This work brings together five of Moliere's finest and best known play Works such as The Misanthrope and Tartuffe have been skilfully translated into English rhyming couplet
This work brings together five of Moliere's finest and best known play Works such as The Misanthrope and Tartuffe have been skilfully translated into ...
Modern accurate and stageable translations of five of Gorky's plays
This volume includes Gorky's major works for the theatre. The Lower Depths, first staged by the Moscow Art theatre in 1902, portrays a cast of down and outs living in the underbelly of Russian society; Summerfolk depicts a society after the disintegration of feudalism with a new class of businessmen, intellectuals and professionals. Children of the Sun was completed in prison in 1905 and premiered in St Petersburg in the same year, St Petersburg critic Alexander Kugel wrote: "If Summerfolk boxed the ears of the...
Modern accurate and stageable translations of five of Gorky's plays
This volume includes Gorky's major works for the theatre. The Lower Depth...
Eduardo de Filippo was one of Italy's leading popular dramatists, a fearless social critic, a supreme man of the theatre, and a humane and compassionate writer. The four plays in this volume present different facets of his prolific output, which focused on the lives of the Neapolitan people, their dubious cunning nourished by centuries of hunger, their fantasies and their love of life. The Local Authority, Grand Magic and Filumena Marturano are translated by Carlo Ardito, and Napoli Milionaria was translated by Peter Tinniswood for the...
Plays by one of Italy's greatest dramatists
Eduardo de Filippo was one of Italy's leading popular dramatists, a fearless social critic, a sup...
Marivaux's light-hearted comedies of love and intrigue are enjoying a vigorous revival
One of the most original of French eighteenth century dramatists, Marivaux wrote over thirty comedies of love and intrigue. This, the only major single-volume selection of Marivaux's plays in English, brings together five full-length and five shorter pieces in lively translations by John Bowen, Michael Sadler, John Walters, Donald Watson and Nicholas Wright.
Marivaux's light-hearted comedies of love and intrigue are enjoying a vigorous revival
One of the most original of French eighteenth century ...
Inthe 1920s and 1930s Noel Coward mastered and defined the art of therevue sketch - short and often topical or satirical stage pieces, manyof which were a lead-in to his famous songs. He wrote these sketchesfor the top revues of the 1920s and 1930s, including London Calling (1923) and Cochrane's Revue of 1931. This volume collects Coward's bestand most witty pieces, including Rain Before Seven, the only sketch heperformed with Gertrude Lawrence, and the hilarious parody, Some OtherPrivate Lives, in which Coward burlesques his own famous play, PrivateLives. Also...
Inthe 1920s and 1930s Noel Coward mastered and defined the art of therevue sketch - short and often topical or satirical stage pieces, manyof which...
Aphra Behn was among the wittiest and most prolific playwrights of her day
The Widow Ranter is a tragi-comedy, The False Count concerns the marriage of a young woman to a much older man whilst The Lucky Chance ran into instant criticism for immorality. The Rover is her most famous comedy and Abdelazar is her only tragedy.
Aphra Behn was among the wittiest and most prolific playwrights of her day
The Widow Ranter is a tragi-comedy, The False Count concerns the m...
