Now even young readers can enjoy Shakespeare's stories in a bold new retelling that captures the drama and adventure of the original plays.
Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the dialogues have an urgent contemporary relevance to a Europe once again witnessing populations on the move. The premise is simple: two refugees from Nazi Germany meet in a railway cafe and discuss the current state of the world. They are a bourgeois Jewish physicist and a left-leaning worker. Their...
Wilhelm Tell (German Literary Classics in Translation) (German Literary Classics in Translation GLCT (CHUP))
by Friedrich Schiller
When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a "New Year's Gift for 1805" he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play which drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since then the work as become immensely popular. This new English translation by William F. Mainland brings out the essential tragi-comic nature of Wilhelm Tell but also emphasizes its impressive formal unity. Schi...
Die Nase Des Michelangelo - Tenderenda Der Phantast - Ausgewahlte Gedichte
by Hugo Ball
Die Ruckkehr des Chores in die Theaterstucke und Inszenierungen der Gegenwart macht erkennbar, eine wie hohe Aktualitat dieses seit der Antike bekannte Strukturelement des Dramas hat. Dabei werden die antiken Formen fur die Bedingungen der Gegenwart uberarbeitet und wirkungsvoll weiterentwickelt. Die Beitrage des Bandes leuchten vielfaltige Formen der Aneignung und Neubildung aus. Die Position des Chores zur Buhnenhandlung, seine Dimensionen, Artikulationsweisen, Bewegungsmomente werden ebenso i...
Pfeffer-Rosel / Die Walpurgisnacht / Johannes Guttenberg
by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer