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A unique collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, each introduced by concise and informative editorial notes. This is an edition to complement the highly successful SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS and is published in commemoration of Shakespeare's birthday. Aperfect book for...
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Penguin
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2002-04-04
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Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache
In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination.
The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of...
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OUP Oxford
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2001-09-20
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KING Yes. I shall release you -
SAKUNTALA When?
KING When?
When, like a bee, I kiss the bud of your unbruised lip
And flood my thirsting mouth with nectar.
Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta and Sakuntala, a hermitage girl, their separation by a...
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OUP Oxford
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2001-07-19
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'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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2001-07-19
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-04-19
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-04-19
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-04-19
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'We don't live alone ... We are responsible for each other'A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually revealed over the course of the evening, 'An Inspector...
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Penguin
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2001-03-29
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Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-02-22
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In Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a thoroughly contemporary dilemma about the relationship between personal and state violence to civic order. Of all of Euripides'...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-02-01
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The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers
- a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608
- on-page commentary and notes explain meaning,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2001-01-04
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Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and...
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Penguin
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2000-09-28
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Lady Windermere's Fan/Salomé/A Woman of No Importance/An Ideal Husband/A Florentine Tragedy/The Importance of Being Earnest'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness'The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of...
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Penguin
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2000-05-25
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Up until now, facts about theatrical rehearsal have been considered irrecoverable. But in this groundbreaking new study, Tiffany Stern gathers together two centuries' worth of historical material which shows how actors received and responded to their parts, and how...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
2000-05-18
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The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2000-04-13
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While some of Shaw’s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, frankly, it is doubtful how seriously we can now take Shaw as a political...
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Penguin
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1999-08-26
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This exciting edition gathers together for the first time a sampling of Haywood's writings generous enough to represent the full range of her fiction and drama and includes material from each decade of her long writing life. All texts come back into print here and here...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1999-01-28
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Lope de Vega (1562-1635), widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, was known by his contemporaries as the `monster of Nature' on account of his creativity as a playwright. Claiming to have written more than a thousand plays, he created...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1999-01-21
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Death, like most experiences that we think of as natural, is a product of the human imagination: all animals die, but only human beings suffer Death; and what they suffer is shaped by their own time and culture. Tragedy was one of the principal instruments through which...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1999-01-07
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George Duchner died in 1837 at a tragically early age, and his three works for the stage remained virtually unknown for half a century. Today all three, especially Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution are performed regularly.
ABOUT THE SERIES:...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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1998-11-26
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