Plays The Complete Dramatic Works

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571229154
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Dramatic Works written by Samuel Beckett and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure, not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land, who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere.' - Hugh Kenner Contents: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, All That Fall, Acts Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for the Theatre, Embers, Roughs for the Radio, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio,...but the clouds..., A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und Traume, What Where.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571144860
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Dramatic Works written by Samuel Beckett and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett's bleak vision represents the attempts of an honest and heroic artist to find some hope in the no-man's-land of contemporary existence. His plays for the theatre and radio are imbued with listlessness, desolation and despair, but always some hope of redemption is to be found in the dogged stoicism and sardonic gallows humour of his characters. Like no other dramatist before him, or since, Beckett captured the pathos and ironies of modern life, yet still maintained his faith in man's capacity for compassion and survival, no matter how absurd his environment may have become.

Author : David Greig
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571258530
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midsummer [a play with songs] written by David Greig and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's totally out of his league; he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they do. Midsummer is the story of a great lost weekend of bridge-burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and self-loathing hangovers.

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays, the Complete Dramatic Works written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frescoes of the Skull written by James Knowlson and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1980 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacqueline Mulhallen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924309
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Shelley written by Jacqueline Mulhallen and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D., Anglia Ruskin University).

Author : Lurana Donnels O'Malley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351891413
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great written by Lurana Donnels O'Malley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress. These works are shown to be remarkable for their diversity, frank satire, topical subject matter, and stylistic innovations. O'Malley reveals comparisons to and influences from European traditions, including Shakespeare and Molière, and sets Catherine in the larger field of Russian literature in the period, further illuminating her relationship to the aesthetic debates of the period. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote political ideals and ideology. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims.

Author : Henry Rider Haggard
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mameena, and Other Plays written by Henry Rider Haggard and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. Rider Haggard, best known as the author of King Solomon's Mines, She, and Allan Quatermain, also wrote three full-length plays. The play Mameena, based on Haggard's novel Child of Storm, is set in Zululand during the 1850s and deals with the struggle for the succession to the Zulu throne. Mameena was staged in 1914 by actor-manager Oscar Asche, who employed the Zulu expert James Stuart as technical adviser on the production. Star of Egypt was adapted from Haggard's ancient Egyptian romance Morning Star, while the historical melodrama To Hell or Connaught, set against the backdrop of the Cromwellian colonization of Ireland, was written expressly for the stage. All three plays are published here for the first time, together with previously unrecorded information on how they came to be written and, in the case of Mameena, performed.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198465
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, has produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the shorter play. This complete and definitive collection of twenty-five plays and "playlets" includes Beckett's celebrated Krapp's Last Tape, Embers, Cascando, Play, Eh Joe, Not I, and Footfalls, as well as his mimes, all his radio and television plays, his screenplay for Film, his adaptation of Robert Pignet's The Old Tune, and more recent Catastrophe, What Where, Quad, and Night and Dreams. Includes: All That Fall Act Without Words I Act Without Words II Krapp's Last Tape Rough for Theatre I Rough for Theatre II Embers Rough for Radio I Rough for Radio II Words and Music Cascando Play Film The Old Tune Come and Go Eh Joe Breath Not I That Time Footfalls Ghost Trio …but the clouds… A Piece of Monologue Rockaby Ohio Impromptu Quad Catastrophe Nacht und Träume What Where

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802144381
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Shorter Plays written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects over twenty short plays published by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Includes his mimes, radio and television plays, screenplay, and adaptations of other's works.