The Crown Guide to the World's Great Plays, from Ancient Greece to Modern TimesCrown Publishers, 1984 - 866 Seiten From the classics of ancient Greece to the best of modern American theater, this guide provides a plot synopsis, stage history, cast listing, analysis, and critical opinions for each of 750 outstanding plays. |
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... moving down upon us , a mighty clearing storm which is coming , is already near and will soon blow the laziness , the indifference , the distaste for work , the rotten boredom , out of our society . I shall work , and in another twenty ...
... moving down upon us , a mighty clearing storm which is coming , is already near and will soon blow the laziness , the indifference , the distaste for work , the rotten boredom , out of our society . I shall work , and in another twenty ...
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... moving , the Temple background is excellently caught , and the characters are not only limned with sympathy but limbed with truth . Sweet Lavender , combining the emotion and senti- ment of melodrama with the character drawing of latter ...
... moving , the Temple background is excellently caught , and the characters are not only limned with sympathy but limbed with truth . Sweet Lavender , combining the emotion and senti- ment of melodrama with the character drawing of latter ...
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... moving production was joined in 1902 by Ben Greet , with Edith Wynne Matthison as Everyman . The latter gave the play its first American performance , in New York , October 13 , 1902 , and it is impossible to count the revivals since ...
... moving production was joined in 1902 by Ben Greet , with Edith Wynne Matthison as Everyman . The latter gave the play its first American performance , in New York , October 13 , 1902 , and it is impossible to count the revivals since ...
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actor adaptation Aeschylus Alexander Woollcott American amusing April Aristophanes audience beauty Broadway Brooks Atkinson called century characters comedy comic critics curtain dance daughter death December declared delightful dialogue drama dramatist emotions England English Euripides Eva Le Gallienne farce father February Festival French George Gilbert Gilbert and Sullivan girl Greek Hamlet Harold Hobson Henry human humor husband Ibsen James Agate January John Gielgud June killed King Lady Laurence Olivier lively London London saw lovers Macbeth March marry Mary melodrama modern Molière mother November October OffBway OffOffBway Old Vic opera Paris passion performances picture play opened play's playwright plot poetry popular premiere presented production revived Richard Robert role romantic satire says scene Shakespeare Shaw Shaw's shows songs Sophocles spirit stage story tells theatre theatrical theme tour tragedy translation turns wife William woman women words wrote York York City Center young