Four French Plays Of The Twentieth Century
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Four French Plays Of The Twentieth Century
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Author : Elliott Mansfield Grant
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1969
Four French Plays Of The Twentieth Century written by Elliott Mansfield Grant and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Drama categories.
Four French Plays Of The Twentieth Century
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Author : Elliott Mansfield Grant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Four French Plays Of The Twentieth Century written by Elliott Mansfield Grant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with French drama categories.
Four French Plays
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Four French Plays written by Jean Racine and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Drama categories.
The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and Phaedra - span only thirty-seven years, but make up the defining period of French theatre. In Corneille's Cinna (1640), absolute power is explored in ancient Rome, while Molière's The Misanthrope (1666), the only comedy in this collection, sees its anti-hero outcast for his refusal to conform to social conventions. Here also are two key plays by Racine: Andromache (1667), recounting the tragedy of Hector's widow after the Trojan War, and Phaedre (1677), showing a mother crossing the bounds of love with her son. This translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and was praised by playwright Harold Pinter. This is the first time it has been published. The edition also includes an introduction by Joseph Harris, genealogical tables, pronunciation guides, critiques and prefaces, as well as a chronology and suggested further reading. After a varied career as an actor, teacher, and BBC TV national newsreader, John Edmunds became the founder-director of Aberystwyth University's department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies. Joseph Harris is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in Seventeenth-Century France (2005).
Ottemiller S Index To Plays In Collections
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Author : John Henry Ottemiller
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2011
Ottemiller S Index To Plays In Collections written by John Henry Ottemiller and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.
The English Crime Play In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Beatrix Hesse
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-02
The English Crime Play In The Twentieth Century written by Beatrix Hesse and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.
Four Plays
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Author : Emile Augier
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Four Plays written by Emile Augier and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
This collection includes four plays by Emile Augier, a 19th century French dramatist. The plays include La Cigue, Le Gendre de monsieur Poirier, L'Aventurière, and Paul Forestier. Each one explores themes of love, family, and social hierarchy with sharp wit and insight. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Three Modern Plays From The French
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Author : Henri Lavedon
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-01-26
Three Modern Plays From The French written by Henri Lavedon and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-26 with Drama categories.
An excerpt from the beginning of the PREFACE: THE label "Made in France" may nearly always be accepted as a guarantee of good play-making; for, ever since the inception of the modern drama, the French have been the masters and the teachers of the craft. In these opening years of the twentieth century, fewer French plays have been presented in the theaters of America and England than were presented in the closing years of the nineteenth century; but this fact, instead of indicating a deterioration in the contemporary product, may be accepted, rather, as an indication that the French drama has made a definite advance along a certain line. The dominant spirit of the French drama in the last three generations has been realistic. As realism advances, the tendency is to narrow the segment of life that is submitted to observation and to deepen the observation of the segment that has been selected for analysis. As realism has progressed in France, the drama has become more French—more local in its themes and in its characters— and has sacrificed the breadth of cosmopolitan appeal to gain the depth of national importance. Three or four generations ago, the most popular dramatist in France was Eugene Scribe. It was this facile and prolific craftsman who gave to the modern theater the formula of the well-made play [la pièce bien faite], a formula that, with several modifications and amplifications, has subsisted to the present day. Since the excellence of Scribe was mainly structural, it was very easy to transplant his plays from one country to another. His dialogue was devoid of literary merit, and was therefore just as pertinent in a translation as in the original. His characters were merely puppets, and were therefore just as interesting to foreigners as they could ever be to Frenchmen. And, since there was no note of nationality in his dexterous and clever plots, these plots could easily be adapted to serve as the theatric fare of a public overseas. A simple play of plot is much more cosmopolitan in its appeal than a study of national characters or local situations. The broad and cosmopolitan appeal of Scribe was continued by his immediate disciple and successor, Victorien Sardou. A typical Sardou melodrama, like Fedora or La Tosca, was fully as enjoyable to foreign audiences as to the public of Paris. The logical successor of Sardou in the contemporary French theater is M. Henry Bernstein; and it is not surprising that his plays have been more successful in America than those of any other French playwright of the present time. No less than five of his works — The Whirlwind, The Thief, Samson, Israel, and The Secret — have been profitably acted in this country. M. Bernstein is a more important dramatist than Sardou or Scribe, for he has forced the formula of the well-made play to sustain an analysis of character that is unusually searching; but his merit is, in the main, a matter of mechanics, and his emphasis on mechanism may be accepted as accounting for the comparative ease with which his plays may be transported from one country to another. In France itself, while Scribe was still alive, his reputation was overridden by two dramatists of more profound intention,—Emile Augier and Alexandre Dumas, fils; but neither of these writers attained the cosmopolitan currency of their more mechanical and artificial rival. Augier—the greatest French dramatist of the nineteenth century—devoted himself to the study of social conditions which were peculiarly French; and it was impossible to make his plays seem applicable to the social conditions of any other country. Just as M. Bernstein has been singled out as the logical successor of Sardou and Scribe, M. Eugene Brieux may be selected as the logical successor of Augier in the contemporary theater....
Twentieth Century Fiction
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Author : George Woodcock
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1983-04-01
Twentieth Century Fiction written by George Woodcock and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Columbia History Of Twentieth Century French Thought
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Author : Lawrence D. Kritzman
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2006
The Columbia History Of Twentieth Century French Thought written by Lawrence D. Kritzman and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This valuable reference is an authoritative guide to 20th century French thought. It considers the intellectual figures, movements and publications that helped define fields as diverse as history, psychoanalysis, film, philosophy, and economics.
The Cambridge History Of French Literature
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Author : William Burgwinkle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-24
The Cambridge History Of French Literature written by William Burgwinkle 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 2011-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.