Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions
by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
"A Touch of the Poet and "More Stately Mansions are regarded as two of Eugene O'Neill's finest plays. Companion pieces, linked by characters and themes, they form part of a projected series of eleven interconnected plays in which the playwright intended to give a psychological and economic account of American life. Now these works, the only surviving plays in O'Neill's cycle," are brought together for the first time in a paperback volume.
For the vast generation of actors in their teens and twenties, as well as for teachers, directors, and producers, Under Thirty is an unparalleled source of diverse and challenging roles, created by some of today’s finest writers. The twenty plays presented here in full or in part include insightful looks at the pressure-cooker caste system of American high schools as well as heartbreaking, edgy portrayals of twentysomethings adrift in the city. There are snappy romantic duets, large-cast ensembl...
Gerade Goethes Faust eignet sich als Vorlage fur Hollywoodfilme. Allerdings handelt es sich dabei um Adaptionen und Transformationen der Thematik, nicht um direkte UEbernahmen. Grunde dafur liegen u. a. in den unterschiedlichen politischen, kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Situationen, die das Deutschland der Goethezeit und das moderne Amerika kennzeichnen. Doch wie schon im Faust zahlen heute die positive Aufloesung des Konfliktes und eine Liebesbeziehung zu den Bestandteilen eines modernen Hol...
Die Persoenliche Bibliothek A.P. Cechovs in Jalta (Slavische Literaturen, #6)
by Alla Vasil Chanilo
Im Unterschied zu der Arbeit S.D. Baluchatyjs -Die Bibliothek Cechovs-, die langst zu einer Raritat geworden ist, bietet die Publikation von A.V. Chanilo die vollstandigste Beschreibung der "Jaltaer" Bibliothek des grossen Schriftstellers, d.h. der Bucher, von denen sich Cechov zeitlebens nicht getrennt hat. Die Arbeit enthalt nicht nur eine detaillierte bibliographische Bestandsaufnahme der Bibliothek, sondern auch die Beschreibung samtlicher Randbemerkungen Cechovs wie auch eine Beschreibung d...
Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy based on the life of Alice James (1848-92), the brilliant sister of William and Henry James. The waters of depression closed over Alice James when she was nineteen; she tried to summon the courage to commit suicide, she suffered from a variety of vague and debilitating ailments, she went abroad, she stayed in bed, she kept a diary, and she died...at age forty-three. In Susan Sontag's play, Alice James merges imaginatively with the other great Alice of her...