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A Christmas Wish for Trafalgar Bear
通过 Jenny Stevens, Elly Eveleigh
Paperback, 26 页, 发布时间 2019 通过 New Generation Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-78955-709-1, ISBN: 1-78955-709-7

"Follow more adventures of Trafalgar bear, this little bear with a big heart’s story is about wishes, friendship, hope and happiness at Christmas time.Wanting to be reunited with his London friends Trafalgar bear makes a Christmas wish, does his heartfelt wish come true?I loved writing stories as a child, living out imagined adventures created from my time exploring the Yorkshire dales with school friends.However career, marriage and ..."

Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
Text and Performance (The Arden Shakespeare)
通过 Dr. Pamela Bickley, Dr. Jenny Stevens
Hardcover, 352 页, 发布时间 2016 通过 The Arden Shakespeare
ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-7714-6, ISBN: 1-4725-7714-0

"Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical climate of the early modern period. This book provides an essential overview of some major dramatic works from their stage origins to today's screen productions.Each chapter includes:· a detailed analysis of a play by Shakespeare considere ..."

Arden Shakespeare Ser.(Updated)
Essential Shakespeare : The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation
通过 Dr. Jenny Stevens, Pamela Bickley
Hardcover, 360 页, 发布时间 2013 通过 Bloomsbury 3Pl
ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-2027-2, ISBN: 1-4725-2027-0

"An introductory critical study for first year undergraduates which bridges the gap between A Level and university study. The book offers an accessible overview of key critical perspectives, early modern contexts, and methods of close reading, as well as screen and stage performances spanning several decades. Organised around the discussion of fourteen major plays, it introduces readers to the diverse theoretical approaches typical of ..."

Trafalgar Bear
通过 Jenny Stevens
Paperback, 30 页, 发布时间 2018 通过 Melrose Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-912640-12-6, ISBN: 1-912640-12-0

Trafalgar Bear
通过 Jenny Stevens
Paperback, 34 页, 发布时间 2019 通过 Grosvenor House Publishing Limited
ISBN-13: 978-1-78623-447-6, ISBN: 1-78623-447-5

"Being a retired teacher, the author saw this as an ideal opportunity to rekindle her love of storytelling. She was born in Sheffield in 1950 and lived in Guiseley near Leeds until she was 13 years old. At school, her English teacher once said her work showed great imagination and flight of fancy, she was not sure this was a compliment! She loved writing stories, living out imagined adventures created from her time exploring the Yorkshir ..."

The Good Person Of Szechwan
(Student Editions)
通过 Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Tom Kuhn, Charlotte Ryland, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens, Kristin Gwyer, Kirstin Gwyer
Paperback, 224 页, 发布时间 2012 通过 Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-1-4081-0007-3, ISBN: 1-4081-0007-X

"'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view...makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.' Evening Standard Three gods come to earth hoping to discover one really good person. No one can be found until they meet Shen Te, a prostitute with a heart of gold. Rewarded by the gods, she gives up her profession and buys a tabacco shop but fi ..."

Arden Shakespeare Ser.
Essential Shakespeare : The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation
通过 Pamela Bickley, Jenny Stevens
360 页, 发布时间 2013 通过 A&C Black
ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-3584-9, ISBN: 1-4725-3584-7

"... 2000) Grady, Hugh, 'Shakespeare Studies, 2005: A Situated Overview', Shakespeare 1 (2005), 102–20 Grady, Hugh and Terence Hawkes, (eds) Presentist Shakespeares (London, 2007) Greenblatt, Stephen, Shakespearean Negotiations (Berkeley, CA, 1988) —Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (London, 1990) —Hamlet in Purgatory (Princeton, 2001) —Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (London, 2004) Grose, Carl, ..."

Studying Shakespeare Adaptation
From Restoration Theatre to YouTube (Hardback)
通过 Dr. Pamela Bickley, Dr. Jenny Stevens
Hardcover, 288 页, 发布时间 2020 通过 The Arden Shakespeare
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-06863-6, ISBN: 1-350-06863-2

"This book offers a clear route map through the world of adaptation, selecting examples from film, drama, prose fiction, ballet, the visual arts and poetry, and exploring their respective political and cultural interactions with Shakespeare ..."

Wasted
(Student Editions)
通过 Kate Tempest, Katie Beswick, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens, Matthew Nichols
Paperback, 96 页, 发布时间 2020 通过 Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-09492-5, ISBN: 1-350-09492-7

"Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it's time to seize control. Make a difference. Change things. This is it.A day trip through the parks and raves and cafes of South London, where life is what you make it. The rapid-fire words of Kate Tempest paint a picture of lives less ordinary in an unforgiving world, soundtracked by an exhilarating score.A play about love, life and losing your ..."

Rotterdam
(Student Editions)
通过 Jon Brittain, Stephen Farrier, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens
Paperback, 160 页, 发布时间 2020 通过 Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-09518-2, ISBN: 1-350-09518-4

"No, Alice, I don't want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman.It's New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she's gay. But before she can hit send, her girlfriend reveals that he has always identified as a man and now wants to start living as one.Now Alice must face a question she never thought she'd ask . . . does this mean she's straight?A bittersweet co ..."

Pomona
(Student Editions)
通过 Alistair Mcdowall, Dan Rebellato, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens, Matthew Nichols
Paperback, 144 页, 发布时间 2020 通过 Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-08671-5, ISBN: 1-350-08671-1

"I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow.Ollie's sister is missing. Searching Manchester in desperation, she finds all roads lead to Pomona - an abandoned concrete island at the heart of the city.Here at the centre of everything, journeys end and nightmares are born.Pomona premiered in 2014 and has subsequently become a much-produced and widely studied drama text. It is published here as a Student Editi ..."

Blue/Orange
(Student Editions)
通过 Joe Penhall, Rachel Clements, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens
Paperback, 192 页, 发布时间 2011 通过 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-1-4081-4091-8, ISBN: 1-4081-4091-8

"In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service, Blue/Orange premiered at London's Cottesloe Theatre in April 2000 and transferred to the West End in 2001. Award-winning writer Joe Penhall first rose to prominence in 1994 with h ..."

A Servant to Two Masters
(Methuen Drama Student Editions)
通过 Carlo Goldoni, Lee Hall, Joseph Farrell, Gwenda Pandolfi, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens
Paperback, 176 页, 发布时间 2011 通过 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-1-4081-3105-3, ISBN: 1-4081-3105-6

"This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph Farrell's accessible Introduction includes a plot synopsis, a commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested reading, questions for further stu ..."

Blasted
(Student Editions)
通过 Sarah Kane, Ken Urban, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens
Paperback, 128 页, 发布时间 2011 通过 Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-1-4081-0385-2, ISBN: 1-4081-0385-0

"This Student Edition of Sarah Kane's seminal play Blasted features expert and helpful annotation and is an accessible guide for anyone studying or performing the play. This includes a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested reading, questions for further study and a review of performance his ..."

Copenhagen
(Student Editions)
通过 Michael Frayn, Robert Butler, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens
Paperback, 224 页, 发布时间 2010 通过 Methuen Drama
Student Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-77371-5, ISBN: 0-413-77371-X

"For most people, the principles of nuclear physics are not only incomprehensible but inhuman. The popular image of the men who made the bomb is of dispassionate intellects who number-crunched their way towards a weapon whose devastating power they could not even imagine. But in his Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen, Michael Frayn shows us that these men were passionate, philosophical, and all too human, even though one of the three his ..."

Lear(11th Edition)
(Methuen Student Editions)
通过 Edward Bond, Patricia Hern, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens
Paperback, 192 页, 发布时间 2009 通过 Methuen
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-51950-4, ISBN: 0-413-51950-3

"Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the aggressive tension which must ultimately destroy that society. In a play in which blindness becomes a dramatic metaphor for insight, Bond warns that 'it is so easy to subordinate justice to power ..."

Shopping and F***ing(1st Edition)
(Methuen Modern Plays)
通过 Mark Ravenhill, Bloomsbury Publishing Staff, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens
Paperback, 91 页, 发布时间 2009 通过 Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-71240-0, ISBN: 0-413-71240-0

"This ground-breaking drama was Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play and part of a movement in the 1990s of "in your face" British theatre which frankly dealt with issues of sex and violence and pointedly challenged societal values. The play explores how consumerism has become our new value system which reduces everything else to a mere transaction, as shopping malls become the new cathedrals of Western consumerism.The plot follows a ..."

Three Sisters(Updated)
(Student Editions)
通过 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Michael Frayn, Nick Worrall, Simon Karlinsky, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens, Anton Chekov
Paperback, 208 页, 发布时间 2008 通过 Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-77140-7, ISBN: 0-413-77140-7

"You'd be hard put to find a better script to work with than this translation by Michael Frayn . . . It sticks rigorously to the inner thrust of the play while giving it a fresh, crisp clarity that makes it not just accessible but compelling to watch. The underlying tragedy . . . is intact. It is made more moving, not less, by the way Frayn's ineffably light touch has caught too the comedy of Andrey and his three sisters.' GUARDIAN'Frayn ..."

Yerma(1st Edition)
(Student Editions)
通过 Gwynne Edwards, Federico Garcia Lorca, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens, Federico GarcãA Lorca
Paperback, 208 页, 发布时间 2007 通过 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-0-7136-8326-4, ISBN: 0-7136-8326-0

"Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'.It is possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculeanstruggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrennessbecomes a metaphor for her marriage in a traditional society thatdenies women sexual or social equality. Her desperate desire for achild drives her to commit a terrible crime at the end of ..."

Loot(Updated)
(Student Editions)
通过 Joe Orton, Andrew Mayne, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens
Paperback, 144 页, 发布时间 2006 通过 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-56760-4, ISBN: 0-413-56760-5

"A black farce masterpiece, "Loot" follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's mother has just died and the pair put the money in her coffin, hiding the body elsewhere in the house. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott, the thickened plot turns topsy-turv ..."

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