76円 "Cymbeline" is one of the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare and one of his later ones. Near the end of his career, William Shakespeare wrote a group of beautiful and confounding plays that did not easily fit into any of his previously chosen genres, or categories of literature. These play...

76円 "Timon of Athens" is the story of Shakespeare’s sharp satire on wealth, greed and betrayal, which was probably written around 1605–1606. Timon of Athens is a man who enjoys to please his friends and he does this by lavishing gifts on them. His 'friends' rush to gain his favour. They buy him small...

1,050円 Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Des grands tragiques grecs, Euripide (480 env.-406 av. J.-C.) est sans doute celui qui a le plus nettement contribué au renouvellement du genre. Iphigénie à Aulis est sa dernière pièce, l’ultime tragédie qu’il composait lorsqu’il mo...

76円 "The Two Noble Kinsmen" is a fantastic adaptation of Chaucer's "Knight's Tale", but also has echoes of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", as two of the major characters are Theseus and Hippolyta, who also appear in the earlier play. The play is a Jacobean tragicomedy co-written by William...

76円 “Ajax” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. Although the exact date of its first performance is unknown, most scholars date it to relatively early in Sophocles‘ career (possibly the earliest Sophoclean play still in existence), somewhere between 450 BCE to 430 BCE, possibly aro...

89円 “Agamemnon” is the first of the three linked tragedies which make up “The Oresteia” trilogy (comprising “Agamemnon”, “Choephori” and “The Eumenides”), the only surviving example of a complete trilogy of ancient Greek plays, by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. "Agamemnon" was originally per...

943円 At the peak of Rome's might, a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages. Emperor Septimius Severus’ war against the Caledonians has ended with a peace treaty. Rome has won. As a reward for the blood they have shed, many of Rome’s warriors have be...

520円 Ibsens Familiendrama von 1881 schockierte die Zeitgenossen: Dieses Stück habe ein abstoßendes pathologisches Phänomen als Hauptmotiv, vor allem aber untergrabe es die Moral, die die Grundlage der Gesellschaftsordnung bilde. Ibsen führt darin alles vor, was ihm an Norwegen verhasst war: Doppelmora...

150円 "Coriolanus" is the last of the so-called political tragedies by William Shakespeare, written about 1608. T. S. Eliot considered "Coriolanus" to be Shakespeare's finest achievement in tragedy. Not only is "Coriolanus" a Roman history play in addition to being a tragedy, it is a decidedly politica...

89円 "King John", (in full "The Life and Death of King John") is a chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare written perhaps in 1594–96. The title figure provides the central focus of the play and is surrounded by many contrasting charactersーeach able to influence him, each bringing irresolv...

590円 At the peak of Rome's might, a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages. What happened to Lucius Metellus Anguis in the wilds of Dumnonia? The Gods have finally granted Lucius and his family what appears to be a peaceful life in a new home surrou...

1,000円 Sympathy is a dramedy that takes place during the tech rehearsal of a fringe,alternative theatre production of Euripides' Medea in 1981 in Manhattan. The main characters are the actors and staff of the experimental productionof Euripides' tragedy, Medea. The actors spend a long night dealing with...