 | Son of Don Juan, The
Publication Date: June 15, 2004Jose Echegaray was a Spanish scholar and dramatist, born in Madrid about 1835.In 1858 he became professor of mathematics and physics in the School of Engineers in his native city, in which capacity he published many valuable works on science and mathematics.In 1868 he was made minister of commerce, minister of public instruction in 1873, and minister of finances in the following year.It is by his dramatic works, however, that he is best known, both at home and abroad.He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904. ...
 | ![The Poetry of Wilhelm Muller: [1895]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21VVC1WCxyL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg) | The Poetry of Wilhelm Muller: [1895]
Publication Date: June 25, 2009Originally published in 1895.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ...
|  | The Shape of Paradox: An Essay on Waiting for Godot (Quantum Books)
Publication Date: August 9, 1978| Series: Quantum Books An essay in softcover format. ...
|  | Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Modern Theatre Guides)
Publication Date: March 6, 2009| ISBN-10: 082649594X | ISBN-13: 978-0826495945| Edition: 1 <div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS ??'">"An impressively complete survey of the play in its cultural, theatrical, historical and political contexts." - David Bradby, co-editor of <i>Contemporary Theatre Review</i> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>&l...
|  | Faust
Publication Date: August 31, 2006Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play.Faust is a closet drama, meaning that it is meant to be read rather than performed. It is Goethe's most famous work and considered by many to be one of the greatest works of German literature. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Antigona (Clasicos De Siempre/Joyas Del Teatro / Always Classics / Theater Gems) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2010| Series: Clasicos De Siempre/Joyas Del Teatro / Always Classics / Theater Gems La tragedia esta basada en el mito de la mujer que se atrevio a enfrentar a los hombres para lograr sus propositos y la trama de la obra, en esencia, plantea una reflexion sobre la tirania, las razones del Estado y los dilemas de conciencia. Representada por primera vez en el ano 442 a.C., Sofocles utilizo personajes arquetipicos para enfrentar dos nociones opuestas del deber: el respeto a las normas religiosas y a las civiles, caracterizadas unas por Antigona y las otras por Creont...
|  | Quick Change: Essays on Theatre
Publication Date: April 12, 2011| ISBN-10: 0979057094 | ISBN-13: 978-0979057090Contains previously uncollected writings, including articles about Witkacy's doubles, historical and medical simulations, the Battleship Potemkin, comédie rosse at the Grand Guignol, Polish theater, Grotowski and Kantor, Mrozek and Rózewicz, Polish and Russian symbolists, and erotic French puppets. ...
|  | El Malentendido/ The Misunderstanding: Obra en tres actos (Biblioteca De Autor/ Author Library) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Children of the Sun
Publication Date: September 15, 1999| Series: Drama Classics (Book 43) A prophetic play from pre-Revolutionary Russia. ...
|  | The Dog in the Manger (Absolute Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Series: Absolute Classics While the countess’ secretary is posing as a son of a statesman, the countess is free to marry him. But when he admits his deception, the countess is faced with a social dilemma. A painful and hilarious comedy for anyone who has ever fallen in love with someone they shouldn’t have fallen in love with, The Dog in the Manger was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed Spanish Golden Age Season in 2004. ...
|  | Suicide
Publication Date: January 1, 1955This play is hot property these days -- oddly enough for a play that went 50 years without a production. In 1932 it was a Russian social comedy, which Stanislavksky had rehearsed for 18 months and which Stalin abruptly canned...It really came back to life with a 1979 Royal Shakespeare production and a Broadway run with Derek Jacobi...Semyon Semyonovitch, depressed because he can't get a job, is going to kill himself. Word gets about and his apartment is besieged by disaffected intellectuals, butchers, prima donnas, writers and mailman. They all hate the syste...
|  | In The Matter Of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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|  | Roger Blin and Twentieth-Century Playwrights (Directors in Perspective)
Publication Date: February 26, 1988| ISBN-10: 0521224403 | ISBN-13: 978-0521224406From her own knowledge of Blin's rigorous working habits, from interviews with close associates, and Blin's own rare statements, production notes and drawings, Odette Aslan has pieced together the history of Blin's work as actor, critic, and director, his relationship with playwrights and actors, and how he struggled against obstacles to stage works by then unknown authors and bring out the peculiar qualities of the plays he chose. ...
|  | The Theatre of Illusion
Publication Date: April 2, 2007Pierre Corneille, in his original dedication for The Theatre of Illusion, described the play as a "strange monster." He first called these five acts a comedy; later, a "caprice" and an "extravagant trifle." Written in 1635 and staged in 1636, the play vanished from the stage for the next three hundred years—to be revived in 1937 by Louis Jouvet and the Comédie Française. Since then it has been widely considered, in Virginia Scott’s words, "Corneille’s baroque masterpiece."Today this brillia...
|  | Paradise Hotel (Plays for Performance Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 1990| Series: Plays for Performance Series A consummate farce in which a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a seedy little hotel with the beautiful young wife of his best friend. ...
|  | La zapatera prodigiosa (Catedra Base) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Series: Catedra Base (Book 9) Garcia Lorca o, mejor, Federico, que asile llamaron sus padres, sus colegas y casi, casi hasta los criticos, dijo que «el teatro es poesia que se levanta del libro y se hace humana». En esta hermosa farsa violenta, como el la llamo, quiso expresar el autor la lucha de la realidad con la fantasia, con todo aquello que es irrealizable y que existe en el fondo de toda criatura. Un matrimonio de conveniencia y sin verdadero amor y la lucha de una mujer entre la realidad y el deseo son los cauces por los que transcurre la ...
|  | Professor Bernhardi (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1840025522 | ISBN-13: 978-1840025521Arthur Schnitzler's work has come to define Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. ...
|  | La Vida Es Sueno / Life is a Dream (Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Tartuffe (Absolute Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Series: Absolute Classics The religious fraud Tartuffe has wormed his way into the affections and household of the rich merchant Orgon, with pantomime piety and counterfeit zeal. So comprehensively has he hoodwinked Orgon that he looks set to succeed in driving away the son, marrying the daughter, seducing the wife and imprisoning Orgon. ...
|  | Faust the Theologian
Publication Date: January 31, 1997In this erudite and beautifully written book, an eminent scholar meditates on the theological implications of Goethe's Faust. Jaroslav Pelikan considers Goethe's statement that he was a pantheist when it came to science, a polytheist in art, and a monotheist in ethics, and he uses it for the first time to analyze Faust's development as a theologian -- thereby enabling us to see Goethe's masterpiece in a surprising new light. ...
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