Author: Eugène Ionesco
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: Horne
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Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: Herbert Percy Horne
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Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Author: Eugene O'Neill
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Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Plautus
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141937912
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Molière and many others. In The Ghost, a dissolute son who has squandered his father's money is thrown into disarray when he returns from abroad, a theme that is explored further in the comedy of errors A Three-Dollar Day. In The Rope - regarded by many as the best of Plautus' plays - the shipwreck of a pimp and his slaves leads to the touching reunion of a father and his daughter, while Amphitryo, Plautus's only excursion into divine mythology, offers a cheerful account of how Jupiter became father to Hercules.

Author: Talat S. Halman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815609353
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Since the middle of the twentieth century, Turkish playwriting has been notable for its verve and versatility. This two-volume anthology is the first major collection of modern Turkish plays in English—a selection dealing with ancient Anatolian mythology, Ottoman history, contemporary social issues, family dramas, and ribald comedy from Turkey’s cities and rural areas. It also includes several plays set outside Turkey. The second volume, "I, Anatolia” and Other Plays, includes eight major plays from the 1970s through the end of the millennium. Together, both volumes grant to English readers the pleasure of riveting drama in translations that are colloquial as well as faithful. For producers, directors, and actors they provide a wealth of fresh, new material, with characters ranging from Ottoman sultans to a Soviet cosmonaut, from the Byzantine Empress Theodora to a fisherman’s wife, from residents of an Istanbul neighborhood to King Midas, from Montezuma to a Turkish cabinet minister.

Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826407061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Lessing was a playwright, scholar, poet, archeologist, philosopher, and critic. His genius is evident in the works collected in this volume, which includes the comedy Minna von Barnhelm, the tragedy Emilia, Galotti, Nathan the Wise, The Jews (and related correspondence), Ernst and Falk: Conversations for the Freemasons, and selections from philosophical and theological writings>

Author: Seneca
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141970944
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying death of Astyanax is recounted in Trojan Women, and Phaedra deals with forbidden love. In Oedipus a nervous man discovers himself, while Thyestes recounts the bitter family struggle for a crown. Of uncertain authorship, Octavia dramatizes Nero's divorce from his wife and her deportation. The only Latin tragedies to have survived complete, these plays are masterpieces of vibrant, muscular language and psychological insight.

Author: Olive Tilford Dargan
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 73

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This book is a collection of one-act plays penned by Olive Tilford Dargan and Frederick Peterson. Dargan was an American writer and poet, best remembered for 'Call Home the Heart' and 'A Stone Came Rolling' which were written as part of her 'Gastonia' novels. Peterson was an American neurologist and poet. He was also at the forefront of psychoanalysis in the United States, publishing one of the first articles of Freud and Jung's theories of Free Association. The two collaborated in writing four titles in total: 'The Flutter of the Goldleaf', 'The Journey', 'Everychild', and 'Two Doctors at Akragas'.

Author: Eugène Ionesco
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Four plays on the difficulty of man's retaining his individuality in modern society.