Category: Dramas Plays

By Joe Orton, Emma Parker

Published fifty years after the finest of Entertaining Mr Sloane in 1964, and with a brand new advent, this anniversary variation bargains a chance to reappraise Joe Orton's recognition, and the prestige of his first significant play, from a twenty-first century viewpoint.

When it first seemed within the Swinging Sixties, Orton's satire on social and sexual hypocrisy either scandalized and overjoyed audiences. Its mixture of sexuality and violence was once explosive. inside a 12 months, the play used to be being played all over the world and went directly to be tailored for movie and tv, constructing Orton as an important voice and this play as essentially the most ground-breaking of the century. This anniversary variation positive aspects formerly unpublished fabric from the Joe Orton Archive, an interview with director Nick Bagnall, and an advent via Emma Parker, Senior Lecturer in English on the college of Leicester.

By john buxton

By Ben Fisher

The Pataphysician’s Library is a learn of facets of Eighteen Nineties French literature, with particular connection with the traditions of Symbolism and Decadence. Its major concentration is Alfred Jarry, who has proved, might be strangely, to be one of many tougher fin-de-siècle authors. The originality of this learn lies in its use of the enigmatic record of books termed the livres pairs, which seems to be in Jarry’s 1898 novel Gestes et critiques du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien, his best-known prose paintings. the best curiosity of the livres pairs lies in a gaggle of works through Jarry’s pals and contemporaries, basically Leon Bloy, Georges Darien, Gustave Kahn, Catulle Mendes, Josephin Madan, Rachilde, and Henri de Regnier. numerous of those authors function because the lords of islands visited via the pataphysician Dr Faustroll in his curious voyage round Paris. together with Jarry’s personal works, the modern livres pairs serve to demonstrate the colourful and experimental surroundings during which those authors labored.

By Caryl Churchill

By Robert Anton Wilson

Softcover, as proven, browned, tanned, seems now not learn. 1987 1st ed.

By Victor Gischler

By Poulheria Kyriakou

The e-book reviews the earlier of the characters in Aeschylus and Sophocles, a overlooked yet an important subject. The characters´ ideals, values, and feelings undergo on their view of the prior. This view reinforces their ideals and their perception of themselves and others as brokers of unfastened will and contributors of a relations and/or neighborhood. The examine unearths that, even supposing the characters´ proposal of the earlier is mounted, the impression of the prior isn't really. The characters reflect on, assessment, and build narratives of it, as they search to mildew a destiny they understand as morally only for themselves and others.

By Roger Boxill (auth.)

By J. Kelly

W.B.Yeats, one of many maximum poets who wrote in English, used to be additionally a playwright, theater director, essayist, Senator, and life-long occultist. He knew virtually each very important determine within the cultural and public lifetime of his time, together with Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Eamon de Valera. In recording the main points of those relationships and tracing his prolific literary output, this e-book is a brilliant witness to a very vital, wealthy and crowded lifestyles, as a context for his paintings.

By Fischer, Susanna E.

Das Verhältnis des „Seneca philosophus" zum „Seneca tragicus" ist für die Interpretation von Senecas Tragödien noch immer entscheidend. Die Autorin widmet sich dem challenge im Bereich der Theologie.Sie untersucht inden philosophischen Schriften und Tragödien sein Verständnis von providentia und damit die Theodizeefrage sowie sein Verständnis des fatum und damit die Willensfreiheit. Anders als die bisherigen Studien, deren Interesse vorrangig den Dramen galt und die die philosophischen Schriften nur am Rande berücksichtigten, bildet bei Fischer die Theologie der philosophischen Schriften den Ausgangspunkt, um deren Problemstellungen auch für eine Deutung der Dramen fruchtbar zu machen.