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Der Band versammelt Beitrage zu einer 1999 veranstalteten internationalen Tagung, die das Drama der Romantik mit Fragestellungen der aktuellen Romantikforschung zu vermitteln suchte. Gewurdigt wird eine gegenuber dem zeitgleichen "klassischen" Drama vernachlassigte generische Konstellation, deren eigenstandige Verfatheit auch auf den literarhistorischen Kontext hin perspektiviert werden sollte. Die Studien behandeln das Problem der Gegenstandskonstituierung, die Theorie des romantischen Dramas und Strukturen der romantischen Komodie; sie liefern autor- und werkzentrierte Deutungen...

This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster; Three Sisters in which three siblings wrestle with their futures and The Cherry Orchard where the old must inevitably give way to the new. Haunting and elusive, these four great late masterpieces have found in Michael Frayn a translator who perfectly captures their delicate balance of the tragic and the absurd. The volume also contains four of Chekhov's early short...

A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition

Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth century Russia, Uncle Vanya is in part a study of the enervation of Russian middle-class provincial life. The major dynamics between the characters themselves are centred on two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere and a flirtation that brings disaster. Mixing the tragic and the absurd and dealing with a form that allows for...

In Waiting for Godot, two wandering tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and meaning is where you find it. The tramps hope that Godot will change their lives for the better. Instead, two eccentric travelers arrive, one man on the end of the other's rope. The results are both funny and dangerous in this existential masterpiece.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Plays Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso. This volume will serve to illustrate the range of Goethe's long and unparalleled career.

This book provides an introductory study of Beckett'smost famous play, dealing not just with the four maincharacters but with the pairings that they form, andthe implications of these pairings for the very idea ofcharacter in the play. After locating Godot within thecontext of Beckett's work, Lawley discusses some ofthe play's puzzles and difficulties-including theabsent "fifth character," Godot himself.

This book provides an introductory study of Beckett'smost famous play, dealing not just with the four maincharacters but with the pairings that they form, andthe implications of these pairings for the very idea ofcharacter in the play. After locating Godot within thecontext of Beckett's work, Lawley discusses some ofthe play's puzzles and difficulties-including theabsent "fifth character," Godot himself.

When the lighthouse keeper's daughter Ellida meets the widower Dr Wangel, she tries to put her long-lost first love far behind her and begin a new life as a wife and stepmother. But the tide is turning, an English ship is coming down the fjord, and the undercurrents threaten to drag a whole family beneath the surface in this passionate and sweeping drama. Ellida must choose between the values of the land: solidity and reliability against those of the sea: mystery and fluidity.

Ibsen's lyrical and still startlingly modern masterpiece, anticipated the emergence of psychoanalysis and...

Beckett remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century whose radical experimentations in form and content won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. This Critical Companion encompasses his plays for the stage, radio and television, and will be indispensable to students of his work.

Challenging and at times perplexing, Beckett's work is represented on almost every literature, theatre and Irish studies curriculum in universities in North America, Europe and Australia. Katherine Weiss' admirably clear study of his work provides the perfect companion,...

This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Christopher Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus. The new introduction by Brian Gibbons explores the plays in the context of early modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as examining their language, characters and themes. On-page commentary notes guide students to a better understanding and combine to make this an indispensable student edition ideal for study and classroom use.