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Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199536191
This collection of plays is taken from the Oxford Ibsen, James McFarlane's acclaimed scholarly edition.
Author : August Strindberg
Publisher : AldineTransaction
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781412845373
August Strindberg is one of the founders of the modern theater. George Bernard Shaw considered him "the only genuinely Shakespearian modern dramatist," Sean O'Casey called him "the greatest of them all." And to Eugene O'Neill he was "the greatest interpreter in the theater of the characteristic spiritual conflicts of our lives today." Twelve Major Plays includes the most famous and most characteristic Strindberg plays. This selection is particularly interesting in its depiction of the great range of Strindberg's moods and styles, from naturalism to expressionism, from ironic comedy to bitter tragedy. It displays his great gift for symbolic, mystical verse as well as his command of dramatic prose. In issues of sex and gender, Strindberg anticipated the modern temperament in society and drama alike. These translations gave American readers their first opportunity to know the true genius of Strindberg. Most previous versions in English had been based on existing German translations. Elizabeth Sprigge's unique achievement was to render the original Swedish texts into English that is at once fluent and accurate and that captures the full vigor and impact of the original plays. August Strindberg (1849-1912) was a Swedish writer and playwright and is credited and being one of the founders of modern theatre. His writings combined elements of psychology and naturalism. Some of his minor writings, not included in this book, include The Outlaw, Master Olaf, Pariah, The Comrades, and Among French Peasants. Elizabeth Sprigge was educated in London and Ontario and was the author of a number of novels, biographies and children's books. She was co-founder of the famous avant-garde Watergate Theatre in London and lectured on literature and theatre in many parts of the world.
Author : Aleksandr Vampilov
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Russian drama
ISBN : 9783718655847
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Signet Classics
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015014386968
Ivanov - The sea gull - Uncle Vanya - The three sisters - The cherry orchard.
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060604843
Curt Columbus endows these timeless dramas Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard with dialogue that is faithful to the russian original but dazzlingly attuned to contemporary audiences.
Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1002556356
Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0192839381
In his four last plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dona Rosita the Spinster) Federico Garc ́ia Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the 1930s---unready, as he thought them, for the sexual frankness and surreal expression of his more experimental work. The authentic sense of danger of Lorca's theatre is finely conveyed here in John Edmunds's fluent and rhythmic new translations that lend themselves admirably to performance.
Author : Lope de Vega
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191605369
Lope de Vega (1562-1635), widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, was known by his contemporaries as the `monster of Nature' on account of his creativity as a playwright. Claiming to have written more than a thousand plays, he created plots and characters notable for their energy, inventiveness and dramatic power, and which, in contrast to French classical drama, combine the serious and the comic in their desire to imitate life. Fuente Ovejuna, based on Spanish history, and revealing how tyranny leads to rebelliion, is perhaps his best-known play. The Knight from Olmedo is a moving dramatization of impetuous and youthful passion which ends in death. Punishment without Revenge, Lope's most powerful tragedy, centres on the illicit relationship of a young wife with her stepson and the revenge of a dishonoured husband. These three plays, grouped here in translations which are faithful to the original Spanish, vivid and intended for performance, embody the very best of Lope's dramatic art. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Alma Law
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134360451
First Published in 1996. The Russian Theatre Archive makes available in English the best avant-garde plays from the pre-Revolutionary period to the present day. It features monographs on major playwrights and theatre directors, introductions to previously unknown works, and studies of the main artistic groups and periods. Plays are presented in performing edition translations, including (where appropriate) musical scores, and instructions for music and dance. Whenever possible the translated texts will be accompanied by videotapes of performances of plays in the original language.
Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781645424499
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Henrik Ibsen, the foremost playwright of the nineteenth century and the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. Titles in this study guide include Brand, Peer Gynt, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, Pillars of Society, Rosmersholm, and John Gabriel Borkman. As a writer of social plays set in nineteenth-century Norway, Ibsen’s use of realistic dialogue and depiction of characters’ inner lives shaped the modern movement in drama. Moreover, as creator of the “problem play,” Ibsen’s brilliant psychological analysis of character continues to influence modern writers. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Ibsen’s classic works, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781645424574
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Tennessee Williams, considered to be among the three foremost playwrights of twentieth-century American drama. Titles in this study guide include A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, and The Glass Menagerie. As playwright of the twentieth-century, Tennessee Williams’ plays uncovered a world of grievance in which violence and sex lay just below the surface of romantic glamour. Moreover, his works displayed that simpler times are not always simple, they are simply clearer in hindsight. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Tennessee Williams’ classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Drama
ISBN : OCLC:1373258132
Author : Ronald Peacock
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 071900196X
Author : Monzaemon Chikamatsu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0231111010
Chikamatsu's domestic dramas are accurate reflections of Japanese society at the time: his characters are samurai, farmers, merchants, and prostitutes who speak colloquially, and who people the shops, streets, teahouses, and brothels that constituted their daily environment.
Author : Harai Golomb
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782841272
This text attempts to map the unique structure and meaning that comprise Chekhov's immensely rich artistic universe. The prime components of his theatrical technique and fictional world are explored to uncover the basic principles governing the Chekhov's universe.