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A brand new adaptation of Pirandello's first play No one has ever seen Signor Ponza's wife and her mother, Signora Frola together. Also, the neighbours have become suspicious because Signora Ponza never leaves her home and start asking questions. Ponza...

This essay collection grew out of a Hofstra University conference on the life, works, and influence of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the eighteenth-century German playwright, critic, and philosopher who essentially established a new national literature in...

In a series of essays on representative dramatists, Ronald Peacock follows the fortunes of poetic drama in Europe from the decline of romanticism, through the age of realism, to the renewal of poetic forms in the 1930s.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244236441Author Patrick FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 390g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782070405350Author MarivauxFormat PaperbackImprint Gallimard EducationPublisher Gallimard EducationWeight(grams) 204g

The Jew of Seville tells the story of Jacob Eliacin, a Jew, during the Spanish Inquisition. Eliacin masquerades as a Christian and becomes a prominent member of the court at Seville, but his background is revealed following his daughters seductionBook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530332Author Jean-Baptiste MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The second collection of plays by one of France's most prominent playwrights High Places: "A drama which, from second to second, maintains the spectator in suspense, and which, by the same stroke, achieves the dimension of pure, great metaphysical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140440164Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 269gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410214546Author Brander MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410218292Author Leo N TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782070369805Author JARRYFormat PaperbackImprint Editions FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782253037873Author MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Le Livre de pochePublisher Le Livre de poche

"Comic poet and dazzling swordsman, Cyrano is hopelessly in love with Roxane. But Roxane loves the dashing Christian. Cyrano, in a selfless act of love, woos Roxane on Christian's behalf, writing his love letters, feeding him his lines. Romance. Tragedy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781406840544Author Edmond RostandFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Echo LibraryPublisher Echo LibraryWeight(grams) 254g

The first collection of plays by one of France's most prominent playwrights Overboard: "Combines Shakespearian tragedy, Aristophanic farce and a Chekhovian drama of lives consumed and memories that fade." Le Progres, Situation Vacant: "The play builds to...

In this 1998 book, Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism on the stage in early modern England, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. Her starting point is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880100601Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 101Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947623999Author Carol TullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389614176Author Pierre CorneilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 127g

Following Homi Bhabha's prompt on reading nationalism as a set of discursive and performative practices, this Element focuses on the cultural geography of today's Russia and examines a range of performative strategies used by the Russian state to uphold...

This Element examines practices that occurred since the beginning of the Greek crisis and revisits the mnemonic canon of the Greek War of Independence. By focusing on the institution of the mnemonic canon of independence, and subsequently on its...

Seamus Heaney once described the 'sense of place' generated by the early Abbey theatre as the 'imaginative protein' of later Irish writing. Drawing on theorists of space such as Henri Lefebvre and Yi-Fu Tuan, Mapping Irish Theatre argues that theatre is...

Theatre in Market Economies explores the complex relationship between theatre and the market economy since the 1990s. Bringing together research from the arts and social sciences, the book proposes that theatre has increasingly taken up the mission of...

Irish Revivalist playwright J. M. Synge is often regarded as a realist. Yet what happens when his work is analysed through wider performance studies and situated alongside less familiar historical contexts? By addressing this question, Helene Lecossois...

Konstantin Stanislavsky, the Russian director and actor and co-founder, in 1898, of the Moscow Art Theatre, was the originator of the most influential system of acting in the history of western theatre. Many of Stanislavsky's concepts are widespread in...

Suzuki is Japan's best-known director. He has been internationally acclaimed for his postmodern adaptations of classics by Nanboku, Euripides, Shakespeare and Chekhov since the 1970s, including The Trojan Women, King Lear and Three Sisters and, equally,...

The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination...

This work gives an 'inside' view of Chinese theatre and the actor in performance. In doing so it also challenges Western theatre artists such as Brecht, Grotowski, Barba and Schechner, who have extracted from Chinese theatre elements which might enrich...

Drama in the Romantic period underwent radical changes affecting theatre performance, acting, and audience. Theatres were rebuilt and expanded to accommodate larger audiences, and consequently acting styles and the plays themselves evolved to meet the...

This updated Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this edition introduces more...

This book presents a detailed survey and analysis of the surviving corpus of biblical drama from all parts of medieval Christian Europe. Over five hundred plays from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries are examined, in a wide-ranging discussion which...

This is the first book to consider the whole subject of Chekhov's impact on the British stage. Recently Chekhov's plays have come to occupy a place in the British classical repertoire second only to Shakespeare. The British, American and Russian authors...

Despite the profound influence exerted by August Strindberg on the development of modernist theatre and drama, the myth persisted that his plays - particularly such later works as A Dream Play, To Damascus, and The Ghost Sonata - are somehow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601456427Author Du SharboneauFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Booklocker Inc.,USPublisher Booklocker Inc.,USWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782958120146Author Anton BonniciFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Opiate BooksPublisher Opiate BooksWeight(grams) 111g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498004657Author Leo TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 358g

"When you're alone in a big city, how far would you go to make a new friend? Two men live in the same apartment block. One likes long walks, Greek myths and foreign langauages. The other likes making lists, fixing bikes and blackmail. One day they bump...

The Storm Komrade Sokrates centers on aging radicals who were leaders in German student revolution of 1848. The main characters are Dr. Hartmeyer, a Dentist and Dr. Marcuse, the local Rabbi. After their arrests, they were sent to the Eastern border of...