Restoration Drama Anthology
ISBN: 9780631209027 / Angielski / Twarda / 836 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, with annotations and judiciously modernized texts. It offers a representative sampling of the types of play of the period, including plays by both men and women - sex comedy, moral comedy, heroic drama, Shakespearean adaptation and political history.
This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, w...
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Restoration Comedy
ISBN: 9780631234715 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700.
The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolu...
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685,39 zł |
Restoration Comedy
ISBN: 9780631234722 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700.
The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolu...
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165,74 zł |
The Duchess of Malfi: Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama
ISBN: 9780679642435 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode
A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood Volpone by Ben Jonson The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur The Maid's Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley The lyrical, bloodthirsty tragedies and witty urban comedies in this original collection were first performed during the reign of King James I (1603--25). Though nearly four centuries old, they display... Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode
A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood Volpone by Ben Jonson The Revenger... |
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107,36 zł |
Anna Christie, the Emperor Jones, the Hairy Ape
ISBN: 9780679763956 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Nobel Prize This edition includes Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape three classic plays of uncontested power from the Nobel laureate and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for drama. In Anna Christie, a sailor reunites with his estranged daughter after years apart. As she begins to fall in love with a younger sailor, she realizes she must come clean to her father and her new love interest and reveal her troubled past. In The Emperor Jones, African American fugitive, Brutus Jones, recounts his life through a series...
Winner of the Nobel Prize This edition includes Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape three classic plays of u...
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94,48 zł |
Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespearean Sonnets
ISBN: 9780688161729 / Angielski / Miękka / 125 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fruit of an extraordinary project, Love's Fire reimagines seven of Shakespeare's immortal love sonnets as one-act plays by seven of the best playwrights in America. These short gems, paired with the sonnets that inspired them, are published here for the first time.
The fruit of an extraordinary project, Love's Fire reimagines seven of Shakespeare's immortal love sonnets as one-act plays by seven of the best playw...
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73,01 zł |
Plays on Women: Anon, Arden of Faver
ISBN: 9780719016462 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the original and authoritative Revels texts, Plays on women brings together four plays which dramatise the lives of women in Shakespeare's England The only available anthology focusing on women and including the four plays most often discussed. . . .
Based on the original and authoritative Revels texts, Plays on women brings together four plays which dramatise the lives of women in Shakespeare's En...
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58,85 zł |
Theatre and Society: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama
ISBN: 9780765603074 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.
Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes ...
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661,34 zł |
Theatre and Society: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama
ISBN: 9780765603081 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.
Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes ...
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218,70 zł |
The Garden Party: And Other Plays
ISBN: 9780802133076 / Angielski / Miękka / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a rallying cry and propelled him to the leadership of his country. They include The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Mistake, the Vanek trilogy of Audience, Unveiling, and Protest, and the first fully corrected English version of The Memorandum--the play that won Havel the Obie for Best Foreign Play in 1968.
Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Pr...
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73,01 zł |
Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues
ISBN: 9780802151049 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brief plays and sketches deal with the relationship between men and women, the past, communication, country life, and mortality.
Brief plays and sketches deal with the relationship between men and women, the past, communication, country life, and mortality.
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73,01 zł |
The Theatre of Don Juan: A Collection of Plays and Views, 1630-1963
ISBN: 9780803281370 / Angielski / Miękka / 731 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Many good things are provided for our instruction and delight in this handsome volume. Chief among them perhaps, and most keenly wanted in a collection of this sort . . . are sanity and wit." The Romanic Review "A most interesting literary history of the Don Juan theme with the plays or works themselves serving as illustrations. Professor Mandel's general introduction and his shorter introductions and commentaries throughout the book are solid, wise, and engaging." Robert E. Taylor, Renaissance News "This anthology is exhaustive and informative, expertly... "Many good things are provided for our instruction and delight in this handsome volume. Chief among them perhaps, and most keenly wanted in a colle... |
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228,93 zł |
Elmer Rice: Three Plays: The Adding Machine, Street Scene and Dream Girl
ISBN: 9780809007356 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elmer Rice belongs high on the roster of influential play-wrights. He has brought vitality and world attention to the American theatre. His plays have passed the test of endurance. "A veteran craftsman who knows his job...Rice is a showman who writes for the theatre rather than the library."--The New York Times Elmer Rice belongs high on the roster of influential play-wrights. He has brought vitality and world attention to the American theatre. His plays h... |
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94,48 zł |
Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays
ISBN: 9780810113749 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russia produced more notable dramas in the twentieth century than at any other time in its history, yet many of the plays from this period have been only sporadically available in English, and others have never been translated before. For each of these eight works, Timothy Langen and Justin Weir provide an insightful introduction to the literary, cultural, and political contexts in which the plays first appeared, considering the influence that various literary movements had on the development of Russian drama and exploring the effect of the increasingly politicized climate of the new Soviet...
Russia produced more notable dramas in the twentieth century than at any other time in its history, yet many of the plays from this period have been o...
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133,61 zł |
Five Plays: Comedies and Tragicomedies
ISBN: 9780811200905 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Federico Garcia Lorca's position as one of the few geniuses of the modern theatre was firmly established in the English-speaking world with his Three Tragedies. Here with an introduction by the dramatist's brother, Francisco Garcia Lorca, are five of his 'comedies, ' in the authorized translations, extensively revised to reflect recent Lorca scholarship and to convey the sparkle, freshness, and magic of the original Spanish.
Federico Garcia Lorca's position as one of the few geniuses of the modern theatre was firmly established in the English-speaking world with his Three ...
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48,14 zł |
Three One-Act Plays: Riverside Drive Old Saybrook Central Park West
ISBN: 9780812972443 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine
Woody Allen's first dramatic writing published in years, "Riverside Drive," "Old Saybrook," and "Central Park West" are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things arise--and the reader enjoys every minute of it (though not all the characters do). These plays (successfully produced on the New... Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagi...
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77,30 zł |
Women's Acts: Plays by Women Dramatists of Spain's Golden Age
ISBN: 9780813108896 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seventeenth-century Spain witnessed a rich flowering of dramatic activity that paralleled the Renaissance stage in other European countries. Yet this Golden Age traditionally has been represented in print almost entirely by male playwrights. With Women's Acts, Teresa Scott Soufas makes available eight plays by five long-neglected women dramatists: Angela de Azevedo, Ana Caro Mallen de Soto, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, Feliciana Enriquez de Guzman, and Marla de Zayas y Sotomayor. In an age when moralists denounced women's participation in the public arena, these women... Seventeenth-century Spain witnessed a rich flowering of dramatic activity that paralleled the Renaissance stage in other European countries. Yet th... |
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137,36 zł |
New Plays from the Abbey Theatre: Volume Two, 1996-1998
ISBN: 9780815607236 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The selected plays show the extraordinary variety of Irish drama today as well as the brilliance of Irish playwrights, both seasoned veterans and those beginning to build reputations on the stages of the world's premier national theatre, The Abbey. The first play by award-winning playwright Michael Harding, Sour Grapes, explores the taboos of seminary life including paedophilia and homosexuality. Thomas Kilroy's The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde tells the historical drama of the marriage of Constance to Oscar Wilde and recounts the tragedy that was her marriage and life. Interlocking lives...
The selected plays show the extraordinary variety of Irish drama today as well as the brilliance of Irish playwrights, both seasoned veterans and thos...
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85,68 zł |
Israeli Holocaust Drama
ISBN: 9780815626749 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An anthology of Israeli Holocaust drama which provides readers with the opportunity to see events in the context of contemporary Judaism, especially as the issues bear upon the question of Palestine. Writers in this text include Joshua Sobol, Motti Lerner and Ben-Zion Tomer.
An anthology of Israeli Holocaust drama which provides readers with the opportunity to see events in the context of contemporary Judaism, especially a...
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107,95 zł |
New Plays from the Abbey Theatre: Volume Two, 1996-1998
ISBN: 9780815629283 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The selected plays show the extraordinary variety of Irish drama today as well as the brilliance of Irish playwrights, both seasoned veterans and those beginning to build reputations on the stages of the world's premier national theatre, The Abbey. The first play by award-winning playwright Michael Harding, Sour Grapes, explores the taboos of seminary life including paedophilia and homosexuality. Thomas Kilroy's The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde tells the historical drama of the marriage of Constance to Oscar Wilde and recounts the tragedy that was her marriage and life. Interlocking lives...
The selected plays show the extraordinary variety of Irish drama today as well as the brilliance of Irish playwrights, both seasoned veterans and thos...
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181,81 zł |