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Set amongst the whores, alcoholics, cynics and doss house dreamers of a Russia on the brink of revolution, The Lower Depths is a harrowing, violent and uncompromising portrayal of the human spirit at its lowest ebb, with destitution and death an ever...

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865479784Author Frank WedekindFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782070370603Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackImprint Editions FlammarionPublisher Editions Flammarion

August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies, seduction and power - both written in the summer of 1888 - in brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton. Miss Julie begins as a flirtatious game between the daughter of a wealthy landowner and...

This best-selling volume contains several of the German author's most controversial dramas, in which he radically questions how culture, myth, art, and social relations create history. Includes: Hamletmachine, Correction, The Task, Quartet, Despoiled...

Cited by Lukacs as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin's study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, "mourning play") is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and philosophical practice. Engaging...

Ghosts is Ibsen's haunting study of the lingering poison in a marriage based on a lie. Osvald Alving has returned from Paris to his mother's home, carrying with him a dreadful secret. His mother's delight at having him home soon turns to horror and grief...

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'Memory pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history.' She strikes a pose and the camera shutter clicks... A child playing in the debris of the Second World War. Click. A student discovering parties and men's bodies...

Midsummer's Eve, Sweden. A night when the sun doesn't set. A night of drinking and dancing. A night to break the rules. When Julie finds herself alone on her father's estate, she throws caution to the wind and gate-crashes the servants' party. In the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820463582Author Emanuela Barasch-RubinsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820481807Author Helga W. KraftFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 590g

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Wild plots and quicksilver wit characterize the plays of Georges Feydeau. Called the greatest master of French comedy since Molire by admirers such as Kenneth Tynan Feydeau reflects the lusty tradition of the French bedroom farce as well as the tough...

Anna Fierling, an itinerant trader during the seventeenth century, becomes known as "Mother Courage" after the constant warfare gradually claims all of her children.Book InformationISBN 9780802130822Author Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count...

First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900, Arthur Schnitzler's famous play looks at the sexual morality and class ideology of his day through a series of sexual encounters between pairs of characters. When published publicly in 1903, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361835Author Dario FoFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

In the nineteenth century, the French lyric poets imposed their diction on the theatrical genre and thus illuminated the essence of both poetry and theatre. Ten plays by Victor Hugo, the standard-bearer of the French romantic theatre, and Alfred de...

This book interprets Mon Faust and explores the differences between Valery's and Goethe's treatments of the Faust figure. The author shows by close analysis how Valery opposes a Cartesian, anti-Pascalian Faust to Goethe's romantically flawed hero. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156757805Author Jean RacineFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

This book presents an integrated approach to the literary and non-literary writings of the major German author, Heinrich von Kleist. Analysis of Kleist's early letters, in particular, illuminates the oblique and unique processes by which he became aware...

This original and innovative study is the first systematic exploration of Racine's theatricality. It is based on a close examination of all Racine's plays and on evidence for performance of them from the seventeenth century to the present day. David...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441421899Author Alejandro CasonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 127mm...

Henrik Ibsen's plays came at a pivotal moment in late nineteenth-century European modernity. They engaged his public through a strategic use of metaphors of house and home, which resonated with experiences of displacement, philosophical homelessness, and...

The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize...

In the decades before the Second World War, popular musical theatre was one of the most influential forms of entertainment. This is the first book to reconstruct early popular musical theatre as a transnational and highly cosmopolitan industry that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820448510Author Jost HermandFormat HardbackPage Count 199Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 410g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820411446Author Solange GuenounFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 560g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820437187Author Huimin ChenFormat HardbackPage Count 113Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 360g

August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887190921Author Robert Louis JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Academic Studies PressPublisher Academic Studies Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365055Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451526885Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 171mm *...

This volume contains four of Pixérécourt’s most important melodramas: The Ruins of Babylon, or Jafar and Zaida; The Dog of Montargis, or The Forest of Bondy; Christopher Columbus, or the Discovery of the New World; and Alice, or The Scottish...

A tale for today set in a magical tower block where the water has gone missing and five extraordinary individuals from the east and from the west cross paths on a hot and enchanted evening ending with a moonlit kiss and a homicide. Arabian Night is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442631267Author Leonard E DoucetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 449g

Four taboo-tackling plays from the foremost writer of Dutch language theatre, poetry and prose.Book InformationISBN 9780966615210Author Hugo ClausFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Martin E. Segal Theatre CenterPublisher Martin E. Segal Theatre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108476492Author Katarzyna FazanFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

One of Poland's most important artists and writers of the 20th Century, this collection includes: The Pragmatists, Tumor Brainiowicz, Gyubal Wahazar, The Anonymous Work, The Cuttlefish, Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes, and The Beelzebub Sonata. Also...