Maria Martinez Sierra A Great Playwright Hidden In Plain Sight

Author : María Martínez Sierra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350300209
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book María Martínez Sierra: A Great Playwright Hidden in Plain Sight written by María Martínez Sierra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of María Martínez Sierra were popular in Spain, South America and in translation on Broadway and London's West End in the first half of the 20th century but they were thought to be written by her husband, the celebrated director and playwright Gregorio Martínez Sierra. After his death, the authorship of his work was revealed to be that of María, making her one of the most important playwrights of her time. This edited collection features three plays by María Martínez Sierra, translated by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker, along with an introduction by Patricia O'Connor, University of Cincinnati, US, which examines María's extraordinary life and work, and the battle for her authorship to be recognized in both the Spanish-speaking and anglophone world. This volume focuses on plays centred on strong women; and each is translated by the eminent man of theatre Harley Granville-Barker and his wife, Helen, whose own story holds stark parallels to Maria's in terms of authorship. The collection is edited by playwright Richard Nelson and Professor Colin Chambers, who contribute an essay on the translation work of the Granville-Barkers. The plays are: The Kingdom of God (1928); The Romantic Young Lady (1920) and Take Two From One (1931). María Martínez Sierra: A Great Playwright Hidden in Plain Sight recognizes María de la O Lejárraga García, to use her birth name, as one of the most important female playwrights, not just in Spain, but globally, in the first half of the 20th century.

Author : María Martínez Sierra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350300195
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book María Martínez Sierra: A Great Playwright Hidden in Plain Sight written by María Martínez Sierra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of María Martínez Sierra were popular in Spain, South America and in translation on Broadway and London's West End in the first half of the 20th century but they were thought to be written by her husband, the celebrated director and playwright Gregorio Martínez Sierra. After his death, the authorship of his work was revealed to be that of María, making her one of the most important playwrights of her time. This edited collection features three plays by María Martínez Sierra, translated by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker, along with an introduction by Patricia O'Connor, University of Cincinnati, US, which examines María's extraordinary life and work, and the battle for her authorship to be recognized in both the Spanish-speaking and anglophone world. This volume focuses on plays centred on strong women; and each is translated by the eminent man of theatre Harley Granville-Barker and his wife, Helen, whose own story holds stark parallels to Maria's in terms of authorship. The collection is edited by playwright Richard Nelson and Professor Colin Chambers, who contribute an essay on the translation work of the Granville-Barkers. The plays are: The Kingdom of God (1928); The Romantic Young Lady (1920) and Take Two From One (1931). María Martínez Sierra: A Great Playwright Hidden in Plain Sight recognizes María de la O Lejárraga García, to use her birth name, as one of the most important female playwrights, not just in Spain, but globally, in the first half of the 20th century.

Author : Harley Granville-Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life written by Harley Granville-Barker and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213110
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Cloudy, Something Clear written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The playwright dramatizes his experiences in Cape Cod during the pivotal summer of 1940, when he met his first great love and openly acknowledged his homosexuality.

Author : Mikael Ross
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683964063
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thud written by Mikael Ross and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a YA graphic novel, told from the perspective of a person with a developmental disorder, set in a real village operated by people with special needs. There’s a real village in Germany called Neuerkerode that is operated by people with mental disabilities - the local restaurant, the local bar, the local supermarket. The author spent two years living 3 or 4 days a week there, researching and getting to know its townsfolk, and the result is an empathetic depiction. This graphic novel is told entirely from a developmentally impaired boy's perspective. Noel had always lived with his mother in Berlin, until one day tragedy strikes and he finds himself alone for the first time. A man with a beard tells him he can’t stay in the apartment anymore and takes him to a place with so many strangers ― Who can he trust? Who does he like? Who loves him?

Author : Robert Graysmith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 144067812X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zodiac Unmasked written by Robert Graysmith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Graysmith reveals the true identity of Zodiac—America's most elusive serial killer. Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claiming responsibility for thirty-seven murders, he manipulated the media with warnings, dares, and bizarre cryptograms that baffled FBI code-breakers. Then as suddenly as the murders began, Zodiac disappeared into the Bay Area fog. After painstaking investigation and more than thirty years of research, Robert Graysmith finally exposes Zodiac’s true identity. With overwhelming evidence he reveals the twisted private life that led to the crimes, and provides startling theories as to why they stopped. America’s greatest unsolved mystery has finally been solved. INCLUDES PHOTOS AND A COMPLETE REPRODUCTION OF ZODIAC’S LETTERS

Author : Ed Thomas
Publisher : Methuen Drama Modern Plays
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gas Station Angel written by Ed Thomas and published by Methuen Drama Modern Plays. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is partly an art installation and partly a tense generational conflict, set in and around a house poised to fall into the sea.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Author : Peggy Ramsay
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781786826442
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peggy to her Playwrights written by Peggy Ramsay and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) was the foremost play agent of her time. Her list of clients shows her to have been at the centre of British playwriting for several generations from the late 1950s on. To her remarkable array of clients, her letter writing was notorious, marked by searing candour, both a wondrous motivation and an unforgiving scrutiny to be feared. 'Peggy judged by the most exalted standards and lashed her writers when they failed to meet them. Her force of personality made her well-nigh irresistible. The letters she wrote to her writers and to producers are extraordinary documents, filled with all these qualities, and indiscreet, blasphemous and saucy to boot.' – Simon Callow

Author : Sarah Daniels
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135018490X
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neaptide written by Sarah Daniels and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Neaptide races from domestic trauma to staff-room banter ... it bursts with provocative ideas and disturbing questions about human relationships. Most important, it shows that the facade of liberalism and emancipation is merely a translucent gloss.” Jewish Chronicle Claire is a history teacher at a local school where two teenage girls have come out. Their principal, Bea Grimble, is none too impressed, and aims to have them expelled. Claire, who had been hiding the fact that she is homosexual, speaks up on behalf of the girls: this in spite of the fact that she is fighting her ex-husband Lawrence for custody of their daughter, the precocious and happy Poppy. All around Claire hardened attitudes are challenged – and confirmed – as she must decide whether to try to maintain a position of honesty, and battle hypocrisy, from within the bounds of the law, or without. A modern story of custody battles, sexual identity and gender politics, framed around the ancient myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone. Neaptide was the winner of the 1982 George Devine Award and became the first play by a living female writer to be performed at the National Theatre, London, in 1986. This Modern Classics edition feature a new introduction by Dr Carina Bartleet.