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The performing arts in medieval Islam shadow play and popular poetry in Ibn Daniyāl's Mamluk Cairo / by Guo, Li, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Eye doctor and street buffoon -- Court panegyrist and jester -- Satirist and shadow playwright -- Legacy and controversy. The making of the Arabic shadow play -- The ornament of the poetry -- The many faces of a performer -- The play. …”
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The performing arts in medieval Islam shadow play and popular poetry in Ibn Daniyāl's Mamluk Cairo / by Guo, Li, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Eye doctor and street buffoon -- Court panegyrist and jester -- Satirist and shadow playwright -- Legacy and controversy. The making of the Arabic shadow play -- The ornament of the poetry -- The many faces of a performer -- The play. …”
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Eugene O'Neill's America desire under democracy / by Diggins, John P.

Table of Contents: “…Knowers unknown to ourselves -- The misery of the misbegotten -- The playwright as thinker -- Anarchism: the politics of the "long loneliness" -- Beginnings of American history -- "Lust for possession" -- Possessed and self-dispossessed -- "Is you a nigger, nigger?" …”
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Eugene O'Neill's America desire under democracy / by Diggins, John P.

Table of Contents: “…Knowers unknown to ourselves -- The misery of the misbegotten -- The playwright as thinker -- Anarchism: the politics of the "long loneliness" -- Beginnings of American history -- "Lust for possession" -- Possessed and self-dispossessed -- "Is you a nigger, nigger?" …”
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Nietzsche and the Anglo-Saxon tradition by Mabille, Louise

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the English type -- Englishmen underground ; or, The case of the abdicated playwright -- Hobbes against the world -- Locke, life, language -- Hume on the use and abuse of scepticism for life -- "Some have suspected me of Darwinism" -- The impossible John Stuart Mill -- How Monsieur George Eliot added insult to injury -- Wrong but romantic -- Shakespeare, Sterne, and stage -- The great American who loved the world.…”
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Nietzsche and the Anglo-Saxon tradition by Mabille, Louise

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the English type -- Englishmen underground ; or, The case of the abdicated playwright -- Hobbes against the world -- Locke, life, language -- Hume on the use and abuse of scepticism for life -- "Some have suspected me of Darwinism" -- The impossible John Stuart Mill -- How Monsieur George Eliot added insult to injury -- Wrong but romantic -- Shakespeare, Sterne, and stage -- The great American who loved the world.…”
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The Court of Comedy : Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens / by Major, Wilfred E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…. : the age of Pericles -- The young comic playwrights attack, 425-421 B.C.E. -- The years of confidence, 421-414 B.C.E. -- Crawling from the wreckage, 411 B.C.E. -- Tongues, frogs, and the last stand.…”
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The Court of Comedy : Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens / by Major, Wilfred E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…. : the age of Pericles -- The young comic playwrights attack, 425-421 B.C.E. -- The years of confidence, 421-414 B.C.E. -- Crawling from the wreckage, 411 B.C.E. -- Tongues, frogs, and the last stand.…”
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The villainous stage : crime plays on Broadway and in the West End / by Lachman, Marvin

Table of Contents: “…Early days -- Adaptations and sensation -- History and mystery on stage -- Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street on stage -- Series detectives and rogues -- Agatha Christie, playwright -- Crook plays -- The theatre of the mind -- Trial and error: courtrooms on stage -- The stage side of the triangle -- The spy who came onto the stage -- A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre -- Spoofing the mystery -- Social studies I: race, ethnicity, and religion -- Social studies II: criminal justice -- Whodunits -- Just in crime: the musical.…”
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The villainous stage : crime plays on Broadway and in the West End / by Lachman, Marvin

Table of Contents: “…Early days -- Adaptations and sensation -- History and mystery on stage -- Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street on stage -- Series detectives and rogues -- Agatha Christie, playwright -- Crook plays -- The theatre of the mind -- Trial and error: courtrooms on stage -- The stage side of the triangle -- The spy who came onto the stage -- A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre -- Spoofing the mystery -- Social studies I: race, ethnicity, and religion -- Social studies II: criminal justice -- Whodunits -- Just in crime: the musical.…”
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Il Trovatore The Troubadour / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Il Trovatore The Troubadour / by Fisher, Burton D.

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The theatre of Shelley by Mulhallen, Jacqueline

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The theatre of Shelley by Mulhallen, Jacqueline

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Political action in V�aclav Havel's thought the responsibility of resistance / by Popescu, Delia, 1978-

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Political action in V�aclav Havel's thought the responsibility of resistance / by Popescu, Delia, 1978-

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Martin Sherman skipping over quicksand / by Dace, Letitia

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Martin Sherman skipping over quicksand / by Dace, Letitia

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Eminent Maricones : Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me / by Manrique, Jaime, 1949-

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Eminent Maricones : Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me / by Manrique, Jaime, 1949-

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