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The King of Rome

Charles Desnoyer

The King of Rome

Charles Desnoyer (1806-1858) and Léon Beauvallet (1828-1885) were French playwrights of the mid-nineteenth century. THE KING OF ROME focuses on the Emperor Napoleon's only son, the Duke of Reichstadt, who was held a captive by his maternal grandfather, the Emperor of Austria. Fearing that he would emulate his father or be used by a Napoleonic conspiracy to capture the French throne, the Duke was kept in ignorance of his father's identity, as well as of the basic facts of recent...

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Charles Desnoyer

«Mirror up to Nature»

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«Mirror up to Nature»

Ours would appear to be an era of unprecedented variation in the mediation of meaning – television, computer, the older forms of radio and print. Since, however, such profusion of resources has not of itself guaranteed enhanced profundity or sophistication in our modes of understanding – psychological, sociological, philosophical, historical, and theological – the issue of the continued relevance of cultural forms, dependent both on the human voice and on ritualization, presents itself for...

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Изюминка

Джон Голсуорси

Изюминка

О, как часто женщина реальная проигрывает в мужских глазах женщине виртуальной! Как легко влюбиться в прекрасную героиню, скажем, древнегреческого мифа – Эвридику – и не заметить кого-то рядом! Эвридикой очарован пожилой профессор, который пишет статью про нее, в то время как жена профессора пытается тщетно спасти их брак от холодности и безразличия. Когда история профессора становится главной темой новой пьесы, режиссеру не хватает для успешной постановки самой малости: изюминки. Но что если...

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Джон Голсуорси

O'Flaherty V.C. and Overruled

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

O'Flaherty V.C. and Overruled

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists, credited not only with memorable works, but the revival of the then-suffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, left mostly to his own devices after his mother ran off to London to pursue a musical career. He educated himself for the most part, and eventually worked for a real estate agent. This experience founded in him a concern for social injustices, seeing poverty and general unfairness afoot,...

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Thr...

Александр Дюма

The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Three

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of all time. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also adapted his novel into four riveting plays. Part Three: The Rise of Monte Cristo is set two decades after Edmond Dantès has been unjustly imprisoned in the Château d'If. Edmond has made himself into the Count of Monte Cristo, and he now sets out to gain his revenge upon the three men who shangaied him into 14 years of prison. First on the list is Fernand Mondego, whose...

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Александр Дюма

Стойкий принц

Педро Кальдерон де ла Барка

Стойкий принц

«Пойте! Ваш напев плачевный Нашей Феникс тешит слух, Между тем как руки слуг Одевают королевну. Ваши песни из темницы Долетали часто к ней…»

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Педро Кальдерон де ла Барка

The Duenna

Ричард Шеридан

The Duenna

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) was a man with many roles. He was not only a playwright and poet, he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons and owner of the London Theatre Royal on Drury Lane. Though born in Ireland, Sheridan and his family moved outside of London when he was seven. Both of his parents were theatrical influences for him, as his mother was a playwright and novelist, and his father was at one time an actor. In 1722, the character of Sheridan's intended...

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Ричард Шеридан

Романтики

Эдмон Ростан

Романтики

Сильвета и Персине влюблены друг в друга, но давняя вражда отцов не дает им быть вместе. Каждый день они мечтают о счастливом примирении семей. Однако на самом деле их отцы никогда не ссорились и давно задумали этот брак, а ссорятся они только для вида, чтобы семейная вражда помогла детям представить себя героями «Ромео и Джульетты». Но свадьба расстраивается, когда обман оказывается открытым и пропадает вся романтика. Тогда Персине сбегает из дома странствовать, а примирить влюбленных берется...

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Эдмон Ростан

Hans of Iceland: A Play in Three Ac...

Victor Hugo

Hans of Iceland: A Play in Three Acts

Based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name (penned when the author was only twenty-one), this macabre play begins in a morgue. The fearsome outlaw, Hans of Iceland, whose face has been seen by no one, determines to kill a regiment of Musketeers that he blames for the death of his son. His revenge intersects in a bloody way with the more conventional romantic plot of a young nobleman who loves the daughter of a political prisoner that the former Chancellor of Norway has held in thrall for...

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Victor Hugo

The Knights

Aristophanes

The Knights

In many respects 'The Knights' may be reckoned the great Comedian's masterpiece, the direct personal attack on the then all-powerful Cleon, with its scathing satire and tremendous invective, being one of the most vigorous and startling things in literature. Already in 'The Acharnians' he had threatened to «cut up Cleon the Tanner into shoe-leather for the Knights,» and he now proceeds to carry his menace into execution, «concentrating the whole force of his wit in the...

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Aristophanes

How He Lied to Her Husband, The Fas...

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

How He Lied to Her Husband, The Fascinating Foundling, and The Glimpse of Reality

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Shadowy Waters

W. B. Yeats

The Shadowy Waters

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an instrumental figure in the «Irish Literary Revival» of the 20th Century that redefined Irish writing. His father's love of reading aloud exposed Yeats early on to William Shakespeare, the Romantic poets and the pre-Raphaelites, and developed an interest in Irish myths and folklore. He was a complex man, who struggled between beliefs in the strange and supernatural, and scorn for modern science. He was intrigued by the idea of mysticism, yet had little...

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W. B. Yeats

The Devil's Disciple

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Devil's Disciple

George Bernard Shaw's play «The Devil's Disciple» is the story of Richard Dudgeon. Set during the Revolutionary War, Richard is considered by his friends and family be the «Devil's disciple» because of his rebellious personality and unfaithfulness to religion. However, when British Soldiers visit the home of the town's minister, Anthony Anderson, with the intentions of arresting Anderson, Mr. Dudgeon's true colors are shown. In a heroic moment Mr. Dudgeon allows the...

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Devil's Disciple

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Devil's Disciple

"The Devil's Disciple" by Bernard Shaw. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible...

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Trojan Women

Euripides

The Trojan Women

"In his clear preface, Gilbert Murray says with truth that The Trojan Women, valued by the usage of the stage, is not a perfect play. «It is only the crying of one of the great wrongs of the world wrought into music.» Yet it is one of the greater dramas of the elder world. In one situation, with little movement, with few figures, it flashes out a great dramatic lesson, the infinite pathos of a successful wrong. It has in it the very soul of the tragic. It even goes beyond the limited...

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Euripides

The Trojan Women

Euripides

The Trojan Women

Though little is known for certain of his early life, Euripides was probably born around 460 b.c.e. to the farmer Mnesarchus and his wife Clito, and his studious nature quickly led him to a literary life in Athens. His work sticks out from that of his contemporaries for his attention to the political and social problems around him, although he never held public office. His plays are often ironic, pessimistic, and display radical rejection of classical decorum and rules. «The Trojan Women» is one...

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Euripides

I Never Cheat on My Husband

Georges Feydeau

I Never Cheat on My Husband

Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) wrote some 60 comedies, farces, and comic monologues; I Never Cheat on My Husband was one of his last productions (1914). Often considered the greatest French comic genius since Molière, Feydeau wrote frequently about the relations between men and women in modern society. In this play, the professional artist and sexual predator, Saint Franquet, begins his pursuit of Micheline, the hitherto faithful wife of Plantaredi, in the very first act. Their off-and-on «war»...

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Georges Feydeau

Cyrano de Bergerac (Translated by G...

Edmond Rostand

Cyrano de Bergerac (Translated by Gladys Thomas and Mary F. Guillemard with an Introduction by W. P. Trent)

Based on the real life of the seventeenth century French dramatist of the same name, “Cyrano de Bergerac” is Edmond Rostand’s classic romantic play. Cyrano, a cadet in the French Army, is a talented duelist, poet, and musician, however he has extreme self-doubt in matters of love due to the large size of his nose. Cyrano is conflicted by his inability to summon the confidence to tell the woman that he adores, Roxane, how he truly feels. He writes her a letter expressing his love with the intent...

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Edmond Rostand

The Inspector-General

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Николай Гоголь

The Inspector-General

"The Inspector-General" by Nikolai Gogol (translated by Arthur A. Sykes). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...

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Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Николай Гоголь

The Inspector-General (The Governme...

Николай Гоголь

The Inspector-General (The Government Inspector)

Based upon a personal anecdote recounted to Gogol by the great Russian poet Pushkin, «The Inspector-General», also known as «The Government Inspector», is a satirical play first published in 1836. It is a comedy of errors that unstintingly portrays human greed and stupidity. The plot centers around the officials of a small provincial town in Russia, who have been informed that a dreaded inspector is soon to arrive. They mistakenly assume that the inspector is Khlestakov, an irresponsible,...

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Николай Гоголь

Итальянский с улыбкой. Мандрагора /...

Никколо Макиавелли

Итальянский с улыбкой. Мандрагора / La Mandragola

Книга содержит упрощенный и сокращенный текст комедии пера Никколо Макиавелли «Мандрагора», из которого читателю предстоит узнать о коварном плане обольщения прекрасной Лукреции в исполнении Каллимако и хитреца Лигурио, а также о загадочной настойке из мандрагоры, которая по преданиям творит настоящие чудеса. Текст комедии сопровождается лексическими и грамматическими комментариями и упражнениями на понимание прочитанного. Устаревшие и трудные для понимания выражения заменены на современные и...

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Никколо Макиавелли

Phaedra

Jean Racine

Phaedra

Phaedra by Jean Racine. Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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Jean Racine

Tartuffe

Molière

Tartuffe

Jean Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his stage name of Moliere, stands without a rival at the head of French comedy. His many great plays include «The School for Husbands» and «The School for Wives,» «The Misanthrope» and «The Hypocrite» (Tartuffe), «The Miser» and «The Hypochondriac,» «The Learned Ladies,» «The Doctor in Spite of Himself,» «The Citizen Turned Gentleman,» and many others, in which he exposed mercilessly one after another the vices and foibles of the day. His characteristic...

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Molière

Life Is a Dream/La Vida es Sueño

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Life Is a Dream/La Vida es Sueño

The most famous of all Calderon's varied and romantic dramas, this seventeenth-century masterpiece by the great Spanish playwright explores the conflict between free will and predestination as it focuses on the life of Segismundo, a Polish prince imprisoned at birth by his father, the King. The monarch's heartless action, precipitated by astrologers who predict the boy will one day usurp the throne, paves the way for a series of events that turn the son against the father and lead to...

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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