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Going Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent times in Spain. It both contributed to and documented La Movida, a drug-fuelled youth movement that placed Madrid firmly on the global...

'Memory never stops. It 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...

Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the...

Federico Garcia Lorca was born near Granada in 1898. Initially set on studying music in Paris, after his piano teacher died in 1916 he became involved in a literary and artistic group, including H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling. This move towards a more ...

This study of Brecht's theatre from eight different aspects was first published in 1959. The book aims to explain the difficult aspects of his ideology and political leanings in a straightforward manner. It traces his stylistic development as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782035834164Author MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint LaroussePublisher Larousse

This, the fourth volume to be published in the series Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History, charts the development of theatrical presentation at a time of great cultural and political upheaval and is, for today's theatre practitioner, historian and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorW.G. SebaldBook InformationISBN 9780854960385Author W. G. SebaldFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Berg PublishersPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Written by an international team of experts, this book brings together the fruits of recent research into all areas of Russian theatre history. Of particular interest are the chapters written by senior Russian academics, who not only reveal previously...

A new German and Catalan play together in one volume Sugar Dollies by Klaus Chatten (Germany) Dressed as Batman and Robin, Babette and her overweight daughter, Tabea enter the ratings-topping blind date TV show - Sugar Dollies. At the auditions they...

This book chronicles the emergence of a national feeling in the theatres of Northern and Eastern Europe from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. Using original documents and sources, including architects' plans, royal edicts, censors'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213607Author Edmond RostandFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

With the aim of providing a comprehensive history of Italian drama from its origins to the time of its publication in 2006, this book treats theatre in its widest sense, discussing the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative...

Presents Shiller's dramatic masterpiece, the "Wallenstein" trilogy, and "Mary Stuart" in their entirety. Includes notes on the historical background of both plays.Book InformationISBN 9780826403360Author Walter HindererFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Published in conjunction with the Royal Court Theatre, this volume includes translations of five extraordinary new plays from France which were presented as part of the French Theatre Season in London during 1997 One More Wasted Year by Christopher...

This is the third volume to be published in the series Theatre in Europe. This book makes available for the first time an overview of a significant segment of European theatre history and, with few exceptions, none of the documents presented have been...

Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - "The Cid", "Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love" and "The Marriage of Figaro".Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - "The Cid", "Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The...

The theatrical heritage from which both Ibsen and Strindberg sprang is rich in tradition and achievement. This study of the history and development of theatre in Scandinavia examines dominant styles and trends in various periods, from the earliest...

Taking as notional parameters the upheaval of the French Revolution and the events leading up to the Unification of Italy, this volume charts a period of political and social turbulence in Europe and its reflection in theatrical life. Apart from...

This 1997 book covers the period which saw the establishment in France of a centralized official theatre - not only the Comedie-Francaise (the first 'national' theatre), but an Italian theatre and a state opera; the often subversive independent theatres...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826403421Author Everett FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Schnitzler's masterpiece, La Ronde, shows a spectrum of social class from prostitutes to noblemen in a series of drily observed, loveless sexual encounters. Remembered by many as the basis of a famous film in 1950, the real notoriety of La Ronde goes...

Covering German-language theatre from the Middle Ages to the present day, this study demonstrates how and why theatre became so important in German-speaking countries. Written by leading international scholars of German theatre, chapters cover all...

Covering German-language theatre from the Middle Ages to the present day, this study demonstrates how and why theatre became so important in German-speaking countries. Written by leading international scholars of German theatre, chapters cover all...

'Kaspar is based on the historical case of a 16-year-old boy who appeared from nowhere in Nuremberg in 1828 and who had to be taught to speak from scratch . . . Handke's play is a downright attack on the way language is used by a corrupt society to...

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 *...

Karmageitin (Karma Goat) and Gentukamarid ("A Girl's Room") are a literary pair, each having its own expression and character. They are written in two different genres, poems (Karma Goat) and a play (A Girl's Room). The works can be read in any order,...

These translations of Friedrich Durrenmatt's plays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873525428Author June SchlueterFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Modern Language Association of AmericaPublisher Modern Language Association of...

Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other leading canonical works of European literature such as Dante's Inferno and Shakespeare's Hamlet. This is...

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...

These translations of Gogol's plays restore the vitality of Gogol's language and humour, finally allowing his dramatic art to speak directly to Western readers, directors, actors and theatre-goers. This volume contains ""The Government Inspector"" and...

Hijas olvidadas: Two Contemporary Plays by Hispanic Women Writers brings together two compelling dramas from Spain and Argentina. Una estrella by Paloma Pedrero and paula.doc by Nora Rodriguez both feature spirited female protagonists who explore their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554815807Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 105gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Plays by French and Francophone Women presents eight recent plays by contemporary French and francophone women writers. The plays vary in style and form from the satirical to the poetic, from the comedic one-woman show to the potential multi-media...

Shakespeare has been a central figure in German literature and theatre. This book tells the story of Shakespeare in the German-speaking theatre against the background of German culture and politics in the twentieth century. It follows the earlier volume...

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 9780940866096Author Lee J. WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 173Imprint University of Scranton Press,U.S.Publisher University of Scranton Press,U.S...