Drama - ebooki

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The dominant motives in Calderon's dramas are characteristically national: fervid loyalty to Church and King, and a sense of honor heightened almost to the...

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THE CHARACTERS GODS: MADANA (Eros). VASANTA (Lycoris). MORTALS: CHITRA, daughter of the King of Manipur. ARJUNA, a prince of the house of the Kurus....

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Much has been explored about Shakespeare and his life, but little is known about how this small-town boy with a grammar-school education came to pen...

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The playwright J. M. Synge was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. Today he is best known for...

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Anton Chekhov is considered to be among literature’s greatest short story writers, whilst his plays helped change the course of modern drama. This...

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The first English woman to earn her living by her writing, the Restoration author Aphra Behn broke cultural barriers, serving as a literary role model for...

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Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy,...

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Waxkeep has compiled the plays of some of the most famous Ancient Greek playwrights and combined them in an easy to navigate collection with a linked table...

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”She is Emily, Emily Marchionne: my life and my joy” in the book there are two interwoven stories between autobiography and romantic and dramatic tale. With...

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William Congreve was a highly influential English playwright and poet. Congreve is generally credited for shaping the English comedy of manners through his...

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«A Midsummer Night’s Dream» is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding...

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Phil is in love with himself. And he’s a show off. He’s crafted a personality disorder into a trade. Who’d be a stand-up comedian these days? Above a...

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Classic Roman plays. Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, Teh Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, and The Captives. According to Wikipedia, "Titus Maccius Plautus...

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Plays for Today by Women A wide-ranging collection of plays by women dealing with contemporary subjects such as sexual abuse, recession, war, poverty...

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William Congreve was a highly influential English playwright and poet.  Congreve is generally credited for shaping the English comedy of manners through his...

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The Odyssey (Greek:Odysseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work...

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This file includes: The Land of Heart's Desire, The Countess Cathleen, The Unicorn and the Stars, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, and The Hour-Glass. According to...

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Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone, as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel with a story similar to that...

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Mention the name Josef Stalin and all you will hear are epithets like “brutal dictator” or “mass murderer” or “Communist reactionary.” And these are not...