Plays On The Passions
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Author |
: Joanna Baillie |
Publisher |
: Broadview Press |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 2001-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1551111853 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781551111858 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plays on the Passions by : Joanna Baillie
Baillie’s eminently readable dramas stand at the crossroads of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Romanticism, and compellingly engage with questions of women’s rights. Her exploration of the passions, first published in 1798, is here reissued with a wealth of contextual materials including “The Introductory Discourse,” Baillie’s own brand of feminist literary criticism. The three plays included here are “Count Basil: A Tragedy,” and “The Tryal: A Comedy,” which show love from opposing perspectives; and “De Monfort: A Tragedy,” which explores the drama of hate. Among other appendices, the Broadview edition includes materials on the contemporary philosophical understanding of the passions, and contemporary reviews. Baillie’s work is enjoying a revival of interest. She lived a long life, (1762-1851), and had a wide circle of literary friends including Maria Edgeworth and Sir Walter Scott (who termed her a “female Shakespeare”). Scottish born, she moved to England in her twenties where she then resided. Her Plays on the Passions, alternatively known as A Series of Plays in which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind—Each Passion being the Subject of a Tragedy and Comedy was produced in three volumes between 1798 and 1812. The first volume created quite a stir amongst the literary circles of London and Edinburgh when introduced anonymously. The speculation into the authorship concluded two years later when Baillie came forward as the writer of the collection, thereby causing a subsequent sensation since no one had considered the shy spinster a candidate in the mystery.
Author |
: Alessandro Schiesaro |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2003-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139440219 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139440217 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Passions in Play by : Alessandro Schiesaro
This monograph is devoted to the most important of Seneca's tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from Shakespeare to Antonin Artaud. Thyestes emerges as the mastertext of 'Silver' Latin poetry, and as an original reflection on the nature of theatre comparable to Euripides' Bacchae. The book analyses the complex structure of the play, its main themes, the relationship between Seneca's vibrant style and his obsession with dark issues of revenge and regression. Substantial discussion of other plays - especially Trojan Women, Oedipus and Medea - permits a comprehensive re-evaluation of Seneca's poetics and its pivotal role in post-Virgilian literature. Topics explored include the relationship between Seneca's plays and his theory of the emotions, the connection between poetic inspiration and the Underworld, and Seneca's treatment of time, which, in a perspective informed by psychoanalysis, is seen as a central preoccupation of Senecan tragedy.
Author |
: Stephen Sondheim |
Publisher |
: Theatre Communications Grou |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1559360887 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781559360883 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Passion by : Stephen Sondheim
The newest Broadway musical by Pulitzer Prize-winning collaborators Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1994.
Author |
: Sarah Ruhl |
Publisher |
: Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 163 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780573699085 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0573699089 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Passion Play by : Sarah Ruhl
An exploration of the relationships between religion, performance, and life. Part I is set in 1575 in an English village whose traditional annual passion-play is about to be outlawed by Queen Elizabeth's anti-Catholic rulings; Part II is set in Oberammergau, 1934, as the town and the play are becoming Nazified; Part III takes place in an American small town from 1969 through the Reagan era and the present.
Author |
: Beth Henley |
Publisher |
: Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822202506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822202509 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crimes of the Heart by : Beth Henley
THE STORY: The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried
Author |
: Joseph R. Roach |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472082442 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472082445 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Player's Passion by : Joseph R. Roach
Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage
Author |
: Vita Sackville-West |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 2017-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525433989 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525433988 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis All Passion Spent by : Vita Sackville-West
Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane—a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India—everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle Lady Slane has other ideas. First she defies the patronizing meddling of her children and escapes to a rented house in Hampstead. There, to her offspring’s utter amazement, she revels in her new freedom, recalls her youthful ambitions, and gathers some very unsuitable companions—who reveal to her just how much she had sacrificed under the pressure of others’ expectations.
Author |
: Mark Schroeder |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2007-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199299508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199299501 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slaves of the Passions by : Mark Schroeder
Mark Schroeder presents an original theory of reasons for action. This theory is broadly Humean, in holding that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires. Slaves of the Passions will be essential reading for anyone interested in metaethics, practical reason, or explanatory moral theory.
Author |
: René Descartes |
Publisher |
: Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 1989-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781624661983 |
ISBN-13 |
: 162466198X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Passions of the Soul by : René Descartes
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives PART III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index Locorum
Author |
: Nicole Eustace |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 624 |
Release |
: 2012-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807838792 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807838799 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Passion Is the Gale by : Nicole Eustace
At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings and passions to all humankind and made common emotions the basis of natural rights. In Passion Is the Gale, Nicole Eustace describes the promise and the problems of this crucial social and political transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America. From Pennsylvania newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, correspondence, commonplace books, and literary texts, Eustace identifies the explicit vocabulary of emotion as a medium of human exchange. Alternating between explorations of particular emotions in daily social interactions and assessments of emotional rhetoric's functions in specific moments of historical crisis (from the Seven Years War to the rise of the patriot movement), she makes a convincing case for the pivotal role of emotion in reshaping power relations and reordering society in the critical decades leading up to the Revolution. As Eustace demonstrates, passion was the gale that impelled Anglo-Americans forward to declare their independence--collectively at first, and then, finally, as individuals.