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Written by Cyril Tourneur and first published in 1611, «The Atheist's Tragedy, or the Honest Man's Revenge» is a classic Jacobean era revenge play. In this drama we find the story of D'Amville, a wealthy French nobleman and our titular atheist. D'Amville is a cynical, ruthless, and Machiavellian character who conspires to have his brother, the Baron Montferrers, killed and ruin his nephew, Charlemont, in order to gain the son's inheritance. With a complex three-level...
| Автор | Cyril Tourneur |
Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Dumas's greatest and most powerful plays, a tale of power and conviction, although its historical accuracy is far from certain.<P> Queen Marguerite and her sisters entertain themselves by luring unsuspecting men to the Tower, which located across the Seine from the Louvre. There they entice their victims to join them for wild sexual escapades–all expressly forbidden, of course, by both Church and State. Once satiated, the ladies...
| Автор | Александр Дюма |
“Spring Awakening” is German playwright’s Frank Wedekind’s controversial and shocking drama of sexuality and repression. First performed in 1906 in Berlin, though written by Wedekind several years earlier, the play focuses on the lives on several adolescents coming of age in late nineteenth century Germany. Three teenage boys, Melchior, Moritz, and Wendl, and girls Wendla and Martha, struggle with abuse, a lack of information and acceptance, and their emerging sexual awareness in a strict and...
| Автор | Франк Ведекинд |
We have Czech writer Karel Čapek to thank for the invention of the word robot and generally for the introduction of the idea of artificial intelligence to the world of literature. His play, “R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)” was written in 1920 and was first performed in 1921. The play was an instant success and was translated into over 30 languages within two years of its first performance. The play begins in a factory that makes the “robots”, which could be more accurately described...
| Автор | Karel Čapek |
Written in Middle English during the Tudor period, “Everyman” is the most famous example of the medieval morality play. Popular in Europe during the 15th and 16th century, morality plays were allegorical dramas in which the protagonists are met with the personifications of personal attributes and tasked with choosing either a good and godly life or evil. “Everyman” is the archetypal morality play, as the main character, Everyman, represents all of mankind. God, frustrated with the wicked and...
| Автор | Anonymous |
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known popularly by his stage name Molière, is regarded as one of the masters of French comedic drama. When Molière began acting in Paris there were two well-established theatrical companies, those of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and the Marais. Joining these theatrical companies would have been impossible for a new member of the acting profession like Molière and thus he performed with traveling troupes of actors in the French provinces. It was during this period that Molière...
| Автор | Molière |
Based on the real life of the seventeenth century French dramatist of the same name, “Cyrano de Bergerac” is Edmond Rostand’s classic romantic play. Cyrano, a cadet in the French Army, is a talented duelist, poet, and musician, however he has extreme self-doubt in matters of love due to the large size of his nose. Cyrano is conflicted by his inability to summon the confidence to tell the woman that he adores, Roxane, how he truly feels. He writes her a letter expressing his love with the intent...
| Автор | Edmond Rostand |
Combined in this volume are three of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s most loved works. “The School for Scandal” is Sheridan’s classic comedy that pokes fun at London upper class society in the late 1700s. Often referred to as a “comedy of manners”, “The School for Scandal” is one Sheridan’s most performed plays and a classic of English comedic drama. “The Rivals” was Sheridan’s first play and while at first it was not well received it would go on to prove to be a great success and establish Sheridan...
| Автор | Ричард Шеридан |
Contained within this volume are some of the best of O’Neill’s early one-act plays, which foreshadowed the longer plays that have given this dramatist his most enduring fame. “Beyond the Horizon” was the first of O’Neill’s three Pulitzer Prize-winning plays. It follows the disappointed dreams of two brothers on their family farm. “The Emperor Jones” is an expressionistic transformation of a black man named Brutus Jones. In fleeing from his rebelling subjects in the West Indies, Jones is taken...
| Автор | Eugene O'Neill |
“The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays” brings together Oscar Wilde’s most popular plays which first appeared between 1891 and 1895. Despite his relatively short theatrical career, Wilde’s plays have enjoyed a sustained popularity. A classic satire of Victorian society, “The Importance of Being Earnest” is one of the author’s most frequently performed works. The play trivializes its characters, who through a series of deceptions pretend to be people that they are not in order to escape...
| Автор | Oscar Wilde |
Considered by many as Johann Goethe’s magnum opus, “Faust” has a peculiar history of composition and publication. What began as a project in Goethe’s youth, at the age of twenty, in 1769, “Faust” would not fully be completed until 1831 very near the end of the author’s life. Based on the German legend of Johann Georg Faust, a magician of the German Renaissance who reportedly gained his mystical powers by selling his immortal soul to the devil, the Faustian legend has forever come to symbolize...
| Автор | Иоганн Вольфганг фон Гёте |
Collected in this volume are five of Chekhov’s most popular dramatic works: “Ivanov”, “The Sea-Gull”, “Uncle Vanya”, “Three Sisters” and “The Cherry Orchard”. Firstly in “Ivanov” we find the taut psychological drama of Nikolai Ivanov, a man who is severely conflicted by the illness of his wife, his mounting debts, and his own internal desires. Secondly, “The Sea-Gull” is the story of the romantic and artistic conflicts between four main characters: Nina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner;...
| Автор | Anton Chekhov |
This antiquarian book contains J. M. Barrie’s 1929 play: «Mary Rose». During a trip to a remote Scottish island as a child, Mary Rose mysteriously vanishes. The island is searched endlessly to no avail, until Mary unbelievably reappears as strangely as she had vanished, having no recollection of being lost at all. Years later as a young mother and wife, Mary revisits the island with her husband and once again vanishes without a trace. Reappearing decades later this time, Mary has no recollection...
| Автор | J. M. Barrie |
First performed in 1923, “Saint Joan” is the celebrated play by George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright, social activist, and Noble Prize-winner. Premiering three years after Joan of Arc was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, Shaw wrote “Saint Joan” because he was dissatisfied with how the saint was often portrayed in literature and history and wanted to present a more realistic and human Joan. Considered Shaw’s only tragedy and one of his most significant works, “Saint Joan” follows the...
| Автор | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW |
Hulle’t ’n bees gesteel by die wit man Rabie. Die bees se naam was Rooiland. Hulle’t vir Rooiland geslag en feesgevier. Hulle drink uit die horings: Kilikijan die bloed, Nongoloza die gal. Toe maak hulle ’n print van die wet op die vel. Op die vel van Rooiland. Daai’s die wet. En daai wet het even survive die dag toe die hemel en die aarde geskeur het – toe Kilikijan die klipwette stukkend gegooi het en die 27’s een pad geloop het en die 28’s ’n ander pad. ’n Tronksel. Vier gevangenes. ’n...
| Автор | Tertius Kapp |
This drama, a lyrical and dreamy but at the same time searingly painful piece about reminiscence and injustice, was written in 1978, in the heyday of apartheid and two years after the Soweto uprising. It has been staged several times, but this is the first time it has been published. It is essentially a piece of resistance theatre, but its artistic strength and lasting relevance lie in the way it demonstrates how painfully intimate resistance and loyalty are entangled. The Orange Earth is...
| Автор | Adam Small |
The most famous of all Calderon's varied and romantic dramas, this seventeenth-century masterpiece by the great Spanish playwright explores the conflict between free will and predestination as it focuses on the life of Segismundo, a Polish prince imprisoned at birth by his father, the King. The monarch's heartless action, precipitated by astrologers who predict the boy will one day usurp the throne, paves the way for a series of events that turn the son against the father and lead to...
| Автор | Pedro Calderón de la Barca |
Hulle het deur die woesteny geswerwe op soek na nuwe weiveld vir hul skaap en bees. Ná baie jare het hulle gekom in die land wat deur die Asem op die Water aan hulle gebelowe is. Maar die Vuur onder die Aarde het die versoeking oor hulle pad gebring. Hulle het ’n goue kalf gebou en hulle wette het gedwaal van dié van die Asem op die Water. Daarom het die Asem op die Water het dit laat reent en reent, sodat daar ’n groot see tussen hulle en ander volke gekom lê het. Maar toe raak die Fabelberg te...
| Автор | Tertius Kapp |
Titas Jensenas – alkoholio nevengiantis vidutinio amžiaus rašytojas, duonai užsidirbantis iš neaiškių knygų viešo skaitymo festivaliuose. Titas negali liautis mąstyti, kad toks aukšto lygio autorius kaip jis gyvenime yra vertas daugiau; Edis X – moterų mylimas jaunas poetas, nuolatinis festivalių lankytojas, mėgstantis būti dėmesio centre. Edis negali liautis mąstyti, kad toks talentingas ir gerai atrodantis vyras kaip jis gyvenime yra vertas daugiau; Vieną naktį abiem iki žemės graibymo...
| Автор | Peter Stjernström |
Rinkdamas medžiagą šiai unikaliai knygai apie Kolumbiją ir kokainą autorius užtruko beveik dešimt metų, prireikė daugiau kaip šimto pokalbių su kokos augintojais, kontrabandininkais, samdomais žudikais, policininkais ir politikais. Kolumbijoje kokainas – tai ne vien milteliai, sujaukiantys protą. Čia jis yra skurstančiųjų pragyvenimo šaltinis, valdžios įrankis, politika, daugelio įvykių priežastis ir pasekmė. Knygoje aprašomi tie, kurie prisideda prie šios keistos sistemos kūrimo – nuo žemiausių...
| Автор | Magnus Linton |
Beta ir bārene, kuras vecākus noslepkavoja nezināmi ļaundari, meitenei vēl mazai esot. Mīlestības apvīta bērnība Betai ir palikusi sveša pasaule, tikpat sveša kā mātes glāsts. Viņu audzina pamāte – rupja, neizglītota sieviete. Meitene mīlestību meklē pie svešiniekiem, un daži to neliedz gan bērnunamos, gan internātskolā. Sveši cilvēki pamazām iedēsta mazās meitenes sirdī jaunu puķi, kas lēnām izaug, uzplaukst un pārvēršas bijībā pret skaisto. Taču ir vēl kāds, kas vienmēr ir kopā ar Betu ―...
| Автор | Gina Viegliņa-Valliete |
August Kitzberg (1855-1927) on eesti kirjandusklassikute hulka kuuluv autor, kelle näidendeid kohustusliku kirjanduse raames kõik eesti lapsed lugema peavad. „Libahunt” kuulub 9. ja „Kauka jumal” 10. klassi lugemisvarasse. Raamatus on Kätlin Vainola järelsõna, mis on kirjutatud just kooliõpilasele mõeldes. Selles tutvustatakse huvitavalt autori elukäiku ja loomingut ning analüüsitakse mõlema näidendi sisu, vürtsitades seda folklooritausta ja meedias avaldatuga.
| Автор | August Kitzberg |
Sommer in Brandenburg: Das war Jungsein. Das war Rauchen in den leeren Kasernen, nachdem die sowjetischen Soldaten weg waren. Das war Umherstreifen. Das war die lange Dorfstraße und der Bus, der nur dreimal am Tag fuhr. Das war Schwimmen gehen. Das war die Angst vor den Faschos. Das war die Freundschaft zwischen Anne und Bettina. Das war, bevor Bettina sich zurückgezogen hat und als Anne noch dachte, dass alles anders werden könnte. Das waren die 90er in der Provinz. "Im Sommer geht man...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Rosa bekommt ein Kind. Kemal möchte ein Kind. Moritz möchte ein Kind. "Kleiner Drei" erzählt eine Freundschaft mit einem gemeinsamen Ziel. Einem gemeinsamen Wunsch. Einer gemeinsamen Aufgabe. Eine Aufgabe, die eigentlich keine Freundschaft aushält. Das Hörspiel begleitet drei Menschen, die eigentlich das Gleiche wollen und doch nicht nach dem Gleichen streben. Drei Menschen, die eigentlich nur das Gute wollen und doch in ihren Mustern bleiben. Und am Ende fügt sich alles zusammen. ...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |