Plays & Playwrights 97

This volume contains Bernard Shaw's 1924 play, "Saint Joan". It is a 'chronicle play' in six scenes, and an epilogue that revolves around Joan of Arc. It elucidates her immense personality, problems……続きを見る

Extrait : "DIDIER, seul, à la cantonade : Déjeuner !... déjeuner ! si tôt !... – Oh ! par pitié ! Le rapport que j'écris n'est encor qu'à moitié, Je voudrais le mener au bout tout d'une haleine, Et ……続きを見る

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: ou……続きを見る

Ten tragedies by one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, namely Hecuba, Orestes, The Phœnician Virgins, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchæ, The Heraclidæ, Iphigenia in Aulis, and……続きを見る

The collection includes four theatrical works of acclaimed Italian author, Dacia Maraini, in a dual-language format (Italian/English). The works have been chosen around the themes of distress, exclu……続きを見る

Главным героем повести является титулярный советник Яков Петрович Голядкин. Ничем не примечательный маленький человек. Но, снедаемый большими амбициями и запросами, он пробует интриговать, чтоб подн……続きを見る

What is it to be a stand-up comedian? To be funny, solo? You have no character-role, no double-act partner, and nowhere to look but out into the darkness, with just a microphone, an audience and you……続きを見る

The Boar’s Head Theatre, first published in 1972, provides an account of one of the Elizabethan inn-yard theatres. It is a reconstruction of considerable importance in our understanding of the perfo……続きを見る

«Ромео и Джульетта» ー трагедия Уильяма Шекспира, рассказывающая о любви юноши и девушки из двух враждующих старинных родов ー Монтекки и Капулетти. Электронное издание «Ромео и Джульетты» в перевод……続きを見る

So maybe I just want to opt out you know? Maybe I don't to be part of the master plan. The big assembly line in the sky. Summer in small-town America. Aimee Stright wants to be Banksy in a town that……続きを見る

The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Taking the case of Greece as its starti……続きを見る

Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre contains seven carefully-selected ethnodramas that best illustrate this emerging genre of arts-based research, a burgeoning but evident trend in the field……続きを見る

Published in 1980, Blacks in Blackface was the first and most extensive book up to that time to deal exclusively with every aspect of all-African American musical comedies performed on the stage bet……続きを見る

A fun read for Alcott fans, ‘Comic Tragedies’ is five plays written and performed by the Alcott sisters, collected for publication by Anna Alcott Pratt after the death of her sister, Louisa May Alco……続きを見る

Behind the Closet Door is an electrifying trip through the world of love, money, power and abuse. Shera, a beautiful small-town girl, suddenly finds herself in a world of unseen passions, exotic tri……続きを見る

*Includes Table of ContentsGeorge Gordon Byron (1788- 1824), better known as Lord Byron, was an English poet. Manfred was written between 1816 and 1817, and was described by Bryon as a “metaphysica……続きを見る

The Sea-gull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatise……続きを見る

GOD WILLED IT TONY BAILEY I sincerely hope that all who read “GOD WILLED IT” do not feel that they have wasted their time. Deservedly or not, I do not feel that I have wasted mine. I woke up one day……続きを見る

We wanted to be someone. Some . . . I dunno . . . thing. Nig and Wee Joe used to be soldiers. They have done monstrous things. Now nobody is listening and nobody gives a fuck either way. Their lives……続きを見る

The weight of what is to come is unbearable. It is crushing me. The sound of the crying, it never ceases. I carry this inside and now tell only you. Charles, a disgraced New York Times journalist, a……続きを見る

I cook here, create here, make here be as much of life as I can because outside of this I'm not safe, I don't know the way. Chef tells the gripping story of how one woman went from being a haute-cui……続きを見る

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Extrait : "OLYMPE : As-tu fini ? ANNA : Quoi ? OLYMPE : Eh bien, de t'allonger les yeux. ANNA, au miroir : Je ne m'allonge pas les yeux, je me fais signe. OLYMPE: Dépêche-toi donc. ANNA, se retourna……続きを見る

‘Why the Chimes Rang’ is a beautifully written story based on an old legend. It has wonderful evocative symbolism, the old church with a bell tower soaring into the sky, touching the clouds waiting ……続きを見る

‘The Trachinian Maidens’ (also ‘Women of Trachis’ or ‘The Trachiniae’) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles, in which Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, is distraught over her husband's neglect of her ……続きを見る

Oedipus was the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta. Before he was born, his parents consulted the Oracle at Delphi. The Oracle prophesied that Oedipus would murder his father and marry his mother. ……続きを見る

À Paris, chez Vatelin. Un salon élégant. Porte au fond. Deux portes à droite, deux à gauche. Mobilier ad libitum.   Au lever du rideau, la scène rest……続きを見る

A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy. ……続きを見る

Chez Boriquet   Un salon dans un appartement de garçon. Mobilier élégant. Une petite table carrée à gauche, pouvant servir de table à manger. Un peti……続きを見る

In this textbook for performers, the position of a Swing-an Understudy for the Ensemble-on Broadway is examined from every angle, showing just how vital Swings are to the success of any musical thea……続きを見る