Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories....

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporarie...

Autor: Thomas Mann

Reducere. Ultimul mare roman al lui Thomas Mann este o reeditare modernă a legendei lui Faust, în care Germania își vinde sufletul diavolului. Protagonistul ...

Cadrul temporal include perioada dintre 1884 - 1945, asadar propria epoca a autorului. Acesta insusi numea Doktor Faustus o carte a vietii de o sin...

Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann

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Reducere. Aceasta carte face parte din colectia RAO clasic a editurii RAO.Povestea vietii lui Adrian Leverkuhn - biografia fictiva a unui compozitor care isi...

A portrayal of genius possessed, through the biography of the composer Adrian Leverkuhn, narrated by his friend Zeitblom in the years 1943-45, as G...

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Adrian Leverkuhn is a young man destined for success. Intentionally contracting syphilis in order to deepen his creative potential through madness,...

Reducere. Povestea vietii lui Adrian Leverkuhn - biografia fictiva a unui compozitor care isi vinde sufletul diavolului - reprezinta pentru Thomas Mann un bu...

In Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus a distinguished scholar turns away from learning and embraces necromancy to satisfy his yearning for knowle...

This edition provides newly edited texts of both the 1604 (A-Text) and 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play, each with detailed explanatory annotatio...

Reducere. Faustus's restless quest for knowledge and his insatiable desire for notoriety drive him to make a pact with the devil in return for the power to p...

Doctor Faustus, a talented student in Wittenburg, Germany, wants to learn more than the university has to offer. Craving knowledge of things beyond...

This introductory guide to one of Marlowe's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the...

Reducere. DescriptionFour plays and two essays on drama, written during Nabokov's migr years before his writings in English earned him worldwide fame. Transl...

Reducere. Driven by an insatiable thirst for power, Doctor Faustus chooses to make the ultimate sacrifice to become an all-knowing practitioner of traditiona...

This is one of a series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers for the first time. Each text includes no...

Reducere. Only seven plays of the Ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles have survived to today. Sophocles is best known for his trilogy of dramas known as the "T...

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique...

Reducere. DescriptionAlso called The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus or simply Doctor Faustus, this play retells the German story of...

This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting natu...

Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the cou...

DescriptionBrilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) are the earliest surviving co...

Collecting three comedies that show Aristophanes tackling the consequences of war and social upheaval in Athens with his characteristic wit, this t...

Reducere. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more – the Oxford Bookworms Library has a book for every student. Written for secondary and adult student...

Contributor(s): Author: Ben JonsonIntroduction by: Michael JamiesonThe three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles o...

Five plays written in the period 426 to 415 BC and haunted by the horrors of the fierce war between Athens and Sparta. Includes Trojan Women, Andro...

The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis,...

Reducere. Selected early works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.Throughout his work, Doug Wright has often combined the personal, the social, and t...

"The League of Youth" (1869) was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social drama and marks a turning-point in his style. By 1879, Ibsen was convi...

Part of the Penguin Classics relaunch.

Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, plays that all explore ethical and...

DescriptionAeschylus is a towering figure in western literature, the first of the great Greek playwrights, a dramatist whose work still has the pow...

Three of George Bernard Shaw's most famous plays with a preface by Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbu...

Reducere. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more – the Oxford Bookworms Library has a book for every student. Written for secondary and adult student...

DescriptionArnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile...

Reducere. Drama. Latino American Studies. Luis Valdez is a leading figure in Hispanic theater with outstanding achievements from a variety of venues from fla...

Reducere. "Pearl Cleage is a passionate, challenging playwright whose concerns for the species are unmistakable and profound. As a woman, as an African-Ameri...

DescriptionA collection of four plays by the famed playwright, including Hedda Gabler, which features one of the most infamous women characters in ...

Twenty monologues for women Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wid...

Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simpl...

Includes such dramas as "The Rose Tattoo", "Camino Real", and "Orpheus Descending".

Includes three plays - "Suddenly Last Summer", "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore", and "Small Craft Warnings".