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3) Three plays
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Presents three plays by twentieth-century dramatist Eugene Ionesco, including "Exit the King," which traces the final hours of the once-great King Berenger the First; "The Killer," a study of pure evil; and "Macbett," a spoof of the Shakespearean tragedy.
Author
Series
Norton library volume N889
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
The Condemned of Altona is an act of judgment on the twentieth century, which might have been an admirable era (the closing lines tell us) if man had not been threatened by 'the cruel enemy who had sworn to destroy him, that hairless, evil, flesh-eating beast--man himself. 'All the characters in the play are defendants, trapped inside the frame of the proscenium as securely as Eichmann within his glass cage in Jerusalem; their judge is the past, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
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Description
In these four plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays his mastery of the drama. No Exit is an unforgettable portrayal of hell. The Flies is a modern reworking of the Electra-Orestes story. Dirty Hands is about a young intellectual torn between theory and praxis. The Respectful Prostitute is a scathing attack on American racism. 4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him. To occupy the time they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide -- anything "to hold the terrible silence at bay". Throughout...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain."
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