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Etymologies
A collection of ritual texts, parables, and performances from one of the most singular voices in contemporary theatre.
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Postmodern bengali theatre
This volume explores postmodern Bengali theatre and its global significance through essays by scholars and practitioners. It highlights key dramatists like Bratya Basu and Badal Sircar, examining how their works challenge Western norms and shape Indian and Commonwealth theatre in the 21st century.
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Rehearsals of manhood
A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most brilliant and original classical scholars of his generationWhen John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript containing a highly original interpretation of the development and meaning of ancient Greek drama. Rehearsals ...
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Ivanov
The eighth title in TCG’s Classic Russian Drama series.
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A strange loop
A radical, metafictional musical wherein a queer black writer confronts the impossibility of fully understanding the self.
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How to read chinese drama in chinese
This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. A companion to How to Read Chinese Drama designed for Chinese-language learners, it provides a versatile introduction to traditional Chinese plays for readers who want to experience Chinese drama in the original lan...
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Yoshitsune and the thousand cherry trees
This book carefully translates a seminal work of Japanese puppet theater, written in 1747, during the the genre's golden age. The editor includes background information on the play and a bibliography.
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The columbia anthology of modern japanese drama
This anthology is the first to survey the full range of modern Japanese drama and make available Japan's best and most representative twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century works in one volume. It opens with a comprehensive introduction to Meiji-period drama and follows with six chronological ...
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Shakespeare: his infinite variety
The essays included in this volume attempt to explain Shakespeare’s continued popularity worldwide. How is it possible for works written with a quill over four hundred years ago by a man in ruffs and tights to resonate with the hearts and minds of contemporary recipients all over the world?
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Joy, despair, illusion, dreams
Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams presents a selection of Nō plays, magnificently rendered in English by Royall Tyler, an eminent scholar and translator of classical Japanese literature.
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Wondrous brutal fictions
Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyō and ko-jōruri puppet theaters, many translated into English for the first time.
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Chushingura (the treasury of loyal retainers)
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Fourteen little red huts and other plays
This essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays presents The Hurdy-Gurdy, Fourteen Little Red Huts, and Grandmother's Little Hut. Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the...
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Bacon/giacometti
A dialogue between Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti written in the form of a play.
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City of the dead and song of the night
Presented in English for the first time in this book are two plays by Gao Xingjian originally written in Chinese: City of the Dead and Song of the Night. City of the Dead is the first of Gao Xingjian's plays to focus fully on the male-female relationship. In this work, he transforms a wellknown a...
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The major plays of chikamatsu
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Tragic play
Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age after tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes t...
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How to read chinese drama
This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both text and performance. Each chapter offers an accessible overview and critical analysis of one or more plays—canonical as well as less frequently studied works—and their ...
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Sugawara and the secrets of calligraphy
A complete translation of a major Japanese puppet drama written in 1746, with an investigation into the play's many authors and the use of bunraku puppets.
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The flower princess
Princess Changping, or Di Nü Hua, has become the most renowned Cantonese opera since its 1957 premier in Hong Kong. The opera is a serious political drama played out between the Han and non-Han following the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and the plot pits romantic love against the lofty Confucian ide...
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Apocolocyntosis
Apocolocyntosis depicts a posthumous trial in which the recently deceased Emperor Claudius makes the case for his elevation to the company of the gods.
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Reading the past, understanding the present
This book is a collection of essays by students from nine European universities, who took part in a strategic partnership aiming to promote historical understanding of the crises plaguing Europe and the world today. They examine early modern theater, the works of Shakespeare in particular, and co...
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The lost history of roman theatre
Investigating the origins of theatre in archaic RomeTheatre was an integral part of Roman civic, religious and political life for nearly a thousand years, but our understanding of it is skewed by the haphazard survival of usable evidence. The widely accepted date for the beginning of Roman drama ...
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Appropriate/an octoroon: plays (revised edition)
Includes Revised Broadway version of Appropriate Winner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative writers. In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a...
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Gloria: a life (tcg edition)
A vital new biographical play based on the life of feminist and activist Gloria Steinem.
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Slave play
An audacious new play that explores the ways in which historical trauma affects the present-day intersections of race, gender, and sexuality.
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Leopoldstadt
**WINNER OF THE TONY AWARD FOR BEST PLAY**“Breathtaking . . . A play that asks what we owe our own imperfect memories . . . An epic, formatively brilliant work.”—Chris Jones, Chicago TribuneTom Stoppard’s humane and heartbreaking play of love, family and endurance.At the beginning of the twentiet...
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Exquisite agony
An poignant new play about love and life beyond death from the Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright of Anna in the Tropics.
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Cost of living (tcg edition)
A Pulitzer Prize-winning play that powerfully explores the realities of living with physical disabilities.
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The prisoner
Somewhere in the world, a man sits alone outside a prison. Who is he, and why is he there? Is it a choice, or a punishment?
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The sound inside
"A brutally beautiful fable about how writers live to write—and then forget to live." —David Cote, Observer When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student, Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly intense bond. As their lives...
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Ironbound & sanctuary city
“Majok has made it her mission to bring to the stage those characters who historically have played a subordinate role in the theater—the nameless, faceless workers who are hanging on by a thread.” —Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Two compelling, uncompromising plays about the immigrant expe...
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Pipeline (tcg edition)
A riveting new play from an award-winning playwright.
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The collected plays of chaim potok
First publication of the complete plays of Chaim Potok. With the exception of the The Chosen, none have been previously available.
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How to transcend a happy marriage (tcg edition)
A compelling new play about sexuality, boundaries, and transformation.
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Workers play time (vol 1)
Seven plays bring to life workers' struggles through the ages, keeping the tradition of political theatre alive and kicking.
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A doll's house, part 2 (tcg edition)
An incendiary new play that picks up fifteen years after the conclusion of Henrik Ibsen’s legendary portrait of a marriage in crisis.
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English / wish you were here
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama — English “Both English and Wish You Were Here are gentle character studies, where an accretion of tiny details adds up to something deeply emotional.” —Jeff Lunden, NPR In this two-play volume, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sanaz Toossi explores...
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400 kilometres
400 Kilometres is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor’s hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, a thirty-something urban professional, having discovered her roots as the Ojibway orphan Grace Wabung in Someday, and having visited her birth family on the Otter Lake R...
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Plays for the plague year
A stunning collection of plays from a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright that captures the societal rupture of the early days of COVID-19. On March 13, 2020, as theaters shut their doors and the world went into lockdown, Suzan-Lori Parks picked up her pen and set out to write a play every day. Wh...
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The theatre of fake news
This book examines the topic of ‘fake news’ through the lens of theatre and drama, looking at the way in which issues of audience, authorship, and accuracy are intertwined.
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My broken language: a theater jawn
Quiara Alegría Hudes’s stage adaptation of her much-lauded memoir is a joyous celebration of Puerto Rican womanhood in 1990s West Philadelphia. In this memoir-turned-play, Hudes showcases a handful of key life moments that mark subtle changes in her sense of self and her place in the world. Inte...
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A case for the existence of god
A heartrending yet hopeful play about two men’s parallel desires to build a secure foundation for their families even as everything around them is falling apart. At first glance, Ryan and Keith are two men in Twin Falls, Idaho, who have nothing in common. Ryan, a factory worker in the throes of ...
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Trouble in mind
“A masterpiece…Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday.” —Vulture Ahead of its time, Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran...
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The (post) mistress ebook
Canada’s most famous Indigenous playwright, Tomson Highway, sets his latest theatrical achievement, The (Post) Mistress, in a not-so-distant past, when sending letters through the mail was still vital to communicating with friends and loved ones, and the small-town post office was often the only ...
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Chimera
What makes Chimera so compelling is that Wendy Lill has lived almost all the roles the play dramatizes: NDP critic for both culture and persons with disabilities, she came to politics after a career in community health care and as a reporter for the CBC.This play arose from her experience as one ...
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Adventures of ali & ali and the axes of evil
In this elaborate agitprop theatrical collaboration, the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the “war on terror” are exposed as the propaganda vehicles for the neo-colonialism of the West that they are. “Ali Hakim” and “Ali Ababwa,” refugees from the imaginary country “Agraba,...
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The tragedy of hamlet
Hamlet (1601) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Inspired by Danish historian Saxo Grammatica’s legend of Amleth, which Shakespeare likely encountered in a retelling by French scholar Francois de Belleforest, Hamlet was written sometime between 1599 and 1601. Alongside Romeo and Juliet, it is o...
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Fat ham
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.Winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama.Juicy—a young, queer, Southern man, who i...
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