Adrian P Mitchell

Adrian Mitchell

…animals." Angela Carter once wrote that he was "a joyous, acrid and demotic tumbling lyricist Pied Piper, determinedly singing us away from catastrophe." Ted Hughes: "In the world of verse for children, nobody has produced more surprising verse or more genuinely inspired fun than Adrian Mitc...

Allen Ginsberg

…. The event attracted an audience of 7,000, who heard readings and live and tape performances by a wide variety of figures, including Ginsberg, Adrian Mitchell, Alexander Trocchi, Harry Fainlight, Anselm Hollo, Christopher Logue, George Macbeth, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael ...

Three Plays: The Mayor of Zalamea/Life's a Dream/The Great Theatre of the World

"The Mayor of Zalamea, Life's a Dream, The Great Theatre of the World In The Mayor of Zalamea, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre, peasants' honour clashes with military discipline. Life's a Dream is Calderon's most famous philosophical play. The Great Theatre of the World is an allegorical ...

Irish Emigration Lists, 1833-1839

Based on notebooks compiled during the famous Ordnance Survey of Ireland (1835-1846), these lists have been extracted, arranged under parish, and alphabetized, and they identify the emigrant's destination and his place of origin in Ireland--key pieces of information for anyone tracing his Irish ance...

Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999

"McCartney writes as freely—and often as beautifully—as a blackbird sings....[He] is a genius with the common touch."—Stephen Logan, The Sunday Times [London]The hardcover publication of Blackbird Singing, the first collection of Paul McCartney's poems and lyrics, was an international cultural event...

Shapeshifters: Tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Bursting into life in the hands of Adrian Mitchell, here are some of the brightest, loveliest, and most powerful myths ever written. Recreated from Ovid's Metamorphoses, these stories, ballads, and headline news articles let the Minotaur, King Midas, Arachne, Bacchus, Persephone, and many more haunt...

Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits

Odyssey (Classics)

An abridged version of "The Odyssey", retold for the younger reader but aiming to still convey the major incidents of Homer's epic masterpiece with a sense of power, mystery and excitement. Fact filled columns explore the historical and geographical background.

Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Oberon/ Plays for Young People)

When this adaptation of C. S. Lewis's classic children's story opened at the RSC Stratford in November 1998, it received rave reviews and broke box office records. Four children are evacuated from London during the Blitz. While exploring the Professor's house, they stumble across the gateway to anot...

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Cast: 9M, 3W, Extras. "Total theatre" is the expression critics have used to describe this unique theatrical event which is designed for production on a nearly bare stage by a large and flexible cast. The Marquis de Sade, when an inmate at the Asylum of Charenton, staged plays that were performed by...

John Fuller, Peter Levi, Adrian Mitchell

Our Mammoth

The Oxford Anthology of Australian Literature

The Oxford Anthology of Australian Literature

Out Loud

Out Loud

Ride the Nightmare:Verse and Prose: Verse and Prose

Ride the Nightmare:Verse and Prose: Verse and Prose