Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.
Extrait : "Je n'ai point le mérite d'être auteur ; le temps et les talents m'ont également manqué pour le devenir : mais il y a environ huit ans que je m'amusai à jeter sur le papier quelques idées sur le drame sérieux ou intermédiaire entre la tragédie héroïque et la comédie plaisante.
Coincés sur l’île déserte de « Robinson Crusoé », Daniel Defoe et Jonathan Swift se souviennent des années 1710-1714, où ils faisaient de la propagande pour le premier ministre tory, Robert Harley, ainsi que d’une période plus ancienne où ils se remémorent les rapports que Swift entretenait avec les femmes, notamment Delarivière Manley, une des premières féministes.
Living the Shakespearean Life: True Stories is a collection of oral histories from eminent Shakespeare scholars, directors, and actors in England and America.
Bill Brysons bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarshipupdated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts.
THISISPOPBABY & The Abbey Theatre presentIf These Wigs Could Talk by Panti BlissIf These Wigs Could Talk meets Panti, a drag queen at fifty-three, after a lifetime of showbiz, shenanigans and making a show of herself, taking this moment to question what her purpose and place in the world is now.
A clique of Caribbean maroon warrior women, a general of Haiti and his right-hand man, an ex-enslaved couple reclaiming their land, a group of Black French Caribbean soldiers held captive in Portchester and their wives travelling across the Atlantic to be reunited with them.
From the makers of 2018 hit Queens of Sheba comes this powerful new play by Ryan Calais Cameron, following the events over one typical night out that is turned upside down by racism and police brutality.
The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in a student edition"e;Shopping and Fucking is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings .
You name something, you change what it is, who it belongs toPeople do it everywhere they go: new namesNot one of them even knows what we called this island before they came Kazumi is hunting a sea monster.
Winner of Best Theatre for Young Audiences Music/Sound at the Offies Awards 2023Sometimes they eat cheeseSometimes they eat breadThey even eat the tiny crumbs that fall under the bedThey eat jellyThey eat egg!
If you could press a button and one hundred thousand vulnerable citizens died instantly but the rest of the population of the planet was guaranteed prosperity, would you press that button?
Fully annotated student edition of a modern classicOh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period.
