Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. It explores a range of genr
E. Christin Essin documents theatre's backstage history through the cultural roles played by designers during the modern development of their profession. Featuring work by Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Sim
No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic from its inc
With chapters on The Sound of Music, Milk and Honey, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, The Rothschilds, Rags, Ragtime and The Producers, this book examines both direct and indirect references to, or reson
Carol Brady, the character Florence Henderson played on the perennially popular sitcom the Brady Bunch was the perfect mother, but Henderson's background growing up in the aftermath of the Great Dep
For beginners, experienced gardeners, landscape artists, and horticulturalists, Gates, a writer, artist, garden designer, and landscape contractor who owns a landscape design company, explains how to
The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature,
This book is a study of the dramatized mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. It explores a range of genres: moralities, histories, romantic comedies
Yuri Averbakh (1922) is a distinguished Russian chess grandmaster who has enjoyed a long and varied career. He has been a top player, a journalist, an editor, an arbiter, a trainer and a long-time mem
Empty Figure on an Empty StageThe Theatre of Samuel Beckett and His GenerationLes EssifAn original and exciting approach to the theatre of the absurd.This study considers the ways playwrights draw mea
An exciting and original story for children growing in reading confidence. Dom and Abi set out on a dangerous quest to discover the secrets of the magician Mesmo. Are they putting themselves in the li
