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Peer Gynt

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486426860

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Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

Among the masterpieces of world literature, this great verse drama by Norway's famed playwright humorously yet profoundly explores the virtues, vices, and follies common to all humanity as it follows the roguish life of a charming but arrogant young man. A literary delight since it was first published in 1875.

Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem About a Decadent Young Man’s Hallucination

Author : Henrik Ibsen,Sadr al-Din Arabi
Publisher : FlokkPress
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788299934725

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Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem About a Decadent Young Man’s Hallucination by Henrik Ibsen,Sadr al-Din Arabi Pdf

Peer Gynt is classical drama written by Henrik Ibsen. This modern version is rewritten by Sadr al-Din Arabi. His aim is to criticize the decadent lifestyle in the West from an Islamic point of view. Peer Gynt is obsessed about being himself, but the way he sees himself is not reflective of who he truly is. The well-known scene with the onion depicts this quite clearly. There is no core inside an onion, just as there is no core in a false self. Peer Gynt’s journey is a psychological struggle to discover his true self, his core. A core based on empathy, morality and religious meaning. In this rewritten version is Solveig, a symbol of spiritually, the pure and innocent. She is helping Peer Gynt to be reborn into a spiritual life. - There will be a new enlightenment!

Peer Gynt and Brand

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141970790

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Peer Gynt and Brand by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill. These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical adventures of the irrepressible Peer Gynt - poet, idler, procrastinator, seducer - draw on Norwegian folklore to conjure up mountains, kidnappings, shipwrecks and trolls in an exuberant examination of truth and the self; while Brand, an unsparing vision of an idealistic priest who lives by his steely faith, explores free will and sacrifice. This volume brings together the poet Geoffrey Hill's acclaimed stage version of Brand with a new poetic rendering of Peer Gynt, published for the first time. This Penguin edition includes an interview with Geoffrey Hill about recreating Ibsen in English, an introduction by Janet Garton and editorial materials by Tore Rem.

The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Author : John Ford,John Webster
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141392240

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The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford,John Webster Pdf

These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new directions. In The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, John Webster explores the role of women and the problems of power, sex and corruption in the Italian court, creating two unforgettable anti-heroines. In The Broken Heart, John Ford questions the value of emotional repression as his characters attempt to subdue their desires and hatreds in ancient Greece. Finally, Ford's masterpiece 'Tis Pity She's a Whore explores the taboo theme of incest and forbidden lust in a daring reworking of Romeo and Juliet. Jane Kingsley-Smith has edited the plays from the earliest quartos and added invaluable editorial material, including explanatory glosses and a new introduction that discusses how the playwrights explored issues around women, sex, power and violence. JOHN WEBSTER was born in about 1578 in London. He studied law at the Middle Temple before embarking on a career in the theatre, collaborating on many plays with contemporary dramatists. But it was his two solo-authored tragedies, The White Devil (1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (1614), which sealed his reputation. He died in the 1630s. JOHN FORD was born in 1586 in Devon. His early career was wholly concerned with poetry and philosophical works, and it was not until the 1620s that he began collaborating on stage plays. In the late 1620s, he began writing alone, producing the eight plays on which his reputation would be based, including The Broken Heart (1620) and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (c.1630). Nothing more is known of Ford after the performance of his last play in 1638. JANE KINGSLEY-SMITH completed her PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and is the author of two monographs: Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (2003) and Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture (2010). She is a Reader at Roehampton University, London, and a regular guest speaker at Shakespeare's Globe.

Peer Gynt

Author : Edvard Grieg
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486295824

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Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg Pdf

In 1874 Henrik Ibsen invited Edvard Grieg to compose incidental music for a staged version of his Norwegian verse drama "Peer Gynt. "The result of this collaboration between Norway's greatest dramatist and its greatest composer was a set of pieces that have become among the best known and most loved of the late nineteenth century. Grieg's complete incidental score to "Peer Gynt" comprises 22 pieces: it is the two orchestral suites arranged from eight of these pieces that have become staples of the repertoire, with innumerable performances and dozens of recordings. This inexpensive, authoritative edition contains both suites complete, including such concert-hall favorites as "Morning Mood," "Anitra's Dance," and "In the Hall of the Mountain King." Musicians and music lovers will appreciate having these favorite scores in one handy volume, and students and scholars will want to have them on hand for the study of Grieg's melodic and harmonic style and orchestration, as well as for their influence on a wide range of composers, from Debussy to Sibelius.

In the Hall of the Mountain King

Author : Megan Endicott
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781458207883

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In the Hall of the Mountain King by Megan Endicott Pdf

Peer Gynt, a naughty little boy who disobeys his mother to stay out searching for treasure, discovers a magnificent cave that leads him deep into the heart of another world. Peer Gynt is a naughty little boy who often steals, plays mean tricks, and never helps his mother. More than anything else, Peer enjoys searching for treasures near his cottage in the mountains of Norway. Every day he leaves his cottage to go treasure hunting, and every day his mother asks him to be home before dark. However, one nighta particularly magical nightPeer decides to ignore his mothers request and continues searching for treasure long after the sun has set. He discovers a marvelous cave, the likes of which hes never seen before. Certain that there must be magnificent treasures within, Peer ventures deep inside the cave. His expedition leads him straight to the center of the mountain, into the hall of the Mountain King. As mischievous Peer Gynt soon learns, the Mountain Kingdom is a land of the extraordinary. He finds himself face-to-face with beings of myth and magic and a greater danger than hes ever encountered in his life. Will he survive to tell his mother where hes been?

Ibsen and the Greeks

Author : Norman Rhodes
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : German literature
ISBN : 0838752985

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Ibsen and the Greeks by Norman Rhodes Pdf

"Was Ibsen influenced by Greek culture? Were allusions to the Greeks configured in the Norwegian playwright's works? According to author Norman Rhodes, whether consciously or unconsciously, many of Ibsen's plays are encoded with veiled references to ancient Greek culture. Rhodes also postulates that Ibsen's perception of the importance of the Greeks was most likely mediated to him through German Romanticism and Scandinavian culture." "According to Rhodes, numerous echoes of Greek literature resonate in such early Ibsen plays as Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljerkrans, and Love's Comedy. Ibsen's Brand and Peer Gynt are a dialectic pair which in key ways are suggestive of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, A Doll House has important parallels with Sophocles' Antigone, and An Enemy of the People correlates with both Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos. Moreover, a Euripidean sense of fatal irrationality seems inscribed in Ibsen's final plays: the protagonists John Rosmer, Hedda Gabler, Master Builder Solness, John Gabriel Borkman, and the sculptor Rubek all destroy themselves."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Gint

Author : Romulus Linney
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822217112

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Gint by Romulus Linney Pdf

THE STORY: GINT unfolds like a strange dream, beginning with Pete Gint, a ragged young man in the Appalachian Mountains in 1917, who spends most of his time lying, drinking and getting into trouble. Gint is determined to become something great grand and

Our Dramatic Heritage: Classical drama and the early Renaissance

Author : Philip George Hill
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : 083863267X

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Our Dramatic Heritage: Classical drama and the early Renaissance by Philip George Hill Pdf

An anthology of European drama. Includes the Oresteia. Oedipus the King. The Trojan Women, Everyman, and The Mandrake, among others. Each play is preceded by a critical introduction.

Ingmar Bergman

Author : Birgitta Steene
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 1151 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789053564066

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Ingmar Bergman by Birgitta Steene Pdf

Exhaustive compendium by one of the world's foremost experts on the Swedish master covers Bergman's life, his cultural background, his entire artistic career and extensive annotated bibliographies of interviews and critical writings on Bergman.

Peer Gynt

Author : Colin Teevan
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015073951611

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Peer Gynt by Colin Teevan Pdf

A brand new adaptation by award-winning playwright Colin Teevan

Rough Magic Theatre Company

Author : Hilary Fannin,Arthur Riordan,Sonya Kelly,Shane Mac an Bhaird,Morna Regan,Ellen Cranitch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350119802

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Rough Magic Theatre Company by Hilary Fannin,Arthur Riordan,Sonya Kelly,Shane Mac an Bhaird,Morna Regan,Ellen Cranitch Pdf

Celebrating the work of one of Ireland's most daring theatre companies, this anthology gathers five plays by established and emerging playwrights. They include vibrant new adaptations of the world classics Peer Gynt and Phaedra alongside vital new dramas that explore issues of urgent contemporary concern, such as sex and sexuality, emigration and climate change. With contributions from Hilary Fannin and Ellen Cranitch, Arthur Riordan, Sonya Kelly, Morna Regan, and Shane Mac an Bhaird – as well as a foreword from Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright - this book is an exciting snapshot of contemporary Irish playwriting. The book operates as a showcase of outstanding new Irish playwriting, blending work by established and emerging playwrights, and also acts as a celebration of one of Ireland's most important theatre companies. And it includes new plays that demonstrate Rough Magic's consistent willingness to push the boundaries of Irish theatre, both formally and thematically, in plays that cover such topics as sex and sexuality, emigration and climate change. This edition contains a foreword by Anne Enright, Booker prize winner and Laureate of Irish Fiction.

Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Opus 46

Author : Edvard Grieg
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457485761

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Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Opus 46 by Edvard Grieg Pdf

A Violin solo with Piano Accompaniment composed by Edvard Grieg.

Henrik Ibsen. A Bibliography of Criticism and Biography with an Index to Characters

Author : Ina Ten Eyck Firkins
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547525073

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Henrik Ibsen. A Bibliography of Criticism and Biography with an Index to Characters by Ina Ten Eyck Firkins Pdf

"Henrik Ibsen. A Bibliography of Criticism and Biography with an Index to Characters" by Ina Ten Eyck Firkins. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.