Author: Penrhy Vaughan ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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The Plays of Eugene Brieux
Author: Penrhy Vaughan ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Damaged Goods The Great Play “Les Avaries” Of Eugene Brieux Novelized With The Approval Of The Author
Author: Upton SinclairPublisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Delve into the powerful world of social drama with "Damaged Goods: The Great Play ‘Les Avariés’ of Eugene Brieux, Novelized with the Approval of the Author" by Upton Sinclair. This thought-provoking novel sheds light on one of the most controversial topics of its time: the consequences of sexual health negligence and societal ignorance. Adapted from Brieux's landmark play, Sinclair brings the moral and ethical dilemmas faced by individuals and society into sharp focus. How do we confront the devastating impact of a silent epidemic that no one dares to talk about? In this daring and emotional narrative, Sinclair tackles issues of shame, medical neglect, and the heavy burden of secrecy. The story follows the lives of individuals grappling with the effects of syphilis, a disease cloaked in stigma, and how their personal struggles reflect the broader societal indifference to public health. But here’s the real question: Can a society move forward if it refuses to address the very issues that silently tear it apart? Will the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, finally come to light, or will it remain hidden behind a veil of silence? "Damaged Goods" is not just a novel; it’s a call to action. Sinclair’s adaptation of Brieux’s play is a bold commentary on the dangers of ignoring uncomfortable truths and the urgent need for change. Are you ready to confront the harsh realities society hides? Order "Damaged Goods" today and witness a fearless exploration of one of the greatest social issues of the modern age.
Three plays
Author: Eugene BrieuxBernard Shaw on Cinema
Author: Bernard ShawPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809321551
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
When an interviewer asked Bernard Shaw whether, "speaking personally", he would prefer to see the English and Americans "become drama and variety fans as of old, rather than movie fans", Shaw replied, "Speaking personally, I should prefer to see them become Shaw fans". With his customary wit and quite often with remarkable prescience, Shaw began a dialogue on cinema that ran almost from the infancy of the industry in 1908 until his death in 1950. Bernard F. Dukore presents the first collection of Bernard Shaw's writings and oral statements about cinema. Of the more than one hundred comments Dukore has selected, fifty-nine -- more than half -- are new to today's readers. Twelve are previously unpublished, one is published in full for the first time, and forty-six appear in a collected edition of Shaw's writings for the first time since their publication in newspapers and magazines. Very early in the life of cinema, Shaw perceived that as an invention, movies would be more momentous than the printing press because they appealed to the illiterate as well as the literate, to the manual laborer at the end of an exhausting day as well as to the person with more leisure. He predicted that cinema would form people's minds and shape their conduct. He recognized that cinema's "colossal proportions make mediocrity compulsory" by leveling art and life down to the blandest morality and to the lowest common denominator of potential audiences throughout the world. By 1908, Shaw was familiar with experiments synchronizing movies and sound. When talkies arrived, he discerned that they would precipitate major changes in acting, writing, and economics. He also saw how they would affect live theatre:"The theatre may survive as a place where people are taught to act", he said in 1930, "but apart from that there will be nothing but 'talkies' soon". At that time, few people in the theatrical profession were making such prophecies, at least not in public.
Theatre Magazine
Author: Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes
Author: Frank G. Novak Jr.Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134813791
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
I am a disciple of Patrick Geddes, and I am an abject admirer of everything he has said and done. The tantalising nearness of everything we most want; were it not for some fatal, stubborn grain in both of us, Geddes and I, linked together, intellectual and emotional, might still conquer the world. For lack of this, he will be imperfectly articulate and I, perhaps, will have nothing to say. These two comments by Lewis Mumford, written at either end of his largely epistolary relationship with Patrick Geddes, frame an astonishing correspondence between two of our century's greatest thinkers on Western civilisation. Mumford was the versatile New York cultural critic, famous for his writings on architecture, the city and technology. His master, Geddes, was the Scots biologist, sociologist and planner, the professor of things in general. The letters reveal much about the intellectual culture of the first half of the Twentieth Century as they chart an extraordinary Anglo-American relationship between very different men; this friendship, initially of master and disciple, even father/son, was based on a shared intellectual quest, and inspired the work of both. All that exists of those letters, and much previously unpublished material besides, has been meticulously collected and edited by Frank G. Novak Jnr..
Our Players' Gallery
Author: W. J. ThoroldPublisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Harper's Weekly
Author: John BonnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Calder: The Conquest of Time
Author: Jed PerlPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0451494210
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography, which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal. This beautifully written, deeply researched book opens with Calder's wonderfully peripatetic upbringing in Philadelphia, California, and New York. Born in 1898 into a family of artists--his father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter and a pioneering feminist--Calder went on as an adult to forge important friendships with a who's who of twentieth-century artists, including Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian. We move through Calder's early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s, and to his emergence as a leader in the international abstract avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James--she was a great-niece of Henry James--is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and nuance. Calder's life takes on a transatlantic richness, from New York's Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to the Left Bank of Paris during the Depression, and then back to the United States, where the Calders bought a run-down old farmhouse in western Connecticut. New light is shed on Calder's lifelong interest in dance, theater, and performance, ranging from the Cirque Calder, the theatrical event that became his calling card in bohemian Paris to collaborations with the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Virgil Thomson. More than 350 illustrations in color and black-and-white--including little-known works and many archival photographs that have never before been seen--further enrich the story.
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