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Les parents terribles
Par Jean Cocteau. 1938
Michel et son père sont amoureux de la même femme. Le père s'en aperçoit et essaie de dire à son…
fils qu'il a un rival sans que sa femme connaisse l'histoire. 1938.Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel: portraits-souvenirs
Par Jean Cocteau. 1948
L'oiseau bleu
Par Maurice Maeterlinck. 1970
La veille de Noël, une fée emmène deux enfants au pays du souvenir, au palais de la nuit, au jardin…
du bonheur et au royaume de l'avenir à la recherche de l'oiseau bleu. 1970.Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon: comédie
Par Eugène Labiche, Édouard Martin, Jacques Nathan. 1954
Tous deux prétendants d'Henriette Perrichon, Daniel et Armand tentent, par des procédés différents, de mettre son père de son côté.…
Plus habile que son rival, Daniel obtient la préférence .... jusqu'à ce que ses supercheries soient découvertes. 1954.Zone: pièce en trois actes
Par Marcel Dubé. 1960
Passe-Partout voudrait remplacer Tarzan à la tête d'un groupe de contrebandiers. Sa trahison entraîne la condamnation de Tarzan pour le…
meurtre d'un douanier. Après son évasion, que fera Tarzan? Reprendre la direction de la bande ou fuir à l'étranger? 1960.First published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetryThe portable Chekhov (The Viking Portable library #No. 35)
Par Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Avrahm Yarmolinsky. 1978
A collection of twenty-eight short stories including "The Man in a Shell," "Gooseberries," and "The Darling;" two plays, "The Boor,"…
and "The Cherry Orchard;" and selected letters of Chekhov. Includes a chronology of his life and a selected bibliography of his worksUn conte de l'apocalypse (Théâtre)
Par Robert Marinier. 2021
Dans un futur pas si lointain ravagé par les dérèglements climatiques, des villes sont submergées, des routes sont détruites et…
les flots de migrants convergent vers les dernières terres arables. Au Canada, une faction extrémiste du Parti vert organise un coup d’État et condamne à mort tous ceux qui ont nié le réchauffement de la planète. Une rébellion se lève.Persuadé d’être dans une pièce de théâtre, Guy Coudonc reste détaché de la catastrophe avant d’être catapulté au rang de personnage principal de cette fable écologique.Exploration théâtrale à l’humour grinçant, Un conte de l’apocalypse met en lumière les impacts qu’ont nos décisions sur notre histoire et notre environnement.The pelican: a comedy
Par Martin Michael Driessen, Jonathan Reeder. 2019
In a small town on the Adriatic coast, postman Andrej and funicular railway conductor Josip discover each other's secrets and…
begin blackmailing the other. A strange friendship develops, but war looms. Translated from the original 2017 Dutch edition. Some violence and some strong language. 2019Les gens adorent les guerres: et autres inédits : textes dramatiques
Par Denys Arcand. 2007
"Vers 1976, Denys Arcand a écrit, pour une série qui s'appellerait Empire Inc., un épisode qui se passait à l'époque…
de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Dix ans plus tôt, il s'était déjà intéressé au rôle qu'avaient joué les communistes canadiens et américains pendant la guerre. Dans bien des cas, les alliances objectives entre le grand capital et la hiérarchie communiste s'étaient faites sur le dos des gauchistes naïfs. Arcand avait aussi envie de parler de l'abîme infranchissable qui séparait à cette époque ces presbytériens richissimes anglophones et les masses laborieuses catholiques francophones. L'épisode n'a jamais été tourné, mais nous pouvons en lire le texte ici, accompagné de trois autres inédits. Chacun de ces textes peut se lire comme une nouvelle ou un court roman dialogué. Les personnages, les thèmes, la composition, la tonalité à la fois légère et grave, toute leur écriture, en somme, compose un univers qui annonce directement Jésus de Montréal, Les Invasions barbares et L'Âge des ténèbres et illustre à merveille ce style et ce regard si particuliers qui caractérisent toute l'œuvre de Denys Arcand". -- 4e de couvLa Poune ressuscitée: roman-théâtre (Étoiles variables)
Par Jean Désy. 2007
"Au moment où débute ce récit, qui est simultanément un roman et une pièce de théâtre, les choses ne vont…
pas bien pour Paul. Il vient de perdre sa fille Rosalie, morte dans un accident de voiture. Paul en veut au monde entier, et en particulier à son voisin qui, au dire de Paul, a causé la mort de Rosalie. Il conduisait vite et il avait bu. La fureur de Paul est extrême. Heureusement, le voisin s'enfuit. Apparaît alors la mère de Paul, morte depuis un certain temps, grande admiratrice de la Poune et tout aussi vulgaire qu'elle. Elle aime enlever ses dentiers et faire des grimaces. Elle est surtout libre d'esprit et prête à tout pour sauver son fils. "On va guérir tous les deux", dit la mère. Et elle multiplie les facéties, apparaît dans la fenêtre au moment où son fils fait l'amour avec son amie Sonia, est toujours là au mauvais moment, mais en même temps elle plane au-dessus de son fils, maternelle, omniprésente, ricaneuse et bénéfique..." -- 4e de couvLes justes: pièce en cinq actes (Folio Ser.)
Par Albert Camus. 1988
Cette pièce retrace l'histoire des circonstances qui ont précédé et suivi l'attentat à la bombe contre le grand-duc, oncle du…
tsar, à Moscou en 1905, par un groupe de terroristes appartenant au Parti socialiste révolutionnaire. Les différentes sensibilités de ces révolutionnaires se croisent et se confrontent.The Sojourn
Par Andrew Krivak. 2011
The Sojourn, winner of the Chautauqua Prize and finalist for the National Book Award, is the story of Jozef Vinich,…
who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd's life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser's army, surviving a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps and capture by a victorious enemy.A stirring tale of brotherhood, coming-of-age, and survival, that was inspired by the author's own family history, this novel evokes a time when Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, and Germans fought on the same side while divided by language, ethnicity, and social class in the most brutal war to date. It is also a poignant tale of fathers and sons, addressing the great immigration to America and the desire to live the American dream amidst the unfolding tragedy in Europe.The Sojourn is Andrew Krivak's first novel. Krivak is also the author of A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life, a memoir about his eight years in the Jesuit Order, and editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912, which received the Louis L. Martz Prize. The grandson of Slovak immigrants, Krivak grew up in Pennsylvania, has lived in London, and now lives with his wife and three children in Massachusetts where he teaches in the Honors Program at Boston College.Twelve Angry Men: A Screen Adaptation, Directed By Sidney Lumet (Student Editions Ser.)
Par Reginald Rose. 1997
The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was…
a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U. S. legal system. The story's focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal biases. Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture of America, at its best and worst, to form. .Fuenteovejuna
Par Lope De Vega. 2010
Lope de Vega "single-handedly created the Spanish national theatre," writes Roberto González Echevarría in the introduction to this new translation…
of Fuenteovejuna. Often compared to Shakespeare, Molière, and Racine, Lope is widely considered the greatest of all Spanish playwrights, and Fuenteovejuna (The Sheep Well) is among the most important Spanish Golden Age plays. Written in 1614, Fuenteovejuna centers on the decision of an entire village to admit to the premeditated murder of a tyrannical ruler. Lope masterfully employs the tragicomic conventions of the Spanishcomediaas he leavens the central dilemma of the peasant lovers, Laurencia and Frondoso, with the shenanigans of Mengo, thegraciosoor clown. Based on an actual historical incident,Fuenteovejuna offers a paean to collective responsibility and affirmation of the timeless values of justice and kindness. Translator G.J. Racz preserves the nuanced voice and structure of Lope de Vega's text in this first English translation in analogical meter and rhyme. Roberto González Echevarría surveys the history ofFuenteovejuna, as well as Lope's enormous literary output and indelible cultural imprint. Racz's compelling translation and González Echevarría's rich framework bring this timeless Golden Age drama alive for a new generation of readers and performers.Death of a Salesman
Par Arthur Miller, Gerald Weales. 1977
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of…
a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity--and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room."By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." --Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times"So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." --TimeComplete Works of William Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text From The Latest Edition Of William Aldis Wright... (Leather-bound Classics)
Par William Shakespeare, Michael A. Cramer. 2014
Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth-the works of William Shakespeare still resonate in our…
imaginations four centuries after they were written. The timeless characters and themes of the Bard's plays fascinate us with their joys, struggles, and triumphs, and now they are available in a special volume for Shakespeare fans everywhere.This Canterbury Classics edition of William Shakespeare's works includes all of his poems and plays in an elegant, keepsake edition. Whether for a Shakespeare devotee or someone just discovering him, this is the perfect place to experience the drama of Shakespeare's words. A scholarly introduction provides additional context and insight into the poems and plays.Lexile score: NPThe Last Days of Mankind
Par Karl Kraus, Edward Timms, Fred Bridgham. 2015
One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, "The Last Days of Mankind "remains as…
powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus's play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War, when mankind raced toward self-destruction by methods of modern warfare while extolling the glory and ignoring the horror of an allegedly "defensive" war. This volume is the first to present a complete English translation of Kraus's towering work, filling a major gap in the availability of Viennese literature from the era of the War to End All Wars. Bertolt Brecht hailed "The Last Days" as the masterpiece of Viennese modernism. In the apocalyptic drama Kraus constructs a textual collage, blending actual quotations from the Austrian army's call to arms, people's responses, political speeches, newspaper editorials, and a range of other sources. Seasoning the drama with comic invention and satirical verse, Kraus reveals how bungled diplomacy, greedy profiteers, Big Business complicity, gullible newsreaders, and, above all, the sloganizing of the press brought down the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the dramatization of sensationalized news reports, inurement to atrocities, and openness to war as remedy, today's readers will hear the echo of the fateful voices Kraus recorded as his homeland descended into self-destruction.Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations In Two Acts And A Requiem (Penguin Plays)
Par Arthur Miller. 1949
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of…
a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity--and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room."By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." --Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times"So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." --TimeDeath of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics Ser.)
Par Arthur Miller, Christopher W. Bigsby. 1949
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of…
a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity--and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room."By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." --Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times"So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." --Timeof the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." --Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." --Time For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.