November 20, 2009
New Arrivals · Plays
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Plays from the boom box galaxy : theater from the hip-hop generation
November 18, 2009
New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2009.
xxx, 397 p. ; 23 cm.
Ruminations on identity. The evidence of silence broken / by Zell Miller III -- Peaches / by Cristal Chanelle Truscott -- The no black male show / by Carl Hancock Rux -- Cautionary tales. Free Jujube Brown! / by Psalmayene 24 -- Beatbox / by Tommy Shepherd and Dan Wolf -- Death of a ho / by Jake-ann Jones -- Transformationals. Word becomes flesh / by Marc Bamuthi Joseph -- Thieves in the temple / by Aya de León -- Flow / by Will Power.
Southern hospitality
November 10, 2009
Jones, Jessie.
New York, NY : Dramatists Play Service, c2008.
60 p. ; 20 cm.
" ... third play in the Futrelle family Texas trilogy that begins with Dearly beloved and continues with Christmas belles"--P. [4] of cover.
William Shakespeare. Histories
November 10, 2009
New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2009.
vii, 231 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Shakespeare's vibrant history plays, including Richard II; Richard III; Henry IV, Parts I and II; and Henry V, spring to life with all the drama of the feuds, rivalries, and epic battles on which they were based. Aware of the historical past and a keen observer of his own times, Shakespeare's true genius lies in the timeless universality he lends to the lives of these legendary royals and the schemers and dreamers who made up their worlds. This new edition of critical essays covering the Bard's history plays also includes a chronology, bibliography, index, and introductory essay by renowned Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom.
The Bolingbroke plays (Richard II, Henry IV) / Northrop Frye -- Prophetic behavior in Shakespeare's histories / Kirby Farrell -- Structural pattern in Shakespeare's histories / Sherman Hawkins -- King John / Maurice Charney -- Sitting upon the ground (Richard II, IV, i) / Harry Levin --The death of John Talbot / Alexander Leggatt -- Food for words: Hotspur and the discourse of honor / Harry Berger, Jr. -- The major histories / A.D. Nuttall.
Man from Nebraska
November 10, 2009
Letts, Tracy, 1965-
New York : Dramatists Play Service, c2005.
66 p. ; 20 cm.
A streetcar named Desire : by Tennessee Williams
November 9, 2009
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.
ix, 324 p. ; 24 cm.
This volume brings together a variety of new and classic essays on this famous play. Original essays contain an examination the play in light of postwar American culture and censorship as well as a comparison of Williams's treatment of tragedy with Arthur Miller's in his equally iconic play, Death of a Salesman. Other essays consider how repression drives the play's action and review a selection of Streetcar criticism.
On A streetcar named Desire / Brenda Murphy -- Biography of Tennessee Williams / Robert J. Forman -- The Paris review perspective / Chatherine Steindler -- World War II, sex, and displacement in A streetcar named Desire / Camille-Yvette Welsch -- Uncommon tragic protagonist: Blanche Du Boise and Willy Loman / Kenneth Elliott -- A room that I thought was empty: the representation of repression in A streetcar named Desire / Neil Heims -- A streetcar named Desire: a consideration of select criticism / Janyce Marson -- Desire, death, and laughter: tragicomic dramaturgy in A streetcar named Desire / Verna Foster -- Tragedy as habit: A streetcar named Desire / Britton J. Harwood -- "Stanley made love to her!--By force!" Blanche and the evolution of rape / John S. Bak -- No past to think in: who wings in A streetcar named Desire? / Dan Isaac -- Is there a gay man in this text? Subverting the closet in A streetcar named Desire / Dean Shackelford -- A streetcar named Desire: spatial violation and sexual violence / Anne Fleche -- The artful rerouting of A streetcar named Desire / Linda Costanzo Cahir -- Stanley Kowalski's not to secret sorrow: queering, de-queering, and re-queering A streetcar named Desire as drama, script, film, and opera / Keith Dorwick -- "Tiger--tiger!" Blanche's rape on screen / Nancy M. Tischler.
Death of a salesman : by Arthur Miller
November 9, 2009
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.
viii, 340 p. ; 24 cm.
This volume examines some of the best essays written on Miller's most accomplished play. The essays present a variety of critical viewpoints and an array of critical approaches. Close readings include a consideration of the play in the context of literary naturalism and monetary theory as well as an analysis of Willy's comparison of Biff to Hercules. Other essays look at the differences between dream and reality while also considering the competing dreams of the Loman family. The two concluding original essays provide a broad-based reading of Salesman and consider the play in the context of American culture.
On Death of a salesman / Brenda Murphy -- Biography of Arthur Miller / Carl Rollyson -- The Paris review perspective / Elizabeth Gumport -- "The jungle is dark and full of diamonds": natural value and the logic of naturalism in Death of a salesman / Jon Dietrick -- Salesman and the 1930s theatres of social protest / Joshua E. Polster -- King Lear, King Oedipus, and Willy Loman: tragic strategies in Death of a Salesman / Neil Heims -- Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman: history of criticism / Amy Sickels -- Focus on Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman: the wrong dreams / Chester E. Eisinger -- Family dreams in Death of a salesman / Irving Jacobson -- Women and the American dream of Death of a salesman / Kay Stanton -- "What's the secret?": Willy Loman as desiring machine / Granger Babcock -- Shame, guilt, empathy and the search for identity in Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman / Fred Ribkoff -- The ironic Hercules reference in Death of a salesman / Terry W. Thompson -- Masculine and feminine in Death of a salesman / Heather Cook Callow -- The psychological politics of the American dream: Death of a salesman and the case for an existential dialectics / Lois Tyson -- Death of a salesman and the poetics of Arthur Miller / Matthew C. Roudané -- 'Death of a salesman" / Christopher Bigsby.
Shipwrecked! : an entertainment : the amazing adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as told by himself)
November 6, 2009
Margulies, Donald.
New York, NY : Dramatists Play Service, 2009.
57 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Opus
November 6, 2009
Hollinger, Michael.
New York, NY : Dramatist's Play Service, c2009.
70 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Full moon
November 6, 2009
Krasna, Norman.
New York : Dramatists Play Service, c1980.
79 p. ; 20 cm.
Play in two acts.
"Catalogue no. 2050"--P. [4] of cover.
Speech & debate
November 6, 2009
Karam, Stephen.
New York, N.Y. : Dramatists Play Service, c2008.
97 p. : ill., music ; 20 cm.
Aspirin & elephants : a romantic comedy in two acts
November 5, 2009
Mayer, Jerry.
New York : S. French, c1992.
107 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
A love affair : a romantic comedy in two acts
November 5, 2009
Mayer, Jerry.
New York : S. French, c1995.
87 p. ; 22 cm.
Oscar and Felix : a new look at The odd couple
November 5, 2009
Simon, Neil.
New York : Samuel French, c2004.
80 p. ; 18 cm.
Cyrano de Bergerac : comédie héroïque en cinq actes, en vers
November 4, 2009
Rostand, Edmond, 1868-1918.
Chambon-sur-Lignon : Sur les presses de Jean-François Manier, 1998.
182 p. ; 27 cm.
"Achevé d'imprimer en 1998, la présente édition a été tirée sur vélin d'Arches, à mille examplaires sur les presses de Jean-François Manier imprimeur-typographe au Chambon-sur-Lignon (Haute-Loire) pour le compte du Cerle de reliure d'art à Ciboure 'Lantegia.' Elle est conforme à l'édition publiée à Paris en 1898 par Eugène Fasquelle"--Colophon.
Bound by Constance K. Wozny [West Chester, Ohio] in dark green kangaroo leather, with overlaid cream leather in the shape of an envelope, with title stamped in brown and multicolor leather postage stamp. Inside covers are tan leather. Issued in green marbled clamshell box, with col. ill. of Cyrano mounted inside. Paper inside box matches book endpapers.
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County has copy no. 642.
Almost, Maine
October 22, 2009
Cariani, John.
New York : Dramatists Play Service, c2008.
80 p. : map ; 20 cm.
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
October 21, 2009
New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2009.
vii, 211 p. ; 25 cm.
In Shakespeare's powerful drama of destiny and revenge, Hamlet, the troubled prince of Denmark, must overcome his own self-doubt and avenge the murder of his father. This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism of Hamlet.
Hamlet's northern lineage : masculinity, climate, and the mechanician in early modern Britain / Daryl W. Palmer -- Eating air, feeling smells : Hamlet's theory of performance / Carolyn Sale -- Staging nothing : Hamlet and cognitive science / Amy Cook -- Cognition and recognition : Hamlet's power of knowledge / Lingui Yang -- The tragedians of the city? : Q1 Hamlet and the settlements of the 1590s / Paul Menzer -- T.S. Eliot's impudence : Hamlet, objective correlative, and formulation / Bradley Greenburg -- Translating Hamlet : botching up Ophelia's half sense / Maria Del Sapio Garbero -- Quoting Hamlet in the early seventeenth century / Sayre N. Greenfield -- Gertrude's elusive libido and Shakespeare's unreliable narrators / Richard Levin.
Shakespeare studies.
October 19, 2009
[Cincinnati : s.n.], 1965-
v. 27 cm.
"An annual gathering of research, criticism, and reviews."
Publisher varies.
Pygmalion : a romance in five acts
October 16, 2009
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
xx, 122 p. ; 20 cm.
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. This is the definitive text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play. Also included in this volume is Shaw's preface, as well as his 'sequel' written for the first publication in 1916, to rebut public demand for a more conventionally romantic ending.
Chronology of the life and times of Bernard Shaw -- Introduction -- Principal works of Bernard Shaw -- Preface -- Pygmalion.
The Shakespeare encyclopedia : the complete guide to the man and his works
October 6, 2009
Cousins, A. D., 1950-
Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2009.
304 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Authoritative, visually exciting, and entertaining guide to all things Shakespeare, explaining the themes, plots, and contexts of his works, their literary and cultural significance, and uncovering some of the mystery of the man himself.
Body awareness
October 6, 2009
Baker, Annie.
New York : Samuel French, c2009.
71 p. ; 21 cm.
It's "Body Awareness Week" on a Vermont college campus, and Phyllis the organizer and her partner Joyce are hosting one of the guest artists in their home: Frank, a photographer famous for his female nude portraits. Both his presence in the home and his chosen subject instigate tension from the start.
"#4254"--T.p. verso.
The plays
October 5, 2009
Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2009.
398 p. ; 21 cm.
Mother Hubbard -- Savage wilds -- Hubba city -- The preacher and the rapper -- The C above C above high C -- Body parts.
William Shakespeare : comedies
September 24, 2009
New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2009.
vii, 273 p. ; 25 cm.
William Shakespeare's comedies--including A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice--are funny, allusive, difficult, profound, and unforgettable, and have served as templates for other comedic works and their authors throughout the centuries. This invaluable new study guide contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism of these classic plays.
Ruined
September 17, 2009
Nottage, Lynn.
New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2009.
xiii, 102, [26] p. : ill., music ; 22 cm.
Mama Nadi, the owner of a brothel set in Congo, is a mother figure who keeps watch over her business, serving men from both sides of the conflict, and employing women, "ruined" by rape or torture, who are forced to work as prostitutes.
Shakespearean criticism.
September 17, 2009
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co. [etc.], 1984-<2009>
v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
"Excerpts from the criticism of William Shakespeare's plays and poetry, from the first published appraisals to current evaluations." (varies)
"...Within the text, all act, scene, and line designations have been changed to conform to the Riverside Shakespeare, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, ...used in many high school and college English classes..."--Preface, p. 8.
A grand entrance : scenes and monologues for mature actors
September 16, 2009
Woodstock, Ill. : Dramatic Pub., c2000.
xvii, 339 p. ; 23 cm.
An anthology of scenes and monologues featuring roles for mature actors over the age of 55.
"Monologues, audition pieces, and short scenes"--Cover.
Harm's way
September 16, 2009
Bitterman, Shem.
Woodstock, Ill. : Dramatic Pub., c2009.
79 p. ; 19 cm.
Leaving Iowa : the comedy about family vacations
September 16, 2009
Clue, Tim.
Woodstock, Ill. : Dramatic Pub., c2008.
111 p. ; 18 cm.
Horton Foote : America's storyteller
September 16, 2009
Hampton, Wilborn.
New York : Free Press, 2009.
292 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
The first comprehensive biography of one of America's greatest playwrights, whose work--from "The Trip to Bountiful" to the film adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird"--has helped shape American life for more than 60 years. b&w photos.
I shudder : and other reactions to life, death, and New Jersey
September 14, 2009
Rudnick, Paul.
New York : Harper, c2009.
x, 318 p. ; 22 cm.
"I Shudder" offers a brilliant, side-splitting collection of essays from one of America's preeminent humorists.
Marrying Terry
September 10, 2009
Opelka, Gregg.
Woodstock, Ill. : Dramatic Pub., c2009.
118 p. ; 19 cm.
"A tale of love and radiology"--Cover.
Militant language : a play in two acts
August 25, 2009
Lewis, Sean Christopher.
[Los Angeles, Calif.] : Original Works, [2009]
72 p. ; 21 cm.
Henry IV, part I
August 25, 2009
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
New York : Modern Library, 2009.
xxviii, 216 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
A continuation of the major series of individual Shakespeare plays from the world renowned Royal Shakespeare Company, edited by two brilliant, younger generation Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen Incorporating definitive text and cutting-edge notes from "William Shakespeare: Complete Works"--the first authoritative, modernized edition of Shakespeare's First Folio in more than 300 years--this remarkable series of individual plays combines Jonathan Bate's insightful critical analysis with Eric Rasmussen's textual expertise.
Introduction. Tragical-comical-historical-pastoral ; Harry to Harry ; Honor versus instinct ; The prince as Machiavel? ; Reformation and rejection -- About the text -- Key facts -- The first part of Henry the Fourth, with the life and death of Henry surnamed Hotspur -- Textual notes -- Oaths from the quarto -- Scene-by-scene analysis -- Synopsis of Henry IV part II -- Henry IV in performance: the RSC and beyond -- Shakespeare's career in the theater -- Shakespeare's works: a chronology -- Kings and queens of England: from the history plays to Shakespeare's lifetime -- The history behind the histories: a chronology -- Further reading and viewing -- References.
Henry IV, part II
August 25, 2009
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
New York : Modern Library, 2009.
xxvii, 223 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
A continuation of the major series of individual Shakespeare plays from the world renowned Royal Shakespeare Company, edited by two brilliant, younger generation Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen Incorporating definitive text and cutting-edge notes from "William Shakespeare: Complete Works"--the first authoritative, modernized edition of Shakespeare's First Folio in more than 300 years--this remarkable series of individual plays combines Jonathan Bate's insightful critical analysis with Eric Rasmussen's textual expertise.
Introduction. Tragical-comical-historical-pastoral ; "The prince but studies his companions"? ; The language of time ; The reformation of England? -- About the text -- Key facts -- The second part of Henry the Fourth, containing his death and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth -- Textual notes -- Quarto passages that do not appear in the folio -- Oaths from the quarto -- Scene-by-scene analysis -- Henry IV in performance: the RSC and beyond -- Shakespeare's career in the theater -- Shakespeare's works: a chronology -- Kings and queens of England: from the history plays to Shakespeare's lifetime -- The history behind the histories: a chronology -- Further reading and viewing -- References.
The Best American short plays.
August 25, 2009
New York : Applause Theatre Books,
v. ; 22 cm.
Editors: 1990-1999/2000 H. Stein and G. Young ; 2000/01-<2007/08> editors vary.
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