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“Los persas” es la obra teatral más antigua que se conserva, escrita por Esquilo hacia el año 472 a.C., y está ambientada en la Batalla de Salamina. En el drama de Esquilo destaca el estatismo de la acción y la configuración arcaica de los caracteres, prevaleciendo las narraciones y los lamentos...

Musical Theatre Song is a handbook for musical theatre performers, providing them with the wide-ranging skill set they need for success in today's competitive musical theatre environment. Breaking down the process into knowing how to select your song material based upon your individuality and how...

Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept....

When it seems that Julius Caesar may assume supreme power, a plot to destroy him is hatched by those determined to preserve the threatened republic. But the different motives of the conspirators soon become apparent when high principles clash with malice and political realism. As the nation plunges...

La casa de Bernarda Alba es un drama que termina en tragedia. La trama y su estructura sucesiva empieza con la muerte de Antonio María Benavides, el segundo esposo de Bernarda, exponente del matiz histórico padre-patriarca, y esta grotesca personaje, liberada ahora de su yugo, lo impone...

To the world, he was a startlingly successful international tycoon, head of a vast financial empire. To his beautiful secretary-mistress, he was a god-like hero to be served with her mind, soul and body. To his aristocratic young wife, he was an elemental force of nature to be tamed. To his millionaire...

George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to laughter. In one of his best-loved plays, Pygmalion, which later became the basis...

In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and...

In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his 'imaginative longing to join poetically...

Nominated for the Tony Award when it was first produced in 1984, Hurlyburly was immediately hailed as a classic American drama. This edition is the definitive version of the prize-winning author's most celebrated work, reflecting his continued exploration of the play through several productions-in particular...

These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new directions. In The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, John Webster explores the role of women and the problems of power, sex and corruption in the Italian court, creating two unforgettable...

Este ebook presenta "Casa de muñecas", con un índice dinámico y detallado. Casa de muñecas es una obra dramática de Henrik Ibsen. Su obra teatral se estrenó en 1879 en el Det Kongelige Teater de Copenhague. El ambiente de esta obra de teatro es clásico: una familia feliz con tres...

Casi doscientos cincuenta años después del nacimiento de su autor, "Fausto" sigue siendo un clásico, pues plantea el problema de los límites y el sentido de la acción humana, y lo hace bajo la parábola del pacto con el diablo. La obra mantiene su vigencia hoy porque, mediante los interrogantes...

Celebrating the Arthur Miller centennial year, an eye-catching new Penguin Plays edition of the work that established him as a leading voice in the American theater   In 1947, Arthur Miller exploded onto Broadway with his first major work, All My Sons, winning both the New York Drama Critics’ Circle...