Caligula And Other Plays

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781802063967

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Caligula and Three Other Plays by Albert Camus Pdf

In brand new translations by Ryan Bloom, four theatrical masterpieces from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Outsider and The Plague are brought together for the first time in English, alongside deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue Caligula/The Misunderstanding /State of Emergency/The Just Although renowned for his novels, Albert Camus described the theatre as 'one of the only places in the world I'm happy', and staged the four plays gathered in this collection in Paris between 1944-49. Caligula, his first full-length dramatic work, portrays the monstrous emperor who destroys men, gods and ultimately himself. Here too are The Misunderstanding, a murderous tangle of longing; State of Emergency, where 'The Plague' appears as a central character; and The Just, which explores the limits of political conviction. This new translation brings together Camus's final versions of the plays, along with deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : French drama
ISBN : IND:30000000681563

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Caligula and Other Plays by Albert Camus Pdf

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1962-02-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780394702070

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Caligula and Three Other Plays by Albert Camus Pdf

Four thought-provoking masterworks for the theater by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Stranger and The Plague. Also includes The Misunderstanding, State of Siege, and The Just Assassins.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459056834

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Caligula and 3 Other Plays by Albert Camus Pdf

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : London [etc.] : Methuen
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : English drama
ISBN : WISC:89002440527

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Caligula by Albert Camus Pdf

Author : David Adjmi
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559366755

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Stunning and Other Plays by David Adjmi Pdf

"Nearly everything about David Adjmi's Stunning has an original ring to it, from the setting . . . to the brassy bleat of the dialogue." -Time Out New York This volume of distinctive work includes Stunning, set in an insular Syrian Jewish community, where a teenage bride's world is disrupted by her intellectual African American housekeeper; Evildoers, about the collapse of two privileged couples; and Elective Affinities, a post-9/11 monologue. David Adjmi's work has been produced at Lincoln Center Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, and the Royal Court in London. He has received numerous commissions and is the recipient of a 2009 Kesselring Fellowship and a Bush Artist Fellowship.

Author : William Hawes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786452408

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Caligula and the Fight for Artistic Freedom by William Hawes Pdf

Incest, explicit violence, homosexual rape--all presented in graphic clarity for general movie audiences. The fight for artistic freedom in Hollywood movies reached a boiling point when Bob Guccione combined traditional and adult filmmaking values in 1979's controversial Caligula. Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse, was passionate about taking his First Amendment battles out of the bedroom and into the courtroom. Through his determination and four-year legal battle, the film was distributed worldwide and now celebrates its 40th anniversary while achieving cult status. This is the story of the making of the film, its distribution, and its social and cultural impact.

Author : Annamaria Cascetta
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783081615

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Modern European Tragedy by Annamaria Cascetta Pdf

The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘Modern European Tragedy’ examines the consciousness of this era, drawing a picture of the development of the tragic through an in-depth analysis of some of the twentieth century’s most outstanding texts.

Author : Albert Camus,Christopher Williams
Publisher : Booksurge Llc
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 098028144X

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The Misunderstanding and Caligula by Albert Camus,Christopher Williams Pdf

New translations of two plays by Nobel laureate Albert Camus that strip away decades of misinterpretation of the playwright's intentions. "The translations ably capture the menace and atmosphere of Camus' writing"-Ruth Little, Literary Manager, Royal Court Theatre, London UK. "Spare, unforgiving and direct, much as Camus would want it I suspect"-Geordie Brookman, Artistic Director, State Theatre Company of South Australia.

Author : Seneca
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141970943

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Phaedra and Other Plays by Seneca Pdf

Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying death of Astyanax is recounted in Trojan Women, and Phaedra deals with forbidden love. In Oedipus a nervous man discovers himself, while Thyestes recounts the bitter family struggle for a crown. Of uncertain authorship, Octavia dramatizes Nero's divorce from his wife and her deportation. The only Latin tragedies to have survived complete, these plays are masterpieces of vibrant, muscular language and psychological insight.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : English drama
ISBN : OCLC:1007470855

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The Collected Plays of Albert Camus by Albert Camus Pdf

Author : Robert Graves
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795336799

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I, Claudius by Robert Graves Pdf

“One of the really remarkable books of our day”—the story of the Roman emperor on which the award-winning BBC TV series was based (The New York Times). Once a rather bookish young man with a limp and a stammer, a man who spent most of his time trying to stay away from the danger and risk of the line of ascension, Claudius seemed an unlikely candidate for emperor. Yet, on the death of Caligula, Claudius finds himself next in line for the throne, and must stay alive as well as keep control. Drawing on the histories of Plutarch, Suetonius, and Tacitus, noted historian and classicist Robert Graves tells the story of the much-maligned Emperor Claudius with both skill and compassion. Weaving important themes throughout about the nature of freedom and safety possible in a monarchy, Graves’s Claudius is both more effective and more tragic than history typically remembers him. A bestselling novel and one of Graves’ most successful, I, Claudius has been adapted to television, film, theatre, and audio. “[A] legendary tale of Claudius . . . [A] gem of modern literature.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827845

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Happy Death by Albert Camus Pdf

The first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. In A Happy Death, written when Albert Camus was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man. As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time. Translated from the French by Richard Howard

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Borgo Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1434445216

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Caligul by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Written in 1837, Caligula is one of the best nineteenth-century plays set in ancient Rome. The story of the mad, tyrannical Emperor Caligula, who reigned four years before being assassinated, is familiar to modern readers and viewers, but this version includes some new twists. Dumas makes Caligula less frightening than in real life, although he certainly qualifies as a villainous dictator bent on his own pleasure. He plans to rape his "milk-sister," an early Christian, and eventually kills her for refusing him. Dumas introduces the legend of the Three Mary's, who supposedly landed in France shortly after the Crucifixion; some variations on this legend even have Jesus surviving his execution. The play was written in verse, but is here presented in prose. A fast-moving, attention-grabbing play that seems as modern now as when it was first presented on the stage.

Author : Cintra Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781608192465

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Caligula for President by Cintra Wilson Pdf

In this inventive and biting satire, acclaimed novelist and cultural critic Cintra Wilson reimagines America's Manifest Destiny as helmed by Caligula, the only leader in world history capable of turning our floundering democracy into a fully functioning-and totally fun-tyranny, both here and abroad. With Caligula running the show, America will finally be able to achieve what the founding fathers really wanted, but never had the nerve to admit. Like, how to: Achieve the guilt-free looting of natural resources for the sake of immediate gratification; Declare war on abstract concepts (drugs, terror, the ocean) for the sake of imperial expansion; Utilize propaganda, psychological operations, and other prisoner-of-war techniques to create a sense of learned helplessness in the citizenry, gain their utterly terrified trust and obedience-and leave them begging for more; Rape, pillage, and loot-both here and abroad-with impunity Wilson also traces the historical arc of Caligula's life and not-so-hard times, from his privileged childhood in Syria to his ascent to power to his eventual takedown by the hands of an angry populace, to point out the unsettling parallels between his own extravagant reign and the avariciousness of other administrations, which helped usher in a new golden age of unlimited executive power. Part political parable, part cautionary tale, Caligula for President is an ingenious and hilarious send-up of the current state of our Union by one of this generation's sharpest satirists.