Five Plays by Langston Hughes

Five Plays by Langston Hughes
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1963-01-22
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780253201218

Five plays representing Hughes' dramatic writing over a period of forty years.

Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies

Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies
Author: Federico García Lorca
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1963
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780811200905

Two additional comedies, published here in book form in English for the first time, are The Billy-Club Puppets -- a guignol-type farce with delicate wit; and The Butterfly's Evil Spell, an "insect comedy" about a beetle-poet who aspires to be a butterfly.

Five Plays

Five Plays
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1988
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780140432190

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.

Five Plays

Five Plays
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0804775745

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) overturned the dramatic conventions of his day and laid the groundwork for contemporary approaches to directing and acting. Now, for the first time, the full lyricism, humor, and pathos of his greatest plays are available to an English-speaking audience. Marina Brodskaya's new translations of Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard not only surpass in accuracy all previous translations, but also provide the first complete English text of the plays, restoring passages entirely omitted by her predecessors. This much-needed volume renders Chekhov in language that will move readers and theater audiences alike, making accessible his wordplay, unstated implications, and innovations. His characters' vulnerabilities, needs, and neuroses—their humanity—emerge through their genuine, self-absorbed conversations. The plays come to life as never before and will surprise readers with their vivacity, originality, and relevance.

Five One-act Plays

Five One-act Plays
Author: Alan Ball
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1994
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822213680

THE STORIES: The perfect young woman and her perfect young boyfriend in MADE FOR A WOMAN are perfect examples of the image conscious society in which we live. She has everything and he does too, and they have each other. All is fine until she feels

Five Plays

Five Plays
Author: Samuel D. Hunter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781559365017

Five plays by a major American playwright, all set in the author's home state of Idaho, demonstrating his extraordinary knack for exposing, without condescension or easy moralizing, the pathos in marginalized lives. The plays included in this volume are: Pocatello The Few A Great Wilderness Rest A Permanent Image Samuel D. Hunter's plays are populated with characters from the bleak side of the American economy. Laced with poetic images yet drawn with meticulous realism, Hunter's plays linger in franchise restaurants, retirement facilities, mountain camps, and struggling businesses.

Five Plays

Five Plays
Author: Michael Weller
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1997
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781559361439

Long-unavailable, Michael Weller's Five Plays is the definitive look at the generation which came of age in the '60s.

Five One-Act Plays

Five One-Act Plays
Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher: Gill & MacMillan
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1990-12-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780717117765

The comedy 'The End of the Beginning' and the sketch 'A Pound on Demand' were both published in 1934 as part of the collection of essays, verse and fiction, entitled 'Windfalls'. 'Hall of Healing, A Sincerious Farce', 'Bedtime Story' and 'Time to Go, A Morality Comedy', were written in 1951.

Five Plays

Five Plays
Author: Heinrich Von Kleist
Publisher:
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1990-07-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780300049053