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Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers) : A Puppet Play
ISBN: 9780231035316 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "Chushingura" (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) "Ronin," is the most famous and perennially popular of all Japanese dramas. Written around 1748 as a puppet play, it is now better known through Kabuki theater performances. Donald Keene's translation of the original text is presented here with a new preface and an introduction and notes to aid readers in their comprehension and enjoyment of the play.
"Chushingura" (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) "Ronin," is the most famous and perennia... |
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136,50 zł |
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Theater of Memory : The Plays of Kalidasa
ISBN: 9780231058391 / Angielski / Miękka / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume offers comprehensive analyses and new translations of Kalidasa's three extant plays: Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Urvasi Won by Valor, and Malavika and Agnimitra.
This volume offers comprehensive analyses and new translations of Kalidasa's three extant plays: Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Urvasi Won by...
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285,92 zł |
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Three Plays by Kobo Abe
ISBN: 9780231082808 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Three plays by one of contemporary Japan's most prominent writers-- Involuntary Homicide, The Green Stockings, The Ghost is Here--translated for this volume reveal Kobo Abe's deep love of absurdity in the face of universal concerns.
Three plays by one of contemporary Japan's most prominent writers-- Involuntary Homicide, The Green Stockings, The Ghost is Here--translated for this ...
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620,19 zł |
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Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
ISBN: 9780231111010 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and Kabuki actors. Chikamatsu is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition of four of his most important plays includes three popular domestic dramas and one history play.Chikamatsu's domestic dramas are accurate reflections of Japanese society at the time: his characters are samurai, farmers, merchants, and prostitutes who speak colloquially, and who people the shops, streets, teahouses, and brothels that...
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and...
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185,63 zł |
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Modern Armenian Drama : An Anthology
ISBN: 9780231116305 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Available in English for the first time, Modern Armenian Drama presents seven classic works from the Armenian stage. Spanning over a century (1871-1992), the plays explore such diverse themes science and religion, socioeconomic injustice, women's emancipation, and political reform through the medium of all the major European dramatic genres. Nishan Parlakian and S. Peter Cowe provide a comprehensive introduction to the history of Armenian drama, giving a valuable overview of its importance and development in Armenia, as well as a brief biography for each playwright. A preface to...
Available in English for the first time, Modern Armenian Drama presents seven classic works from the Armenian stage. Spanning over a century (1...
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293,62 zł |
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Chikamatsu : Five Late Plays
ISBN: 9780231121675 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as "Japan's Shakespeare" and a "god of writers," was arguably the most famous playwright in Japanese history and wrote more than 100 plays for the kabuki and bunraku theaters. Today, the plays of this major literary figure are performed on kabuki and bunraku stages as well as in the modern theater, and forty-nine films of his plays have been made, thirty-one of them from the silent era. Translations of Chikamatsu's plays are available, but we have few examples of his late work, in which he increasingly incorporated stylistic elements of...
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as "Japan's Shakespeare" and a "god of writers," was arguably the most famous playwright in Japane...
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230,20 zł |
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Mistress and Maid (Jiohong ji) by Meng Chengshun
ISBN: 9780231121682 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch presents the bittersweet tale of Bella, daughter of the Wang family, her maid Petal, and the young scholar Shen Chun. After her father reneges on her marital pact, Bella refuses to renounce her love for Shen, with whom she has vowed to share "in life one room, in death one tomb." The subversion of both conventional morality and the arranged marriage through vivid drama and witty comic scenes makes this seventeenth-century play particularly...
Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril B...
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675,91 zł |
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My Friend Hitler: And Other Plays
ISBN: 9780231126328 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas--two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, "I started writing dramas just as water flows toward a lower place. In me, the topography of dramas seems to be situated far below that of novels. It seems to be in a place which is more instinctive, closer to child's play." For English readers, these plays have been one of Japan's best-kept secrets--until now....
Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are...
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592,34 zł |
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My Friend Hitler: And Other Plays
ISBN: 9780231126335 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas--two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, "I started writing dramas just as water flows toward a lower place. In me, the topography of dramas seems to be situated far below that of novels. It seems to be in a place which is more instinctive, closer to child's play." For English readers, these plays have been one of Japan's best-kept secrets--until now....
Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are...
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196,77 zł |
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The Peony Pavilion, Second Edition : Mudan Ting
ISBN: 9780253215277 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. The celebrated English translation of this classic work of Chinese literature is now available in an updated paperback edition. Written in 1598 by Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion is one of literature s most memorable love stories and a masterpiece of Ming drama. Cyril Birch has captured all the elegance, lyricism, and subtle, earthy humor of this panoramic tale of romance and Chinese society. When Indiana University Press first published the text in 1981, it seemed doubtful that the work would ever be performed in its entirety again, but several spectacular and controversial productions... The celebrated English translation of this classic work of Chinese literature is now available in an updated paperback edition. Written in 1598 by ... |
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120,19 zł |
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Small Well Lane : A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History
ISBN: 9780472067954 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Li Longyun's five-act play, Small Well Lane (Xiaojing hutong), is a spoken drama published in Beijing in 1981. With a cast of nearly thirty characters of different social roles and individual persona, the play provides a vivid sense of how a group of working class Beijing residents living in a courtyard compound in a back alley, or hutong, named "Small Well Lane" experienced China's revolution from 1949 to 1980. It beautifully records the art of talking and living among Beijing back alley folk and provides a vivid contrast to the concerns and lives of China's elites.
This... Li Longyun's five-act play, Small Well Lane (Xiaojing hutong), is a spoken drama published in Beijing in 1981. With a cast of nearly thirty ch...
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125,39 zł |
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Small Well Lane : A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History
ISBN: 9780472097951 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Li Longyun's five-act play, "Small Well Lane (Xiaojing hutong), " is a spoken drama published in Beijing in 1981. With a cast of nearly thirty characters of different social roles and individual persona, the play provides a vivid sense of how a group of working class Beijing residents living in a courtyard compound in a back alley, or hutong, named "Small Well Lane" experienced China's revolution from 1949 to 1980. It beautifully records the art of talking and living among Beijing back alley folk and provides a vivid contrast to the concerns and lives of China's elites.
This authoritative... Li Longyun's five-act play, "Small Well Lane (Xiaojing hutong), " is a spoken drama published in Beijing in 1981. With a cast of nearly thirty charact...
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369,20 zł |
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The Story of the Western Wing
ISBN: 9780520201842 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji, or The Story of the Western Wing, is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled popularity. The play has given rise to innumerable sequels, parodies, and rewritings; it has influenced countless later plays, short stories, and novels and has played a crucial role in the development of drama criticism. This translation of the full and complete text of the earliest extant version is...
China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji, or The Story of the Western Wing, is a rollicking play that chronicles the a...
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142,46 zł |
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The Ethos of Noh : Actors and Their Art
ISBN: 9780674021204 / Angielski / Miękka / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. traditions that form the ethos of noh, such as those surrounding masks and manuscripts, are the key traits that define it as an art.
traditions that form the ethos of noh, such as those surrounding masks and manuscripts, are the key traits that define it as an art.
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83,71 zł |
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Women in Traditional Chinese Theater : The Heroine's Play
ISBN: 9780761832164 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Women in Traditional Chinese Theatre seeks to introduce Western readers to Chinese classical drama as well as investigate how women have traditionally been portrayed on stage by presenting original translations of six plays from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. Framed with a comprehensive introduction to the Chinese theatre and its representation of women, each play is preceded by an interpretative summary of the plot, and an analysis of each play's theme and significance. The selections in this volume feature women representing the most popular female archetypes in Chinese literature:...
Women in Traditional Chinese Theatre seeks to introduce Western readers to Chinese classical drama as well as investigate how women have traditionally...
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586,76 zł |
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Women in Traditional Chinese Theater : The Heroine's Play
ISBN: 9780761832171 / Angielski / Miękka / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Women in Traditional Chinese Theatre seeks to introduce Western readers to Chinese classical drama as well as investigate how women have traditionally been portrayed on stage by presenting original translations of six plays from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. Framed with a comprehensive introduction to the Chinese theatre and its representation of women, each play is preceded by an interpretative summary of the plot, and an analysis of each play's theme and significance. The selections in this volume feature women representing the most popular female archetypes in Chinese literature:...
Women in Traditional Chinese Theatre seeks to introduce Western readers to Chinese classical drama as well as investigate how women have traditionally...
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386,14 zł |
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Four Contemporary Korean Plays
ISBN: 9780761837039 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. South Korean drama has received considerable attention in Europe and Asia, but, until recently, received only scant attention in the United States. This anthology contains early works (1989-1993) by one of Korea's leading theatre artists. These works reflect the nature of Lee Yun Taek's genius, his contributions to contemporary Korean theatre and the socio-political climate in South Korea during the release of his early works. They are indeed "brief chronicles of their time." The plays, Citizen K; O-Gu: A Ceremony of Death; Mask of Fire: Ceremony of Power; and The Dummy Bride: A Ceremony of...
South Korean drama has received considerable attention in Europe and Asia, but, until recently, received only scant attention in the United States. Th...
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235,71 zł |
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Little Clay Cart: An English Translation of the Mrcchakatika of Sudraka as Adapted for the Stage by A.L. Basham
ISBN: 9780791417263 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Little Clay Cart is a Sanskrit play revolving around a romantic theme of the love of a high-born man for a courtesan. It contains dramatic developments involving a dynastic overthrow and contains realistic portrayals of a wide range of characters.
The Little Clay Cart is a Sanskrit play revolving around a romantic theme of the love of a high-born man for a courtesan. It contains dramatic develop...
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170,15 zł |
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CLASSIC NOH THEATRE JAPAN PA
ISBN: 9780811201520 / Angielski / Miękka / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Noh plays of Japan have been compared to the greatest of Greek tragedies for their evocative, powerful poetry and splendor of emotional intensity.
The Noh plays of Japan have been compared to the greatest of Greek tragedies for their evocative, powerful poetry and splendor of emotional intensity.
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60,54 zł |
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The Metacultural Theater of Oh T'ae-Sok : Five Plays from the Korean Avant-garde
ISBN: 9780824820992 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Here for the first time are translations of five plays by Oh T'ae-sok, Korea's leading playwright and one of the most original dramatists and stage-directors working in Asia today. Drawing inspiration from both East and West and combining styles as disparate as ancient Korean masked dance-drama and contemporary avant-garde theater, these plays range from raucous comedy to historical tragedy, from explorations of the impact of the Korean War to bitter satires of modern Korean life. A stunning visual storyteller, Oh mines Korea's cultural and theatrical traditions--not to preserve them but to...
Here for the first time are translations of five plays by Oh T'ae-sok, Korea's leading playwright and one of the most original dramatists and stage-di...
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209,64 zł |
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