The Bloomsbury Theatre Guide

by Carole Woddis (Author), Carole Woddis (Author), Trevor R. Griffiths (Author)

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  Paperback
  1989

  $3.40

  This reference guide for music lovers contains alphabetical entries on over 300 classical composers, with detailed information on their lives and musical works. The book is cross-referenced to guide the reader from the great classics to lesser known works, and onwards through the composers of modern popular music such as Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and the Beatles. The text also includes listening suggestions on solo instruments and the different ranges of the human voice.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $3.40

  The Bloomsbury Theatre Guide is a guide to what the theatre goer is likely to see in contemporary theatre. There are over 300 entries and they are cross-referenced. The book contains information about playrights from Ben Johnson and Shakespeare to Sam Shepard and Caryl Churchill. Biographical information and critical evaluations of plays which form part of the current repertoire are included. Details are also given of theatres and theatre companies with a recognizable stylistic or cultural emphasis, such as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, the Theatre of Black Women and the Joint Stock Theatre Group. Trevor Griffiths is co-author of the Longman Guide to Shakespeare Quotations . His involvement in practical theatre includes running Foco Novo Theatre Company.