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The Infernal Machine & Other Plays

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811221636
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Infernal Machine & Other Plays written by Jean Cocteau and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1964-01-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced. Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himself more versatile than France's Jean Cocteau. Poet, novelist, critic, artist, actor, film-maker, Cocteau was also one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced, with over a dozen plays which are frequently revived, not only in France, but in translation in many other countries. For this collection, fine translations of four full-length plays, one short play, and the “Speaker's Text" for the Cocteau-Stravinsky opera Oedipus Rex have been selected. The longer plays (The Infernal Machine, Orpheus, Bacchus, Knights of the Round Table) are re-creations of classic myth and legend—poetic and highly original interpretations of certain timeless themes which have inspired great drama through the ages. The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party is, by contrast, merely a "curtain-raiser," but remarkable as un jeu d'esprit, revealing the wit and psychological penetration for which Cocteau is famous.

The Infernal Machine

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book The Infernal Machine written by Jean Cocteau and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Infernal Machine

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Infernal Machine written by Jean Cocteau and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Infernal Machine, and Other Plays

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200226
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Infernal Machine, and Other Plays written by Jean Cocteau and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1964 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced.

The Infernal Machine

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Infernal Machine written by Jean Cocteau and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811217088
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Traveling Companion and Other Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collected here for the first time, these twelve plays embrace what Time magazine called "the four major concerns of Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival"--Back cover.

Jean Cocteau

Author : James S. Williams
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861895917
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Jean Cocteau written by James S. Williams and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Jean Cocteau’s renown as a leading figure in European cinema, his work and life have rarely been examined together. Evaluating Cocteau’s career and his fascinating personal life on equal terms, James Williams offers here a groundbreaking analysis that sets them both within highly revealing historical and artistic contexts. Williams’s biographical investigation of this poet, dramatist, novelist, designer, and filmmaker centers around Cocteau’s constant self-questioning and how it permeated his work. From Cocteau’s work in fashion and photography to his formal experimentation to his extensive collaborations with male friends and lovers, the book charts the complex and unpredictable evolution of his work and aesthetic. Williams argues that Cocteau’s body of work is best viewed as an ethical, erotic project of aesthetics that carries important ramifications for our contemporary understanding of being and subjectivity. An engaging and wholly accessible account, Jean Cocteau is essential reading for all those fascinated by the man and his unforgettable films.

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140235191
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman written by Angela Carter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-03-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to question the living, and profound anxiety drives hundreds to suicide. Behind it all stands Doctor Hoffman, whose gigantic generators crack the immutable surfaces of time and space and plunge civilization into a world without the chains – or structures – of reason. Only Desiderio, immune to mirages and fantasy, can defeat him. But Desiderio's battle will take him to the very brink of undeniable, irresistible desire.

A Critical Bibliography of French Literature

Author : Douglas W. Alden
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815622048
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of French Literature written by Douglas W. Alden and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Private Readings/public Texts

Author : Kenneth Krauss
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838634967
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Private Readings/public Texts written by Kenneth Krauss and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Kenneth Krauss maintains that if readers are to comprehend playscripts as plays, they must imagine the theatre audience - so vital to the staging of any script, but conspicuously absent from the text itself. Krauss examines what has been written about reading playscripts (or "playreading") and proposes four possible ways, founded on a reception-oriented approach to theatre communication and spectator response, that playreaders may construct a sense of theatre audiences.

The Infernal Machine

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Infernal Machine written by Jean Cocteau and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Infernal

Author : Mark Doten
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555973353
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Infernal written by Mark Doten and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fierce, searing response to the chaos of the war on terror—an utterly original and blackly comic debut In the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts "perfect confessions," is retrieved from the vaults. Over the course of four days, a cavalcade of voices rises up from the Akkad boy, each one striving to tell his or her own story. Some of these voices are familiar: Osama bin Laden, L. Paul Bremer, Condoleezza Rice, Mark Zuckerberg. Others are less so. But each one has a role in the world shaped by the war on terror. Each wants to tell us: This is the world as it exists in our innermost selves. This is what has been and what might be. This is The Infernal.

Masks in Modern Drama

Author : Susan H. Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520050952
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Masks in Modern Drama written by Susan H. Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letter to the Americans

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811231607
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Letter to the Americans written by Jean Cocteau and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issues In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the different values they place on art, literature, liberty, psychology, and dreams. Cocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes in America’s promise, while at the same time warning of the many ills that the nation will have to confront—its hypocrisy, sexism, racism, and hegemonic aspirations—in order to realize this potential. Never before translated into English, Letter to the Americans remains as timely and urgent as when it was first published in France over seventy years ago.

Staging Technology

Author : Craig N. Owens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350168580
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Staging Technology written by Craig N. Owens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of a range of performance works ranging from Jean Cocteau's ballet The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party (1921) to Julie Taymor's monumental production of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark (2010) and Mexican playwright Isaac Gomez's La Ruta(2018), Staging Technology asks what becomes visible when we encounter plays, operas, and musicals that are themselves about fraught human/machine interfaces. What can theatrical production tell us about the way technology functions as an element of ideology and power in narrative drama? About the limits of the human? Staging Technology bridges the divide between the technical practices of theatre production and critical, theoretical approaches to interpreting drama to examine the way dramatic theatre's technologies are shaped by larger historical, ideological, and economic forces. At the same time, it examines how those technologies themselves have influenced 20th and 21st-century playwrights', composers', and librettists' choice of subject matter for staged representation. Examining performance works from the modernist and post-modern European and American canon of drama, opera, and performance art including works by Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Heiner Müller, Sophie Treadwell, Harold Pinter, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Miller, Robert Pinsky, John Adams and Alice Goodman, Staging Technology transforms how we think about the interrelationship between theatre practice, performance, narrative drama, and text. In it Craig N. Owens synthesizes approaches to interpretation and practice from disparate realms, offering insights into over-arching ways of making meaning that are illustrated through focused and innovative readings of individual works for the dramatic stage. Staging Technology provides a new and transformative paradigm for thinking about dramatic literature, the practices of representational theatre production, and the historical and social contexts they inhabit.

How Plays Work

Author : Martin Meisel
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191526959
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book How Plays Work written by Martin Meisel and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are readers who are generally at home with narrative and discursive prose, and even readily responsive to poetry, far less confident and intuitive when it comes to plays? The complication lies in the twofold character of the play as it exists on the page - as a script or score to be realized, and as literature. Martin Meisel's engaging account of how we read play plays on the page shows that the path to the fullest imaginative response is an understanding of how plays work. What is entailed is something like learning a language - vocabulary, grammar, syntax - but learning also how the language operates in those concrete situations where it is deployed. Meisel begins with a look at matters often taken for granted in coding and convention, and then - under 'Beginnings' - at what is entailed in establishing and entering the invented world of the play. Each succeeding chapter is a gesture at enlarging the scope: 'Seeing and Hearing', 'The Uses of Place', 'The Role of the Audience', 'The Shape of the Action', and 'The Action of Words'. The final chapters, 'Reading Meanings' and 'Primal Attractions', explore ways in which both the drive for significant understanding and the appetite for wonder can and do find satisfaction and delight. Cultivated in tone and jargon-free, How Plays Work is illuminated by dozens of judiciously chosen examples from western drama - from classical Greek dramatists to contemporary playwrights, both canonical and relatively obscure. It will appeal as much to the serious student of the theatre as to the playgoer who likes to read a play before seeing it performed.

On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre

Author : I. Eynat-Confino
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230616968
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre written by I. Eynat-Confino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.