Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
By: Bertolt Brecht , John Willett , Steve Giles
3.54
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
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1. I and Thou
By: Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been accl… read more
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- philosophy
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"All real living is meeting."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
2. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- art
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
3. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
4. Towards a Poor Theatre
By: Jerzy Grotowski , Eugenio Barba
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1968, Jerzy Grotowski's groundbreaking book is available once again. As a r… read more
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- art
- theory
- theatre
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- plays
- drama
"The main point then is that an actor should not try to acquire any kind of recipe or build up a "box of tricks." This is no place for collecting all sorts of means of expression."-Jerzy Grotowski, Towards a Poor Theatre
5. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
By: Bertolt Brecht , John Willett , Steve Giles
3.54
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arr… read more
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- drama
6. Love's Labour's Lost
By: William Shakespeare , Henry R. Woudhuysen
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
To begin the introduction, the editor discusses the link between Love's Labour's Lostand the writin… read more
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7. Hedda Gabler
By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of… read more
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8. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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- plays
"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
9. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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- drama
10. Endgame
By: Samuel Beckett
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more
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11. Revolutionary Suicide
By: Huey P. Newton , J. Herman Blake
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
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- theory
- nonfiction
12. The Theater and Its Double
By: Antonin Artaud , None
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
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13. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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- plays
"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
14. Theatre/Theory: An Introduction
By: None
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
This is a new and enlarged edition of Mark Fortier's very successful and widely used essential text… read more
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15. The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
By: Peter Brook
3.87
Format: 309 pages,
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16. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
17. 'Art'
By: Yasmina Reza , Christopher Hampton
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Tony Award-winning play that focuses on the meaning of art (in the form of a solid white painti… read more
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18. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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19. Fairview
By: Jackie Sibblies Drury
4.27
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more
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- plays
- drama
"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview
20. The Death Watcher (Robert Hunter, #13)
By: Chris Carter
4.46
Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition
Pre-order the 13th chilling and adrenaline-packed Robert Hunter thriller, from the #1 Sunday Times … read more
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21. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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