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This book imagines the inner life of a scientific genius, mother, wife and lover in both verse and prose poems; an immersion in Marie Curie's life.
Author : Douglas Smith
Publisher : Wolsak and Wynn
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
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This book imagines the inner life of a scientific genius, mother, wife and lover in both verse and prose poems; an immersion in Marie Curie's life.
Author : João Paulo André
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
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ISBN : 303157124X
Author : João Paulo André
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
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ISBN : 3031571363
Author : Joseph Fisher
Publisher : Baker's Plays
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874401653
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 1898
Category : English drama
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Author : Robert ter Horst
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0813187710
Although Pedro Calderón de la Barca was one of the greatest and most prolific playwrights of Spain's Golden Age, most of his nonallegorical comedias—118 in all—have remained unknown. Robert ter Horst presents here the first full-length study of these works, a sustained, meditative analysis dealing with more than 80 plays, conveying a sense of the whole of Calderón's secular theater. To approach so vast a body of literature, Mr. ter Horst examines the meaning and function in Calderón of three broad subjects—myth, honor, and history—the warp threads across which the playwright weaves a subtle tapestry of contrasts, dualities, and conflicts: the private person versus the public person, the inner realm versus the outer, masculine against feminine, poet against prince. The Calderón who emerges is a consciously consummate artist whose lifelong study was the passions of the human mind and body. In addition, he is seen as a synthesizer of his Spanish literary heritage and especially as a brilliant adapter of Cervantes' insights to the stage. Robert ter Horst's profound and far-ranging analysis sheds light on many fine works previously neglected and finds new depths in such supreme achievements as No hay cosa como callar, El segundo Escipión, and La vida es suefio.
Author : Rush Rehm
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1400825075
Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space, noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial parameters of Greek tragedy as performed in the open-air theater of Dionysus. Emphasizing the interplay between natural place and fictional setting, between the world visible to the audience and that evoked by individual tragedies, Rehm argues for an ecology of the ancient theater, one that "nests" fifth-century theatrical space within other significant social, political, and religious spaces of Athens. Drawing on the work of James J. Gibson, Kurt Lewin, and Michel Foucault, Rehm crosses a range of disciplines--classics, theater studies, cognitive psychology, archaeology and architectural history, cultural studies, and performance theory--to analyze the phenomenology of space and its transformations in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. His discussion of Athenian theatrical and spatial practice challenges the contemporary view that space represents a "text" to be read, or constitutes a site of structural dualities (e.g., outside-inside, public-private, nature-culture). Chapters on specific tragedies explore the spatial dynamics of homecoming ("space for returns"); the opposed constraints of exile ("eremetic space" devoid of normal community); the power of bodies in extremis to transform their theatrical environment ("space and the body"); the portrayal of characters on the margin ("space and the other"); and the tragic interactions of space and temporality ("space, time, and memory"). An appendix surveys pre-Socratic thought on space and motion, related ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and, as pertinent, later views on space developed by Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Kant, and Einstein. Eloquently written and with Greek texts deftly translated, this book yields rich new insights into our oldest surviving drama.
Author : John Henry Wright
Publisher :
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 1902
Category : English literature
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Homer: Tyrtaeus: Archilochus: Callistratus: Alcaeus: Sappho: Anacreon: Pindar: Aeschylus: Sophocles: Euripides Aristophanes: Herodotus: Thucydides: Xenophon: Plato: Theocritus: Lucian, with biographical sketches and notes;
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Kenneth Weeks
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 1912
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