David Bruce

This book contains 250 anecdotes about opera, including these anecdotes: 1) When Pierre Monteux started working at the Metropolitan Opera, he decided to buy a shiny Ford touring-car. He paid $300 for...

This is a short, quick, and easy read. Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK, but there should be at least one or two that you will want to tell your friends. Retold in my own words to avoid...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some samples: In the family of Quaker humorist Tom Mullen, as part of the Christmas tradition the youngest child opened her presents first. The youngest child...

This book is a short, quick, and easy read. It contains 250 music anecdotes, including these: 1) Hardcore group Black Flag sometimes played shows for very few people. In 1982, Black Flag played a...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of the anonymous play ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM. The real-life Arden of Faversham was murdered in 1551 in England.Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I...

Living works of art tend to take joy in living. So how can we be a living work of art? Some ways include living a life of wit and intelligence, practicing an art, doing good deeds, paying attention...

This is a retelling of Ben Jonson's A TALE OF A TALE in modern English. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much earlier. Do you know a language other than English? If...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's classic comedy play "Bartholomew Fair." Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission to translate this book, copyright...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's tragedy CATILINE'S CONSPIRACY. Reading this retelling first will make reading and understanding the original play much easier. Do you know a language...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of EPICENE, one Ben Jonson's classic comedies. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much easier. Do you know a language other than...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOR. People who read this retelling first will find reading the original play much easier. Do you know a language other than...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's comedy EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOR. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much easier to understand. Do you know a language...

This is a retelling of Ben Jonson's tragedy SEJANUS HIS FALL in the English of today. Reading this retelling first will help readers better understand the original play. Sejanus was the second most...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's classic comedy "The Alchemist," whose theme is the love of money. Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission to...

This is a retelling in today's English of Ben Jonson's POETASTER. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much easier. Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's comedy THE CASE IS ALTERED. Reading this retelling first will make reading and understanding the original play much easier. In this retelling, as in...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's comedy THE DEVIL IS AN ASS. People who read this version first will find the original play much easier to read and understand. THE DEVIL IS AN ASS...

This is a retelling of Ben Jonson's satire THE FOUNTAIN OF SELF-LOVE, OR CYNTHIA'S REVELS. Reading this retelling will make reading the original play much easier. Do you know a language other than...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's classic comedy play THE MAGNETIC LADY. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much easier to understand. I would like to...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's The New Inn, Or The Light Heart. People who read this version first will find the original play much easier to read and to understand. Do you know a...

This is an easier-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's THE STAPLE OF NEWS, a satire about the news industry and about wealth and money. Reading this retelling will make reading and understanding the...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's satiric masterpiece: "Volpone, or the Fox." Educate YourselfRead Like A Wolf EatsBe Excellent to Each OtherBooks Then, Books Now, Books Forever Do...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes: - Actors often know their own limitations. Early in his career, E.A. Southern tried to act the roles of tragic heroes but discovered that...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Christopher Marlowe's DIDO OF CARTHAGE, in which Aeneas, his ships damaged by a storm, lands on the shore of Carthage, which is being built by the Phoenician Dido...

DOCTOR FAUSTUS was printed in two versions: one in 1604 and one in 1616. This volume contains easy-to-read retellings of both versions. Doctor Faustus writes a deed of gift of his soul to Lucifer in...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Christopher Marlowe's EDWARD II. People who read this book first will find the original play much easier to understand. Do you know a language other than English?...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Christopher's Marlowe's TAMBURLAINE: PART 1 and PART 2. People who read this version first will find the original much easier to read and understand. Do you know...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Christopher Marlowe's play THE MASSACRE AT PARIS. Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission to translate this book, copyright...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Christopher Marlowe's THE RICH JEW OF MALTA. People who read this retelling first will find reading the orriginal play much easier. Do you know a language other...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes: - John Barrymore was noted as much for his dissipation as for his acting. While acting in Hamlet after a night of revelry, he began the...