This major collection is Robert Brustein's first book since his appointment as Dean of the Yale School of Drama and his transformation of that school into one of the most important theatre institutions in the country. It contains his controversial essays proclaiming the once-promising third theatre "a theatre of naked slogans and raw emotionalism," documents his involvement with the "new" theat…
Nega Mezlekia's memoir Notes from the Hyena's Belly was described in the New York Times Book Review as "the most riveting book about Ethiopia since Ryszard Kapuscinski's literary allegory The Emperor and the most distinguished African literary memoir since Soyinka's Aké appeared 20 years ago." Mezlekia now offers a first novel steeped in African folklore and teeming with the class, ethnic and …
Twenty years at hull-house is jane addams graphic account of her famed settlement house in chicago west side slums.
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Richard III is perhaps the most memorable of Shakespeare's history plays. It charts the rise and fall of a Macchiavellian villain who, by scheming and by infanticide claws his way to the throne of England
A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's stately country home. One of the guests is Gerard Arbuthnot, an earnest, upright young man whose prospects are limited, so he is overjoyed when the suave Lord Illingworth offers him employment as his secreatry. His mother, however, implores him to refuse this brilliant entree into sophistcated society. Should she reveal the shameful secret …