Product Description: Thomas Ostermeier is the most internationally recognised German theatre director of the present. With this book, he presents his directorial method for the first time. The Theatre of Thomas Ostermeier provides a toolkit for understanding and enacting the strategies of his advanced contemporary approach to staging dramatic texts...read more

Product Description: This French comedy by Moliere is one of the most performed plays in the history of theatre. The cantankerous Harpagon is hoarding every cent he can, making sure that his two children, Elise and Cleante, live under his oppressive control...read more

Product Description: En el momento climático del drama, Máximo agrede a Pantoja, pues éste ha hecho enloquecer a Electra contándole una mentira para que no se case. Es entonces cuando, el día del estreno –el 30 de enero de 1901–, parte del público se levanta y grita: ´Abajo los jesuitas`...read more

Product Description: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore nasce dall'elaborazione scenica di due novelle: Personaggi, del 1906, e Tragedia d'un personaggio, del 1911. Si tratta del più famoso dei capolavori teatrali di Pirandello, il primo della cosiddetta "Trilogia del teatro nel teatro"...read more

Koerlighedens Komedie was published at Christiania in 1862. The polite world—so far as such a thing existed at the time in the Northern capital—received it with an outburst of indignation now entirely easy to understand. It has indeed faults enough. The character-drawing is often crude, the action, though full of effective by-play, extremely slight, and the sensational climax has little relation to human nature as exhibited in Norway, or out of it, at that or any other time. But the sting lay in the unflattering veracity of the piece as a whole; in the merciless portrayal of the trivialities of persons, or classes, high in their own esteem; in the unexampled effrontery of bringing a clergyman upon the stage. All these have long since passed in Scandinavia, into the category of the things which people take with their Ibsen as a matter of course, and the play is welcomed with delight by every Scandinavian audience. But in 1862 the matter was serious, and Ibsen meant it to be so. For they were years of ferment—those six or seven which intervened between his return to Christiania from Bergen in 1857, and his departure for Italy in 1864. As director of the newly founded "Norwegian Theatre," Ibsen was a prominent member of the little knot of brilliant young writers who led the nationalist revolt against Danish literary tradition, then still dominant in well-to-do, and especially in official Christiania. Well-to-do and official Christiania met the revolt with contempt. Under such conditions, the specific literary battle of the Norwegian with the Dane easily developed into the eternal warfare of youthful idealism with "respectability" and convention. Ibsen had already started work upon the greatest of his Norse Histories—The Pretenders. But history was for him little more than material for the illustration of modern problems; and he turned with zest from the task of breathing his own spirit into the stubborn mould of the thirteenth century, to hold up the satiric mirror to the suburban drawing-rooms of Christiania, and to the varied phenomena current there,—and in suburban drawing-rooms elsewhere,—under the name of Love.

Product Description: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a great 19th century Norwegian playwright who was considered one of the first prominent figures of modern theatre. Ibsen wrote many famous plays but none moreso than A Doll’s House, which was controversial in its time for its criticism of 19th century marriages and morals yet remains the world’s most performed play today...read more

Ibsen, considered to be the father of modern drama, was a Norwegian playwright. He is responsible for "realistic drama". During the Victorian era Ibsen's writings were considered scandalous. John Gabriel Borkman is based on an incident in Ibsen's life. An army officer attempted suicide after being charged with embezzlement. The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the imprisonment of John Gabriel who used his position as a bank manager to illegally speculate with his investors' money. The setting for the play is a family in conflict over the future of the young Erhart Borkman.

Product Description: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a great 19th century Norwegian playwright who was considered one of the first prominent figures of modern theatre. Ibsen wrote many famous plays but none moreso than A Doll’s House, which was controversial in its time for its criticism of 19th century marriages and morals yet remains the world’s most performed play today...read more

Excerpt: ... my poor unhappy wife was not fully accountable for her actions. Mortensgaard. I did make inquiries, Mr. Rosmer; but I must say I did not get exactly that impression. Rosmer. Not?-But why have you chosen this moment to enlighten me as to the existence of this old crazy letter? Mortensgaard. With the object of advising you to be extremely cautious, Mr. Rosmer. Rosmer. As to my way of life, do you mean? Mortensgaard. Yes. You must remember that for the future you will not be unassailable. Rosmer. So you persist in thinking that I have something to conceal here? Mortensgaard. I do not see any reason why a man of emancipated ideas should refrain from living his life as fully as possible. Only, as I have already said, you should be cautious in future. If rumours should get about of anything that offends people's prejudices, you may be quite certain that the whole cause of freedom of thought will suffer for it. Good-bye, Mr. Rosmer. Rosmer. Good-bye. Mortensgaard. I shall go straight to the printing-office now and have the great piece of news inserted in the "Searchlight". Rosmer. Put it all in. Mortensgaard. I will put in as much as there is any need for the public to know. (Bows, and goes out. ROSMER stands at the door, while MORTENSGAARD goes downstairs. The front door is heard shutting.) Rosmer (still standing in the doorway, calls softly). Rebecca! Reb-ahem! (Calls loudly.) Mrs. Helseth-is Miss West downstairs? Mrs. Helseth (from below). No, sir, she is not here. (The curtain at the end of the room is drawn back, disclosing REBECCA standing in the doorway.) Rebecca. John! Rosmer (turning round). What! Were you in there, in my bedroom! My dear, what were you doing there? Rebecca (going up to him). I have been listening. Rosmer. Rebecca! Could you do a thing like that? Rebecca. Indeed I could. It was so horrid the way he said that- about my morning wrapper. Rosmer. Ah, so you were in there too when Kroll-? Rebecca. Yes. I wanted to know what...

Product Description: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a great 19th century Norwegian playwright who was considered one of the first prominent figures of modern theatre. Ibsen wrote many famous plays but none moreso than A Doll’s House, which was controversial in its time for its criticism of 19th century marriages and morals yet remains the world’s most performed play today...read more

Hedda Gabler is a play by Henrik Ibsen. It is considered a classic of realism, of nineteenth century theatre, and of world drama. It was first published in 1890 and was premiered in Germany in 1891. This edition has been formatted to allow for pleasant reading on stage or off.

Hedda Gabler is a play by Henrik Ibsen. It is considered a classic of realism, of nineteenth century theatre, and of world drama. It was first published in 1890 and was premiered in Germany in 1891. This edition has been formatted to allow for pleasant reading on stage or off.

Product Description: Federico García Lorca (Fuente Vaqueros,1 5 de junio de 1898-camino de Víznar a Alfacar, 18 de agosto de 1936) fue un poeta, dramaturgo y prosista español, también conocido por su destreza en muchas otras artes. Adscrito a la llamada Generación del 27, es el poeta de mayor influencia y popularidad de la literatura española del siglo xx...read more

Product Description: Henrik Ibsen: Komödie der Liebe. Komödie in drei Akten Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016 Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Kjærlighedens Komedie...read more

Product Description: Henrik Ibsen: Die Frau vom Meer. Schauspiel in fünf Akten Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016 Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Fruen fra havet...read more

Product Description: Henrik Ibsen: Wenn wir Toten erwachen. Dramatischer Epilog in drei Akten Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016 Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Når vi døde vågner...read more

Product Description: Henrik Ibsen: Rosmersholm. Schauspiel in vier Akten Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016 Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Erstdruck: Kopenhagen, Kristiania, Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1886...read more

Product Description: Henrik Ibsen: Catilina. Drama in drei Akten Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016 Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Entstanden zwischen 1848 und 1849...read more