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Tony Kushner
An award-winning musical that addresses contemporary questions of culture, community, race and class through the lens of the 1960s.
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The essays in this collection are an attempt to provide a basis for future discussion of immigration, ethnicity and race in Britain.
These essays reveal the role of British intelligence in the roundups of European refugees and expose the subversion of democratic safeguards.
Philosemitism, Antisemitism and ‘the Jews’ both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of…
Esther Saraga
Shows how the themes of managing emotions, separation and loss, memory, identity, belonging and home, and coming to terms with the past are still relevant to the experiences of more…
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Tony Kushner,Nadia Valman
This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in Cable Street, part of London’s Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society.
Susan Cohen
Rescue the Perishing is the first study to date of Eleanor Rathbone’s commitment to the ‘refugee question’ from 1933 until her death in 1946. It explains how, from a working…
This wide-ranging collection of essays investigates the current position and purpose of British Jewish studies in the modern age. Taking the post-1880 period as its focal point, the book adopts…
Arthur Miller
For Arthur Miller’s centennial year, The Library of America and editor Tony Kushner present the final volume in the definitive collected edition of the essential American dramatist. Here are eleven…
Kushner and Solomon bring together prominent poets, essayists, journalists, activists, academics, novelists and playwrights representing the diversity of opinion in the progressive Jewish-American community to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage is usually regarded as Brecht’s masterpiece and remains to this day an epic indictment of the brutality of war. This translation by world-famous playwright Tony Kushner is spirited…
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Here is the story, told firsthand through electric, deeply engaged writing, of America’s living theater, high and low, mainstream and experimental.
Drawing on history, criticism, memoir, fiction, poetry, and parody…
Ariel Dorfman,Tony Kushner
Contains WIDOWS, a parable of courage and resilience in the face of totalitarian oppression, and LAST WALTZ IN SANTIAGO, a collection of poems written on the themes of exile and…
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The journey is central to the Jewish experience and the construction of Jewish identities across time and place. Remarkably, however, it has received almost no scholarly attention. This multi-disciplinary collection…
Tim Wamer
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Munster, 23 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Tony Kushner’s Angels in…
A revealing drama about a great American president, written by a great American playwright. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay.
Larry Kramer
The Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the…
This volume offers some of the best recent theatrical writing by and about gay men, all of which have been successfully produced and critically acclaimed in the United States and…
Pierre Corneille
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner’s free adaptation of Pierre Cornielle’s neoclassical French comedy, L'Illusion Comique.
The subject of Disraeli’s Jewishness was one that obsessed contemporaries but was subsequently downplayed by historians. The essays in this volume stress the importance of Disraeli’s Jewishness in the construction…
Charles Ludlam
The first collection of Ridiculus Theatre founder Charles Ludlum’s major works in one volume.
Tony Kushner,Joachim Neugroschel
A stunning adaptation of S. Ansky’s mystical dramatic legend The Dybbuk, accompanied by previously unpublished folklore.
Tony Kushner’s lively version of Brecht’s parable of good and evil presented in an English/German parallel text edition with an introduction by Tom Kuhn.
This collection of essays focuses on the concepts of tolerance and intolerance as it commemorates the life of James Parkes - the man who pioneered the study of antisemitism and…
A collection of essays that ranges broadly over time, covering the period from early modern era to the early twenty first century. It studies the relationship of history and memory…
A collection of essays that range broadly over time, covering the period from early modern era to the early twenty first century. It studies the relationship of history and memory…
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Durrenmatt’s visionary revenge play, one of the great achievements of modern German-language theatre, transported to mid-twentieth-century America by the acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner.
S Ansky
Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, A DYBBUK recounts the tale of a wealthy man’s daughter possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved.
The translation of…
Britain has largely been in denial of its migrant past along with an assumption of tolerance towards minorities. Colin Holmes was the first and most important historian to challenge this…
Tim Miller
This volume gathers six of performance artist Tim Miller’s best-known performances, that chart the sexual, spiritual and political topography of his identity as a gay man: Some Golden States…
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Lasse Kekki
This study explores the works of two contemporary American gay authors, David Leavitt and Tony Kushner by bringing both writers within the purview of Queer Studies. The book provides an…
This volume presents the most authoritative recent scholarship on Belsen by British, American, German, French and Israeli historians.
Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht’s best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This bilingual edition allows students…
Sholem Aleichem
In a small shtetl in Bessarabia in the early twentieth century, a traveling Yiddish acting company comes to town. The townspeople react in unison: ‘What is this? Actor-types? Comedians? Who…
Tennessee Williams
A beautiful clothbound edition of a beloved classic to celebrate the 100th birthday of America’s greatest playwright, with a sweeping new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Kushner.
Eric Bogosian,William Finn,John Guare,Tony Kushner (Professor, University of Southampton),Marsha Norman
A collection of seven new plays inspired by the sonnets of Shakespeare. The plays are paired with the sonnets that inspired them, and centre around the theme of love.
Challenges the notion that there is an unproblematic connection between Holocaust memory and the discourse of anti-racism. Through diverse case studies, this volume historicizes how the Holocaust has shaped engagement…
