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Ancient Ireland: An Explorer's Guide (Travel)
Robert Emmet Meagher , and Elizabeth Parker Neave Manufacturer: Interlink Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 156656526X |
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A splendid guidebook to Ireland's spectacular antiquities-its passage tombs, ring forts, castles, Neolithic settlements, and monastic sites. With its witty and erudite explorations of Irish mythology, history, literature, archaeology, and architecture, this travel book makes for an excellent companion on a journey to Ireland that is also a journey back in time.Along with fascinating overviews of prehistoric, Celtic, early Christian, and early medieval times, Meagher gives the traveler concrete help in finding the most stunning sites that preserve and breathe that history today (some are surprisingly unknown). After the day's exploring is done, readers can consult the same volume to find where to stay and eat... or entertaining bed-time reading in Meagher's lore about these ancient sites.
In Ancient Ireland, Meagher brings both his passionate scholarship and knowledge of the country and its history to a guide that is at once personal, humorous, engaging, scholarly, and still minutely practical.
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Useful car tour guide to some of the best sites .......2006-06-03
A handy, "must-have" for Irish history buffs.......2004-07-09
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Producing and the Theatre Business: American Theatre Wing (Working in the Theatre Seminars)
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0826418112 |
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The newest volume drawn from the American Theatre Wing--creator of the Tony Awards--archive of transcripts from the popular discussion series of Working in the Theatre seminars is now available. Theatre is a creative and collaborative enterprise. But like any enterprise in a capitalistic culture, it must rely on the initial flow of money from entrepreneurs and investors. There can be an uneasy relationship between commerce and creativity. But this book dispels this easy notion, in the process demystfying the work of producers on Broadway, off-Broadway, and the West End. As Oscar Hammerstein observed: "A producer is a rare, paradoxical genius--hardheaded, soft-hearted, cautious, reckless, a hopeful innocent in fair weather, a stern pilot in stormy weather, an idealist, a practical dreamer, a sophisticated gambler, a stage-struck child." By examining the funding of theatre today, this book is an invaluable examination of what a producer does in terms of selecting the work, finding backers, dealing with unions, advertising, and much more. Although economics is called the dismal science, nothing could be further from the truth in this lively collection of free and collegial discussions.
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The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin
Robert Kimball , and Linda Berlin Emmet Manufacturer: Applause Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1557836817 |
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Gathered together in one volume for the first time, here are all of the incomparable song lyrics of Irving Berlin - the lyrics of more than 1,200 songs, 400 of which have never before appeared in print - along with anecdotal, historical, and musicological commentary and dozens of photographs. Berlin came from a poor immigrant family and began his career as a singing waiter, but by the time he was nineteen he was publishing his songs and quickly found fame with "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911. In the extraordinary six decades that followed, Berlin wrote one popular hit after another: Blue Skies * Always * Cheek to Cheek * White Christmas * God Bless America * There's No Business Like Show Business * and many more. He also wrote a number of the classics of musical theater's Golden Age, climaxing with Annie Get Your Gun. He penned three Astaire and Rogers films - Top Hat, Carefree, and Follow the Fleet - as well as the scores of Holiday Inn, Easter Parade, and other films. The breadth of his accomplishment is staggering.Customer Reviews:
Only one side of a great songwriter.......2007-02-21
A Revelation.......2002-05-19
A massive monument in Americal musical history.......2002-02-23
It is a wonderful book from publisher Alfred A. Knopf titled "The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin," edited by Robert Kimball and Linda Emmet (one of the composer's three daughters). Now, considering that this man wrote well over a thousand songs, that is quite a bit of material for a single volume. But this one measures roughly 11" by 12" and holds 530 pages, which hold three columns of text. In this way, we get the lyrics to 1,200 songs for which he wrote both words and the music (only a few early songs were set to words by others).
The organization is chronological and intelligently packaged. Unlike Rodgers, Kern and Gershwin, Berlin wrote for Tin Pan Alley as well as for the stage. Therefore the editors have grouped the lyrics by "Songs" that were not intended for a specific show or film and by songs that were. So for 1914, for example, you will get all the independent songs composed that year in one chapter and those written for "Watch Your Step" the same year in a separate chapter. Even more welcome are the lyrics to many songs that were never published! It makes fascinating reading to surmise why these had to wait until this book came along to see the light of day.
To make this book even more valuable, each song is given a little preface concerning copyright dates and other items of interest to the American musical historian. And you will love the full-page photographs that stand at the start of each chapter. There is also an introductory essay and a very useful chronology at the start of the book, while the index at the end can help you locate in the body of the book any song by title with no trouble. So while Berlin's lyrics might not be as clever as those of Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart or Ira Gershwin, many of them will bring back memories of how Americans felt almost from the start to the finish of the last century.
(Take note. Knopf also has available similar tomes for the lyrics of Porter, Hart, and I. Gershwin. Each one is a definite Grabbit.
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James Ivory in Conversation: How Merchant Ivory Makes Its Movies
Robert Emmet Long Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0520234154 |
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James Ivory in Conversation is an exclusive series of interviews with a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents. Three-time Academy Award nominee for best director, responsible for such film classics as A Room with a View and The Remains of the Day, Ivory speaks with remarkable candor and wit about his more than forty years as an independent filmmaker. In this deeply engaging book, he comments on the many aspects of his world-traveling career: his growing up in Oregon (he is not an Englishman, as most Europeans and many Americans think), his early involvement with documentary films that first brought attention to him, his discovery of India, his friendships with celebrated figures here and abroad, his skirmishes with the Picasso family and Thomas Jefferson scholars, his usually candid yet at times explosive relations with actors. Supported by seventy illuminating photographs selected by Ivory himself, the book offers a wealth of previously unavailable information about the director's life and the art of making movies.Customer Reviews:
Intricate Maneuvers.......2005-12-27
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James Fenimore Cooper (Literature and Life)
Robert Emmet Long Manufacturer: Continuum Intl Pub Group (Sd) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0826404316 |
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Liv Ullmann: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)
Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 157806824X |
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Liv Ullmann (b. 1938) has played many roles over the course of her long life: actress, mother, activist, and author. Her lead performances in such Ingmar Bergman classics as Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, and Cries and Whispers kept her in close proximity to crafts involved in screenwriting, film direction, and production. In 1992, Ullman directed her first film Sofie and, with the quick succession of such recent masterpieces as Private Confessions, Kristin Lavransdatter, and Faithless, Ullmann has emerged as one of the most challenging, startling filmmakers working today. Tracing her artistic evolution, Liv Ullmann: Interviews reveals how her acting and her personal life have shaped her filmmaking. She also does not shy away from exploring her complicated relationship with Bergman. Ullmann candidly discusses how Bergman's workhe wrote the screenplays for Private Confessions and Faithlesshas influenced her own, but she also points out the ways in which she has diverged from his cinematic and moral vision. She talks about her feminist activism, her interest in Jewish culture, and her work as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, and how all of these experiences have affected filmmaking.The volume features interviews and profiles from the early 1970s through 2004, and closes with a long interview conducted by the editor specifically for this volume. Liv Ullmann: Interviews provides an unusually intimate look at how a major filmmaker has developed her craft, both in front of and behind the camera.
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The Films of Merchant Ivory
Robert Emmet Long Manufacturer: Harry N Abrams ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0810936186 |
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Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris
Euripides Manufacturer: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0865162662 |
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Meagher's translation of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis captures the horror of a young girl's lonely struggle against a vast army led by her father. Under the ruse of a betrothal to Achilles, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces in the war with Troy, sends for his daughter Iphigenia as a sacrifice to improve the fortunes of the Greek army. Iphigenia in Tauris represents her legendary and miraculous salvation.
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Ingmar Bergman: Film and Stage
Robert Emmet Long Manufacturer: HNA Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0810933225 |
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The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
Aeschylus Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0486414205 |
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Aeschylus' play that falls between Oedipus Rex and Antigone.......2003-11-12
The Aeschylus tragedy "Seven Against Thebes" is the only surviving play of a connected trilogy dealing with the sins of Laius (father of Oedipus) and the curse subsequently brought down upon his descendants. Aeschylus focuses on a prophecy that had been made regarding the sons of Oedipus: "They shall divide their inheritance with the sword in such a manner as to obtain equal shares." The play begins with Eteocles in command of the city and Polyneices arriving with his army of Argive soldiers. It begins with Eteocles making a call to arms and is followed by a description of the oath taken by the seven generals of the attacking armies. When the brothers kill each other during the battle by the walls of Thebes it becomes clear their "equal shares" refers to their common graves. The tragedy ends with a brief appearance by Antigone, who declares her intention to bury her brother Polyneices in defiance of the command of Creon, who now becomes king of Thebes.
This tragedy comes after the events related by Sophocles in "Oedipus at Colonus," but obviously before what happens in his "Antigone." What is interesting here is the psychological portrait that Aeschylus presents of the two brothers, even though only one of them appears in the play (the idea of having to different settings was apparently too much of a radical idea for drama at that time). Such insights are nominally something we would expect from Sophocles, but this is Aeschylus who is developing the split between the brothers in terms of oppositional pairs of characteristics. Clearly the idea is that one cannot exist (live) without the other, which makes their dying together justified by logic as well as the curse on the House of Oedipus.
It is difficult to judge this play and appreciate it as the climax to this particular trilogy without knowing much more about the preceding plays dealing with the two earlier generations of the house of Cadmus. What is clear is that Eteocles does not deserve much sympathy from the audience given that he has a greater culpability in his demise than either his father or his sister, at least in terms of what we know from the plays of Sophocles, which is the flaw in this assessment.
excellent translation from excellent series.......2002-03-16
This edition is ideal for reluctant students assigned to read Seven Against Thebes, and may even succeed in sparking their interest in the subject. The language is true to the play and stays vivid even through a few static moments.
As with all the plays in this series, the introduction provides information not only about how the translation was accomplished, but also about how the play would have been performed, and perceived, by the ancient Greeks, what's missing from the play (namely, the first two plays of a trilogy), and notes about how the play fits into the scheme of Greek tragedy.
Other plays in the series, such as Oedipus the King, are also highly recommended.
This review applies only to the Hecht/Bacon translation published by Oxford University Press in their Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, and not to the Dover Thrift edition.
When the gods send destruction there is no escape........1999-06-13
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