Best british & irish drama books according to redditors
We found 146 Reddit comments discussing the best british & irish drama books. We ranked the 62 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 146 Reddit comments discussing the best british & irish drama books. We ranked the 62 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, was heavily influenced by work in the field of public opinion control.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (free PDF) by Gustave Le Bon (1896).
Public Opinion - book by Walter Lippman 1922 (Free ebook)
Edward Bernays writings;
Propaganda - 1928 (free PDF)
Crystallizing Public Opinion - 1923 (free PDF)
"The Century of the Self” by Adam Curtis. BBC documentary about Bernays (Sigmund Freud's nephew) and his impact on western culture. Essentially a history of mass market advertising, public relations, and propaganda.
Ten Little Indians, also known as And Then There Were None.
Your "one by one" comment gave it away.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sea-Harrier-over-Falklands-Black-ebook/dp/B006JG0OQE
They were really only dark grey but they looked so.
Personally, I think the best way to get a good understanding of modern US airpower is to work chronologically. Most people find WWII stuff boring, so I recommend starting with the Vietnam War, then moving to the First Gulf War, then the Kosovo War, then the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Falklands War is very interesting because it gives a British and naval perspective (both of which are lacking from my current list), however, the author of that book was pretty pissed at how every thing was handled during his time as a pilot (and a lot of it I agree with), so the book sometimes ends up feeling a little 'rant-y'.
If you're looking for an action filled book about rotorcraft, then look no further and pick up Ed Macy's Apache. Some of the missions described in that book are just too insane, but somehow, they pulled it off.
Back then, there was no printing, so if you wanted a copy of the Gospel of Mark, someone needed to write all sixteen chapters by hand. When people do this, they introduce changes—sometimes due to carelessness, sometimes to deliberately correct a mistake in the text they're copying, and sometimes in some attempt to sabotage the text. (An example of the last case: the text of a biography of the Persian philosopher Avicenna seems to have been tampered with by later adversaries to say he died of too much sex because he knew it was threatening his health, but couldn't restrain himself.)
So as the text of the New Testament was copied from generation to generation, these little variants crept in. All texts have these variants, unless we have only a single textual authority, like the one manuscript of Beowulf. If you read a critical edition of Hamlet, for example, there are notes at the bottom of the page pointing out the differences between early editions that the editor thought were important and making arguments about what Shakespeare really wrote.
We have more manuscripts of the New Testament than of any other ancient book. Because we have lots of manuscripts, we have lots of variants. This great wealth of information has made it possible in modern times to reconstruct the text of the New Testament with a very high degree of confidence.
I suggest the short but pithy Against All Gods by A. C. Grayling. He's an atheist philosopher, and puts his arguments very calmly and concisely, but it's still quite devastating.
I don't suggest reading the Bible in return; most Catholics haven't read it through, most don't believe half of the stuff it contains, and it's long and boring. Agree to a collection of essays or an apologia, maybe something by John Henry Newman or G. K. Chesterton.
http://www.amazon.com/Lord-World-Robert-Hugh-Benson-ebook/dp/B00846TDR8
Free.
https://www.amazon.com/Macbeth-DVD-Folger-Shakespeare-Library/dp/1439172250
This is the version I show my students. It's awesome. They get to see it on stage this way too.
Then There Were None
I'm so sorry for your loss!
For distracting fun and pettiness raised to an art form, I recommend
Diary of a Provincial Lady, and
The Mapp and Lucia stories by E.F. Benson.
For Atheism:
For Christianity:
https://www.amazon.com/Titus-Andronicus-Oxford-Shakespeare/dp/0199536104/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=oxford+titus+andronicus&qid=1556841635&s=gateway&sr=8-2
The Oxford Shakespeare editions are always very well glossed and with good, engaging, comprehensive introductions. Definitely has my recommendation (the whole series!)
Moscow-Petushki, also published as Moscow to the End of the Line, Moscow Stations, and Moscow Circles, is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Yerofeyev. The story follows an alcoholic intellectual, Venya (or Venichka), as he travels by a suburban train on a 125 km (78 mi) journey from Moscow to visit his beautiful beloved and his child in Petushki, a town that is described by the narrator in almost utopian terms. At the start of the story, he has just been fired from his job as foreman of a telephone cable-laying crew for drawing charts of the amount of alcohol he and his colleagues were consuming over time.
Buy it on Amazon, for Kindle.
It's very funny.
So much of the play is in a story-teller monologue style. It's been a couple years since I did it, so I'm having trouble thinking of specifics. It's a great read, though. Looks like you can get the Kindle version for three dollars
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Amazon has a surprisingly large number of free kindle books if you're into older literature. (Le Morte D'Arthur, Moll Flanders, Jane Eyre, The War of the Worlds, etc.) If you're looking for popular classics written more than 100 years ago, there's a good chance that Amazon offers a free Kindle version.
Get this -
http://www.amazon.com/Macbeth-Edition-Folger-Shakespeare-Library/dp/1439172250
http://www.amazon.com/Then-There-Were-None/dp/0312330871/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1313478212&sr=8-5
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The Folgers one is good.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1439172250/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1500944041&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=folger+macbeth&dpPl=1&dpID=51%2B3MFxkZoL&ref=plSrch
Here you go. It was a book/DVD deal.
>I've been trying to find this play forever
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00847BSVG/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_wopvxbKCEPWTB
Okay, I'm sure you'll get the impression that I'm a horror fan soon enough, so this next play that I recently read is a ghost story. The Woman in Black by Stephen Mallatratt, based on the novel by Susan Hill, which was recently adapted into a feature film (which I have not seen). It was first performed in 1989.
It follows the path of an actor hired by a man named Kipps to perform his story of a series of encounters with a phantom woman. The cast consists of the two men, with a third actor (uncredited) to play the ghost. Basically, it's the story of the source novel except that the curse of the Woman in Black starts to bleed through to the reality of the play that the two actors are performing.
I like it mostly because it's very simple but well written and I could easily see it scaring the hell out of an audience if done correctly. Definitely worth reading.
As in Jerome K Jerome's book.
It comes with this edition of the play.
Hard to tell. I believe today is one of the best times to be alive. I know some people detest his thesis, but I really enjoyed Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature.
However, I also think that the prosperity and peace we take for granted are very precarious, and we cannot take them for granted. Religious fundamentalism is resurgent around the world. The concern there is not necessarily violence, but their rejection of modernity itself, post-Enlightenment values, secularism, and science as the best explanatory method we have of the world. Science and rationality are fragile, with Sagan calling them a candle in the dark.
>Some people see our TV shows and movies as too immoral and violent and our society deserves to suffer because of it.
Our media isn't that violent. Compare it with Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus or other Elizabethan revenge tragedies. There has always been violent entertainment, and lowbrow entertainment as well. I think our modern culture goes too far in celebrating lowbrow culture, but I wouldn't call it exactly alarming. It's not the end of the world.
>Billions of people live in poverty.
Yes, but that has gotten better. Capitalism made the situation better, not worse.
>And the total world debt is staggering.
That is true, but the solution is to raise taxes to pay for the services people want. Debt is largely a political problem.
>So I believe at any moment of time, there will always be equal evidence of curses and blessings.
I think that's reasonable. We have problems, but also cause for optimism. I'm middle-aged (just turned 46) and it's normal to get pessimistic as you get older. But I find myself being optimistic about many things. Many things both excite and alarm me, like the promise (and threat) of automation and Artificial Intelligence.
I don't think things are going quite as badly as some gloom-n-doom enthusiasts warn, but neither are we headed (in my opinion) to a post-scarcity utopia. I have no idea. But my chances of dying of violence are the lowest they'e ever been.
> Both signs of the end-times and signs of a new renaissance exist equally
What concerns me is how many people we have rooting for end-times, though. An awful lot of people want the world to end. That freaks me out quite a bit. I'm not referring exclusively to religious end-timers. I encounter libertarian non-believers who want a "reset" to civilization. I've heard more than a couple Trump supporters enthuse that Trump's election would cause the system to just up and fail, so we could start over with a clean slate. I find myself so aghast at that that I can't even begin to communicate with them.