Author: Langston HughesPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253201218
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Five plays representing Hughes' dramatic writing over a period of forty years.
Author: Lord DunsanyFive Plays
Author: Thomas MiddletonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140432190
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.
Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies
Author: Federico García LorcaPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200905
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Two additional comedies, published here in book form in English for the first time, are The Billy-Club Puppets -- a guignol-type farce with delicate wit; and The Butterfly's Evil Spell, an "insect comedy" about a beetle-poet who aspires to be a butterfly.
Five One-act Plays
Author: Alan BallPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822213680
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
THE STORIES: The perfect young woman and her perfect young boyfriend in MADE FOR A WOMAN are perfect examples of the image conscious society in which we live. She has everything and he does too, and they have each other. All is fine until she feels
Five Plays
Author: Samuel D. HunterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781559365017
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Five plays by a major American playwright, all set in the author's home state of Idaho, demonstrating his extraordinary knack for exposing, without condescension or easy moralizing, the pathos in marginalized lives. The plays included in this volume are: Pocatello The Few A Great Wilderness Rest A Permanent Image Samuel D. Hunter's plays are populated with characters from the bleak side of the American economy. Laced with poetic images yet drawn with meticulous realism, Hunter's plays linger in franchise restaurants, retirement facilities, mountain camps, and struggling businesses.
Twenty-Five Short Plays
Author: Dana CoenPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635763
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In the fall of 2011, The Long Story Shorts One Act Festival was launched, featuring performances of short plays written by undergraduate students in the Writing for the Screen and Stage minor, an interdisciplinary, dramatic writing program housed in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Marking the first five years of the festival, this anthology showcases works written to be performed in ten minutes with a small production budget. The festival gives students a unique opportunity to participate in a collaborative, developmental environment led by experienced faculty and professional actors and directors, and the plays included here rise to the occasion. Whether they are humorous, poignant, powerful, or provocative, they demonstrate why the short play form has become so popular; why this event has become one of the highlights of the university's cultural scene; and why the Writing for the Screen and Stage program has thrived.
Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821
Author: Paul BainesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192833167
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
During the period of European revolutions the British Romantic theatre found itself reexaming the whole cast of social and sexual relations. The five plays grouped here represent some of the most radical and unusual examples of Romantic drama: Horace Walpole invented gothic melodrama with hisincest tragedy, The Mysterious Mother (1768), and Robert Southey imagined the theatre as a site of revolutionary protest in Wat Tyler (1794). Joanna Baillie's psychological case study in aristocratic hatred, De Monfort (1768) was thought too alarming to have been written by a woman, while ElizabethInchbald's hugely successful Lovers' Vows (1798) was sufficiently subversive for Jane Austen to analyse some of its illicit potential in Mansfield Park (1814). Byron's strenuous tragedy The Two Foscari (1821) explores an inescapable conflict between parental love and political authority. The stageimagined by these writers is an arena of tense and embattled desires, with sexual and political claims mapped onto the same conflicts of power. This exciting edition is the only one of its kind and provides the first authorized texts of the plays complete with fully-researched reference to majorauthorial revision.
Five Plays
Author: Anton ChekhovPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804775745
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) overturned the dramatic conventions of his day and laid the groundwork for contemporary approaches to directing and acting. Now, for the first time, the full lyricism, humor, and pathos of his greatest plays are available to an English-speaking audience. Marina Brodskaya's new translations of Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard not only surpass in accuracy all previous translations, but also provide the first complete English text of the plays, restoring passages entirely omitted by her predecessors. This much-needed volume renders Chekhov in language that will move readers and theater audiences alike, making accessible his wordplay, unstated implications, and innovations. His characters' vulnerabilities, needs, and neuroses—their humanity—emerge through their genuine, self-absorbed conversations. The plays come to life as never before and will surprise readers with their vivacity, originality, and relevance.
Five Lesbian Brothers/four Plays
Author: Five Lesbian Brothers (Theater troupe)Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361668
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This book collects all the full-length work by this New York-based theater collective, including "The Secretaries, Brave Smiles, Brides of the Moon, " and Voyage to Lesbos." 25 photos.
