Macmillan

Wole Soyinka

A note on accents Brief Life Sources and Influences The Leeds Plays The Independence Plays Plays of the Sixties A Post-War Play Plays of Exile Plays for Nigeria of the Seventies and Eighties A Play of Giants

Macbeth

Introduction What is Tragedy? The King’s Play The Weyard Sisters How Many Children? The Word Incarnadine About the Text Key Facts The Tragedy of Macbeth The Songs Textual Notes Scene-by-Scene Analysis Macbeth in Performance: The RSC and Beyond Four Centuries of Macbeth: An Overview At the RSC The Director’s Cut: Interviews with Trevor Nunn, Gregory …

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Edward Albee

Introduction Albee on Theatre Albee in the Theatre: Tiny Alice; Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao; Intimate Theatre Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Delicate Balance All Over Seascape Hermetic Albee: Listening The Lady from Dubuque

Conversations with Myself

Foreword   Barack Obama Introduction  Verne Harris Part One: Pastoral Deep Time Cohort Part Two: Drama Wings to the Spirit No Reason to Kill Bursting World The Chains of the Body Part Three: Epic Unaccommodated Man Arras Accommodated Man Tactics Calendar Time Part Four: Tragicomedy From a Polecat to a Miracle Away Home Supplementary information Timeline …

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The Chancellors

Introduction Lord Randolph Churchill Sir William Harcourt George Joachim Goschen Sir Michael Hicks Beach C. T. Ritchie Austen Chamberlain H. H. Asquith (as Chancellor) David Lloyd George Reginald McKenna Bonar Law Sir Robert Horne Stanley Baldwin (as Chancellor) Philip Snowden Winston Churchill (as Chancellor) Neville Chamberlain Sir John Simon Sir Kingsley Wood Sir John Anderson …

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News from No Man’s Land: Reporting the World

A Short Walk to Kabul The Journalistic Imperative The Archaeology of Television News Hidden Agendas The Use of Words Truth or Consequences Under the Burka Pressure Points Manhunt Dumbing Down Crossing the Oxus Hard Travelling Teamwork Live from the Front Line Finishing the Job Epilogue

How to Thrive in the Digital Age

Introduction From Past to Present Wired and Unwired Time Taking Control Reframing Technology Sharing, Expertise and the End of Authority On Becoming Less Than Human Play and Pleasure The New Politics Conclusion Homework

Editor: An inside story of newspapers

Wild Card Baptism of Fire Politics and Policy Gleam of Light Covering the World Knight’s Move The Fall of Thatcher Social Diversions The Gulf War Conrad Alarums and Excursions The Tory Eclipse Royals and Reptiles Battling with Murdoch Going