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The Portable Arthur Miller
ISBN: 9780142437551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This classic collection the only one-volume selection of Arthur Miller's work available presents a rich cross section of writing from one of our most influential and humane playwrights, containing in full his masterpieces The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. This essential collection also includes the complete texts of After the Fall, The American Clock, The Last Yankee, and Broken Glass, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play of 1995, as well as excerpts from Miller's memoir Timebends. An essay by Harold Clurman and Christopher Bigsby's...
This classic collection the only one-volume selection of Arthur Miller's work available presents a rich cross section of writing from one of our most ...
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The Man Who Had All the Luck
ISBN: 9780142437865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The forgotten classic that launched the career of one of America's greatest playwrights
It took more than fifty years for The Man Who Had All the Luck to be appreciated for what it truly is: the first stirrings of a genius that would go on to blossom in such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Infused with the moral malaise of the Depression era, the parable-like drama centers on David Beeves, a man whose every obstacle to personal and professional success seems to crumble before him with ease. But his good fortune merely serves to reveal the... The forgotten classic that launched the career of one of America's greatest playwrights
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The Portable Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780142437940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A selection of The Bard's greatest writings edited by the great Shakespearean Stephen Orgel
William Shakespeare's plays revolutionized the English language and created some of the most important scenes in Western literature: Hamlet contemplating his mortality, Romeo romancing Juliet, Lear railing against his insanity into the storm, and King Henry V wandering among his soldiers on the eve of battle. With introductions and context from leading Shakespearean scholar Stephen Orgel, the essential works of the most important figure in English literature are collected here: nine complete... A selection of The Bard's greatest writings edited by the great Shakespearean Stephen Orgel
William Shakespeare's plays revolutionized the ... |
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103,76 |
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Arms and the Man
ISBN: 9780143039761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Arms and the Man, optimistic, farcical, absurd, and teeming with sexual energy, has Shaw inverting the devices of melodrama to glorious effect.
Arms and the Man, optimistic, farcical, absurd, and teeming with sexual energy, has Shaw inverting the devices of melodrama to glorious effect....
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Caesar and Cleopatra
ISBN: 9780143039778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeare's use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw's own time, but the undertone of melancholy makes it one of his most affecting plays.
Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeare's use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw's own time, but the undertone of melanch...
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Candida
ISBN: 9780143039785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Candida centers on a romantic triangle and parodies courtly love and the domestic drama of Ibsen. It abounds with classical allusions, the fervor of a religious revival, and poetic inspiration and aspirations.
Candida centers on a romantic triangle and parodies courtly love and the domestic drama of Ibsen. It abounds with classical allusions, the ferv...
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Life Is a Dream
ISBN: 9780143104827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The masterwork of Spain s preeminent dramatist now in a new verse translation
Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and predestination, illusion and reality, played out against the backdrop of court intrigue and the restoration of personal honor. In the mountainous barrens of Poland, the rightful heir to the kingdom has been imprisoned since birth in an attempt by his father to thwart fate. Meanwhile,... The masterwork of Spain s preeminent dramatist now in a new verse translation
Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme ex... |
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The Sisters Rosensweig
ISBN: 9780156000130 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Wasserstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for The Heidi Chronicles, writes of three Jewish middle-aged sisters-Sara, Gorgeous, and Pfeni-who come together in London to celebrate Sara s birthday. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award. Photographs.
" Wasserstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for The Heidi Chronicles, writes of three Jewish middle-aged sisters-Sara, Gorgeous, and Pfeni-...
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An American Daughter
ISBN: 9780156006453 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in Georgetown. She is also the president's nominee for Surgeon General. When the media discovers that once, long ago, she failed to respond for jury duty, this relatively minor misstep is portrayed as a serious moral lapse. A good friend uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the implications, and Lyssa must suffer the consequences. From that moment on, Lyssa Dent Hughes sits helplessly as the press investigates her family and...
Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in...
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Moliere's Don Juan: Comedy in Five Acts, 1665
ISBN: 9780156013109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Sophocles, the Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
ISBN: 9780156027649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.
English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index. |
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Aristophanes: Four Comedies
ISBN: 9780156027656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. "Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination" (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index.
New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. "Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust...
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Andromache, by Racine
ISBN: 9780156075107 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A skillful translation of the classical French tragedy about the captivity of Hector's wife after her abduction by the son of Achilles. The rhymed couplets retain the simplicity of form and powerful language of the original. " This translation] is a striking tour de force" (Hudson Review). Drawings by Igor Tulipanov.
A skillful translation of the classical French tragedy about the captivity of Hector's wife after her abduction by the son of Achilles. The rhymed cou...
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The Cocktail Party
ISBN: 9780156182898 / Angielski / Miękka / 1964 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. An authentic modern masterpiece (New York Post). Eliot really does portray real-seeming characters. He cuts down his poetic effects to the minimum, and then finally rewards us with most beautiful poetry (Stephen Spender).
" A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. An authentic modern masterpiece (New York Po...
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Confidential Clerk
ISBN: 9780156220156 / Angielski / Miękka / 1950 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A modern verse play that touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. "Never has Eliot's apparently effortless prosody been more precise.... He has achieved complete mastery of words" (Kirkus Reviews). "It is a wise, witty, elegant play whose characters speak finely and shrewdly" (Chicago Sunday Tribune).
A modern verse play that touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. "Never has Eliot's apparently effortless prosody been more precis...
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The Family Reunion
ISBN: 9780156301572 / Angielski / Miękka / 1964 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A modern verse play dealing with the problem of man s guilt and his need for expiation through his acceptance of responsibility for the sin of humanity. What poets and playwrights have been fumbling at in their desire to put poetry into drama and drama into poetry has here been realized.... This is the finest verse play since the Elizabethans (New York Times).
" A modern verse play dealing with the problem of man s guilt and his need for expiation through his acceptance of responsibility for the sin of humanit...
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Man from the USSR & Other Plays: And Other Plays
ISBN: 9780156569453 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Four plays and two essays on drama, written during Nabokov's emigre years before his writings in English earned him worldwide fame. Translated and with Introductions by Dmitri Nabokov.
" Four plays and two essays on drama, written during Nabokov's emigre years before his writings in English earned him worldwide fame. Translated and wit...
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Max: A Play
ISBN: 9780156577823 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A play that satirizes the political confusions of both youthful activists and middle-aged believers in gradual reform. Translated by A. Leslie Willson and Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
A play that satirizes the political confusions of both youthful activists and middle-aged believers in gradual reform. Translated by A. Leslie Willson...
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The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, by Molière
ISBN: 9780156605175 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Murder in the Cathedral
ISBN: 9780156632775 / Angielski / Miękka / 1964 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time.
T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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