Widely hailed as the founder of the modern French comedy, and known to be a gifted actor, playwright, and patron of fellow actors, MoliA"re was a towering presence in seventeenth-century France--an
Four Plays From North Africa contains modern plays from the Maghreb, the northeastern part of Africa. This is the fi rst English collection of drama from the region; the book includes Abdelkader Allou
This selection of seven of Moliere's prose plays includes "Precious Provincials," "The Would-be Gentleman," "Don Juan," "The Reluctant Doctor," "Scapin the Schemer," "The Miser," and "George Dandin."
This unique volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and playwright, Moliere (1622-73) was one of the
Waiting for Godot is the best-known work of Samuel Beckett, the Irish dramatist and novelist. Half a century after it was first published, the play is considered the forerunner of the plays of Ionesc
This book provides an introductory study of Beckett'smost famous play, dealing not just with the four maincharacters but with the pairings that they form, andthe implications of these pairings for the
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or a
Moliere 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 pla
Bringing together the previously disparate fields of historical witchcraft, reception history, poetics, and psychoanalysis, this innovative study shows how the glamour of the historical witch, a spell
Connon (French, U. of Wales-Swansea) examines the work of French playwright Piron (1689-1773), best known, when known at all, for turning his acid wit on his contemporary Voltaire. Though the comedies
John and Beatrice: High above the city, Beatrice sits on the 33rd floor of an office tower waiting for the right man to respond to her ad. When John appears, the games begin. But if he wins, what then
Often called the father of the Theater of the Absurd, Eugène Ionesco wrote groundbreaking plays that are simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound. Now his classic one acts The Bald Soprano
Beam (history, U. of Victoria, Canada) analyzes the marginalization of French farce in two stages: during the Wars of Religion (1562-98), as urban elites who had previously been patrons of farce turne
In The Theatre of Illusion you'll find buffoonery, chicanery, adultery, murder, flights of fancy, and flights of love. A picaresque hero, Clindor, secretly woos the lovely Isabelle away from his mast
“Hell is other people,” Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote in No Exit. The fantastic tragicomedy Madah-Sartre brings him back from the dead to confront the strange and awful truth of that statement. As t
In Tom Stoppard's translation of Gerald Sibleyras's Heroes, we meet three World War I veterans who pass their monotony-filled days in a military hospital by engaging in verbal battles of long-forgott
Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful girl in Paris. But there is one very large problem - he has a nose of stupendous size a
