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sort list by title | author Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Charles Beauclerk Let me state at the outset that the author is a descendant of the Earl of Oxford and a scholar active in proposing the earl as the author of the works attributed to Shake-Speare. That said, I would still recommend this to anyone who has ever read... Who's to Say What's Obscene? Politics, Culture and Comedy in America Today Paul Krassner Satirical essays by a countercultural icon about the moral obscenity of contemporary politics, culture, and comedy Camino Real Tennessee Williams The acclaimed classic in a new edition, now with a new introduction, the author's original foreword and afterword, the one-act play 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Michael Paller. In this... 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross The Border Undocuments 1971-2007 Juan Felipe Herrera Herrera provides a fresh and accessible perspective on the crucial human rights issue of immigration through his poetry, prose, and performance. Catch the 187 Express! Routines, Expanded Edition Lawrence Ferlinghetti A reissue of Ferlinghetti's very short experimental plays (1965) with three new plays added to the original thirteen. In this collection Ferlinghetti takes a revolutionary look at modern theater and explores the area between old-style drama and... The New World Border Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century Guillermo Gomez-Pena If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, then a book about performance art is surely like a sonata about sculpture. In the case of The New World Border, however, there is little lost in translation; the force and originality of... The Reckoning The Murder of Christopher Marlowe Charles Nicholl Elizabethan playwright-poet Marlowe was stabbed to death in 1593 at the age of 28, supposedly in a dispute over a tavern bill or "reckoning." In a painstaking piece of scholarship that reads like an intricate detective thriller, British author Nicholl... Shock Treatment (Signed) First Edition Karen Finley San Francisco: City Lights., (1990) First Edition. 8vo, 145 pages. Signed by Finley on the title page. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Fool for Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill Sam Shepard In a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, transient lovers May and Eddie spin around in a room in a relentless struggle for power and truth. Through recollections and dreams, multiple versions of a fierce and fatal love story are told. Motel Chronicles Sam Shepard Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and... Zelda: Frontier Life in America A Fantasy in Three Acts Kaye McDonough Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is the captivating and intense heroine of this fantasy dramatization of her dazzling exploits, her writing, painting and obsessive dancing, her struggle as a woman and artist in an ambivalent, often hostile environment...