food. Isn't it? Some clothes are better than other clothes. Aren't they? The last week of a massive international tour and rock star Paul...

"Everything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls" – 4.48 Psychosis How on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note? The question comes from a review of 4.48 Psychosis’ inaugural production, the year after Sarah Kane took her own life, but this book...

Athalie est une tragédie en cinq actes et en alexandrins, du dramaturge et poète français Jean Racine (1639 – 1699). Athalie, veuve du roi de Juda, gouverne le pays et croit avoir éliminé tout le reste de la famille royale. Elle a abandonné la religion juive en faveur du culte de Baal....

Ion (Iôn) est une tragédie de l'auteur grec classique Euripide (480 av. J.-C. – 406 av. J.-C.). Résumé : Créuse, fille d'Érechthée, roi d'Athènes, fut séduite par Apollon. De cette union naquit un fils, Ion, qu'elle mit au monde secrètement et exposa dans la grotte même...

Le Cyclope (Le Kyklôps) est un drame satyrique d'Euripide (480 av. J.-C. – 406 av. J.-C.). Résumé : La scène s'ouvre sur le personnage de Silène sortant d'une grotte. Il raconte qu'après avoir été toujours aux côtés de Dionysos, il en fut séparé par la colère d'Héra,...

Over the past decades there has been something of a revolution in the way we view classical drama generally and Euripides in particular. This book, updated in a second edition, reflects that revolution and aims to show how Euripides was continually reinventing himself. A truly Protean figure, he seems...