Author : Harold Clurman
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802150325
Contains the scripts of nine significant plays of the modern theater, written between 1944 and 1975 by playwrights including Harold Pinter, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Slawomir Mrozek, Tom Stoppard, and David Mamet.
Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1408177447
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language. The seventh volume of Brecht's Collected Plays contains the plays which Brecht wrote during his six-year stay in the United States from 1942 to 1948. The Visions of Simone Machard is a French resistance version of the Joan of Arc story. Schweyk in the Second World War transposes Hasek's 'good soldier' to the Prague of Hitler and Heydrich. The Caucasian Chalk Circle, based on the biblical story of the judgement of Solomon, was originally written for production on Broadway, with W. H. Auden responsible for the verse. A morality masterpiece, the play powerfully demonstrates Brecht's pioneering theatrical techniques and has since become one of his most popular works. The translations are ideal for both study and performance. The volume is accompanied by a full introduction and notes by the series editor John Willett and includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as all the important textual variants.
Author : Lynne Alpern
Publisher : Peachtree Junior
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780934601948
Author : Tazim R. Kassam
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 1995-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438408412
Coursing though cultures and time, tuneful verse has given moving expression to the human longing for the divine. As poetry strung on sweet melodies, hymns bear testimony to the religious life of the devout, and to the inspiring teachings of minstrels and saints. Such is the ginan tradition of the Satpanth Isma'ilis, Indian successors of the Fatand Nizari Isma'ili sect of the Shi'ah Muslims. Traditionally recited during daily ritual prayers, ginans have been revered for generations among the Satpanth Isma'ilis as sacred compositions. This work offers for the first time an extensive translation of hymns attributed to the Isma'ili saint-composer, Pir Shams (ca. 13th century), who is at once one of the most pivotal and yet most enigmatic figures of this literary tradition. It also presents a cogent historical reconstruction of the beginnings of Satpanth Isma'ilism--a phase of Isma'ili history that has spanned over eight centuries.
Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 1995-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226677163
Powell's monumental 12-part series traces the lives of a wide variety of characters in London from World War I until the 1960s.
Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1472538064
Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go to those who will make best use of them. Thanks to the rascally judge, Azdak, one of Brecht's most vivid creations, this story has a happy outcome: the child is entrusted to the peasant Grusha, who has loved and nurtured it. Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features an extensive introduction, Brecht's own notes on the play and a full appendix of textual variants. It is the standard critical edition of the work in an acclaimed translation by James and Tania Stern with W. H. Auden.
Author : John Albert Sleicher
Publisher :
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 1877
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Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1555 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
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Author : Peter Kloos
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Anthropology
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Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher :
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Drama
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