Crise d'otage
ISBN: 9781517267384 / Francuski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Un citoyen ordinaire se retrouve un jour enferme, pris en otage. Pourquoi ? Par qui ? Il va avoir tout le temps de reflechir a sa vie anterieure et de se construire des espaces de liberte dans son espace confine."
Un citoyen ordinaire se retrouve un jour enferme, pris en otage. Pourquoi ? Par qui ? Il va avoir tout le temps de reflechir a sa vie anterieure et de...
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Moliere's Don Juan: Comedy in Five Acts, 1665
ISBN: 9780156013109 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Don Juan, the -Seducer of Seville, - originated as a hero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a thousand sexual conquests. One of Moliere's best-known plays, Don Juan was written while Tartuffe was still banned on the stages of Paris, and shared much with the outlawed play. Modern directors transform Don Juan in every new era, as each director finds something new to highlight in this timeless classic. Richard Wilbur's flawless translation will be the standard for generations to come, as have his translations of Moliere's other plays. Witty,...
Don Juan, the -Seducer of Seville, - originated as a hero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a tho...
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The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, by Molière
ISBN: 9780156605175 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two classic plays translated by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet into English verse. In The Misanthrope, society itself is indicted and the impurity of its critic s motives is exposed. In Tartuffe, the bigoted and prudish Orgon falls completely under the power of the wily Tartuffe. Introductions by Richard Wilbur.
" Two classic plays translated by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet into English verse. In The Misanthrope, society itself is indicted and the impurity of i...
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86,27 zł |
The School for Wives and the Learned Ladies, by Molière: Two Comedies in an Acclaimed Translation.
ISBN: 9780156795029 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. Wilbur...makes Moliere into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one (John Simon, New York). Introductions by Richard Wilbur.
" The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Lea...
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86,31 zł |
Tartuffe, by Molière
ISBN: 9780156881807 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The translation into English verse of one of Moliere's most masterful and most popular plays. "A continuous delight from beginning to end" (Richard Eberhart). Introduction by Richard Wilbur.
The translation into English verse of one of Moliere's most masterful and most popular plays. "A continuous delight from beginning to end" (Richard Eb...
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64,69 zł |
Lorenzaccio
ISBN: 9780881453270 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alfred de Musset's 1832 play depicts Lorenzo de Medici, the 16th-century Florentine nobleman who killed his tyrannical cousin but did not establish a republican government afterwards and was forever disgraced by a debaucherous past. "Impressive. A sleek, stirring adaptation ... LORENZACCIO is a civic tragedy, charting the cruel decline of a formerly free city-state ... Recounted by ... playwright John Strand with clarity and directness, Musset's story of a society cowed by and despairing over its political leadership seems an apt one to tell just now. Its bitter conclusion is designed as a...
Alfred de Musset's 1832 play depicts Lorenzo de Medici, the 16th-century Florentine nobleman who killed his tyrannical cousin but did not establish a ...
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Phedre
ISBN: 9780374526160 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy. The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus' love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be known as one of the great stories of tragic infatuation, a tale of love strong enough to bring down a kingdom. In this "tough, unrhyming avalanche of a translation" (Paul Taylor, The Independent), Hughes replaces Racine's... A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy. The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatiz... |
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Cyrano de Bergerac
ISBN: 9780486411194 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Widely considered the most popular modern French play, "Cyrano de Bergerac" has dazzled audiences with its wit and eloquence since it premiered in 1897. Widely considered the most popular modern French play, "Cyrano de Bergerac" has dazzled audiences with its wit and eloquence since it premiered in ... |
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Yasmina Reza: Plays One: Art/The Unexpected Man/Conversations After a Burial/Life X 3
ISBN: 9780571221912 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in one volume, the works of "the most successful international playwright of her generation" (Vogue). Yasmina Reza's plays reflect the razor sharp wit, social commentary, and impeccable comedic timing that have earned the praise of critics throughout the world, none more so than the Tony Award-winning Art, an eccentric and clever play of ideas that took the American theater community by storm. In this sly critique of contemporary relationships, Reza skillfully picks apart the friendship of three men via a bowl of olives and a white-on-white painting. Now translated... Now in one volume, the works of "the most successful international playwright of her generation" (Vogue). Yasmina Reza's plays reflect... |
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94,94 zł |
No Exit and Three Other Plays
ISBN: 9780679725169 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict, and an arresting attack on American racism.
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known p...
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69,05 zł |
The Screens
ISBN: 9780802151582 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jean Genet was one of the world s greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a powerful, closing chord to the formidable theatrical work that began with Deathwatch and continued, with even bolder variations, in The Maids, The Balcony, and The Blacks.
Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The play s cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screensthe only sceneryin a brilliant tour de... Jean Genet was one of the world s greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a powerful...
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64,51 zł |
Ubu Roi: Drama in 5 Acts
ISBN: 9780811200721 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Championed by Dadaists and Surrealists as the first absurdist drama, the play features a main character that is cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque the author's metaphor for modern man. This drama in five acts by Alfred Jarry is translated from the French by Barbara Wright, with two portraits of the author by L. Lantier and F. A. Cazals, and several drawings by Jarry and Pierre Bonnard, and 24 drawings by Franciszka Themerson, doodled on lithographic plates all followed by "The Song of the Dismembering," and concluding with two essays on the theatre by the same author and the same translator."
Championed by Dadaists and Surrealists as the first absurdist drama, the play features a main character that is cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque the a...
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69,97 zł |
Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror
ISBN: 9780859896962 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897-1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the 'Theatre of Horror, ' a venue displaying such explicit violence and blood-curdling terror that a resident doctor was employed to treat the numerous spectators who fainted each night. Indeed, the phrase 'grand guignol' has entered the language to describe any display of sensational horror. Since the theatre closed its doors forty years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and theatre historians. This book reconsiders the importance and influence of the Grand-Guignol within its social, cultural and...
The Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897-1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the 'Theatre of Horror, ' a venue displaying such explicit violen...
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107,73 zł |
Le Misanthrope
ISBN: 9781840020328 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this translation from esteemed translator Ranjit Bolt, based on the original by Moliere. The play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws which all humans possess.
In this translation from esteemed translator Ranjit Bolt, based on the original by Moliere. The play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic ...
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61,35 zł |
La panhypocrisiade ou le spectacle infernal du seizième siècle, comédie épique
ISBN: 9781517202477 / Francuski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La panhypocrisiade ou le spectacle infernal du seizieme siecle, comedie epique by Nepomucene-Louis Lemercier. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1819 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes."
La panhypocrisiade ou le spectacle infernal du seizieme siecle, comedie epique by Nepomucene-Louis Lemercier. This book is a reproduction of the origi...
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Un divan pour la scene
ISBN: 9781517090333 / Francuski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colombe, actrice de profession, vient consulter Vincent, therapeute, pour un mal-etre autant professionnel que personnel. Sur scene elle repete le grand monologue d'Elvire dans l'acte IV de Dom Juan avec son metteur en scene Erwann. Le theatre et la relation qu'elle entretient avec ce dernier va rapidement devenir le materiau principal de la cure: Colombe, jouant Elvire, sous la direction equivoque d'Erwann, rejoue inconsciemment sa vie passee et repete le vecu douloureux de ses rapports avec les hommes.... Parallelement, Vincent, lui-meme en supervision, essaie de comprendre sous le regard...
Colombe, actrice de profession, vient consulter Vincent, therapeute, pour un mal-etre autant professionnel que personnel. Sur scene elle repete le gra...
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58,00 zł |
Tartuffe by Moliere: A Reality Show
ISBN: 9781517061173 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederique Michel and Charles Duncombe continue their series of ribald, contemporary versions of Moliere's classic comedies with a new take on his masterpiece about religious hypocrisy. It's Tartuffe, the Reality Show Welcome to the glitzy, gaudy Beverly Hills mansion of the delightfully deluded businessman Orgon Pernelle. He rescues a homeless hustler from the street who pretends to be a pious preacher, but Orgon's family sees in Tartuffe what he doesn't: a masterly con-man. His trophy wife, his rebellious, spoiled children, and his naughty maid all want the cunning manipulator to be thrown...
Frederique Michel and Charles Duncombe continue their series of ribald, contemporary versions of Moliere's classic comedies with a new take on his mas...
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The Imaginary Invalid
ISBN: 9780573012006 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To reduce his medical fees, hypochondriac M. Argan decides to marry off his daughter Angelica to a physician's son. Unfortunately, Angelica loves Cliante. Argan's brother Biralde and Toinette, an inventive maid, save the situation for the lovers and expose Mme Argan's schemes to bleed her husband of his fortune. Then they persuade the hypochondriac to turn physician so that he can quack himself free of charge."
To reduce his medical fees, hypochondriac M. Argan decides to marry off his daughter Angelica to a physician's son. Unfortunately, Angelica loves Clia...
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90,58 zł |
Therese Raquin
ISBN: 9780948230134 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emile Zola's own stage adaptation of his taut, psychological thriller. An intense story of adultery, murder and revenge, streaked with social satire.
Emile Zola's own stage adaptation of his taut, psychological thriller. An intense story of adultery, murder and revenge, streaked with social satire.
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67,75 zł |