Oxford Playscripts: the Crucible

Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198438342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Brand new edition of Miller's classic tragedy that brings it alive for 14-16 students. With the clearest and most accessible design, together with supporting activities, biography and contextual information targeting exactly the right level, this edition provides comprehensive, relevant and engaging support for students.

Oxford Playscripts: Salem

Author: David Calcutt
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198321033
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An engaging classroom playscript. In 1692, 19 people were executed for witchcraft and the whole village was engulfed in fear. But what actually happened in Salem? This play re-tells the Witch Trials by combining historical evidence with a healthy dose of imagination, and exploring the build-up of hysteria in the village. It covers important issues of prejudice and peer pressure, gang mentality, suspicion and fear. A more accessible version of events, Salem is ideal for preparation work for The Crucible. It also acts as an interesting comparison text to Miller's play, placing emphasis on different events and characters. New, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to fulfil the Framework objectives. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening, close text analysis, and the structure of playscripts, and act as a springboard for personal writing.

The Crucible

Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474225543
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
This Student Edition of The Crucible is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to Miller's classic play. It features an extensive introduction by Susan C. W. Abbotson which includes: a chronology of Miller's life and times; a summary of the plot and commentary on the characters, themes, language, context and production history of the play. Together with over twenty questions for further study, detailed notes on words and phrases from the text and the additional scene 2 of the second Act, this is the definitive edition of the play. In a small tight-knit community gossip and rumour spread like wildfire inflaming personal grievances until no-one is safe from accusation and vengeance. The Crucible is Miller's classic dramatisation of the witch-hunt and trials that besieged the Puritan community of Salem in 1692. Seen as a chilling parallel to the McCarthyism and repressive culture of fear that gripped America in the 1950s, the play's timeless relevance and appeal remains as strong as when the play opened on Broadway in 1953.

The Crucible

Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Salem (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Oxford Playscripts: Death of a Salesman

Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198438359
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Brand new edition of Miller's award-winning play that brings it alive for 16-18 students. With the clearest and most accessible design, together with supporting activities, biography and contextual information targeting exactly the right level, this edition provides comprehensive, relevant and engaging support for students.

Five Plays

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804775745
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) overturned the dramatic conventions of his day and laid the groundwork for contemporary approaches to directing and acting. Now, for the first time, the full lyricism, humor, and pathos of his greatest plays are available to an English-speaking audience. Marina Brodskaya's new translations of Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard not only surpass in accuracy all previous translations, but also provide the first complete English text of the plays, restoring passages entirely omitted by her predecessors. This much-needed volume renders Chekhov in language that will move readers and theater audiences alike, making accessible his wordplay, unstated implications, and innovations. His characters' vulnerabilities, needs, and neuroses—their humanity—emerge through their genuine, self-absorbed conversations. The plays come to life as never before and will surprise readers with their vivacity, originality, and relevance.

Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192834454
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 550

Book Description
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two. Under the General Editorship of Dr. Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.

The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty

Author: David Calcutt
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780174325543
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Opens discussion on the moral issues and prejudices surrounding bullying in schools.

Oxford Playscripts: All My Sons

Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198438373
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Brand new edition of Miller's powerful tragedy that brings it alive for 16-18 students. With the clearest and most accessible design, together with supporting activities, biography and contextual information targeting exactly the right level, this edition provides comprehensive, relevant and engaging support for students.

Sex Plays

Author: Eric Bogosian
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559364300
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
"Bogosian is greatly and bilaterally talented... spiky, stinging and caustic, without cauterizing. And funny." - New York "Bogosian is a born storyteller with perfect pitch." - New York Times Sex Plays includes Skunkweed, a culture clash between an L.A. screenwriter and a working-class woman held captive in a hotel room by her rural Florida family, and 1+1, an exploration of desire, greed and personal responsibility through the lives of a good-looking hustler, an ambitious pretty girl, and a “good guy,” who always seems to finish last.” One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian's plays and solo shows include Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist); subUrbia; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, among many others. He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 100, a collection of monologues, commemorating thirty years of Bogosian's solo-performance career, will be published by TCG in 2014.