Five Comedies

Author : Plautus,Terence,Deena Berg,Douglass Parker
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 087220362X

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Five Comedies by Plautus,Terence,Deena Berg,Douglass Parker Pdf

"This is a book worthy of high praise... All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius' play called Synapothnescontes as Three's a Shroud... Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked.

Author : Carlo Goldoni
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781442650282

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Five Comedies by Carlo Goldoni Pdf

The new house -- The coffee house -- Off to the country -- Adventures in the country -- Back from the country

Author : George Sand
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780791486962

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Five Comedies by George Sand Pdf

Two full-length and three one-act plays, translated here for the first time into English. Best known as a novelist, George Sand (1804–1876) was also arguably the most successful woman dramatist in history. More than twenty of her plays were staged in major Paris theaters to widespread popular and critical acclaim. Translated here for the first time into English are her two most famous full-length comedies, The Marquis de Villemer and Françoise, as well as her three major one-act plays, The Paving Stone, The Japanese Lily, and A Good Deed Is Never Wasted. Noted for their lively characterization, sparkling dialogue, and deft constructions, her plays reflect the passion and generosity of her own character, as well as a quick-witted sense of humor. The translations are preceded by an introduction outlining Sand’s theatrical career, the main themes and characteristics of her plays, and critical appraisals from her own generation to the present day. The translations are followed by notes and a bibliography. E. H. Blackmore and Francine Giguère are freelance translators. A. M. Blackmore is Lecturer at Curtin University. Their previous collaborative translations include Twelve Plays by Alfred de Musset. The Blackmores have also coedited and cotranslated Selected Poems of Victor Hugo; The Major Epics of Victor Hugo; and (with James McGowan and Martin Sorrell) Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781603840859

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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies by Anonim Pdf

This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one’s lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius’ play called Synapothnescontes as Three’s a Shroud. . . . Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked. This is a book to be used and enjoyed. --Raymond J. Clark, The Classical Outlook

Author : Laura Giannetti,Guido Ruggiero
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 080187257X

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Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance by Laura Giannetti,Guido Ruggiero Pdf

Humor, sex, and satirized or upturned gender roles and social stereotypes characterize the Latin comedies updated and translated into Italian that became popular in Italy at the turn of the 16th century. The translations are by and for scholars of literature and history, rather than for production or performance. There are explanatory notes, but no bibliography or index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1594201528

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Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris Pdf

Documents the cultural revolution behind the making of 1967's five Best Picture-nominated films, including Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, Doctor Doolittle, In the Heat of the Night, and Bonnie and Clyde, in an account that discusses how the movies reflected period beliefs about race, violence, and identity. 40,000 first printing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0819628638

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Aristophanes, Five Comedies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harold N. Levitt
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780595444977

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Five Comedies by Harold N. Levitt Pdf

These five comedies were selected from the playwright's oeuvre of 30 full-length plays. Performances of any of these five plays are subject to royalties. They are fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America and of all countries with which the United States has reciprocal copyright relations. All rights, including professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, lecturing, public reading, radio broadcasting, television, video or sound taping, all other forms of mechanical or electronic reproduction, and the rights of translations into foreign languages, are strictly reserved. Permissions for any of the above must be secured from the author in writing: H.N. Levitt, Glasco Tpke., Woodstock, New York 12498. Other H. N. Levitt play reviews: "Levitt has an undeniable sense of what the theatre is all about. He has the ability to give a plot form and shape and the talent to keep it moving smoothly toward a satisfactory conclusion. And he can write individual scenes which come to life vividly." C.G.-Women's Wear Daily "It rates as one of the better introed by ORIGINALS ONLY (later, ACTOR'S PLAYHOUSE) in its four years of operation in N.Y.'s Greenwich Village." Jess-Variety "The playwright handled the subject . in a straightfoward manner and yet with complete taste and emotional power." Vernon Rice, Drama Editor-New York Post

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486113197

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Five Great Comedies by William Shakespeare Pdf

This inexpensive Dover edition brings together five of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, from the magic and mischief of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the rollicking farce of The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : College readers
ISBN : UCSC:32106005205486

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5 Comedies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian C. Storey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781350020245

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Aristophanes: Peace by Ian C. Storey Pdf

This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play's context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics and the possible staging options for flying. It is ideal for students, but helpful also for scholars wanting a quick introduction to the play. Peace was first performed in 421 BC, perhaps only days before the signing of a peace treaty that ended ten years of fighting between Athens and Sparta (the Archidamian War). Aristophanes celebrates this prospect with an imaginative fantasy involving his hero's flight on a gigantic dung-beetle to Olympus, the rescue of the goddess Peace from her imprisonment in a cave, and her return to a Greece weary of ten years of war. Like most of the poet's comedies, this play is heavy on fantasy and imagination, light on formal structure, being an exuberant farce that champions the opponents of War and celebrates the delights of the return to country life with its smells, food and drink, its many pleasures and none of the complications that war brings in its wake.

Author : Plautus,Terence
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781585106233

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Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence by Plautus,Terence Pdf

This anthology contains English translations of five plays by two of the best practitioners of Roman comedy, Plautus and Terence. The plays, Menaechmi, Rudens, Truculentus, Adelphoe, and Eunuchus, provide an introduction to the world of Roman comedy. As with all Focus translations, the emphasis is on a handsomely produced, inexpensive, readable edition that is close to the original, with an extensive introduction, notes and appendices.

Author : Gregory Dobrov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004188846

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Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy by Gregory Dobrov Pdf

The Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy sets forth the main resources for the advancing student in three sections: "Contexts,""History," and "Elements.” The volume is a guide for understanding and interpreting the classic comedies as well as for navigating the principal corpora of texts, fragments and scholia.

Author : Gary Robert Grund
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0674017447

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Humanist Comedies by Gary Robert Grund Pdf

The five comedies included in this volume present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of the Quattrocento.

Author : K. J. Dover
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1972-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0520022114

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Aristophanic Comedy by K. J. Dover Pdf

Professor Dover's newest book is designed for those who are interested in the history of comedy as an art form but who are not necessarily familiar with the Greek language. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are treated as representative of a genre. Old Attic Comedy, which was artistically and intellectually homogeneous and gave expression to the spirit of Athenian society in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C. Aristophanes is regarded primarily not as a reformer or propagandist but as a dramatist who sought, in competition with his rivals, to win the esteem both of the general public and of the cultivated and critical minority. He succeeded in this effort by making people laugh, and the book pays more attention than has generally been paid to the technical means, whether of language or of situation, on which Aristophanes' humor depends. Particular emphasis is laid on his indifference-positively assisted by the physical limitations of the Greek theatre and the conditions of the Athenian dramatic festivals-to the maintenance of continuous “dramatic illusion” or to the provision of a dramatic event with the antecedents and consequences which might logically be expected. More importance is attached to Aristophanes' adoption of popular attitudes and beliefs, to his creation of uninhibited characters with which the spectators could identify themselves, and to his acceptance of the comic poet's traditional role as a mordant but jocular critic of morals, than to any identifiable and consistent elements in his political standpoint.