Litteraturvetenskap: dramatik & dramatiker

21 november 2019 Jag vet inte om jag skall sluta arbeta, om jag skall betrakta mitt arbete som avslutat. Tanken, som jag knappt vågar tänka, skrämmer mig. Jag säger till mig själv att jag kanske borde ta ett uppehåll, sluta försöka, men också det ...

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Under en period av exakt fem år registrerar en nordeuropeisk dramatiker vid namn Lars Norén dagligen sina tankar, ord och gärningar. Han går till sitt arbete. Han går och handlar. Han odlar sin trädgård, städar ur sin garderob. Han ser ljuset över...

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27 augusti 2015 Om någon förblir uthållig nog att fortsätta läsa den här boken beror det nog på samma vilja som jag har i min uthållighet att fortsätta att skriva den, det vill säga leva. 27 februari 2019 Mitt liv skulle vara tråkigt om det inte v...

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics ed...

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Under en period av exakt fem år registrerar en nordeuropeisk dramatiker vid namn Lars Norén dagligen sina tankar, ord och gärningar. Han går till sitt arbete. Han går och handlar. Han odlar sin trädgård, städar ur sin garderob. Han ser ljuset över...

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Learn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about the work...

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The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. Whether it is the ruthless ambition of Macbeth or the folly of Lear, the irresolution of Hamlet or the suspicion of Othello, the caus...

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A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophe...

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Barnbiblioteket Saga har många läsare i kärt minne. De små böckerna med de röda ryggarna stod i många skolbibliotek, och flera av dem innehöll pjäser för skolavslutningar, julfester och inte minst för barns egna uppsättningar. Tomtar och troll, pr...

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"Gjorde klart dagboken, antecknade. Jag har det jag behöver, mer än nog. Jag vill inte se mer. Jag vill inte höra mer. Det enda jag vill är att befria mig från själva musiken i mitt inre, den som tar så mycket tid och inte leder mig någonstan...

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"Dagboken lämnar på sätt och vis sig själv. Den hålls uppe, eller hänger i den ångest som är tiden, i själva frånvaron av en bok. - Arbetat länge, utan känslor, med fragmenten, ända tills skärpan brast. I fragmenten kan jag överge mig själv. ...

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Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance-and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the ...

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Lajos Egri examines a play from the inside out, starting with the heart of any drama: its characters. For it is people - their private natures and their inter-relationships - that move a story and give it life. All good dramatic writing depends up...

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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' award in 2023 How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we f...

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"(K)ritiklitteratur när den är som bäst - en intervention med tanke och lidelse." (Mikael van Reis, GP) I text efter text ställer språkmaskinen Norén frågan om vad det är att vara människa i vår tid, i vår värld, i det "sinnessjuka ...

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This edition of one of Shakespeare's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a radical departure from contemporary practice, combining fast action and immediacy with compelling rheto...

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The second of Lorca's trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma, is a blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The ...

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Det lysande mörkret är Leif Zerns studie om den norske dramatikern Jon Fosse. Denna introduktionen till hans teater var den första i sitt slag och kom att översättas till ett flertal språk. Följande skriver Zern om ett av sina första möten med Fos...

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From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magical vision. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Tempest in performance, takes a detailed...

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Piece together the world of Shakespeare in this art jigsaw puzzle depicting the London of his day. Spot a huge cast of contemporary extras as A Midsummer Night's Dream is rehearsed at the Globe and fellow actors wander the streets, along with loca...

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1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, K...

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"Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat. He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem, full of verve and wit. Greenberg's translation lives; it ...

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A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works of the world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare, accompanied by their companion quotes from ...

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays ...

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People find me. When it's dark. 1863. An asylum. A woman locked in a windowless cell, with no memory as to who she is, or how she arrived there. When spiritualist medium Mrs Lyall requires a new assistant, this nameless woman seems the perfect can...

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'Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing' Peter Brook Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous ...

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This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with ...

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Richard III is one of the great Shakespearean characters and roles. James R Siemon examines the attraction of this villain to audiences and focuses on how beguiling, even funny, he can be, especially in the earlier parts of the play. Siemon also p...

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This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more rec...

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This major new edition of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet's. The play text is expertly edited and the on-page commentary notes discuss issues of staging, theme, meaning and Shakespeare's use of his...

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