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Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN 13 : 9780879102449
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Life is a Dream, and Other Spanish Classics written by Eric Bentley and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557830067
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Life Is a Dream and Other Spanish Classics written by Eric Bentley and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1985 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Translations of four great Spanish dramas: Calderon de la Barca Life Is a Dream ; Miguel de Cervantes Siege of Numantia ; Lope de Vega Fuente Ovejuna ; Tirso de Molina The Trickster of Seville .
Author : Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Publisher : CONVIVIVM
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Life is a Dream written by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and published by CONVIVIVM. This book was released on with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life is a Dream," a work by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, is centered on issues of freedom and predestination. The play unfolds around Segismundo, Prince of Poland, imprisoned since birth by his father, King Basilio, due to a prophecy predicting the ruin of the kingdom under his rule. When Basilio decides to test fate by releasing Segismundo, the plot explores the consequences of this decision. The narrative addresses Segismundo's internal struggle with his destiny and the nature of reality, questioning whether life is a dream from which one can awaken. Other characters, such as Rosaura and Astolfo, weave subplots that interconnect personal desires and social duties, reflecting on justice, honor, and love. Set in a context that blends elements of drama, philosophy, and politics, the play investigates the complexity of the human condition, the ethics of leadership, and the power of repentance and personal transformation. With a structure that includes intrigue, plot twists, and reflections on being and seeming, "Life is a Dream" invites the audience to ponder freedom and determinism.
Author : Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486424736
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Life Is a Dream/La Vida Es Sueño written by Pedro Calderon de la Barca and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-12-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a bilingual version of the classic seventeenth-century Spanish play about an imprisoned prince who is returned to the outside world.
Author : Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143104827
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Life Is a Dream written by Pedro Calderon de la Barca and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The masterwork of Spain’s preeminent dramatist—now in a new verse translation Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and predestination, illusion and reality, played out against the backdrop of court intrigue and the restoration of personal honor. In the mountainous barrens of Poland, the rightful heir to the kingdom has been imprisoned since birth in an attempt by his father to thwart fate. Meanwhile, a noblewoman arrives to seek revenge against the man who deceived and forsook her love for the prospect of becoming king of Poland. Richly symbolic and metaphorical, Life Is a Dream explores the deepest mysteries of human experience. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Life's a Dream (La Vida Es Sueño) written by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and published by . This book was released on 2004-08-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-Winner of the 2004 Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize. A beautiful and haunting tale of love, betrayal, knowledge, and power, Life's a Dream (La vida es sueño, 1636) is the best known and most widely admired play of Catholic Europe's greatest dramatist, Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Calderón's long life (1600-1681) witnessed both the pinnacle and collapse of Spanish political power as well as the great flowering of Spanish classical literature. Despite its longtime place atop the Hispanic canon, Calderón's masterpiece remains relatively unknown by general readers outside the Spanish-speaking world. Michael Kidd's new prose translation aims to correct this deficiency by rendering the play into a transparent, modern American idiom that preserves the beauty and complexity of Calderón's Baroque Spanish. The result is a highly readable and adaptable text that is enhanced by a generous selection of supporting materials, including a thorough critical introduction and glossary.
Author : Margarita Madrigal
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307754871
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish written by Margarita Madrigal and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use the English you already know to quickly learn the basics of Spanish with this unique, accessible guide featuring original illustrations by Andy Warhol—from one of America’s most prominent language teachers. Read, write, and speak Spanish in only a few short weeks! Even the most reluctant learner will be astonished at the ease and effectiveness of Margarita Madrigal’s unique method of teaching a foreign language. Completely eliminating rote memorization and painfully boring drills, Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish is guaranteed to help you: • Learn to speak, read, and write Spanish quickly and easily • Convert English into Spanish in an instant • Start forming sentences after the very first lesson • Identify thousands of Spanish words within a few weeks of study • Travel to Spanish-speaking countries with confidence and comfort • Develop perfect pronunciation, thanks to a handy pronunciation key With original black-and-white illustration by Andy Warhol, Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish will provide readers with a solid foundation upon which to build their language skills.
Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811217279
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Your Face Tomorrow written by Javier Marías and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)
Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216890
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Written Lives written by Javier Marías and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe).
Author : Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Publisher : Hispanic Classics
ISBN 13 : 0856688967
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Life's a Dream written by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and published by Hispanic Classics. This book was released on 2011 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction; and the greatest good is fleeting, for all life is a dream, and even dreams are but dreams." That is the haunting lesson learned by Prince Sigismund in Life's a Dream (La vida es sueno), the best known and most widely admired play of Catholic Europe's greatest dramatist, Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Calderon's long life (1600-1681) witnessed the pinnacle and collapse of Spanish political power as well as the great flowering of classical Spanish literature. He inherited his dramatic principles from his brilliant predecessor, Lope de Vega, perfecting his formula with more economical plots, greater subtlety of thought, and, in some cases, deeper character development and psychological insight. The English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the first translators of Calderon into English, was of the opinion that he "exceeds all modern dramatists, with the exception of Shakespeare, whom he resembles, however, in the depth of thought and subtlety of imagination of his writings, and in the rare power of interweaving delicate and powerful comic traits with the most tragical situations." Nowhere is Calderon's talent more evident than in Life's a Dream, the poignant tale of a prince imprisoned at birth by his astrologer-king father and liberated on the same day a beautiful woman stumbles into his life. The interwoven themes of love, loss, power, and destiny make it the peer of such plays as Oedipus and Hamlet. With the collaboration of Jonathan Thacker of Merton College, Oxford, Michael Kidd (Augsburg College, Minnesota) offers a British adaptation of his award-winning American prose translation, recipient of the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize in 2004. The volume comes with a generous set of supplementary materials including critical introduction, translator's notes, suggestions for directors, bibliography, and glossary.
Author : Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Life is a Dream written by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new English translation of Calderón de la Barca's classic Seventeenth Century Spanish play, "La vida es sueño"
Author : Carolyn A. Nadeau
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838755105
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Women of the Prologue written by Carolyn A. Nadeau and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He strives to release both writing practices and female identity from a repressive ideology of the self and focuses on their transformative nature. He presents ways for both writer and female character to define oneself by and for oneself and not in terms of an "other." And in both cases, he stresses the importance of absence to distance himself from past tradition and to emphasize greater freedom and responsibilities for writer and reader and for women in seventeenth-century Spain."--Jacket.
Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780936839196
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Misanthrope and Other French Classics written by Eric Bentley and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1986 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four of the most representative French plays from the classic era, two tragedies and two comedies, in translations by distinguished authors.
Author : Candelaria Zapp
Publisher : Herman and Candelaria Zapp
ISBN 13 : 9789872313418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Spark Your Dream written by Candelaria Zapp and published by Herman and Candelaria Zapp. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-seller at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair. Today, 100,000 books are sold and her 14th edition is successfully selling, inspiring many to realize their dreams. A true story of personal inspiration where Candelaria and Herman Zapp get on a 1928 car with the dream of arriving in Alaska and the surprises of the road change their plans.
Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Author : Robert Willoughby Corrigan
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780936839851
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Classical Comedy written by Robert Willoughby Corrigan and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1987 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers comedies by Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence and discusses the background of each play
Author : Barack Obama
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307394123
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Dreams from My Father written by Barack Obama and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World). “Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Praise for Dreams from My Father “Beautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . This book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBride’s The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williams’s Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride America’s racial categories.”—Scott Turow “Provocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.”—The New York Times Book Review “Obama’s writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here “One of the most powerful books of self-discovery I’ve ever read, all the more so for its illuminating insights into the problems not only of race, class, and color, but of culture and ethnicity. It is also beautifully written, skillfully layered, and paced like a good novel.”—Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place “Dreams from My Father is an exquisite, sensitive study of this wonderful young author’s journey into adulthood, his search for community and his place in it, his quest for an understanding of his roots, and his discovery of the poetry of human life. Perceptive and wise, this book will tell you something about yourself whether you are black or white.”—Marian Wright Edelman
