8 似ている本： ゴドーを待ちながら
純潔
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…
共通テーマ：British and irish drama, English drama, Drama
美しい友
.I Quand la caissiere lui eut rendu la monnaie de sa piece de cent sous, Georges Duroy sortit du restaurant. Comme il portait beau, par nature et par pose d'ancien sous-officier, il cambra sa taille, frisa sa moustache d'un geste militaire et familier, et jeta sur les dineurs attardes un regard rapide et circulaire, un de ces regards de joli garcon qui s'etendent comme des coups d'epervier. Les…
共通テーマ：Translations from French, French literature
恋には恋を
Valentine, Sir Sampson's dissolute eldest son, finds himself at a standstill; the only way out of his financial difficulties is to give in to his father's pressure to renounce his right of inheritance. While this suggestion immediately increases the chances of his bluff younger brother Ben on the marriage mart, Valentine's own chances with his beloved Angelica would proportionally decrease. To…
共通テーマ：British and irish drama, English drama, Drama
世界の道
The Way of the World is a comedy play written by the English playwright William Congreve, first performed in 1700. It premiered in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It is widely regarded by critics as one of the finest works of Restoration comedy ever written, and has often been called a centrepiece of the genre. Initially, however, the play struck many audience members as continuing…
共通テーマ：British and irish drama, English drama, Drama
マリヤへの告知
"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.
共通テーマ：French drama, Drama
メタセラへの帰還
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.
共通テーマ：British and irish drama, English drama, Drama
錬金術師
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.
共通テーマ：British and irish drama, English drama, Drama
ヘンリー四世 第一部
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.
共通テーマ：British and irish drama, English drama, Drama