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Restoration is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and fatal crime. He seeks to pin responsibility for it on his guileless, illiterate footman, Bob Hedges. A battle ensues between Bob's black, justice-hungry wife and the fortified privilege of the ...

Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to emerge from the sixties ... the most savagely powerful dramatist writing today ... Bond's plays cannot be ignored."-Independent Bingo: "A magnificent play: spare, lean, poetic, yet rich in themes and ideas and full of suppressed agony and pain."-Guardian The Fool: "Bond's carved prose must be the envy and the goal of half the playwrights in Britain."-Observer The Woman: "A play as complex and ambit...

Facsimiles of Ancient Charters in the British Museum - Part III is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as ant...

Theatre has a complex history of responding to crises, long before they happen. Through stage plays, contemporary challenges can be presented, explored and even foreshadowed in ways that help audiences understand the world around them. Since the theatre of the Greeks, audiences have turned to live theatre in order to find answers in uncertain political, social and economic times, and through this unique collection questions about This antho...

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It's bad enough bein' stuck with a kid without 'avin' you 'anging round' me neck. The 'ole street's laughin' be'ind yer back. Described by Edward Bond as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties amidst the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates. The play opens on Len and Pam preparing to have sex and asking each other their names. Pam'...

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The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the sixti Lear - "Bond's greatest (and biggest) play ... It is even more topical now and will become more so as man's inhumanity gains subtle sophistication with the twenty-first century's approach" (The Ti...

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Excerpt from Report on the Measurement of the Volume of Streams and the Flow of Water: In the State of New YorkIt is intended to establish these meter stations upon all the streams where it is practicable and to gradually discontinue the observations at dams where the conditions are unsatisfactory.In collecting for publication the records obtained during 1900, there have also been collected certain heretofore unpublished former records of thes...

Excerpt from Report on the Measurement of the Volume of Streams and the Flow of Water in the State of New YorkIn some cases (as on the Oswego river eight miles from Lake Ontario) a fixed wire cable is stretched across the stream well above high-water level, and the observer makes meter-readings from a car in which he travels upon this cable.It is intended to establish these meter stations upon all the streams where it is practicable and to gra...

Excerpt from Speeches of the Managers and Counsel in the Trial of Warren Hastings, Vol. 4This adverse judgment of their Lordships, delivered without explanation of the grounds on which it was founded, drew from Mr. Burke a very indignant remon strance. He first made the technical Objection to it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reprod...