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Sainete donde se parodia el género trágico y los dramas de honor. El protagonista, Manolo, retorna a Lavapiés después de estar en prisión, situación que utiliza el autor para conducir parlamentos irónicos y llenos de momentos equívocos y grotescos.

The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the imprisonment of John Gabriel who used his position as a bank manager to speculate with his investors' money. The action of the play takes place eight years after Borkman's release when John Gabriel Borkman, Mrs. Borkman, and her twin sister Ella Rentheim fight over young Erhart Borkman's future.

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic...

François-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public....

Sex and death, rebellion, corruption — the themes of Charles Baudelaire's sensual poems sparked outrage upon their 1857 debut. His masterpiece, Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal), was dismissed as decadent and obscene and banned in France for nearly a century. Although Baudelaire died in obscurity,...

El Narciso en su opinión traza un perfil que será después clásico de la literatura de la España del siglo XVII, el del galán presuntuoso, el petimetre cortesano, narcisista, pagado de sí mismo, algo provinciano pendiente siempre del espejo para exhibir su presunta capacidad de seducción.

Tirso de Molina (Madrid, 1584-Almazán, 1648). España.Su verdadero nombre fue Gabriel Téllez, y nació hacia 1580-84 en Madrid. Se especula (con poca solidez) sobre la posibilidad de que fuera hijo ilegítimo del duque de Osuna, uno de los personajes más influyentes del momento. También se cree...

El melancólico Tirso de Molina, dramaturgo, poeta y narrador español del Barroco (1579-1648) Este libro electrónico presenta «El melancólico», de Tirso de Molina, en texto completo. Un índice interactivo permite acceder directamente al capítulo...

2 works of Wace Norman poet (1110-1174) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Wace. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Arthurian Chronicles - Roman de Brut - The Chronicle of the Norman Conquest

An Almeida Theatre production that opened at the Albery Theatre with Diana Rigg and Toby Stephens, and then played for a season on Broadway. This political thriller, set in Rome at the beginning of Emperor Nero’s tyranny, lays bare the relationships at the heart of power as a world slips into moral chaos.

Intrigue and Love , sometimes Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics or Luise Miller  is a five-act drama, written by the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805). It was his third play and shows how cabals and their intrigue destroy the love between Ferdinand von Walter, a nobleman's...

La Femme de Diomède Théophile Gautier, poète, romancier, peintre et critique d'art français (1811-1872) Ce livre numérique présente «La Femme de Diomède», de Théophile Gautier, édité en texte intégral....

A Divina Comédia (em italiano: Divina Commedia, originalmente Comedìa, mais tarde batizada de Divina por Giovanni Boccaccio) é um poema de viés épico e teológico da literatura italiana e da mundial, escrita por Dante Alighieri, e que é dividida em três partes: Inferno, Purgatório e Paraíso....

Esta obra narra a história de Paulina, filha de um casal exilado na Sibéria, e que tem como objetivo de vida conseguir o perdão dos pais. Não tendo resposta às cartas rogatórias que envia ao imperador, decide empreender a longa viagem desde a erma região...