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Read the Cyberpunk Fairy Tales, a unique twist on the classic stories you grew up with. Sometimes dark and disturbing like the Grimm stories, other times new and relevant to the modern age. This is Volume 1, containing: The Impossible Quest of Hailing a Taxi on Christmas Eve. A modern...

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...

Do you have a theatre group that wants to do an epic melodrama, with equal parts comedy and terror? Here it is!The ages-old tale of the dwarf who changes straw into gold in exchange for the heroine’s first-born is created anew in this highly entertaining epic melodrama. Successfully and elaborately...

Their world destroyed by Human Evil, the Violet River saves the remaining millions and transports them to a new home. Frustrations between Faerie and Sprite, never far from the surface, erupt once more, just when unity is most needed. The Super-Changed try to settle into life, bearing...

Pregio di Plauto è la sua prodigiosa ricchezza linguistica: i giochi di parole, le assonanze, i doppi sensi; le espressioni che spaziano dall’arcaico al neologismo, dalle deformazioni grottesche a volgarità che oggi si direbbero surreali; la magistrale padronanza delle possibilità musicali della...

La straordinaria inventiva di Plauto in qualsiasi settore del comico, sia verbale che di situazioni e personaggi, gli permette di rappresentare una ricca galleria di figure da commedia dell’arte: il servo ribaldo e lo sciocco, il soldato spaccone, il sempliciotto vanaglorioso, l’avaro incallito e...

Dal momento che nella felice Italia in cui viviamo l'Eneide del Caro non la pubblica più nessuno, ci siamo decisi noi (con un'improntitudine degna di miglior causa) a ristampare un libro volta, in modo talmente originale da risultare quasi provocatorio: una striminzita silloge di pochi brani on demand...

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer new perspectives to a traditional topic,...

Extrait : "TORRIBIO, aux Fossoyeurs : Allez ! il n'est plus besoin de vous ici ; mais, comme il ne doit pas être dit que ceux qui ont creusé la fosse du plus brave capitaine qui ait jamais existé de Pempelune à Grenade et de Cadix à Saragosse, n'ont pas été largement récompensés, voici mille...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Unique trilogie d’Eschyle (env. 525-456 av. J.-C.) à nous être parvenue dans son intégralité, L’Orestie est composée d’Agamemnon, des Choéphores et des Euménides, soit les trois temps du crime, de la vengeance et...

Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider...

Based on 20 previously untranslated fragments, this is a reconstruction of Euripides lost tragic comedy, Alcmaeon in Corinth, the third part of his final trilogy, with Bacchai and Iphigeneia in Aulis. Alcmaeon, having killed his mother, is pursued by the furies, his madness taking the form of satyriasis....

UNSTABLE delves into the depths of a sub-conscious exploration where multiple metaphoric connotations become probable. Conflicting forces and divergent ideologies clash and rational reasoning is defied. The Award winning Play dares to take its readers through an uncharted harrowing path of Love that leads nowhere.