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Brings to a conclusion the story of Dream, and includes a tribute to Shakespeare.

In professional and student theater alike, a good monlogue can often mean the difference between a "Thank you. Next!"and a call-back. But sometimes its hard for an aspiring actor to find the absolutely right audition piece that suits his or her personal style, type or age group. Monologues For Young Actors is a unique and invaluable collection of dramatic speeches from some of the worlds greatest plays -- chosen specifically for actors in their teens...

Illustrated compilation of writings, including poetry and short stories, on the history, the literature, and the customs of holiday celebrations around the world.

"John Lithgow has hand-picked some of the best poems ever written in this quintessential collection for the whole family to treasure"--Provided by publisher.

Explains the basic elements of poetry and groups poems to encourage an analysis of similarities and differences.

A collection of 200 poems by such authors as Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Keats, with comments by those Americans who chose them as their favorites.

At a time when all of America is debating the wayward course of contemporary manhood, one thing has been missing from the conversation: a source to which concerned readers might turn for guidance and inspiration, a path back to the wisdom of our shared tradition of manly virtues. Missing, that is, until now. In What Is a Man? historian and commentator Waller R. Newell collects three thousand years of the finest and most thought-provoking writings...

A collection of more than six hundred sonnets which help depict the sonnet tradition in the English language over the last five hundred years