The Booth brothers : drama, fame, and the death of President Lincoln

Encounter: narrative nonfiction stories

Neo-noir

'If only my leg didn't itch' / Parallax views: an introduction / Under the neon rainbow: colour and neo-noir / Audio-noir: audiovisuality in neo-modernist noir / Paranoia and nostalgia: sonic motifs and songs in neo-noir / The end of work: from Double indemnity to Body heat / Worlds without consequence: two versions of film noir in the 1980s / From lonely streets to lonely rooms: prefiguration, affective responses and the Max Payne single-player / The new lower depths: Paris in French neo-noir cinema / The shadow of outlaws in Asian noir: Hiroshima, Hong Kong and Seoul / British neo-noir and reification: Croupier and Dirty pretty things / Laughter in the dark: irony, black comedy and noir in the films of David Lynch, the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino / A woman scorned: the neo-noir erotic thriller as revenge drama / Neo-noir's fatal woman: stardom, survival and Sharon Stone / Fatality revisited: the problem of 'anxiety' in psychoanalytic-feminist approaches to film noir / The thin men: anorexic subjectivity in Fight club and The machinist / Memento: pasting ourselves together through cinema

Passionate communities : reading lesbian resistance in Jane Rule's fiction

The cutting edge

Cutting edge (New York, N.Y.)

Sailing to Galiano: Jane Rule at Home -- The Journey: Crossing Over -- Reading Then, Reading Now -- Reading Queerly -- This Not Quite Promised Land -- Self-Reflections: Growing Up Midcentury, Middle Class, Middle Child -- Readers and Writers: "Language Is as Primal a Drive as Sex" -- The Politics of Fiction: Barbara Gittings, Resisting Lesbian Reader -- Readers Writing -- Resisting Reason -- Sexuality and Citizenship -- Reading Fiction, Doing History -- Defining Histories -- Defining Fictions -- Defining Theories -- Defining Stories -- The Headmistress -- The Married Woman -- Reading the Stories: A Resisting Lesbian Subject -- Revising Fictions: Early Experiments -- "Trapped in the Hope of a Real Articularity" -- Disguising Desire: Not for Myself Exactly -- Denying Desire: This Is Not for You -- Unsettling Women -- Composing Selves: Dueling Narratives -- "Home Movie": Projecting a Lesbian Subject -- Desert of the Heart: Resignifying Sexuality -- From Permanent Resident to Desert of the Heart -- Defining Powers -- Ritual Performances -- Desert Visions -- Reflections of Power -- Memory Board: Resignifying Gender -- Brothers and Sons -- Leave Taking -- Composing Selves: Memory and Personal Histories -- Construction Sites: Narratives of Houses and Homes -- Going Home (Again) -- Home Invasion: "A Television Drama" -- A House of Language: Against the Season -- Under Siege: The Young in One Another's Arms -- Contesting Communities -- Parading Differences -- Mapping Boundaries -- Quarrelsome Communities: Contract with the World.

Weyward Macbeth : intersections of race and performance

Signs of race

Macbeth.

Signs of race.

What is a "weyward" Macbeth? / Weird brothers : what Thomas Middleton's The witch can tell us about race, sex and gender in Macbeth / "Blood will have blood" : violence, slavery, and Macbeth in the antebellum American imagination / The exorcism of Macbeth : Frederick Douglass's appropriation of Shakespeare / Ira Aldridge as Macbeth / Minstrel show Macbeth / Reading Macbeth in texts by and about African Americans, 1903-1944 : race and the problematics of allusive identification / Before Welles : a 1935 Boston production / Black cast conjures white genius : unraveling the mystique of Orson Welles's "Voodoo" Macbeth / After Welles : re -do Voodoo Macbeth / The vo-du Macbeth! : travels and travails of a choreo-drama inspired by the FTP production / A Black actor's guide to the Scottish play, or, why Macbeth matters / Asian-American theatre reimagined : Shogun Macbeth in New York / The Tlingit play : Macbeth and Native Americanism / A post-apocalyptic Macbeth : teatro LA TEA's Macbeth 2029 / Multicultural, multilingual Macbeth / Reflections on Verdi, Macbeth, and non-traditional casting in opera / Ellington's Dark lady / Hip-hop Macbeths, "digitized Blackness," and the millennial minstrel : illegal culture sharing in the virtual classroom / Riddling whiteness, riddling certainty : Roman Polanski's Macbeth / Semper die : marines incarnadine in Nina Menkes's The Bloody Child : an interior of violence / Shades of Shakespeare : colorblind casting and interracial couples in Macbeth in Manhattan, Grey's Anatomy, and Prison Macbeth / Three weyward sisters : African-American female poets conjure with Macbeth / "Black up again" : combating Macbeth in contemporary African-American plays / Black characters in search of an author : Black plays on Black performers of Shakespeare / Oba Macbeth : national transition as national traumission / Selected productions of Macbeth featuring non-traditional casting

Theatre in transformation : artistic processes and cultural policy in South Africa

Theater in transformation

Theatre studies ;

Theater (Transcript (Firm)) ;

Foreword of the editors / Prologue : Time to take stock? The role of theatre in transformation / Arts and culture in South Africa : Taking centre stage on the globe from colonialism, fascism, apartheid and beyond / Pinholes against apartheid : A brief history of political theatre in South Africa / Theatre of resistance : The Funda Community College in South Africa from the 1980s to the 1990s / Unequal brothers : The controversial history of the two leading South African theatres / Performing arts as a social force : South Africa's post-apartheid theatre in the process of transformation / "Taking meat to the knives" : Report of the panel discussion "Political Power of Theatre : Cultural Policy for Theatre in South Africa" / Same old apartheid drama or new democratic play? Report of the panel discussion "The State of Theatre in Soweto" / Soul food : South Africa's theatre shows how the country is seeking its future role / State of the nation's redress re-dressed : The new forms of protest in South African theatre and the theatre of excess / Political theatre and cultural activism in the Free State Province, South Africa : The vacuum left by the death of Thamsanqa Duncan Moleko / Ubulution! A re-imagining of protest and the public sphere in contemporary theatre / Artists as "seismographs", theatre as a "mirror" of society? Conversation with cultural activists : Yvette Hardie, Ismail Mahomed and Omphile Molusi about social transformation / Between traditional practise and contemporary forms : Theatre for young audiences in (South-) Africa / Ideal of a rainbow nation 1 : What theatre arts and cultural policy in Europe can learn from Southern Africa / Cradle of creativity : Cape Town was the capital of theatre for young Audiences / Who's saying what about whom? South Africa's next generation is on a quest for its own identity / Township theatre making : An ethnographic study about a developmental tool for Khayelitsha youth / From "playing" to "working" : Arresting systemic labour regression in the creative economy of theatre in South Africa / Staring dispassionately into the abyss : Director and author Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom from Soweto / Theatre development and cultural policy in rural areas : A grassroots perspective from North West Province, South Africa / Are we actually deeply enough ... with these socio-political questions in our theatres? / Scratching the wounds of the past : A playwright-director's note on the play : Silent Scars / Application of indigenous performance techniques in South African theatre : The case of Mmabana Arts Culture Sports and Foundation, North West Province / Unleashing the caged power of the Black girl : South Africa's sociological theatre landscape / Epilogue : Theatre and the post-apartheid condition

Musical illuminations of Genesis narratives

Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament studies ;

Bible. Genesis

Voices of Eve (Genesis 2 -- 3) -- Commentary -- Music -- Jules Massenet and Eve: Mystere (1875) -- Gabriel Faure and La Chanson d'Eve (1910) -- Noah and the Flood (Genesis 6 -- 9) -- Commentary -- Music -- Camille Saint-Saens and Le Deluge (The Flood) (1875) -- Gaetano Donizetti and Il Diluvio Universale (1830) -- Jacques Fromenthal Halevy and Georges Bizet, Noe (1862/69) -- Benjamin Britten and Noye's Fludde (1958) -- Igor Stravinsky and The Flood (1962) -- General Conclusions -- Part 1 The Abraham -- Sarah Narratives (Genesis 12 -- 22) -- Commentary -- Chapter 12: The Call of Abraham; the First Sister -- Wife Narrative -- Chapter 13: Wandering -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16: The Birth of Ishmael -- Chapter 17: Circumcision -- Chapters 18 -- 19: The Messengers; Sodom and Gomorrah -- Chapter 20: More Wandering; Second Sister -- Wife Narrative -- Chapter 21: Birth of Isaac, Expulsion of Hagar -- Chapter 22: The Aqedah -- Music -- Abraham in Nineteenth-century Oratorios -- Carl Amand Mangold and Abraham (1860) -- Martin Blumner and Abraham (1862) -- Abraham in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Opera -- Kurt Weill and The Eternal Road (1937) -- Ezra Laderman and Sarah (1958) -- Gerald Cohen and Sarah and Hagar (2008) -- Elinor Remick Warren and Abram in Egypt (1961) -- General Conclusions -- Part 2 The Abraham -- Sarah Narratives (Genesis 12 -- 22) -- Aqedah Settings -- Abraham Goldfaden and Akeidas Izchok (1898) -- Ildebrando Pizzetti and La Rappresentazione di Abram e d'Isaac (1928) -- Igor Stravinsky and Abraham and Isaac (1964) -- Judith Kaplan Eisenstein and The Sacrifice of Isaac: A Liturgical Drama (1972) -- Hagar in Song -- Franz Schubert and Hagars Klage (Hagar's Lament; 1811) -- Juan Crisostomo Arriaga and Agar dans le Desert (Hagar in the Desert; 1825) -- Sally Beamish and Hagar in the Wilderness (2013) -- Sarah from Women of Valor Suite by Andrea Clearfield (Text and Music; 2000) -- Rebecca at the Well (Genesis 24) -- Commentary -- Music -- Ferdinand Hiller and Rebecca, Biblisches Idyll (1877) -- Cesar Franck and Rebecca: Scene Biblique (1881) -- Celanie Carissan and Rebecca: Oratorio (1893) -- General Conclusion -- Joseph and His Brothers (Genesis 37 -- 50) -- Commentary -- Music -- George Frederick Handel: Joseph and His Brethren (1744) -- Etienne-Nicolas Mehul and Joseph: opera en trois actes (1807) -- Kurt Weill and The Eternal Road -- General Conclusion -- Annotated Appendix of Additional Works -- Voices of Eve -- Alexander Goehr (1932 -- ), Eve Dreams in Paradise (op. 49) -- Charles Villiers Stanford, Eden (1891) -- Joseph Haydn's The Creation (1796) -- Alessandro Scarlatti, Cain overo Il primo omicidio (Cain or the first homicide) (1707) -- Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766 -- 1831), La Mort d'Abel (The Death of Abel; 1810/revised 1823) -- Stephen Schwartz, Children of Eden (1986) -- Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, The Apple Tree (1966) -- Nathaniel Shilkret, The Genesis Suite (1945) -- Noah and The Flood -- Daniel Beltzhoover, The Deluge (1860s) -- Alexander Goehr (1932 -- ), The Deluge (1957) -- Abraham and Sarah Narratives -- Rebecca at the Well -- Joseph and His Brothers.

The poetic and dramatic works of Alfred, lord Tennyson

Works. 1898

Tennyson's poetical works

The Cambridge edition of the poets

Cambridge edition of the poets.

Claribel -- Nothing will die -- All things will die -- Leonine elegiacs -- Supposed confessions of a second-rate sensitive mind -- The kraken -- Song : 'The winds, as at their hour of birth' -- Lilian -- Isabel -- Mariana -- To- -- Madeline -- Song : The owl -- Second song, to the same -- Recollections of the Arabian nights -- Ode to memory -- Song : 'A spirit haunts the year's last hours' -- A character -- The poet -- The poet's mind -- The sea-fairies -- The deserted house -- The dying swan -- A dirge -- Love and death -- The ballad of Oriana -- Circumstance -- The merman -- The mermaid -- Adeline -- Margaret -- Rosalind -- Eleanore -- Kate -- 'My life is full of weary days' -- To J.M.K. -- 'Mine be the strength of spirit, full and free' -- Alexander -- Buonaparte -- Poland -- 'Caress'd or chidden by the slender hand' -- The form, the form alone is eloquent' -- 'Wan sculptor, weepest thou to take the cast' -- 'If I were loved, as I desire to be' -- The bridesmaid -- The lady of Shalott -- Mariana in the south -- The two voices -- The miller's daughter -- Fatima -- OEnone -- The sisters -- The palace of art -- Lady Clara vere de vere -- The may queen -- New-year's eve -- Conclusion -- The lotos-eaters -- Choric song -- A dream of fair women -- The blackbird -- The death of the old year -- To J.S. -- On a mourner -- 'You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease' -- 'Of old sat freedom on the heights' -- 'Love thou thy land, with love far-brought' -- England and America in 1782 -- The goose -- The epic -- Morte d'arthur -- The gardener's daughter -- Dora -- Audley court -- Walking to the mail -- Edwin Morris -- Saint Simeon stylites -- The talking oak -- Love and duty -- The golden year -- Ulysses -- Tithonus -- Locksley hall -- Godiva -- The day-dream : Prologue ; The sleeping palace ; The sleeping beauty ; The arrival ; The revival ; The departure ; Moral ; L'envoi ; Epilogue -- Amphion -- Saint Agnes' eve -- Sir Galahad -- Edward Gray -- Will Waterproof's lyrical monologue -- Lady Clare -- The captain -- The Lord of Burleigh -- The voyage -- Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere -- A farewell -- The beggar maid -- The eagle -- 'Move eastward, happy earth' -- 'Come not, when I am dead' -- The letters -- The vision of sin -- To-, after reading a life and letters -- To E.L., on his travels in Greece -- 'Break, break, break' -- The poet's song -- The princess -- In memoriam A.H.H. -- Maud; a monodrama -- The brook -- The daisy -- To the rev. F.D. Maurice -- Will -- Ode on the death of the duke of Wellington -- The charge of the light brigade -- Enoch Arden -- Aylmer's field -- Sea dreams -- Ode sung at the opening of the international exhibition -- A welcome to Alexandra -- The grandmother -- Northern farmer; old style -- Northern farmer; new style -- In the valley of Cauteretz -- The flower -- Requiescat -- The sailor boy -- The islet -- A dedication -- Boadicea -- On translations of Homer -- Milton -- 'O you chorus of indolent reviewers' -- Specimen of a translation of the Iliad in blank verse -- The third of February, 1852 -- A welcome to her royal highness Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh -- In the garden at Swainston -- The city child -- Minnie and Winnie -- The spiteful letter -- Literary squabbles -- The victim -- Wages -- The higher pantheism -- The voice and the peak -- 'Flower in the crannied wall' -- Lucretius -- The window : On the hill ; At the window ; Gone ; Winter ; Spring ; The letter ; No answer ; The Answer ; Ay ; When ; Marriage morning -- The lover's tale -- The golden supper -- Dedication -- The coming of Arthur -- The round table -- Gareth and Lynette -- The marriage of Geraint -- Geraint and Enid -- Balin and Balin -- Merlin and Vivien -- Lancelot and Elaine -- The holy grail -- Pelleas and Ettarre -- The last tournament -- Guinevere -- The passing of Arthur -- To the queen -- To Alfred Tennyson, my grandson -- The first quarrel -- Rizpah -- The northern cobbler -- The revenge -- The sisters -- The village wife -- In the children's hospital -- Dedicatory poem to the princess Alice -- The defence of Lucknow -- Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham -- Columbus -- The voyage of Maeldune -- De Profundis : The two greetings ; The human cry -- Prefatory sonnet -- To the rev. W.H. Brookfield -- Montenegro -- To victor Hugo -- Battle of Brunanburh -- Achilles over the trench -- To princess Frederica on her marriage -- Sir John Franklin -- To Dante -- To E. Fitzgerald -- Tiresias -- The wreck -- Despair -- The ancient sage -- The flight -- To-morrow -- The spinster's sweet-arts -- The charge of the heavy brigade at Balaclava : Prologue : to General Hamley ; The charge ; Epilogue -- To Virgil -- The dead prophet -- Early spring -- Prefatory poem to my brother's sonnets -- 'Frater ave atque vale' -- Helen's tower -- Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe -- Epitaph on General Gordon -- Epitaph on Caxton -- To the Duke of Argyll -- Hangs all round -- Freedom -- Poets and their bibliographies -- To H.R.H. Princess Beatrice -- Locksley Hall sixty years after -- The fleet -- Opening of the Indian and colonial exhibition by the queen -- To W.C. Macready -- To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava -- On the jubilee of Queen Victoria -- To Professor Jebb -- Demeter and Persephone -- Owd Roa -- Vastness -- The ring -- Forlorn -- Happy -- To Ulysses -- To Mary Boyle -- The progress of spring -- Merlin and the gleam -- Romney's remorse -- Parnassus -- By an evolutionist -- Old age -- Far-far-away -- Politics -- Beautiful city -- The roses on the terrace -- The play -- On one who affected an effeminate manner -- To one who ran down the English -- The snowdrop -- The throstle -- The oak -- In memoriam W.G. Ward -- Queen Mary : a drama -- Harold : a drama : Show-day at Battle Abbey, 1876 ; Harold -- Becket -- The falcon -- The cup -- The promise of May -- Crossing the bar -- Selections from 'Poems by two brothers': Memory ; The exile's harp ; 'Why should we weep for those who die?' ; Remorse ; The dell of E- ; Antony to Cleopatra ; 'I wander in darkness and sorrow' ; The old sword ; 'We meet no more' ; Written by an exile of Bassorah ; The vale of bones ; 'Did not thy roseate lips out-vie ; Persia ; Egypt ; The druid's prophecies ; The expedition of Nadir Shah into Hindostan ; The maid of Savoy ; Midnight ; Scotch song ; Song : 'It is the solemn even-time' ; Friendship ; 'And ask ye why these sad tears stream?' ; On sublimity ; The deity ; Time : an ode ; God's denunciations against Pharaoh-Hophra, or Apries ; The grave of a suicide ; The walk at midnight ; Mithridrates presenting Berenice with the cup of poison ; The old chieftain ; The fall of Jerusalem ; Lamentation of the Peruvians ; 'The sun goes down in the dark blue main' ; On a dead enemy ; The duke of Alva's observation on kings ; 'Ah! yes, the lip may faintly smile' ; 'Thou camest to thy bower, my love, across the musky grove' ; The passions ; The high-priest to Alexander ; On the moon-light shining upon a friend's grave ; A contrast ; The dying Christian ; 'How gaily sinks the gorgeous sun within his golden bed' ; 'Oh! Ye wild winds, that roar and rave' ; Switzerland ; Babylon ; Love ; Song : 'To sit beside a chrystal spring' ; Exhortation to the Greeks ; King Charles's vision --Timbuctoo -- The 'how' and the 'why' -- The burial of love -- Song : 'I' the glooming light' -- Song : 'The lintwhite and the throstlecock' -- Song : 'Every day hath its night' -- Hero to Leander -- The mystic -- The grasshopper -- Love, pride, and forgetfulness -- Chorus -- Lost hope -- The tears of heaven -- Love and sorrow -- To a lady sleeping -- 'Could I outwear my present state of woe' -- 'Though night hath climbed her peak of highest noon' -- 'Shall the hag evil die with child of good' -- 'The pallid thunder-stricken sigh for gain' -- Love -- English war-song -- National song -- Dualisms -- The sea fairies -- 'O beauty, passing beauty! sweetest sweet!' -- The Hesperides -- Rosalind -- Song : 'who can say' -- Sonnet, written on hearing of the outbreak of the Polish insurrection -- O darling room -- To Christopher North -- On Cambridge University -- No more -- Anacreontics -- A fragment -- 'Me my own fate to lasting-sorrow doometh' -- 'Check every out-flash, every ruder sally' -- 'There are three things which fill my heart with sighs' -- The skipping-rope -- The new Timon and the poets -- Lines, contributed to 'The Manchester Athenaeum' -- Stanzas, contributed to 'The Keepsake' -- Britons, guard your own -- Additional verses to 'God save the Queen' -- The war -- The ringlet -- Lines : Long as the heart beats life within her breast -- 1865-1866 -- Stanza, contributed to the 'Shakespearean show-book' -- Compromise -- Experiment in Sapphic metre.

Prince Cinders [DVD]

Prince Cinders.

Cinderella. English.

59 seconds [DVD]

Fifty-nine seconds

La meglio gioventù [DVD] = The best of youth

Meglio gioventù (Motion picture)

Best of youth

The lonesome West

Topdog/underdog