Tag: Play

Poison, Play, and Duel A Study in Hamlet


Free Download Nigel Alexander, "Poison, Play, and Duel: A Study in Hamlet"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 103235920X | PDF | pages: 232 | 14.3 mb
First published in 1971, Poison, Play and Duel explores the dominant symbols of the language and action of Hamlet. The Ghost first reveals that Claudius murdered his brother by poison, and this act of poisoning is then dramatically presented before the King. The ultimate consequence of the ‘poison in jest’ performed by the actors is the poisoned ‘play’ with rapiers between Laertes and Hamlet. This representation of violence, and the vengeful response to violence, creates the moral and the psychological problems of Hamlet. Critics naturally question, and disagree about, the way that Hamlet plays his role in this play because the role of Hamlet is a theatrical device designed to bring all human actions into debate and question. It is hardly surprising that audiences have seen mirrored in Hamlet their own most fundamental and inescapable problems.

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Play in Clinical Practice Evidence-Based Approaches


Free Download Sandra W. Russ, "Play in Clinical Practice: Evidence-Based Approaches"
English | ISBN: 1609180461 | 2011 | 352 pages | EPUB | 1288 KB
Going beyond traditional play therapy, this innovative book presents a range of evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches that incorporate play as a key element. It is grounded in the latest knowledge about the importance of play in child development. Leading experts describe effective strategies for addressing a wide variety of clinical concerns, including behavioral difficulties, anxiety, parent-child relationship issues, trauma, and autism. The empirical support for each approach is summarized and clinical techniques are illustrated. The book also discusses school-based prevention programs that utilize play to support children’s learning and social-emotional functioning.

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Learning to Play Guitar Exploring Chords and Scales


Free Download Bob Fetherolf, "Learning to Play Guitar : Exploring Chords and Scales"
English | ASIN : B009RA6ZEE | 2012 | 98 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Exploring Chords and Scales is an amazing 138 pages of information that can turn you into a master guitarist on either the acoustic or electric guitar! This course is literally two books in one and includes a complete study of primary scales, pentatonic scales, rock and blues, and an advanced study of modes, as well as a "Working Musicians Chord Dictionary". The joys of playing lead and rhythm guitar and so much more are about to be explored, discovered and mastered by you! It is a continuation of Book One entitled, "Learning to Play Guitar: Beginning and Intermediate Guitar Lessons, yet it is a complete and valuable study in its own right. These accelerated learning concepts for the twenty first century will give you a solid foundation that will last a lifetime! This exciting guitar method is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and reflects some of the best and most modern and updated teaching ideas from around the world. Within these pages you will achieve the unification and understanding of the entire guitar fretboard. Included is the ever popular "CAGED" guitar system for learning chords and their related scales (as was touched on in book one). The 300 plus years of guitar history and pedagogical literature and technique is also a part of this solid foundation of guitar learning. Within these pages are included methods that are now proven to be more effective than older methods: the result of a few hundred years of existing study. What we have here is "Guitar Learning for the 21st Century" and beyond. Therefore, both classical and modern scale pedagogues will be included and contrasted. As well, this book is intended to be a follow up and extension to Book #1. Some of the concepts introduced in book one will be explored in greater depth. With well over three decades of teaching and studying music and three music degrees from CSULA, UCLA, MIT and more, I have done my best to present the best and most updated information available in an easy to understand and "tried and true" method for the 21st century and beyond! I humbly wish you much success in your study of guitar and thank you for your interest in this book. In closing I shall point out that much of the information is available on internet and other resources (library, music stores,bookstores, etc), but this book gives the student of guitar a-one stop- collection and resource to reference and study. Congratulations and good luck.

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Men at Play Masculinities in Australian Theatre Since the 1950s


Free Download Jonathan Bollen, Adrian Kiernander, Bruce Parr, "Men at Play: Masculinities in Australian Theatre Since the 1950s"
English | 2008 | pages: 262 | ISBN: 9042023570 | PDF | 1,8 mb
How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations between men, and men’s experiences of war and migration?

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