After his death, Molière was gradually recognized in France as that country's most important dramatist. Along with this realization came a desire to write plays ABOUT the writer, his life on the stage, and his interaction with the other dramatists of his age, and also with King Louis XIV. Even Alexandre Dumas featured Molière as a character in his historical play, The Young Louis XIV. Molière himself was such a large, dynamic figure in real life that he made a perfect foil for later...
…The breathing difficulty continued, and he couldn't get up. It seemed as if he was being held down. He felt a sense of panic. But at the same time he felt as if he was drifting into a deeper state of sleep. For a short time he fought these conflicting sensations, but eventually he surrendered to the latter feeling.<br><br>One by one, prominent staff physicians, who also are members of the Medical executive Committee of Covenant Hospital in Chicago, are dying under mysterious...
'The Drunkard is a wonderfully eloquent play.’Young Edward Kilcullen's life is blighted by alcohol. Lawyer McGinty desires possession of all the Kilcullens ever owned and relishes the prospect of his demise. However, the temperance preacher and philanthropist Sir Arden Rencelaw is at hand…Can the young Kilcullen be saved? And what is Agnes, the maniac's, hidden secret? Comedy, tragedy, heroics, villainy and song in this exuberant, life affirming version of The Drunkard.'
Блистательная комедия Мольера – о глупом и чванливом буржуа, мечтавшем стать аристократом, а в результате превратившемся в «дойную корову» для разного рода проходимцев и угрозу для счастья собственной дочери, – адаптирована в настоящем издании по методу Ильи Франка. Уникальность метода заключается в том, что запоминание слов и выражений происходит за счет их повторяемости, без заучивания и необходимости использовать словарь. Пособие способствует эффективному освоению языка, может служить...
Пьеса «Фредегунда» – еще одно обращение Петера Хакса к событиям давно минувших дней. В центре сюжета – реальная историческая личность – Фредегунда. Дословно это имя переводится со старого верхнего немецкого, как «мирная воительница». Фредегунда была королевой франков в VI веке. Но в начале своего пути она была лишь простой наложницей. Фредегунда погубила жену франкского короля Галсвинту и заняла ее место, нажив себе врагов и продолжив борьбу за власть, которую она получила.
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...
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an instrumental figure in the «Irish Literary Revival» of the 20th Century that redefined Irish writing. It can be difficult to characterize Yeats. He was a complicated man whose work reflected the internal struggle he felt between art and life. In 1899 Yeats helped found the Irish National Theatre Society, which later became the famous Abbey Theatre of Dublin. «On Baile's Strand» was first performed here in 1904, as part of one of the inaugural...
First performed in 1921 with Romans calling out ‘Madhouse!’ from the audience, “Six Characters in Search of an Author” has remained the most famous and innovative of Pirandello’s plays. Often labeled a satirical tragicomedy, this play initiated the anti-illusionism movement of the early twentieth century, rejecting realism in favor of a more symbolic, dreamlike quality. When an acting company’s rehearsal is interrupted by six family members who wish their life story to be enacted, the result is...
История девушки, обреченной всю жизнь ждать своего возлюбленного, написанная Лоркой в период творческой зрелости и ставшая одной из вершин его таланта поэта и драматурга, адаптирована в настоящем издании (без упрощения текста оригинала) по методу Ильи Франка: снабжена дословным переводом на русский язык и необходимым лексико-грамматическим комментарием. Уникальность метода заключается в том, что запоминание слов и выражений происходит за счет их повторяемости, без заучивания и необходимости...
First performed in 1921 with Romans calling out 'Madhouse!' from the audience, «Six Characters in Search of an Author» has remained the most famous and innovative of Pirandello's plays. Often labeled a satirical tragicomedy, this play initiated the anti-illusionism movement of the early twentieth century, rejecting realism in favor of a more symbolic, dreamlike quality. When an acting company's rehearsal is interrupted by six family members who wish their life story to be...
Witty playwright Oscar Wilde is most famous for his 1895 play «The Importance of Being Earnest.» The two protagonists use a false identity, Earnest, as a way to escape from unwanted social obligations. However, they encounter difficulties keeping up their personas as their social circles draw closer together. Wilde drew upon what he thought were outrageous social conventions of the Victorian Era and used satire to show the absurdity of its beliefs, like how marriage was more of a boring burden...