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From stage to page critical reception of Irish plays in the London theatre, 1925-1996 / by Harris, Peter James

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Practicing the city : early modern London on stage / by Levine, Nina S., 1950-

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Practicing the city : early modern London on stage / by Levine, Nina S., 1950-

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Robertson Davies, playwright a search for the self on the Canadian stage / by Stone-Blackburn, Susan, 1941-

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Buffoonery in Irish drama staging twentieth-century post-colonial stereotypes / by Heininge, Kathleen, 1961-

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The Henry VI plays by Hampton-Reeves, Stuart

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history 1950-…”
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Sherman's march in myth and memory by Caudill, Edward

Table of Contents: “…Long remember : Sherman on stage and screen, in song and poetry --…”
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Entertaining the nation : American drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / by Miller, Tice L.

Table of Contents: “…British drama and the colonial American stage -- American drama of the new republic -- Drama in the age of Jackson -- The age of melodrama -- Realism and American drama.…”
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The Roman Salute : Cinema, History, Ideology / by Winkler, Martin M.

Table of Contents: “…Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii -- Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on stage -- Early cinema : American and European epics -- Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics -- Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria -- Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol -- From D'Annunzio to Mussolini -- Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis -- Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen from Quo vadis to Rome -- Cinema : from Salome to Alexander -- Television : from Star trek to Rome -- Conclusion.…”
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Texts and traditions religion in Shakespeare, 1592-1604 / by Groves, Beatrice, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Drama and the word : the Bible on the early modern stage -- Shakespeare's incarnational aesthetic : the mystery plays and Catholicism -- Comedic form and Paschal motif in the first and second quartos of Romeo and Juliet -- "I am not he shall buyld the Lord a house" : religious imagery and the succession to the English throne in King John -- "Covering discretion with a coat of folly" : the redemptive self-fashioning of Hal -- "Usurp the beggary he was never born to" : Measure for measure and the questioning of divine kingship.…”
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Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices /

Table of Contents: “…Culture, criticism, theory since 1990 / Scott Brewster -- Home places: Irish Drama since 1990 / Clare Wallace and Ondřej Pílný -- Women on stage in the 1990s: foregrounding the body and performance in plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr / Mária Kurdi -- The stuff of tragedy? …”
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Breaking the mould literary representations of Irish Catholicism /

Table of Contents: “…: Seamus Heaney and the Real of Catholicism / EUGENE O'BRIEN -- "Hopping Round Knock Shrine in the Falling Rain": Revision and Catholicism in the Poetry of Paul Durcan / JOHN MCDONAGH -- "To sleep is safe, to dream is dangerous": Catholicism on Stage in Independent Ireland / VICTOR MERRIMAN -- Effing the Ineffable: Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee and the Interrogation of Transcendence / TONY CORBETT.…”
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Noscendi Nilum cupido imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus / by Manolaraki, Eleni

Table of Contents: “…Egypt and the Nile in Julio-Claudian Rome: Lucan -- Pompey's Nile -- Beyond Pompey's Nile -- Acoreus -- Acoreus, author of the Nile -- Physics: the Nile between earth and sky -- Ethics: Lucan and Seneca on the Nile -- Poetics: the bard's song and the river of poetry -- The bard's song -- The river of poetry -- Flavian Rome: Egypt and the Nile in Flavian Rome -- Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica -- The Nile in Cyzicus -- The Nile in the Bosphorus -- The Nile in Aea -- The Nile on the Danube -- Statius' Thebaid -- The Nile on Perseus' hill -- The Nile on the Langia -- The Nile in Athens -- Statius' Siluae -- Producing Egypt, staging Isis -- Remapping the land: from Egypt to Rome and back again -- Relating to religion: Anubis, Phoenix, and Apis -- Revisiting history: Alexander and Cleopatra -- The Antonine and Severan periods: The Nile and Egypt in the Antonine and Severan periods -- The emperor's Nile: the younger Pliny and Fronto -- Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris -- Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana -- Sage and emperor on the Nile -- Reclaiming the Nile -- Imagining the Nile.…”
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Paging New Jersey a literary guide to the Garden State / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey luck -- Rosamund's vision -- Laying down the law -- One for the money -- Our guys -- Lost legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- The Hindenburg disaster -- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of greatness: a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey -- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey.…”
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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout -- Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos.…”
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Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) /

Table of Contents: “…Oyarbide Magaña -- Enemy treasures : the making and marketing of Spanish Comedia in the Amsterdam Schouwburg / Frans Blom -- 'The barke is bad, but the tree good' : hispanophilia, hispanophobia and Spanish honour in English and Dutch plays (c. 1630-1670) / Rena Bood -- James Salgado : anti-Spanish sentiment and the Popish Plot / Antonio Cortijo Ocaña -- From hispanophobia to Quixotephilia : the politics of quixotism in the British long eighteenth century / Pedro Javier Pardo -- Spanish politicking in British periodical reviews, 1808-1814 / Susan Valladares -- Hispanophobia and hispanophilia in the Netherlands : continuities and ruptures in the nineteenth century / Lotte Jensen -- From azoteas to dungeons : Spain as archaeology of the despotism in Alexander Dallas's novel Vargas (1822) / Fernando Durán López -- Discordant visions : Spain and the stages of London in 1823 / Diego Saglia -- Historical fiction, cultural transfer and the recycling of the Black Legend between the Low Countries and Britain : a nineteenth-century case study / Raphaël Ingelbien -- 'Covering the skeletons with flesh and blood' : Spanish Golden Age drama in English and Dutch nineteenth-century literary histories / Yolanda Rodríguez Perez.…”
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Like a Captive Bird : Gender and Virtue in Plutarch / by Warren, Lunette

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