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Originally published in George Bernard Shaw's 1901 collection "Three Plays for Puritans" and first performed in 1900, "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" is the drama of its title character, a sort of……続きを見る

Celtic Woman explores with open honesty and engaging irony how cycles of personal discovery have connected international performing artist Treasa O’Driscoll to heaven and earthbut not the way you’d ……続きを見る

Short biblical play. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he wa……続きを見る

In 1796, William Hayley named John Milton the greatest English author, high praise considering Milton (1608-1674) lived during the Age of Shakespeare. Regardless of whether Milton is truly the great……続きを見る

This volume includes the complete texts of all the plays by J.M. Synge. Produced at the Abbey Theater which Synge founded. Represents one of the major dramatic achievements of the 20th century. 続きを見る

William Congreve (1670-1729) was an English poet and playwright. Congreve fashioned the English comedy of manners with his brilliant comic dialogue, sardonic depiction of fashionable society, hyster……続きを見る

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869) is a collection of poems by Lewis Carroll. In A Valentine the poet has discussed howlove and friendship transcends distance while in Phantasmagoria he outlines ……続きを見る

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions f……続きを見る

The Poetry Of Edward Thomas. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, mov……続きを見る

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Hamlet, hijo del difunto rey de Dinamarca se siente melancólico y abatido por las cosas del mundo. Su madre se ha casado con Claudio (el hermano de su padre), el nuevo rey, y Hamlet deambula por el ……続きを見る

In Good King Charles's Golden Days: a true history that never happened. A discussion play; the issues of nature, power and leadership are debated between King Charles II ('Mr Rowley'), Isaac Newton,……続きを見る

Edmund John Millington Synge was born on April 16th 1871 born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin on 16 April 1871 the youngest son of eight children. After abandoning a career in music ……続きを見る

Norman MacLeod, a contemporary Lewis village bàrd, provides the reader with a varied choice of local compositions ranging in theme from descriptions of local events to the beauties of nature. This i……続きを見る

The Poetry Of William Morris. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, mo……続きを見る

A follow on from "Cry for the Many", The One I Lost is a poem about losing touch with a horse and not knowing where, or how, they are. From my own personal experience this is written from the heart.……続きを見る

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locatio……続きを見る

Anti-war poems and poems of social commentary by greedycrook. The human race has been intelligent enough to streamline the organisation of money, taxes and infrastructure to serve our needs but not ……続きを見る

Freeverse Unmasked is a collection of 29 poems and freeverse. if you like what you read please look for other works by Terry James on the smashwords website, including other freeverse work in 'Freev……続きを見る

First Published in 1999. 'Our subject is of blood and tragedy, Murther, foul incest and hypocrisy'. In the sensational history of Borgias, Barnabe Barnes found a theme tailor-made for the dark and l……続きを見る

“…these poems … illuminate [Bible stories] in a way that is relevant and applicable to the life of faith today.” Revd Dr Sandy Roger - Former Principal of Faith Mission Bible College “…a refreshing ……続きを見る

Cecil Davies' The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons represents a uniquely interesting contribution to our understanding of touring British theatre in the mid-twentieth-century, post-war period……続きを見る

One of Britain’s best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite……続きを見る

First published in 1990, this investigative overview of the politics of arts’ and cultural funding examines the question of public support for the arts. Looking at both popular commercial forms of c……続きを見る

Une édition de référence de Roméo et Juliette de William Shakespeare, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « L'amour est une fumée de soupirs ; dégagé, c'est une flamme q……続きを見る

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest George Herbert is one the most famous and popular of the metaphysical poets. The Poetry Foundation has described him as "a pivotal figure: enormou……続きを見る

This file includes: The Land of Heart's Desire, The Countess Cathleen, The Unicorn and the Stars, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, and The Hour-Glass. According to Wikipedia: "William Butler Yeats (13 June 186……続きを見る

The four plays in this collection are a representative collection of dramas that exhibits the development of the Jacobean era revenge play. In "The Spanish Tragedy" we find the aftermath of a confli……続きを見る

When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and has sinc……続きを見る

Extrait : De tous les monuments de la littérature anglo-saxonne qui sont parvenus jusqu’à nous le plus curieux est sans contredit le poëme épique de Beowulf. Après être resté longtemps plongé dans u……続きを見る