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The Little Foxes

Lillian Hellman

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LA Theatre Works

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...Lillian Hellman examines a wealthy southern family and the greed that tears them apart. Regina’s brothers have inherited their father’s wealth, while after years of neglect, her dying husband is determined to see she gets nothing...

Treasure Island

Bryony Lavery

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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National Theatre

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...Age recommendation: 9+ Recorded through National Theatre Live on 22nd January, 2015. It's a dark and stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper's granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor's feet...

Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare

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The Royal Shakespeare Company

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..."Simon Godwin has taken exactly the right approach to this new production of one of the Bard's most obscure, least performed plays. With a swashbuckling candour and refreshing energy, he's filleted and reformed the piece as a brisk...

Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare

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Stratford Festival

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...Year of Release: 2018 Timon’s compulsive generosity makes him the most popular man in Athens – until his funds run out. Now, embittered by ingratitude, what will he do when his city comes under attack? This stirring production from...

Mizlansky/Zilinsky

Jon Robin Baitz

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LA Theatre Works

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...Italian shoes, a house in the hills, a gift for stretching the truth, and a petulant assistant to pick the scallions out of his Szechuan noodles – Hollywood producer Davis Mizlansky has it all. But he’s about to lose it to the IRS unless he...

Text vs Material: Cultural Materialism and New Historicism

Christopher Marlow

Christopher Marlow is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare and Cultural Materialist Theory

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2018

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...Poetics, materialism and textuality It is the spring of 2016, and portmanteau words are everywhere. In the UK, the talk is of Brexit and Bremain; in the US presidential election, voters will be asked to overlook...

McTeague

Frank Norris

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LA Theatre Works

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...Stacy Keach stars in this shocking tale of a Polk Street dentist and his wife in 1899 San Francisco. Frank Norris’ powerful insights into the depths of the human soul make this a story of compelling narrative force. This seminal novel about...

State vs Individual: Cultural Materialism and Agency

Christopher Marlow

Christopher Marlow is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare and Cultural Materialist Theory

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2018

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...To be or not to be What might Hamlet mean by the phrase ‘to be, or not to be’? The question is surprisingly difficult to answer despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that these words appear in the best-known line...

Enron

Lucy Prebble

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LA Theatre Works

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...Fasten your seatbelts for a rapid-fire, sophisticated thrill-ride that propels you through one of the most infamous financial scandals in history! With a spicy blend of humor, pathos and music, the big biz machinations of Kenneth Lay...

The Critical Backstory

David Bevington

David Bevington

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The Alchemist : A Critical Reader

The Arden Shakespeare, 2013

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...‘Upon my word’, declared Coleridge in 1834, ‘I think the Oedipus Tyrannus, The Alchemist, and Tom Jones the three most perfect plots ever planned.’ The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel...