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Anton Chekhov
The ninth title in TCG Books' Classic Russian Drama series collects seven one-act plays by master playwright Anton Chekhov.
. These one-acts are ideal for scene study classes and recitals…
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Richard F Bales
This book addresses critical gaps in existing biographies of Nelson Algren, providing new perspectives on his writing style, literary contributions, professional colleagues, and personal life--especially his relationship with Simone de…
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Richard Nelson
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
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A revised version of Richard Nelson's 2008 play, CONVERSATIONS IN TUSCULUM. It was made for a production, directed by the author, at the Theater on Podil, Kyiv, Ukraine. It opened…
Featuring compelling case studies illustrating how universities are harnessing the power of AI to innovate in teaching, learning, and research, Academic Identity in the Age of AI offers valuable insights…
Playwright Richard Nelson's theatre diary from Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2024.
The gospel, graciously delivered, can change everything.
Even in politics.
Do you feel compelled to run for political office but aren't sure how or where to begin? Are you a…
Jo Nelson
Explore the wonders of the past in this stunning collection of over 160 historical artefacts, from Ancient Rome to the dynasties of China. Welcome to the museum.
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Jonathan K. Nelson, Richard J. Zeckhauser
This Element represents the systematic study of the risks taken by those who produced, commissioned, and purchased art, across Renaissance Europe. It classifies scores of documented examples of losses into…
Nelson Richard
… PRINCIPIA SCRIPTORIAE, a powerful and intelligent new play by the American Richard Nelson, which explores the brutal and bloodied relationships between politics and art, and between literature and life…
Thomas Keble
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Melsome Nelson-richards
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English biographies edited and introduced by Richard Holmes.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Ed Nelson
Bank robbery, bull riding in the rodeo, a western movie, and Rustlers, among other events, occur as young Rick is on a cross-country trip, hitchhiking from a small Ohio town…
The untimely death of Chairman Mao has set in motion enormous changes in the world. The new Empress of China is a contact of Rick’s, this leads to his involvement…
WHERE I COME FROM is a play for young people to perform. There is no over-arching message to the piece, rather it is a play which explores the complexities and…
And So We Come Forth is set in early July, 2020, amidst massive protests against racism in America and over the murder of George Floyd, as well as the anxious…
After six months of self-imposed pandemic isolation, the Apple siblings again gather on Zoom for an evening of dinner, conversation and performance, while the world continues to sputter more and…
The action is set in 1966 in a soon-to-be-exploding Paris. Carl, a 15-year-old American has a teacher, the beautiful Claudia Melville. In the course of one night and one day…
I would want [NIKOLAI AND THE OTHERS] to be seen by anyone interested in Balanchine and his choreography… The world of Russian emigres is Chekhovian in both intimacy and intricacy.
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THE MICHAELS is as hopeful as it is heartbreaking.
Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Nelson builds characters who are rich in spirit and soul and sets them in motion…
Critics Pick
Extraordinary… [Nelson’s] stripped-down dramaturgy asks us to care about character more than story, and to see the largest matters in the smallest details.
Jesse Green, The New York…
'Poets' Walk' is the name of a park, or rather a series of trails that skirt along the Hudson River. Legend has it that Washington Irving got his idea for…
A group of American academics and students visit London to experience some English culture and visit the theatre. With them they have brought their personal and professional problems and anxieties…
The first of three volumes that will serve as a comprehensive and inclusive finding tool, this work defines propaganda in an uncertain postmodern information age.
In the midst of our unsettled world, The Apple Family, last seen in 2014, return; though not over the dinner table, but via Zoom. This hour-long play picks them up…
This book, written in 1973, is for readers interested in the naval history of the ancient peoples of the Mediterranean. The period covered starts with Greek and Phoenician vessels of…
Olivier Award, Best Play
Nelson’s great virtue is that he asks hard questions about the emotional priorities of people who’ve missed out on their childhoods, poignantly charting the outer boundaries…
In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about the subject–a man who brings despondency…
Brought together by tragedy, they find comfort in attacking their adopted country, ridiculing its crude ways and lack of standards. Humour and irony as well as the sense of loss…
Renaissance con man…history as paradox and discovery as an act of self-definition… An ironic epic: a wry, intelligent and fascinating account of the way the New World was opened by…
The book of Joshua has many textual problemsprimarily differences between the Hebrew and Greek texts. Much of the inconsistency stems from the varied forms of storytelling in the book, including…
Nominated for Tony Award, Best Play
Illuminating, enlivening, a sheer joy.
James Christopher, Time Out
Sharp characterization and magical theatricality.
John Peter, The London Times
Containing statements like ‘American actors…
Damaged Language contains four radio plays by Richard Nelson:
LANGUAGES SPOKEN HEREGiles Cooper Award winner
a morally ambiguous comedy…an American in London thinks he’s translating a novel by a…
Offers a new interpretation of the transformation of Anglo-American intellectual and aesthetic culture since 1890. Richard Nelson shows that southern intellectuals confronted head on the tensions Machiavelli observed between power…
In this persuasive study of culture politics, Richard Nelson examines the concept of confidence and doubt as the cement that holds the US together. He explores confidence in its dual…
Long an associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, American playwright Richard Nelson has been praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, and has been awarded the Olivier Award…
What Do We Need to Talk About?; And So We Come Forth; Incidental Moments of the Day
Recounts the author’s experiences on a remote Alaskan island, revealing how his adoption of the Eskimo Koyukon wisdom has positively affected his life.
A fading American actor in Rome for the filming of a 1960s spaghetti Western gathers with family and friends in a rented villa. Over the course of one booze-soaked summer…
A study in dissolution by a leading American playwright who has written prolifically, and with fine detail, on the perplexities of everyday living.
The latest work of a celebrated American playwright.
A Chekhovian quartet of plays examining the contemporary American experience.
