Drama

Culto, liberal, escéptico y tolerante, Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) se sintió, como tantos otros de sus coetáneos, atraído por España, su historia, sus tradiciones y sus costumbres. Hasta el punto de caer en l. a. tentación de " inventar " España antes de conocerla. Las circunstancias le convirtieron en amigo íntimo —preceptor ocasional junto a Stendhal y, luego, confidente— de Eugenia de Montijo, esposa del emperador Napoleón III. Su inquietud creadora le hizo abandonar l. a. escritura teatral y consagrarse a los angeles narrativa. Su sincero, fervoroso y documentado hispanismo no puede ni debe incitarnos a conceptuar su obra de " españolada " .
La quimérica actriz y comediógrafa granadina Clara Gazul se dio a conocer en París, en 1825; veinte años antes que los angeles cigarrera sevillana Carmen. Pero, así como esta última nacería primordialmente de los viajes y experiencias personales de Prosper Mérimée, l. a. comedianta Clara Gazul había sido producto exclusivo de las lecturas y l. a. imaginación de su autor. Las piezas que componen el " Teatro de Clara Gazul " son, en ocasiones, desenfrenados manifiestos liberales e incluso antifranceses. En todo caso, anticlericales. los angeles rebeldía ideológica y formal —el humor negro— del teatro del joven Mérimée constituye hasta cierto punto un anticipo del esperpento valleinclanesco.

By William Shakespeare, Liang Shiqiu

It's a Bilingual version of chinese language and English.

中国广播电视出版社从台湾远东图书公司引进版权，出版了梁实秋翻译的《莎士比亚全集》中英文对照版，这是梁译本《莎士比亚全集》以中英文对照的形式首次在内地出版发行。梁译本的最大特点为：白话散文式的风格；直译，忠实于原文；全译，决不删略原文。除此之外，梁译本还有独到之处：一是加了注释。莎翁作品原文常有版本的困难，晦涩难解之处很多，各种双关语、熟语、俚语、典故也多，猥亵语也不少，梁实秋不但直译，而且加了大量注释，帮助读者理解原文。二是每剧前都加了序言。序言中对该剧的版本、著作年代、故事来源、舞台历史、该剧的意义及批评意见等均有论述。

By Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet

The 2 performs gathered during this quantity signify Genet’s first makes an attempt to research the mores of a bourgeois society he had formerly been content material just to vilify. In The Maids, family staff, deeply envious in their inferior social place, try and revenge themselves opposed to society through destroying their service provider. while their try to betray their mistress’s lover to the police fails and they're at risk of being discovered, they dream of murdering Madame, little conscious of the real strength in the back of their darkest fantasy.

In Deathwatch, convicts attempt to provoke a 3rd, who's at the verge of accomplishing mythical prestige in felony circles. yet neither realizes the lengths to which they'll visit achieve appreciate or that, after all, not anything they could do—including murder—will get them what they're trying to find.

By Oscar Wilde

This quantity comprises every thing Wilde wrote in dramatic form.

Wilde's masterpiece the significance of Being Earnest is outlined the following in its ordinary three-act shape, yet with an appendix containing the simplest fabric from the unique four-act model. additionally integrated are his 3 'problem plays', woman Windermere's Fan, a lady of No value and an excellent Husband, in addition to his once-banned Salome and several little-known yet interesting dramas. H. Montgomery Hyde, an said professional on Wilde and writer of a number of books on him, offers an advent to Wilde's lifestyles and paintings with exact realization to the composition and function of the plays.

"Wilde is to me our in basic terms thorough playwright. He performs with every little thing: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audiences, with the entire theatre" (George Bernard Shaw)

Named for the 12th evening after Christmas, the top of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night performs with love and tool. The Countess Olivia, a girl together with her personal loved ones, draws Duke (or count number) Orsino. different would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; stuck in a shipwreck, every one thinks the opposite has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male web page and enters Orsino’s carrier. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia—only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then splendidly untangles, those relationships.

The authoritative variation of Twelfth Night from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the depended on and known Shakespeare sequence for college kids and common readers, includes:

-Freshly edited textual content in response to the easiest early revealed model of the play

-Full explanatory notes with ease put on pages dealing with the textual content of the play

-Scene-by-scene plot summaries

-A key to the play’s recognized traces and phrases

-An creation to interpreting Shakespeare’s language

-An essay by means of a number one Shakespeare student delivering a contemporary viewpoint at the play

-Fresh photographs from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s immense holdings of infrequent books

-An annotated advisor to additional reading

Essay through Catherine Belsey

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is domestic to the world’s greatest number of Shakespeare’s published works, and a magnet for Shakespeare students from world wide. as well as exhibitions open to the general public all year long, the Folger bargains a whole calendar of performances and courses. for additional info, stopover at Folger.edu.

By Sam Shepard

A newly revised variation of an American vintage, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize successful Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable because it was once while it was once first produced greater than twenty-five years ago.

A scene of insanity greets Vince and his female friend as they come on the squalid farmhouse of Vince's hard-drinking grandparents, who appear to have no suggestion who he's. Nor does his father, Tilden, a hulking former All-American footballer, or his uncle, who has misplaced one in every of his legs to a series observed. basically the reminiscence of an undesirable baby, buried in an undisclosed place, can desire to convey this relations.

By George Bernard Shaw

Whereas a few of Shaw's past performs are nonetheless played, his later performs, comparable to those during this quantity, are slightly recognized. because the collective name shows, the topics listed below are political; but, frankly, it truly is uncertain how heavily we will now take Shaw as a political philosopher. regardless of writing within the Nineteen Thirties, he has little to assert of the character of totalitarianism: even if he satirises Fascist dictators in "Geneva", the satire is disappointingly light. Neither did Shaw seem to foresee (on the proof of those performs, a minimum of) the approaching cave in of the British Empire.But it truly is Shaw the dramatist instead of Shaw the political thinker who nonetheless holds our cognizance - even in performs as explicitly political as those. He had a pointy mind and a unusual experience of humour, and his discussion nonetheless flickers and glints: he could not write a lifeless line if he attempted. regardless of how critical the topics he addresses, the crispness of his writing and his lightness of contact nonetheless scintillate. Shaw turns out, probably unfairly, out of style these days. yet even in those lesser-known works, he demonstrates his matchless skill, nonetheless undimmed, to impress and to entertain.

By Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio

The rest via Lope de Vega (especially poetry) will be welcomed...

Peribanez
Fuenteovejuna
The puppy within the Manger
The Knight from Olmedo
Justice with out Revenge

translated through Jill Booty
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Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) used to be a Spanish playwright and poet. He was once one of many key figures within the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature. His popularity on the planet of Spanish literature is moment merely to that of Cervantes, whereas the sheer quantity of his literary output is unmatched, making him probably the most prolific authors within the background of literature.

Nicknamed "The Phoenix of Wits" and "Monster of Nature" (because of the amount of his paintings) through Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega renewed the Spanish theatre at a time whilst it was once beginning to develop into a mass cultural phenomenon. He outlined the main features of it, and besides Calderón de los angeles Barca and Tirso de Molina, he took Spanish baroque theatre to its better limits. end result of the perception, intensity and simplicity of his performs, he's appeared among the finest dramatists of Western literature, his performs nonetheless being represented all over the world. He used to be additionally the most effective lyric poets within the Spanish language, and writer of varied novels. even supposing no longer renowned within the English-speaking global, his performs have been offered in England as past due because the 1660s, whilst diarist Samuel Pepys recorded having attended a few diversifications and translations of them, even supposing he omits stating the author.

Some 3,000 sonnets, three novels, four novellas, nine epic poems, and approximately 1,800 performs are attributed to him. even if he has been criticised for placing volume prior to caliber, however a minimum of eighty of his performs are thought of masterpieces. He was once a pal of the writers Quevedo and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, and the quantity of his lifework made him envied via not just modern authors akin to Cervantes and Góngora, but in addition by means of many others: for example, Goethe as soon as wanted he were in a position to produce this type of great and vibrant oeuvre.

By Neil Wechsler

Con motivo del centenario del nacimiento de Arthur Miller, reunimos en un volumen las cinco piezas teatrales más importantes del dramaturgo: Todos eran mis hijos (1947), Muerte de un viajante (1949), Las brujas de Salem (1952), landscape desde el puente (1955) y Después de l. a. caída (1964). En las obras que integran este volumen, Miller abordó las conflictivas relaciones entre padres e hijos, y entre maridos y mujeres, así como los angeles necesidad de vivir según unos principios morales y de asumir los angeles responsabilidad social e person que a cada hombre le toca, y en todas ellas supo reflejar las frustraciones de l. a. sociedad contemporánea.