Classic European Plays

Author : George Bernard Shaw,Oscar Wilde,Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781504064958

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Classic European Plays by George Bernard Shaw,Oscar Wilde,Henrik Ibsen Pdf

These three timeless plays showcase the sparkling wit and provocative intellect of some of modern drama’s greatest playwrights. Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw: This complex drama depicts the life of Joan of Arc—from her childhood vision calling her to lead the French army against the English in the Hundred Years War through her eventual capture, trial, and burning at the stake. An epilogue depicts a retrial that clears Joan of heresy, declaring her a Christian martyr. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: In this timeless drawing room comedy, a blackmail scheme forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards—providing a wry commentary on the hypocrisy of politicians. Carried along by nonstop witty repartee, this is satirical theater at its finest. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen: This quintessential work of dramatic realism depicts one woman’s struggle against patriarchal society. The central character’s rejection of a smothering marriage shocked theatergoers of the late nineteenth century while the play’s pioneering style set the stage for twentieth century domestic drama.

Author : John Gassner
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0282437371

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Twenty Best European Plays on the American Stage by John Gassner Pdf

Originally published: New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1957.

Author : F. J. Lamport
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521428289

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German Classical Drama by F. J. Lamport Pdf

This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel. F.J. Lamport traces the rise and development in the German-speaking world of the last form of "classical" poetic drama to appear in European literature. This development is seen as reflecting the intellectual and political ferment both within Germany and throughout Europe.

Author : Jonathan Pitches
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474259903

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 3 by Jonathan Pitches Pdf

This volume examines the work of directors Jacques Copeau, Theodore Komisarjevsky and Tyrone Guthrie. It explores in detail many of the directors' key productions, including Copeau's staging of Molière's The Tricks of Scapin, Komisarjevsky's signature season of Chekhov plays at the Barnes Theatre and Guthrie's pioneering direction of Shakespeare's plays in North America. This study argues that their work exemplifies the complexity and novelty of the role of theatre directing in the first three-quarters of the 20th century, as Komisarjevsky was in the middle of the genesis of directing in Russia, Copeau launched his directorial career just as the role was gaining definition, and Guthrie was at the vanguard of directing in Britain, at last shaking off the traditions of the actor-manager to formulate the new role of artistic director.

Author : Rafis Abazov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313056185

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Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics by Rafis Abazov Pdf

The Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan won their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Now they are emerging from the shadow of dominance and are subjects of intense interest from the West. The modern culture and customs of the various peoples in these geopolitical hotspots, straddling the far reaches of Europe into Asia, are revealed to a general audience for the first time. This will be the must-have volume for a broad, authoritative overview of these traditional civilizations as they cope with globalization.

Author : Michael Lydon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000945782

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How To Play Classic Jazz Guitar by Michael Lydon Pdf

Jazz Guitar Styles is an instruction book designed for the guitarist who already knows the fundamentals but wishes to explore the "classic" style of swing-era guitar. It offers a clear, concise introduction to the basics of jazz guitar, built on the student's basic knowledge of forming chords and basic picking patterns. Jazz Guitar Styles opens this world to any guitarist who has a basic knowledge of guitar technique and willingness to learn.

Author : J. Michael Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317300397

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Translating Classical Plays by J. Michael Walton Pdf

Translating Classical Plays is a selection of edited papers by J. Michael Walton published and delivered between 1997 and 2014. Of the four sections, each with a new introduction, the first two cover the history of translating classical drama into English and specific issues relating to translation for stage performance. The latter two are concerned with the three Greek tragedians, and the Greek and Roman writers of old and new comedy, ending with the hitherto unpublished text of a Platform Lecture given at the National Theatre in London comparing the plays of Plautus with Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. The volume is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in staging or translating classical drama.

Author : Ousmane Diakhate,Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh,Don Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136359491

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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre by Ousmane Diakhate,Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh,Don Rubin Pdf

Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.

Author : T Turner
Publisher : T Turner
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Basel Travel Guide 2024 by T Turner Pdf

The Basel Travel Guide is the most up-to-date, reliable and complete guide to this wonderful city. Travelers will find everything they need for an unforgettable visit presented in a convenient and easy-to-use format. Includes quick information on planning a visit, navigating the city, experiencing Swiss culture and exploring the beauty of Basel. Also includes a Swiss-German phrasebook to help you communicate with the locals. Basel is a city on the Rhine River in northwest Switzerland, close to the country’s borders with France and Germany. Its medieval old town centers around Marktplatz, dominated by the 16th-century, red-sandstone Town Hall. Its 12th-century Gothic cathedral has city views, and contains the tomb of the 16th-century Dutch scholar, Erasmus. The city’s university houses some of Erasmus’ works.

Author : Ana Elena Puga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135899240

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Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater by Ana Elena Puga Pdf

Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative team, in the case of Brazil) from each of four Southern Cone countries and compares the playwrights’ aesthetic strategies for subverting ideologies of dictatorship: Carlos Manuel Varela (memory in Uruguay), Juan Radrigán (testimony in Chile), Augusto Boal and his co-author Gianfrancesco Guarnieri (historical allegory in Brazil), Griselda Gambaro (abstract allegory in Argentina).

Author : Fiona Shaw,Lionel Pilkington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350316164

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Theatre and Ireland by Fiona Shaw,Lionel Pilkington Pdf

What is the significance of theatre and performance within Irish culture and history? How do we understand the impact and political potential of Irish theatre? This innovative survey of theatre in Ireland covers a range of drama and performance, from the 17th century to the present. Expanding the field of Irish theatre to include mumming, wake games, prison protests and theatre riots, the book argues that Ireland's longstanding association with performance illuminates key aspects of its cultural history and politics. Foreword by Fiona Shaw.

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429675980

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The Theater of Tony Kushner by James Fisher Pdf

The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the forty-year long career of dramatist Tony Kushner as playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and public intellectual and political activist. Following an introduction examining the influences of Kushner’s development as an artist, this updated second edition features individual chapters on his major plays, including A Bright Room Called Day, Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne, Angels in America, Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, Homebody/Kabul, Caroline, or Change, and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, along with chapters on Kushner’s adaptations, one-act plays, and screenplays, including his two Academy Award-nominated screenplays, Munich and Lincoln. A book for anyone interested in theater, film, literature, and the ways in which the past informs the present, this second edition of The Theater of Tony Kushner explores how his writings reflect key elements of American society, from politics and economics to race, gender, and spirituality, all with the hope of inspiring America to live up to its ideals.

Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1984-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0844616494

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The Classic Theatre by Eric Bentley Pdf

Author : Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī,M. M. Badawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521344272

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Early Arabic Drama by Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī,M. M. Badawi Pdf

This book traces the development of Arabic drama from the mid-nineteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Author : Bennett Cerf,Van Henry Cartmell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044934391

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Sixteen Famous European Plays by Bennett Cerf,Van Henry Cartmell Pdf

From the Introduction: These sixteen plays are part of a European testament, already inherited and richly enjoyed, as proven by the enormous popularity they attained not only in the countries of origin, but, in the benediction of handclaps across the sea, in our own theatre and in spite of the fact that they have often suffered sadly in translation. Quite by accident in selection they fall into two nearly equal groups: nine of them belong to the pre-World War I, Cherry-Orchard-Heartbreak-House Europe, and seven belong to that ominously quiet but superficially frantic period between 1918 and 1937, the intermezzo of our false security. By a tragic irony, undetected at the time, the last of them carried a French-comedy salute to classical Greek legend at the moment Austria found itself Anschlussed out of existence. In viewpoint and technique they range from the realistic social theme of The Wild Duck to the subjective discussion of illusion and reality in Six Characters in Search of an Author; from the bitter comedy of The Playboy to the lyric, but static, beauty of The Cradle Song, from the cynical sex pattern of Anatol to the ecstatic love song of The Dybbuk. To suggest that there is a close and detailed relationship among all these plays, out of such diverse countries and of such widely different treatment, is to embark upon a critical trapeze act which would make the Flying Codonas seem mere ground moles. Yet most of them are linked in one way or another to the mainsprings of European thought, to the mid-nineteenth-century revolution of ideas, and finally to the free theatre movement which carried the ideas into the playhouses. The theatre responded not only with new drama, but with a new stagecraft, wrought in its image and designed to emphasize the change.