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  • Great Britons of Stage and Screen
    Barbara Roisman Cooper
    Bryan Langley• Cornel Lucas •Terence MarshOswald Morris• Peter Newbrook •Rachel Portman Anthony Powell• Norman Spencer   Wolfgang Suschitzky •Vivienne Walker In memoriam: Glynis JohnsRoisman Cooper’s fourth book in the series Great Britons of Stage and Screen is a treasure trove of true-life personal tales, all told from the perspective of those who worked behind the scenes. Th...
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    36,55 €

  • Euripides
    Hanna M. Roisman
    The book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides’ Andromache. Its presentation seeks to combine depth of analysis with clarity and accessibility. It discusses Greek theatre and performance, the myth behind the play, and the literary, intellectual, and political context in which it was written and first performed. The book provides ...
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    39,66 €

  • Euripides’ Hippolytus
    Hannah M. Roisman
    Euripides’ Hippolytus is a fascinating play about passion, innocence, rejection, betrayal, and the tragic breakdown of a family. This commentary, designed for intermediate and advanced students of ancient Greek, helps readers understand and fully appreciate this classic tragedy in all its rich complexity. The volume is the first commentary on the play to appear in print since 1...
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    46,72 €

  • Great Britons of Stage and Screen
    Barbara Roisman Cooper
    Barbara Roisman Cooper’s fifth book looks at a group of distinguished artists and creators  behind the scenes of theatre and film productions. Great Britons of Stage and Screen: Volume III, Behind the Scenes features a dozen interviews with the most honored filmmakers and theatrical professionals of the past 75 years. All of these interviews were personally conducted by Roisman...
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    38,53 €

  • Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama
    Hanna M. Roisman
    The heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia, Alcestis, Antigone Electra, Deianeira, Phaedra, Creusa and Helen. The book focuses on characterisation and the motivations of the w...
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    44,17 €

  • Sophocles’ Electra
    Hanna M. Roisman
    Sophocles’ Electra is a riveting play with a long and varied reception. Its nuanced treatment of matricidal revenge with all the questions it raises; its compelling depictions of the idealistic, long -grieving, rebellious Electra; her compliant sister; her brother; and her mother; and its superb poetry have all contributed to making this one of Sophocles’ most admired plays, as...
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    53,87 €

  • Great Britons of Stage and Screen
    Barbara Roisman Cooper
    Barbara Roisman Cooper is an acknowledged expert on British cinema and theatre. Her many credits on those topics include articles in publications such as British Heritage, Modern Maturity, Biblio, and The Baker Street Journal. She has interviewed more than one hundred leading members of the British stage and screen communities.Great Britons of Stage and Screen, Volume II: Direc...
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    30,83 €

  • Alexander’s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors
    Joseph Roisman
    This first focused analysis of veterans’ experiences in ancient Greece offers a fresh, 'bottom-up' perspective on important military and political aspects of early Hellenistic history. Runner-up, PROSE Award, Classics and Ancient History, 2013 From antiquity until now, most writers who have chronicled the events following the death of Alexander the Great have viewed this histo...
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    37,58 €

  • Anna Lee
    Anna Lee / Barbara Roisman Cooper
    Born Joan Boniface Winnifrith on January 2, 1913, Anna Lee is best known for her portrayal of General Hospital’s Lila Quartermaine, a character who she brought to life for over two decades. From her early years in England to her final days in Hollywood, she recounts details of her extraordinary life in her memoir. Expressed in her energetic style, Anna Lee tells of her child...
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    42,46 €

  • Sophocles
    Hanna M. Roisman
    Like other classical Greek tragedies, Sophocles’ Philoctetes is an extraordinarily timely and timeless play. Dramatising the efforts of people who had wronged him to bring the play’s hero, Philoctetes, to join the Greek forces in their war against Troy, it traces the moral and emotional development of the young Neoptolemos as he struggles between the values of honesty and decei...
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    44,96 €

  • Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
    Michael Caine / Ronald Neame / With Barbara Cooper / with Barbara Roisman Cooper
    Now in Paperback! Straight from the Horse’s Mouth provides a fascinating, first-hand account of a unique filmmaker, who began his career as assistant cameraman on Hitchcock’s first talkie, Blackmail, and went on to direct Maggie Smith, Judy Garland, Walter Matthau, and many other prominent performers. The book includes tales of the on-and-off-the-set antics of comedian George F...
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    56,59 €

  • Nothing Is as It Seems
    Hanna M. Roisman / Hanna MRoisman
    In this valuable book, Hanna M. Roisman provides a uniquely comprehensive look at Euripides’ Hippolytus. Roisman begins with an examination of the ancient preference for the implicit style, and suggests a possible reading of Euripides’ first treatment of the myth which would account for the Athenian audience’s reservations about his Hippolytus Veiled. She proceeds to analyze si...
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    69,66 €