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First performed in 1921 with Romans calling out ‘Madhouse!’ from the audience, “Six Characters in Search of an Author” has remained the most famous and innovative of Pirandello’s plays. Often labeled a satirical tragicomedy, this play initiated the anti-illusionism movement of the early...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934, Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) explored such themes as the relativity of truth, the vanity and necessity of illusion, and the instability of human personality. In this famous play, an expressionistic parable set in a small Italian...

The plays collected within this volume are social dramas and tragedies. They bear witness to human suffering, and to fine yet vain struggles to vanquish this suffering. Four of these plays were written in prison, others were banned. This early work by Ernst Toller was originally published in 1934, we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

"Bloodcurdling shrieks, fiendish schemes, deeds of darkness, mayhem and mutilation—we all have a rough idea of what Grand Guignol stands for. But until now it has been hard to find out much more about it than that. According to the American theater historian Mel Gordon, no major history of the theater...

The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugène Ionesco (1909-94) did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects...

This enthralling new translation of Dante’s Inferno “immediately joins ranks with the very best” (Richard Lansing). One of the world’s transcendent literary masterpieces, the Inferno tells the timeless story of Dante’s journey through the nine circles of hell, guided by the poet Virgil,...

Abigael og Bodil (komme ind fra Høire). Abigael. Det er ikke Umagen værd at gaae længer, Bodil! Herfra kan vi see, naar Vognen dreier om Skoven, saa er det tidsnok at vende om. Solen brænder stærkt, omendskjøndt det er tidligt paa Dagen; vi faaer ventelig Regn inden Aften. Bodil. Troer...

«Piacere, sono Carlo Filippo Follis e ti sto per raccontare una storia che avrei preferito non dover scrivere…» Così l'autore di “Imprenditore Disabile macellato dal Fisco italiano” si presenta, con tanto di fotografia, al lettore che si accinge a leggere la Premessa del libro; Premessa che...

Moshe Cohen is a Holocaust survivor living in Jerusalem. On the face of it he is a perfectly ordinary man, but he has one odd habit: for almost thirty years he has refused to eat any bread but Matzos, the traditional unleavened bread of the Passover festival.

A 15 minute 3 character play,somewhat Faustian in nature. The story revolves around Robert a young, gifted flamenco guitarist from Manchester, whose soul is wanted by two angels. Both offer him what he wants, but which path will he take? Is spirit given to us? Are some people more soulful than others? Why if this is, is it so? Read on to find out what path Robert takes.

A German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing...

Moliere's plays are the cornerstone of the French Classical dramatic repertoire. Adapted and exploited in his day by dramatists of the English Restoration, they are now again growing in popularity. In this detailed and fascinating volume, Gerry McCarthy examines the practice and method of possibly...

Adapted by Robert David MacDonald from Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness "Robert David MacDonald’s In Quest of Conscience, based on Gitta Sereny’s Into That Darkness, a record of her interviews with death camp commandant Franz Stangl, takes it for granted that the Holocaust was a shocking...

A rich collection of poems that take the reader on a deep tour of the psyche. Charting and moving across politics of language, Bell explores love, pain, failure and redemption from a variety of angles. Most of the poems sit at the fragile threshold of instinct and meaning, using symbol and sensation...