The Little Tragedies

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300080255
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Tragedies written by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition she provides critical essays examining each play in depth, a discussion of her approach to translating the plays, and a consideration of the genre of these dramatic pieces and their performability."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Svetlana Evdokimova
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299190248
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Pushkin's Little Tragedies written by Svetlana Evdokimova and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Pushkin's four compact plays, later known as The Little Tragedies, were written at the height of the author's creative powers, and their influence on many Russian and Western writers cannot be overestimated. Yet Western readers are far more familiar with Pushkin's lyrics, narrative poems, and prose than with his drama. The Little Tragedies have received few translations or scholarly examinations. Setting out to redress this and to reclaim a cornerstone of Pushkin's work, Evodokimova and her distinguished contributors offer the first thorough critical study of these plays. They examine the historical roots and connective themes of the plays, offer close readings, and track the transformation of the works into other genres. This volume includes a significant new translation by James Falen of the plays-"The Covetous Knight," "Mozart and Salieri," "The Stone Guest," and "A Feast in Time of Plague."

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593467574
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies, and Others written by Alexander Pushkin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning translators bring us the complete plays of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era. Known as the father of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin was celebrated for his dramas as well as his poetry and stories. His most famous play is Boris Godunov (later adapted into a popular opera by Mussorgsky), a tale of ambition and murder centered on the sixteenth-century Tsar who preceded the Romanovs. Pushkin was inspired by the example of Shakespeare to create this panoramic drama, with its richly varied cast of characters and artful blend of comic and tragic scenes. Pushkin’s shorter forays into verse drama include The Water Nymph, A Scene from Faust, and the four brief plays known as the Little Tragedies: The Miserly Knight, set in medieval France; Mozart and Salieri, which inspired the popular film Amadeus; The Stone Guest, a tale of Don Juan in Madrid; and A Feast in a Time of Plague, in which a group of revelers defy quarantine in plague-ridden London. These new translations of the complete plays, from the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, freshly reveal the range of Pushkin’s enduring artistry.

Author : Sarah Vaughan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668033526
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Disasters written by Sarah Vaughan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this novel, a doctor is faced with an ethical dilemma when her friend's child lands in the emergency room"--

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Musson Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comic Tragedies written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Musson Book Company. This book was released on 1893 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart and Salieri written by Александр Сергеевич Пушкин and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0307424413
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Classical Tragedies written by William Shakespeare and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titus Andronicus * Timon of Athens * Coriolanus Each Edition Includes: Comprehensive explanatory notes placed on pages facing the text of the play Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography Titus Andronicus This, Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy, is also his bloodiest and most horror-filled. A Roman general, to appease the spirit of his dead son, sacrifices the son of a captive Goth queen—and sets in motion a remorseless cycle of revenge and counterrevenge. The play’s vivid spectacle of violence stuns audiences with rape, murder, mutilation, and unmitigated cruelty. Timon of Athens This stark drama—in some ways Shakespeare’s most bitter play—is a brilliant psychological portrait of a wealthy Athenian lord whose extraordinary trust and love for others turns to hate and spite when, bankrupted by his generosity, he is overwhelmed by the indifference and ingratitude of those he had thought friends. Coriolanus The arrogance of a Roman military hero puts him in conflict with the people of Rome when the aristocrat is unwilling to compromise with the commoners he so despises. Compellingly relevant today, Shakespeare’s last tragedy—from its opening scene of popular unrest to its chilling climax of betrayal and murder—takes an unwavering, ironic look at political extremism.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785927900190
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Tragedies written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth LaBan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448173175
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy Paper written by Elizabeth LaBan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior. When Duncan Meade inherits the room and secrets of Tim Macbeth, he uncovers evidence of a clandestine romance, and unravels the truth behind one of the biggest mysteries in the school's history. How far would you go to keep a secret?

Author : Bryan Doerries
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307949729
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theater of War written by Bryan Doerries and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten.