For Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), theater was a fabulous world apart, in which human beings, statues, and animals change places by magical transformations. Gozzi's stage becomes a multiscenic home for adventures, loves, enmities, and dazzling visual effects. This collection brings together for the first time modern English translations of five of Gozzi's most famous plays: " The Raven, The King Stag, Turandot, The Serpent Woman," and "The Green Bird," each annotated by the translators and preceded by the author's preface. Ted Emery's Introduction places Gozzi in his social and historical...
For Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), theater was a fabulous world apart, in which human beings, statues, and animals change places by magical transforma...
Contains twelve plays that have been translated into modern English so that everyone can enjoy the fun. Albert Bermel is a well published critic of modern theatre and has received awards and recognition for his work. The twelve plays are: Washtub; Barber of Seville; Boubouroche; Ubo Cocu; Love of Three Oranges; Hey, Cut Out the Parading Around Stark Naked; Police Chief's an Easy Going Guy; Imaginary Invalid; Piggy Bank; Autumn Violins; My Wife's Dead Brother; Professor Taranne.
Contains twelve plays that have been translated into modern English so that everyone can enjoy the fun. Albert Bermel is a well published critic of mo...
In one of Moliere's most popular plays, Scapin, that monarch of con men, puts his store of ingenuity to work, getting two lovesick young men married to the girls they pine for and, along the way, taking revenge on their grasping old fathers. Closed down after its first, highly successful run because of opposition from powerful enemies of the playwright, Don Juan was performed in a bowdlerized version for almost two hundred years, until actors, directors and critics restored the original text, recognizing it as the most ambitious and mightiest of Moliere's prose plays. Bermel's translations of...
In one of Moliere's most popular plays, Scapin, that monarch of con men, puts his store of ingenuity to work, getting two lovesick young men married t...
(Applause Books). These are the best of Moliere's masterful one-acts, blending broad farce and pointed wit to express his never-ending delight in human foibles. But Moliere is more than just the "master of the laugh," for behind the comic gestures of these matchless rogues, tight-fisted masters, possessive lovers and elegant ladies lurk fears, insecurities and their consequences. Includes: The Jealous Husband, The Flying Doctor, Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed, The Imaginary Cuckold, The Rehearsal at Versailles, The Forced Marriage, The Seductive Mistress.
(Applause Books). These are the best of Moliere's masterful one-acts, blending broad farce and pointed wit to express his never-ending delight in huma...
