Bertolt Brecht
ISBN: 9780820334783 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1980, this collection of fifteen original essays touches on a variety of topics related to the genesis of Brecht's works and their impact on contemporary literature, theater, and film. Discussed are Brecht's confrontation with Marxism and its political manifestations, the influence of his work on film and theater practitioners, the uses his literary descendants have made of his political commitment, and much more.
First published in 1980, this collection of fifteen original essays touches on a variety of topics related to the genesis of Brecht's works and their ...
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169,52 zł |
Bertolt Brecht's Dramatic Theory
ISBN: 9781571134738 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As an integral part of his work as a political playwright and dramaturge, Bertolt Brecht concerned himself extensively with the theory of drama. He was convinced that the Aristotelian ideal of audience catharsis through identification with a hero and the resultant experience of terror and pity worked against his goal of bettering society. He did not want his audiences to feel, but to think, and his main theoretical thrusts -- -Verfremdungseffekte- (de-familiarization devices) and epic theater, among others -- were conceived in pursuit of this goal. This is the first detailed study in English...
As an integral part of his work as a political playwright and dramaturge, Bertolt Brecht concerned himself extensively with the theory of drama. He wa...
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Goethes Werke: Vollstandige Ausgabe Letzter Hand, Dritter Band
ISBN: 9781144641014 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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129,33 zł |
Goethe's Werke: Vollständige Ausg. Letzter Hand ...
ISBN: 9781144260819 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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146,72 zł |
Aminte
ISBN: 9781145144460 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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111,94 zł |
La Fianza Satisfecha: Attributed to Lope de Vega: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes
ISBN: 9780521144650 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1971, this was the first critical edition of La fianza satisfecha, a play of disputed authorship dating from the Golden Age of Spanish literature. The editors of this edition believe it was written in 1614 by Lope de Vega. Their reasons, which rely on similarities with Lope's other plays and on relationships between Lope and Tirso de Molina, are presented in the introduction, which also discusses the fourteen texts used to establish this text, the literary parallels, two scrutinies of this play by the Inquisition, and contemporary criticism and interpretation. The hero...
Originally published in 1971, this was the first critical edition of La fianza satisfecha, a play of disputed authorship dating from the Golden Age of...
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Von Kraftmenschen und Schwächlingen
ISBN: 9783110237818 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Arbeit widmet sich der Untersuchung literarischer Mannlichkeitsentwurfe in deutschen und italienischen Dramentexten des spaten 18. Jahrhunderts. Auf der Grundlage einer historisch-epistemologischen Begriffsdefinition von Mannlichkeit sowie aktueller Theorieansatze der Mannerforschung im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert werden folgende Textbeispiele analysiert: Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Minna von Barnhelm oder das Soldatengluck, Johann Wolfgang Goethes Gotz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand, Friedrich Schillers Die Rauber sowie Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts / Lorenzo... Die Arbeit widmet sich der Untersuchung literarischer Mannlichkeitsentwurfe in deutschen und italienischen Dramentexten des spaten 18. Jahrhunderts... |
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Daring to Play : A Brecht Companion
ISBN: 9780415569682 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brecht's theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brecht's co-director and former director of the Berliner Ensemble.
Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brecht's theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brecht's ...
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701,59 zł |
Antigone
ISBN: 9780521119283 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sophocles' Antigone comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality. She provides an analytical introduction and comprehensive notes, and the edition includes an essay by director Karen Libman. Antigone begins after Oedipus and Jocasta's sons have killed each other in a battle over the kingship. The new king, Kreon, decrees that the brother who attacked with a foreign army remain unburied and promises death to anyone who defies him. The play...
Sophocles' Antigone comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane Rayor's accurate yet a...
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257,40 zł |
Find A Way Home: One family's journey of survival in WWII
ISBN: 9781442163447 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If home is truly where the heart is, then home to the Vaal family was always about being together. In Find A Way Home, Michael Vaal captures the emotion, longing and fear of his devoted family separated by the perils of war. Franciscus and Maria Vaal had already lived through one war and years of enemy occupation, and were united in their determination to keep their family together in the uncertain days of World War II. Michael was only an infant when Maria packed up the couple's five young boys and set off from war-torn Belgium to join Franciscus, who was desperately fighting for the Belgian...
If home is truly where the heart is, then home to the Vaal family was always about being together. In Find A Way Home, Michael Vaal captures the emoti...
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68,24 zł |
Jean Genet : Une ecriture des perversions
ISBN: 9789042032392 / Francuski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Jean Genet. Une criture des perversions "est la premi re tude consacr e enti rement au sujet de la perversion dans l' uvre de Jean Genet (1910-1986). Ce sujet - primordial pour Genet - est ici analys selon trois perspectives la fois distinctes et profond ment li es: les perversions morales, les perversions sexuelles et les perversions textuelles.Voleur, p d raste et crivain, Genet attaque la soci t dite normale en arborant ses perversions au grand jour. En m me temps, il subvertit la dichotomie perversion/normalit et chante la gloire de ceux qui osent se lib rer du discours normatif. Car,...
"Jean Genet. Une criture des perversions "est la premi re tude consacr e enti rement au sujet de la perversion dans l' uvre de Jean Genet (1910-1986)....
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297,34 zł |
Therese Raquin: A Play in Four Acts
ISBN: 9781479400546 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on Zola's 1867 novel, and dramatized by the author in 1873, this play is almost a French version of the Russian novel, Crime and Punishment. Therese and her lover, Laurent, decide to kill her likable but sickly husband, Camille (also her husband), and succeed in doing so without arousing any suspicion. The boating accident that ends Camille's life also makes Laurent a hero for rescuing Therese. The lovers remain apart for a year, until friends of the family suggest they marry. But both are remorseful and guilt-ridden. Finally, Therese's mother discovers the truth, but suffers a stroke...
Based on Zola's 1867 novel, and dramatized by the author in 1873, this play is almost a French version of the Russian novel, Crime and Punishment. The...
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86,67 zł |
La Mothe Le Vayer: Lettre Sur La Comedie de l'Imposteur
ISBN: 9780719085932 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Lettre sur la comedie de l'Imposteur is the only work of any length which does full justice to comedy in the 17th century as a serious dramatic form. It is an important document in its own right and because it is inseparable from the historical context of Moliere's Le Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur and the circumstances which influenced its development.
The Lettre sur la comedie de l'Imposteur is the only work of any length which does full justice to comedy in the 17th century as a serious dramatic fo...
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109,36 zł |
A History of Italian Theatre
ISBN: 9780521294782 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the aim of providing a comprehensive history of Italian drama from its origins to the time of its publication in 2006, this book treats theatre in its widest sense, discussing the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative process of theatre-making. The impact of designers, actors, directors and impresarios as well as of playwrights is subjected to critical scrutiny, while individual chapters examine the changes in technology and shifts in the cultural climate which have influenced theatre. No other approach would be acceptable for Italian theatre, where from...
With the aim of providing a comprehensive history of Italian drama from its origins to the time of its publication in 2006, this book treats theatre i...
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456,68 zł |
German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation
ISBN: 9789042033528 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anderson reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the 20th century. Here, with unprecedented detail and focus, the messianic strain is traced through the work of Expressionist playwrights Ernst Barlach, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller, and Franz Werfel. 212 pp.
Anderson reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the 20th century. Here, with unprecedent...
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271,48 zł |
Molière on Stage: What's So Funny?
ISBN: 9780857284440 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when the dramatic art of Moliere is unleashed onto the stage and explodes into new life? Moliere on Stage takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Moliere s plays, analyzing the performance of his works in both his own time and ours. Written by a professional stage director with over fifty years of experience directing and translating Moliere, this original, in-depth study allows the reader to see how the playwright s lines have been brought to new life on stage throughout the centuries. The text explores how Moliere strove to create a communal... What happens when the dramatic art of Moliere is unleashed onto the stage and explodes into new life? Moliere on Stage takes the reader onstage, ba... |
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173,66 zł |
Russian Dramatic Theory from Pushkin to the Symbolists: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780292741676 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology presents a selection of important Russian writing on the aesthetics of drama and the theater from 1828 to 1914.
This anthology presents a selection of important Russian writing on the aesthetics of drama and the theater from 1828 to 1914.
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145,47 zł |
The Servant of Two Masters
ISBN: 9781848421936 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over two hundred and fifty years after it was written, this classic Italian comedy remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant. The plight of Truffaldino, desperately trying to keep two jobs afloat, has most recently delighted audiences in the smash-hit adaptation One Man, Two Guvnors. This is the original, a masterpiece of comic absurdity.
Over two hundred and fifty years after it was written, this classic Italian comedy remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant. The plight of Truffald...
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30,58 zł |
Selected Plays: Translations from Russian Into English
ISBN: 9781456783624 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Cherry Orchard
ISBN: 9780573019999 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spring 1903. Russia, And the cherry orchard is up for sale. Lyuboy Ranevskaya ran away to Paris five years ago after her only son drowned. Coming back to her beloved childhood home, she's faced with a mound of debts and an impossible decision - lose the family estate or carve up the land for summer holiday cottages. Lopakhin, the wealthy son of a former serf on the estate, sees a money-spinning opportunity and urges her to consider his scheme. But to Lyubov, the magnificent cherry orchard means everything. Written in 1904, The Cherry Orchard was Chekhov's last great comedy of life. This new...
Spring 1903. Russia, And the cherry orchard is up for sale. Lyuboy Ranevskaya ran away to Paris five years ago after her only son drowned. Coming back...
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91,19 zł |