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The Classical monologue : women / edited with notes and commentaries by Michael Early & Philippa Keil.
LIBRA - Special PN2080 .C563 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monologues.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Methuen Drama, 1992.
- Summary:
- "The Classical Monologue" in two volumes, one for men and one for women, is a fresh selection of the best speeches from the repertoire of the classical theatre, from the Greeks to the beginning of the 20th century. These great dramatic monologues--from all periods and styles, all varied in tone and genre--make an indispensable actor's companion for auditioning, rehearsing and performing. Each monologue is accompanied by textual notes explaining any unusual vocabulary or syntax, and by commentary in which the editors offer interpretative points and practical advice in preparing the speech for performance. Both beginners and experienced actors will find "The Classical Monologue" a treasury of theatrical riches waiting to be released on stage.
- Contents:
- Classical Greek: Agamemnon (The Oresteia) / Aeschylus
- Antigone / Sophocles
- Medea / Euripides
- Electra / Sophocles
- Elizabethan and Jacobean: The Spanish tragedy / T. Kyd
- Tamburlaine (Pt. I) / C. Marlowe
- Arden of Feversham / Anon.
- Richard III ; Romeo and Juliet ; As you like it / W. Shakespeare
- A Woman killed with kindness / T. Heywood
- The Honest whore (Pt. I) / T. Dekker
- Volpone / B. Jonson
- The Winter's tale / W. Shakespeare
- The White devil / J. Webster
- The Maid's tragedy / F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher
- The Duchess of Malfi / J. Webster
- The Changeling / T. Middleton & W. Rowley
- Women beware women / T. Middleton
- 'Tis pity she's a whore / J. Ford
- French and Spanish: Life is a dream / Calderón
- The Misanthrope / Molière
- Phedra / J. Racine
- The Game of love and chance / Pierre Marivaux
- Restoration and eighteenth-century English: The Country wife / W. Wycherley
- The Rover (Pt. I) ; The Lucky chance / A. Behn
- The Relapse ; The Provok'd wife / J. Vanbrugh
- The Way of the world (1700) (2 excerpts) / W. Congreve
- The Beaux' stratagem / G. Farquhar
- The Rivals (2 excerpts) / R.B. Sheridan
- English and Irish (nineteenth and twentieth century): Lady Windermere's fan ; A Woman of no importance / O. Wilde
- The Second Mrs. Tanqueray / A.W. Pinero
- An Ideal husband / O. Wilde
- Mrs. Warren's profession / B. Shaw
- In the shadow of the glen / J.M. Synge
- Major Barbara / B. Shaw
- German, Scandinavian and Russian: The Marriage / N. Gogol
- Woyzeck / G. Büchner
- A Month in the country / I. Turgenev
- The Storm / A. Ostrovsky
- A Doll's house / H. Ibsen
- Miss Julie / A. Strindberg
- The Seagull ; Uncle Vanya / A. Chekhov
- The Dance of death / A. Strindberg.
- ISBN:
- 0413666700
- 9780413666703
- OCLC:
- 35231916
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