12 buku mirip Cinta yang Sia-sia
Raja Lear
Lear decides to abdicate and split his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Cordelia refuses to flatter her father like her sisters and is banished. Goneril and Regan betray Lear who goes mad.
Tema bersama: Shakespeare, British and irish drama, Drama
Sang Alkemis, 1612
Samuel Taylor Coleridge said of Ben Jonson's _The Alchemist_ that it had one out of the three most perfect plots in literature. This play, with its sharp portrayal of human folly, is considered by many to be Jonson's best comedy. First performed 1610, its popularity has endured to this day.
Tema bersama: Comedies, British and irish drama, Drama
Saingan
A comedy of manners revolving around false identities, romantic entanglements, and parental disapproval satirizes the pretentiousness and sentimentality of 18th-century society.
Tema bersama: Comedies, British and irish drama, English literature, Drama
Henry IV, Bagian 1
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
Tema bersama: Shakespeare, British and irish drama, English literature, Drama
Raja Henry VIII
"This is the first fully annotated and comprehensive modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII - known in its early performances as All is True - for over ten years. It makes full use of current scholarship on the dating, authorship, printing, and sources of the play, as well as critical interpretations, and includes an up-to-date survey of the play in performance.
It is the first edition to…
Tema bersama: Shakespeare, British and irish drama, English literature, Drama
Candida
The Reverend James Mavor Morell, a respectable socialist clergyman, spends his days giving lectures and sermons while his wife, Candida, sees to his comfortable London home. That home is disrupted by the arrival of the poet Eugene Marchbanks, who is in love with Candida and determined to rescue her from what he sees as an unromantic life. Shaw wrote Candida as a reaction to Henrik Ibsen’s social…
Tema bersama: British and irish drama, Drama
Dua Orang Verona
"Professor Schlueter approaches this early comedy as a parody of two types of Renaissance educational fiction: the love-quest story and the test-of-friendship story, which by their combination show high-flown human ideals as incompatible with each other and with human nature. A thoroughly researched, illustrated stage history reveals changing conceptions of the play, which nevertheless often fail…
Tema bersama: Shakespeare, British and irish drama, English literature, Drama
Othello
Othello, a successful Moorish general in the service of Venice, elopes with Desdemona, the daughter of a Venetian noble. His evil lieutenant Iago works on his jealousy and persuades him that his wife is unfaithful. Overwrought, Othello strangles her then kills himself in grief after the truth is revealed.
Tema bersama: Shakespeare, British and irish drama, Drama
Raja Henry VI Bagian 2
King Henry VI by William Shakespeare
Tema bersama: Shakespeare, British and irish drama, Drama
Timon dari Athena
This book demonstrates events in the life of Timon, a man known for his great and universal generosity, who spends his fortune and then is spurned when he requires help.
Tema bersama: Shakespeare, British and irish drama, English literature, Drama
Cinta yang Hilang
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
Tema bersama: Shakespeare, British and irish drama, Drama
Kembali ke Methuselah
Five linked plays that expound Shaw's philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Edesn to AD 31,920. Cf Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Tema bersama: British and irish drama, English literature, Drama