Continental European category: 7816 books

Plays written by the major European dramatists of the last two centuries – from the firmly established classics of Ibsen and Chekhov to the recent successes of Yasmina Reza – are increasingly performed on British stages, often in new translations or versions. But what distinguishes one translation...

European theatre has been the site of enormous change and struggle since 1960. There have been radical shifts in the nature and understanding of performance, fuelled by increasing cross-cultural and international influence. Theatre has had to fight for its very existence, adapting its methods of operation...

In volume 1 of Trafika Europe, Andrew Singer gathers choice offerings from the first year of the quarterly journal of the same name. These fourteen selections—from seven women and seven men, seven poets and seven fiction writers—represent languages across the Continent, from Shetland Scots and...

Winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France's leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and...

Károly’s poetry ranges from the sublime to the ordinary, from the general to the very personal and it is graced with European motifs and imagery: taste of the cosmos beyond the in between water. Poetry entrenched deeply in the European tradition with elements of surrealism, with meditative moods, these poems at sometimes engage the reader deeply and at other times they truly entertain.

One hundred poems, one poem written a day, a simple concept to follow through. In more ways than just one it is almost like writing a diary. Something happens in the world at large and I cannot help but to write something down as a response, and at other times it is just life in its all mundanity....

The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize theatre itself and have become part of the European...

Now in his mid-seventies, distinguished poet, critic and translator Anthony Rudolf has amassed a lifetime's worth of work, presented here in this latest collection. For over five decades, Rudolf has weaved and nurtured literary connections between Britain and Europe, drawing on his Jewish heritage...

This batch of hundred short poems leans heavily towards politics and to a lesser extend to the various recent aspects of popular culture. This is a continuation to my personal challenge to write at least one poem a day until I reach 1000 poems, or maybe a number over 9000. More specifically...

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Greatest Poems of John Donne". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning; The Flea; The Good-Morrow;...

'It's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way!' That's the opinion Billy has of himself as he pursues the delectable Zoe on their trans-continental rail journey across the vast Australian Outback on the Indian Pacific and The Ghan.

This file includes: Catline 1850, translated by Anders Orbeck; The Warrior's Barrow (AKA The Burial Mound) 1850, translatd by Anders Orbeck; Olaf Liljerkrans 1856, translated by Anders Orbeck; The Feast at Solhoug 1855, translated by William Archer and Mary Morrison; Lady Inger of Ostrat 1855, translated...

The foremost dramatist of his age, Ibsen changed theatre forever with his realistic dialogue and depiction of contemporary social problems. Here are four of his greatest works: Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Lady From the Sea, and John Gabriel Borkman.

The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation,...