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Henrik Ibsen; Translator-Una Ellis-Fermor; Introduction-Una Ellis-Fermor The Master Builder and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics 1959-02-28 0140440534 / 9780140440539 Paperback Used: Good Paperback
Light wear; no markings. Good reading copy. The four plays in this volume, written late in Ibsen's career as a dramatist, move away from his earlier preoccupation with people at odds with society to instead explore the inward struggle with their own thoughts, feelings and dreams. "The Master Builder" (1892) depicts a powerful man whose illusions collapse in the face of a young woman's courageous common sense. In "Rosmersholm" (1886), an idealist is forced to question his beliefs and confront terrible truths about the past, while "Little Eyolf" (1894) portrays a man's self-deception, which brings both tragic repercussions for his family and new hope for their future. And in "John Gabriel Borkman" (1896), a dying woman returns to reclaim the affections and loyalty of her nephew, resulting in a bitter struggle with her sister. About the AuthorHenrik Ibsen was born at Skien in Norway in 1828. He was one of the earliest writers to dramatise the individual's alienation from society. Although never fully appreciated during his lifetime, he has since come to be recognised as one of the greatest dramatists and the 'Father of Modern Drama'. Translated by Una Ellis-Fermor
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Jane Wagner The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe [Paperback] by Wagner
Harper Paperbacks 1991-02-27 0060920718 / 9780060920715 Paperback Used: Acceptable Paperback
Creasing/slight wear to cover, good reading copy.From Library JournalThis play is Wagner's latest starring vehicle for Lily Tomlin, and it is a wonderfully comic and painful dose of truth direct to the heart. In this satire, a form all too lacking in American theater, Trudy the bag lady, Wagner's central character, tries to explain modern American material society to an alien (i.e., interstellar) committee. In the first act a variety of types are seen suffering in their lives. The more full of anxiety and terror they are, the funnier and more disturbing the play is. The focus of the second act, tied to the people of the first act, is a group of women who live through the social fads of the 1970s and 1980swomen trying to make something real enter their lives, but who live desperate and superficial existences. Yet the play ends with a hymn to the creative spirit. The text is lavishly illustrated with performance pictures. Required reading. Thomas E. Luddy, English Dept., Salem State Coll
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Spalding Gray Impossible Vacation
Knopf 1992-05-05 039456894X / 9780394568942 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
The acclaimed monologist and author of Swimming to Cambodia , Sex and Death to the Age 14 and Monster in a Box (which concerned the writing of this novel), Gray once again proves that his art is his life. The quest for Eden (or is it nirvana?) drives the protagonist--called Brewster North--to avoid confusion, since Brewster North is a stop on Metro-North line from childhood, when an uncle's gift of a mask from Bali inspired in his mind a vision of that fabled island as a place of perfect peace and well-being. Brewster accepts his constant yearnings, knowing that "forever I would always be a little bit in the place that I was not." His other fixation is his emotionally unstable mom, to whom he remains helplessly in thrall even after she commits suicide. He is an anguished, overprivileged WASP filled with upper-crust alienation and ennui; this is Marquand territory with a '90s twist. Brewster careens from Provincetown to the Himalayas to the Grand Canyon in his search for a place where he doesn't feel crazy. Gray's narrative style is frequently hilarious, and we feel the panicky logic of Brewster's perpetual flight even as we recognize its psychotic underpinnings. This is darkly comic performance art by the page, executed with great elan and intelligence. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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William Shakespeare Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Made Easy)
Barron's Educational Series 1996-08-01 0812036042 / 9780812036046 Paperback Used: Acceptable Paperback
Former library book; book was split in two parts and then repaired. Ok for reading copy. Product DescriptionPresents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
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