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Breaking the Silence of Bullying is a play for educators and community leaders written to ignite a discussion about bullying. Each of its three acts illustrates examples of bullying endured by Cheryl, a middle school student struggling with the loss of her mother at home and the cruelty of one particular...

*You are not at liberty to avenge the pornography industry in this country. We have the censorship laws for that. Masterpieces* opens on three couples having dinner in a restaurant, exchanging sexist jokes. The response is varied: some of them laugh uproariously, some of them uncomfortably,...

Contemporary Plays from Iraq is a ground-breaking collection of Middle Eastern drama translated into English for the very first time. With works from both established and emerging male and female playwrights, written in country and in exile, this volume offers current Iraqi perspectives on a war and...

Go where there's violence. Silicon Valley. The future. A rocket launches. Luke is an aerospace billionaire who can talk to anyone. But God is talking to him. He sets out to change the world. Only violence stands in his way. Christopher Shinn's gripping play received its world...

Do you have the temperament to be a successful fiction writer? This is a non-fiction article that asks readers if they have the temperament to be successful fiction writers. A test is presented with a table at the end that predicts the reader's chances of being successful. The author is a fiction writer of over 200 fiction pieces of various Lengths.

This is the first-ever, full-length study of Badal Sircar's Third Theatre. Sircar was a very prominent playwright of modern Bengali Theatre. It challenges some of the well-established notions of the Third Theatre. It brings to the fore the lost voices of some members of the Third Theatre. It has some rare photographs of Shatabdi, Sircar's Theatre group.

- I had a dream where every time I ever did anything or went anywhere or said anything, people would say: 'Someone else just did that, you're just copying them aren't you?' Turns out I never had a single original thought my whole life. How scary is that? - That's funny. I had that dream too. In...

A tragedy of maritime decline, Bound follows the fortunes of six trawlermen from Devon as they embark on one final voyage. Compelled by the threat of bankruptcy, the ageing fishing trawler The Violet is forced out into treacherous weather. Risking storms, friendships and relationships ashore, will...

Jules César est une tragédie du dramaturge et écrivain anglais William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616). Elle relate la conspiration contre Jules César, son assassinat et ses conséquences. Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.

Postfazione Ho pensato di tradurre Il giardino dei ciliegi quando mi sono accorto che gli alberi in questione non sono ciliegi, ma amareni. Il dramma ruota intorno all'impoverimento della famiglia dovuto proprio al fatto che le amarene non sono trasportabili (e quindi commerciabili) a meno di sottoporle...

"Le fenicie" (è una tragedia di Euripide, che tratta un episodio del Ciclo tebano. Venne rappresentata per la prima volta nel 410 o 409 a.C. e faceva parte di una trilogia comprendente anche le tragedie Enomao e Crisippo (oggi perdute). L'argomento affrontato è lo stesso dei Sette contro...

"Il ciclope" è un dramma satiresco del drammaturgo greco Euripide. È una parodia dell'episodio del ciclope Polifemo, narrato nell'Odissea (libro IX).   Euripide (Atene, 485 a.C. – Pella, 407-406 a.C.) fu un drammaturgo greco antico. È considerato, insieme ad Eschilo e Sofocle, uno...

"Edipo re" è una tragedia di Sofocle, ritenuta il suo capolavoro, nonché il più paradigmatico esempio dei meccanismi della tragedia greca. L’opera si inserisce nel cosiddetto ciclo tebano, ossia la storia mitologica della città di Tebe, e narra come Edipo, re carismatico ed amato,...

"Antigone" è una tragedia di Sofocle. L'opera racconta la storia di Antigone che decide di dare sepoltura al cadavere del fratello Polinice contro la volontà del nuovo re di Tebe, Creonte. Creonte trova intollerabile l’opposizione di Antigone non solo perché si contravviene a un suo...