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Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama: 1880 to the Present
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Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama: 1880 to the PresentThis wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity.
- An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama.
- Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism.
 
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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama
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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish DramaA Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama investigates key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Covering topics from globalisation, genocide and terrorism to the use of new technologies, and physical and verbatim theatre practices, this volume illustrates the extraordinary diversity of contemporary drama and performance.
 
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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction
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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British FictionA Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts.
  • Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era.
  • Comprises original essays from major scholars.
  • Topics range from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel to controversies over the celebrity author.
 
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The Crown (Penguin Active Reading Level 1)
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The Crown (Penguin Active Reading Level 1)What is the crown, and why is it important to England? Who is William Agers? In this gripping mystery, the answers are all in Seaburgh.
Level: 1 (300 headwords)
Language: British English
Thanks to AliPali2
 
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Tales of Unrest (Dodo Press)
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Tales of Unrest (Dodo Press)In these tales, people are put under heavy mental stress by fatal accidents, hostile environments or insoluble doubts. Their reactions become uncontrollable.
The short stories give a good picture of Conrad's themes, story building with surprising outcomes and view on mankind: `Morality is not a method of happiness'.
  Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s. He is recognized as a master prose stylist.
 
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