The concepts of trust and risk provide important insights into the social and cultural life of early modern England but remain relatively unexplored in early modern literary studies.
If the mere mention of Shakespeare fills you with dread, evoking memories of arduous afternoons spent in stuffy classrooms with eccentric English teachers, it is time to reconsider that far from being three-hour marathons of unintelligible boring rubbish, Shakespeare's plays are in fact exciting, tragic, funny and often downright rude - full of memorable plots, great insults, filthy jokes and eccentric characters.
La producción teatral del jesuita Juan de Cigorondo (1560-1611) es un importante testimonio del teatro de colegio: una manifestación de la dramaturgia novohispana desarrollada posteriormente al teatro de evangelización e inmediatamente antes del auge de la Comedia nueva.
Originally performed by its creators, this 1987 Edinburgh Fringe hit remains the second longest-running West End comedy in history and has been translated into over thirty languages.
82 Seiten dramatische Handlungsverläufe, große Emotionen und der Wunsch nach Liebe und familiärer Geborgenheit bestimmen die Geschichten der ERIKA-Reihe - authentisch präsentiert, unverfälscht und ungekürzt!
It is now considered one of Aristophanes' most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus.
Originally performed by its creators, this 1987 Edinburgh Fringe hit remains the second longest-running West End comedy in history and has been translated into over thirty languages.
Mit »Henrik Ibsens Frauen-Gestalten« legte Lou Andreas-Salomé 1892 den Grundstock für ihren Ruhm als Autorin und Interpretin der literarischen Moderne.
Timon of Athens has struck many readers as rough and unpolished, perhaps even unfinished, though to others it has appeared as Shakespeare's most profound tragic allegory.
With summaries, discussions, and excerpts from primary source documents, this book examines Shakespeare's world through careful consideration of the historical background of four of his comedies.
▪ Goethe und seine ZeitDie Leiden des jungen WertherWilhelm Meisters LehrjahreDer Briefwechsel zwischen Schiller und GoetheSchillers Theorie der modernen LiteraturHölderlins Hyperion▪ Faust-StudienZur EntstehungsgeschichteDas Drama der MenschengattungFaust und MephistophelesDie Gretchen-TragödieStilfragen: Das Ende der ‹Kunstperiode›▪ Thomas MannAuf der Suche nach dem BürgerDie Tragödie der modernen KunstDas Spielerische und seine Hintergründe▪ Enzyklopädisches Stichwort: Bemerkungen über den bürgerlichen Realismus hinaus▪ Quellennachweis▪ Personen- und Sachregister▪ Verzeichnis der erwähnten Werke
The tragedy Cato was written by Joseph Addison in 1712 and recounts the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, a Stoic who was always resistant to Julius Caesar's tyranny and an icon of republicanism, virtue, and liberty.