Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theater? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Beckett and need a reliable guide to his plays? A Faber Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett's major work gives all this and more. Compiled by experts in their field, for use in classroom, college or at home, Faber Critical Guides are the essential companions to the work of all leading dramatists.
Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theater? Are you studying his plays and looking...
The Tamer Tamed is the subtitle or alternative title to John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, a comedic sequel and reply to The Taming of the Shrew.
The plot switches the gender roles of Shakespeare's play: the women seek to tame the men. Katherine (the "shrew" of the original) has died, and Petruchio takes a second wife, Maria. Maria denounces her former mildness and vows not to sleep with Petruchio until she "turn him and bend him as she] list, and mold him into a babe again." After many comedic exchanges and plot twists, Petruchio is finally "tamed" in the...
The Tamer Tamed is the subtitle or alternative title to John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, a comedic sequel and reply to The Tamin...
The Celts called them fairy cattle and the Greeks associated them with thehunter goddess Artemis, but for most people today, deer are seen as cute, like Bambi, or noble, like the Monarch of the Glen. They can be a danger when we're driving at night, or they can simply be a tasty venison burger. But while we may not often eat humble pie an actual pie filled with deer organs deer still appear in religion and mythology, on coats of arms, in fine art, and in literature ranging from The Yearling to Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia. In Deer, veterinarian and...
The Celts called them fairy cattle and the Greeks associated them with thehunter goddess Artemis, but for most people today, deer are seen as cute, li...
Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin independently led the South American revolutionary armies that freed much of Latin America of Spanish rule.
In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, igniting the flames of war across the Iberian Peninsula. Far across the Atlantic, this event lit the fuse for a war that raged for the better part of two decades as Spain's colonies grasped the opportunity to seize their own independence.
The Wars of South American Independence began with confused,...
Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin independently led the South American revolutionary armies that freed much of Latin America of Spanish rule.
The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites Shakespeare's The Tempest through the encounter of Islam and Christianity and the fierce European competition for wealth at the farthest reaches of empire. The play also stages the degeneration of religious tolerance into fanaticism. This ground-breaking edition explores the play in its gendered, political, social and religious contexts whilst also finding its resonances for a twenty-first century audience. The critical introduction and on-page commentary notes create an...
The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites Shakespeare's The Tempest throug...
Two Noble Kinsmen is based on Geoffrey Chaucers the Knights Tale. Three queens ask Theseus and Hippolyta to avenge the deaths of their husbands at the hands of the tyrant Creon of Thebes. Theseus agrees and wages a war that changes the fate of many those involved. The play ends with a public tournament.
Come all sad, and solemn shows, That are quick-eyed Pleasures foes; We convent nought else but woes. We convent nought else but woes.
Honor and Dignity--
Two Noble Kinsmen is based on Geoffrey Chaucers the Knights Tale. Three queens ask Theseus and Hippolyta to avenge the de...
Collected here are all sixteen of Shakespeares brilliant comedies. Including The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Loves Labours Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You like it, Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will, Measure for Measure, Alls Well That Ends Well, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Winters Tale, The Tempest, and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lovers fee. Shall we...
Sublime Comedies --
Collected here are all sixteen of Shakespeares brilliant comedies. Including The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of ...
In a career spanning more than five decades the distinguished French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche (1924-2012) elaborated a distinctive methodology for the reading of Freud's corpus and evolved, in connection with it, a radical new metapsychology - one that critically recast Freud's early 'seduction' theory of trauma and placed at the heart of psychic life a particular model of 'enigmatic signification.' Seductions and Enigmas is a volume dedicated to the implications of Laplanche's thought for reading and interpretation. It collects papers that elaborate Laplanche's unique method for the...
In a career spanning more than five decades the distinguished French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche (1924-2012) elaborated a distinctive methodology for...
William Shakespeare, John Fletcher: Die beiden edlen Vettern Die Tragikomodie in funf Akten in Versen und Prosa ist 1613 unter massgeblicher Beteiligung von John Fletcher entstanden und wurde im Herbst desselben Jahres im Blackfriars Theater uraufgefuhrt. Der Erstdruck erfolgte 1634. Die Freunde Palamon und Arcite sind am Hofe Theseus' in Athen gefangen. Beide verlieben sich in Emilia, die Schwester der Amazonenkonigin Hippolyta, die Theseus zur Frau genommen hat. Die Freunde werden zu erbitterten Rivalen. Die vorliegende Ubersetzung stammt von F.A. Gelbcke. Erstdruck in: Die englische Buhne...
William Shakespeare, John Fletcher: Die beiden edlen Vettern Die Tragikomodie in funf Akten in Versen und Prosa ist 1613 unter massgeblicher Beteiligu...
