Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> European - General

The Scruffy Scoundrels by Annibal Caro offers the student, scholar, and general reader a sixteenth-century masterpiece in modern English translation.

From one vantage point, The Scruffy Scoundrels would appear to be no more than a series of unrelated scenes and sketches grouped around a highly conventionalized and loosely structured love plot: the arrival of Pilucca and Tindaro in Rome abounding in topical references; the appearance of the two ragged brothers so arbitrarily related to the rest of the events of the play; the love squabble between two servants...

Giovan Maria Cecchi (1517-1587) was the most prolific and popular of sixteenth-century Florentine daramatists. His best-known play, L'Assiuolo (The Horned Owl), brings to the stage the amorous adventure of two students at the university of Pisa who fall in love with the same married lady. Through a servant's ruse they both succeed in gratifying their senses and in establishing a love affair that will see them through their undergraduate career.

In this book, Steiner describes how "The Portal of Initiation" (the first of his dramas) portrays the intense and tempestuous inner events of initiation as experienced by a young painter. He explains the spiritual background of this character's "karmic" tests and higher guidance. He also discusses the Rosicrucian nature of this play, as well as the "symbolism...

Une seule collection de lecture pour tous niveaux

Structure du livre:

• Une collection de lecture en franAais pour se divertir, s'enrichir, perfectionner ses connaissances des grands classiques de la littA(c)rature franAaise.
• Cette collection est accessible dA]s le niveau dA(c)butant, elle est organisA(c)e en quatre niveaux: A1, A2, B1, B2.
• Un dossier pA(c)dagogique A la fin de la (TM)A-uvre est renforcA(c) par des activitA(c)s de comprA(c)hension, des fiches thA(c)matiques et des corrigA(c)s intA(c)grA(c)s.
• La dA(c)finition des mots...

Exploring each of Moliere s 33 plays (including the "divertissements) "for its theatrical possibilities, Bermel deals with dramatic structures, settings, roles and their interactions, original productions, and outstanding recent stage performances in France, Britain, and the United States. His emphasis is theatrical rather than literary, philosophical, or biographical, although he necessarily brings these considerations to bear when discussing certain plays.

Bermel introduces a new methodology, one featuring the type of scrutiny directors, actors, and designers apply to any play before...