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Re-Visioning Myth: Modern and Contemporary Drama by Women

Re-Visioning Myth: Modern and Contemporary Drama by Women

Frances Babbage

From tracing the persistence of classical myths in contemporary culture and the significance of this in shaping gendered identities and opportunities, through to analysis of individual plays and productions, Babbage reveals how myths have ...
Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage was a key figure of a great era of British history. Best remembered for his pioneering Difference and Analytical Engines, forerunners of the modern computer, Babbage was also an active reformer of science and society.
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines

Charles Babbage and his calculating engines

Doron Swade

This book has been prepared as part of the 1991 Babbage celebration, an occasion when the Science Museum's own Babbage artefacts and archives were supplements with additional material from overseas for a special Bicentenary Exhibition.
Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal

Frances Babbage

This volume looks at the scope of Boal's career - from a playwright and director, to his manifesto in the 1970s for a 'Theatre of the Oppressed'. This will be fascinating for anyone interested in theatre's role in stimulating change.
Charles Babbage: And the Engines of Perfection

Charles Babbage: And the Engines of Perfection

Bruce Collier

Charles Babbage, "the grandfather of the modern computer," did not live to see even one of his calculating machines at work.
Charles Babbage, father of the computer

Charles Babbage, father of the computer

Daniel Stephen Halacy

The life and inventions of Charles Babbage, who, along with numerous other creations, came up with the machine that evolved into today's computer.
Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

Bridget Escolme

The work was supported in all its incarnations by the staff of the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, particularly Frances Babbage and Philip Roberts, and by our colleagues in the School of English, particularly Martin Butler. The School ...
Current Approaches in Drama Therapy

Current Approaches in Drama Therapy

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Boal's recently published autobiography entitled Hamlet and the Baker's Son ( 2001) and the extensive biography written by Frances Babbage (2004). The evolution of his methods has been published in several texts in several languages; ...
Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the ...

Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the ...

Charles Babbage

This compilation of his writings, in addition to those of several of his contemporaries, illuminates the work that led to the development of the calculator. Essential reference for anyone interested in the history of computing technology.
Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer

Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer

Anthony Hyman

This book discusses the career of Charles Babbage (1791-1871), British advocate of the systematic use of science in industry and creator of machines that were precursors of the modern computer.
Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre: Performing Literature

Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre: Performing Literature

Frances Babbage

This study explores the fascination of novels, short stories, children's books and autobiographies for theatre makers and examines what 'becomes' of such texts when these are filtered into contemporary practice that includes physical ...
Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance: History, ...

Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance: History, ...

Anthony Frost

... Shon DaleJones (Hoipolloi), John Martin (Pan Intercultural Arts) and Sanjoy Ganguly (Jana Sanskriti); to friends and colleagues who have read and commented on the book at different stages, in particular Julian Hilton, Frances Babbage, ...
Redefining Adaptation Studies

Redefining Adaptation Studies

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Helen Hunt, Scarlet ]ohansson, Stephen Campbell Moore (DVD B0003UAFC: Lionsgate Video, 2006). 10. Frances Babbage, Robert Neumark Iones, Lauren Williams, and Oscar Wilde, “No Small Parts” (unpublished play script, 2007, passim).
New Theatre Quarterly 61: Volume 16

New Theatre Quarterly 61: Volume 16

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Frances Babbage The Past in the Present? A Response to Stan's Cafe's Revival of 'The Carrier Frequency' The premiere of The Carrier Frequency took place in 1984, the result of a collaboration between Leeds-based Impact Theatre ...
Infinite Opportunities

Infinite Opportunities

Frances Page Cecelia Frances Page

Frances Page Cecelia Frances Page, Cecelia Frances Page. of peasant farmers in many areas have resulted in a steady drift of people, especially the young, to the cities to look for work. Manila, the present capital, is the most important city in  ...
Working Without Boal: Digressions and Developments in the ...

Working Without Boal: Digressions and Developments in the ...

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CONTEMPORARY THEATRE REVIEW an international journal Editor in Chief Volume 3 Part 1 [1995) Franc Chamberlain Working Without Boat: Digressions and Developments in the Theatre of the Oppressed Issue Editor Frances Babbage ...
The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to ...

The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to ...

Doron Swade

THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE Doron Swade is Assistant Director and Head of Collections at the Science Museum in London. He is an engineer and a historian of technology, and a leading authority on the life and work of Charles Babbage.
The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: ...

The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: ...

Fanny Burney

Volume II: 1787 Fanny Burney, Stewart Cooke Peter Sabor. [Burney, Frances] Cecilia [Burney, Frances] Evelina [Burney, Frances] The Wanderer CJL Davenport Delany Corr. Dictionary DL ED EJL Eton College Register GEC, Peerage Berg ...
Frances Partridge: The Biography

Frances Partridge: The Biography

Anne Chisholm

Frances Partridge: the last survivor of the Bloomsbury group - the authorised biography. Frances Partridge was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century.
History of New London, Connecticut: From the First Survey of ...

History of New London, Connecticut: From the First Survey of ...

Frances Manwaring Caulkins

MEMOIR OF FRANCES MANWARING CAULKINS. Frances Manwaring, daughter of Joshua and Fanny (Man waring) Caulkins, was born in New London, Conn., April 26, 1795, and died there February 3, 1869. Her ancestry, on the paternal ...
The Witlings and The Woman-Hater

The Witlings and The Woman-Hater

Frances Burney

Frances Burney Peter Sabor, Geoffrey Sill. Short Titles Burney, Complete Plays Burney, Camilla Burney, Cecilia Burney, Evelina Burney, The Wanderer Burney, Early Journals Burney, Journals and Letters Doody, Frances Burney OED The ...
Meet Paula Danziger

Meet Paula Danziger

Frances E. Ruffin

Ruffin, Frances E. Meet Paula Danziger / Frances E. Ruffin. v. cm. — (About the author) Includes index. Contents: Writing with a funny bone — Family life - Books and comedy — College and a mentor — The students' teacher — Accidents ...
Bargain for Frances

Bargain for Frances

Anne Troy

Frances foils Thelma's plot to trick her out of a new china set. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Alcoholysis of Some Amine Salts

The Alcoholysis of Some Amine Salts

Frances Porter Stewart

Frances Porter Stewart. UC-NRLF HIINIHIWIHHMH lli) llHHlilNVIIHIHIIIV В 5 BDC ] ULB The alooholysis of some amine salts By Frances Porter Stewart. Front Cover.
O cérebro adolescente: Guia de sobrevivência para criar ...

O cérebro adolescente: Guia de sobrevivência para criar ...

Dra. Frances E. Jensen

Frances E. Jensen, Amy Ellis Nutt. DRA. FRANCES E. JENSEN COm AMY ELLIS NUTT | #EEEE| |LESCENTE UIA DE SOBREVIVÊNCIA PARA CRIAR A DO LES C E N T ES E JOVENS A DULTOS | i | DRA. FRANCES E. JENSEN COm AMY ...
Frances and Bernard

Frances and Bernard

Carlene Bauer

In witness to all the wonder of kindred spirits and bittersweet romance, Frances and Bernard is a tribute to the power of friendship and the people who help us discover who we are. “There are so many reasons to love this perfect novel, ...

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