Plays & Playwrights 95

Sophocles addresses themes of civil disobedience, fidelity, and love for family; and questions which law is greater: the gods' or man'sーin this play that challenged many established mores of Ancien……続きを見る

Sophocles' play is a famous retelling of Aias's (Ajax's) demise. After the armor is awarded to Odysseus, Aias feels so insulted that he wants to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus. Athena intervenes and cl……続きを見る

The winner of the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, 'Philoctetes' describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring disabled master archer, Philoctetes, with them to Troy. The play covers sev……続きを見る

Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, 'Electra' recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father……続きを見る

Extrait :  La comédie intitulée la Cassette, est une de celles que le temps a le plus maltraitées. La découverte de  nombreux fragments que M. Angelo Mai a ext……続きを見る

When a young graduate battles a media mogul to save her mother's business from bankruptcy, she soon discovers that the lessons she's learned about business management are of little use in dealing wi……続きを見る

In his very first attempt at playwriting, British author G.K. Chesterton knocked it out of the proverbial ballpark with Magic, a drawing-room comedy in which a diverse group of friends and family me……続きを見る

Set against the backdrop of World War I, this play is a rollicking send-up of Britain's class system and its growing absurdity in the heady period of democratization that began to transpire in the e……続きを見る

An early master of the genre of fantasy, the Irish aristocrat and writer Edward Plunkett (who wrote under the pseudonym "Lord Dunsany") achieved major literary acclaim during his lifetime. If is a f……続きを見る

Born into affluence in high-society Boston, Herbert Pelham Curtis followed his father into the law and later entered military service. Along the way, he turned to literary pursuits as a hobby, first……続きを見る

Today, we tend to picture ancient Greece as a land of togas, lyres and plenty of philosophical pondering -- but even back then, people were annoyed with the likes of Socrates, Plato and other intell……続きを見る

Widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek tragedies, ‘King Oedipus’ (or ‘Oedipus Rex’) is the first play in the Oedipus trilogy (followed by ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ and then ‘Antigone’). After defea……続きを見る

On February 15, 1963, Booker T. Johnson, a black inmate, was shot to death in a San Quentin prison exercise yard. I related his death as the first in a series of murders that enrage black inmates th……続きを見る

Foreign agents operate in countries of interest in times of peace, belligerence, and war. Their purpose is to seek pertinent information and pass it on to the country of their allegiance, and be ope……続きを見る

Ken is about to become the leader of his state, his beautiful wife Cathy perfect at his side. His policies promise a new life with new opportunities, to rid the streets of crime, violence, immoralit……続きを見る

Vor zehn Jahren hat Carl Djerassi seinen Roman "Marx, verschieden" über die Obsessionen eines erfolgreichen Autors geschrieben, der, anstatt sich über sein Selbstwertgefühl klar zu werden, seinen ei……続きを見る

Carl Djerassi, berühmter Wissenschaftler und seit Jahren auch als Schriftsteller erfolgreich, gewährt in zwei neuen Theaterstücken einmal mehr spannende Einblicke in die Welt der Kunst und der Wisse……続きを見る

Am 8. Mai 1983 wird Carl Djerassi von der Liebe seines Lebens, Diane Middlebrook, verlassen. Der Naturwissenschaftler und "Vater der Pille" macht sich an ein für ihn neuartiges Experiment: Gekränkt ……続きを見る

Musicista, cantante, compositore, fondatore dei Beatles e Cavaliere dell’Ordine Britannico, John Lennon è una delle icone più importanti della musica e della cultura del XX secolo. Il suo rifiuto de……続きを見る

Amüsant und lehrreich wie kein anderer bringt Carl Djerassi die Wissenschaft ins Theater. Der Chemiker, Autor und "Vater der Pille" beweist in seinem Lesedrama "Chemie im Theater. Killerblumen" aufs……続きを見る

Daß Carl Djerassi mit seiner literarischen Arbeit, die er selbst als "Science-in-Fiction" bezeichnet, nicht nur unterhalten will, sondern auch didaktische Absichten verfolgt, charakterisiert auch di……続きを見る

The ebook of plays by Anton Chekhov from Animedia Company consists of five dramatical works of the great Russian author, such as «On the High Road», «The Proposal», «The Wedding», «The Three Sisters……続きを見る

«The Cherry Orchard» is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. The ebook «The Cherry Orchard» from Animedia Company is translated, with an Introduction, by Julius West. The story present……続きを見る

Book description: Elvis Presley’s lifespan is the tragic story of a star prisoner of his own success and the circumstances surrounding him. Teenagers dream about becoming rock stars and Elvis wonder……続きを見る

I don't know a girl who hasn't been groped on a train. There's always someone trying to cop a feel. Might as well get paid for it. On Jingu Bridge in Tokyo, teenage girls dress in cosplay outfits fo……続きを見る

«Вишнёвый сад» ー лирическая пьеса в четырёх действиях Антона Павловича Чехова. Пьеса написана в 1903 году. «Вишнёвый сад» ー последняя пьеса Чехова, завершённая на пороге пе……続きを見る

Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go. In the re……続きを見る

Citizenship is a bittersweet one-act comedy about growing up, following a boy's frank and messy search to discover his sexual identity. Tom dreams of being kissed, but he's not sure whether by a man……続きを見る

Anyway. I was just wondering if you had any jobs at all? . . . Yeah . . . like . . . media. Something to do with media stuff . . . Where am I based? Well, currently Herefordshire but . . . sorry . .……続きを見る

"Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the p……続きを見る