Author : Eugène Ionesco
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781936365517
A father improvises a story for his daughter about names, which she appears to take seriously, teaches her some idiosyncratic meanings for words, takes her on a fantastic airplane ride without ever leaving bed, and has her look where he is not.
Author : Eugène Ionesco
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802143181
Often called the father of the Theater of the Absurd, Eugène Ionesco wrote groundbreaking plays that are simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound. Now his classic one acts The Bald Soprano and The Lesson are available in an exciting new translation by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tina Howe, noted heir of Ionesco's absurdist vision, acclaimed by Frank Rich as "one of the smartest playwrights we have." In The Bald Soprano Ionesco throws together a cast of characters including the quintessential British middle-class family the Smiths, their guests the Martins, their maid Mary, and a fire chief determined to extinguish all fires -- including their hearths. It's an archetypical absurdist tale and Ionesco displays his profound take on the problems inherent in modern communication. The Lesson illustrates Ionesco's comic genius, where insanity and farce collide as a professor becomes increasingly frustrated with his hapless student, and the student with his mad teacher.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release :
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410392791
A Study Guide for Eugene Ionesco's "The Killer", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410356671
A Study Guide for Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410342573
A Study Guide for Eugene Ionesco's "The Chairs," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release :
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410340848
A Study Guide for Eugene Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Richard Coe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 100077127X
First published in 1971, Ionesco is a study of the plays written by the absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco. Eugene Ionesco’s play La Cantatrice Chauve, first presented in 1950, established him as one of the most provocative leaders of post-war ‘Theatre of the Absurd’. By 1970, his work had been performed by leading actors and companies all over the world. The author attempts to understand this enigmatic playwright and his plays, while trying to explore the reasons behind his quick popularity. This book will be of interest to students of literature, drama, philosophy, and history.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 1438116411
Eugene Ioneso's dramas still work in theaters thanks to what some critics call his primordial sense of the foundations of drama. This text examines some of his work, including The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, The Chair, and Rhinoceros
Author : Eugène Ionesco
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Conformity
ISBN :
In Rhinoceros, as in his earlier plays, Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. A rhinoceros suddenly appears in a small town, tramping through its peaceful streets. Soon there are two, then three, until the "movement" is universal: a transformation of average citizens into beasts, as they learn to move with the times. Finally, only one man remains. "I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end. I'm not capitulating!"
Author : Patrick M. O'Neil
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780761474739
This nicely illustrated reference for junior high and high school students offers 20-page profiles of 93 of the world's most influential writers of the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, each profile provides facts about the writer's life and works as well as a commentary on his or her significance, discussion of political and social events that occurred during his or her lifetime, a reader's guide to major works, and events, beliefs or traditions that inspired the writer's works.
