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Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe.
Recognized in his own day as perhaps the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-08-14
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Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-05-08
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'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles
This volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-05-08
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Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-04-17
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Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-04-17
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Molière wrote, directed, and starred in comedies for public and court audiences in seventeenth-century France. He is perennially successful, but perennially subject to critical controversy: do his plays aim to do more than make audiences laugh? This book focuses on a...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-09-27
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The Barber of Seville *The Marriage of Figaro *The Guilty Mother
Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-10-09
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'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles
This volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse...
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OUP Oxford
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2001-07-19
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Lope de Vega (1562-1635), widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, was known by his contemporaries as the `monster of Nature' on account of his creativity as a playwright. Claiming to have written more than a thousand plays, he created...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-01-21
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George Duchner died in 1837 at a tragically early age, and his three works for the stage remained virtually unknown for half a century. Today all three, especially Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution are performed regularly.
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OUP Oxford
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1998-11-26
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The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie;The Ghost Sonata;The Dance of Death
`Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.'
Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-11-05
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The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie;The Ghost Sonata;The Dance of Death
`Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.'
Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-11-05
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La giovane Rebecca West, proveniente dalla Norvegia, viene assunta come dama di compagnia dalla signora Beate, moglie del pastore Giovanni Rosmer.La coppia non ha figli e Casa Rosmer rimane immobile, chiusa alla luce e alla vita moderna. Questa immobilità viene turbata...
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Cactus
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2024-07-24
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