LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert manns

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  • Lincoln Part I & Part II
    Robert Manns
    Two verse plays that begin with the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln and end with his assassination. LINCOLN is backgrounded by the entire length of the Civil War; portraits of Stanton, Lee, Meade, Grant, and other principals; and numbers of common soldiery. Epic in size, the plays are also noted for their accuracy and the 'trenchant driving rhythms' of the verse. 'Yo...
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    14,93 €

  • The Greek Play
    Robert Manns
    Tragedy is the heartiest of theater. It wakens us by calling to our senses more completely than any other medium. And it is successful only when the write can make his audiences savor every minute of it.The author. 3 ...
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    8,74 €

  • The Smithson Matter
    Robert Manns
    The Smithson Matter, together with its one-act Introduction, recounts the personal and political maneuvers behind the creation of the great Smithsonian Institute. The Introduction presents James Smithson, né Macie, the illegitimate son of the Duke of Northumberland and the fashionable Elizabeth Macie. Frustrated by the English class society that stigmatizes him and inspired by ...
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    16,42 €

  • The Wasp
    Robert Manns
    In an age of miniaturization, the one-act play should find itself at home.People do attend concertized etudes, most often for the piano, and that is precisely what a one-act play is-an etude. Sometimes it’s a character study, others a piece of action, still others a complete little story, and several strung together selectively can make a program. 3 ...
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    19,83 €

  • The Briefing
    Robert Manns
    'I have little doubt that Robert Manns is America’s most accomplished living playwright.'-J. Brian Smith 3 ...
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    10,81 €

  • Yorktown
    Robert Manns
    'You found a trenchant, driving rhythm for the verse, something that is all your own. It wasn’t imposed on the characters: it spoke for them.'-Christopher Fry'I consider Robert Manns one of the most talented.playwrights in the generation not yet recognized by the commercial theater. His choice of style is unique; his imagination boundless; and his dedication intense. And I beli...
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    12,59 €

  • The Swan that Slept
    Robert Manns
    After the American Revolution, Scottish immigrant James Swan entered the businesses of real estate and shipping. Becoming friends with many of the luminaries of the times, his businesses expanded to France, where he was accused of a two million franc debt owed to the government of Napoleon, perhaps in taxes, which he refused. Swan, although he could easily afford the payment, r...
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    11,13 €

  • BOYS WILL BE BOYS and FIVE ONE-ACT PLAYS
    Robert Manns
    With the loosening of constraints on what may be discussed and portrayed in plays dealing with homosexuality, similar relaxation should be expected for heterosexual works. Within the bounds of good taste, of course. And taste, like time, alters. Hopefully, the time is now.***In an age of miniaturization, the one-act play should find itself at home.People do attend concertized e...
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    16,43 €

  • Cry the Loon and The Avian Connection
    Robert Manns
    Cry the Loon is a domestic tragedy laid in the author’s own hometown.The Avian Connection is a comical fantasy dealing with an ornithologist’s belief that man and bird evolved from the same source, the warm-bloodied archaeopteryx. ...
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    17,61 €

  • The Maine Quartet
    Robert Manns
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    20,63 €

  • A Tripos
    Robert Manns
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    19,59 €

  • Lincoln In The White House
    Robert Manns
    A powerful play on Lincoln’s tenure in the White House from inauguration to assignation, the period of his superb greatness. Backgrounded by the devastating civil war, it presents Mary, Grant, Seward, Lee, Meade, Stanton, common soldiery and others of the time by a playwright whose skills should make him of major interest. 3 ...
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    27,61 €

  • Rats & the Cockroach
    Robert Manns
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    16,36 €

  • Lincoln in the White House
    Robert Manns
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    16,36 €

  • Night of the Frogs & Sautee and Nacoochee
    Robert Manns
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    16,00 €

  • Selected Poems and Pygmalion and Galatea
    Robert Manns
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    11,62 €