Зарубежная драматургия
675 кн.
Героиня драмы «Мачеха» Гертруда – женщина, которая ради денег пошла на компромисс с совестью и пожертвовала своей любовью ради материального благополучия.
| Автор | Оноре Бальзак |
Юн Фоссе – выдающийся современный норвежский драматург, писатель и поэт, эссеист и переводчик художественной литературы. Почетный доктор Бергенского университета, имеет степень бакалавра философии и социологии и степень доктора наук по литературоведению. Свой первый роман Фоссе опубликовал в 1983 году, первый сборник стихов в 1986 году, первую пьесу «Кто-то вот-вот придёт» написал в 1992 г. На сегодняшний день Фоссе автор около 14 романов (важнейшими из которых стали «Меланхолия I» (1995),...
| Автор | Юн Фоссе |
В этот сборник вошли две классические пьесы Теннесси Уильямса, объединенные вечно актуальной, увы, темой женского одиночества. Мучительно одинока юная Лаура – беспомощная и безгласная жертва амбиций громкой, авторитарной матери, замкнувшаяся в игрушечном «стеклянном зверинце» своих грез и фантазий и обреченная, словно ее любимец – сказочный единорог. Но не менее одинока и красавица Мэгги по прозвищу «Кошка» – нищая южная аристократка, чужая в грубоватом клане миллионеров-нуворишей и изнывающая в...
| Автор | Теннесси Уильямс |
« Миллер (быстро ходит по комнате) . Довольно! Это уже не шутки. Скоро весь город заговорит о моей дочери и о бароне. Моему дому грозит бесчестье. Дойдет до президента и… Одним словом, больше я этого дворянчика сюда не пускаю. Жена. Ты же не заманивал его к себе в дом, не навязывал ему свою дочку. Миллер. Я не заманивал его к себе в дом, не навязывал ему девчонки, но кто станет в это вникать?.. Я у себя в доме хозяин. Мне надо было как следует пробрать дочку. Мне надо было хорошенько...
| Автор | Фридрих Шиллер |
Detective Sergeant Hazel Vernon investigates why a teenage girl was acquitted of murder. Did Hannah McShane really murder photographer Gloria Kelsey? Hazel's investigations lead her to crooked police officers. High standing people with low morals and personal issues she has yet to deal with.
| Автор | David Dalby |
In «The Critic» Richard Brinsley Sheridan turns his attention to satirize the Theatre and all the people engaged in the business of the Theatre in late 18th century England. The critic of the story is a man by the name of Mr. Dangle and the play that is the subject of criticism is a horribly written production named «The Spanish Armada». Fans of Sheridan will delight in this lesser known work.
| Автор | Ричард Шеридан |
The story of ‘Plutus’ concerns Chremylus, a poor but just man, who accompanied by his body-servant Cario, consults the Delphic Oracle concerning his son, whether he ought not to be instructed in injustice and knavery and the other arts whereby worldly men acquire riches. By way of answer the god only tells him that he is to follow whomsoever he first meets upon leaving the temple, who proves to be a blind and ragged old man.
| Автор | Aristophanes |
Along with Sophocles and Euripides, Aristophanes is considered one of the three great Greek playwrights. Only eleven of his nearly forty plays survive in their entirety to this day. Of his extant works Aristophanes's «Lysistrata» is considered one of his finest and one of the truly great comedies from classical antiquity. Central to the work is the vow by the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until they end the brutal war between Athens and Sparta. A hilarious and...
| Автор | Aristophanes |
Along with Sophocles and Euripides, Aristophanes is considered one of the three great Greek playwrights. Only eleven of his nearly forty plays survive in their entirety to this day. Of his extant works Aristophanes's «Lysistrata» is considered one of his finest and one of the truly great comedies from classical antiquity. Central to the work is the vow by the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until they end the brutal war between Athens and Sparta. A hilarious and...
| Автор | Aristophanes |
Fabian socialist and ardent proselytizer, George Bernard Shaw viewed his role as a playwright as far more than that of an entertainer. His audiences heard fully articulated sermons on moral and economic issues, a potentially dry theatrical experience enlivened by Shaw's genius for creating vital characters and scintillating dialogue. Major Barbara offers a sparkling example of its author's unique gift for presenting social theories in an engaging format.The eponymous heroine, an...
| Автор | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW |
The <I>Medea </I>of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian woman brought to Corinth and there abandoned by her Greek husband, Medea seeks vengeance on Jason and is willing to strike out against his new wife and family—even slaughtering the sons she has born him. At its center is Medea herself, a character who refuses definition: Is she a hero, a witch, a psychopath, a goddess? All that can...
| Автор | Euripides |
Euripides, along was Sophocles and Aeschylus, is largely responsible for the rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during his life, Euripides now stands as an innovator of the Greek drama. Collected here are four of Euripides' tragedies: «Alcestis», «Medea», «The Heracleidae», and «Hippolytus»....
| Автор | Euripides |
"The League of Youth" is Henrik Ibsen's comedic play which is the story of Stensgaard, a charismatic would-be politician, who forms the 'League of Youth' party and attempts to get elected. The character of Stensgaard is supposedly based on writer Bjornstjerne Bjornson, a contemporary of Ibsen and political opposition leader. Praised for its witty dialogue and cynical humor, «The League of Youth» was one of Ibsen's most popular 19th century plays.
| Автор | Henrik Ibsen |
Alanna is surprised by the return of her step-brother and former lover, Kyle, when he shows up to work at the newspaper she writes for as the new head photographer. Unbeknownst to him, they have a daughter from the night before they last saw each other eight years previous. Can they forgive each other and rekindle the trust and love they once shared?
| Автор | Heather Inc. Justesen |
Euripides, along was Sophocles and Aeschylus, is largely responsible for the rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during his life, Euripides now stands as an innovator of the Greek drama. Collected here are four of Euripides' tragedies: «Alcestis», «Medea», «The Heracleidae», and «Hippolytus»....
| Автор | Euripides |
«Есть в жизни у тебя черты такие,
Что наблюдателю по ним легко
Прочесть всю будущность твою. И сам ты
И качества твои не таковы,
Чтоб ты на одного себе их тратил:
Себе не вправе ты принадлежать.
Как факелы, нас небо зажигает
Не для того, чтоб для себя горели…»
| Автор | Уильям Шекспир |
Ours would appear to be an era of unprecedented variation in the mediation of meaning – television, computer, the older forms of radio and print. Since, however, such profusion of resources has not of itself guaranteed enhanced profundity or sophistication in our modes of understanding – psychological, sociological, philosophical, historical, and theological – the issue of the continued relevance of cultural forms, dependent both on the human voice and on ritualization, presents itself for...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Frank J. Morlock's English-language translation and adaptation of Ferdinand Dugue's 1881 play «Tibère: drame en cinq actes (huit tableaux)» chronicles the events in the life of Roman emperor Tiberius Caesar (42 B.C. – 37 A.D.).
| Автор | Ferdinand Dugue |
In THE TWO WINE CASKS, a spurned priest of Bacchus switches the wine cups at a wedding to avenge himself on the woman he loves, who's marrying another. The enchanted vintage makes her hate her husband-to-be. Three great dramas of jealousy and its corrosive effects on the relations between men and women.
| Автор | Voltaire |
This collection of plays by Swedish playwright and writer, August Strindberg, are a testimony to his title as «the father of modern literature» in Sweden, as well as to his distinction as one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. Beginning with two of his popular, early plays, «The Father» and «Miss Julie,» this edition explores Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, concluding with «The Dance of Death,» «A Dream Play,» and «The Ghost Sonata.» As an...
| Автор | August Strindberg |