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Author : Dudley Fitts
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156327770
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Four Greek Plays written by Dudley Fitts and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents recent translations of these four Greek classics together with notes on their significance.
Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408148560
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Capek Four Plays written by Karel Capek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination" (Arthur Miller) This volume brings together fresh new translations of four of his most popular plays, more than ever relevant today. In R. U. R., the Robot - an idea Çapek was the first to invent - gradually takes over all aspects of human existence except procreation; The Insect Play is a satirical fable in which beetles, butterflies and ants give dramatic form to different philosophies of life; The Makropulos Case is a fantasy about human mortality, finally celebrating the average lifespan; The White Plague is a savage and anguished satire against fascist dictatorship and the virus of inhumanity.
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 : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199536198
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Four Major Plays written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of plays is taken from the Oxford Ibsen, James McFarlane's acclaimed scholarly edition.
Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Four Plays written by Henrik Ibsen and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Four Plays written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 055321280X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Four Great Plays by Henrik Ibsen written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1984-04-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, in a single volume, are four major plays by the first modern playwright, Henrick Ibsen. Ghosts—The startling portrayal of a family destroyed by disease and infidelity. The Wild Duck—A poignant drama of lost illusions. An Enemy Of The People—Ibsen’s vigorous attack on public opinion. And A Doll's House—The play that scandalized the Victorian world with its unsparing views of love and marriage, featuring one of the most controversial heroines—and one of the most famous exists—in the literature of the stage.
Author : Tina Howe
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1636701086
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Coastal Disturbances written by Tina Howe and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tina Howe once said that her aim is "to present a lovely exterior, then seduce the audience into the dark and mysterious places inside." Her four major plays to date are noted for their unusual and elegant settings: an art museum, a French restaurant, a Beacon Hill townhouse, a New England beach. These worlds overflow with hilarious, outlandish, vivid life -- wittily imagined, eloquently rendered, fearlessly explored. Their inhabitants are absurd, anguished, gallant. A delight to experience in the theatre, the tragicomedies of this acclaimed American artist are just as engaging to read. Includes: Coastal Disturbances, Painting Churches. The Art of Dining and Museum.
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 : Caryl Churchill
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plays Four written by Caryl Churchill and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a revival of her best-known play, "Cloud Nine" and a new translation, "Bliss".
Author : Marsha Norman
Publisher : New York : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Four Plays written by Marsha Norman and published by New York : Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsha Norman looks straight at the terrifying mediocrity of so many lives, at the lethal possessiveness of parents, and at the black hole of death itself.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451525123
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Four Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by Signet. This book was released on 1976 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains four of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most brilliant works: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer and Period of Adjustment. "The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless . . . (Williams) brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion".--Newsweek.
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 : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Four Plays written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chekhov written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Butler Yeats
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Four Plays for Dancers written by William Butler Yeats and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Conor McPherson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822217077
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Four Plays written by Conor McPherson and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: ST NICHOLAS finds an aging jaded theatre critic recounting his obsession with a young actress, and how that obsession leads to a journey into a macabre world of vampires from which he almost can't escape. (1 man.) In THIS LIME TREE BOW
