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Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally puni……続きを見る

Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) is a 1921 series of five plays and a preface by George Bernard Shaw. The five plays are: In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden); The Gos……続きを見る

While some of Shaw’s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, fra……続きを見る

Written during the long battles with Sparta that were to ultimately destroy ancient Athens, these six plays by Euripides brilliantly utilize traditional legends to illustrate the futility of war. Th……続きを見る

Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In th……続きを見る

The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata 'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands' Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes ……続きを見る

A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro - triumphant successes that were used as t……続きを見る

At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. Iv……続きを見る

It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless ……続きを見る

August Strindberg is considered the father of modern Swedish literature. Here are collected three of his finest plays, written during what he called his 'Inferno period', a period just following a s……続きを見る

Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality, follows a group of characters who try to fashion their fife stories into acceptable drama. Mr. Brustein's new rendering is accessible, cont……続きを見る

Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ……続きを見る

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit……続きを見る

Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from rec……続きを見る

The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century. In THE BE……続きを見る

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935) was an acclaimed American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian fem……続きを見る

Ibsen's greatest late plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. This volume includes The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken -……続きを見る

Third book in the series "Pierrot Love" begins with a pinch of pepper and Talita brooding inside for not being in a few scenes that Giovanni filmed. Now Talita screamed angry because her scenes were……続きを見る

Providing thorough coverage of the methods and tools required in studying historical and contemporary theatre, this Introduction examines the complexities of a rapidly changing and dynamic disciplin……続きを見る

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. La Haine est un drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux de l'auteur dramat……続きを見る

The collected hard-boiled cases of nursery rhyme-noir with Detective Harry Pigg. Contains The Third Pig Detective, The Ho Ho Ho Mystery and The Curds and Whey Mystery. Harry Pigg, the only surviving……続きを見る

They’re the ultimate downtown coupleーattractive, smart, and successful. They have everything they could ever want. Except a child. When bad news points them to alternative methods of conception, th……続きを見る

他已发制作清代著名抗俄将军，在沙俄强敌压境，在孤立无援的情况下，乃守“军覆则死”之义；他的名字在清代8个王朝、坐镇齐齐哈尔的76位黒龙江将军中最为响亮，关于他抗俄御侮、誓死报国的故事广为流传。金戈铁马、……続きを見る

This book is written to enlighten, inform and entertain the reader with over 50 stories from emergency responders. Topics range from the funny, weird and strange to the serious and traumatic. The st……続きを見る

从古希腊戏剧时代到近代戏剧，从《被缚的普罗米修斯》到《阴谋与爱情》，在低吟浅唱中回顾东西方戏剧走过的道路，戏剧经典的产生，上古戏剧发展的近代戏剧的历史等。本书从上古、中古、近代三个时期进行划分，图文……続きを見る

This classic text by the great Norwegian bard contains the following early works: Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow and Olaf Liljekrans. 続きを見る

Love, sex, and secrets are all too common for the ladies of Baltimore’s queer bed & breakfast. While Kyle Wright, the owner, tries to balance her girlfriend and lover, her friends find themselves st……続きを見る

The complete works of Ben Jonson, the genius of Jacobean theatre, appear here for the first in digital print. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works with numerous illustrations, inform……続きを見る

'Have you grown hard? Is that it? You were never hard then, you know. Just two spoiled daughters. Two little, selfish daughters. Two unemancipated daughters. Without her you have become hard, is tha……続きを見る

"NYPD Detective Samantha Lange, distraught over the sudden and visual death of her brother, is succumbed by the charms of FBI Agent Parker Carlisle. Her involvement with him has a price: she must le……続きを見る