Tag: Drama

Free Download Ryan Ellett, "Radio Drama and Comedy Writers, 1928-1962"
English | ISBN: 1476665931 | 2017 | 237 pages | PDF | 2 MB
More than 700 uncredited scriptwriters who created the memorable characters and thrilling stories of radio’s Golden Age receive due recognition in this reference work. For some, radio was a stepping stone on the way to greater achievements in film or television, on the stage or in literature. For others, it was the culmination of a life spent writing newspaper copy. Established authors dabbled in radio as a new medium, while working writers saw it as another opportunity to earn a paycheck. When these men and women came to broadcasting, they crafted a body of work still appreciated by modern listeners.

Free Download Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DDV1GDKD | 2024 | 13 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 776 MB
Author: Jim Baggott, John L. Heilbron
Narrator: Tom Beyer
In 1927, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began a debate about the interpretation and meaning of the new quantum theory. This would become one of the most famous debates in the history of science. What (if any) limits should we place on our expectations for what science can tell us about physical reality? Our protagonists slowly disappeared from the vanguard of physics, as its center of gravity shifted from a war-ravaged Continental Europe to post-war America. What Einstein and Bohr had considered to be matters of the utmost importance were now set aside.

Free Download Egil Törnqvist, "Drama as Text and Performance: Strindberg’s and Bergman’s Miss Julie"
English | ISBN: 9085550688 | 2012 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This bilingual English-Swedish study of August Strindberg’s renowned play Miss Julie (1888) provides a penetrating analysis of the author’s text and of Ingmar Bergman’s praised 1985 production. The book is a paradigmatic illustration of similarities and differences between text and performance. The Bergman part is highlighted by a number of black-and-white illustrations from the stage performance. The complete text is also available on the websitewww.missjulie.eu, where a great many stills and some moving images can be found.

Free Download Alan Maley, "Drama Techniques: A Resource Book of Communication Activities for Language Teachers, Third Edition Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 0521601193 | 2005 | 258 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The fully revised edition of this ‘classic’ helps teachers give their learners the tools they need to express themselves through a range of stimulating drama contexts. This completely revised edition of the classic title Drama Techniques provides: *150 ideas for interesting and productive fluency practice *a large selection of drama-based techniques which focus learners’ attention on communicative tasks or activities *techniques suitable for all levels *clear instructions for the teacher *advice on how to use the techniques in the classroom

Free Download Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00CTTH9S6 | 2013 | 11 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 334 MB
Author: Antonia Fraser
Narrator: Mike Grady
Internationally best-selling historian Antonia Fraser’s book brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history – the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832, an eventful and violent year that featured riots in Bristol, Manchester and Nottingham. The time-span of the book is from Wellington’s intractable declaration in November 1830 that ‘The beginning of reform is beginning of revolution’ to 7 June 1832, when William IV reluctantly assented to the Great Reform Bill, under the double threat of the creation of 60 new peers in the House of Lords and the threat of revolution throughout the country. Wider themes of Irish and ‘negro emancipation’ underscore the narrative. The book is character driven; we learn of the Whig aristocrats prepared to whittle away their own power to bring liberty to the country, the all-too-conservative opposition who included the intransigent Duchess of Kent and Queen Adelaide and finally the ‘revolutionaries’. These events led to a total change in the way Britain was governed, a two-year revolution that Antonia Fraser brings to vivid dramatic life.

Free Download Ling Zhang, "The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 "
English | ISBN: 1107155983 | 2016 | 328 pages | AZW3 | 1141 KB
On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political deliberation and hydraulic engineering of the imperial state of the Northern Song Dynasty. It created eighty years of social suffering, economic downturn, political upheaval, and environmental changes, which reshaped the medieval North China Plain and challenged the state. Ling Zhang deftly applies textual analysis, theoretical provocation, and modern scientific data in her gripping analysis of how these momentous events altered China’s physical and political landscapes and how its human communities adapted and survived. In so doing, she opens up an exciting new field of research by wedding environmental, political, economic, and social history in her examination of one of North China’s most significant environmental changes.

Free Download Joachim Küpper, "The Cultural Net: Early Modern Drama as a Paradigm"
English | ISBN: 3110684934 | 2019 | 322 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network. Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. A third and final part then presents a critical discussion of the concept of "national" culture and literature, from its first formulation by Johann Gottfried Herder to its current developments, including postcolonial studies.

Free Download Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement by Jim Baggott, John L. Heilbron
English | July 25th, 2024 | ISBN: 0192846108 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 18.15 MB
The definitive account of the great Bohr-Einstein debate and its continuing legacy

Free Download Fritz-Otto Busch, "Holocaust At Sea: The Drama Of The Scharnhorst"
English | 2015 | ASIN: B06XGLZ9M5 | EPUB | pages: 201 | 2.9 mb
On Christmas Day, 1943, blinded by the fury of an Arctic blizzard, encircled by enemy destroyers, the German battleship Scharnhorst fought for her life.

Free Download Vincent Terrace, "Internet Drama and Mystery Television Series, 1996-2014"
English | 2014 | pages: 277 | ISBN: 0786495812 | PDF | 53,5 mb
Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through online crowd-funding, they are produced with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance. The second in a first-ever set of books cataloging Internet television series, this volume covers in depth the drama and mystery genres, with detailed entries on 405 shows from 1996 through July 2014. In addition to casts, credits and story lines, each entry provides a website, commentary and episode descriptions. Index of performers and personnel are included.