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“You’d like that, would you, your most private, pinkest, tenderest – small bird, small bird, small fragile – stolen from you, slammed down onto the slab, the block, poked at and paraded.” The children swing their legs on the chairs. The student delivers the presentation....

Die letzten Tage der Menschheit ist eine "Tragödie in 5 Akten mit Vorspiel und Epilog" von Karl Kraus. Sie ist in den Jahren 1915-1922 als Reaktion auf den Ersten Weltkrieg entstanden. In über 200 nur lose zusammenhängenden Szenen, die auf wahren Quellen beruhen, wird die Unmenschlichkeit...

3 works of Carlo Gozzi Italian playwright (1720-1806) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Carlo Gozzi. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi- Volume the Second The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi;-Volume the first Turandot, Princess of China-A Chinoiserie in Three Acts

The studies of Greek Poets, now reprinted, appeared in England in two series, published at an interval of three or four years. In preparing this edition, I have rearranged the chapters of both series in their proper order, and have made certain additions, with the view of rendering the book more complete...

Example in this ebook   CHAPTER XIV. GREEK TRAGEDY AND EURIPIDES. The chapters on Æschylus and Sophocles have already introduced the reader to some of the principal questions regarding Attic tragedy in general. Yet the opening of a new volume justifies the resumption...

Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dalí, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico García Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond. This study offers a fresh examination of one of the Spanish language’s most resonant voices;...

Focusing on actresses in France during the early modern period, Virginia Scott examines how the stereotype of the actress has been constructed. The study then moves beyond that stereotype to detail the reality of the personal and artistic lives of women on the French stage, from the almost unknown...

Der Struwwelpeter ("shock-headed Peter" or "Shaggy Peter") is an 1845 German children's book by Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated...

Chekhov is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential literary figures of modern times. Russia's preeminent playwright, he played a significant role in revolutionizing the modern theatre. His impact on prose fiction writing is incalculable: he helped define the modern short story. Beginning...

This vintage work contains Brander Matthews' 1912 treatise on drama throughout the ages; "The Development of the Drama". These pages tell the interesting story of the slow evolution of drama, from its crude beginnings far back in the forgotten past to the pictorial complexity of the present...

In this clear and detailed reading guide, we’ve done all the hard work for you!The Just Assassins by Albert Camus is a play written in 1949 and set in the context of the Russian revolution of 1905. At a time when political troubles were brewing in Europe and World War II was still very present in everyone’s...

Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt A Doll’s House Ghosts The Wild Duck Hedda Gabler The Master Builder

An English translation of Genet’s classic symbolic drama, first performed in Paris in 1959.   France’s master of the absurd explores racial prejudice and stereotypes using the framework of a play within a play. The New York Times hailed The Blacks as “one of the most original and stimulating...

Este ebook presenta "Fausto" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Fausto, de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe es una obra trágica, dividida en dos partes, la primera publicada en 1808 y la segunda, de manera póstuma, en 1833. Enfrascado en un intenso monólogo, el personaje principal, el sabio...