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Book Synopsis The Trickeries of Scapin by : Molière
Download or read book The Trickeries of Scapin written by Molière and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1989 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: While Argante and Geronte, two domineering, miserly fathers, are away on affairs of business, their respective sons, Octave and Leandre, become embroiled in romantic escapades, despite the vigilance of their servants, who are supposed to
Download or read book Comedy written by Eli Rozik and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While assimilating theoretical insights from Aristotle to this day, this title contests, inter alia, the theory of comedy's ritual origin; challenges the age-old and continuing attempts to determine the structure of action that characterises comedy; and, suggests instead that structures of action are shared by all genres.
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Book Synopsis Ahmed the Philosopher by : Alain Badiou
Download or read book Ahmed the Philosopher written by Alain Badiou and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they are just as important to understanding his larger intellectual project. In Ahmed the Philosopher, BadiouÕs most entertaining and accessible play, translated into English here for the first time, readers are introduced to BadiouÕs philosophy through a theatrical tour de force that has met with much success in France. Ahmed the Philosopher presents its comic hero, the Òtreacherous servantÓ Ahmed, as a seductively trenchant philosopher even as it casts philosophy itself as a comic performance. The comedy unfolds as a series of lessons, with each Òshort playÓ or sketch illuminating a different Badiousian concept. Yet Ahmed does more than illustrate philosophical abstractions; he embodies and vivifies the theatrical and performative aspects of philosophy, mobilizing a comic energy that exposes the emptiness and pomp of the world. Through his example, the audience is moved to a living engagement with philosophy, discovering in it the power to break through the limits of everyday life.
Book Synopsis The Fiction of Julian Barnes by : Vanessa Guignery
Download or read book The Fiction of Julian Barnes written by Vanessa Guignery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian Barnes's work has been marked by great variety, ranging not only from conventional fiction to postmodernist experimentation in such well-known novels as Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and A History of the World in 10 1⁄2 Chapters (1989), but also from witty essays to deeply touching short stories. The responses of readers and critics have likewise varied, from enthusiasm to scepticism, as the substantial volume of critical analysis demonstrates. This Readers' Guide provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the essential criticism on Barnes's work, drawing from a selection of reviews, interviews, essays and books. Through the presentation and assessment of key critical interpretations, Vanessa Guignery provides the most wide-ranging examination of his fiction and non-fiction so far, considering key issues such as his use of language, his treatment of history, obsession, love, and the relationship between fact and fiction. Covering all of the novels to date, from Metroland (1981) to Arthur and George (2005), this is an invaluable introduction to the work of one of Britain's most exciting and popular contemporary writers.
Book Synopsis A Companion to the Classical Tradition by : Craig W. Kallendorf
Download or read book A Companion to the Classical Tradition written by Craig W. Kallendorf and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries Comprises 26 newly commissioned essays from an international team of experts Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section illustrating the connections between the classical tradition and contemporary theory
Download or read book Theatre Sciences written by Eli Rozik and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional theatre semiotics promoted a scientific approach to theatre studies, albeit viewing semiotics as the unique discipline of research. Theatre Sciences: A Plea for a Multidisciplinary Approach to Theatre Studies suggests instead a multi-disciplinary approach, including the following theoretical disciplines: narratology, mythology, pragmatics, ethics, theatre irony, theory of genres, aesthetics, semiotics, theory of non-verbal figures of speech, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, reception theory, history, and sociology -- with semiotics being only one among equals. These disciplines are presented from the perspective of their possible contributions to a sound methodology of theatre-texts analysis. Traditional theatre semiotics, moreover, holds the view that the actual performance on stage is the genuine text of theatre, instead of the play-script. Despite this paradigmatic shift, however, this viewpoint has failed to produce commendable analyses of such texts. The alternative presupposition put forward in this volume entails a series of novel perceptions of the theatre-text and its possible impact on the experiencing spectator, whose role in reading, interpreting and experiencing the theatre-text is not less crucial than that of the text itself. This view presupposes that the theatre-text is a description of a fictional world generated by the theatre medium. The author also contests the age-old view that a theatre/fictional-text reflects a simple narrative structure, and suggests instead a complexity that consists of seven layers: personified, mythical, praxical, naive, ironic, modal and aesthetic -- with each one of them re-structuring the previous layer. Professor Rozik also presents and describes a semiotic layer that lends communicative capacity to the description of a fictional world, and two additional metaphoric and rhetoric layers, which structure the theatre experience. The underlying purpose is to illustrate the application of the aforementioned disciplines to these fictional layers, and eventually their joint application to entire theatre / fictional texts. Organisation of the book reflects the structure of a university course.
Download or read book Fog on the Mountain written by Tim Kelly and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1990 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Widow Claire written by Horton Foote and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: After returning to Harrison, Texas, from his disastrous visit with his mother and sister (and his new stepfather) in Houston, Horace Robedaux has moved into a local boarding house prior to returning to Houston to take a six week business
Download or read book Better Days written by Reynolds Price and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1990 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: BETTER DAYS takes place in 1974, the day of Roma Avery's funeral. Neal and Taw have moved to Roma's house to care for her in her final illness. Porter has come home on leave from the Navy. Neal and Taw's son, Cody, now a captain in the M
Book Synopsis Command Decision by : William Wister Haines
Download or read book Command Decision written by William Wister Haines and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1948 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The play shows how a high-ranking officer in charge of an airplane squadron meets his agonizing problems of bombing certain European areas in order to get the most efficient results, rather than to please high-ranking Government officers
Download or read book Behind Enemy Lines written by Marthe Cohn and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[T]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worst times in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but surviving with her spirit and integrity intact.” —Publishers Weekly Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe’s sister was arrested and sent to Auschwitz and the rest of her family was forced to flee to the south of France. Always a fighter, Marthe joined the French Army and became a member of the intelligence service of the French First Army. Marthe, using her perfect German accent and blond hair to pose as a young German nurse who was desperately trying to obtain word of a fictional fiancé, would slip behind enemy lines to retrieve inside information about Nazi troop movements. By traveling throughout the countryside and approaching troops sympathetic to her plight--risking death every time she did so--she learned where they were going next and was able to alert Allied commanders. When, at the age of eighty, Marthe Cohn was awarded France’s highest military honor, the Médaille Militaire, not even her children knew to what extent this modest woman had helped defeat the Nazi empire. At its heart, this remarkable memoir is the tale of an ordinary human being who, under extraordinary circumstances, became the hero her country needed her to be.
Download or read book Black Angel written by Michael Cristofer and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action is set in a small village in France where Martin Engel, a former SS officer accused of officiating over the massacre of 247 Jews in that very town during World War II, has come (after being released from prison) hoping to buil
Download or read book The Vampires written by Harry Kondoleon and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1984 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Ed, a carpenter turned playwright, has had his would-be masterpiece savaged by his brother, Ian, a drama critic who (upon losing his job) decides he is a vampire--sinking his fangs into his wife's neck and then sending out to the butcher
Book Synopsis The Crocodile Smile by : Jerome Lawrence
Download or read book The Crocodile Smile written by Jerome Lawrence and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1972 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Tells of two inspired French comedians, both popular favorites. A beautiful woman, in love with both of them, agrees to build them their ideal theatre. Then the rivalry begins: for she agrees to marry the better actor. In tour-de-force
Download or read book Big Sur written by Frank Gagliano and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1971 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A middle-aged man, Jeremy Chester, having won a car in a raffle, decides to take to the road and head west, his intention being to "talk to people, not to pass them to dialogue." His journey becomes an odyssey as, along the way, he picks up nine passengers of varied types and backgrounds an Italian, a hippie, a black militant, a policeman—and finds the essential humanness in each. Ecology, the military, racism, old age, protest: all are explored and illuminated as we come to understand that the incongruities and anachronisms of contemporary life are more than merely annoying or depressing—they are lethal. Yet the journey goes on, heading for Big Sur and the redeeming state of naturalness which may already have escaped us forever."--
Book Synopsis Henrietta the Eighth by : Kurtz Gordon
Download or read book Henrietta the Eighth written by Kurtz Gordon and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1947 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Adele, Wilma and Carol, daughters of Mrs. Claire Sutton, a widow who neglects her home for politics, are left to the care of their mother's private secretary. The girls always manage to change the status of the various secretaries to tha
