Download or read book Classical German Drama Five great plays from the German theatre Translated by Theodore H Lustig With an introduction and prefaces by V Lange written by Victor LANGE (of University College, Toronto.) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classical German Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Verse Drama and Prose Plays written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goethe's early plays bear witness to his urgent desire to enliven German theater--an ambition that followed him to the National Theater in Weimar, where he was named director in the early 1790s. This volume contains eight of these plays, written between 1771 and 1787. Not only do they demonstrate Goethe's unprecedented versatility in experimenting with new forms of dramatic expression, but they also give insight into his development from Sturm und Drang to classicism. These works include prose plays (Goetz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand and Egmont), tragedies and comedies (Clavigo, Stella, and Brother and Sister), and dramatic verse forms (Prometheus, Jery and Betty, and Proserpina).
Download or read book The Classic Theatre written by Eric Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonce Und Lena written by Georg Buchner and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Georg Bchner's three surviving dramatic texts show the playwright wrestling with divergent styles in a struggle to convey his bleak worldview. ...Sean Graney reveal[s] much the same process. Both artists want to build on centuries-old theatrical traditions yet shred the niceties of conventional theater to expose life's raw nerves... ...Graney exploits his trademark techniques--stark design, inflated acting, self-reflexive presentation--to create an explosive, richly unpleasant affair.... Bchner poured every ounce of his cynicism into Prince Leonce, whose absurd battle with boredom fuels LEONCE UND LENA. Leonce can find nothing better to do with his days than spit on a rock 365 times in a row, convinced that human beings fall in love, marry, and multiply out of boredom, and finally they die out of boredom.' His childish father has betrothed him to the Princess Lena, a plan that will greatly interfere with Leonce's commitment to idleness.... Since Bchner is satirizing the theatrical conventions of his day, she's earnestly trying to become a fairy-tale princess, spouting poetic rhapsodies about flowers and dragonflies--while wrestling with the realization that there are people who are unhappy, incurably so, simply because they exist.' For this play Bchner drew heavily on the conventions of commedia dell'arte, then a nearly 300-year-old tradition of stock rustic characters in cartoonish, often ribald situations. Graney transforms the genre into menacing farce, inflating the characters' passions to such volatile extremes that they often quake as though ready to explode." Justin Hayford, The Chicago Reader
Download or read book Goethe s Plays written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1980 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Classic Theatre written by Eric Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love and Intrigue A Tragedy written by Frederich Schiller and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the period 1788-1805 he struck up a productive friendship with the already influential Goethe. The pair frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he had left as sketches. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which they challenged opponents to their philosophical vision. This five-act play, first performed in 1784, was Schiller's third dramatic work. Entitled Kabale und Liebe (literally Cabal and Love) in the original German, it shows how cabals and their intrigue destroy the love between Ferdinand, a nobleman's son, and Luise, daughter of a middle-class musician.
Download or read book Two Plays of Weimar Germany written by Ferdinand Bruckner and published by Northwestern World Classics. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Plays of Weimar Germany offers new translations, by the renowned theater scholar and translator Laurence Senelick, of popular works by the playwright Ferdinand Bruckner: Youth Is a Sickness (Krankheit der Jugend) and Criminals (Die Verbrecher). Though his fame was later eclipsed by peers such as Bertolt Brecht, Bruckner was the celebrity dramatist of his time, and a new generation of readers is discovering his groundbreaking plays known for their strong cultural critique and unflinching portrayals of social ills, outcasts, and misfits. Youth Is a Sickness (1924) explores the lives of Germany's "lost generation," those who grew up during and after the cataclysm of the First World War, devoid of hope and ideals, lost in a haze of sex and drugs. Criminals (1926) traces several court cases about a failed double suicide, theft, abortion, and homosexual blackmail, controversial topics for the audience of its time and even today. Its innovative staging and interwoven storylines illuminate the imposed social tensions and legal injustice faced by the characters. In this expert translation, readers can see Bruckner as a public intellectual, a man committed to commenting on the fate of Germany; humane values; and the past, present, and future in his work. With an introduction by the translator, this volume will be the definitive version for readers, actors, playwrights, and scholars.
Download or read book Drei Kleine Lustspiele written by Benjamin Willis Wells and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Drei Kleine Lustspiele: Edited With an Introduction and Notes OF the three little plays in this volume, the first and second are by Roderich Benedix, one of the most industri ous and popular of modern German playwrights. He was born in Leipzig in 1811, and died in 1873, after a wander ing and versatile career in which he had been by turns or together, actor, opera singer, dramatic author, theatrical manager, and editor of a literary journal. His complete dramatic works in twenty-seven small volumes were pub lished at irregular intervals from 1846 to 1874, and a selec tion from them has since been reprinted in a cheap and popular edition, while forty-six of his little comedies and monologues have been collected in the two volumes of his [jami/water. From this the present plays are taken with such changes only as are necessary to make them corre spond with the received standard Prussian orthography, which is seldom or never consistently employed by Ger man dramatic publishers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Three German Plays Woyzeck By Georg B chner Translated by John Holmstrom Before Dawn By Gerhart Hauptmann Translated by Richard Newnham The Threepenny Opera By Bertolt Brecht Translated by Desmond I Vesey Verses by Eric Bentley Etc written by GERMAN PLAYS. and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Piccolomini written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of Germany's most renowned poets, Friedrich Schiller, and translated by the esteemed Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Piccolomini is a must-read for anyone interested in dramatic literature. Set in the midst of the Thirty Years' War, this play tells the story of Wallenstein, a general who finds himself caught between his loyalty to the emperor and his own personal ambitions. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book La Ronde written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by Plays for Performance Series. This book was released on 2010 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900, Arthur Schnitzler's famous play looks at the sexual morality and class ideology of his day through a series of sexual encounters between pairs of characters. When published publicly in 1903, it became an immediate best-seller, scandalized Viennese society, and a year later was censored. Schnitzler was accused of pornography and worse. In 1922 Freud wrote to him that "you have learned through intuition-though actually as a result of sensitive introspection-everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons." By choosing characters across the social spectrum, La Ronde offers a powerful view of how sexual contact transgresses boundaries of class. Nicholas Rudall's new translation sensitively captures the language distinctions of the representative characters in the play while providing a remarkably playable script. New in the Plays for Performance series.
