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Gypsy
The Art of the Tease
A revealing portrait of Gypsy Rose Lee, the “Striptease Intellectual” of 1930s burlesque A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first—and the only—stripper to become a...
Yale French Studies, Number 85
Discourses of Jewish Identity in Twentieth-Century France
This volume presents voices from a paradoxical community: the Jews of France, long assimilated yet more expressive than ever of their particular concerns. It includes the first accounts of French survivors of death camps;...
The Ceremonial City
History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice
This wide-ranging study vividly presents the major events that took place in Venice in the 1570s, culminating in a deadly outbreak of the plague that claimed one-quarter of the Venetian population. Analyzing reactions...
The Boys from Siam
Announcing the 2007 winner of the Yale Drama SeriesJohn Connolly’s The Boys from Siam has been chosen as the first winner of the Yale Drama Series. This play was selected by playwright and contest...
J. B. Fischer von Erlach
Architecture as Theater in the Baroque Era
Though little known in the English-speaking world, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723) was one of the most important and influential European baroque architects. The buildings that he designed for the emperor of...
New Light Shine
Announcing the 2011 winner in the Yale Drama Series When he was twelve, Joe snuck into the field on the edge of town and saw the Town Mayor with his sister Peregrine. This one moment has overwhelmed and...
Yale French Studies, Number 125/126
Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History)
Time for Baudelaire suggests it’s time that Yale French Studies devote an issue to the poet who more than any other inaugurated the unfinished epoch of modernity. It also urges that we take or make time for thinking...
Beautiful Province
The 2012 winner of the Yale Drama Series A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother...
Serial Black Face
The 2014 winner of the Yale Drama Series “The play does not have a tragic ending, though you will be certain that it must. But it is a tragic story. It is the tragedy of lives lived without hope of...
Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music
How can the musician’s ear penetrate the complexities and theoretical abstractions of the twentieth-century music? This book offers a solution: it enables the student to perceive essential musical connections at the core...