Author: Isabella Augusta GregoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The image and other plays
Author: Isabella Augusta GregoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Image, and Other Plays
Author: Lady GregoryMany Loves and Other Plays
Author: William Carlos WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202329
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
For this volume, originally published in cloth in 1961, William Carlos Williams collected, and revised, four full-length plays and the libretto of an opera on George Washington. As might be expected of the man who did most in our time to create a new and truly "American" idiom for poetry, Dr. Williams' writing for the stage challenges producers and actors to extend the range of modern drama.
The Image, and Other Plays
Author: Lady GregoryThe Traveling Companion and Other Plays
Author: Tennessee WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217088
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"Collected here for the first time, these twelve plays embrace what Time magazine called "the four major concerns of Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival"--Back cover.
The Infernal Machine, and Other Plays
Author: Jean CocteauPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200226
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced.
The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays
Author: Margaret Cavendish Duchess of NewcastlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and original woman writer of the Restoration. Cavendish is the author of many poems, short stories, biographies, memoirs, letters, philosophical and scientific works (including The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World, the first work of science fiction by a woman), and nineteen plays. "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays collects four of Cavendish's dramatic works that are among the most revealing of her attitudes toward marriage and her desire for fame. Loves Adventures (1662) centers on a woman succeeding in war and diplomacy by passing as a man. Similarly, the heroine of Bell in Campo (1662) rescues her husband at the head of an army of women in this tale of a marriage of near equals. The Convent of Pleasure (1668) proposes a separatist community of women and has received attention for its suggestion of lesbian sexuality. The Bridals (1662), a more typical restoration comedy satirizing marriage, rounds out the collection. Edited with notes and annotation by Anne Shaver, "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays also contains a timeline, biography and bibliography of the Duchess, an appreciation of Cavendish's life and work, and a bibliography of critical essays. Also included are all of Cavendish's epistles To the Reader as well as Other Preliminary Matter from Playes (1662), and Cavendish's original preface to Plays Never Before Printed (1668). A valuable collection from an extraordinary writer, "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays raises important issues about women and gender.
The Rover
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher: Joe Books Ltd
ISBN: 1987955684
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The magic of Naples during Carnival inspires love between a disparate group of local citizens and visiting Englishmen.
The Image, and Other Plays
Author: Isabella Augusta GregoryPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290116299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The Public and Play Without a Title
Author: Federico García LorcaPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208819
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Federico Garcia Lorca called The Public "the best thing I've written for the theater." Yet, he acknowledged, "this is for the theater years from now." Now, half a century later, The Public and another of Lorca's most daring works, Play without a Title, are available in English translation for the first time. Surrealism, folk theater, poetry, vivid costumes, black humor--in the The Public, dramatic traditions are ransacked to develop themes as timely in the 1980s as they were taboo when Lorca was writing: if Romeo were a man of thirty and Juliet a boy of fifteen, would their passion be any less authentic? No, says a young observer of the play within the play, "I who climb the mountain twice each day and, when I finish studying, tend an enormous herd of bulls that I've got to struggle with and overpower at every instant, I don't have time to think about whether Juliet's a man or a woman or a child, but only to observe that I like her with such a joyous desire." In both The Public and Play without a Title, the player himself is of as much consequence as the role he plays. The fierce, stark Play without a Title, with its cast of Author, Prompter, Stagehand in the wings, and hecklers in the gallery, clearly heralds developments in today's avant-garde theater. It also reflects the violence of the times in which it was written. As Carlos Bauer notes in his introduction, neither of the plays in this volume was complete in 1936, when Lorca was assassinated by Franco's forces. Still, both have here the unity and grace of finished tours de force.