Five Major Plays
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Author | : Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2010-10-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0804775745 |
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) overturned the dramatic conventions of his day and laid the groundwork for contemporary approaches to directing and acting. Now, for the first time, the full lyricism, humor, and pathos of his greatest plays are available to an English-speaking audience. Marina Brodskaya's new translations of Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard not only surpass in accuracy all previous translations, but also provide the first complete English text of the plays, restoring passages entirely omitted by her predecessors. This much-needed volume renders Chekhov in language that will move readers and theater audiences alike, making accessible his wordplay, unstated implications, and innovations. His characters' vulnerabilities, needs, and neuroses—their humanity—emerge through their genuine, self-absorbed conversations. The plays come to life as never before and will surprise readers with their vivacity, originality, and relevance.
Author | : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Thomas Middleton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780140432190 |
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.
Author | : Sophocles |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0486113884 |
Features Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson).
Author | : Heinrich Von Kleist |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1990-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780300049053 |
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : Peter Smith Publisher |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780804902083 |
Lady Windermer's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, Salome', A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband.
Author | : Sean O'Casey |
Publisher | : Gill & MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1990-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780717117765 |
The comedy 'The End of the Beginning' and the sketch 'A Pound on Demand' were both published in 1934 as part of the collection of essays, verse and fiction, entitled 'Windfalls'. 'Hall of Healing, A Sincerious Farce', 'Bedtime Story' and 'Time to Go, A Morality Comedy', were written in 1951.
Author | : Libby Appel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780615874302 |
New Versions by Libby Appel From Literal Translations by Allison Horsley
Author | : Henrik Ibsen |
Publisher | : New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
Total Pages | : 1143 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780374174149 |
Ibsen's twelve outstanding plays, from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken, are accompanied by brief introductions illuminating the distinctive features of each
Author | : Christopher Booker |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0826480373 |
This volume provides an analysis of stories' plot structures and their psychological meanings, attempting to distill all of storytelling down to a few archetypes. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., the author leads readers through the changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. He analyzes why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years.