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The Shipment and Lear

Author : Young Jean Lee
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366664
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book The Shipment and Lear written by Young Jean Lee and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by the adventurous playwright Young Jean Lee. . . . Ms. Lee does not shy away from prodding the audience’s racial sensitivities—or insensitivities—in a style that is sometimes sly and subtle, sometimes as blunt as a poke in the eye.”—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times “Lee is a facetious provocateur; she does whatever she can to get under our skins—with laughs and with raw, brutal talk . . . [and with] so ingenious a twist, such a radical bit of theatrical smoke and mirrors, that we are forced to confront our own preconceived notions of race.”—Hilton Als, The New Yorker With The Shipment, her latest work taking on identity politics, Young Jean Lee “confirms herself as one of the best experimental playwrights in America” (Time Out New York). The Korean American theater artist has taken on cultural images of black America, in a play that begins with sketches of African American clichés—an angry, foul-mouthed comedian; an aspiring young rapper who ends up in prison—and ends with a seemingly naturalistic parlor comedy, which slyly reveals the larger game Lee is playing, leaving us to consider the many ways that we see the world through a racial lens. Young Jean Lee is a playwright, director, and artistic director of her own OBIE Award-winning theater company, which as been producing her plays since 2003. Her other works include Songs of Dragons Flying to Heaven, Church, The Appeal, and Pullman, WA, and they have been produced across the country and internationally.

Deadpan

Author : Tina Post
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479811246
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Deadpan written by Tina Post and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production Arguing that inexpression is a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness, Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan—a vaudeville term meaning “dead face”—across literature, theater, visual and performance art, and the performance of self in everyday life. Tina Post reveals that the performance of purposeful withholding is a critical tool in the work of black culture makers, intervening in the persistent framing of African American aesthetics as colorful, loud, humorous, and excessive. Beginning with the expressionless faces of mid-twentieth-century documentary photography and proceeding to early twenty-first-century drama, this project examines performances of blackness’s deadpan aesthetic within and beyond black embodiments, including Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Neighbors, as well as Buster Keaton’s signature character and Steve McQueen’s restitution of the former’s legacy within the continuum of Black cultural production. Through this varied archive, Post reveals how deadpan aesthetics function in and between opacity and fugitivity, minimalism and saturation, excess and insensibility.

Even This I Get to Experience

Author : Norman Lear
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143127969
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Even This I Get to Experience written by Norman Lear and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary creator of iconic television programs All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Norman Lear remade our television culture, while leading a life of unparalleled political, civic, and social involvement. Sharing the wealth of Lear's ninety years, this is a memoir as touching and remarkable as the life he has led.

Lear

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501164201
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Lear written by Harold Bloom and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, a beloved professor who has taught the Bard for over half a century—an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Lear, arguably Shakespeare’s most tragic and compelling character, the third in a series of five short books hailed as Harold Bloom’s “last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination” (The New York Times Book Review). King Lear is one of the most famous and compelling characters in literature. The aged, abused monarch—a man in his eighties, like Bloom himself—is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from grace and widely agreed to be Shakespeare’s most moving, tragic hero. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are seventeen and another when we are forty, Bloom writes about his shifting understanding—over the course of his own lifetime—of this endlessly compelling figure, so that the book also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare’s characters make. Now he brings that insight to his “measured, thoughtful assessment of a key play in the Shakespeare canon” (Kirkus Reviews). “Lear is a “short, superb book that has a depth of observation acquired from a lifetime of study” (Publishers Weekly).

1606

Author : James Shapiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571235797
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book 1606 written by James Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intimate portrait of one of Shakespeare's most inspired moments: the year of King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. 1606, while a very good year for Shakespeare, is a fraught one for England. Plague returns. There is surprising resistance to the new king's desire to turn England and Scotland into a united Britain. And fear and uncertainty sweep the land and expose deep divisions in the aftermath of the failed terrorist attack that came to be known as the Gunpowder Plot. James Shapiro deftly demonstrates how these extraordinary plays responded to the tumultuous events of this year, events that in unexpected ways touched upon Shakespeare's own life ... [and] profoundly changes and enriches our experience of his plays--Publisher's description.

Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays

Author : Young Jean Lee
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458716422
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays written by Young Jean Lee and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold, unguarded work . . . that resists pat definition. [Young Jean] Lee has penned profane lampoons of motivational bromides (Pullman, WA) and the Romantic poets (The Appeal). Now she piles her deconstructive scorn upon ethnic stereotypes in Song...

Mr. Lear

Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466828234
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Lear written by Jenny Uglow and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow Edward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a vivid, fascinating life, but confessed, “I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth while it is present.” He was a man in a hurry, “running about on railroads” from London to country estates and boarding steamships to Italy, Corfu, India, and Palestine. He is still loved for his “nonsenses,” from startling, joyous limericks to great love poems like “The Owl and the Pussy Cat” and “The Dong with a Luminous Nose,” and he is famous, too, for his brilliant natural history paintings, landscapes, and travel writing. But although Lear belongs solidly to the age of Darwin and Dickens—he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons, and his many friends included Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelite painters—his genius for the absurd and his dazzling wordplay make him a very modern spirit. He speaks to us today. Lear was a man of great simplicity and charm—children adored him—yet his humor masked epilepsy, depression, and loneliness. Jenny Uglow’s beautifully illustrated biography, full of the color of the age, brings us his swooping moods, passionate friendships, and restless travels. Above all, Mr. Lear shows how this uniquely gifted man lived all his life on the boundaries of rules and structures, disciplines and desires—an exile of the heart.

The One King Lear

Author : Sir Brian Vickers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970330
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The One King Lear written by Sir Brian Vickers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s influential scholars argued that Shakespeare revised King Lear in light of theatrical performance, resulting in two texts by the bard’s own hand. The two-text theory hardened into orthodoxy. Here Sir Brian Vickers makes the case that Shakespeare did not cut his original text. At stake is the way his greatest play is read and performed.

We're Gonna Die

Author : Young Jean Lee
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559364432
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book We're Gonna Die written by Young Jean Lee and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cabaret from an Obie Award-winning, experimental playwright centers on the concept of mortality and includes a CD featuring six songs and monologues performed by David Byrne, Laurie Anderson and Adam Horowitz. Original.

The Queens of Innis Lear

Author : Tessa Gratton
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 0765392488
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Queens of Innis Lear written by Tessa Gratton and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynasties battle for the crown in Tessa Gratton's debut adult epic fantasy, The Queens of Innis Lear. Three Queens. One crown. All out war. Gaela. Ruthless Commander. I am the rightful heir of Innis Lear. No more will I wait in the shadows and watch my mother’s murderer bleed my island dry. The King’s hold on the crown must end—willingly or at the edge of my sword. Regan. Master Manipulator. To secure my place on the throne, I must produce an heir. Countless times I have fed the island’s forests my blood. Yet, my ambition is cursed. No matter what or whom I must destroy, I will wield the magic of Innis Lear. Elia. Star-blessed Priest. My sisters hide in the shadows like serpents, waiting to strike our ailing king. I must protect my father, even if it means marrying a stranger. We all have to make sacrifices. Love and freedom will be mine. "Amazing. Just Amazing."--Robin McKinley At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Radical Hope

Author : Jonathan Lear
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040023
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Radical Hope written by Jonathan Lear and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.

Learwife

Author : J.R. Thorp
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838852867
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Learwife written by J.R. Thorp and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2021 'Seductive . . . Gorgeous' The Times 'Gives voice to one of fiction's most conspicuously absent women' i Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear’s queen. Though her grief and rage threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she exiled? What has happened to Kent, her oldest friend? And what will become of her now? To find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choice – one upon which her destiny rests.

The Lear Diaries

Author : Brian Cox
Publisher : Drama
ISBN 13 : 9780413698803
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Lear Diaries written by Brian Cox and published by Drama. This book was released on 1995 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most frank and authentic accounts yet written of the pressures placed on today's stars King Lear is perhaps the most challenging role in the Shakespearian canon. In 1991, directed by Deborah Warner, Brian Cox gave a highly-acclaimed performance. In this compulsive account of a theatrical journey, Cox describes the rehearsal room investigation in the possibilities of the text in performance as the production toured to Bucharest and Tokyo, Cairo and Paris in the wake of Perestroika and with the Gulf War gathering momentum in the early '90s. But this is also a personal story; for Lear, like Hamlet is a part notorious for consuming it's players and Cox is not only separated from his family for months, but also trying to negotiate a window in the storm to get married as he plays the character of an old man, rejected by his daughters and friends and sunk in madness…

Dunbar

Author : Edward St. Aubyn
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 1101904291
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Dunbar written by Edward St. Aubyn and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most well-read tragedies, by the contemporary, critically acclaimed master of domestic drama Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in Meadowmeade, an upscale sanatorium in rural England, with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. His take on King Lear, Shakespeare’s most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times – an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness.

Inventing Edward Lear

Author : Sara Lodge
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674971159
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Edward Lear written by Sara Lodge and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Lear—the father of nonsense—wrote some of the best-loved poems in English. He was also admired as a naturalist, landscape painter, travel writer, and composer. Awkward but funny, absurdly sympathetic, Lear invented himself as a Victorian character. Sara Lodge offers a moving account of one of the era’s most influential creative figures.

Performing King Lear

Author : Jonathan Croall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474223877
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Performing King Lear written by Jonathan Croall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world. Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of creation and performance. The book is based on Jonathan Croall's unique interviews with twenty of the most distinguished actors to have undertaken this daunting role during the last forty years, including Donald Sinden, Tim Pigott-Smith, Timothy West, Julian Glover, Oliver Ford Davies, Derek Jacobi, Christopher Plummer, Michael Pennington, Brian Cox and Simon Russell Beale. He has also talked to two dozen leading directors who have staged the play in London, Stratford and elsewhere. Among them are Nicholas Hytner, David Hare, Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Noble, Deborah Warner, Jonathan Miller and Dominic Dromgoole. Each reveals in precise and absorbing detail how they have dealt with the formidable challenge of interpreting and staging Shakespeare's great tragedy.

An Edward Lear Alphabet

Author : Edward Lear
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 : 9780688009649
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book An Edward Lear Alphabet written by Edward Lear and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1983 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A was once an apple pie Pidy Widy Nice insidy Apple pie. Edward Lear's acrobatic rhymes insistently tumble from the tongue & celebrate the glorious fun of wordplay. Only Vladimir Radunsky's electric artwork could possibly capture this much energy. Within the quiet covers of this book, the artist springs loose the grandest kings, the highest of kites, a goose-stepping gander, &, even, Lear himself. The pages almost turn themselves.