Author: Jean Claude Van Itallie
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822212034
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
THE STORIES: EAT CAKE. A biting satire in which a frowzy housewife, absorbed in her TV is visited by an eccentric rapist--whose demands are somewhat different from what might be anticipated. (1 man, 1 woman.) HAROLD. Two doctors examine a patient (p
Seven Short and Very Short Plays
Author: Jean Claude Van Itallie
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822212034
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
THE STORIES: EAT CAKE. A biting satire in which a frowzy housewife, absorbed in her TV is visited by an eccentric rapist--whose demands are somewhat different from what might be anticipated. (1 man, 1 woman.) HAROLD. Two doctors examine a patient (p
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822212034
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
THE STORIES: EAT CAKE. A biting satire in which a frowzy housewife, absorbed in her TV is visited by an eccentric rapist--whose demands are somewhat different from what might be anticipated. (1 man, 1 woman.) HAROLD. Two doctors examine a patient (p
Seven Short Plays
Author: Lady Gregory
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752335319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Seven Short Plays by Lady Gregory
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752335319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Seven Short Plays by Lady Gregory
After the Beep
Author: Seth Kramer
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871299031
Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871299031
Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Seven Short Novels
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393005523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"Anton Chekhov's best stories display a detached sympathy for the Russian people and a controversial skill in portraying the decaying world of czarist Russia. Though not a political man, Chekhov could be cutting in his criticisms of upper-class society, and he turned a lens on its manners and shortsightedness. His finely observed and sharp-as-nails writing created unforgettable characters." "In these short novels, Chekhov was interested, above all, in human relationships, especially mutual unintelligibility and frustration between lovers and the evolution of affection over time. "The Duel," "My Life," and "Ward No. 6" are intimate portraits of individuals and their predicaments, while "A Woman's Kingdom," "Peasants," "Three Years," and "In the Ravine" depict the social milieu on a much larger scale than was possible in his shorter stories."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393005523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"Anton Chekhov's best stories display a detached sympathy for the Russian people and a controversial skill in portraying the decaying world of czarist Russia. Though not a political man, Chekhov could be cutting in his criticisms of upper-class society, and he turned a lens on its manners and shortsightedness. His finely observed and sharp-as-nails writing created unforgettable characters." "In these short novels, Chekhov was interested, above all, in human relationships, especially mutual unintelligibility and frustration between lovers and the evolution of affection over time. "The Duel," "My Life," and "Ward No. 6" are intimate portraits of individuals and their predicaments, while "A Woman's Kingdom," "Peasants," "Three Years," and "In the Ravine" depict the social milieu on a much larger scale than was possible in his shorter stories."--BOOK JACKET.
A Selective List of Plays for Amateurs ...
Author: Drama League of America. Boston Center
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Plays for Amateurs
Author: Frederick Henry Koch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Once Upon a Texas
Author: I. E. Clark
Publisher: I. E. Clark Publications
ISBN: 9780886802387
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher: I. E. Clark Publications
ISBN: 9780886802387
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Wisconsin Library Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Profane Book of Irish Comedy
Author: David Krause
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501744011
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A fierce mirth characterizes antic Irish comedy. To the degree to which everyone sympathizes with the need to mock repressive authority, everyone is potentially Irish. It is the Irish dramatists themselves, says David Krause, that are the true authors of the profane book of Irish comedy. The body of literature they have produced desecrates the sacred in Ireland and launches a sardonic attack on the queen of Irish nationalism, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, the old sow who, according to Joyce's tragicomic jest, tries to devour her creative farrow. Krause discusses the major works of fourteen Irish playwrights—Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Dion Boucicault, William Boyle, Paul Vincent Carroll, George Fitzmaurice, Lady Gregory, Denis Johnston, Sean O'Casey, Lennox Robinson, Bernard Shaw, George Shields, J. M. Synge, and W. B. Yeats—and shows the ways in which these works are linked, emotionally and thematically, to early Gaelic literature and the tradition of the mythic pagan playboy Oisin or Usheen. As the last great pagan hero of Ireland, Oisin emerges as an archetype for the many playboys and paycocks of Irish comedy. Oisin was the antithesis of St. Patrick, the first great Christian saint of Ireland, who, condemning pleasure and threatening eternal damnation, came to represent all authority. The bearers of this dark and wild Celtic tradition, which Synge and O'Casey associated with a daimonic or barbarous impulse, laugh irreverently at their own creations. This laughter, the laughter of the culture's mythmakers, brings with it emotional relief, comic catharsis.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501744011
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A fierce mirth characterizes antic Irish comedy. To the degree to which everyone sympathizes with the need to mock repressive authority, everyone is potentially Irish. It is the Irish dramatists themselves, says David Krause, that are the true authors of the profane book of Irish comedy. The body of literature they have produced desecrates the sacred in Ireland and launches a sardonic attack on the queen of Irish nationalism, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, the old sow who, according to Joyce's tragicomic jest, tries to devour her creative farrow. Krause discusses the major works of fourteen Irish playwrights—Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Dion Boucicault, William Boyle, Paul Vincent Carroll, George Fitzmaurice, Lady Gregory, Denis Johnston, Sean O'Casey, Lennox Robinson, Bernard Shaw, George Shields, J. M. Synge, and W. B. Yeats—and shows the ways in which these works are linked, emotionally and thematically, to early Gaelic literature and the tradition of the mythic pagan playboy Oisin or Usheen. As the last great pagan hero of Ireland, Oisin emerges as an archetype for the many playboys and paycocks of Irish comedy. Oisin was the antithesis of St. Patrick, the first great Christian saint of Ireland, who, condemning pleasure and threatening eternal damnation, came to represent all authority. The bearers of this dark and wild Celtic tradition, which Synge and O'Casey associated with a daimonic or barbarous impulse, laugh irreverently at their own creations. This laughter, the laughter of the culture's mythmakers, brings with it emotional relief, comic catharsis.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description