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Political Stages

Author : Emily Mann
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1476847754
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Political Stages written by Emily Mann and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Warning: The plays of Political Stages do not make for a quiet evening of theatre. These are the plays which got audiences out of their seats, and sometimes out into the streets. Their words and ideas rumbled ominously down the marble hallways of legislatures and challenged, even threatened, and often changed, the thinking of millions. These are the plays which either lit or reflected the fires of those political controversies which blazed across the American Twentieth Century. Individually, each is a molotov cocktail tossed onto the stage, each a political movement encapsulated in dramatic form. Combined, they constitute both a conflagration and a record of American political and theatrical ideology. Never before, however, have they been collected in one explosive volume. In Political Stages , they have at last been preserved, ever ready to serve at the barricades of subsequent eras. Includes works by Tennessee Williams, Emily Mann, Clifford Odets, Langston Hughes, and others.

Plays Political

Author : Dan Laurence
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141963719
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Plays Political written by Dan Laurence and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While some of Shaw’s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, frankly, it is doubtful how seriously we can now take Shaw as a political thinker. Despite writing in the 1930s, he has little to say of the nature of totalitarianism: although he satirises Fascist dictators in “Geneva”, the satire is disappointingly mild. Neither did Shaw appear to foresee (on the evidence of these plays, at least) the imminent collapse of the British Empire.But it is Shaw the dramatist rather than Shaw the political philosopher who still holds our attention – even in plays as explicitly political as these. He had a sharp intellect and a quirky sense of humour, and his dialogue still glints and sparkles: he couldn’t write a dull line if he tried. No matter how serious the themes he addresses, the crispness of his writing and his lightness of touch still scintillate.Shaw seems, perhaps unfairly, out of fashion nowadays. But even in these lesser-known works, he demonstrates his matchless ability, still undimmed, to provoke and to entertain.

Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736540
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry, award-winning author of "

Playing Politics

Author : J. Tobin Grant
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393924862
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Playing Politics written by J. Tobin Grant and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing Politics, a rational-choice workbook of sixteen games, is designed to help students understand the logic behind political decision-making, from creating a constitution to formulating foreign policy.

Churchill’s Socialism

Author : Siân Adiseshiah
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527554678
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Churchill’s Socialism written by Siân Adiseshiah and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although now celebrated as a world-leading playwright, Caryl Churchill has received little attention for her socialism, which has been frequently overlooked in favour of emphasising gendered identities and postmodernist themes. Churchill’s Socialism examines eight of Churchill’s plays with reference to socialist theories and political movements. This well-researched and dynamic new book reframes Churchill’s work, positioning her plays within socialist discourses, and producing persuasive political readings of her drama that reflect much more of the political challenge that the plays pose. It additionally explores her uneasy relationship with postmodernism, which presents itself particularly in Churchill’s later plays. The book contains a very helpful chapter on socialist contexts, which outlines some of the key events, debates, and movements during the late 1960s up until the early 2000s. This chapter also offers an incisive critique of the easy acceptance by some socialists of a postmodernist rejection of grand narratives and political agency. An in depth examination of the rarely explored interconnections of utopianism and theatre, forms another chapter, where all eight of Churchill’s plays, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Vinegar Tom, Top Girls, Fen, Serious Money, Mad Forest, The Skriker, and Far Away, are introduced. The plays are then discussed in pairs in a further four chapters with reference to communist historiography, the class/gender intersection, the end-of-history thesis, ecocritical challenges and postmodernism.

Three Plays

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080707327X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Three Plays written by Howard Zinn and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned historian Howard Zinn has turned to drama to explore the legacy of Karl Marx and Emma Goldman and to delve into the intricacies of political and social conscience perhaps more deeply than traditional history permits. Three Plays brings together all this work, including the previously unpublished Daughter of Venus, along with a new introductory essay on political theater, and prefaces to each of the plays.

Shakespeare's Political Drama

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134956037
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Political Drama written by Alexander Leggatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Five Political Plays

Author : Arthur Milner
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532058829
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Five Political Plays written by Arthur Milner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of five plays by Arthur Milner. They were first produced between 1984 and 1990, during a period when the author was playwright-in-residence at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa, Canada. All feature Milner’s fast-paced dialogue, quick and unexpected humor, and sharp political eye.

Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays

Author : Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199278046
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays written by Daniel Adam Mendelsohn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Mendelsohn makes use of insights into classical Greek conceptions of gender and Athenian notions of civic identity to demonstrate that the plays 'Children of Herakles' and 'Suppliant Women' by Euripides are subtle and coherent exercises in political theorizing.

The Purpose of Playing

Author : Louis Montrose
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226534831
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Purpose of Playing written by Louis Montrose and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of Elizabethan drama in the shape of cultural belief, values, and understanding of political authority.

Playing Politics with History

Author : Andrew Beattie
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845455330
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Playing Politics with History written by Andrew Beattie and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ensuing debates and disagreements over the recent past, examined by the author, open up a window into the wider development of German memory, identity, and politics after the end of the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.

Playing Politics with Natural Disaster

Author : Timothy W. Kneeland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501748548
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Playing Politics with Natural Disaster written by Timothy W. Kneeland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Agnes struck the United States in June of 1972, just months before a pivotal election and at the dawn of the deindustrialization period across the Northeast. The response by local, state, and national officials had long-term consequences for all Americans. President Richard Nixon used the tragedy for political gain by delivering a generous relief package to the key states of New York and Pennsylvania in a bid to win over voters. After his landslide reelection in 1972, Nixon cut benefits for disaster victims and then passed legislation to push responsibility for disaster preparation and mitigation on to states and localities. The impact led to the rise of emergency management and inspired the development of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). With a particular focus on events in New York and Pennsylvania, Timothy W. Kneeland narrates how local, state, and federal authorities responded to the immediate crisis of Hurricane Agnes and managed the long-term recovery. The impact of Agnes was horrific, as the storm left 122 people dead, forced tens of thousands into homelessness, and caused billions of dollars in damage from Florida to New York. In its aftermath, local officials and leaders directed disaster relief funds to rebuild their shattered cities and reshaped future disaster policies. Playing Politics with Natural Disaster explains how the political decisions by local, state, and federal officials shaped state and national disaster policy and continues to influence emergency preparedness and response to this day.

Front Lines

Author : Alexis Greene
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 9781595584243
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Front Lines written by Alexis Greene and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking collection of the most important, critically acclaimed plays by American women. Includes seven full scripts and accompanying materials providing both examples of the craft and an essential introduction to the politically inspired work of female dramatists. Amongst the works are The Exonerated by Jessica Blank, Nilajia Sun's No Child, Mrs Packard by Emily Mann and Cindy Cooper's Words of Choice. With a preface by distinguished playwright Shirley Lauro and an introduction by critic Alexis Greene, the collection also includes biographies and photos.

Shakespeare's Last Plays

Author : Stephen W. Smith
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739103616
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Last Plays written by Stephen W. Smith and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were Shakespeare's final thoughts on history, tragedy, and comedy? Shakespeare's Last Plays focuses much needed scholarly attention on Shakespeare's "Late Romances." The work--a collection of newly commissioned essays by leading scholars of classical political philosophy and literature--offers careful textual analysis of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, All is True, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The essays reveal how Shakespeare's thought in these final works compliments, challenges, fulfills, or transforms previously held conceptions of the playwright and his political-philosophical views.

Tony Kushner

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786425369
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Tony Kushner written by James Fisher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwright Tony Kushner is a voice of intellectualism, neo-socialism, gay activism and political outrage in an era when the political pendulum has swayed to the right. Through scalding humor, thought, and compassion, he explores political dynamics and the human condition in the modern era, shedding light on and giving hope for the direst of circumstances. His best known work, Angels in America, delves beneath the anti-gay rhetoric and political superficiality of the AIDS pandemic to true suffering and transformation. His political epic Homebody/Kabul engages the issue of terrorism and conflicting fundamental beliefs. In this book 11 scholars explore the works of Tony Kushner across his career. Several address Angels: one explores the presentation of homosexuality by Kushner compared to that of Tennessee Williams, who wrote in a less tolerant era; another places Angels in the contexts of Hegel's concept of freedom and the gay revolution; a third discusses the play in terms of queer theory and politics. Homebody/Kabul is examined in two essays, one analyzing media reaction, the other exploring cultural and economic differences, religious fundamentalism and the "West's luxurious predominance in the world." Other studies address relationships in Kushner's works to William Inge's 1950 play Come Back, Little Sheba; the plays of experimentalist Adrienne Kennedy; and fascist creep in the era of playwrights W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, among other topics.

The Dissident Politics in Václav Havel’s Vanek Plays

Author : Carol Strong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793650217
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Dissident Politics in Václav Havel’s Vanek Plays written by Carol Strong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dissident Politics in Václav Havel’s Vaněk Plays: Who Is Ferdinand Vaněk Anyway focuses on Ferdinand Vaněk, a semi-autobiographical character created by Václav Havel and featured in a series of nine plays written by Havel himself and three other dissident writers – Pavel Kohout, Pavel Landovský, and Jiří Dienstbier. By exploring the ‘Vaněk experience,’ Carol Strong details a multi-episodic, absurdist journey that provides an ‘insider’s view’ of the challenges facing those daring enough to question the status quo, a view that remains relevant today. Strong’s contention is that the lines found in these plays served as a ‘secret language’ of dissent in Cold War Czechoslovakia, which called the citizenry to contemplate the need for societal reform. As the plays were written at a time when the work of Havel and other dissidents were banned, the plays were never performed publicly, but through clandestine living room performances and the sharing of samizdat scripts the plays found an audience. Select phrases were indeed whispered throughout underground networks and helped forge a sense of oppositional solidarity among potential activists. Strong’s argument is that the ‘Vaněk experience’ metaphorically highlights how official power mechanisms are among the least insidious forms of societal power, as the state must follow predictable patterns of legal jurisprudence. By contrast, non-governmental forms of power – as exercised by one’s fellow citizens through informal social channels – can challenge oppositional actors more because of the personal tone they adopt. Using this approach, Strong presents a timelessly relevant critique of modern society with its consumerist / conformist tendencies.

Playing Tough

Author : Roger I. Abrams
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1555538150
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Playing Tough written by Roger I. Abrams and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing Tough is an entertaining and thoroughly enlightening look at the unique and surprisingly outsized role that sports have played in politics and history. Ever since the bread and circuses of Rome, sports have been used as a tool to entertain the masses and to instill civic pride. Abrams shows both the positive and the negative ways in which sports and politics have coalesced, from the rabid nationalism of the 1936 Nazi Olympics, the political grudge match of the Louis and Schmeling fights, and the "futbol war" between Honduras and Costa Rica to the inspiring stories of South Africa's rugby nation-building and Muhammad Ali's brave antiwar stance, which nearly cost him his career. Abrams is an informed and impassioned writer who chronicles the profoundly creative and destructive influence that sports have on the political life of our nation and the world. This book will be of interest to any and all sports and politics enthusiasts and is a wonderful introduction for course creation and adoption.