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Becoming Shakespeare begins with his death in 1616 and relates the fascinating story of his unlikely transformation from provincial playwright to universal Bard. Unlike later literary giants, Shakespeare created no stir when he died. Though he'd once had a string of hit plays, he had been retired in the country for six years, and only his family, friends, and business partners seemed to care that he was gone.

This "lost race" novel begins as an exciting African adventure. Leonard Outram is a British adventurer who is in Africa seeking his fortune. He becomes part of the rescue of a Portuguese woman from a large slave camp. Leonard, his companion Otter, and the girl set off and find the people of the mist. They then impersonate gods and priests with the hope of getting the people's hoard of jewels.

This book has no pretension about it whatever -- it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner.

Die Erzählung schildert einen Lebensabschnitt des psychisch erkrankten Sturm-und-Drang-Dichters Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751 bis 1792). Mit einer innovativen Erzähltechnik ermöglicht Georg Büchner dem Leser ein Miterleben des Wahns, der entgegen damaliger Einschätzungen nicht als selbstverschuldet erscheint, sondern als nachvollziehbare Reaktion auf die umgebende Welt. Aus der Sicht des psychisch Kranken konnte Büchner auch den Zweifel an Gott formulieren, ohne sich angreifbar zu machen.

The Old Wives' Tale is broken up into four parts, and the lives of two sisters are laid bare: one timid and unassuming, the other romantic and adventurous. From working as children in their family's drapery shop to their later years, Constance and Sophia's journey through life could not be more different. While one travels the world and defies male expectations, the other becomes a dutiful wife and mother.

Actors! Engage your mind and your body in order to develop your characters fully. The Lucid Body technique breaks up stagnant movement patterns and expands your emotional and physical range. Through energy analysis, this program shows how to use physical training to create characters from all walks of life - however cruel, desolate, or neurotic those characters may be.

After the video of his public outburst catapulted him to superstardom, Marcus now has everything he ever wanted. Or so he thought. Be careful what you wish for, his mother always told him.... After spending two years touring the globe, he's growing tired, and that endless line of women has become a sea of blurry and meaningless faces. When he returns home and receives a visit from Naomi, his previous object of affection, he finally starts to look at himself and what he's become. He doesn't like it.

William Shakespeare may have been the greatest playwright in the English language, but how does he measure up as a historian? In this brilliant comparison between the events and characters in Shakespeare's history plays and the actual events that inspired them, acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich examines the nine works that together amount to an epic masterpiece on England's most fascinating period.

Die 21-jährige Studentin Maggy braucht vorübergehend eine Festanstellung, um sich und ihre alkoholkranke Mutter über Wasser zu halten. Da trifft es sich gut, dass im Hause Hawkey ein Hausmädchen ausgefallen ist. Womit Maggy allerdings nicht gerechnet hat, ist die Wirkung ihres reservierten Bosses Chris, der nicht müde wird, sie auf emotionalen Abstand zu halten. Aber wenn er ihr wirklich so abgeneigt ist, warum führt das Schicksal sie dann immer wieder zusammen?

Captain Marryat's The Children of the New Forest is a wonderful tale in narrative, historically rich and quite fascinating. This story of adventure, treachery, and love takes place during the English Civil War, when fellow countrymen are found enemies, and are set against each other, Roundhead and Cavalier, Parliament and the King. Many hoped for the same thing: justice. But, for a long time, neither could find it. In the midst of all were the Beverlies, the family of a faithful Cavalier, who died in service of the king.

Playwright, poet, and novelist Ntozake Shange originally composed for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf in as a mesmerizingly original choreopoem. The New York Post called it "rich with the author's special voice: by turns bitter, funny, ironic, and savage; fiercely honest and personal." Now a new audiobook, it chronicles the interconnected lives of a group of women facing shatteringly difficult issues, and evokes the indomitable power of enduring hope and joy.

Charlotte könnte glücklich und zufrieden sein, wenn das Schicksal nicht so erbarmungslos zuschlagen würde. Es sind nicht nur die Wechseljahre, die ihr zu schaffen machen. Sie muss von ihrem langjährigen Weggefährten Abschied nehmen. In der Beziehung zu Martin kriselt es gewaltig. Und wäre das noch nicht schlimm genug, wird das Verhältnis zu ihrer besten Freundin auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Irgendwann wird es auch der taffen Lotte zu bunt.

Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide.

"Teatro 2" è il secondo volume di testi scritti da Stefano Benni per registi e interpreti teatrali: dalla libera rivisitazione dell'opera collodiana in "Pinocchia", scritto per la donna burattino Angela Finocchiaro, a "Le canzoni di Amlieto", la commedia sul principe triste di shakespeariana memoria, scritta per i Broncoviz del Teatro dell'Archivolto; dal "Dottor Divago", un monologo interpretato da Ugo di Ghero, a "Il carnevale degli insetti".

Stefano Benni a teatro. È da una decina d'anni che Benni presta volentieri la sua fantasia alla scena teatrale, scrivendo per amici attori e registi e passando di volta in volta dalla sintesi del monologo alla divagante e ricca tensione drammatica della pièce di ampio respiro.

Questo volume nasce da un progetto di rilettura del poema omerico destinato alla scena teatrale. Baricco smonta e rimonta l'"Iliade" creando ventun monologhi, corrispondenti ad altrettanti personaggi del poema e al personaggio di un aedo che racconta, in chiusura, l'assedio e la caduta di Troia. L'autore "rinuncia" agli dei e punta sulle figure che si muovono sulla terra, sui campi di battaglia, nei palazzi achei, dietro le mura della città assediata.

Luke is in trouble. Skin and the gang have a job for him. They want him to break into Mrs Little's house and steal her jewellery box. They want him to prove that he's got what it takes - that he's part of the gang. But Luke finds more than just a jewellery box in the house. He finds something so unexpected it will change his life forever....

Here is a powerful, rich novel of love, loss, and healing from award-winning author Tim Bowler.

“Algunas cosas no cambian. Hay cosas encerradas detrás de los muros que no pueden cambiar porque nadie las oye.”, Federico García Lorca. Audible Studios presenta Yerma, una edición dramatizada del clásico de Federico García Lorca. Yerma, la protagonista de esta historia, es una joven actriz cuyo destino está marcado por su nombre. Yerma es considerada una obra maestra del teatro español, un poema trágico que evoca la lucha de una mujer contra las restricciones impuestas por la sociedad. La desesperación y el anhelo frustrado de ser madre lleva a la protagonista de la obra, Yerma, a cometer un crimen terrible.

No existe en la historia de la literatura una parábola más sencilla y luminosa que la de Sherezada y Sahrigar para explicar la razón de ser de la ficción en la vida de los seres humanos. Para Sherezada contar cuentos que capturen la atención del Rey es cuestión de vida o muerte. Si Sahrigar se desinteresa o se aburre de sus historias, será entregada al verdugo con las primeras luces del alba. Ese peligro mortal aguza su fantasía y la lleva, sin saberlo, a descubrir que el mundo de la ficción es, como el mundo real, uno, diverso e irrompible.

Proverbs are short well-known sentences or phrases that tell a general truth about life or offer advice. In other words, they present the gist of a moral tale or a fable prevalent in a specific society. And because of their universal appeal, many of these proverbs have crossed their social barriers, and have become part of the human consciousness in general.