Classic European Plays
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Classic European Plays
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Author : George Bernard Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2020-11-03
Classic European Plays written by George Bernard Shaw and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Drama categories.
These three timeless plays showcase the sparkling wit and provocative intellect of some of modern drama’s greatest playwrights. Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw: This complex drama depicts the life of Joan of Arc—from her childhood vision calling her to lead the French army against the English in the Hundred Years War through her eventual capture, trial, and burning at the stake. An epilogue depicts a retrial that clears Joan of heresy, declaring her a Christian martyr. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: In this timeless drawing room comedy, a blackmail scheme forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards—providing a wry commentary on the hypocrisy of politicians. Carried along by nonstop witty repartee, this is satirical theater at its finest. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen: This quintessential work of dramatic realism depicts one woman’s struggle against patriarchal society. The central character’s rejection of a smothering marriage shocked theatergoers of the late nineteenth century while the play’s pioneering style set the stage for twentieth century domestic drama.
Twenty Best European Plays On The American Stage
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Author : John Gassner
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-07-19
Twenty Best European Plays On The American Stage written by John Gassner and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-19 with Drama categories.
Originally published: New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1957.
German Classical Drama
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Author : F. J. Lamport
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990
German Classical Drama written by F. J. Lamport and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Drama categories.
This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel. F.J. Lamport traces the rise and development in the German-speaking world of the last form of "classical" poetic drama to appear in European literature. This development is seen as reflecting the intellectual and political ferment both within Germany and throughout Europe.
The Chief European Dramatists
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Author : Brander Matthews
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-06
The Chief European Dramatists written by Brander Matthews and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-06 with Drama categories.
Excerpt from The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty One Plays From the Drama of Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Norway; From 500 B. C. To 1879 A. D.; Selected and Edited With Notes, Biographies, and Bibliographies A collection of masterpieces of the drama extending over a score of centuries servu ti make plain something which ought never to be overlooked. The principles of dramafi art are unchanging through the ages, the same to-day in Paris or in New York that the: were in Athens twenty-four hundred years ago. They are to be deduced from the trag dies of Sophocles as clearly as from the tragedies of Shakespeare, from the comedim II Moliere as obviously as from the comedies of leasing and Goldoni and Augier; and the are all the result of the fact that a dramatist always composes his plays with the deair and the intent that they shall be performed by actors in a theater and before an and ence. He takes thought of the performers of his own time and city; and Sopho an Moliere, while they were creating characters for the appreciation of posterity, were ale preparing parts for contemporary performers in whom they had confidence. He adjust the stories he tells on the stage to the physical conditions of the only playhouse wit which he is familiar. And he feels constrained always to choose the kind of story whio will arouse and retain the interests of his contemporaries in his own country, giving n thought to the possible likings of any other audience either abroad or in the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Chief European Dramatists Classic Reprint
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Author : Brander Matthews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08-04
The Chief European Dramatists Classic Reprint written by Brander Matthews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-04 with Drama categories.
Excerpt from The Chief European Dramatists It is in response to a wider and more intelligent interest in dramatic literature, and in the drama as an art, that the playwrights of every modern language now publish their plays promptly in order that these may be read both by those who have already witnessed the performance and by those deprived of this pleasure by remoteness from the playhouse. Preceding and accompanying this interest in the drama of the immediate present there is also a constantly increasing attention to the drama of the past, and more especially to the dramatic literature of the English language. Professor Neilson has made a selection of the most important tragedies and comedies of the dramatists who were Shakespeare's contemporaries under Queen Elizabeth and his successors under King James; and Professor Baker is preparing a corresponding collection chosen from out the works of the Restoration dramatists. In Professor Dickinson's volume, the Chief Contemporary Dramatists, there is ample representation of the foremost British and American playmakers at the beginning of the twentieth century. Hitherto, however, no adequate attempt has been made to select, out of the drama of the remoter past and out of the drama of other tongues than English, a group of plays, tragic and comic, which might illustrate and illuminate the development of dramatic literature from the Greek of the fifth century B.C. to the Scandinavian of the end of the nineteenth century A.D. This is the difficult task which has been undertaken by the editor of this volume. It has been his duty to ascertain who, among the scores and the hundreds of playwrights that have flourished in the different countries of Europe during the past twenty-four centuries, were entitled to be recognized as acknowledged masters of the art of the drama or as indisputable representatives of their race and of their era. This selection has proved to be a matter of unexpected delicacy; and the editor cannot hope that the scholars, into whose hands this volume may come, will all of them agree with his choice or accept the principles upon which it has been guided. Yet, when every allowance has been made, it ought to be admitted that any selection like this must inevitably be affected by the personal equation of the editor, from which he cannot free himself, however much he may struggle. And this editor confesses frankly that if he could have had his own way, disregarding the necessary limitation of a single volume, he would have been glad to include the most amusing medieval Pierre Pathelin of an unknown Frenchman and a corresponding German farce by Hans Sachs. He would have hesitated long before deciding upon the exclusion of Seneca, of Grillparzer and Freytag, of Alfred de Musset and the elder Dumas. It was to him a personal grief that his conscience compelled him to leave out Kotzebue and Scribe, playwrights rather than dramatists, master technicians who made the path straight for artists of a richer endowment and of a more significant message. Even after the list of dramatists had been drawn up, there remained the almost equally difficult duty of deciding upon the single play which should best represent the total achievement of each of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Sixteen Famous European Plays
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Author : Bennett Cerf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Sixteen Famous European Plays written by Bennett Cerf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Drama categories.
From the Introduction: These sixteen plays are part of a European testament, already inherited and richly enjoyed, as proven by the enormous popularity they attained not only in the countries of origin, but, in the benediction of handclaps across the sea, in our own theatre and in spite of the fact that they have often suffered sadly in translation. Quite by accident in selection they fall into two nearly equal groups: nine of them belong to the pre-World War I, Cherry-Orchard-Heartbreak-House Europe, and seven belong to that ominously quiet but superficially frantic period between 1918 and 1937, the intermezzo of our false security. By a tragic irony, undetected at the time, the last of them carried a French-comedy salute to classical Greek legend at the moment Austria found itself Anschlussed out of existence. In viewpoint and technique they range from the realistic social theme of The Wild Duck to the subjective discussion of illusion and reality in Six Characters in Search of an Author; from the bitter comedy of The Playboy to the lyric, but static, beauty of The Cradle Song, from the cynical sex pattern of Anatol to the ecstatic love song of The Dybbuk. To suggest that there is a close and detailed relationship among all these plays, out of such diverse countries and of such widely different treatment, is to embark upon a critical trapeze act which would make the Flying Codonas seem mere ground moles. Yet most of them are linked in one way or another to the mainsprings of European thought, to the mid-nineteenth-century revolution of ideas, and finally to the free theatre movement which carried the ideas into the playhouses. The theatre responded not only with new drama, but with a new stagecraft, wrought in its image and designed to emphasize the change.
The Drama In Europe In Theory And Practice
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Author : Eleanor Frances Jourdain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
The Drama In Europe In Theory And Practice written by Eleanor Frances Jourdain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with Drama categories.
The Classic Theatre
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Author : Eric Bentley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984-06
The Classic Theatre written by Eric Bentley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-06 with categories.
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 3
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Author : Jonathan Pitches
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-07
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 3 written by Jonathan Pitches and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with Performing Arts categories.
This volume examines the work of directors Jacques Copeau, Theodore Komisarjevsky and Tyrone Guthrie. It explores in detail many of the directors' key productions, including Copeau's staging of Molière's The Tricks of Scapin, Komisarjevsky's signature season of Chekhov plays at the Barnes Theatre and Guthrie's pioneering direction of Shakespeare's plays in North America. This study argues that their work exemplifies the complexity and novelty of the role of theatre directing in the first three-quarters of the 20th century, as Komisarjevsky was in the middle of the genesis of directing in Russia, Copeau launched his directorial career just as the role was gaining definition, and Guthrie was at the vanguard of directing in Britain, at last shaking off the traditions of the actor-manager to formulate the new role of artistic director.
Culture And Customs Of The Central Asian Republics
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Author : Rafis Abazov
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2006-12-30
Culture And Customs Of The Central Asian Republics written by Rafis Abazov and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-30 with Social Science categories.
The Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan won their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Now they are emerging from the shadow of dominance and are subjects of intense interest from the West. The modern culture and customs of the various peoples in these geopolitical hotspots, straddling the far reaches of Europe into Asia, are revealed to a general audience for the first time. This will be the must-have volume for a broad, authoritative overview of these traditional civilizations as they cope with globalization.