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...
Spaces of Irish Drama, The: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays
by Helen Heusner Lojek
John Connolly's "The Boys from Siam" has been chosen as the first winner of the "Yale Drama Series". This play was selected by contest judge, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Edward Albee. Based loosely on the lives of Chang and Eng Bunker, the nineteenth-century brothers and source of the term 'Siamese twins', "The Boys from Siam" is the haunting and lyrical story of conjoined twins Pigg and Pegg. Edward Albee in his foreword writes that the work is "a beautifully realized concentrated univers...
Duchess of Malfi, The Paper (Study Texts S.)
by John Webster, Roy Blatchford, and Trevor Millum
Webster's tragedy unfolds against a background of decadence and deception, established in the opening scenes of the play. The conversation and business of the court characters are lit up by shafts of satirical observation and brilliant, startling images. A level: WJEC; NEAB; OCR
What makes a home for you? _x000D_ Victor Esses is Jewish-Lebanese, Brazilian, and gay. In 1975, Victor's mother flees Lebanon as a refugee of the Civil War. In 2017, Victor visits Lebanon for the first time. In 2018, amidst the elections that will see Brazil choose a far-right president, he travels from London to Sao Paulo to show his partner the city of his childhood. _x000D_ Where to Belong is the tender, moving story of these journeys - an exploration of how to find your place in a ric...
Oeuvres Completes de Eugene Scribe, Operas-Comiques. Ser. 4, Vol. 18 (Litterature)
by Eugene Scribe
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" (Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary S.)
by Matt Simpson
Nestled in the heart of Snowdonia, the small town of Milky Peaks is nominated for ‘Britain’s Best Town’. However, the award brings with it a dark, insidious right-wing agenda, threatening the heart and soul of the town. _x000D_ Can the community club together to save the identity of their beloved Milky Peaks?
In a fractured and divided city, two men, 'A' and 'B', meet to recreate the killings of a famous gay serial killer, for their own pleasure...and the right price. "Everything else is tumbling down Falling apart But not you and me You and me are going to hold tight You and me are just right" Sex/Crime is a darkly comic queer thriller: an exciting, challenging play that explores sex, violence, language, fear and queerness.
The School for Scandal (Dover Thrift Editions) (New Mermaids)
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheridan's most successful play, often considered the apex of English comedy.
The Moral Play of Wit and Science, and Early Poetical Miscellanies
by John Redford
The Wicked World (Dodo Press)
by William Schwenck Gilbert and W S Gilbert
Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness, a preoccupation suggesting widespread resentment of systemic unfairness - legal, economic, political and social. Revengers' precise equivalents - the father of two beheaded sons obliges his enemy to eat her two sons' hea...
L'Attualita di Pirandello
