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  • Rosicrucian Chess
    Steve Nichols
    his is the first in a trio of books that together form The Complete Enochian Chess. Enochian Chess in part comes from the Elizabethan system of Enochian Magic originated by the Court Astrologer, Dr John Dee. It was developed into its current form in Victorian times by SL MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott. This book includes a complete facsimile and commentary of Moina...
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    45,73 €

  • Take Hair
    Rob Auton
    Take Hair is the third collection of writing and drawing from award winning writer and performer Rob Auton. Take Hair houses the ideas that Rob wants to exist. The ideas that came to him that he got enough from to want to record them and share them with others to see if they get anything from them too. ...
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    16,84 €

  • Stories Make the World
    Stephen Most
    Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refres...
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    37,84 €

  • Charlie Chaplin’s Red Letter Days
    Fred Goodwins
    By the end of 1914, Charlie Chaplin had become the most popular actor in films, and reporters were clamoring for interviews with the comedy sensation. But no reporter had more access than Fred Goodwins. A British actor who joined Chaplin’s stock company in early 1915, Goodwins began writing short accounts of life at the studio and submitted them to publications. In February 191...
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    52,64 €

  • Stand-Up Decoded
    Lue Deck
    Author Lue Deck is a Peabody Award nominee, seasoned international USO road warrior, and innovator. A Comedy Store alum, Lue has even coached many comics on their Tonight Show appearances. Lue has written for CSPAN, Showtime and The History Channel. Lue has even written jokes for the likes of Robin Williams, George Wallace and more! ...
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    15,44 €

  • Have You Finished yet?
    Andrew Neil
    A comedy for the stage. Twins meet after a separation that has lasted seventy years, and their worlds are turned upside down. Wilma copes, up to a point. Alec has never known whether the sun goes round the earth or the other way round, and has never cared. All he wants is a day that starts and ends with just getting older. It’s not going to happen. ...
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    16,49 €

  • Full Circle
    Angie Le Mar
    Multi-award winning comedienne Angie Le Mar tells us what makes her tick. Suffering from dyslexia, exclusion from school, pioneering in the field of comedy. 'I am what dreams are made of.' Yes, that little black girl from Lewisham! 'I knew from a young child I had something important to do in the world, and that was to share the gift of laughter.' Respected in the field of co...
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    11,20 €

  • Women and Comedy
    Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of ...
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    63,67 €

  • Screwball
    Larry Swindell
    Uninhibited, vivacious, and a startling talent, Carole Lombard was the darling of her day. Her wit and charm made her the social as well as artistic hub around which Hollywood revolved during the '30's. She was years before her time in her sophistication, and her independence established her as an oracle of the New Woman. She was an enchanting beauty and a great artist—...
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    38,77 €

  • Screwball
    Larry Swindell
    Uninhibited, vivacious, and a startling talent, Carole Lombard was the darling of her day. Her wit and charm made her the social as well as artistic hub around which Hollywood revolved during the '30's. She was years before her time in her sophistication, and her independence established her as an oracle of the New Woman. She was an enchanting beauty and a great artist—...
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    29,67 €

  • The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
    Georges Polti
    In honor of this book’s 100-year anniversary in the English language, The Book Tree presents this special 2016 edition. It has become essential reading for serious writers and those involved in the dramatic arts by providing a more complete understanding of the story structures involved in books and dramatic performance. Writers and storytellers of all kinds have been able to e...
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    13,42 €

  • Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere
    Elizabeth Benacka
    Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert investigates classical and contemporary understandings of satire, parody, and irony, and how these genres function within a deliberative democracy. Elizabeth Benacka examines the rhetorical history, theorization, and practice of humor spanning from ancient Greece and Rome to the contemporary United States....
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    129,40 €

  • Improv Nonsense
    Will Hines
    This is a book about long-form improv, the art of making up comedy scenes as you go (meaning no script) on a stage. Improv Nonsense was a critically acclaimed blog about long-form improv, written by Will Hines, a teacher and performer from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The blog ranged from Will's off-the-cuff musings like 'New students sure do like to use the name &...
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    34,03 €

  • The Laurel and Hardy Legacy
    Barry Brophy
    Laurel and Hardy are one of the finest comedy acts to have graced our screens. From their Foreign Legion campaign in Beau Hunks to their improvised song and dance routines in Way Out West, their comic genius is known, loved, and celebrated by viewers of all ages across the world. In turn, their influence on other comedies has been profound. British sitcoms abound with Oliver-Ha...
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    15,54 €

  • The Oldest Story In the World
    Phil Cousineau
    The Oldest Story in the World is a brooding, daring, idiosyncratic exploration of the secret strength of storytelling, in which Phil Cousineau addresses the central theme that runs through all his work, the transportive power of words. Written as a mosaic of meditations, this lyrical book ranges from a twelve-thousand-year-old Aboriginal tale, to a mystical Viking story, a vene...
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    12,17 €

  • A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen
    Shaun May
    As far as we know, only human beings have a sense of humour - although chimps might laugh when tickled, and dogs respond similarly in play, Seth McFarlane’s fan-base is comprised exclusively of humans. Whilst animals and robots might feature as prominent characters in our favourite comic movies, shows and stand-up routines, we have no reason to suspect that their real-life bret...
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    60,34 €

  • Relax, We're All Just Making This Stuff Up!
    Amy Lisewksi
    What if I told you that you would be happier and more confident if you planned less and made stuff up more?  The tools improvisers use to create wonderful—and often hilarious—scenes on stage are easily transferred off the stage and into real life.  These tools have changed my life completely, and I want to share that with you. In this book, you’ll find some of our favorite impr...
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    24,37 €

  • How to be the Greatest Improviser on Earth
    Will Hines
    Become great at performing long-form improv! We skip the basics and get into advanced topics like: being truly present, being authentic, dealing with difficult performers, being actually funny (!) and the rarely discussed but essential skill of being healthy. "Will Hines was my first improv teacher. He's not an improv nut, but he is, you know? He has perspective. " - Ilana ...
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    11,64 €

  • Screenwriting Unchained
    Emmanuel Oberg
    Note: ISBN 9780995498129 has color interior, ISBN 9780995498174 has B&W interior.In Screenwriting Unchained, Emmanuel Oberg sets out a dogma-busting, method for developing screenplaysThis practical, no-nonsense guide leaves behind one-size-fits-all story theories and offers a refreshingly modern approach to story structure, making it a precious resource for anyone involved cr...
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    52,59 €

  • Louis XIV and the Flower Girl of the Orangery
    Ferdinand de Villeneuve / Michel Masson / Frank Morlock
    Although the authors of this short play are forgotten, and the play was written as a vaudeville with songs and music, they managed to pack some interesting ideas into what was intended to be a non-literary, popular entertainment.The callousness of the nobility, and their pride is juxtaposed to the boorish manners of a rich cattle merchant who balks at paying too high a price ...
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    9,07 €

  • The Laughing Dead
    Miller
    Hybrid films that straddle more than one genre are not unusual. But when seemingly incongruous genres are mashed together, such as horror and comedy, filmmakers often have to tread carefully to produce a cohesive, satisfying work. Though they date as far back as James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein (1935), horror-comedies have only recently become popular attractions for movie g...
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    128,91 €

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)
    William Shakespeare
    Friendship, infidelity, love--sound like a Spanish soap opera?! Nope. It's Shakespeare! Of course you probably miss a lot of the humor if you don't understand archaic English. Let BookCaps help!  If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.  The original text is...
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    11,45 €

  • A Midsummer Nights Dream In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)
    William Shakespeare
    A Midsummer's Night Dream is one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies--so why aren't you laughing? Let's face it..if you don't understand Shakespeare, then you are not alone. If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of A Midsummer Nights Dream. A Midsummer’s Night Dream was wri...
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    10,31 €

  • Measure for Measure In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)
    BookCaps / William Shakespeare
    Mercy, justice and truth and their relationship to pride and humility--sound like the themes of a John Grisham novel? Not exactly. But wouldn't it be nice if Shakespeare could be as easy to read as a Grisham novel? Now it can with this modern retelling. If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation o...
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    10,90 €

  • A Woman and a Suitcase
    F. Thomas Vincent
    Written for the theatre, A Woman and a Suitcase, is a contemporary play with witty, sharp banter between complete strangers. In this dark comedy, Doris and Henry meet for the first time at a light rail platform. While waiting for the next train to arrive, bizarre antics start to develop, leaving the audience to ask, “What the heck is inside the suitcase?” ...
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    11,08 €

  • Eventos corporativos: Puesta en escena, creatividad y espectáculo
    Gloria Campos García de Quevedo
    Esta obra resulta indispensable para todo aquel interesado en la gestión de eventos corporativos tras la globalización: ¿cómo innovar hoy y sacar el máximo provecho a los eventos? Se explica aquí la puesta en escena de las manifestaciones artísticas y elementos dinamizadores que integran los eventos corporativos y su capacidad para vehicular los mensajes a trasmitir, facilitánd...
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    20,80 €

  • Humour, Comedy and Laughter
    Lidia Dina Sciama
    Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and textual materials, the chapters examine the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humor and its potential to bring about a sense of a...
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    205,16 €

  • Premios Príncipe de Asturias
    Carlos Fuente Lafuente
    Los Premios Príncipe de Asturias, se iniciaron en 1981, hasta consolidarse hoy como uno de los galardones de ámbito generalista más importantes del mundo. La UNESCO (en su XXV aniversario), los calificó de excepcional aportación al patrimonio cultural de la Humanidad. Aquí se ofrece un balance de sus treinta primeros años (1981-2010), periodo en que estos premios han logrado al...
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    20,80 €

  • The Funniest Comedy Icons of the 20th Century, Volume 2 (hardback)
    Paul Stanley
    This is the HARDBACK version. In a continuation of his memorable Vol. 1, again journey into a world of comedy featuring some of the best comedians and comediennes of a different time and place. Dozens of encounters, each based on a one-on-one interview, some dating as far back as the 1960s, recalled by John Stanley, for thirty-three years an entertainment writer for the ...
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    37,81 €

  • The Funniest Comedy Icons of the 20th Century, Volume 1
    John Stanley
    Journey into a world of comedy featuring some of the best comedians and comediennes of a different time and place. Dozens of encounters, each based on a one-on-one interview, some dating as far back as the 1960s, recalled by John Stalney, for thirty-three years an entertainment writer for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Dateook. Stanley specialized in exclusive moments with sta...
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    29,38 €