Alice J Griffin

Pageantry on the Shakespearean Stage

Pageantry on the Shakespearean Stage

Rebels and Lovers: Shakespeare's Young Heroes and Heroines a New Approach to Acting and Teaching

Rebels and Lovers: Shakespeare's Young Heroes and Heroines a New Approach to Acting and Teaching

Tales from Shakespeare

This delightful book for young readers tells Shakespeare’s action-filled comic and tragic stories about ghosts, witches, fairies, heroes, heroines and villains. Ten of Shakespeare’s best-known plays are included in this collection of moral tales in which good triumphs over evil. As Shakespeare wrote...

Laura's Letters

Laura's Letters is a love story told in letters written 150 years ago by Laura Wynne & Bestor Coleman of Alabama. Bestor courted Laura writing ardent, eloquent letters that lead to their marriage. Bestor enlisted in Co F 40th Reg CSA May 1862. Bestor was captured twice; never recovered from the hars...

Understanding Lillian Hellman (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

In this perceptive study of the literary career of Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), Alice Griffin and Geraldine Thorsten provide a balanced, in-depth examination of Hellman's major works. In the thirties, when Hellman's theater career began, George Jean Nathan, the dean of theater critics, suggested tha...

Understanding Arthur Miller (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

This appraisal of Arthur Miller's theatrical canon illumines the international importance of a playwright whose work is considered a mirror of American life. Griffin demonstrates that Miller's plays, though seeming to centre on uniquely American issues, speak to audiences from Brazil to Russia, Icel...

Understanding Tennessee Williams (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin considers Williams both a...

Tales from a Travelling Mum

Alice Griffin shares the story of how she embarked on a travel adventure with her young family during the first two years of her daughter's life. Taking in Norway, Greece, France and Spain on the way, Alice weaves an inspiring travelogue with practical advice to help other mums and dads who enjoy in...

Reconnective Therapy: A New Healing Paradigm

We all carry the knowledge for perfect well-being within us. This knowledge is contained in our energy body. The energy body is the force that builds the physical body and holds the templates for perfect body and mind structure and function. It contains all of our feelings, thoughts, memories and po...