The Sourcebooks Shakespeare brings the Shakespeare page to life. This remarkable edition of Othello is both the easiest way to understand the play and the best way to experience the full power and dep
More than 60 minutes of audio on the CD including key scenes and excerpts from great performances past and presentBringing Shakespeare to life, from stage to pageIn the book:Photographs from notable p
Cinema has been influencing and inspiring our country’s poets almost since its inception a century ago. Hundreds of poets have written about movies including Delmore Schwartz on Marilyn Monroe, Jack K
The Sourcebooks Shakespeare brings the Shakespeare page to life. This remarkable edition of Romeo & Juliet is both the easiest way to understand the play and the best way to experience the full po
Experience the Ides of March like never before through our edition of Julius Caesar, with more than 60 minutes of audio on the CD including key scenes and excerpts from great performances past and pr
The Sourcebooks Shakespeare Edition of Macbeth features an integrated audio CD with 26 classic performances by different actors throughout the twentieth century, narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi. Detaile
This remarkable edition features a newly edited text of The Taming of the Shrew based on the earliest printed text of the play, along with detailed notes and performance annotations. An integrated au
Collects over one hundred poems, forty of which can be heard on the accompanying CD, which are presented along with essays describing the importance of poetry being heard aloud and the changes the for
Offers brief biographies, critical interpretations, and selected poems by forty-seven American and English poets from 1809 to 1963, along with recordings of each of the authors reading the works aloud
Stage a Poetry Slam is a comprehensive guide for both budding and seasoned Slammasters A- people in charge of organizing and promoting poetry slams and spoken word events. Marc Kelly Smith, grand fou
Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary poets.
Presents a collection of previously unpublished photographs of legendary stars, including Johnny Cash, June Carter, Hank Williams and Loretta Lynn, enhanced with an accompanying compact disc filled wi
A collection of thirty-four of John F. Kennedy's speeches, debates, and interviews offers insight into the ideals, politics, and life of the charismatic president.
Take the Mic is an essential guide for lifting your poetry from the page to the stage. Marc Kelly Smith (So What!), grand founder of the Slam movement, serves as you personal coach, showing you how t
Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration f
For general readers, this volume traces the history of American classical music. Scherer, a music critic for The Wall Street Journal, keeps theoretical and technical language to a minimum, as he explo
