Here are six one-act dramas and comedies, ranging in length from 10 to 65 minutes, plus a full-length musical based on the collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan in their mostly happy but sometimes argumentative creation of the D'Oyly Carte Savoy Operettas. Choosing Home--the play that opens the book--won four awards following its first performance in 2005. It was then commissioned to be serialized as a five-part radio play. It has since become one of Blicq's most-produced plays.

(Applause Books). Seven hits that have been the staples of the American dramatic repertoire. Myron Matlaw's introduction provides a splendid survey of the development of American drama. Individual prefaces focus each work in the perspective of its historical context.

Tennessee Williams' characters set the stage for their own dramas. Blanche DuBois (A Streetcar Named Desire), arrived at her sister's apartment with an entire trunk of costumes and props. Amanda Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie) directed her son on how to eat and tries to make her daughter act like a Southern Belle. This book argues for the persistence of one metatheatrical strategy running throughout Williams' entire oeuvre: each play stages the process through which it came into being--and this process consists of a variation on repetition combined with transformation. Each chapter takes a detailed reading of one play and its variation on repetition and transformation. Specific topics include reproduction in Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), mediation in Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981), and how the playwright frequently recycled previous works of art, including his own.

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Play Me Something Quick and Devilish explores the heritage of traditional fiddle music in Missouri. Howard Wight Marshall considers the place of homemade music in people’s lives across social and ethnic communities from the late 1700s to the World War I years and into the early 1920s. This exceptionally important and complex period provided the foundations in history and settlement for the evolution of today’s old-time fiddling. Beginning with the French villages on the Mississippi River, Marshall leads us chronologically through the settlement of the state and how these communities established our cultural heritage. Other core populations include the “Old Stock Americans” (primarily Scotch-Irish from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia), African Americans, German-speaking immigrants, people with American Indian ancestry (focusing on Cherokee families dating from the Trail of Tears in the 1830s), and Irish railroad workers in the post–Civil War period. These are the primary communities whose fiddle and dance traditions came together on the Missouri frontier to cultivate the bounty of old-time fiddling enjoyed today. Marshall also investigates themes in the continuing evolution of fiddle traditions. These themes include the use of the violin in Westward migration, in the Civil War years, and in the railroad boom that changed history. Of course, musical tastes shift over time, and the rise of music literacy in the late Victorian period, as evidenced by the brass band movement and immigrant music teachers in small towns, affected fiddling. The contributions of music publishing as well as the surprising importance of ragtime and early jazz also had profound effects. Much of the old-time fiddlers’ repertory arises not from the inherited reels, jigs, and hornpipes from the British Isles, nor from the waltzes, schottisches, and polkas from the Continent, but from the prolific pens of Tin Pan Alley. Marshall also examines regional styles in Missouri fiddling and comments on the future of this time-honored, and changing, tradition. Documentary in nature, this social history draws on various academic disciplines and oral histories recorded in Marshall’s forty-some years of research and field experience. Historians, music aficionados, and lay people interested in Missouri folk heritage—as well as fiddlers, of course—will find Play Me Something Quick and Devilish an entertaining and enlightening read. With 39 tunes, the enclosed Voyager Records companion CD includes a historic sampler of Missouri fiddlers and styles from 1955 to 2012. A media kit is available here: press.umsystem.edu/pages/PlayMeSomethingQuickandDevilish.aspx

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This book is a pathway to your prosperities: wisdom, good health, including financial increase. It is a never-ending blessing which God has in stock for you because he will pay your bills if you stick to him. The book has meaningful prayers, fasting, and meditations to beat down anything or anyone who tries to beat you down. It is a workbook which is presented eloquently that could be compared to a drill to drill out your blessings for you to prosper. The book teaches how to achieve God and how to hold on to him and never to let him go. You will learn in the book that, with God, we can do all things by Christ Jesus who is our strength.We are tired of pains and all the hangovers attached to them and refuse to suffer anymore, instead, we reclaim our blessings which were stolen by the devil, the thief. We now realize that we are more than conquerors and that we can beat down our problems and oppressors through Christ Jesus. We know that the enemy is out there to create confusions, and we also know that the enemy, with his confusions and the troubles he causes, will bow down at the name of Jesus for your sake, amen.We are fully aware that the kingdom of God is here to stay with you forever and that your daily needs are oversupplied and that you have nothing to worry about, either what to eat or wear, if you stick to God, amen. You will be ready to achieve the greatest and to shine the brightest because the chances of your prosperities will soar. With that said, you will reclaim your good health, wealth, and wisdom forever in Christ Jesus, amen. Bye-bye pains and sufferings of all sorts, and welcome abundances. At this point, you will be accomplished and fulfilled forever in Jesus name, amen.