2009

Kander and Ebb

Foreword   Geoffrey Block Introduction Forty-Two Years of Musicals The Divinely Decadent Lives of Cabaret Chicago: Broadway to Hollywood Fred Without John and John Without Fred Kiss of the Spider Woman: Sex, Politics, and the Diva Musical Flops and Second Chances: Flora, the Red Menace; The Happy Time; Zorbá; 70, Girls, 70; The Rink; and Steel …

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Wie viel Musik braucht der Mensch?

Eine Art Vorwort Meine Treffen mit Verdi Giuseppe e Sylvia: Eine Begegnung Giuseppe Verdis mit der Dichterin Sylvia Plath Mozart – der größte Irrtum der Natur Mozart – das irdischte Kind Schumann, Schubert und ihr Schatten Schumann, Schubert und der Schnee Das Wagnerfestival in Altaussee Besuch in Bayreuth 2007 Der verborgene Traum des Alexander Zemlinsky …

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Afghanistan: A Tour of Duty

Foreword   General Sir Richard Dannatt Introduction   Captain Alexander Allan The Place and the People On Patrol In Camp Incident and Aftermath Recovery and Determination

Edinburgh: A History of the City

Introduction Linguistic Note ‘City of Fire on Night’ ‘Precipitous City’ ‘Perilous City’ ‘City of Palaces, or of Tombs’ ‘City of Everywhere; ‘City of Refuge’ ‘A Very Old-Fashioned City’ Envoi

A Raisin in the Sun

Preface   Bonnie Greer Foreword   Joi Gresham An Expanded Production History The Primary Distinctions: Young, Female and Black, 1959-1965 Establishing the Hansberry Legacy and the Role of Robert Nemiroff, 1965-2009 Conclusion Introduction   Robert Nemiroff

This Wide and Universal Theater

Actions That a Man Might Play: An Introduction There Lies the Scene: Actors and Theaters in Late Elizabethan England A Local Habitation and a Name: Stage Business in the Comedies Thus Play I in One Person Many People: Performing the Histories Like a Strutting Player: Staging Moral Ambiguity in Measure for Measure and Troilus and …

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Exit Pursued by a Badger

The Histories Cast Family Tree of Edward III Foreword    Michael Boyd Acknowledgements Introduction The Histories Time Line The Blog Spring 2007 Summer 2007 Autumn 2007 Winter 2007/8 Spring 2008 Responses Photographs Epilogue Who’s Who of the Histories Glossary