Harry R. McCarthy's Books

Boy Actors in Early Modern England

By: Harry R. McCarthy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Boy Actors in Early Modern England

By: Harry R. McCarthy

This innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to re-appraise the remarkable skills of early modern boy actors.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

263

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009098950

ISBN 13

9781009098953

Boy Actors in Early Modern England

Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre

By: Harry R. McCarthy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Boy Actors in Early Modern England

Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre

By: Harry R. McCarthy

Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching contribution to early modern theatrical culture. Ranging across drama performed from the 1580s to the 1630s by all-boy and adult companies alike, the book argues that the exuberant physicality fostered in boy performers across the early modern repertory shaped not only their own performances, but how and why plays were written for them in the first place. Harry R. McCarthy's ground-breaking approach to boy performance draws on detailed analysis of a wide range of plays, thorough interrogation of the cultural contexts in which they were written and performed, and present-day practice-based research, offering a critical reimagining of this important and unique facet of early modern theatrical culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

263

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009116584

ISBN 13

9781009116589

Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare

Edward's Boys

By: Harry R. McCarthy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare

Edward's Boys

By: Harry R. McCarthy

This Element provides the first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edward's Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School ('Shakespeare's School') in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern plays, providing the most substantial repertory of early modern drama available for examination by scholars. The Element provides a comprehensive account of the company's practices, drawing on extensive rehearsal and performance observation, evidence from the company's archive, and interviews with actors and key company personnel. The Element takes account of the company's particular educational and strongly interpersonal environment, suggesting that these factors have a distinctive shaping force on their performance practice. In the hands of Edward's Boys, the Element argues, early modern drama becomes the source of company creation, ensemble practice, and virtuosic physical play, inviting us to reimagine what it means – and takes – to perform these plays today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

169

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108897754

ISBN 13

9781108897754

Talking with Harry

Candid Conversations with President Harry S. Truman

By: Harry S. Truman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Talking with Harry

Candid Conversations with President Harry S. Truman

By: Harry S. Truman

In his eight years as president from 1945-1953, Harry S. Truman made some of the most important decisions in U.S. history, particularly in foreign policy matters. This book contains transcripts of conversations with Truman from taped interviews in 1959. The probing questions and straightforward answers cover a wide variety of domestic and foreign policy issues ranging from civil rights in the South to using the atomic bomb on Japan. This book provides a vivid portrait of Truman, 'warts and all.' Through his answers to questions, the threads of his political loyalty, bluntness, frustration, decency, thrift, humanity, and humor become a tapestry of his presidential character. His intense pride and manner surface especially as he explains bitter political and domestic controversies, as well as foreign policy decisions. These interviews reveal Truman's bedrock foundation of deeply held political beliefs as he gives thoughtful answers to queries about major political issues. In addition, he discusses American presidential history; Congressmen such as Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson; Supreme Court Justices; and dozens of other well-known political leaders, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson, and John F. Kennedy. In similar fashion, he describes numerous foreign leaders, including Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek. Evident as well is his firm loyalty to the United States, his family, his friends, and the Democratic Party. Truman also divulges some of his personal dislikes, particularly of political opponents such as Richard M. Nixon and, for over a decade after 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower. However, his personal resentments are more than matched by his fair-minded judgments of former President Herbert Hoover, American farmers, laborers, and racial groups. Discovered by Ralph Weber at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, the interviews were originally to be used as background for Truman's book, Mr. Citizen (1960), but most of Truman's obs

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

412

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0842029214

ISBN 13

9780842029216

Strictly Personal and Confidential

The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed

By: Harry S. Truman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Strictly Personal and Confidential

The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed

By: Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman made plain speaking his trademark, and it was a common belief that "Give 'em hell" Harry spared few with his words. However, this fascinating collection of 140 amusing, angry, sarcastic, and controversial letters President Truman wrote but never mailed proves that conception wrong. Addressed to admirers and enemies alike, including Adlai Stevenson, Justice William Douglas, Dwight Eisenhower, Joe McCarthy, and Truman's wife, Bess, these intriguing letters cover such diverse subjects as the atomic bomb, running the country, and human greed.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

228

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826212581

ISBN 13

9780826212580

The Joker

By: Harry Eiss

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Joker

By: Harry Eiss

To prepare for the role of the Joker, Heath Ledger locked himself in a London hotel room, trying to understand and become a character he saw as “an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown” who was not intimidated by anything and found all of life “a big joke.” In the end, Ledger’s obsession with his role contributed to his own death from drugs before The Dark Knight was released. The connections and irony are too close to ignore. The movie gives the world a curious twist on the roles of Batman and the Joker. It’s politically incorrect, and yet emotionally the Joker’s insanity becomes more endearing than Batman’s noble sacrifice. What is it? Why does this psychopath seem to have a sense of higher truths in his insanity? This is the role of the Joker or the Fool, a standard character in theatre, and a role consciously adopted by serious artists since the late 1800s. Just as Shakespeare’s Fool in King Lear used his riddles and puns and satire to reveal the truths the royal leaders of his world could not or refused to see, today’s artists are both revealing the darkness within the culture and offering a way out. Waiting for Godot has been proclaimed the greatest play of the twentieth century. But there are no great roles in it, no characters representing the equivalent of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Rather, the two main characters are closer to T. S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock, who says he cannot be a Hamlet, only, perhaps, Hamlet’s Fool. This book explores what has happened as Europe’s culture fragmented and the world lost its center. It explores a range of different arenas, from political and social and religious happenings to scientific and artistic expressions, in order to find the centers of the human condition and how the dark expressions of meaninglessness so commonly highlighted are more rites-of-passage than the final destination.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

498

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

144389429X

ISBN 13

9781443894296

"21"

Every Day was New Year's Eve : Memoirs of a Saloon Keeper

By: H. Peter Kriendler,Harry Paul Jeffers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

"21"

Every Day was New Year's Eve : Memoirs of a Saloon Keeper

By: H. Peter Kriendler,Harry Paul Jeffers

Since its birth as a Greenwich Village speakeasy, the famous New York City "21" club has attracted America's social, cultural, political, business, and entertainment elite.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

289

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0878332294

ISBN 13

9780878332298

The Party of Fear

From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History

By: David Harry Bennett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Party of Fear

From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History

By: David Harry Bennett

David Bennett presents a ground-breaking historical analysis of the forces shaping nativist and counter-subversive activity in America from colonial times to the present. He demonstrates that in this nation of immigrants the American Right did not emerge form postfeudal parties of privilege or from the social chaos that bred a Hitler of Mussolini in Europe.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

522

Publisher

UNC Press Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807817724

ISBN 13

9780807817728

Building the American Republic, Volume 2

A Narrative History from 1877

By: Harry L. Watson,Jane Dailey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Building the American Republic, Volume 2

A Narrative History from 1877

By: Harry L. Watson,Jane Dailey

Building the American Republic tells the story of United States with remarkable grace and skill, its fast moving narrative making the nation's struggles and accomplishments new and compelling. Weaving together stories of abroad range of Americans. Volume 1 starts at sea and ends on the field. Beginning with the earliest Americans and the arrival of strangers on the eastern shore, it then moves through colonial society to the fight for independence and the construction of a federal republic. Vol 2 opens as America struggles to regain its footing, reeling from a presidential assassination and facing massive economic growth, rapid demographic change, and combustive politics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

479

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022630082X

ISBN 13

9780226300825

The 100 Greatest Heroes

By: Harry Paul Jeffers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The 100 Greatest Heroes

By: Harry Paul Jeffers

Contains profiles, ranked in order of significance, of the world's most influential heroes of all time.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

344

Publisher

Citadel Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806524766

ISBN 13

9780806524764

Eleanor and Harry

The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

By: Eleanor Roosevelt,Harry S. Truman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Eleanor and Harry

The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

By: Eleanor Roosevelt,Harry S. Truman

This collection of the never-before-seen correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt sheds important light on the relationship between two giants of 20th century American history. 20 photos.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

322

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0743202430

ISBN 13

9780743202435

Assessing Social Science Research Ethics and Integrity

Case Studies and Essays

By: Harry Perlstadt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Assessing Social Science Research Ethics and Integrity

Case Studies and Essays

By: Harry Perlstadt

This book discusses the development of key issues in research ethics relevant for clinical sociologists, concerning client rights to confidentiality, privacy, and informed consent. It describes the US human research protection system used by clinical and applied sociologists, through a history of research ethics, including the landmark Belmont Report and the creation of the regulatory structure of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in the United States. It also discusses ethical research systems in other nations like Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The book provides a comprehensive account of controversial studies in the US, including Milgram’s Obedience to Authority, Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment, and the US Public Health Service, and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, and analyzes how ethical concerns in these studies were or were not resolved. This book covers a topic of core interest to clinical and applied sociologists and other social science practitioners who do research, as well as students and teachers in research ethics courses in anthropology, psychology, political science, sociology, and philosophy, thereby broadening an awareness of clinical sociology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

256

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

303134538X

ISBN 13

9783031345388

A Grand Night for Murder

By: Harry Paul Jeffers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Grand Night for Murder

By: Harry Paul Jeffers

When best-selling author Jonathon Dodge was found dead in an abandoned boathouse in upstate New York, there was no lack of suspects for his murder. A prominent author of espionage and true crime books, Dodge was roundly disliked by nearly everyone with whom he came in contact. On the night of his murder, however, Dodge had attended the Mystery Writers of America's annual Edgar Allan Poe Award banquet - at which he was honored with their Grandmaster Award - and spent the evening surrounded by the luminaries of the mystery-writing field." "Harvey Goldstein, the mystery-loving New York City Chief of Detectives, and his aide-de-camp Sergeant John Bogdanovic must sort through a slew of suspects, who are all well practiced in the art of murder, to find out who finally killed the unlikable writer."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

224

Publisher

Macmillan

Published Date

ISBN 10

0312130848

ISBN 13

9780312130848

Reasoning Across Domains

An Essay in Evolutionary Psychology

By: Harry Witzthum

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Reasoning Across Domains

An Essay in Evolutionary Psychology

By: Harry Witzthum

Evolutionary psychology's goal is to understand the design of the human mind. This book examines the arguments put forth by evolutionary psychologists and the objections levelled against them by their critics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

284

Publisher

Peter Lang

Published Date

ISBN 10

3039109782

ISBN 13

9783039109784

Book's by Harry R. McCarthy

Boy Actors in Early Modern England

Boy Actors in Early Modern England

Boy Actors in Early Modern England

Boy Actors in Early Modern England

Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare

Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare

Talking with Harry

Talking with Harry

Strictly Personal and Confidential

Strictly Personal and Confidential

The Joker

The Joker

"21"

"21"

The Party of Fear

The Party of Fear

Building the American Republic, Volume 2

Building the American Republic, Volume 2

The 100 Greatest Heroes

The 100 Greatest Heroes

Eleanor and Harry

Eleanor and Harry

Assessing Social Science Research Ethics and Integrity

Assessing Social Science Research Ethics and Integrity

A Grand Night for Murder

A Grand Night for Murder

Reasoning Across Domains

Reasoning Across Domains

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email