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What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing

Sweet Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780300211443, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 21x14 cm

The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists. Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss...

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Guilty Pleasures: Theater, Piety, and Immorality in Seventeenth-Century France Yale French Studies, Number 130

Harris Joseph, Prest Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780300221633, Yale University Press, March 2017
160 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The latest volume of the Yale French Studies Series reexamines the vexed relationship between the theater and contemporary conceptions of morality in seventeenth-century France. Although the Catholic Church condemned the power of plays to stir up com...

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Contemporary Art

Performing Arts

Points of Convergence Alternative Views on Performance

Dziewanska Marta, Lepecki Andre

ISBN: PB: 9788364177385, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, March 2017
240 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 40 colour plates, 20 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Thanks to its very nature, performance enters into natural dialogue with art, new media, politics, and the social sphere as a whole. Always happening in the here and now, and with a unique freedom and openness to the unknown...

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Moses Complex Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet

Holl Ute

ISBN: HB: 9783037346235, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
336 pp., 21.6x16.5 cm, 42 colour plates, 15 halftones

Moses has long been a source of modern fascination. For Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Moses was a particularly fruitful subject for the study of memory and historiography. He also held great interest for the visual and performing arts. In the 192...

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Trisha Brown Choreography as Visual Art (1962-1987)

Rosenberg Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780819576620, ISBN: HB: 9780819576613, Casemate, Wesleyan University Press, December 2016
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 129 illus.

Trisha Brown re-shaped the landscape of modern dance with her game-changing and boundary-defying choreography and visual art. Art historian Susan Rosenberg draws on Brown's archives, as well as interviews with Brown and her colleagues, to track Brown...

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Celia, a Slave

Seyda Barbara, Wright Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300197068, Yale University Press, November 2016
112 pp., 22.9x14 cm

The ninth winner of the Yale Drama Series is a searing and powerful drama of slave litigation, injustice, institutional racism, and the rule of law. The winner of the 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competition was selected by Nicholas Wright, for...

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How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage Power and Succession in the History Plays

Lake Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300222715, Yale University Press, November 2016
688 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakes...

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Performing Arts

Balanchine Teaching

Lassalle Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780871301000, DAP, Eakins Press Foundation, November 2016
36 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In 1961, Nancy Lassalle, long-time ballet patron and associate of Lincoln Kirstein, co-founder of the New York City Ballet, was given permission to photograph a two-day teacher seminar led by George Balanchine at the School...

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Performing Arts

The German List

Tumult

Enzensberger Hans Magnus

ISBN: HB: 9780857423702, Seagull Books, November 2016
296 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany's greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which "Tumult" is an autobiographical record. Derived from old papers, notes, jottings, photos, and letters th...

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Performing Arts

Ballet Lover's Companion

Anderson Zoe

ISBN: PB: 9780300223415, Yale University Press, October 2016
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A richly informed, up-to-date performance guide to more than 140 favorite ballets, from the classical era to the present day This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and crit...

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