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Author : George MOULY
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Vie Prodigieuse de Victorien Sardou (1831-1908). written by George MOULY and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Lescoeur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Victorien Sardou (1831-1908). written by Charles Lescoeur and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9781518761140
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)
Download or read book A Scrap of Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) was a French dramatist who dominated the French stage in the late 19th century. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugene Scribe, of the well-made play. The form has a strong Neoclassical flavor, involving a tight plot and a climax that takes place close to the end of the play. His work A Scrap of Paper (Les Pattes de mouche; 1860) is a model of the well-made play. A foolish letter, written by a young girl, Louise, to her young lover, Prosper, lies hidden in their post-office, a statue. Three years later the girl returns as a Baron's wife. The lover also returns, and both try to get possession of the letter in the statue, their efforts producing many comedy situations.
Author : Antonella Braida
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351946307
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Dante on View written by Antonella Braida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante on View opens an important new dimension in Dante studies: for the first time a collection of essays analyses the presence of the Italian Medieval poet Dante Alighieri in the visual and performing arts from the Middle Ages to the present day. The essays in this volume explore the image of Dante emerging in medieval illuminated manuscripts and later ideological and nostalgic uses of the poet. The volume also demonstrates the rich diversity of projects inspired by the Commedia both as an overall polysemic structure and as a repository of scenes, which generate a repertoire for painters, actors and film-makers. In its original multimediality, Dante's Commedia stimulates the performance of readers and artists working in different media from manuscript to stage, from ballet to hyperinstruments, from film to television. Through such a variety of media, the reception of Dante in the visual and performing arts enriches our understanding of the poet and of the arts represented at key moments of formal and structural change in the European cultural world.
Author : Albert Jack
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101551143
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book What Caesar Did for My Salad written by Albert Jack and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know... the term "hot dog" is believed to have been coined during a baseball game between the Yankees and the Giants in 1901? calzones get their name from their less-than-glamorous looks: calzone means "trouser leg" or "drooping sack" in Italian? the word "salary" comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? shrimp cocktail became popular in the 1920s as a safe way of "having a cocktail" during Prohibition? the Cobb salad was invented by Robert H. Cobb-founder of the Brown Derby restaurant chains-who threw the salad together for Sidney Grauman-owner of the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood-as a midnight snack based on ingredients in his refrigerator? In What Caesar Did For My Salad, historian Albert Jack offers a fascinating look at the unexpected stories, creators, and bizarre origins behind the world's most beloved dishes. Who was Margherita, for instance, and why was the world's most famous pizza named after her? Why do we call our favorite kinds of coffee espresso or cappuccino? Did medieval Turkish soldiers really invent the kebab by threading bits of meat on to their swords and balancing them on top of their campfires? What exactly does horseradish sauce have to do with our equine friends? From your morning eggs to America's favorite pies, fries, and martinis, you'll never look at your kitchen pantry or refrigerator in the same light again.
Author : Phil G. Goulding
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307761843
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Ticket to the Opera written by Phil G. Goulding and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as pithy introductions to the greatest operas of Europe and America and their composers. The book's centerpiece is what Goulding terms "the collection"--85 classics, among them Aida, The Marriage of Figaro, Carmen, and Madama Butterfly, that have been packing the world's opera houses for years. This entertaining, meticulously researched book also includes a fascinating chapter on American opera from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess to Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach and a discussion of the gems of twentieth-century opera featuring works like Leos Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen, Alban Berg's Lulu, and Serge Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges. Whether you're a curious neophyte, a music lover interested in branching out, or an aficionado eager to compare notes with a brilliant fellow opera buff, you'll prize Ticket to the Opera as an essential volume in your music library.
Author : Stephen Unwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184943378X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)
Download or read book The Well Read Play written by Stephen Unwin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Well Read Play, deepens our appreciation and enjoyment of drama. Clear and practical guidance helps the reader to understand the workings of a play, spot clues that the playwright has planted, imagine how it can be staged, and decide whether it will stand the test of time. Absorbing and informative, whether for purposes of study, staging or simply leisure, it is the ideal guide for students, directors, teachers and anyone who loves the theatre.
Author : Samuel Rogal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567509029
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book A William Somerset Maugham Encyclopedia written by Samuel Rogal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-05-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and successful British writers of his time. From October 1897, when he completed his medical education at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, until his death in December 1965, Maugham wrote twenty novels, filled nine volumes with his short stories, wrote thirty-one plays, and published seven volumes of prose nonfiction. His writings reflect the tensions of the Boer War, World War I, and World War II; the lavishness of the highest levels of British and American society during the first six decades of the 20th century; the glamor of Hollywood, Paris, New York, San Francisco, and London; and the romance of China, Malaya, Borneo, and India. His popularity brought him prosperity. At a 1962 auction, 35 of his paintings sold for nearly $1.5 million; bequests in his will totaled $280,000; his royalties during the last ten years of his life averaged $50,000 per year; and his Riviera estate, purchased in 1927 for $48,000, sold for $730,000 in 1967. This reference book is a guide to Maugham's fascinating life and career. The volume begins with a brief discussion of the importance of Maugham's life and work, followed by a detailed chronology of important biographical and literary events. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, the encyclopedia overviews Maugham's drama, fiction, and prose nonfiction; his family; the persons whom he knew and with whom he associated; the places where he lived and to which he journeyed, particularly the cities and villages that he inserted into his works; and the historical, cultural, social, and political issues that governed his life and career. Each entry closes with a brief bibliography, and the volume includes a selected bibliography of critical studies.
Author : Sarah Bernhardt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791496570
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book My Double Life written by Sarah Bernhardt and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars. Bernhardt's memoirs are composed with a novelist's (or actress's) sense of artistry and suspense that leaves no doubt of the charisma for which she was famed in her "double life," both on- and off-stage. Yet at the same time as this book very consciously contributes to the crafting of her image, it also illuminates a whole era: not only the world of theater, but also the worlds of women, politics, society, Europe and America, and, indeed, of history making itself.
Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0804150788
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors written by Franz Kafka and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—to the people in his life, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium near Vienna where he died in 1924. Sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes wrenchingly sad, these letters, collected after Kafka's death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, include charming notes to school friends; fascinating accounts to Brod about his work in its various stages of publication; correspondence with his publisher, Kurt Wolff, about manuscripts in progress, suggested book titles, type design, and late royalty statements; revealing exchanges with other young writers of the day, including Martin Buber and Felix Weltsch, on life, literature, and girls; and heartbreaking reports to his parents, sisters, and friends on the declining state of his health in the last months of his life.
Author : Terry Hodgson
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
ISBN 13 : 1461721571
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book The Drama Dictionary written by Terry Hodgson and published by New Amsterdam Books. This book was released on 1998-04-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reference work is designed to be a single source to which readers may turn for guidance on dramatic theory and practice. It therefore concentrates on critical and technical concepts and terms rather than on theatre history or biography. The book contains some 1300 entries varying in length from a few words to several hundred. The terms included relate to the forms of drama (e.g. epic, mime, farce, comedy of manners, tragi-comedy, etc.); to different kinds of stage (thrust, picture-frame, arena, etc.); to technical stage terms (tabs, proscenium arch, sightlines, etc.); to acting terms, including colloquialisms (fluff, corpse-as well as duologue, soliloquy, cross below, upstage, etc.) They also include the critical terms of important theoreticians (e.g. superobjective, magic 'if', throughline, alienation, montage) and the obvious foreign terms (hamartia, peripeteia, etc.). Dramatic movements and styles are described (naturalism, expressionism, neo-classical, Jacobean, etc.), together with terms relating to costume (e.g. buskins), character types (of, say, the Commedia dell'Arte) and dramatic structure (climax, curtain, pace and tempo, episode, chorus, etc.). The entries are fully cross-referenced, and are supported by ample suggestions for further reading and a selection of line drawings illustrating key points in the text.
Author : Peter Southwell-Sander
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857124579
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Puccini: The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers. written by Peter Southwell-Sander and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Fascinating biography chronicles Puccini's life and times, with dozens of photographs and illustrations of the period. His Musical heritage, his scandalous elopement with Elvira, his relationship with Caruso and the dramas of his own life and unfolded in loving detail.
Author : Victorien Sardou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Fedora: a drama written by Victorien Sardou and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A M Gibbs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134905402X
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Shaw written by A M Gibbs and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-14 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521556361
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The English Stage written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Stage tells the story of drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. With a wide sweep of coverage, John Styan analyses the key features of staging, including early street theatre and public performance, the evolution of the playhouse and the private space, and the pairing of theory and stagecraft in the works of modern dramatists. He focuses on the conventions by which a playwright, actors and their audience create the phenomenon of theatre and the way such conventions have changed over time. Styan can be considered among a small number of influential scholars who have helped to develop theatre history from its origins in literary studies into an independent and respected field. From the vantage point of a lifetime's study he examines and illustrates the multitude of factors which have brought and continue to bring plays to life.
Author : Camille Saint-Saëns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195320166
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Saint-Saens written by Camille Saint-Saëns and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camille Saint-Saens is a memorable figure not only for his successes as a composer of choral and orchestral works, and the eternally popular opera Samson et Dalila, but also because he was a keen observer of the musical culture in which he lived. A composer of vast intelligence and erudition, Saint-Saens was at the same time one of the foremost writers on music in his day. From Wagner, Liszt and Debussy to Milhaud and Stravinsky, Saint-Saens was at the center of the elite musical and cultural fin de siecle and early 20th Century world. He championed Schumann and Wagner in France at a period when these composers were regarded as dangerous subversives whose music should be kept well away from the impressionable student. Yet Saint-Saens himself had no aspirations to being a revolutionary, and his appreciation of Wagner the composer was tempered by his reservations over Wagner the philosopher and dramatist, suspicious as he was of what he called "the Germanic preoccupation with going beyond reality." Whether defending Meyerbeer against charges of facility or Berlioz against those who questioned his harmonic grasp, Saint-Saens was always his own man: in both cases, he claimed, it was "not the absence of faults but the presence of virtues" that distinguishes the good composer.Saint-Saens's writings provide a well-argued counter-discourse to the strong modernist music critics who rallied around Debussy and Ravel during the fin de siecle. And above all, they demonstrate a brilliantly sharp and active brain, expressing itself through prose of a Classical purity and balance, enlivened throughout with flashes of wit and, at times, of sheer malice.In this generously annotated volume, renowned scholar, seasoned translator and radio broadcaster Roger Nichols brings some of the composer's most striking and evocative writings brilliantly to life in English translation, many for the first time. Nichols has carefully chosen these selections for their intrinsic interest as historical documents to create a well-balanced and engaging view of the man, the music, and the age.
Author : Tirso de Molina
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 0856684651
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Don Gil de Las Calzas Verdes written by Tirso de Molina and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tirso de Molina enjoys enduring popularity as a writer of irreverent comedies, though his critical reputation as a major dramatist rests largely on his more serious works.
