Three Sisters (1900) is a drama in four acts by Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Aleksandr Ignatyevich Vershinin, a philosophizing artillery officer in love with middle Prozorov sister Masha. Reviews were mixed at first, but as the play continued to run, Three Sisters became a popular success,...

Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Ibsen tells the story of the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer of a recently opened spa in a small town in southern Norway, who finds that the water is seriously contaminated. He notifies members of the community and initially receives support and thanks for the discovery. Threatened by the possible impact of such a revelation, his brother, the town mayor, conspires...

Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous member of Plato's Academy in Athens, whose writings would ultimately form the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. His writings were not constrained to simply one field of inquiry but covered such various subjects as physics, biology, metaphysics,...

Une édition de référence du Roi s'amuse de Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Elle se retourne, voit le roi à ses genoux, et s'arrête, pétrifiée. LE ROI, lui tendant les bras. Je t'aime ! Achève ! achève ! — oh ! dis : je t'aime ! Ne crains rien. Dans une telle bouche un tel mot va si bien ! BLANCHE, effrayée, cherche des yeux dame Bérarde qui a disparu. Bérarde ! — Plus personne,...

Drawing on O'Brien's experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his, ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens-first written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the US Air Force Academy-offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them.

This collection of 11 plays, from North America, the U.K., and South Africa-many published here for the first time-delves into the vibrant, cosmopolitan theatre of the South Asian diaspora. These original and provocative works explore the experience of diaspora by drawing on cultural references as diverse as classical Indian texts, adaptations of Shakespeare and Homer, current events, and world music, film, and dance. Neilesh Bose provides historical...

Une édition de référence de L'Illusion comique de Pierre Corneille, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Clindor L'amour dont la vertu n'est point le fondement Se détruit de soi-même, et passe en un moment ; Mais celui qui nous joint est un amour solide, O l'honneur a son lustre, o la vertu préside ; Sa durée a toujours quelques nouveaux appas, Et ses fermes liens durent jusqu'au trépas. Mon âme,...

Extrait : "VALENTIN assis. — Entre VAN BUCK. VAN BUCK : Monsieur mon neveu, je vous souhaite le bonjour. VALENTIN : Monsieur mon oncle, votre serviteur. VAN BUCK : Restez assis ; j'ai à vous parler. VALENTIN : Asseyez-vous ; j'ai donc à vous entendre. Veuillez vous mettre dans la bergère, et poser là voter chapeau. VAN BUCK, s'asseyant : Monsieur mon neveu, la plus longue patience et la plus robuste obstination doivent, l'une et l'autre, finir...

Une édition de référence du Jeu de l'amour et du hasard de Marivaux, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Dorante. Je voulais sous cet habit pénétrer un peu ce que c'était que ta maîtresse, avant que de l'épouser, mon père en partant me permit ce que j'ai fait, et l'événement m'en parait un songe : je hais la maîtresse dont je devais être l'époux, et j'aime la suivante qui ne devait trouver en moi qu'un...

Award-winningpoet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully presenta gripping new translation of Western literature's earliest treasures in TheComplete Plays of Sophocles. In the tradition of Robert Fagles'bestselling translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, andretaining the textual authenticity of Richmond Lattimore'sAeschylus, Bagg and Scully render Sophocles' dramasaccessible and exciting for the modern reader. Students new to Athenian drama,readers...