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"A highly entertaining political political thriller...the play shows where that peculiarly Gallic combinations of sex, politics and suspense has its origins" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Crime Passionnel reflects Sartre's fascination with the mentality...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573225083Author Jean AnouilhFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to that identity. The German word Bildung refers to forming and...

The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of the way'. And not far behind others will follow... The young are waiting. In all their power. Knocking on the door.The master...

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What if four children had been kept locked away in darkness and complete isolation since birth? What if, tonight, they were to be released? How would bodies and minds reared in darkness respond to the first words, the first lies, the first kisses? What...

Three young convicts share a cell. Locked into a world of dangerous rivalries, criminals Lefranc and Maurice compete for the attention of the charismatic condemned man, Green-Eyes.Informed by his own experience in French prisons, Jean Genet's first play,...

The work of German poet Frederich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers from Paul Celan to Rainer Maria Rilke to Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche. Yet, despite the international renown and respect his hymns and...

" Don Juan Comes Back from the War, Figaro Gets Divorced Two modern classics by Austrian dramatist, Odon von Horvath. Hampton's Don Juan Comes Back from the War was first performed at the Royal National Theatre. Figaro Gets Divorced, in which an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884092886Author Lars NorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Gordian Knot Books (imprint of Altschuler, Richard & Associates, Inc)Publisher Gordian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374717834Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411807Author Felix MittererFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 318g

This 1995 critical study of Ibsen's A Doll's House addresses fundamental questions of text, reception and performance. What is the definitive 'version' of A Doll's House: original text, translation, stage presentation, radio version, adaptation to film...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434457721Author Alexandre DumasFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479400249Author Alexandre DumasFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156013109Author MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Harcourt Brace InternationalPublisher Harcourt Brace International

Gotthold Lessing (1729-81), playwright, critic, humanist philosopher and polemicist was a leading figure of the German enlightnement era. From his immense literary output two plays stand out - The Jews and Nathan the Wise - for the passion of the writing...

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? In trying to answer these questions - usually ignored by...

Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dali, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico Garcia Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond. This study offers a fresh examination of one of the...

One of Eduardo de Filippo's finest Neapolitan comedies Filumena Domenico is a former Neopolitan prostitute who has had three sons by three different fathers. As her sons become adults Filumena feels the pressing need to become respectable and so she...

"Includes the plays Don Carlos and Mary Stuart Major historical upheavals of the Sixteenth Century illuminate Schiller's increasingly troubled reaction to the present in these two plays. The huge epic Don Carlos (1787), a 'play expressing a view of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479400683Author Jean Francois MarmontelFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150349Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams) 136g

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century. Bertolt...

The author of such modern classics as The Bald Soprano, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, and The Chairs, Eug ne Ionesco is "one of the most important and influential figures in the modern theater" (Library Journal). This crucial collection combines...

To most English-language readers and theatre goers, Strindberg is mainly known for naturalistic plays such as 'Miss Julie' and 'The Father', but the dramatic production of Sweden's national playwright is infinitely richer and more extensive than these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213485Author Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938) was one of the most innovative and influential directors of modern theatre and his system and related practices continue to be studied and used by actors, directors and students. Maria Shevtsova sheds new light on the...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters in a slightly compressed and formalized way that comes very close to the original effect created by...

An influential and controversial work by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), the colossus of Dutch literature, regarded as a major influence on Milton's Paradise Lost. An angel returns from Eden, his wings singed by the beauty of Adam and Eve's world,...

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...

Although it was written shortly before or after Queen Elizabeth's death in 1603 and performed by the boy company at Blackfriars, this play foreshadows the light ladies and callous gallants of Restoration comedy. Passion is a scourge, love is humiliation,...

Gogol's "The Government Inspector" must be one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted plays in the history of drama. This work shows the wisdom, humour and subtlety that is missing in many English translations. The work is part of a series aimed at...

Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle Epoque Georges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434457202Author Jules VerneFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Includes the plays; A Month in the Country, Stony Broke, One of the Family, The Bachelor, Lunch at His Excellency's and A Provincial Lady. A Month in the Country is Turgenev's acknowledged masterpiece and clearly influenced the plays of Chekhov, written...

A reissue of a comic and tragic play that asks just how much of our life we could-or would-change if we got another chance. In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher Kurmann is given the opportunity to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802151582Author GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams) 227g

'Scotland may be a savage nation, Lady, but the English wash their hands in blood.' Mary Stuart tells the story of the personal struggle between two extraordinary women - one French, one English - both captive to the demands of sovereignty and both...