Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
In The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare weaves together two ancient folk tales, one involving a vengeful, greedy creditor trying to exact a pound of flesh, the other involving a marriage suitor's choice among three chests and thereby winning his (or her) mate. Shakespeare's treatment of the first standar ...Show more
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections. With the arrival of Viola's brother, and a trick played upon the countess's ...Show more
Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells. In ...Show more
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge. But his apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on ...Show more
Apollo's Angels - A History Of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
29.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Reading Level: very good
Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century through to our own time, from Italy and France to Brit ...Show more
Circus The Australian Story by Mark St Leon
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A comprehensive, entertaining and visually stunning history of the circus in Australia.
Oxford School Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare - Edited by Roma Gill
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries o ...Show more
The Tempest (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Tempest is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. ...Show more
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of A View from the Bridge is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to Miller's play. It features an extensive introduction by Steve Marino which includes: a chronology of Miller's life and times; a summary of the plot and commentary on the chara ...Show more
Death of a Salesman by ARTHUR MILLER
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
The tragedy of a typical American--a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face; defeat and disillusionment.
Behind the Burly Q The Story of Burlesque in America by Leslie Zemeckis
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Burlesque was one of America's most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the twentieth century. Gaudy, bawdy, and spectacular, the shows entertained thousands of paying customers seven days a week, week after week. And yet the legacy of burlesque is often vilified and misunderstood, ...Show more
Signs of Life by Tim Winton
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Continuing on from Tim Winton's award-winning novel Dirt Music, Signs of Life reflects on the ways in which people with radically different histories form awkward, spiky alliances in order to survive.