This book is the second part of an important experimental trilogy in text archaeology of all the various ideas about the 1664 and later versions. Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite),
Among today’s leading filmmakers, none brings to the screen such a deep awareness of how power is channeled from First to Third World societies, or exhibits such great human sensitivity, as Raoul Peck
‘Moliere on Stage’ takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Moliere’s plays, analyzing the performance of his works in both his own time and in ours. Written by a professional stag
‘Moliere on Stage’ takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Moliere’s plays, analyzing the performance of his works in both his own time and in ours. Written by a professional stag
"Jean Genet has emerged in recent years as a key figure in defining and understanding twentieth-century theatre. This timely book, the only introductory text in English to Genet's plays in production,
"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including various American
When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figurein Paris--but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than hisliterary achievements.
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an eighteenth-century French inventor, famed playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious plan t
Gutwirth (emerita, French and women's studies, West Chester U.) conducts a feminist analysis of gendered aesthetics and politics in Jacque-Louis David's 1784 painting Oath of the Horatii, "a work of c
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the orig
In Le Fils Naturel, published in 1757 and performed in 1771, and Le Pere de Famille, published in 1758 and performed in 1761, French writer Diderot (1713-84) delved into the attitudes of the bourgeois
"An English translation, in iambic pentameter couplets, of The Fratricides, a play by seventeenth-century French playwright Jean Racine"--Provided by publisher.
Love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes. Three generations of women. One extraordinary year.Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the sambucas aren't getting rid of it. Lorraine attacks a customer a
This book is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s. The book's innovative approach depart
The seven plays to date of Yasmina Reza, one of France's most prominent female playwrights, are popular both in France and abroad. Despite her commercial success, her plays have often been ignored in
"Sand's [play], with its probing of masculinity and femininity, its reflection on male and female education, love and friendship, women and the law...[is] an excellent addition to the MLA's Texts and
John Conteh-Morgan explores the multiple ways in which African and Caribbean theatres have combined aesthetic, ceremonial, experimental, and avant-garde practices in order to achieve shar
John Conteh-Morgan explores the multiple ways in which African and Caribbean theatres have combined aesthetic, ceremonial, experimental, and avant-garde practices in order to achieve shar
