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LOLITA

MARY STUART

CELESTINA

THE THEATRE OF BLACK AMERICANS

ACTORS MOLIERE VOL3 SCAPIN & DON JUAN

ELIZABETHAN DRAMA: EIGHT PLAYS

Complete screenplay from this outrageous comedy. "Wanda defies gravity, in both senses of the word, and redefines a great comic tradition." - Time "The meanest, most consistently hysterical film in ages ... the writing is sharply pointed and delightfully irreverent." - Gannett Newspapers

13 BY SHANLEY

IN SEARCH OF THEATER

ON THE OPEN ROAD

WOMEN ON THE VERGE: SEVEN AVANT-GARDE AMERICAN PLAYS

SHAW ON MUSIC

TELLING MOMENTS

A FLEA IN HER REAR (OR ANTS IN HER PANTS)

THE NEW RADICAL THEATRE NOTEBOOK

THE FIRST LULU

MASTERGATE AND POWER FAILURE

This Applause edtiion allows the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Readers and students are faced with real theatrical choices in each speech as the editors point out the challenges and opportunities to the actor and director at each juncture. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process.

THE END OF ACTING

GREAT MOVIE MUSICAL TRIVIA BOOK

A CHEKHOV CONCERT

If there has ever been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be THE APPLAUSE FOLIO TEXTS. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. Prepared and annotated by Neil Freeman, Head, Graduate Directing Program, University of British Columbia.

BATTLE OF BRAZIL

THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS & OTHER ITALIAN CLASSICS

TITANIC THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE MUSICAL

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS

CHAOS AS USUAL

If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look " none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances.

If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts.The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos.The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look " none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances.