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In 1972, Natalya Gorbanevskaya was arrested for protesting against the detention of dissidents in Moscow’s Red Square. Featuring the work of this widely-recognized Russian poet and civil rights activist, this collection combines a folk-inspired modernism with a clear narrative. Of interest to Russian...

“A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre.”—Teju Cole, The New Yorker   German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges....

The poems in this anthology represent a panorama of the main trends in the development of the poetry of the German-speaking people. Beginning with a minnesong of the early Middle Ages and a poem of the seventeenth century, the book then focuses on the Age of Goethe (1749–1832). Inspired by Goethe...

Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema explores different representations of dreams, visions, hallucinations, and hypnagogic states in Italian film culture, covering the works of some of the most significant auteurs in the history of Italian cinema (Fellini, Pasolini, Moretti, Bellocchio, among others). Dreams...

In this clear and detailed reading guide, we’ve done all the hard work for you!Waiting for Godot is one of Samuel Beckett’s most famous plays. It shows how Vladimir and Estragon wait for a mysterious character called Godot. Nothing happens aside from the dialogue between the two protagonists, yet...

Comus is a Masque drama by John Milton.  The play as all characters on stage and when their turn comes to present a part in the action they speak while everyone else remains.  Comus is a prowling magician of Satanic proportions who comes across a Lady in the forest.  He invites her to be entertained...

A Cycle of Love Songs Translated by the Nobel Laureate "Dappled woodland light, Spring well chill and bright, Eyes like stars at night, Open knees so white. Four things death itself won't cover, Unforgettable forever." In 1917, while reading his local newspaper, the Czech composer...

Troy has fallen – and the Cretan General Idomeneus is on his way home. But the Gods are angry (aren’t they always?) and so now Idomeneus must make a great sacrifice – but these sacrifices never pan out in the way we’d like them to. Now our General is really in trouble.

A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before... In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the direction of their future. Fosse’s...

Over the last forty years, French director Ariane Mnouchkine and her theater collective, Le Théâtre du Soleil, have devised a form of research and creation that is both engaged with contemporary history and committed to reinvigorating theater by focusing on the actor. Now revised and reissued, this...

Casi todas las heroínas de los amores románticos han sido hermosas hasta agotar los adjetivos. Lánguidas tal vez. Tuberculosa alguna. Solo Marianela es fea, solo ella tiene «un cuerpecillo chico y un corazón muy grande».  La fantasía del ciego se la imagina celestial, pero «los ojos matan»...

The text of the present issue of Lord Byron's Poetical Works is based on that of 'The Works of Lord Byron', in six volumes, 12mo, which was published by John Murray in 1831. That edition followed the text of the successive issues of plays and poems which appeared in the author's lifetime, and were subject to his own revision, or that of Gifford and other accredited readers.

The Warrior's Barrow (The Burial Mound), was Henrik Ibsen's second play and the first play to be performed. It is a three-act verse drama, written in 1850 when Ibsen was 22 years old. The play was first performed at the Christiania Theater on September 26, 1850, under Ibsen's Pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A bilingual edition of the most famous of Henri Michaux's poetry collections, now in a new translation from the French. The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another,...