Author: Archibald HendersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
European Dramatists
Author: Archibald HendersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Chief European Dramatists
Author: Brander MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
Book Description
Twenty one plays from the drama of Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Norway from 500 B. C. to 1879 A.
Contemporary European Playwrights
Author: Maria M. DelgadoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351620533
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent’s society and culture, and whose work is still in dialogue with Europe today. Traversing borders and languages, this volume offers a fresh approach to analyzing plays in production by some of the most widely-performed European playwrights, assessing how their work has revealed new meanings and theatrical possibilities as they move across the continent, building an unprecedented picture of the contemporary European repertoire. With chapters by leading scholars and contributions by the writers themselves, the chapters bring playwrights together to examine their work as part of a network and genealogy of writing, examining how these plays embody and interrogate the nature of contemporary Europe. Written for students and scholars of European theatre and playwriting, this book will leave the reader with an understanding of the shifting relationships between the subsidized and commercial, the alternative and the mainstream stage, and political stakes of playmaking in European theatre since 1989.
Greek Drama and Dramatists
Author: Alan H. SommersteinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134509847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The history of European drama began at the festivals of Dionysus in ancient Athens, where tragedy, satyr-drama and comedy were performed. Understanding this background is vital for students of classical, literary and theatrical subjects, and Alan H. Sommerstein's accessible study is the ideal introduction. The book begins by looking at the social and theatrical contexts and different characteristics of the three genres of ancient Greek drama. It then examines the five main dramatists whose works survive - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and Menander - discussing their styles, techniques and ideas, and giving short synopses of all their extant plays. Additional helpful features include succinct coverage of almost sixty other authors, a chronology of significant people and events, and an anthology of translated texts, all of which have been previously inaccessible to students. An up-to-date study bibliography of further reading concludes the volume. Clear, concise and comprehensive, and written by an acknowledged expert in the field, Greek Drama and Dramatists will be a valuable orientation text at both sixth form and undergraduate level.
A-E
Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging PolicyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1548
Book Description
Europe on Stage
Author: Gunilla AndermanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783192291
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
For any play originating in a different culture and society to be favourably received in English translation, timing and other factors of reception are often as important as the purely linguistic aspects. This book focuses on the problems of reception and translation into English encountered by European playwrights now regularly staged at British theatres, such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Brecht, Anouilh, Lorca and Pirandello, among others. Introduced by discussions highlighting different approaches to translation in general and the difficulties inherent in the translation of drama in particular, the book concludes by looking at what is lost in translation and the means by which adaptions and new versions may help to restore the balance.
On Golden Pond
Author: Ernest ThompsonPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822208488
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
THE STORY: This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory--but still as tart-tongue
Watch on the Rhine
Author: Lillian HellmanPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822212232
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
THE STORY: Concerns an idealistic German who, with his American wife and two children, flees Hitler's Germany and finds sanctuary with his wife's family in the United States. He hopes for a respite from the dangerous work in which he has been invol
The Baltimore Waltz
Author: Paula VogelPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822213598
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: When Anna, an unmarried schoolteacher, is diagnosed with ATD, Acquired Toilet Disease, a fatal new malady with a high risk factor for elementary school teachers, she and her brother Carl take flight to Europe. Anna decides she wants to d
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