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    From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks

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    This book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American theatre.Published posthumously, this renowned theatre scholar's book considers English dramatic dialogue as exemplified in the verbal invention of particular plays. That invention is traced through ... Leer más

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  • 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

    A Life-Changing List

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  • How Fiction Works

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    In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power.Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions: What do ... Leer más

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

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  • How Novels Work

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  • The New York Public Library Literature Companion

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