Author: Ödön von Horváth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783197889
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR (DON JUAN KOMMT AUS DEM KRIEG): The anti-hero of the title returns from the front in a fervour of despair. The girl he is searching for has died and the romantic ideal he is trying to construct is opposed by endless recriminations from the succession of women he encounters. Don Juan Comes Back from the War was first performed in this translation at the National Theatre in 1978. FIGARO GETS DIVORCED (FIGARO LÄSST SICH SCHEIGEN): An aristocratic couple and their two servants are on the run from a revolution. Their fortunes rise and fall against a background of social and political upheaval. Figaro Gets Divorced was premiered in this translation at the Gate Theatre in 1990.

Author: Odon Von Horvath
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612191207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, this dark, bizarre evocation of everyday life under fascism is available for the first time in thirty years. This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century’s great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience. An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with “a safe job with a pension at the end of it.” But, when he reprimands a student for a racist comment, he is accused of “sabotage of the Fatherland,” and his students revolt. A murder follows, and the teacher must face his role in it, even if it costs him everything. Horváth’s book both points to its immediate context—the brutalizing conformity of a totalitarian state, the emptiness of faith in the time of the National Socialists—and beyond, to the struggles of individuals everywhere against societies that offer material security in exchange for the abandonment of one’s convictions. Reminiscent of Camus’ The Stranger in its themes and its style, Youth Without God portrays a world of individual ruthlessness and collective numbness to the appeals of faith or morality. And yet, a commitment to the truth lifts the teacher and a small band of like-minded students out of this deepening abyss. It’s a reminder that such commitment did exist in those troubled times—indeed, they’re what led the author to flee Germany, first for Austria, and then France, where he met his death in a tragic accident, just two years after the publication of Youth Without God. Long out of print, this new edition resurrects a bracing and still-disturbing vision. “Horváth was telling the truth. Furiously.” —Shalom Auslander

Author: Wendy Lesser
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520212626
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Presents the details of director Stephen Daldry's work on the acclaimed play, "An Inspector Calls," in an attempt to reveal his intepretative approach to theater

Author: Sarah Stanton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521446549
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Derived from The Cambridge guide to theatre_

Author: Matthias Konzett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113594122X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1159

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Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Languages : en
Pages : 646

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Author: Martin Banham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521434379
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1268

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Provides information on the history and present practice of theater in the world.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1584

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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1526

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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1250

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