Madame Butterfly
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Author | : David Henry Hwang |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1993-10-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1101077034 |
David Henry Hwang’s beautiful, heartrending play featuring an afterword by the author – winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government—and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he recalls a time when desire seemed to give him wings. A time when Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as seductive—and as elusive—as a butterfly. How could he have known, then, that his ideal woman was, in fact, a spy for the Chinese government—and a man disguised as a woman? In a series of flashbacks, the diplomat relives the twenty-year affair from the temptation to the seduction, from its consummation to the scandal that ultimately consumed them both. But in the end, there remains only one truth: Whether or not Gallimard's passion was a flight of fancy, it sparked the most vigorous emotions of his life. Only in real life could love become so unreal. And only in such a dramatic tour de force do we learn how a fantasy can become a man's mistress—as well as his jailer. M. Butterfly is one of the most compelling, explosive, and slyly humorous dramas ever to light the Broadway stage, a work of unrivaled brilliance, illuminating the conflict between men and women, the differences between East and West, racial stereotypes—and the shadows we cast around our most cherished illusions. M. Butterfly remains one of the most influential romantic plays of contemporary literature, and in 1993 was made into a film by David Cronenberg starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone.
Author | : John Luther Long |
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : Giacomo Puccini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Operas |
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Author | : Burton D. Fisher |
Publisher | : Opera Journeys Publishing |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 097713203X |
A comprehensive guide to Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with Italian/English side-by side, and over 20 music highlight examples.
Author | : David Henry Hwang |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780822202653 |
THE STORIES: THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD. While his fellow workers are striking for higher pay, Lone, once an actor in China, exercises and practices alone on a mountaintop the ritual gestures used in Chinese opera. Ma, a slightly younger man, who w
Author | : J. L. Wisenthal |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0802088015 |
Best known as the story from the 1904 Puccini opera, the compelling modern myth of Madame Butterfly has been read, watched, and re-interpreted for many years. This volume examines the Madame Butterfly narrative in a variety of cultural contexts - literary, musical, theatrical, cinematic, historical, and political.
Author | : John Luther Long |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Japan |
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Author | : Christopher T. Keaveney |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1793625263 |
Using the framework of Edward Said’s Orientalism, this work examines how Western rock and pop artists—particularly during the age of album rock from the 1970s through the 1990s—perpetuated long-held stereotypes of Japan in their direct encounters with the country and in songs and music videos with Japanese content.
Author | : Lesley Downer |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781592400508 |
The author of Women of the Pleasure Quarters shares the story of the famous geisha whose life inspired Puccini's Madame Butterfly, from her training and participation in secret geisha traditions to her defection from her lucrative career to marry the penniless actor and political maverick Otojiro Kawakami and her rise to international celebrity. Reprint.
Author | : Sanjay Srivastava |
Publisher | : OUP India |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-06-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780198085577 |
Sexuality in general and particularly in India remains an ever enigmatic phenomenon, giving rise to a vast field of academic study across the social and human sciences. Through in-depth theoretical analysis and an array of case studies, this volume establishes a firm analytical framework for sexuality studies in the country.