Author: Molière
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: Moliere
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Molière
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Author: Oscar Mandel
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803281370
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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"Many good things are provided for our instruction and delight in this handsome volume. Chief among them perhaps, and most keenly wanted in a collection of this sort . . . are sanity and wit."?The Romanic Review "A most interesting literary history of the Don Juan theme with the plays or works themselves serving as illustrations. Professor Mandel's general introduction and his shorter introductions and commentaries throughout the book are solid, wise, and engaging."?Robert E. Taylor, Renaissance News "This anthology is exhaustive and informative, expertly translated, and, by virtue of its subject, damned exciting."?Quarterly Journal of Speech "[The translations] are lively and . . . quite faithful to the originals. . . . The long introduction could well stand alone: fruitful in original observations on the nature of Don Juan, spirited, argu-mentative, and quite personal."?Armand F. Singer, Hispania The eternal Don Juan, the creation more than 350 years ago of a monk and dramatist known as Tirso de Molina, has appeared on the boards as a thinker and fool, hero and villain, but never as anything less than a great lover. Oscar Mandel's Theatre of Don Juan presents different aspects of the Don's spectacular progress through a half-dozen countries, epochs, and intellectual climates. Here are full-length plays by Molina, Moli_re, Shadwell, Da Ponte, Grabbe, Moncrieff, Zorrilla, and Rostand; excerpts from plays by Shaw, Montherlant, and Frisch; plus a dozen critical and interpretative essays. In his introduction, Mandel examines the legend of Don Juan.

Author: John Smeed
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000357384
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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First published in 1990, Don Juan: Variations on a Theme explores the differing perceptions of this famous character following his first appearance on the European stage in the early seventeenth century. The book concentrates on the ways in which perceptions of Don Juan’s character have altered in response to changes in social and moral values. It examines famous Don Juan works, including those by Moliere, Byron, Pushkin, Shaw, Anouilh, and Max Frisch, and relates them to these changing views. It also looks at a variety of other plays, poems, and novels on this theme, and highlights the important role of music in Don Juan’s history. The book concludes with a consideration of Don Juan’s lasting popularity and whether it has run its course. Don Juan: Variations on a Theme will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of Don Juan, comparative literature, and European literature.

Author: Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791436660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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An essential guide for those who seek to reconsider the theoretical problems of (trans-civilizational) comparative literature, those who are interested in the literary and cultural history of modern East Asian countries, and those with a general interest in issues of sexuality.

Author: Molière
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782040005634
Category : French drama (Comedy)
Languages : fr
Pages : 127

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Author: Molière
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Category : Don Juan (Legendary character) in literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 196

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"L'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus" : voilà comment Dom Juan se justifie auprès de son valet Sganarelle, scandalisé de voir son maître tromper tout le monde autour de lui, des femmes les plus naïves qu'il séduit sans vergogne aux hommes les plus nobles qu'il mène par le bout du nez sans se démonter. De fait, Dom Juan n'a qu'une ambition : jouir de tous les plaisirs, sans jamais céder aux sirènes de la morale. Il lui faut toutes les voluptés et il les obtient facilement en manipulant ses victimes avec des mots trompeurs. Seule la mort pourrait l'arrêter : n'est-ce pas elle justement qui vient le chercher, lorsque la statue du commandeur s'anime sous ses yeux?

Author: Lincoln Kirstein
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486246314
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Traces the development of dance's basic components, choreography, gesture, music, costume, and scenery, and discusses the backgrounds of the most important ballets

Author: Lord Byron
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1056

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Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. As a young man he is precocious sexually, and has an affair with a friend of his mother. The husband finds out, and Don Juan is sent away to Cádiz. On the way, he is shipwrecked, survives and meets the daughter of a pirate, whose men sell Don Juan as a slave. A young woman, who is a member of a sultan's harem, sees that this slave is purchased. She disguises him as a girl and sneaks him into her chambers. Don Juan escapes, joins the Russian army and rescues a Muslim girl named Leila. Don Juan meets Catherine the Great, who asks him to join her court. Don Juan becomes sick, is sent to England, where he finds someone to watch over Leila. Moving from one place to the next, Don Juan encounters new women and new adventures.