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It is Ascension Day in a village of the West. In the low
panelled hall-sittingroom of the BURLACOMBE'S farmhouse on the
village green, MICHAEL STRANGWAY, a clerical collar round his
throat and a dark Norfolk jacket on his back, is playing the
flute before a very large framed photograph of a woman, which is
the only picture on the walls. His age is about thirty-five his
figure thin and very upright and his clean-shorn face thin,
upright, narrow, with long and rather pointed ears; his dark
hair is brushed in a coxcomb off his forehead.
A Doll's House (Norwegian: Et dukkehjem) is an 1879 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Written one year after The Pillars of Society,
the play was the first of Ibsen's to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools
and universities. The play was controversial when first published, as it is sharply critical of 19th century marriage norms. It follows the
formula of well-made play up until the final act, when it breaks convention by ending with a discussion, not an unravelling. It is often
called the first true feminist play. The play is also an important work of the naturalist movement, in which real events and situations
are depicted on stage in a departure from previous forms such as romanticism.
The study of JOHN BUILDER in the provincial town of Breconridge. A panelled room wherein nothing is ever studied, except perhaps BUILDER'S face
in the mirror over the fireplace. It is, however, comfortable, and has large leather chairs and a writing table in the centre, on which is a typewriter,
and many papers. At the back is a large window with French outside shutters, overlooking the street, for the house is an old one, built in an age when
the homes of doctors, lawyers and so forth were part of a provincial town, and not yet suburban. There are two or three fine old prints on the walls,
Right and Left; and a fine, old fireplace, Left, with a fender on which one can sit. A door, Left back, leads into the dining-room, and a door, Right
forward, into the hall.
A King, and No King By F. Beaumont and J. Fletcher
A King and No King is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher and first published in 1619.
It has traditionally been among the most highly-praised and popular works in the canon of Fletcher and his collaborators.
The play's title became almost proverbial by the middle of the 17th century, and was used repeatedly in the polemical literature of the mid-century
political crisis to refer to the problem and predicament of King Charles I.
It is Dryden’s best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama.
It is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its hero and heroine.
John Dryden (9 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration
England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.
Wilbur is at the peak of his form in this stellar translation of an unusual Molière play-populated with Greeks and Greco-Roman gods and
flavored with the essences of vaudeville, fantasy, high comedy, farce, and even opera. Afterward by Richard Wilbur.
An Enemy of the People (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende) is an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen wrote it in response
to the public outcry against his play Ghosts, which at that time was considered scandalous. Ghosts had challenged the hypocrisy of Victorian morality
and was deemed indecent for its veiled references to syphilis.
An Enemy of the People addresses the irrational tendencies of the masses, and the hypocritical and corrupt nature of the political system that they support.
It is the story of one brave man's struggle to do the right thing and speak the truth in the face of extreme social intolerance. The play's protagonist,
Dr Stockmann, represents the playwright's own voice. Upon completion of the play, Ibsen wrote to his publisher in Copenhagen : "I am still uncertain as
to whether I should call it a comedy or a straight drama. It may [have] many traits of comedy, but it also is based on a serious idea."
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes
of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty four hours. "Sooner or later,"
Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely judged by their past."
Androcles and the Lion (1912) is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion.
In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify
several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including cultural clash between Jesus' teachings and traditional Roman values.
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress By George Bernard Shaw
ANNAJANSKA is frankly a bravura piece. The modern variety theatre demands for its "turns" little plays called sketches,
to last twenty minutes or so, and to enable some favorite performer to make a brief but dazzling appearance on some barely passable dramatic pretext.
Echoing through western culture for more than two millennia, "Antigone" has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy,
the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their destiny. This new translation of the play
is extremely faithful to the Greek.
Two Americans, Russ and John, begin an illegal liquor production /distribution scheme in Al Rabbad, a fundamentalist Middle Eastern country.
Sound insane? Well, their business partner is none other than the local prince, Ahmed, and his portly American lover, Ricci, who hope the venture
will help make Ahmed king. Along the road to the throne, John falls in love with Ahmed’s wife, Teekra, who is plotting her revenge against Awad,
the king of Al Rabbad. Maybe John doesn’t get “it,” but Russ is there to give him a push in the right direction when the time comes in this irreverent
comic adventure ...
Two of Shaw's most satiric and hilarious comedies that take on the controversial issues of British militarism and the Irish question.
This new edition, edited and with an introduction by two Shaw scholars, emphasizes the brilliance of Shaw's biting commentary on love and war.
Augustus Does His Bit was performed for the first time at the Court Theatre in London by the Stage Society on the 21st January, 1917, with Lalla Vandervelde as The Lady, F. B.J. Sharp as Lord Augustus Highcastle, and Charles Rock as Horatio Floyd Beamish.
This play shows a comparison of how the lives of Caesar and Cleopatra are depicted in Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra and the film Classic Cleopatra with the actual events that transpired.
The play is set in the northeast suburbs of London in October, and tells the story of Candida, the wife of a first-rate clergyman named James Mavor Morell.
Morell is a popular Christian Socialist Reverend in the Church of England, yet Candida is responsible for much of his success.
Captain Brassbound's Conversion By George Bernard Shaw
The book is very chunky and it features All his plays and major poems/sonnets. However, it is as useful as a dictionary when it comes to looking up quotes
and is brilliant to have around in order to recommend speeches to students. It also has a very useful Glossary at the back for those words which are
uncommon/not used nowadays and includes information from the original folio.
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