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HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

SCHOCH RICHARD

Discover the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musical theater masterworks as Company, West Side Story, and Into the Woods…

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Shakespeare’s House

Professor Richard Schoch

"[A] page-turning story" - Times Literary Supplement "Eye-opening" - Michael Billington "A detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more than bricks and mortar." - The Stratford Herald

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Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving: Great Shakespeareans: Volume VI

Focuses on Shakespeare’s reception by figures in Victorian theatre. This book offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural…

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Victorian Theatrical Burlesques

Metadramatic, the burlesque is often a play that allots a low social standing to a person of a higher class or vice versa. Its principal target was the blood and…

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Victorian Theatrical Burlesques

Metadramatic, the burlesque is often a play that allots a low social standing to a person of a higher class or vice versa. Its principal target was the blood and…

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The Secrets of Happiness: Three Thousand Years of Searching for the Good Life

Richard Schoch

Argues that we can enrich our lives by understanding the philosophical and religious traditions of happiness - and then put them to work in our lives. In a journey across…

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A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance: From the Restoration to the Twenty-First Century

Richard Schoch (Queen's University Belfast)

This short history of Shakespeare in global performance-from the re-opening of London theatres upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to our present multicultural day-provides a comprehensive overview of…

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Writing the History of the British Stage: 1660-1900

Richard Schoch (Queen's University Belfast)

This book-length study of British theatre historiography will interest all scholars of British theatre - not just historians - because of its emphasis on debates about disciplinary practice. The book’s…

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Writing the History of the British Stage: 1660-1900

Richard Schoch (Queen's University Belfast)

This book-length study of British theatre historiography will interest all scholars of British theatre - not just historians - because of its emphasis on debates about disciplinary practice. The book’s…

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Shakespeare’s Victorian Stage: Performing History in the Theatre of Charles Kean

Richard W. Schoch (University of London)

This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare’s history plays as staged by Charles Kean in mid-Victorian London.

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Shakespeare’s Victorian Stage: Performing History in the Theatre of Charles Kean

Richard W. Schoch (University of London)

This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare’s history plays, Henry V, Henry VIII, King John, Macbeth and Richard II, as staged by the actor-manager Charles Kean in mid-Victorian London. The…

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Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century

Richard W. Schoch (Queen Mary University of London)

This study of nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques explores the paradox that plays which are manifestly ‘not Shakespeare’ purport to be the most genuinely Shakespearean of all. The book brings together archival…

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Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century

Richard W. Schoch (Queen Mary University of London)

This study of nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques explores the paradox that plays which are ‘not Shakespeare’ purport to be the most genuinely Shakespearean of all. The book brings together archival research…

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Performing Restoration Shakespeare

Performing Restoration Shakespeare embraces the performative and musical qualities of Restoration Shakespeare (1660-1714), drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of theatre historians, musicologists, literary critics, and - crucially - theatre and…

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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company

Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Syracuse University, USA),Professor Richard Schoch (Queen's University Belfast, UK),Richard Schoch (Queen S University Belfast UK)

Eubanks Winkler and Schoch reveal how - and why - the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare’s lifetime changed absolutely everything. Founder of the Duke’s Company, Sir William Davenant…

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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company

Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Syracuse University, USA),Professor Richard Schoch (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

Eubanks Winkler and Schoch reveal how - and why - the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare’s lifetime changed absolutely everything. Founder of the Duke’s Company, Sir William Davenant…

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Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public

Peter Parshall,Rainer Schoch,Richard S. Field,Peter Schmidt,David Areford

The first comprehensive history of late medieval printmaking, which transformed image production and led to profound changes in Western culture

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Human Services Technology: Understanding, Designing, and Implementing Computer and Internet Applications in the Social Services

Dick Schoech,Richard Schoech,Dick Schoech

A nontechnical guide to the management of computer and Internet applications by human service professionals. It discusses networking and telecommunication, data storage and management, decision-making theories underlying computer applications

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Human Services Technology: Understanding, Designing, and Implementing Computer and Internet Applications in the Social Services

Dick Schoech,Richard Schoech,Dick Schoech

A nontechnical guide to the management of computer and Internet applications by human service professionals. It discusses networking and telecommunication, data storage and management, decision-making theories underlying computer applications

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Web-Based Education in the Human Services: Models, Methods, and Best Practices

Richard Schoech,Brenda Moore (Texas A&m University-commerce, Commerce, TX, USA),Robert James Macfadden,Marilyn Herie

A much-needed look at innovative and effective methods for creating virtual learning environments for human services

Web-Based Education in the Human Services reflects the vitality and diversity of Web-based courses…

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