Little Eyolf

EBook Description: By Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen. Little Eyolf could shock 19th Century audiences that had been weaned from silly melodramas and romances. A two-and-a-half-hour portrait of a marriage so bleak, Little Eyolf made Nora and Torvald Helmer's doomed union in A Doll's House seem almost enviable.

By English dramatist, William Congreve, who wrote Love for Love as a response to an earlier popular play, Love for Money. Arriving as a writer late in the Restoration period, Congreve used the stage to comment upon an increasingly complex society and class structure that often seemed frivolous.

Massacre at Paris

By English dramatist, Christopher Marlowe. First performed in 1593, this Play revolves around the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which occurred in Paris in 1572.

Master of the Game

The book traces the life of Kate Blackwell from the mines to the glory of the battles that she won, and the only one she ever lost. Full of intrigue and in his peculiar style of capturing in vivid detail.

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac

The story has just given the critical world of Paris subject for as grand a battle of words as the year has produced. It started with the presentation the other night of the screen version of Moli�re's comedy, "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac," presumably "under the high patronage of Monsieur Albert Lebrun, President of the Republic," and with a great deal of what the French call "empressement."

No Wife No Kids No Plan

Four years ago, Drago gave up a successful career as an investment banker to publish a chain of small community newspapers in and around the city of Boston. It was the first big active change of his adult life, but there was to be a bigger transition on the horizon. Now turning 40 and finding it impossible to live as part of the yuppie lifestyle that his money granted him access to, Drago becomes disillusioned with himself and the world around him, and opts for a radical change. It's at that moment that he makes the conscious decision to move himself and his Ferrari to the 'hood, selling his p...

Oedipus at Colonus

"Oedipus at Colonus" was Sophocles' last play, written when he was about 90. It is an elegant and touching portrait of the old, wandering blind king approaching his end with a tranquility earned through a lifetime of suffering for his unwitting sins. But first, he must withstand one last challenge from his uncle and brother-in-law, Creon; and settle a score with his opportunistic son and brother, Polynices

Oedipus the King

Oedipus the King is the 2,000-year-old masterpiece that raises basic questions about human behavior that are still vigorously debated by students and scholars.

Peace

The extensive commentary of this play explores matters of all sorts, but it focuses in particular on the realities of daily life in classical Athens and also examines the practical problems of staging. The substantial introduction includes essays on Aristophanes' early career, the politics of the Greek world in the late 420s, and the Poet's theology

Philoctetes

Philoctetes in Greek mythology, son of Poias. He acquired, by gift, the bow and arrow of Hercules by lighting the pyre on which the hero was consumed alive. On his way to the Trojan War, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake. Because the smell of his wound and his cries made him offensive, his companions left him on the desolate island of Lemnos.

Pillars of Society

Pillars of Society was considered to be one of Ibsen`s greatest theatrical successes, above all at German theaters. According to Michael Meyer, the Play is said to have been staged at no fewer than 27 theaters in Germany and Austria by the end of 1878!

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