Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians PDF Author:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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The Grove Plays of the Bohemian Club

The Grove Plays of the Bohemian Club PDF Author: Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Rhinoceros, and Other Plays

Rhinoceros, and Other Plays PDF Author: Eugène Ionesco
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
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Category : Conformity
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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In Rhinoceros, as in his earlier plays, Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. A rhinoceros suddenly appears in a small town, tramping through its peaceful streets. Soon there are two, then three, until the "movement" is universal: a transformation of average citizens into beasts, as they learn to move with the times. Finally, only one man remains. "I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end. I'm not capitulating!"

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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The Collected Shorter Plays

The Collected Shorter Plays PDF Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802144381
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Collects over twenty short plays published by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Includes his mimes, radio and television plays, screenplay, and adaptations of other's works.

Brecht and Company

Brecht and Company PDF Author: John Fuegi
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802139108
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 804

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The result of twenty-five years of research on three continents, Brecht and Company is a revolutionary portrait of one of the world's greatest theater artists -- and the people upon whom he built his reputation. A noted Brecht scholar, John Fuegi traces the evolution of Brecht's parasitic relationships and aggressive ambition through close analysis of diaries, letters, and drafts of the literary works, revealing a man who was personally dazzling, a genius at assembling and directing the plays created in his workshop, but ultimately lacking in literary stamina, for which he depended on his lovers. A landmark study about the life and times of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century theater, Brecht and Co. will forever change our understanding of Brecht and his oeuvre. "[An] enormous, fascinating biography." -- The New Yorker "One of the most important critical studies of the century." -- New York Magazine

The Green Knight

The Green Knight PDF Author: Porter Garnett
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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A Free Man of Color

A Free Man of Color PDF Author: John Guare
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802145663
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold, and class, racial and political lines were drawn, New Orleans was a carnival of beautiful women, flowing wine and pleasure for the taking. At the center of this Dionysian world is the mulatto Jacques Cornet, who commands men, seduces women and preens like a peacock. But, it is 1801 and the map of New Orleans is about to be redrawn. The Louisiana Purchase brings American rule and racial segregation to the chaotic, colorful world of Jacques Cornet and all that he represents, turning the tables on freedom and liberty.

Theatre West

Theatre West PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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The Ubu Plays

The Ubu Plays PDF Author: Alfred Jarry
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 9780802199058
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Alfred Jarry is regarded as one of the founders of modern avant-garde theatre— “Dada, Surrealism, Pataphysics, Theatre of Cruelty, the Absurd—all owe a debt to Jarry.” (Encore) This volume contains his three classic Ubu texts: Ubu Roi, Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaîné. Through the lucid translations of Connolly and Taylor, the reader comes to realize that the violent and loathsome Ubu is Jarry’s dark metaphor for man in the modern age. As Ubu himself said, “We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well.”

The Dream Structure of Pinter's Plays

The Dream Structure of Pinter's Plays PDF Author: Lucina Paquet Gabbard
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838618486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Approaches the problems of obscurities, ambiguities, and interrelationships in Pinter's plays through the mechanisms of the dream and shows that the plays group around the oedipal wish.