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| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - Faust |
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Peter Sis's eerie illustrations accompany Jarrell's translations of Goethe's FAUST, PART I, which he translated during the last decade of his life. When Jarrell died before completing the task in 1965, Robert Lowell stepped in to finish the job. Goethe's German is rendered in unrhymed English.
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$25.00 - $25.00
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| Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings |
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<p>An unusual disc containing some of the great historical recordings of actors from the beginning of the recording era.<p> <p>CD 1: Historical Shakespeare performances by Ainley, John Barrymore, Bourchier, Casson, Forbes-Robertson, John Geilgud (1920s and 1940s).<p> <p>CD 2: A miscellany. Some star ...
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$21.00 - $21.00
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| King Lear: A Parallel Text Edition |
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'By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.' John Lyon, English Language Notes 'This volume is a treasure-trove of precise information and stimulating comments on practically every aspect of the Lear-universe. I know of no other edition w ...
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$0.00 - $27.00
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| Zora Neale Hurston - Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays |
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This massive collection of letters--over 500 in all--illuminates the life of Zora Neale Hurston and her circle. Written to, among others, Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten, Fannie Hurst, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Hurston's letters are sharply intelligent, fiercely individual, and heartbreakingly ...
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$25.00 - $70.00
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| Christine Balint - Ophelia's Fan |
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In a fictional account of the life of Harriet Smithson, the nineteenth-century woman responsible for bringing Shakespeare to the French grows up under the devout care of an elderly priest, debuts as Ophelia with Charles Kemble's English Theatre troupe, and captures the heart of composer Hector Berli ...
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$14.00 - $25.00
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| The Playboy of the Western World |
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In a wayside pub, near a village in County Mayo in western Ireland, Christopher Mahon becomes a local hero when he announces to the patrons that he's killed his father. Performed by Orson Bean and Alley Mills.
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$26.00 - $26.00
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| Wendy Wasserstein - The Sisters Rosensweig |
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Three Jewish middle-aged sisters, originally from Brooklyn, come together in Queen Anne's Gate, London, to celebrate the fifty-fourth birthday of Sara, the eldest, now a brilliant British banker. Divorced, a single mother, Sara no longer sees the necessity for romance. Gorgeous, suburban housewife a ...
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$8.00 - $26.00
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| Deborah Wiles - The Aurora County All-Stars |
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For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading fo ...
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$23.00 - $23.00
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| Euripides and Shirley A. Barlow - Euripides: Trojan Women |
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One of Athens' greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here are four of his plays in a new Loeb Classical Library edition. Hippolytus triumphed in the Athenian dramatic competition of 4 ...
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| Terence - Phormio, the Mother-In-Law, the Brothers |
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Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies--first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 B.C.--imaginatively reformulated in Latin plays written by Greek playwrights, especially Menander. For this new Loeb Classi ...
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| Paul C. Metcalf - Paul Metcalf: Collected Works, 1987-1997 |
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"An invaluable literary landscape". -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Often startling, and always amazing". -- Columbus Dispatch Critical acclaim has been unanimous m declaring Paul Metcalf a newly rediscovered genius. Volume III completes the publication of this author's collected works with r ...
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