Eugene Ionesco: 4 books
Amedee, The New Tenant, Victims of Duty
Three Plays
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The author of such modern classics as The Bald Soprano, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, and The Chairs, Eugène Ionesco is one of the most important and influential figures in the modern theater” (Library Journal). This crucial collection combines The New Tenant with Amédée and Victims of Duty-the plays...
by Eugene Ionesco
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
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...
Rhinoceros and Other Plays
Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In Rhinoceros, as in his earlier plays, Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. A rhinoceros suddenly appears in a small town, tramping through its peaceful streets. Soon there are two, then three, until the movement” is universal:...
by Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Exit the King is a highly stylized, ritualized death rite unfolding the final hours of the once-great king Berenger the First. As he dies, his kingdom also dies. His armies suffer defeat, the young emigrate, the seasons change overnight, and his kingdom’s borders shrink to the outline of his throne....