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Cover of Olympie

Olympie

Tragédie

by Voltaire, Louis Moland, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2015

Extrait : "CASSANDRE : Sostène, on va finir ces mystères terribles. Cassandre espère enfin des dieux moins inflexibles : Mes jours seront plus purs, et mes sens moins troublés ; Je respire. SOSTÈNE : Seigneur, près d'Éphèse assemblés, Les guerriers qui servaient sous le roi votre père, Ont...
Cover of Célimare le bien-aimé

Célimare le bien-aimé

Pièce de théâtre comique

by Eugène Labiche, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2015

Extrait : "PITOIS, entrant par le fond : Eh bien ? ces rideaux, Dépêchons-nous, mes enfants ! ADELINE : Dans une minute tout sera fini. PITOIS : À neuf heures, monsieur veut que l'appartement soit débarrassé. ADELINE : Mais la cérémonie n'est que pour onze heures. PITOIS : C'est égal... monsieur...
Cover of Monsieur Cambrefort
by Louis Dépret, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2015

Extrait : "LÉON, seul, écrivant : J'ai eu tort de vous appeler vieil âne. Je déclare que le mot m'est échappé dans un mouvement de colère (Parlé.) contre le baudets. (Écrivant.) Je retire le mot (Parlé.) C'est tout ce que je puis faire, malheureusement. (Écrivant.) Les liens qui vont nous...
Cover of La Tour de Nesle

La Tour de Nesle

Pièce de théâtre

by Alexandre Dumas, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2015

Extrait : "RICHARD, se levant : Ohé ! maître Orsini, notre hôte, tavernier du diable, double empoisonneur ! il paraît qu'il faut te donner tous tes noms avant que tu répondes. ORSINI : Que voulez-vous ? du vin ? SIMON, se levant : Merci, nous en avons encore ; c'est Richard le savetier qui veut...
Cover of Un gros mot

Un gros mot

Pièce de théâtre comique

by Eugène Labiche, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2015

Extrait : "JOSEPH : Dites donc, mademoiselle Annette... qu'est-ce que vous pensez de tout ça ? ANNETTE : De quoi ? JOSEPH : EH bien, du ménage de monsieur et de madame... ANNETTE : Ça m'intrigue ! JOSEPH : Ils sortent séparément, ils dînent séparément... ANNETTE : Et, quand ils rencontrent......
Cover of Orestes
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly...
Cover of Andromache
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

Andromache By Euripides ANDROMACHE: Ah! kind companion of my bondage, for such thou art to her, who, erst thy queen, is now sunk in misery; what are they doing? What new schemes are they devising in their eagerness to take away my wretched life?
Cover of The Poetics of Imitation in the Italian Theatre of the Renaissance
by Salvatore Di Maria
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013

The theatre of the Italian Renaissance was directly inspired by the classical stage of Greece and Rome, and many have argued that the former imitated the latter without developing a new theatre tradition. In this book, Salvatore DiMaria investigates aspects of innovation that made Italian Renaissance...
Cover of Les Petites mains

Les Petites mains

Pièce de théâtre comique

by Eugène Labiche, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2015

Extrait : "COURTIN, sort de sa chambre avec plusieurs lettres à la main ; il est courroucé : Il n'y a donc personne dans cette maison? (Il prend une sonnette sur le guéridon et l'agite.) Holà!... quelqu'un!... c'est incroyable ! (Il avise un cordon de sonnette près de la cheminée et le secoue avec...
Cover of Zulime

Zulime

Tragédie

by Voltaire, Louis Moland, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2015

Extrait : "ZULIME, d'une voix basse et entrecoupée, les yeux baissés, et regardant à peine Mohadir : Allez, laissez Zulime aux remparts d'Arsénie : Partez ; loin de vos yeux je vais cacher ma vie ; Je vais mettre à jamais, dans un autre univers, Entre mon père et moi la barrière des mers. Je n'ai...
Cover of The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage
by Rosalind Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015

The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage examines the emergence of the professional actress from the 1560s onwards in Italy. Tracing the historical progress of actresses from their earliest appearances as sideshow attractions to revered divas, Rosalind Kerr explores...
Cover of The Eleven Comedies Volume I
by Aristophanes
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the...
Cover of Cratinus and the Art of Comedy
by Emmanuela Bakola
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009

Cratinus, one of the lost great poets of fifth-century Athenian comedy, had a formative influence on the comic genre, including Aristophanes himself. Using a methodologically innovative approach, Emmanuela Bakola studies the surviving fragments of Cratinus' plays and offers a thorough analysis of...
Cover of Boudicca: A Play in Three Acts
by Laurel A. Rockefeller
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015

As the western world fell to Rome's mighty legions, one woman dared fight for English liberty. Adapted from the narrative biography "Boudicca: Britain's Queen of the Iceni," Boudicca tells the story of Celtic Britain's greatest and most legendary ruler in a format accessible to readers of all ages and productions of all budgets.
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