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La Galerie du Palais

( Edition intégrale )

by Pierre Corneille
Language: French
Release Date: September 27, 2018

Comédie : Dorimant aime Hippolite, qui aime Lisandre, qui aime Célidée, qui hésite entre Dorimant et Lisandre. Aussi Célidée décide-t-elle, à la stupéfaction d'Hippolite, d'éprouver son amant par quelques froideurs. Désespoir de Lisandre. Son écuyer, Aronte, gagné à la cause d'Hippolite, lui suggère de feindre d'aimer ailleurs pour éveiller la jalousie de Célidée.
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La Suivante

Comédie ( Edition intégrale )

by Pierre Corneille
Language: French
Release Date: September 27, 2018

Voyez comme tous deux ont fui notre rencontre ! - Je vous l'ai déjà dit, et l'effet vous le montre : - Vous perdez Amarante, et cet ami fardé - Se saisit finement d'un bien si mal gardé : - Vous devez vous lasser de tant de patience, - Et votre sûreté n'est qu'en la défiance. La différence...
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La Veuve

( Edition intégrale )

by Pierre Corneille
Language: French
Release Date: September 27, 2018

Comédie : Alcidon, amoureux de Clarice, veuve d'Alcandre et maîtresse de Philiste, son particulier ami, de peur qu'il ne s'en aperçût, feint d'aimer sa soeur Doris, qui, ne s'abusant point par ses caresses, consent au mariage de Florange, que sa mère lui propose. Ce faux ami, sous un prétexte...
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Clitandre

( Edition intégrale )

by Pierre Corneille
Language: French
Release Date: September 27, 2018

Tragédie : Rosidor, favori du roi, était si passionnément aimé de deux des filles de la reine, Caliste et Dorise, que celle-ci en dédaignait Pymante, et celle-là Clitandre. Ses affections, toutefois, n'étaient que pour la première, de sorte que cette amour mutuelle n'eût point eu d'obstacle...
Cover of Les mémoires de Sarah Barnum
by Marie Colombier
Language: French
Release Date: March 4, 2016

La relation entre les deux comédiennes et amies Marie Colombier et Sarah Bernhardt n’avait jamais été sans nuages. Jalousies et concurrences diverses en eurent finalement raison. Après un premier ouvrage vengeur, « Le voyage de Sarah Bernhardt en Amérique », l’auteur assène ici le coup...
Cover of Passers-by A Play In Four Acts
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013

SCENE: A handsome sitting-room in a bachelor's apartments on the first floor of a house in Piccadilly, opposite the Green Park. It is obviously the room of a man of comfortable means and good taste. The decoration and furniture are of the Adams period. (For details of scene see accompanying plan.)...
Cover of A LADY OF QUALITY Classic Novels: New Illustrated [Free Audio Links]
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012

"A LADY OF QUALITY  - Top Classic Novels" This edition included NEW illustrations + Free AudioBook Links + Clickable Table of Contents for both the list of included books and their respective chapters. Navigation couldn't be easier. The text and chapters are perfectly set...
Cover of Eden In Atlantis
by Derek Strahan
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011

Who knows when, perhaps 20,000 years ago, the earth’s axis was much closer to the perpendicular. There two moons. There were no seasons. It was paradise. The earth basked in eternal summer, many life forms flourished, including humans. What is now Antarctica was not then ice-bound and frozen at...
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Prologue d’ouverture de l’Odéon

( Edition intégrale )

by Théophile Gautier, Maurice Dreyfous
Language: French
Release Date: December 11, 2018

L’ESPRIT CHAGRIN.... Eh bien, cher directeur, la nouvelle est donc vraie,... Vous jouez ?... LE DIRECTEUR.... Oui.... L’ESPRIT CHAGRIN.... Pour vous l’entreprise m’effraye;... L’Odéon, qui ne peut ni vivre ni mourir,... N’est jamais plus fermé que lorsqu’il vient d’ouvrir.... LE...
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Words into Action

Finding the Life of the Play

by William Gaskill
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018

Packed with insights from a lifetime of directing theatre, Words into Action is a fascinating read and a vital masterclass for actors and directors. Renowned theatre director William Gaskill was one of the founders of the Royal Court, whose ethos, as Christopher Hampton says in his Foreword,...
Cover of Night and the Proofreader
by Ronald Micci
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017

Great grammar teaching tool for use in junior high and high school English and Dramatics classes!   An overzealous proofreader snaps and goes on a killing spree to rid the world of bad grammar, while the police attempt to bring the fiend to justice. Now the perpetrator has got another victim in...
Cover of Biff Bang, American Hero

Biff Bang, American Hero

and Other Plays

by Ronald Micci
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018

A quirky, wry, ribald collection of short plays and sketches, many farcical, perfect for college, community or professional theater and actors of all shapes and sizes. Includes The Lady Gentian Violet; Hot Women, High Explosives; International Supreme Con Artists Group and more -- in all, 30 plays,...
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Playing Commedia

A Training Guide to Commedia Techniques

by Barry Grantham
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017

A practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia Dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated exercises - a useful tool in any actor's training and a discipline for all forms of physical theatre. Chapters include: Warm-Up Games Mime and Movement Games Word...
Cover of The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy

The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy

Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave Chappelle

by Rick DesRochers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014

The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century. By tracing the history and legacy of the vaudeville era and performance acts, like the Marx Brothers and The Three Keatons, and...
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