Category: Theatre

By Sophocles, Richmond Lattimore, David Grene, Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most

ISBN-10: 0226311538

ISBN-13: 9780226311531

Sophocles I comprises the performs “Antigone,” translated by means of Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by way of David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated via Robert Fitzgerald.

Sixty years in the past, the collage of Chicago Press undertook a momentous venture: a brand new translation of the Greek tragedies that might be the final word source for lecturers, scholars, and readers. They succeeded. below the professional administration of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, these translations mixed accuracy, poetic immediacy, and readability of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so vigorous and compelling that they continue to be the traditional translations. this day, Chicago is taking pains to make sure that our Greek tragedies stay the major English-language models during the twenty-first century.

In this hugely expected 3rd version, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. so much have conscientiously up-to-date the translations to convey them even towards the traditional Greek whereas maintaining the vibrancy for which our English models are recognized. This version additionally comprises brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, the youngsters of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia one of the Taurians, fragments of misplaced performs by means of Aeschylus, and the surviving component to Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for every play supply crucial information regarding its first creation, plot, and reception in antiquity and past. furthermore, every one quantity contains an creation to the lifestyles and paintings of its tragedian, in addition to notes addressing textual uncertainties and a thesaurus of names and areas pointed out within the plays.

In addition to the recent content material, the volumes were reorganized either inside of and among volumes to mirror the main updated scholarship at the order within which the performs have been initially written. the result's a suite of good-looking paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to those foundational works of Western drama, paintings, and lifestyles.

By Henrik Ibsen

ISBN-10: 8026850297

ISBN-13: 9788026850298

Dieses publication: "Hedda Gabler (Vollständige deutsche Ausgabe)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Hedda, die Tochter des Generals Gabler, und Ehemann Jørgen Tesman sind soeben von ihrer Hochzeitsreise nach Kristiania zurückgekehrt. Jørgen Tesman ist ein fleißiger, pedantischer Mann, der während der sechsmonatigen Reise hauptsächlich an einem kulturwissenschaftlichen Buch gearbeitet hat, von dem er hofft, dass dessen Veröffentlichung ihm einen Doktortitel und eine Professorenstelle an der Universität einbringen wird. Hedda liebt Jørgen nicht. Sie betrachtet ihn mit Gleichgültigkeit; er besitzt kein Gespür für Heddas Weiblichkeit. Sie hat ihn nur geheiratet, weil sie hoffte, dass ihr diese Ehe eine geachtete gesellschaftliche Stellung sichern werde. Hedda wird die Sinnlosigkeit ihrer Ehe deutlich, als sie erfährt, dass Ejlert Løvborg wieder in der Stadt ist....

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) struggle ein norwegischer Dramatiker und Lyriker, der gegen die ethical und „Lebenslüge" seiner Zeit zu Felde zog und im „Kampf der Geschlechter" im Gegensatz zu August Strindberg den Standpunkt der Frau vertrat. Seine bürgerlichen Dramen zeigten ethischen Ernst und großes psychologisches Einfühlungsvermögen.

By J.R. Mulryne, Margaret Shrewring

ISBN-10: 0312067712

ISBN-13: 9780312067717

ISBN-10: 1349217360

ISBN-13: 9781349217366

ISBN-10: 1349217387

ISBN-13: 9781349217380

Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance reports interrelationships among English and Italian Theatre of the Renaissance interval, together with texts, functionality and function areas, and cultural parallels and contrasts. Connections are traced among Italian writers together with Aretino, Castiglione and Zorenzo Valla and such English playwrights as Shakespeare, Lyly and Ben Jonson. The impression of Italian well known culture on Shakespeare's comedies is analysed, including Jonson's theatrical activity of Venice, and Italian resources for the courtroom masques of Jonson, Daniel and Campion.

By William Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse

ISBN-10: 0517665557

ISBN-13: 9780517665558

A.L. Rowse, popular Shakespearian pupil, brings jointly the entire performs, poems and sonnets, photographically reproduced from the 1904 Globe variation. No domestic will be with out it!

By Stephen Citron

ISBN-10: 0195096010

ISBN-13: 9780195096019

ISBN-10: 0195357272

ISBN-13: 9780195357271

The long island Times known as Stephen Sondheim "the maximum and maybe most sensible recognized artist within the American musical theater," whereas months past, an identical paper observed his modern, Andrew Lloyd-Webber as "the such a lot commercially winning composer in history." no matter what their person achievements should be, it really is agreed via so much critics that those colossi have ruled global musical theater for the final area century and carry the major to the path the musical level will soak up the longer term.
right here within the 3rd quantity of Stephen Citron's distinctive sequence The nice Songwriters--in intensity experiences that illuminated the musical contributions, careers, and lives of Noel Coward and Cole Porter (Noel & Cole: The Sophisticates), and Oscar Hammerstein second and Alan Jay Lerner, (The Wordsmiths)--this eminent musicologist has taken on our major modern individuals to the lyric degree. His goal has now not been to match or pass judgement on one's benefits over the opposite, yet to make the reader detect via their works and people in their contemporaries, the adjustments and course of that wonderful artform we name Musical Theater.
In his quest, Citron deals particular perception into each one artist's operating equipment, examining their scores--including their early works and works-in-progress. As in Citron's formerly severely acclaimed books during this sequence, nice value is given to the effect their younger education and personal lives have had upon their extraordinary inventive output. starting with Sondheim's lyrics-only works, West facet tale, Gypsy, Do I pay attention A Waltz? via his rankings for Saturday evening, corporation, someone Can Whistle, Follies, Pacific Overtures, a bit evening song, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday within the Park, Into the Woods, Assassins, and Passion, these kinds of milestones of musical theater were explored. Lloyd-Webber's musical contribution from his early works, The Likes of Us and Joseph to Jesus Christ big name, Evita, Cats, Starlight convey, features of affection, by means of Jeeves, The Phantom of the Opera, music & Dance, Mass, sundown Boulevard to Whistle Down the Wind also are completely analyzed.
The works of those correct artists are clarified for the informal or expert reader in context with their contemporaries. whole with a quadruple chronology (Sondheim, Lloyd-Webber, US Theater, British Theater), copious quotations from their works, and lots of by no means earlier than released illustrations, the way forward for the artform that's the crowning success of the twentieth century is made eminently transparent during this e-book. Sondheim & Lloyd-Webber is a must-read for somebody drawn to the modern theater.

By Harris M. & Iii Lentz

ISBN-10: 0786441755

ISBN-13: 9780786441754

ISBN-10: 078648649X

ISBN-13: 9780786486496

Between 2010's many awesome losses within the acting arts are actors Tony Curtis, Dennis Hopper, Gary Coleman and Peter Graves, rock celebrity Ronnie James Dio, and tv character, actor and athlete Don Meredith. Obituaries of those and different performers and filmmakers, musicians and manufacturers, dancers and composers, writers and others linked to the appearing arts who died in 2010 are available during this accomplished reference paintings. for every, the date, position, and reason for demise are supplied, in addition to a profession recap. Filmographies are given for movie and tv performers, and pictures of a few of the everyone is integrated. person books during this annual sequence can be found relationship again to 1994. A subscription plan is obtainable for destiny concerns

By Helen Freshwater

ISBN-10: 0230223788

ISBN-13: 9780230223783

This exploration of the big variety of censorship that has formed theatrical functionality in 20th and twenty-first century Britain examines the unpredictable results of censorship, deep-seated anxieties concerning the performative effect of the degree, and the complicated questions raised through acts of theatrical censorship.

By Philip Roberts

ISBN-10: 0511007213

ISBN-13: 9780511007217

ISBN-10: 0521474388

ISBN-13: 9780521474382

The Royal court docket Theatre is likely one of the fundamental boards within the improvement of postwar drama. less than the identify of the English level corporation the theater produced essentially the most influential performs in sleek background, together with the works of Brenton, Churchill, Bond and Osborne. during this account of the theater, from 1956 to 1998, Philip Roberts attracts on unpublished files and a sequence of interviews with humans famous within the Court's existence. The ebook additionally features a Foreword through the previous Director of the Royal courtroom, Max Stafford-Clark.

By Tobias Döring (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230627404

ISBN-13: 9780230627406

ISBN-10: 1349279978

ISBN-13: 9781349279975

By Brad Stevens

ISBN-10: 0786414340

ISBN-13: 9780786414345

Concerning the Book
“I simply did it, and that i most likely made extra error than the common one who makes a primary movie. I didn’t quite have any support, and that i wouldn’t take any aid. I needed to do it by myself. as soon as I made my first movie I thought of myself a film-maker. I misplaced all curiosity within the theater and not went back”—Monte Hellman

In 1970, an los angeles instances headline defined Monte Hellman as “Hollywood’s most sensible stored secret”. greater than thirty years later, Hellman and his paintings are nonetheless secrets and techniques, his genius famous in basic terms through a small yet passionate crew of admirers. This booklet is either a biography of Hellman and a severe examine of his motion pictures, which come with The capturing, Two-Lane Blacktop and trip within the Whirlwind. It additionally covers motion pictures to which Hellman has contributed as an editor, actor and manufacturer, in addition to these on which he has labored, in quite a few capacities, with no onscreen credits, equivalent to Shatter and Robocop. consciousness is concentrated at the hallmarks of Hellman’s paintings, together with his dominant issues and obsessive characters, and the entire motion pictures are subjected to shut stylistic research.