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Author : Alice Gerstenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Four Plays for Four Women written by Alice Gerstenberg and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135964610
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Women on the Edge written by Ruby Blondell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, and posthumously produced masterpiece. Each play shows women in various roles--slave, unmarried girl, devoted wife, alienated wife, mother, daughter--providing a range of evidence about the kinds of meaning and effects the category woman conveyed in ancient Athens. The female protagonists in these plays test the boundaries--literal and conceptual--of their lives. Although women are often represented in tragedy as powerful and free in their thoughts, speech and actions, real Athenian women were apparently expected to live unseen and silent, under control of fathers and husbands, with little political or economic power. Women in tragedy often disrupt "normal" life by their words and actions: they speak out boldly, tell lies, cause public unrest, violate custom, defy orders, even kill. Female characters in tragedy take actions, and raise issues central to the plays in which they appear, sometimes in strong opposition to male characters. The four plays in this collection offer examples of women who support the status quo and women who oppose and disrupt it; sometimes these are the same characters.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631496336
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly written by Aristophanes and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian’s Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience. The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright Aristophanes. His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. He ridiculed the great and the good of the city, showing up their hypocrisy and arrogance in ways that went far beyond the standards of good taste, securing the ire (and sometimes the retaliation) of his powerful targets. He showed his contemporaries, and he teaches us now, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Aristophanes’s satirical masterpieces were also surpassingly virtuosic works of poetry. The metrical variety of his plays has always thrilled readers who can access the original Greek, but until now, English translations have failed to capture their lyrical genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, brings back to life four of Aristophanes’s most entertaining, wickedly crude, and frequently beautiful lyric comedies—the pinnacle of his comic art: · Clouds, a play famous for its caricature of antiquity’s greatest philosopher, Socrates; · Lysistrata, in which a woman convinces her female compatriots to withhold sex from their warmongering lovers unless they negotiate peace; · Birds, in which feathered creatures build a great city and become like gods; · and Women of the Assembly, Aristophones’s most revolutionary play, which inverts the norms of gender and power. Poochigian’s new rendering of these comic masterpieces finally gives contemporary readers a sense of the subversive pleasure Aristophones’s original audiences felt when they were first performed on the Athenian stage.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698196384
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Four Plays written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist—and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His writing—at once bawdy and delicate—brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast, establishing the tradition of comedy as high art. His messages are as timely and relevant today as they were in ancient Greece, and his plays still provoke laughter—and thought. This volume features four celebrated masterpieces: Lysistrata, The Frogs, A Parliament of Women and Plutus (Wealth), all translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.
Author : John Bourne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Four Women Only written by John Bourne and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily Mann
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559361170
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Testimonies written by Emily Mann and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major collection by playwright Emily Mann contains four powerful docudramas. Based on extensive interviews of real people's experiences, these plays explore various moral issues and questions that still resonate in America today. Annulla: An Autobiography is a solo piece featuring the reflections of an elderly Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by pretending to by Aryan. Jerry Talmer of the New York Post calls Annulla "one bangup 90 minutes of theatre...I don't know when I've been stimulated as much by anything on the living stage." Still Life is composed of interviews with a Vietnam War veteran with PTSD, the pregnant wife he physically and emotionally abuses, and the mistress who finds herself entranced by his passion and violence. This Obie Award-winning play is "a powerful affair, full of passion and viability...Mann offers no easy answers or pat solutions, she simply invites us into these three characters' lives" (Los Angeles Times). Execution of Justice follows the trial of the former policeman who shot San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1979. Called "thought-provoking...a taut courtroom drama" (New York Times), Execution of Justice "is theatre reasserting its claim on the country's moral conscience" (Washington Post). Greensboro: A Requiem is "a particularly all-American tragedy" (New York Times) as Mann interviews those involved in the largely unreported 1979 massacre of unarmed demonstrators by members of the Ku Klux Klan, Greensboro police force, and FBI. Forbes calls Greensboro "a provocation, a potent expos of the 'less-than-human thing' which fuels the politics of hate and injustice in America."
Author : Five Lesbian Brothers (Theater troupe)
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559361668
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Five Lesbian Brothers/four Plays written by Five Lesbian Brothers (Theater troupe) and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects all the full-length work by this New York-based theater collective, including "The Secretaries, Brave Smiles, Brides of the Moon, " and Voyage to Lesbos." 25 photos.
Author : Tina Howe
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9780930452865
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (528 download)
Download or read book Coastal Disturbances written by Tina Howe and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a private New England beach, gale winds of romance engulf young and attractive Holly Dancer and her handsome, strapping Leo the lifeguard, as a galaxy of marvelously eccentric characters look on. There's Ariel, the bare survivor of a messy divorce, and her high-spirited 10-year old, Winston; Ariel's college roommate Faith, now (at long last!) pregnant; Faith's adopted daughter, Miranda; and M.J. and Hamilton, who after decades of marriage and nine children still have not settled their differences over Hamilton's past indiscretions. Meanwhile, Holly and Leo flirt and fall in love amid the ebb and flow of summer life swirling around them...Jacket.
Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Four Plays about Women written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Open Shelf written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The School-theatre written by Roy Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Michael Christenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199797448
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Hysterical Laughter written by David Michael Christenson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hysterical Laughter: Four Ancient Comedies About Women is the first text to uniquely employ comedy as a vehicle to explore women, gender, and sexuality in Greek and Roman antiquity. Featuring new, engaging, and accessible translations by David Christenson of four of the finest classical comedies--Lysistrata (Aristophanes), Samia (Menander), Casina (Plautus), and Hecyra (Terence)--it provides instructors with an attractive and innovative way to explore the social and cultural dimensions of ancient theater and the construction of gender roles in ancient society. The volume is enhanced by an extensive general introduction and includes an introduction, notes, and essays for each comedy, all of which assume no prior background in classical studies. Ideal for courses in classical literature in translation and women in the ancient world, Hysterical Laughter can also be used in a variety of other courses in ancient history, women's studies, cultural studies, and theater.
Author : Karen Abbott
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006209291X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy written by Karen Abbott and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four courageous women—a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow—who were spies. After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The beautiful widow, Rose O’Neale Greenhow, engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians to gather intelligence for the Confederacy, and used her young daughter to send information to Southern generals. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy Richmond abolitionist, hid behind her proper Southern manners as she orchestrated a far-reaching espionage ring, right under the noses of suspicious rebel detectives. Using a wealth of primary source material and interviews with the spies’ descendants, Abbott seamlessly weaves the adventures of these four heroines throughout the tumultuous years of the war. With a cast of real-life characters including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Jackson, detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoleon III, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy draws you into the war as these daring women lived it. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy contains 39 black & photos and 3 maps.
Author : Mary Burnham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by Mary Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vanessa Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303083364X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Four Caribbean Women Playwrights written by Vanessa Lee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by bringing to the fore innovative women playwrights from the French Caribbean: Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, Suzanne Dracius. Focussing on the significance of these women writers to the French and French Caribbean cultural scenes, the author illustrates how their work participates in global trends within postcolonial theatre. The playwrights discussed here all address socio-political issues, gender stereotypes, and the traumatic slave and colonial pasts of the Caribbean people. Investigating a range of plays from the 1980s to the early 2010s, including some works that have not yet featured in academic studies of Caribbean theatre, and applying theories of postcolonial theatre and local Caribbean theatre criticism, Four Caribbean Women Playwrights should appeal to scholars and students in the Humanities, and to all those interested in the postcolonial, the Caribbean, and contemporary theatre.
Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408174634
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Thomas Middleton: Four Plays written by Thomas Middleton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Thomas Middleton's plays - Women Beware Women; The Changeling; The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - with a new introduction by William Carroll, examining the plays in the context of early modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as their language, characters and themes. On-page commentary notes guide students to a better understanding and combine to make this an indispensable student edition ideal for study and classroom use from A Level upwards.
Author : Olivier Py
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Olivier Py written by Olivier Py and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of four plays is the first publication in English of the work of Olivier Py (born in 1965). The volume includes introductions, a bibliography and notes, and, as an appendix, an article by Barbara Mason and Susan Mason, reviewing one of Olivier Py's plays.
