Frogs by Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson

Resurrection Blues

Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comedian satirical allegory that poses the query: What could take place if Christ have been to seem on the earth this present day? In an unidentified Latin American state, common Felix Barriaux has captured an elusive progressive chief. The insurgent, recognized by way of quite a few names, is rumored to have played miracles during the nation-state.

Hernani

En imposant Hernani, chef-d'oeuvre du drame romantique, à los angeles Comédie-Française, temple du classicisme, Victor Hugo fut à l'origine de l'une des plus célèbres batailles de l'histoire littéraire. "Tissu d'extravagances", fruit d'un "esprit humain affranchi de toute règle et de toute bienséance" selon los angeles censure.

The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics

The Theater of fact argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics must be understood as a part of an identical advanced. The Neobaroque, instead of being a go back to the stylistic practices of a specific time and position, may be defined because the continuation of a cultural procedure produced as a reaction to a particular challenge of idea that has beset Europe and the colonial international when you consider that early modernity.

Chaos as Usual: Conversations About Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Applause Books). Rainer Werner Fassbiner left at the back of a literary and cinematic legacy which holds a special position within the historical past of ecu movie and within the tradition of the 20 th century. It developed because the expression of an period, among 1966 and 1982, in a rustic which used to be then one other Germany and which now not exists.