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Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ.

Four taboo-tackling plays from the foremost writer of Dutch language theatre, poetry and prose.

Four Works for the Theatre

Claus, Hugo

Includes the proceedings of a symposium on this subject held at the CUNY Graduate Center in February of 1999, along with the first English translations of three short plays by leading Egyptian playwrights who spoke at the symposium: Alfred Farag's The Last Walk; Gamal Maqsoud's The Absent One; and Lenin El-Ramley's The Nightmare. This volume also contains a bibliography of English translations and secondary articles on the theatre in Egypt since 1955.

Contemporary Theatre in Egypt

This volume contains four of Pixérécourt’s most important melodramas: The Ruins of Babylon, or Jafar and Zaida; The Dog of Montargis, or The Forest of Bondy; Christopher Columbus, or the Discovery of the New World; and Alice, or The Scottish Gravediggers. Also included is Charles Nodier ’s introduction to the 1843 Collected Edition of Pixérécourt’s plays and two theoretical essays by the playwright, “Melodrama,” and “Final Reflections on Melodrama.”

Pixérécourt: Four Melodramas

Pixérécourt, René-Charles Guilbert de

This volume contains four representative French comedies of the period from the death of Molière to the French Revolution: Jean-François Regnard’s The Absent-Minded Lover, Philippe Néricault Destouches’s The Conceited Count, Pierre Nivelle De La Chaussée’s The Fashionable Prejudice, and Jean-Louis Laya’s The Friend of the Laws.

The Heirs of Molière: Four French Comedies of the 17th and 18th Centuries

One of Poland’s most important artists and writers of the 20th Century, this collection includes: The Pragmatists, Tumor Brainiowicz, Gyubal Wahazar, The Anonymous Work, The Cuttlefish, Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes, and The Beelzebub Sonata. Also included is “A Few Words about the Role of the Actor in the Theatre of Pure Form,” a key section of his major theoretical treatise.

Witkiewicz: Seven Plays

Witkiewicz, Stanislaw I.

Four plays based on the Oedipus legend by four leading dramatists of the Arab World.

The Arab Oedipus: Four Plays

An essential guide and resource, providing authors, titles, and pulication data for over a thousand books and articles devoted to this most elusive of genres.

Comedy: A Bibliography of Critical Studies in English on the Theory and Practice of Comedy in Drama, Theatre and Performance

A complete guide to over 100 libraries and special collections in New York City.

Theatre Research Resources in New York City

The first anthology of new Romanian Drama published in the United States, roMANIA after 2000 introduces American readers to compelling playwrights and plays that address resonant issues of a post-totalitarian society on its way toward democracy and a new European identity. Includes Stop the Tempo, Romania. Kiss Me, Vitamins, Romania 21, and Waxing West.

roMANIA After 2000: Five New Romanian Plays

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