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In seinem Stück Café Umberto setzt sich der Schriftsteller und Journalist Moritz Rinke mit Problemen der Arbeitswelt auseinander. Dabei bezieht er konkrete politische Maßnahmen ebenso ein wie Fragen nach dem Ort des Utopischen in der Gegenwart. Das Utopische ist in dem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-07
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Their texts fully restored by recent scholarship, Marlowe's astonishing works can now be appreciated as originally written. For the first time, this edition boasts the complete plays - including two versions of Doctor Faustus.Blasphemy, perversion, defiance and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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This book investigates allegorical meaning in the ballets Giselle, Coppélia, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, principally by examining their original librettos and costume designs, as well as considering their surviving choreographic legacy. Each ballet is examined...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-19
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Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the `A' level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path. His university friend Sam Sharp, who has become a successful screen writer, drops in on the way to Los...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-03-31
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Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman (His Dark Materials), Jamila Gavin (Coram Boy) and Michael Morpurgo (War Horse), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of...
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Transworld Digital
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2012-03-31
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David Lodge’s first full-length play examines that curious fixture in the writing game where the amateurs meet the professionals – on a course in creative writing. Maude, author of nine bestsellers, and Simon, with one sensational success to his name, are veterans of...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-03-31
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Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) gehört zu den am intensivsten erforschten deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsautoren, die Zahl der erschienenen Beiträge ist inzwischen fast unüberschaubar. Der Versuch, eine Bibliographie der Forschungsliteratur zu Bernhard zusammenzustellen und in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-22
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Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in the lives of ordinary people, telling stories of sin, discovery, punishment and divine mercy, with their settings and characterization often enhanced by a highly entertaining blend of realism and...
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Penguin
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2012-02-23
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This book has been inspired by the emphasis that Mark Davie’s studies have put on the cooperative nature of artistic and intellectual pursuits in the humanities. Whilst the importance of connections between intellectuals is often acknowledged in the form of intertextual...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-20
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This book explores the linguistic nature of American movie conversation, pointing out its resemblances to face-to-face conversation. The reason for such an investigation lies in the fact that movie language is traditionally considered to be non-representative of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-01-31
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'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny'Daily TelegraphIn Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia. The settings...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-12-31
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If you put four dwarfs in one room with enough opium and alcohol, it's bound to end in tears...In 1935 MGM studios embarked on a movie adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The production called for the casting of many dwarfs to play the Munchkins of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2011-12-20
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In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the street and taken there is obvious enough. They are, for the most part, Jews. But how serious an offence this is, and how they are to suffer...
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Penguin
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2011-10-06
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Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York. Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of...
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Penguin
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2011-10-06
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In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the court...
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Penguin
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2011-10-06
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Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small...
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Penguin
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2011-10-06
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Mit dem Ansatz von Normalismus und Sexualität versucht diese Studie, Texte Heiner Müllers und ihre Diskursstrategien aus unterschiedlichen Genres und Werkphasen zu analysieren. Sie verbindet die Analyse mit einem theoretischen Apparat, der sich der Konzepte Michel...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-25
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Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The...
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Penguin
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2011-08-25
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The Oxford Shakespeare
General Editor: Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers
- a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-08-25
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The Oxford Shakespeare
General Editor: Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers
- a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-08-25
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