Author: Lurana Donnels O'Malley
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754656289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote her political ideals and ideology.
The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great
Author: Lurana Donnels O'Malley
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754656289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote her political ideals and ideology.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754656289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote her political ideals and ideology.
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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The dramatic works
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The Complete Dramatic Works
Author: Samuel Beckett
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ISBN: 9780571229154
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure, not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land, who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere.' - Hugh Kenner Contents: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, All That Fall, Acts Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for the Theatre, Embers, Roughs for the Radio, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio,...but the clouds..., A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und Traume, What Where.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571229154
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure, not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land, who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere.' - Hugh Kenner Contents: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, All That Fall, Acts Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for the Theatre, Embers, Roughs for the Radio, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio,...but the clouds..., A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und Traume, What Where.
The Dramatic Works
Author: Ben Jonson
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Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Languages : en
Pages : 784
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The Dramatic Works
Author: Susannah Centlivre
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Author: Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441159746
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441159746
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Languages : en
Pages : 994
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The Dramatic Works of John Webster
Author: John Webster
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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The Dramatic Works of Molière
Author: Molière
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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