Five Plays

Five Plays
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : 0140432191
ISBN-13 : 9780140432190
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Five Plays by : Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.

Five Plays

Five Plays
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9780804775748
ISBN-13 : 0804775745
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Five Plays by : Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) overturned the dramatic conventions of his day and laid the groundwork for contemporary approaches to directing and acting. Now, for the first time, the full lyricism, humor, and pathos of his greatest plays are available to an English-speaking audience. Marina Brodskaya's new translations of Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard not only surpass in accuracy all previous translations, but also provide the first complete English text of the plays, restoring passages entirely omitted by her predecessors. This much-needed volume renders Chekhov in language that will move readers and theater audiences alike, making accessible his wordplay, unstated implications, and innovations. His characters' vulnerabilities, needs, and neuroses—their humanity—emerge through their genuine, self-absorbed conversations. The plays come to life as never before and will surprise readers with their vivacity, originality, and relevance.

Chekhov

Chekhov
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Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015060604843
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Synopsis Chekhov by : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Curt Columbus endows these timeless dramas Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard with dialogue that is faithful to the russian original but dazzlingly attuned to contemporary audiences.

Five Major Plays

Five Major Plays
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Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0804902089
ISBN-13 : 9780804902083
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Five Major Plays by : Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermer's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, Salome', A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband.

Five Great Greek Tragedies

Five Great Greek Tragedies
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9780486113883
ISBN-13 : 0486113884
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Five Great Greek Tragedies by : Sophocles

Features Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson).

Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821

Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 0192833162
ISBN-13 : 9780192833167
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821 by : Paul Baines

During the period of European revolutions the British Romantic theatre found itself reexaming the whole cast of social and sexual relations. The five plays grouped here represent some of the most radical and unusual examples of Romantic drama: Horace Walpole invented gothic melodrama with hisincest tragedy, The Mysterious Mother (1768), and Robert Southey imagined the theatre as a site of revolutionary protest in Wat Tyler (1794). Joanna Baillie's psychological case study in aristocratic hatred, De Monfort (1768) was thought too alarming to have been written by a woman, while ElizabethInchbald's hugely successful Lovers' Vows (1798) was sufficiently subversive for Jane Austen to analyse some of its illicit potential in Mansfield Park (1814). Byron's strenuous tragedy The Two Foscari (1821) explores an inescapable conflict between parental love and political authority. The stageimagined by these writers is an arena of tense and embattled desires, with sexual and political claims mapped onto the same conflicts of power. This exciting edition is the only one of its kind and provides the first authorized texts of the plays complete with fully-researched reference to majorauthorial revision.

The Complete Major Prose Plays

The Complete Major Prose Plays
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Publisher : New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Total Pages : 1143
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ISBN-10 : 0374174148
ISBN-13 : 9780374174149
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Complete Major Prose Plays by : Henrik Ibsen

Ibsen's twelve outstanding plays, from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken, are accompanied by brief introductions illuminating the distinctive features of each

Five Plays

Five Plays
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 0300049056
ISBN-13 : 9780300049053
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Five Plays by : Heinrich Von Kleist

Five Plays by Anton Chekhov

Five Plays by Anton Chekhov
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 0615874304
ISBN-13 : 9780615874302
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Five Plays by Anton Chekhov by : Libby Appel

New Versions by Libby Appel From Literal Translations by Allison Horsley

The Seven Basic Plots

The Seven Basic Plots
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 738
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ISBN-10 : 9780826480378
ISBN-13 : 0826480373
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Seven Basic Plots by : Christopher Booker

This volume provides an analysis of stories' plot structures and their psychological meanings, attempting to distill all of storytelling down to a few archetypes. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., the author leads readers through the changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. He analyzes why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years.