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Die Verkündigung an Maria
"The action revolves around the relationship between the two sisters who are totally different i temperament and yet who are indissolubly joined. Violaine is the good sister who will represent Christian charity in its fullest sense. Mara (whose name in Hebrew means 'bitter') is the jealous sister who will, at the end of the play murder Violaine ..." -- Introduction.
Gemeinsame Themen: French drama, French language, Continental european drama, Drama
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac, verse drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1897 and published the following year. It was based only nominally on the 17th-century nobleman of the same name, known for his bold adventures and large nose.
Set in 17th-century Paris, the action revolves around the emotional problems of the noble, swashbuckling Cyrano, who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman…
Gemeinsame Themen: French drama, Théâtre, French language, Drama
Phädra
Phèdre est un tourbillon de folie amoureuse et de sang. Des divinités invisibles égarent les héros de Racine, les jetant dans la fureur... Héritière d'une lignée maudite, Phèdre devrait aimer le prince Thésée, son mari. Elle brûle au contraire pour son beau-fils Hippolyte, d'une fièvre qui la ronge, la conduit au délire et au crime. Plongée dans " l'inimaginable enfer " de la jalousie, elle…
Gemeinsame Themen: French drama, Théâtre, Continental european drama, Drama
Hernani
L'auteur de ce drame ecrivait il y a peu de semaines a propos d'un poete mort avant l'age: «...Dans ce moment de melee et de tourmente litteraire, qui faut-il plaindre, ceux qui meurent ou ceux qui combattent? Sans doute, il est triste de voir un poete de vingt ans qui s'en va, une lyre qui se brise, un avenir qui s'evanouit; mais n'est-ce pas quelque chose aussi que le repos? N'est-il pas…
Gemeinsame Themen: French drama, Continental european drama, Drama
Wilhelm Tell
"When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a 'New Year's Gift for 1805' he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play that drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since then the work has become immensely popular. This new English translation by William F. Mainland brings out…
Gemeinsame Themen: Continental european drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama
R.U.R. und Das Insektenspiel
"In 1920 Čapek wrote what was to become his most famous work, the play 'R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)', a meditation on the themes of humanity and subjugation that introduced the 'robot'. He was prolific throughout the 1920s, his plays addressing a range of subjects, although best remembered as a writer of early science fiction. Čapek also dealt with contemporary moral and political issues,…
Gemeinsame Themen: Continental european drama, Drama
Alkestis
"Euripides' Alcestic - perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama - is an ideal test for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate students of the language, but in this new student edition, C. A. E. Luschnig and H. M. Roisman remedy such deficiencies." "The introductory…
Gemeinsame Themen: Continental european drama, Poetry, Drama