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This selection comprises: "THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE" "HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND" "PASSION, POISON AND PETRIFACTION" "THE GLIMPSE OF REALITY" "THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS" "OVERRULED" "THE MUSIC-CURE" "GREAT CATHERINE" "THE INCA OF PERUSALEM" "O'FLAHERTY V.C." "AUGUSTUS...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1988-01-28
ePub
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Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) is a 1921 series of five plays and a preface by George Bernard Shaw. The five plays are:In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden); The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day; The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170;...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1987-12-10
ePub
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Shaw's humorous satire of the medical profession.
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1987-11-19
ePub
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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...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1978-03-23
PDF
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Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day. The energies...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1975-11-27
ePub
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The plays of Jacobean dramatist John Webster are masterpieces of early seventeenth-century English theatre. ‘The White Devil’ depicts a dark, sinister world of duplicity, intrigue and murderous infidelity, while ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ tells the macabre story of a woman...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1975-07-31
ePub
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For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come as a revelation....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1975-06-26
PDF, ePub
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Medea/Hecabe/Electra/HeraclesFour devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatredThe first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human terms and face the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1973-07-26
ePub
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King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's struggle against...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1973-04-26
ePub
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What if a fighter jet vanishes in 1956 and, after a brief inquiry by the Royal Canadian Air Force, it is decided that the plane and its two pilots are at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and, thus, gone: case closed?What if the young wife of one of the pilots refuses to...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-12-15
epub sans DRM
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Joyce, Effie and BB are cowgirl goddesses on Mount Olympus who lament that the heroines of rodeos past are all but forgotten. It's a cowboy's world. Cocky steer-ropers have stolen the spotlight down on earth for long enough. The goddesses decide to use their...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-12-15
epub sans DRM
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Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ DramaIt is 2150 in M-City, a society without gender where everyone uses the pronoun ish. When two historians discover an abandoned millennium-era house, they hatch a plan to turn the building into a museum that re-enacts...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-12-15
epub sans DRM
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our place by Kanika Ambrose is a new work set in a fictional Caribbean restaurant, Jerk Pork Castle in Scarborough, where newcomers Andrea and Niesha work in exchange for cash under the table. As the two women scrape out a life in Canada, leaving their children in their...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-12-15
epub sans DRM
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Misty Lake tells the story of a young Metis journalist from Winnipeg who travels to a Dene reserve in Northern Manitoba to conduct an interview with a former residential school student. What Mary imparts in her interview will change Patty's life profoundly, allowing the...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-12-15
epub sans DRM
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A man is at a silent meditation retreat where participants are not supposed to speak or communicate in any other way with each other for ten days. His recent terminal cancer diagnosis has made him acutely aware of the need for community and human interaction, but his...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-12-15
epub sans DRM
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In this absurd and apocalyptic young-adult comedy filled with dazzling wit and wild imagination, two teenaged outsiders at "one of the worst schools in the country" seem to be the only ones who understand or care that the whole world is a mess. Joan responds by...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-12-15
epub sans DRM
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For the past three years, Charlie and her two roommates have been running a secret online girl group, "Tell Us What Happened," which boasts over 400 members and prides itself on being a safe space for young women to disclose their stories and support each other....
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-12-15
epub sans DRM
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The place is a porch in Little Current on Manitoulin Island, where city-transplants Glenda and Suzanne have lived together since Suzanne arrived single, penniless and pregnant thirty-three years previous, moving in with Glenda and her late husband, Mark. While one is...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-12-15
epub sans DRM
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In August 2000, Liza Balkan witnessed the beating death of a man named Otto Vass during an altercation with the police in the west end of Toronto. Called to the witness stand on a number of occasions over several years, Balkan found herself needing to delve more deeply...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-12-15
epub sans DRM
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Orphans for the Czar ruefully exposes the duplicity, revenge, and self-interest at the core of a culture about to go up in flames. Suggested by Gorsky's novel The Life of a Useless Man and set shortly before Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, the play focuses on a hapless...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-12-15
epub sans DRM
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