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Author: Pedro Calderón de la BarcaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Life's a dream: The great theatre of the world, from the Span., with an essay on the life of the author, by R.C. Trench. [Entitled] An essay on the life and genius of Calderon, with translations
![Life's a dream: The great theatre of the world, from the Span., with an essay on the life of the author, by R.C. Trench. [Entitled] An essay on the life and genius of Calderon, with translations PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/q3MBAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Pedro Calderón de la BarcaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Life's a dream: The great theatre of the world, from the Span., with an essay on the life of the author, by R.C. Trench
Author: Pedro Calderón de la BarcaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Adapturgy
Author: Jane BarnettePublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809336278
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
"Challenging the binary categories of "new play" and "production" dramaturgy, this book offers both a theoretical model for understanding adaptation for the stage and a practical guide for dramaturgs and others involved in the creation of theatrical adaptations"--
Fever/dream
Author: Sheila CallaghanPublisher: Samuel French Trade
ISBN: 9780573699245
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Comedy Characters: 3 male, 3 female, flexible castingChained to his desk in the basement of customer service hell, Segis suddenly finds himself set free in the CEO's penthouse-but is it a dream? This raucous reinvention of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Life is a Dream gleefully skewers corporate America with razor-sharp wit "Enjoyably stylish [with an] antic pace and witty aesthetic" - Washington Post"Ambitious, often uproarious." - City Paper "A pizzazz-filled concoction that skewers corporatism with a generous supply side of laughs. [Callaghan] is without doubt the purveyor of top-shelf American wit." - Metro Weekly "[Callaghan has] a keen eye for the outlandish. Exudes the kind of infectious zaniness that occasionally attracts cult followings." - Variety "I can't remember the last time a play made me laugh so hard. Between the chuckles and belly laughs, the dialog is surprisingly layered, and gives the audience plenty to think about. Fever/Dream is about as funny as the sharpest Hollywood comedy, and far more rewarding." -BrightestYoungThings.com
The Music of the Waters
Author: Laura Alexandrine SmithPublisher:
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Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Reincarnation
Author: Edward Dwight WalkerPublisher:
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Category : Reincarnation
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Structure of Spanish History
Author: Américo CastroPublisher:
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Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Playwright's Guidebook
Author: Stuart SpencerPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9781429934213
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
An accessible, contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing During the ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective playwriting handbook for his courses. Although most of the currently popular handbooks have good ideas in them, they all suffer from the same problems: they're poorly organized; are composed mostly of quirky, idiosyncratic advice on how specific playwrights have gone about writing their own work; and are full of abstract theorizing on the nature of art. As a result, they fail to offer any concrete information on how to construct a well-written play or any useful guidelines and exercises. Moreover, few of these books are actually written by working playwrights. Out of frustration, Spencer wrote his own book. The result, The Playwright's Guidebook, is a clear, concise, and engaging handbook. Spencer addresses the important principles of structure, includes insightful writing exercises that build upon one another, explores the creative process, and troubleshoots recurrent problems that playwrights actually face.
Twelve Years a Slave
Author: Solomon NorthupPublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726609053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Filmatized in 2013 and the official recipient of three Oscars, Solomon Northup's powerful slave narrative 'Twelve Years a Slave' depicts Nortup's life as he is sold into slavery after having spent 32 years of his life living as a free man in New York. Working as a travelling musician, Northup goes to Washington D.C, where he is kidnapped, sent to New Orleans, and sold to a planter to suffer the relentless and brutal life of a slave. After a dozen years, Northup escapes to return to his family and pulls no punches, as he describes his fate and that of so many other black people at the time. It is a harrowing but vitally important book, even today. For further reading on this subject, try 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Solomon Northup (c.1807-c.1875) was an American abolitionist and writer, best remembered for his powerful race memoir 'Twelve Years a Slave'. At the age of 32, when he was a married farmer, father-of-three, violinist and free-born man, he was kidnapped in Washington D.C and shipped to New Orleans, sold to a planter and enslaved for a dozen years. When he gained his freedom, he wrote his famous memoir and spent some years lecturing across the US,on behalf of the abolitionist movement. 'Twelve Years a Slave' was published a year after 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe and built on the anti-slavery momentum it had developed. Northup's final years are something of a mystery, though it is thought that he struggled to cope with family life after being freed.
Three Spanish Golden Age Plays
Author: Lope De VegaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408150425
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Three classic Spanish plays, made famous by Shakespeare and Webster Two of the most famous and successful playwrights of Spain's Golden Age of playwriting were Lope de Vega (1562-1635) and Rojas Zorrilla (1607-48). From their prodigious output, the three plays in this volume, based on similar sources to Shakespeare's and Webster's versions, provide a fascinating comparison with their Jacobean counterparts. Lope's The Duchess of Amalfi's Steward, in contrast to Webster's play, focuses on the nobility of love, with characters who are complex and appealing. His Romeo-and-Juliet story, The Capulets and Montagues, is a fast-moving mixture of serious and comic, with an ending that will surprise and entertain. Rojas' treatment of Cleopatra, with its rich imagery, emphasises the love theme, held within a knot of jealous relationships. A full introduction by Gwynne Edwards sets the plays in context and provides a thorough study of the individual works.