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ENGLISH
Focus publishes titles in both literature and school grammar. Other literature titles appropriate for humanities courses can be found in the Classical catalogue by clicking here.
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The English Language: A User's Guide
English In Blue and White: Lessons, Practice, and Resources in Grammar, Composition, and Literature
Chris Giles and John Powell III
Paperback (spiral bound) • 98 pages • 1-58510-0838 • 2004 • $19.95 Book Details
English In Blue and White: Teacher's Edition (Answer Key) • Chris Giles and John Powell III
Paperback • 36 pages • 1-58510-0846 • 2004 • $14.95
Focus On Performance series
General Editor: James H. Lake
Each volume in the Focus on Performance series provides: an authoritative text with notes and a substantial introduction giving historical background, dramatic context, and performance history, including cinematic history. There are also illustrations, a useful timeline, a list of topics designed to promote discussion, and an up-to-date bibliography.
Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
James Lake and Irving Ribner, eds. • paperback • 128 pages • 1-58510-089-7 • $9.95.
Book Details
An authoritative text of Marlowe's classic play, with notes and a substantial introduction giving historical background, dramatic context, and performance history, including cinematic history. Interviews with Ralph Alan Cohen of Shenandoah Shakespeare and Andreas Teuber (Mephistopheles in the Richard Burton production) discuss issues of performance. Illustrations, a useful timeline, a list of topics designed to promote discussion, and an up-to-date bibliography. This text is based on the authoritative edition by Irving Ribner, updated, with much additional material on performance, by James H. Lake.
James H. Lake is Professor of English at Louisiana State University-Shreveport . He received his B. A. and M. A. degrees from Tulane University and his Ph. D. from the University of Delaware. He has published widely on Shakespeare and cinema, and is the general editor of the Focus on Performance and the forthcoming New Kittredge Shakespeare series.
Series Editor: James H. Lake
The Life of Henry V
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Tragedy of Antony & Cleopatra
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
The Merchant of Venice
The Boss is Dead • Ron Pullins • Paperback • 132 pages • 1-58510-177-X • $9.95.
A novella by the publisher. That is, by the boss.
Details, go here.
A sample passage, go here.
Interested in purchasing a copy:
In the Newburyport area it is carried at the Jabberwocky Bookstore at the Tannery
Or, ask your local bookstore to order it through Baker and Taylor (unless they carry it!)
Or, soon, through Amazon
Or, call us at the order number below.
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