Plays

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.

From his first unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960s to the frontpage news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied - and helped to engender - the upheavals of his time. The astonishing life and legacy of this force to be reckoned with are at last revealed in RIDICULOUS!, a literary biography of an American comic genius. After founding the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967, Ludlam sustained an ever-shifting troupe of bohemian players through two decades of perennially daunting circumstances by writing 29 plays - plays that he starred in and directed as well. While Ludlam's work has become increasingly popular at regional theatres, on college campuses, and on stages throughout the world, his gender-bending theories and wide-ranging cultural impact have reached far beyond Bette Midler, the original cast members of Saturday Night Live and the countless other artists he influenced during his abbreviated lifetime. Like his early plays, Ludlam's life was rife with the sex, drugs and creative experimentation that characterized the freewheeling '60s and '70s. Based on a decade of research and interviews with more than 150 people who knew or worked with Ludlam - including all of the major players in his troupe and seven of his lovers - RIDICULOUS! recreates the dramatic life of an inimitable and subversive theatrical master with you-are-there intensity. Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography and the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Theatre Book of the Year David Kaufman makes a persuasive case for Ludlam's being a genius ... As a record of Ludlam's life and the theatrical world in which he was both guru and grandmaster, this book is informed and passionate. - Mel Gussow, The New York Times A fascinating portrait of an authentic stage genius and the New York avant-garde scene in which he toiled with such demented and dedicated diligence. - Playbill The phenom who inspired everyone from Bette Midler and Madeline Kahn to Tony Kushner and Paul Rudnick was no box of chocolates - which, as reading experiences go, makes his story all the sweeter. - Vanity Fair This is one helluva piece of work. - Marilyn Stasio, Variety.com

The acclaimed stage director and theatre critic Charles Marowitz in tandem with Jan Kott, one of the most penetrating and incisive Shakespearean scholars to emerge in the 20th Century, probe the mysteries of some of the more problematic plays in Shakespeare's canon. The innovative director and dazzling classicist bring two complementary viewpoints to bear as they delve into the collected works, illuminating the constantly changing nature and philosophic nuances of the various plays. The book's centerpiece consists of Kott and Marowitz's insights on such plays as Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Troilus & Cressida and Measure for Measure. They reveal the ideas behind Shakespeare's plays and the process of making them come alive before and audience and present frank, no-holds barred discussions on such subjects as The Shakespeare Industry, The Boundaries of Interpretation, Dramaturgy and Mise-en-scene.

These popular editions allow 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. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. 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.

Introductions, the motion picture treatments, credits and screenplays for these two movies by James Ivory.

John Willis' Screen World has become the definitive reference for any film library. Each volume includes every significant U.S. and international film released during that year as well as complete filmographies, capsule plot summaries, cast and characters, credits, production company, month released, rating, and running time. You'll also find biographical entries - a prices reference for over 2,000 living stars, including real name, school, place and date of birth. A comprehensive index makes this the finest film publication that any film lover could own.

John Willis' Screen World has become the definitive reference for any film library. Each volume includes every significant U.S. and international film released during that year as well as complete filmographies, capsule plot summaries, cast and characters, credits, production company, month released, rating, and running time. You'll also find biographical entries - a prices reference for over 2,000 living stars, including real name, school, place and date of birth. A comprehensive index makes this the finest film publication that any film lover could own.

This incredible reference book features every significant U.S. and international film released from January 1 through December 31, 1993. It includes complete filmographies with cast and characters, credits, the production company, the month released, rating, and running time. It also features a color photo section, larger photos, capsule plots and bold new layouts on larger pages than previous editions. It also includes a priceless reference for over 2,250 living stars, including real name, school, place and date of birth. It truly is the definitive record of the entire movie season! Movies included in this volume include: The Age of Innocence Dave Falling Down The Firm Free Willy Groundhog Day Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey In the Line of Fire Jurassic Park Last Action Hero Sleepless in Seattle So I Married an Axe Murderer What's Love Got to Do With It and many more.

This incredible reference book features every significant U.S. and international film released from January 1 through December 31, 1993. It includes complete filmographies with cast and characters, credits, the production company, the month released, rating, and running time. It also features a color photo section, larger photos, capsule plots and bold new layouts on larger pages than previous editions. It also includes a priceless reference for over 2,250 living stars, including real name, school, place and date of birth. It truly is the definitive record of the entire movie season! Movies included in this volume include: The Age of Innocence Dave Falling Down The Firm Free Willy Groundhog Day Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey In the Line of Fire Jurassic Park Last Action Hero Sleepless in Seattle So I Married an Axe Murderer What's Love Got to Do With It and many more.

Movie fans eagerly await each year's new edition of Screen World, the definitive record of the cinema since 1949. Volume 46 provides an illustrated listing of American and foreign films released in the United States in 1994, all documented in more than 1,000 photographs. It features such notable films as: Forrest Gump The Shawshank Redemption Blue Sky Clear and Present Danger The Mask The Madness of King George Star Trek Generations The Santa Clause Ed Wood Pulp Fiction and many more. As always, Screen World's outstanding features include photographic stills and complete credits from the films, biographical notes on selected individuals, full-page shots of Academy Award-winning actors, and a look at the year's most promising new screen personalities. Hardcover.