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Mother Courage and Her Children
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In what appears to be a permanent war in Iraq it is not untimely to address the question posed by Bertolt Brecht of how individuals caught up on the margins of warfare cope, for good or evil, with the traumas, unappetiting personal decisions and unmitigated horror of it. Brecht, the master Communist playwright, has taken a story of a working mother's ... »
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The Plays of Anton Chekhov
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It neither surprises nor pleases me to learn that this is the current actor's standard for Chekhov translations in America. I bought this as a text for an acting class, and I kept it because Chekhov was a great writer and no translator can change that. However, the plays collected in this volume aren't treated as literature. If they were, we wouldn't ... »
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Faust: Part Two (Oxford World's Classics)
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The previous review is clear about the value of this translation. Knowing a bit of German, I can say that this translation does use shapes instead of forms for Gestalten. the real value of the work beyond the translation, however, especially for first time readers, is found in the notes made by David Luke. These notes are helpful for the historical ... »
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Goethe's Faust
Goethe's Faust', translated and with an introduction by Walter Kaufmann was quite a surprising find, as I had been, in an earlier life, quite a fan of Pr... »
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Galileo
The pressures that the established order can bring to bear on those who want to move outside the status quo are enormous. In the end those in charge can g... »
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Cyrano De Bergerac
I got the product very quickly- they shipped the next day and i got the standard shipping. the product was just a described, if not better.... »
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The Visit: A Tragi-Comedy
Like Bertholt Brecht, Friedrich Duerrenmatt (1921-1990) was a proponet of "epic theatre," a style of drama in which the audience is not so much asked to i... »
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Spring's Awakening
Check your book if you order it from Amazon. My book was missing 30 pages and I noticed just in time to send it back.... »
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