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 Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance By Nahma Sandrow (editor) 2021 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1438481896 | PDF | 3 MB Three stageworthy plays and nine individual scenes that offer an introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.Yiddish theater was first and foremost fine theater, with varied repertory and actors of high quality. The three stage-ready plays and nine individual scenes collected here, most of them well-known in Yiddish repertory but never before translated, offer an introduction to the full range of Yiddish theater. Fresh, lively, and accurate, these translations have been prepared for reading or performance by award-winning playwright and scholar Nahma Sandrow. They come with useful stage directions, notes, and playing histories, as well as comments by directors who have worked in both English and Yiddish theater. In the three full-length plays, a matriarch battles for control of her business and her family (Mirele Efros; or, The Jewish Queen Lear); two desperate women struggle over a man, who himself is struggling to change his life (Yankl the Blacksmith); and, in a charming fantasy village, a poetic village fiddler gambles on romance (Yoshke the Musician). The nine scenes from selected other plays are shaped to stand alone and range in genre from symbolist to naturalist, operetta to vaudeville, domestic to romantic to avant-garde. In her preface, Sandrow contextualizes the plays in modern Western theater history from the nineteenth century to the present. Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance is not nostalgia―just a collection of good plays that also serves as an informed introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.  Writing Short Stories to Promote Your Novels by Rayne Hall English | 2014 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00IKM65CC | 101 pages | EPUB | 0.17 Mb A short story is the perfect tool for promoting your novel. Readers who love your story will look for more fiction by the same author.
 Writing Scary Scenes: Professional Techniques for Thrillers, Horror and Other Exciting Fiction by Rayne Hall English | January 7, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B008IEJTSE | 134 pages | EPUB | 0.16 Mb Are your frightening scenes scary enough? Learn practical tricks to turn up the suspense. Make your readers' hearts hammer with suspense, their breaths quicken with excitement, and their skins tingle with goosebumps of delicious fright.  Charne Lavery, "Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in English " English | ISBN: 3030871150 | 2021 | 193 pages | PDF | 2 MB This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a region and world―Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collen―alongside maritime-imperial precursor Joseph Conrad. If postcolonial literatures are sometimes read as national allegories, this book presents an account of a different and significant strand of postcolonial fiction whose geography, in contrast, is coastal and transoceanic. This work imaginatively links east Africa, south Asia and the Arab world via a network of south-south connections that precedes and survives European imperialism. The novels and stories provide a vivid, storied sense of place on both a local and an oceanic scale, and in so doing remap the world as having its centre in the ocean and the south.  Tim Crook, "Writing Audio Drama" English | ISBN: 0415570778 | 2023 | 226 pages | PDF | 2 MB Writing Audio Drama is a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online production. The book uses new and original research on the history of writing radio plays in the UK and USA to explore how this has informed and developed the art form for more than 100 years.
 Writing About Magic: Professional Techniques for Paranormal and Fantasy Fiction by Rayne Hall English | 2016 | ISBN: N/A | 180 pages | EPUB | 0.20 Mb Do you write fantasy fiction? This book is a resource for authors. Crammed with information, tips, and Description ideas, it helps you create stories about magic and magicians which are believable and exciting.  Worlds in a Museum : Exploring Contemporary Museology by Louvre Abu Dhabi and École du Louvre English | 2020 | ISBN: 9462702330 | 273 Pages | True PDF | 67 MB  Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook: A Sourcebook By Hua R. Lan; Vanessa L. Fong 1999 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 076560342X | PDF | 15 MB Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.  Women and the Crusades by Helen J. Nicholson English | January 24, 2023 | ISBN: 0198806728 | True EPUB/PDF | 304 pages | 1.8/2.6 MB The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration...  Valerie C. Gilbert, "Women and Mixed Race Representation in Film: Eight Star Profiles" English | ISBN: 1476663386 | 2021 | 302 pages | EPUB | 11 MB This book uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age through the studio era, New Hollywood, and into the present century: Josephine Baker, Nina Mae McKinney, Fredi Washington, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Lonette McKee, Jennifer Beals and Halle Berry. Combining biography with detailed film readings, the author fleshes out the tragic mulatto stereotype, while at the same time exploring concepts and themes such as racial identity, the one-drop rule, passing, skin color, transracial adoption, interracial romance, and more. With a wealth of background information, this study also places these actresses in historical context, providing insight into the construction of race, both onscreen and off. Award-winning book that recently earned acclaim from the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Awards! |
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