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Christopher Bigsby has written 26 work(s)

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Introduction to Theater and Dramatic Literature / Death of a Salesman

By Christopher Bigsby (introduced by), Barbara Clayton (editor), Kristin Hunt (editor) and Arthur Miller

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9780757592423, titled "Introduction to Theater and Dramatic Literature / Death of a Salesman: An Anthology and Sourcebook" | 4 unbnd/pa edition (Kendall Hunt Pub Co, December 6, 2011), cover price $89.00

Arthur Miller: 1962-2005

Product Description: "This second half of Christopher Bigsby's masterly and illuminating biography has all the virtues of the first. Rich in compelling detail, comprehensive in its coverage of his subject's private and public life, it tells Miller's tale with a fine narrative sweep and a sure grasp of the changing political background ...read more

By Christopher Bigsby

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9780472118175 | Univ of Michigan Pr, September 21, 2011, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: "This second half of Christopher Bigsby's masterly and illuminating biography has all the virtues of the first.

Arthur Miller: 1915-1962

By Christopher Bigsby

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9780674057081 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 8, 2010, cover price $19.95

Arthur Miller: 1915 - 1962

Product Description: This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim. Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over sixty years, writing a wide variety of plays - including The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman - which are still performed, studied and lauded throughout the world...read more

By Christopher Bigsby

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9780674035058 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 21, 2009, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim.

The Marble Faun

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.

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9781437899245 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2009, cover price $95.99 | also contains Marble Faun

9781437899375 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2009, cover price $96.99 | also contains Marble Faun

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9781437899337 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2009, cover price $89.99 | also contains Marble Faun

9781434653536 | Lightning Source Inc, October 31, 2007, cover price $23.75 | also contains Marble Faun | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781434618931 | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, October 31, 2007), cover price $23.75 | also contains Marble Faun | About this edition: Four individuals in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome.

9781434653543 | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, October 31, 2007), cover price $26.75 | also contains Marble Faun | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781434617248 | Lightning Source Inc, October 31, 2007, cover price $21.75 | also contains Marble Faun | About this edition: Four individuals in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome.

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Reinforced:

9780606207843, titled "Marble Faun" | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $18.21 | also contains Marble Faun | About this edition: The nineteenth-century American novelist's classic work of tragedy and mystery in modern Rome examines the influence of European culture on American morality.

One Hundred Days, One Hundred Nights

A novel about a fictional South American country where nothing is quite what it seems. It guides us through journeys down impossible rivers by young men in search of love, encounters with fabulous beasts, dyspeptic dictators, mad generals, and Indian girls.

By Christopher Bigsby

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9780413776563 | Methuen Pub Ltd, February 28, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A novel about a fictional South American country where nothing is quite what it seems.

The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson

Product Description: One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists of their own drama and evidence of a vital and compelling community...read more

By Christopher Bigsby (editor)

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9780521866064 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2007), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans.

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9780521685061 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2007), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans.

Neil Labute: Stage and Cinema

Product Description: Neil LaBute is one of the most exciting new talents in theatre and film to have emerged in the 1990s. Influenced and inspired by such writers as David Mamet, Edward Bond and Harold Pinter, he is equally at home writing for the screen as for the stage, and the list of films he has written and directed includes The Wicker Man (2006), Possession (2002) and In the Company of Men (1998)...read more

By Christopher Bigsby

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9780521882545 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 14, 2008), cover price $102.00 | About this edition: Neil LaBute is one of the most exciting new talents in theatre and film to have emerged in the 1990s.

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9780521712859 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2008), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Neil LaBute is one of the most exciting new talents in theatre and film to have emerged in the 1990s.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture

Product Description: The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social, political and economic forces that have made America what it is today...read more

By Christopher Bigsby (editor)

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9780521841320 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2006), cover price $113.00 | About this edition: The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century.

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9780521601092 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2006), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century.

Remembering And Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory

Product Description: This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination...read more

By Christopher Bigsby

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9780521869348 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2006), cover price $51.00 | About this edition: This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event.

The Cambridge History of American Theatre

Product Description: This unique three-volume history covers all aspects of American theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Each volume includes an extensive overview and timeline followed by chapters on specific aspects of American theatre including vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, reception, modernism, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture...read more

By Christopher Bigsby (editor) and Don B. Wilmeth (editor)

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9780521780926 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $357.00 | About this edition: This unique three-volume history covers all aspects of American theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors.

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9780521679862 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 13, 2006, cover price $163.00 | About this edition: This unique three-volume history covers all aspects of American theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors.

Remembering Arthur Miller

Following Arthur Miller's death in February 2005, newspapers were filled with tributes to the man regarded by many as the greatest playwright of the twentieth century. This book contains reflections on him from over seventy writers, actors, directors and friends, with 'Arthur Miller Remembers' - an interview with the writer, held in 1995.

By Christopher Bigsby (editor)

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9780413775528 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 20, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Following Arthur Miller's death in February 2005, newspapers were filled with tributes to the man regarded by many as the greatest playwright of the twentieth century.

The Cambridge History of American Theatre: Post-World War II To The 1990s

Product Description: Volume 3 of this authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater examines the theater after World War II, through Broadway and beyond, as well as regional theater across the country. Contributors also analyze new directions in theater design, directing, and acting, as well as key plays and playwrights through the 1990s...read more

By C. W. E. Bigsby (editor) and Christopher Bigsby (editor)

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9780521679855 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: Volume 3 of this authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater examines the theater after World War II, through Broadway and beyond, as well as regional theater across the country.

The Cambridge History of American Theatre: Beginnings To 1870

Product Description: The first multi-volume history of the American theater to have been published, The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater in all its dimensions. It recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance, and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented...read more

By C. W. E. Bigsby (editor) and Christopher Bigsby (editor)

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9780521679831 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 16, 2006, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: The first multi-volume history of the American theater to have been published, The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater in all its dimensions.

The Cambridge History of American Theatre: 1870-1945

Product Description: Volume Two begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theater up to 1945. It discusses the role of vaudeville, European influences, the rise of the Little Theater movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theater movement, major actors and the rise of the star system, and the achievements of notable playwrights...read more

By C. W. E. Bigsby (editor) and Christopher Bigsby (editor)

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9780521679848 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 23, 2006, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: Volume Two begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theater up to 1945.

A New Introduction to American Studies

Product Description: A wide-ranging introduction to American history, literature, culture and society.

By Christopher Bigsby (editor) and Howard Temperley (editor)

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9780582894372 | 1 edition (Longman Pub Group, November 21, 2005), cover price $60.60 | About this edition: A wide-ranging introduction to American history, literature, culture and society.

The Man Who Had All the Luck: A Fable

When David Beeves achieves enormous personal and professional success, he finds that his good fortune merely emphasizes the tragedies of those less fortunate, and he struggles to find reason and fulfillment in life.

By Christopher Bigsby (introduced by) and Arthur Miller

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9780142437865 | Penguin Classics, May 1, 2004, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: When David Beeves achieves enormous personal and professional success, he finds that his good fortune merely emphasizes the tragedies of those less fortunate, and he struggles to find reason and fulfillment in life.

Beautiful Dreamer

Product Description: In a small Southern town, a white man tries to prevent a lynching and finds himself branded by the mob --- and worse, finds himself sheltering the dead man's son. When the killers come around to finish the job, the two victims are forced to flee across the country in the hopes of escaping men with nothing but vengeance on their minds...read more

By Christopher Bigsby

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9780413769909 | Methuen Pub Ltd, March 14, 2002, cover price $23.35 | About this edition: A white man tries to prevent a lynching and is branded a 'nigger lover' - and worse, he finds himself sheltering the dead man's son.

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9781597223638 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, December 13, 2006), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In a small Southern town, a white man tries to prevent a lynching and finds himself branded by the mob --- and worse, finds himself sheltering the dead man's son.

9780413769800 | Methuen Pub Ltd, April 3, 2003, cover price $12.55 | About this edition: In a small Southern town, a white man tries to prevent a lynching and finds himself branded by the mob --- and worse, finds himself sheltering the dead man's son.

The Cambridge History of American Theatre: Post-World War II to the 1990s

By Christopher Bigsby (editor) and Don B. Wilmeth (editor)

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9780521669597 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $179.00 | About this edition: Volume 3 of this authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater examines the theater after World War II, through Broadway and beyond, as well as regional theater across the country.

The Cambridge History of American Theatre, 1870-1945

By Christopher Bigsby (editor) and Don B. Wilmeth (editor)

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9780521651790 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $179.00 | About this edition: Volume Two begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theater up to 1945.

Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19Th-Century American Women

Product Description: With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing Herself is an expansive and timely exploration of three centuries of feminist intellectuals, each of whom possesses a boundless determination to alter the world by boldly experiencing love, achievement, and fame on a grand scale...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Christopher Bigsby (editor) and Elaine Showalter (editor)

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9780813523927 | Rutgers Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing Herself is an expansive and timely exploration of three centuries of feminist intellectuals, each of whom possesses a boundless determination to alter the world by boldly experiencing love, achievement, and fame on a grand scale.

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9780788197475 | Diane Pub Co, February 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Distinguished novelists such as Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton & Willa Cather found themselves returning again & again to the short story form, for where the novel offered discipline & depth, the short story gave them freedom.

She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the 19th Century

Product Description: In the explosion of creative energy unleashed by America's birth as independent nation & modern economic power, poetry served a mass market as never before or since. Participants in one of their country's most important industries, poets -- many of whom were women -- helped forge the consciousness of a pioneering society, reaching into every home...read more

By Christopher Bigsby (editor) and Janet Gray (editor)

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9780788197482 | Diane Pub Co, February 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In the explosion of creative energy unleashed by America's birth as independent nation & modern economic power, poetry served a mass market as never before or since.

Nineteenth-Century American Short Stories

Product Description: In the nineteenth century the short story played a central role in the development of American and European literature and became something of an American speciality. For Edgar Allan Poe the 'tale' had marked advantages over the novel, since the unity of effect and impression - of great importance to the author - could only be achieved at a single sitting, and the short story offered the perfect opportunity...read more

By Christopher Bigsby (editor)

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9780460875523 | Everymans Library, March 1, 1995, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: In the nineteenth century the short story played a central role in the development of American and European literature and became something of an American speciality.

Uncle Tom's Cabin and Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Product Description: Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes...read more

By Christopher Bigsby (editor) and Harriet Beecher Stowe

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9780460871396, titled "Uncle Tom's Cabin and Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" | Reprint edition (Everymans Library, April 1, 1994), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type.

Selected Poems

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By Christopher Bigsby, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Anthony Thwaite (contributor)

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9780460872294 | Rev sub edition (Everymans Library, March 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction and a chronology of the life and times of the poet.

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