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Il colonialismo italiano. Una storia rimossa e negata, che dura sessant’anni. Inizia già nell’Ottocento, ma nell’immaginario comune si riduce ai cinque anni dell’Impero Fascista. Altri tempi? Acqua passata? Acqua di colonia. Vista dall’Italia, anche oggi, l’Africa è tutta uguale, astratta...

Lei e Lui, i protagonisti di questa storia, sono condannati a reiterare un rituale vitale quanto autodistruttivo, finalizzato al darsi la morte, per poter rinascere, per poter rocambolescamente morire, tra mille colpi di scena, ancora e ancora. «L’amore non va» dirà uno dei personaggi femminili...

The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. In 1880, with only a few copies privately printed, arrangements were made with noted actresses for a production...

You Only Hurt the Ones You Love is a collection of short plays by David J. Holcombe. The subject matter varies from food poisoning to Czech folk dancing, with lots of odd topics in between. The common denominator remains a keen sense of social observation and a desire to translate those findings into...

Diese Ausgabe der Werke von Aristophanes wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Dieses eBook ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Aristophanes (zwischen 450 v. Chr. und 444 v. Chr./um 380 v. Chr.)...

Bassanio has been murdered and, under suspicion, Gratiano is forced to revisit his Fascist past. He was never the hero – just a minor character, the plucky comic relief – but he never thought he would play the villain... In a challenging sequel to William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice,...

Beau, a pianist expat living in London, meets Rufus, an eccentric young lawyer, at the dawn of the internet dating revolution. After a life spent recovering from the disappointment and hurt of loving men in a world that refused to allow it, Beau is determined to keep his expectations low with Rufus. But...

Bajazet est une tragédie en cinq actes et en vers, du dramaturge et poète français Jean Racine (1639 – 1699). Septième pièce de son auteur, elle est la première à s'inspirer d'un épisode historique contemporain, un fratricide ordonné en 1635 par le sultan ottoman Mourad IV. Résumé...

Love is the rarest of things...it's the rarest trick...and we feel entitled to it, don't we? Owen may live in the present but his mind remains lodged firmly in the past. As he's forced into a relationship with a teenager with emotional behavioural problems he blurs aspects of his current life...

Just tennis all day, whenever you want. Not many 13 year olds have that, do they? They're going to make you so good we won't recognise you. Creating a tennis champion costs a lot; it requires time, dedication and, most importantly, cash. Nina and Ade decide early on that their daughter is worth...

Iphigénie en Aulide est une tragédie en cinq actes et en vers, du dramaturge et poète français Jean Racine (1639 – 1699). Sur les rivages d'Aulis, les Grecs se préparent à aller attaquer Troie. Mais ils ne peuvent atteindre Troie, car les dieux retiennent les vents nécessaires au départ...

The Midlands, 1984. Two young lads are about to learn what it is to be a miner, to be accepted into the close camaraderie and initiated into a unique workplace where sweat, toil, collapsing roofs and explosions are all to be met with bawdy humour. London, 1984. A conflicted Tory MP, a brash...

Forty years after he returned to America and abandoned his fiance Cora Williams, Saul Metzger returns to St. Sabastian, hoping to rekindle a relationship with her. But things have changed. St. Sabastian is no longer the Caribbean paradise he remembered. And Cora is no longer the naive young woman...

Die Orestie des Dichters Aischylos ist eine der bedeutenden griechischen Tragödien. Das dreiteilige Stück behandelt das Ende des Fluchs, unter dem das Haus Atreus steht. Geschildert wird die Entwicklung des antiken Rechtsverständnisses vom Prinzip der individuellen Rache hin zu einer geordneten...