Our Dramatic Heritage: The Golden Age

Our Dramatic Heritage: The Golden Age
Title Our Dramatic Heritage: The Golden Age PDF eBook
Author Philip George Hill
Publisher Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Pages 604
Release 1983
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780838631072

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A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.

Our Dramatic Heritage

Our Dramatic Heritage
Title Our Dramatic Heritage PDF eBook
Author Philip George Hill
Publisher Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Pages 516
Release 1983
Genre European drama
ISBN 9780838632673

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Our Dramatic Heritage: Classical drama and the early Renaissance

Our Dramatic Heritage: Classical drama and the early Renaissance
Title Our Dramatic Heritage: Classical drama and the early Renaissance PDF eBook
Author Philip George Hill
Publisher Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Pages 330
Release 1983
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780838631065

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A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.

Our Dramatic Heritage: Reactions to realism

Our Dramatic Heritage: Reactions to realism
Title Our Dramatic Heritage: Reactions to realism PDF eBook
Author Philip George Hill
Publisher Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Pages 386
Release 1983
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780838634110

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A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.

Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain

Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain
Title Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain PDF eBook
Author Duncan Wheeler
Publisher University of Wales Press
Pages 318
Release 2012-04-15
Genre Drama
ISBN 0708324754

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This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background to the modern-day performance of the country’s three major Spanish baroque playwrights (Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina), whilst also providing detailed aesthetic analyses of individual stage and screen adaptations.

Life's a Dream

Life's a Dream
Title Life's a Dream PDF eBook
Author Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Publisher Hispanic Classics
Pages 273
Release 2011
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0856688967

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"What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction; and the greatest good is fleeting, for all life is a dream, and even dreams are but dreams." That is the haunting lesson learned by Prince Sigismund in Life's a Dream (La vida es sueno), the best known and most widely admired play of Catholic Europe's greatest dramatist, Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Calderon's long life (1600-1681) witnessed the pinnacle and collapse of Spanish political power as well as the great flowering of classical Spanish literature. He inherited his dramatic principles from his brilliant predecessor, Lope de Vega, perfecting his formula with more economical plots, greater subtlety of thought, and, in some cases, deeper character development and psychological insight. The English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the first translators of Calderon into English, was of the opinion that he "exceeds all modern dramatists, with the exception of Shakespeare, whom he resembles, however, in the depth of thought and subtlety of imagination of his writings, and in the rare power of interweaving delicate and powerful comic traits with the most tragical situations." Nowhere is Calderon's talent more evident than in Life's a Dream, the poignant tale of a prince imprisoned at birth by his astrologer-king father and liberated on the same day a beautiful woman stumbles into his life. The interwoven themes of love, loss, power, and destiny make it the peer of such plays as Oedipus and Hamlet. With the collaboration of Jonathan Thacker of Merton College, Oxford, Michael Kidd (Augsburg College, Minnesota) offers a British adaptation of his award-winning American prose translation, recipient of the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize in 2004. The volume comes with a generous set of supplementary materials including critical introduction, translator's notes, suggestions for directors, bibliography, and glossary.

Golden Age of Chinese Drama

Golden Age of Chinese Drama
Title Golden Age of Chinese Drama PDF eBook
Author Chung-wen Shih
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 338
Release 2015-03-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1400871093

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The 171 extant plays of the Yuan period (1279-1368) are the oldest and most brilliant examples of Chinese dramatic literature. In this first comprehensive study, Chung-wen Shih systematically explores the riches of Yuan drama, from its unexcelled lyric poetry to its colorful characterization. After tracing the popular genres that contributed to the flowering of Yuan drama, the author describes conventional features of dramatic construction, methods of characterization, and recurring themes. The central focus is on the use of language: prose passages and lyrics are cited to show how innovative use of spoken language invests the prose with a remarkable strength and suppleness, and how imaginative use of figurative language endows the poetry with an incomparable richness of texture. Attention is also given to the use of music and physical aspects of staging. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.