Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story 'Un Capitano Moro' ('A Moorish Captain') by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565.
Much Ado About Nothing, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written probably in 1598-99 and printed in a quarto edition from the author's own manuscript in 1600.
The Bostonians Henry James - The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 18851886 and then as a book in 1886.
Candida Bernard Shaw - Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant.
Der Tod in Venedig Paul Thomas Mann - Thomas Mann nannte seine Novelle die Tragödie einer Entwürdigung: Gustav von Aschenbach, ein berühmter Schriftsteller von etwas über fünfzig Jahren und schon länger verwitwet, hat sein Leben ganz auf Leistung gestellt.
Die Verweigerung und schließlich die Erlernung von Empathie rücken Funktionen des Zuschauens in den Mittelpunkt des "King Lear" – und seiner Rezeption.
Ausgehend von der formalen und inhaltlichen Differenz von Chor- und Sprechpartien innerhalb der Tragödie bietet dieser Band eine ausführliche Interpretation und Einordnung aller chorischen Äußerungen in den sieben erhaltenen Tragödien des Sophokles.
Ausgehend von der formalen und inhaltlichen Differenz von Chor- und Sprechpartien innerhalb der Tragödie bietet dieser Band eine ausführliche Interpretation und Einordnung aller chorischen Äußerungen in den sieben erhaltenen Tragödien des Sophokles.
In Shakespeare's thrilling and hugely influential tragedy, ageing King Lear makes a capricious decision to divide his realm between his three daughters according to the love they express for him.
With a foreword by Kat Delacorte, author of With Fire in Their Blood'It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood'On a bleak, stormy night in Scotland, three witches prophesy: Macbeth will be a lord twice-over and Macbeth will be king; but Banquo's sons will also be kings.
Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.
