Download or read book L cole des femmes The school for wives A comedy etc written by Molière and published by . This book was released on 1732 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Killed written by Yael Kohen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kohen assembles America's most prominent comediennes to piece together an oral history about the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy.
Download or read book The School for Lies written by David Ives and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: It's 1666 and the brightest, wittiest salon in Paris is that of Celimene, a beautiful young widow so known for her satiric tongue she's being sued for it. Surrounded by shallow suitors, whom she lives off of without surrendering to, Celi
Download or read book La B te written by David Hirson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written entirely in rhyming couplets, La Bete is a quicksilver tragicomedy of language in which a crisis befalling an imagined seventeenth-century acting troupe provides the basis for a relentlessly deepening Chinese box of opinions about life and art.".
Download or read book The School for Scandal written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by Harlan Davidson. This book was released on 1986 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text of this edition is transcribed from that of George Nettleton, with additions or deletions set off in brackets. Also included are the dedicatory 'Portrait Addressed to Mrs Crewe', Garrick's 'Prologue', and G Colman's 'Epilogue'. Edited by John Loftis, this edition of The School for Scandal for performance and study also includes an introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and a selected bibliography.
Download or read book The Misanthrope Tartuffe and Other Plays written by Molière and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles This volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and playwright, Moliere (1622-73) was one of the finest and most influential French dramatists, adept at portraying human foibles and puncturing pomposity. The School for Wives was his first great success; Tartuffe, condemned and banned for five years, his most controversial play. The Misanthrope is his acknowledged masterpiece, and The Clever Women his last, and perhaps best-constructed, verse piece. In addition this collection includes a spirited attack on his enemies and a defence of his theatre, in the form of two sparkling short plays, The School for Wives Criticized and The Impromptu at Versailles. Moliere's prose plays are available in a complementary Oxford World's Classics edition, Don Juan and Other Plays. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Download or read book The Stepford Wives written by Ira Levin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby With an Introduction by Peter Straub For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same. At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.
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Download or read book The School for Wives by Moli re Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of The School for Wives with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The School for Wives by Molière, a comedy in which an old man tries to ensure the faithfulness of the young woman he intends to marry by keeping her ignorant. This major play triggered a scandal at the time, both because of its controversial content and innovative form. Despite this controversy, it is considered by many to be Molière's greatest achievement and it has since been turned into a musical. Molière wrote many plays over his lifetime and many of them have been highly influential on French culture and society, causing him to become a household name, and his plays are still being performed centuries after his death. Find out everything you need to know about The School for Wives in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Download or read book Educating Agnes written by Liz Lochhead and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from Molière's "School for Wives" by Lochhead, 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' (Scotland on Sunday)
Download or read book Zoo or Letters Not about Love written by Viktor Shklovsky and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about Love is an epistolary novel born of this constraint, and although the brilliant and playful letters contained here cover everything from observations about contemporary German and Russian life to theories of art and literature, nonetheless every one of them is indirectly dedicated to the one topic they are all required to avoid: their author's own unrequited love.
Download or read book The School for Wives written by Molière, and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molière, undoubtedly one of the greatest writers of comedy in the history of theatre, won enormous success for The School for Wives (L'Ecole des Femmes) in Paris in 1662; yet this highly popular play, satirising ridiculous male attitudes to women, aroused as much hostility as critical acclaim. Arnolphe, a narrow-minded merchant hoping to marry his young ward, Agnès, is obsessed with the fear of being made a cuckold. But all his artful plans serve only to speed him towards the fate he is so desperate to avoid. Molière himself first played the hapless merchant, and this believable character in an all too believable predicament both startled and delighted his public. This highly successful translation of The School for Wives, directed by Sir Peter Hall, ran in the West End for six months.
Download or read book The School for Wives written by Molière and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Fearing cuckoldry above all else, Arnolphe has painstakingly trained the guileless Agnes from childhood to become his obedient and faithful wife. Although he has carefully shielded her from the outside world, romance finds her in the for
