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      -- History of simulating wars, people and fantastic adventure, from chess to role-playing games.
      By Peterson, Jon
       2012., Unreason Press Call No: 793.9 P485p    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Explore the conceptual origins of wargames and role-playing games in this unprecedented history of simulating the real and the impossible. From a vast survey of primary sources ranging from eighteenth-century strategists to modern hobbyists, Playing at the World distills the story of how gamers first decided fictional battles with boards and dice, and how they moved from simulating wars to simulating people. The invention of role-playing games serves as a touchstone for exploring the ways that the literary concept of character, the lure of fantastic adventure and the principles of gaming combined into the signature cultural innovation of the late twentieth century.
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      -- Anthony and Cleopatra.
      By Miller, Jonathan, 1934-  Paul, John, 1921-1995  Adams, Jonathan, 1931-2005  Lapotaire, Jane  Blakely, Colin  Angadi, Darien  Key, Janet, 1945-1992  Goorney, Howard, 1921-2007  McFarlane, Cassie, 1958-  James, Emrys, 1930-1989  Charleson, Ian  Knight, Esmond, 1906-1987  Waters, Harry, d. 2002  Neal, David, 1932-2000  Pedley, Anthony  Collins, Geoffrey  Sumpter, Donald, 1943-  Inne
       2005, c1980., Ambrose Video Pub. Call No: DVD SHK Fic Antony (1980)    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Tragedies of William Shakespeare.Summary Note: Octavius Caesar, Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony, though married to Fulvia, spends his time in Egypt, living a life of decadence and conducting an affair with Queen Cleopatra. In Antony's absence, Caesar and Lepidus worry about Pompey's increasing strength. Caesar condemns Antony for neglecting his duties as a statesman and military officer. Hearing that his wife, Fulvia, has died and that Pompey is raising an army to rebel against the triumvirate, Antony feels he must return to Rome. Caesar and Antony try to patch up their quarrel through the marriage of Antony to Caesar's sister Octavia. In Egypt, Cleopatra is told that Antony has married and is furious with jealousy. However, when the messenger says that Octavia is not very beautiful, Cleopatra feels confident that she can win Antony back. The triumvirs meet Pompey, who agrees to keep peace in exchange for control of Sicily and Sardinia. When Antony and Octavia leave for Athens, Caesar breaks his truce, wages war against Pompey, and defeats him. After using Lepidus's army to secure a victory, he imprisons Lepidus. Antony learns this with anger; Octavia pleads him to stay friends with her brother. Antony sends her to Rome, then returns to Cleopatra. In Egypt he raises an army to fight Caesar. Antony decides to fight him at sea, although Caesar has the better navy; and he allows Cleopatra to command a ship, ignoring the protests of Enobarbus, his best friend. Enobarbus deserts him and joins Caesar's army, but then in remorse kills himself. Antony's forces lose the battle when Cleopatra's ship flees and Antony's follows, leaving the rest of the fleet vulnerable to attack. Antony swears he will kill Cleopatra, so she sends word that she has committed suicide. Full of grief, Antony commands his attendant to kill him, but the man kills himself instead. Antony then falls on his own sword. Caesar takes Cleopatra prisoner, planning to display her in Rome as a trophy, but she kills herself with the help of several poisonous asps. Caesar has the two lovers buried beside each other.
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      By Thirkell, Angela Mackail, 1890-1961
       2014., General, Virago Call No: Fic Thi    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The village of Worsted is staging Hippolytus under the aegis of the indefatigable Mrs. Palmer. Given this background, it seems inevitable that the most absurd romances should bloom, as indeed they do. Thirkell's novels provide a scrutiny of British manners in the most entertaining doses.
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      By Canuel, Erik  Plummer, Christopher  Plumpis, John
       2013., Distributed by RLJ Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Barrymore   Edition: Widescreen.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A filmed play of Christopher Plummer in his Tony Award winning performance as iconic stage and screen idol John Barrymore. At the height of his remarkable career, John Barrymore was the most celebrated entertainer of his generation. The reigning king of both Broadway and Hollywood, his decline and fall from grace was the tragic result of a self-destructive spiral into vice and excess. And now, with his career in tatters, he makes one final attempt to reclaim his former glory on the stage in this powerful, heartbreaking, humorous and compassionate portrait of a tortured soul and living legend.
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      By Fforde, Jasper
       2005., Adult, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Call No: Fic Ffo   Edition: Paperback ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: A nursery crime.Summary Note: "The first book in the series introduces Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary of the Nursery Crime Division, the small and highly underfunded department that is part of the Reading Police. It is up to Jack and Mary to deal with any crimes involving nursery rhyme characters - who have inexplicably taken up residence in Berkshire. Ever wanted to know why Humpty Dumpty fell off his wall? Was it an accident? Suicide? Why was he buying shares in the failing Spongg footcare empire, and who had most to gain from his death? His ex-wife? His Lover? Solomon Grundy of Winsum & Loosum pharmecuticals or even Lord Spongg himself? What is the link with St Cerebellum's woefully inadequate and outdated mental hospital? And is it merely coincidence that Humpty died not five days before the Jellyman's celebrated visit to Reading to dedicate the Sacred Gonga's visitor's centre? And whose was the 28 foot long human hair found in Humpty's apartment?"--Author's website.
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      By Mouawad, Wajdi, 1968-
       2019., Adult, Playwrights Canada Press Call No: 819.23 M924b   Edition: First English edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In this sweeping new drama from the prolific Wajdi Mouawad, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hits close to home as a straight-laced family is forced to confront everything they know about their identities. Is it really important to cling to our lost identities? A terrorist attack in Jerusalem puts Eitan, a young Israeli-German genetic researcher, in a coma, while his girlfriend Wahida, an Moroccan graduate student, is left to uncover his family secret that brought them to Israel in the first place. Since Eitan's parents erupted at a Passover meal when they realized Wahida was not Jewish, he has harbored a suspicion about his heritage that, if true, could change everything.
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      By Beaton, M. C
       c2014., General, Minotaur Books Call No: SC MYS Fic Bea   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Agatha Raisin   Volume: 25Summary Note: The latest Agatha Raisin Mystery, following SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMEONE DEAD. Stifling a yawn at a local theatre production, Agatha watches the baker playing an ogre strut and threaten on the stage, until a trapdoor opens...followed by a scream and then silence. Surely this isn't the way the scene was rehearsed? When it turns out the popular baker has been murdered, Agatha puts her team of private detectives on the case. They soon discover more feuds and temperamental behaviour in amateur theatrics than in a professional stage show - and face more and more danger as the team gets too close to the killer.