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Separated twins, practical jokers, pining lovers, and a comic villain populate the city of Illyria, where the drama of TWELFTH NIGHT unfolds. When the fraternal twins Viola and
Sebastian independently wash ashore in the city from a shipwreck , unbeknownst to one another, each assumes the other is dead. With Viola disguised as a man, the Duke Orsino, the gentlewoman Olivia, and the kind Antonio intermittently confuse the identity of the twins. Meanwhile, the victim of a practical joke, the priggish Malvolio acts so peculiarly that he is confined to a mental institution. Much confusion needs ironing out before the weddings in the last scene. TWELFTH NIGHT is based on a late 16th-century play by Barnable Rich, which itself drew inspiration from many French and Italian sources. The earliest recorded performance was in 1602, and it was probably penned between 1599 and 1601. Early in 1601 an Italian visitor named Orsino visited the court of Queen Elizabeth, perhaps inspiring Shakespeare's use of his name for the Duke here.
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Two boys growing up in North Carolina in the 1960s--Raybert and Palmer--must cope with a variety of difficulties, which include Raybert's father's drinking and possible involvement in a lynching, his mother's miscarriage, Palmer's mother's creepy boyfriends, the disastrous flooding of the local creek, and the boys' shared dream of, someday, somehow getting away.
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The author once again features Curtis Black, the very cool pastor who starred in her 2001 novel CASTING THE FIRST STONE. This time around, Curtis is without a parish, until he marries a devout churchgoer and--as part of the deal--is hired as the pastor of Truth Missionary Baptist Church. As Curtis's offenses against religion, the law, and women pile up, his parishioners begin to have doubts, and so does his wife, not to mention his old girlfriend, until finally he meets his comeuppance.
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One hundred and eighty poems selected by Poet Laureate Collins suggests that poetry has, in recent times, returned to a more significant, if not noticeable place in our society. Included are poems by Catherine Bowman, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Frances Mayes, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, and many more
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