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Author |
: Thornton Wilder |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015020701432 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Alcestiad by : Thornton Wilder
The Alcestiad by Thornton Wilder tells the story of Admetus, King of Thessaly (rich in horses), his wife Alcestis, and the triumphs and tragedies they endure as favorites of the god Apollo. Every major event in their marriage is a direct result of the interference of Apollo, though this is not made clear in The Alcestiad. Rather, the extent of Apollo’s involvement is made clear in the accompanying satyr play, The Drunken Sisters. --readingandruminations.wordpress.com.
Author |
: Richard A. Pundt |
Publisher |
: Archway Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 111 |
Release |
: 2020-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781480896871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 148089687X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Trumpestiad by : Richard A. Pundt
Unexpectedly, the ancient Greek God, Apollo, receives an inadvertent tweet from Donald Trump asking him to attend a White House rally. While there, Apollo encounters a personification of Dearth who received a similar tweet. The two overhear an argument between Donald Trump and Uncle Sam regarding the eight Pillars of Truth (Ethics, Integrity, Honesty, Loyalty, Courtesy, Reverence, Honor, and Justice) who President Trump has sent to hell. When Apollo, Dearth, and Uncle Sam decide to travel to hell to retrieve the Pillars of Truth, they meet Hades who is unable to find a place for the radiant Pillars. After listening to a discussion between Hades and each of the Pillars, Apollo devises a plan to bring the Pillars back to the United States. When Apollo, Uncle Sam, Dearth, and the Pillars of Truth return to the White House, the Greek God’s plan unfurls as he involves twelve of Trump’s followers, as a jury, and eventually has Dearth escort Trump, Fruity Rudy, Moscow Mitch, Bad Bar, and the Fox to see Hades. But what will happen when the audience becomes part of the plan? The Trumpestiad is a timely political satire that humorously brings into focus many of the bizarre events that have taken place in the United States for the past three years.
Author |
: Eran Almagor |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 438 |
Release |
: 2017-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004347724 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004347720 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture by : Eran Almagor
In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a comprehensive collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in popular media of the modern era (19th-21st centuries). These media include theatrical plays, cinematic representations, Television drama, popular newspapers or journals, poems and outdoor festivals. For the first time in Classical Reception Studies, ancient Jewish literature and imagery are included in the discussion. The focus of the volume is both the continuity and variance between ancient and modern sets of values, which appear in the new interpretations of the ancient stories, figures and protagonists.
Author |
: Thornton Wilder |
Publisher |
: Theatre Communications Grou |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1559361484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781559361484 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder by : Thornton Wilder
Volume II of Wilder's collected plays includes "The Angel That Troubled the Waters, Our Century, The Unerring Instinct", and "The Alcestiad, or a Life in the Sun", a little-known retelling of an ancient Greek legend.
Author |
: Thornton Wilder |
Publisher |
: Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2014-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781559368148 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1559368144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume II by : Thornton Wilder
The publication of volume two of this landmark collection celebrates the close of the centennial year of Thornton Wilder's birth. This volume collects 17 plays from the author's three-minute and five-minute plays for five actors series and includes the full-length play The Alcestiad, a major work by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth which has long been unavailable.
Author |
: Thornton Wilder |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:183270993 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Drunken Sisters by : Thornton Wilder
Author |
: Thomas S. Hischak |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2022-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538152409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538152401 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia by : Thomas S. Hischak
Thornton Wilder is one of America’s greatest writers, and the only author to win Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. Equally well known for his plays and novels, his unique and diverse body of work also includes essays, journals, lectures, and film and television scripts. In The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia, Thomas S. Hischak exhaustively covers Wilder’s life and extensive career. Entries not only contain every one of his novels, plays, and scripts, but also his letters, journals, and all other existing works by Wilder, published or unpublished. In addition, this valuable reference features entries on the individuals who worked with Wilder and friends and family members who were a great influence on him. With a biography of Wilder to introduce the work and a chronology and selected bibliography to augment the entries, The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference available on one of America’s greatest playwrights and finest novelists.
Author |
: Jackson R. Bryer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2018-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527523647 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527523640 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thornton Wilder in Collaboration by : Jackson R. Bryer
The essays in this volume evolved from papers presented at the Second International Thornton Wilder Conference, held at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 2015. They examine Wilder’s work as both playwright and novelist, focusing upon how he drew on the collaborative mode of creativity required in the theatre, when writing both drama and fiction. The book’s authors use the term “collaboration” in its broadest sense, at times in response to Wilder’s critics who faulted him for “borrowing” from other, earlier, literary works rather than recognizing these “borrowings” as central to the artistic process of collaboration. In exploring Wilder’s collaborative efforts of different kinds, the essays not only consider how Wilder worked with and revised earlier literary texts and the ideas central to those texts, but also analyze how Wilder worked with and inspired other creative individuals and how recent productions of Wilder’s plays, both in the US and abroad, have been the products of unique forms of collaboration.
Author |
: Billy J. Harbin |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 047206858X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472068586 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy by : Billy J. Harbin
Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
Author |
: Niall W. Slater |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 152 |
Release |
: 2013-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780934754 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780934750 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Euripides: Alcestis by : Niall W. Slater
In the Alcestis, the title character sacrifices her own life to save that of her husband, Admetus, when he is presented with the opportunity to have someone die in his place. Alcestis compresses within itself both tragedy and its apparent reversal, staging in the process fascinating questions about gender roles, family loyalties, the nature of heroism, and the role of commemoration. Alcestis is Euripides's earliest complete work and his only surviving play from the period preceding the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Currently dominant post-structuralist models of Greek tragedy focus on its 'oppositional' role in the discourse of war and public values. This study challenges not only this politicised model of tragic discourse but also both traditional masculinist and more recent feminist readings of the discourse and performance of gender in this remarkable play. The play survived in the performance repertoire of antiquity into the Roman period. Euripides' version strongly influenced the reception of the myth through the middles ages into the Renaissance, and the story enjoyed a lively afterlife through opera. Alcestis' contested reception in the last two centuries charts our changing understanding of tragedy. Niall Slater's study explores the reception and afterlife of the play, as well as its main themes, the myth before the play, the play's historical and social context and the central developments in modern criticism.