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The Pop-up Book of Invasions. by Farrell, Fiona

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of Contents; Introduction; The invasion; The Way of the Dishes; Spades; The Book of the Dun Cow; The winner; Blow-in; The little girl; Following cows; Echo; The canoe in the National Museum; Beckett; Lace; Cursing stones; Potatoes; Politics and economics; Tarmac; The Butter Road; Line; The News; The Speckled Book; Gobnait; Genealogy; Sheela-na-gig; The dogs of Ireland; Betting; Gold; Rolling over; Ballad; How I'd take the country; Midden; Waving; Well; The Lonely Planet visits the dead; Rail; Crop; Lissadell; Hunting; The Battler.…”
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Prison writing 2002 : [a collection of fact, fiction and verse].

Table of Contents: “…Bogart's Coming Out PartyKing of the Bees -- May Day (from This is Oxford) -- The Ballad of Bodmin Jail -- Poems by Robert Francis Mone -- From Future to Past -- Winding Back -- Changing History -- A round-up of recently published books ...…”
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Healey Willan : life and music by Clarke, F. R. C.

Table of Contents: “…1968""; ""5 Musician and teacher""; ""6 The man's character""; ""PART TWO: THE MUSIC""; ""7 Symphonies and concerto""; ""8 Other works for orchestra and band""; ""9 Dramatic cantata and operas""; ""10 Works for choir and orchestra""; ""11 Music for plays""; ""12 Ballad operas""; ""13 Radio plays and pageants""; ""14 Chamber music""…”
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An Ideal Husband : "Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.". / Ideal Husband by Wilde, Oscar

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A History of Broadcasting in the United States, Volume II : the Golden Web. 1933 to 1953. by Barnouw, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Either/or : A real pro ; The land of irium ; The press attacks ; Twenty-five per cent ; Eyebrow ; About ready ; Fascist rehearsals ; Radio at the ramparts -- Rebirth : Not for sale ; Marquee ; Another Archie ; Haystack ; Across the goal line ; New Jersey invaded ; We proudly present ; Studio 1936-38 ; Ballad ; Front ; Edge of chaos ; This reporter ; Campaign ; Lifeline ; Worldwide -- Crusade : Chain break ; Coalition ; Gulliver ; Lifesaver ; Stars and atabrine ; Drive ; The champ ; Summit -- Peace : The groups ; The low-cost automobile ; Blue book ; Meanwhile back at the networks ; Tax-wise ; Or affiliated sympathetically with … -- Purge : Give ‘em hell ; Peace meeting ; What we all want ; Desk copy ; Supermarket ; High places ; Sic transit ; Panicsville ; The margin of doubt ; 1952.…”
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Janet Frame's World of Books by Wilson, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Intertextuality -- Mikhail Bakhtin and Polyphony -- Janet Frame and Intertextuality -- Chapter One: Janet Frame's Books -- Leaving New Zealand -- Early Years and Dot's Little Folk -- School Days -- At College and In Hospital -- Later Reading -- Chapter Two: Poets and Poetry -- The Importance of Poetry -- Poetry at School and College -- Poetic Visionaries: Blake, Yeats, Rilke and Dylan Thomas and their Celebration of the Natural World -- The English 19th Century Romantics and A State of Siege -- New Zealand Poets -- Walt Whitman, Frame's America and Daughter Buffalo -- Chapter Three: Frame's Use of Poetry in the Novels -- Prose, Poetry and Poetic Prose -- Sylvia Plath and Intensive Care -- Chapter Four: The Bible-Eden and Apocalypse -- Biblical Poetics -- Ethics and Spirituality -- Biblical Narratives -- Chapter Five: Engaging with Shakespeare -- Upon the Heath -- Wild Waters -- Shakespearean Dreams -- Chapter Six: Tending the Myths -- Folklore -- Fairy Tales -- Anglo Saxon Poetry and The Adaptable Man -- The Ballad Tradition and Intensive Care -- Myth and Survival -- Memory, Language and The Carpathians -- Afterword -- Index -- Selected Bibliography.…”
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Une vie en Luberon : Chroniques rurales du sud de la France. by Jussian, Guy

Table of Contents: “…Couverture; Page de titre; AVANT-PROPOS; L'ÉCOLE; LA COHABITATION DES GÉNÉRATIONS; APT; PREMIERS TRAVAUX; LE RAMASSAGE DES FOURRAGES; LA CUEILLETTE DES CERISES; MOISSON ET BATTAGE; APICULTURE; LA CULTURE DE LA LAVANDE; LA CUEILLETTE DES AMANDES; LES SEMAILLES; L'ÉLEVAGE DES MOUTONS; LA CHASSE, UNE TRADITION; CHERCHER LA TRUFFE; AU JARDIN; SAUVÉS PAR LE BOIS; SOUS LES DRAPEAUX EN ALGÉRIE; PREMIER MANDAT ÉLECTIF; CHAPITRE 19 L'EUROPE; UN ENGAGEMENT; LE MOT DE LA FIN; BALLADE; Chez le même éditeur en numérique; Copyright…”
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Chinese Poems. by Estate, The Arthur Waley

Table of Contents: “…XI. 3; Teleg Song F. LXXXVI. 7; The Ballad of Mulan Y. XIII. 27; Flowers and Moonlight . .. …”
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The selected poetry of Yehuda Amichai by Amichai, Yehuda

Table of Contents: “…We Were Such a Good Invention; Elegy; Threading; Now in the Storm; Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela; PART TWO: edited and translated; From Not for the Sake of Remembering (1971); Jews in the Land of Israel; Wildpeace; The Way It Was; Instead of Words; Gifts of Love; Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires; Psalm.…”
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Hear my sad story : the true tales that inspired "Stagolee," "John Henry," and other traditional American folk songs by Polenberg, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Louis blues -- Duncan and Brady -- Stagolee -- Frankie and Johnny -- Lying cold on the ground -- Omie wise -- The ballad of Frankie Silver -- Tom Dooley -- Poor Ellen Smith -- Pearl Bryan -- Delia's gone -- Bold highwaymen -- Cole Younger -- Jesse James -- John Hardy -- Railroad Bill -- Betty and Dupree -- Railroads -- John Henry (1870s) -- Engine 143 -- Casey Jones -- Wreck of the old 97 -- Workers -- Cotton mill blues (1930s) -- Chain gang blues (1930s) -- Only a miner (1930s) -- House of the rising sun (1930s) -- Disasters -- The Titanic -- The boll weevil (1920s) -- Martyrs -- Joe Hill -- Sacco and Vanzetti -- Epilogue: Hear my sad story.…”
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Long past slavery : representing race in the Federal Writers' Project by Stewart, Catherine A.

Table of Contents: “…The passing away of the old time Negro: 200 folk culture, Civil War memory, and black authority in the 1930s -- Committing mayhem on the body grammatic: the Federal Writers' Project, the American guide, and representations of black identity -- Out of the mouths of slaves: the Ex-Slave Project and the "Negro question" -- Adventures of a ballad hunter: John Lomax and the pursuit of black folk cuture -- The everybody who's nobody: black employees in the Federal Writers' Project -- Conjure queen: Zora Neale Hurston and black folk culture -- Follow me through Florida: Florida's Negro writers' unit, the Ex-Slave Project, and The Florida Negro -- Rewriting the master('s) narrative: signifying in the ex-slave narratives -- Epilogue : Freedom dreams: the last generation.…”
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Encyclopedia of great popular song recordings by Sullivan, Steve, 1954-

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The grand generation

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Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond : Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway. by Chase, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Stanza 12 of Ragnars SagaWit and Wisdom: The Worldview of the Old Norse-Icelandic Riddles and Their Relationship to Eddic Poetry -- Devotional Poetry at the End of the Middle Ages in Iceland -- Love and Death in the Icelandic Ballad -- Steinunn Finnsdóttir and SnÃ?kóngs RÃmur -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W…”
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Encyclopedia of great popular song recordings by Sullivan, Steve, 1954-

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A Woman Of No Importance ""The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."". by Wilde, Oscar

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Mulan's legend and legacy in China and the United States by Dong, Lan, 1974-

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File on Wilde

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Salome ""The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."". by Wilde, Oscar

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Shakespeare's Comedies of Love. by Bamford, Karen

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: CONTEXTS FOR SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES OF LOVE -- The Comedy of Love and the London Lord Mayor's Show -- A 'Pennyworth' of Marital Advice: Bachelors and Ballad Culture in Much Ado About Nothing -- Shakespeare's Comedies and American Club Women -- PART TWO: LOVE IN SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES -- 'Five thousand year a boy': Love as Arrested Development -- Love's Labour's Lost and Won -- Affecting Desire in Shakespeare's Comedies of Love -- A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Love in the Contact Zone: Gender, Culture, and Race in The Merchant of Venice -- The Unity of Twelfth Night -- The Baby in the Handbag: 'Family Matters' in Shakespeare -- PART THREE: SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES OF LOVE ON THE CONTEMPORARY STAGE -- 'Songs of Apollo': Love's Labour's Lost in 1961 -- Smitten: Staging Love at First Sight at The Stratford Festival -- Romancing The Shrew: Recuperating a Comedy of Love -- Love in a Naughty World: Modern Dramatic Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice -- Staging the Jew: Playing with the Text of The Merchant of Venice -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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Working women's music : the songs and struggles of women in the cotton mills, textile plants, and needle trades, complete with music for singing and playing

Table of Contents: “…I cannot be a slave -- The factory girl -- The internationale -- In the good ole picket line -- The eight hour song -- The rebel girl -- Bread and roses -- Die Finkelach -- Mamenu (The triangle victims) -- Song of the shirt -- It's better with a union man -- Sing me a song with social significance -- Sunday in the park -- We sing America -- Nobody makes a pass at me -- Hard times in the mill -- Cotton mill girls -- Weaver's life is like an engine -- Up in Old Loray -- Come on you scabs if you want to hear -- We are building a strong union -- Let them wear their watches fine -- The Marion strike -- The mill mothers lament -- Here we rest -- Ballad of the Blue Bell Jail -- Semaria says -- Winnsboro Cotton Mill blues -- The mill was made of marble -- Handkerchief strike song -- Sing amalgamated -- Greenberg's shop is moving south -- Roll the union on -- Solidarity forever -- The union is our leader -- We shall overcome -- Which side are you on -- Brand new socialist way.…”

Centennial tales and selected poems. by Kirkconnell, Watson, 1895-1977

Table of Contents: “…A Man's Last Word to a Woman -- From THE NORTH AMERICAN BOOK OF ICELANDIC VERSE (1930) -- The Ballad of Thrym -- The Ballad of Tristram -- Remembrance -- I Sail in the Fall -- From THE MAGYAR MUSE (1933) -- A Flag -- The Victor -- For Just One Night -- What Became of Christ's Blood? …”
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"Mäh Sinn us Vellmer" : Texte aus dem Dialekt von Obervellmar, Niedervellmar und Frommershausen

Table of Contents: “…Texte; 2.1 Üwwer unsə Dialegd; Üwwer's Kasseläner Bladd (1); Üwwer's Kasseläner Bladd (2); Üwwer's Kasseläner Bladd (3); 2.2 Gedichde un nə Ballade; Də Schdaroberazion…”
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Nobody knows where the blues come from : lyrics and history

Table of Contents: “…High water everywhere : blues and gospel commentary on the 1927 Mississippi River flood / David Evans -- Death by fire : African American popular music on the Natchez Rhythm Club fire / Luigi Monge -- Lookin' for the bully : an enquiry into a song and its story / Paul Oliver -- That dry creek Eaton Clan : a North Mississippi murder ballad of the 1930s / Tom Freeland and Chris Smith -- Coolidge's blues : African American blues songs on Prohibition, migration, unemployment, and Jim Crow / Guido van Rijn -- On the electronic trail of blues formulas / Robert Springer -- West Indies blues : an historical overview, 1920s-1950s, blues and music from the English-speaking West Indies / John Cowley -- Ethel Waters : "long, lean, lanky mama" / Randall Cherry.…”
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The Maguai Festival of the Zhuang People. by Li, Song

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Preface; Contents; Chapter One: Culture and Nature; 1: The Large River Basin; 2: Rice-planting and Maguais; 3: Maguais: A Medium Between Humans and Gods; Chapter Two: History and Spreading; 1: Origin of the Zhuang People's Maguai Festival; 2: The Celebration for the Maguai Festival; 3: The Spreading of the Maguai Festival; Chapter Three: Customs for the Maguai Festival; 1: Folktales; 2: Rituals; 3: Ballads; 4: Dancing; 5: Food; 6: Clothes; 7: Handcrafts; Chapter Four: Places Famous for Celebrating the Maguai Festival; 1: In Baying of Donglan: What a Maguai Song Contest!…”
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Oscar Wilde, du dandy à l'écrivain : Grandeur et décadence d'un artiste provocateur. by Romain, Hervé

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Page de titre -- Oscar Wilde -- Contexte -- Le tout-puissant Empire britannique -- Une société à deux vitesses -- Le prestige des lettres anglaises -- Décadence à la française -- Biographie -- Abreuvé aux meilleures sources -- L'arbitre des élégances -- Du dandy à l'écrivain -- Grandeur et décadence -- Caractéristiques -- Artiste de sa vie -- To shock, or not to be -- Dans l'ombre du masque -- Sélection d'œuvres -- Le Portrait de Dorian Gray -- Salomé -- L'Importance d'être Constant -- La Ballade de la geôle de Reading -- Oscar Wilde, une source d'inspiration -- En résumé -- Pour aller plus loin -- Copyright.…”
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Tongue lyre : poems by Mills, Tyler, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Mills -- Tell Me, Muse -- Odyssey -- Telemachos -- Violinist -- Nestor -- Lesson -- Watch for the Blind -- Wandering Rocks -- Bluff -- Proteus -- The Chorus Rubs on Children's Sunscreen -- Nausikaa -- Cleaning Out the Lyre -- After the Lotus -- Cyclops -- Aiolos and the Bag of Winds -- Water Ballad -- Ballyhoo or Bulletin? -- Circe's Notes -- Oracle -- Ossuary -- The Sirens -- Scylla and Charybdis -- Oxen of the Sun -- Standing Still -- Kalypso -- The Chorus at the Pit -- Spoken from the Maze Daedalus Made -- Rations -- Disguised, Athena Says -- Performance -- Finding Eumaios at the Return -- Penelope's Firebird Weft -- Foyer -- Chorus : A Museum Is Under Construction -- Violin Shop -- The Myth of Philomela -- Ithaca -- In the Chapter "Rodin in Love" -- Rose -- Tinsel Halo -- Cosmos -- Coda.…”
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Peckinpah today : new essays on the films of Sam Peckinpah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: times maybe, not them, the enduring value of Sam Peckinpah's films / Michael Bliss -- The deadly companions revisited / Garner Simmons -- Martyred slaves of time: age, regret, and transcendence in The wild bunch / Michael Bliss -- The ballad of divine retribution / Steven Lloyd -- From The siege of Trencher's farm to Straw dogs: the narrative brilliance of Sam Peckinpah / Michael Sragow -- The recutting of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: ethical problems in film restoration / Stephen Prince -- The authentic death and contentious afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: the several versions of Peckinpah's last western / Paul Seydor -- Human striving, human strife: Sam Peckinpah and the journey of the soul / Cordell Strug -- Peckinpah's last testament: The Osterman weekend / Tony Williams -- Dawn and dusk / Gérard Camy ; translated by Jean-Paul Gabert.…”
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Legacies of Ewan MacColl

Table of Contents: “…; 4 The Second Interview, Part II: The Ballad; Travelling People; 5 The Second Interview, Part III: Folk Culture and Popular Culture; 6 The Second Interview, Part IV: Scotland!…”
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Frae ither tongues : essays on modern translations into Scots

Table of Contents: “…Derrick McClure -- Translation and transplantation: Sir Alexander Gray's Danish ballads / Peter Graves and Bjarne Thorup Thomsen.…”
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Lectures on English poets & The spirit of the age by Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830

Table of Contents: “…On Burns, and the old English ballads. VIII. On the living poets.--The spirit of the age: Jeremy Beacham. …”

Fast talker by Eggleton, David

Table of Contents: “…GOLDEN BOOMERANGHOUR OF THE FURNACE; AUSTRAL TRAVELLERS; HOTEL PACIFIC; SYDNEY SQUALL; DISTANCE; TROPICAL FLU; FOUR TRUMPETS; SURGE; POEM FOR THE SUNBURNT; FIVE SENSES; DUST; LEAKING CEILING POEM; BRIGHTNESS; ON ICE; CLICKER; REFLECTION WITHIN THE FRAME; BLACK MIRROR; FIVE TONES; A BIRTHDAY SUIT; THE BOOK REVIEWER; TO A TOOTH; TULIPS; THE COLOUR WHITE; THE WEATHER BOMB; SIX PULSE; FAST TALKER; BALLAD OF SONATINE; BODY CLOCK; NEWS AND WEATHER; MAY DAY 2001; MAY DAY 2004; IN THE GODZONE; SEMIOTICS OF PARADISE; FRACTAL PLANET; URUWHENUA, GATEWAY TO THE LAND; OCCASIONAL NOTES; Copyright.…”
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Highlights in the history of the American press : a book of readings

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This wounded cinema, this wounded life : violence and utopia in the films of Sam Peckinpah by Murray, Gabrielle

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Dodgerland : Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977-78 Dodgers. by Fallon, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Every Day We Pay the Price; 20. The Ballad of Glenn and Spunky; 21. Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love; 22. …”
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Américo Paredes : in his own words, an authorized biography by Medrano, Manuel, 1949-

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Vanishing acts by Barker, Brian, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; One; Science Fair; Uncle Z's Toupee; Strong Man; Evel Knievel; Elephant; The Land Agent; In the Valley of Plenty; Vanishing Act; Rural Electrification; Symbiosis; Two: Re-Creation Myths; Sea Anemones; Hippopotamuses; Bats; Elk; Slugs; Pigs; Lobsters; Turkey Vultures; Three; Dream in Which We Eat the World; The Secrets of Eroticism; Blizzard; Experimental Mating Rituals for the Nearly Extinct; Murder Ballad; Charon's Pawn Shop; Night Class at the School of Metaphysics; Tubas; Blindfold; Civil War; Four: Re-Creation Myths; Wolves; Oxen; Pelicans…”
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The powers of genre : interpreting Haya oral literature by Seitel, Peter

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The International Companion to Scottish Poetry by Sassi, Carla

Table of Contents: “…Scots Poetic Forms -- 12. The Ballad in Scots and English -- Part 3. Topics and Themes -- 13. …”
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Shakespeare's Comedies of Love. by Bamford, Karen

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: CONTEXTS FOR SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES OF LOVE -- The Comedy of Love and the London Lord Mayor's Show -- A 'Pennyworth' of Marital Advice: Bachelors and Ballad Culture in Much Ado About Nothing -- Shakespeare's Comedies and American Club Women -- PART TWO: LOVE IN SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES -- 'Five thousand year a boy': Love as Arrested Development -- Love's Labour's Lost and Won -- Affecting Desire in Shakespeare's Comedies of Love -- A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Love in the Contact Zone: Gender, Culture, and Race in The Merchant of Venice -- The Unity of Twelfth Night -- The Baby in the Handbag: 'Family Matters' in Shakespeare -- PART THREE: SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES OF LOVE ON THE CONTEMPORARY STAGE -- 'Songs of Apollo': Love's Labour's Lost in 1961 -- Smitten: Staging Love at First Sight at The Stratford Festival -- Romancing The Shrew: Recuperating a Comedy of Love -- Love in a Naughty World: Modern Dramatic Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice -- Staging the Jew: Playing with the Text of The Merchant of Venice -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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