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Part of the "American Ways" series, this work presents the history of jazz. Exploring the music, the musicians, and the audience, It traces the emergence of jazz and follows its progress, showing how it has reflected shifting American values.

The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic young woman and her valet. Plays for Performance Series.

Sensual gaiety is at the heart of this comic masterpiece which continues the merry tale of the little barber of Seville, a clever common man whose wits overcome his superiors who would suppress him. Plays for Performance Series.

Ibsen's great social drama of a caged woman in the late 19th century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom. Plays for Performance Series.

Ibsen's last work concludes the series of autobiographical dramas begun with The Master Builder which deal with the aging rebel, despairing of life and racked with guilt, who experiences an ambiguous victory at the moment of death. Plays for Performance Series.

Robert Brustein's highly acclaimed adaptation of Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality which follows a group of characters who try to fashion their life stories into acceptable drama. Plays for Performance Series.

A consummate farce in which a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a seedy little hotel with the beautiful young wife of his best friend. Plays for Performance Series.

Von Kleist's last work and his masterpiece-a story of guilt, innocence, and moral righteousness involving a prince who violates his orders of battle when distracted by a beautiful princess. Plays for Performance Series.

The house of Belgium and its many houses-institutional and personal, literal and metaphoric-captured in a blend of social and cultural analysis that offers a microcosm of European society since World War II. Sensitive, perceptive, revealing, and delightfully readable. -Eugen Weber.

A history of how The Second City came to be, and a detailed text on every aspect of staging a comic review, and absorbing conversation on the art of the hilarious. This book shares the experiences and methods of the founder of this institution.

Says that the manuscript of "The Destruction of the European Jews" was rejected by major publishers; and in the wake of publication, the author faced a hostile reception from those who refused to believe that the Jews were less than heroic in their journey to the gas chambers. This book shows how the study was used and abused.

By guiding readers through the difficulties of plot and language, this Handbook leave them free to enjoy the depth, beauty, and vitality of Shakespeare's works.

Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children. Plays for Performance Series.

Offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused, this book focuses on the afflicted. It compares the symptoms recorded in colonial diaries to those of the encephalitis epidemic and argues that the victims suffered from the same disease.

The tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly slays his father and marries his mother, is one of the mythical cornerstones of Western civilization. Plays for Performance Series.

How the railroads transformed American life between 1829 and 1929, and why the cost of their achievements was so damaging to the social and economic life of the nation.

A narrative analysis of the most ambitious and controversial American reform effort since the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt. Andrew examines underlying ideas and principle objectives, shows how the Great Society touched the lives of almost all Americans, and tells why much of it failed but continues to generate political controversy even today. American Ways Series.

Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Trojan War is, despite its heroic background, in many respects a domestic tragedy. Plays for Performance Series.

Taking the reader all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England, this is a collection of boxing stories. Drawing a portrait of Uncle Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its Golden Age, it places Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali in the social history of their times.

By far Strindberg's most aggressive work. The Father is a feverish nightmare of the struggle he saw between defiant masculinity and the treacherous weakness of women. Plays for Performance Series.

Bernard Sternsher has assembled writings by historians that show how, even though the New Deal's initiatives did not always work, FDR's program was a psychological and political success.

The most definitive account of the Suez affair to date, based on newly opened archives. Mr. Freiberger argues that the crisis was only the culmination of long American irritation with British imperialism in the Middle East. Commendable...this book breaks new ground."-William B. Quandt, Foreign Affairs.

Looking back at the late eighteenth century, this book shows that the United States was founded not on Christian principles at all but on Enlightenment ideas. This book makes a contribution to the debate over the separation of church and state and the role (or lack thereof) of religion in government.

In this cogent history, D.G. Hart unpacks evangelicalism's current reputation by tracing its development over the course of the twentieth century.

By guiding readers through the difficulties of plot and language, this handbook leave them free to enjoy the depth, beauty, and vitality of Shakespeare's works.