Caligula And Three Other Plays

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : 45,8 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 : 44,6 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 : Vintage
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780593311479

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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, in a restorative new translation by Ryan Bloom that brings together, for the first time in English, Camus's final versions of the plays, along with deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue. Though known for his novels that plumb the depths of absurdism, it was the theater stage that Camus called “one of the only places in the world I'm happy." After forming two troupes in his early twenties in Algeria, the prolific author moved to Paris for work, where between 1944-1949 he would go on to stage the four original plays gathered in this collection. Caligula, his first full-length work for the stage, begins with the infamous Roman emperor in the throes of grief at the death of his sister Drusilla and tugs at the same essential question that haunts so much of Camus’s work: Faced with the nullifying force of time, which snuffs out even our grandest emotions, how does one go on living? And is there a limit to the hardness of the human heart? Here too are The Misunderstanding, a murderous tangle of the longing for home and the longing for elsewhere; The Just, depicting the 1905 assassination of a Grand Duke in Moscow and testing the ethical limits of one’s belief in a political cause; and State of Emergency, an allegorical romp where The Plague itself appears as a central character, shedding new light on our current battles with viral disease and authoritarian regimes. These are engaging, often incendiary works, now in fresh English translations that beg to be performed.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459056834

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Caligula and 3 Other Plays by Albert Camus Pdf

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0329044931

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No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre Pdf

The respectful prostitute. Four plays written by the French existentialist philosopher and writer addressing such topics as hell, racism, and conduct of life.

Author : Annamaria Cascetta
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Seneca
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Ignacio L. Götz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Happiness
ISBN : 9780761849957

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Conceptions of Happiness by Ignacio L. Götz Pdf

This book presents the thesis that happiness does not mean just one thing but many, and that these many meanings have been studied, described, argued, and practiced throughout the centuries in many climes and places. This book explores many views of happiness as espoused by their original founders and developers.

Author : Albert Camus,David Greig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571220959

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Caligula by Albert Camus,David Greig Pdf

In this passionate, poetic and darkly comic drama, a charismatic leader is given absolute freedom to challenge social convention in pursuit of personal obsession.Following the death of his beloved sister, Emperor Caligula deserts the Roman Assembly for three days and three nights. He returns with a single objective: to understand the meaning of life.Caligula, in this new translation by David Greig, was first presented at the Donmar Warehouse in April 2003.

Author : Camus Society
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781326090982

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Journal of Camus Studies 2014 by Camus Society Pdf

Journal of Camus Studies 2014. Scholarly essays on the literature and philosophy of Albert Camus. Contributors: Ceylan Ceyhun Arslan, Jeffry C. Davis, Joseph Ford, Mary Gennuso, Thomas Pölzler, Zachary James Purdue, Matthew Sharpe and Giovanni Gaetani

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827661

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The Stranger by Albert Camus Pdf

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

Author : O. Classe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors
ISBN : 1884964362

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Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L by O. Classe Pdf

Author : David Adjmi
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252097195

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"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings by Simone de Beauvoir Pdf

"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of Beauvoir's career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into Beauvoir's writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. The volume begins with a new translation of the 1945 play "The Useless Mouths," written in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Other pieces were discovered after Beauvoir's death in 1986, such as the 1965 short novel Misunderstanding in Moscow, involving an elderly French couple who confront their fears of aging. Two additional previously unknown texts include the fragmentary "Notes for a Novel," which contains the seed of what she later would call "the problem of the Other," and a lecture on postwar French theater titled "Existential Theater." The collection notably includes the eagerly awaited translation of Beauvoir's contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, "What Can Literature Do?" Prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales,La Bâtarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years are also available in English for the first time, alongside essays and other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars. Contributors are Meryl Altman, Elizabeth Fallaize, Alison S. Fell, Sarah Gendron, Dennis A. Gilbert, Laura Hengehold, Eleanore Holveck, Terry Keefe, J. Debbie Mann, Frederick M. Morrison, Catherine Naji, Justine Sarrot, Liz Stanley, Ursula Tidd, and Veronique Zaytzeff.