Author : Dario Fo
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Italian drama
ISBN : 9780413640505
Two plays written by the Italian farceur, Dario Fo, in conjunction with his wife and fellow-performer. Both plays start with the breakdown of a relationship and deal with the fate of women in a society in which both the social system in which they live and its dominant ideology are shaped by men.
Author : Dario Fo
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573627743
Dario Fo, one of Italy's foremost playwrights, is a rarity- a Marxist with a sense of humor. This hilarious farce, a success Off Broadway and across the U.S., is set in motion when a housewife comes home with groceries she has swiped as part of a spontaneous community action where 300 women did the same. In her effort to keep her secret from her husband, she hides some of the groceries under her best friend's raincoat. Her husband and his friend the accomplice's husband notice the bulge, of course; but they believe the explanation that the accomplice is pregnant! Hilarity is piled upon hilarity as the characters try to extricate themselves from the mess they have gotten into. Eventually, they all unite to support the spontaneous resistance to eviction in their housing project.
Author : Dario Fo
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Italian drama
ISBN :
Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary performer/playwright, renowned throughout the world for his radical satires. This volume contains two major plays together with two more intimate one-act plays which he wrote with Franca Rame.
Author : Ottar G. Draugsvold
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476642990
Since its inception, the Nobel Prize for literature has given a very public voice to some of the world's greatest writers, and their responses to the honor--their acceptance speeches--have often been epochal. From the famed call to arms by William Faulkner to the multicultural song of Derek Walcott, from 1903's Bjornstjerne Bjornson to 1999's Gunter Grass, this collection of 28 speeches traces the ideals of the artists and the selection committee itself throughout the 20th century. Included are an introduction to each of the writers chosen, an abridged copy of the speech or lecture and a bibliography of works in English.
Author : Tony Mitchell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1408148633
The first and only full-length critical study of Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner This book, now extensively rewritten and updated, remains the only full-length critical study to cover various phases of Dario Fo's theatrical career. It looks at Fo's political influences and also the influence on his work of various theatrical motifs, including the great clown traditions which stretch back to the middle ages. The political work of Dario Fo and his wife/collaborator Franca Rame is charted from the 1960s up to the present to give the reader clear insight into this playwright/performer's unique literary and theatrical strengths. Each of Fo's plays and productions is discussed at length and the author has included an extensive and updated bibliography which includes full production details, quotes and writings about Fo. Always a popular performer in his native Italy, Fo has been one of the world's most performed dramatists. In the author's words: he is the "people's court jester".
Author : Michael Vena
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1483633527
Italian theater brings early on stage some of the most signifi cant productions of the 20th century, with major playwrights holding a pivotal role in the renewal of the European stage: Gabriele DAnnunzio, Eduardo De Filippo, Dario Fo, Luigi Chiarelli, Luigi Antonelli, Rosso di San Secondo, Enrico Cavacchioli, Massimo Bontempelli, Dacia Maraini, Ugo Betti, Diego Fabbri, thanks to such innovative movements from the early century called grotteschi and futuristi. If the early Pirandellian plays are added, we will have a comprehensive view of twentieth century theater, and the weight it will carry upon the coming generations.
Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802008008
This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
Author : David Hutchison
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1527557464
This collection introduces the reader to the life and times of Stuart Hood (1915-2011). Highlighting Hood’s year spent fighting with the Italian Resistance during the Second World War, the essays consider how his experiences as a partisan influenced his peacetime trajectory. Written by distinguished scholars from several disciplines, each chapter examines different aspects of Hood’s life and work, including his Scottish boyhood and university education in Edinburgh; his distinguished career as a broadcaster presiding over an era of unprecedented creativity at BBC television; his role in the establishment of the discipline of media studies; and his contribution to radical European culture as the translator of 40 literary works from Italian, German, French and Russian, and as the author of eight acclaimed novels. Stuart Hood’s reticence made him an enigma to many who knew him. This collection assesses his many-faceted achievements, demonstrating how his life provides fresh insights into twentieth-century European history. This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of British and European socialism, media studies and literature.
Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487531907
Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.
Author : Rhonda Kane
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1664209034
This is not a typical devotional book. There is no ten-step program inside to better yourself. It is not a deep theological study. It is not an end to all trials or an answer to all problems. This book is a collection of stories, prayers, and reflections. They are honest, vulnerable, sometimes dramatic, sometimes humorous, and sometimes sad, but they are real. They point to Him. No matter what adventures we travel through, our Maker and Creator is always with us. He isn’t looking for extraordinary people. He is not looking for the exceptional and the elite. He is the exceptional and the elite. He is just wanting us to walk alongside Him.
