The official playscript of the original West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son l...
Releasedatum: 2017-07-25 85,00 kr
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and eventually comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. A classic piece filled with comedy, its humour lies in its honest depiction of manners, education, marriage and money during the Regency era in Great Britain. Mr B...
Releasedatum: 2019-12-24 9,00 kr
Faust Parts I & II - Goethe . A translation into English by A. S. Kline with illustrations by Eugène Delacroix . Goethe’s two-part dramatic work, Faust , based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional urge which found its fullest expression in the European Romantic movement, to which Goethe was an early and major contributor. Part I of the work outlines a pact Faust makes with the devil, Mephistopheles, and encomp...
Releasedatum: 2015-01-20 9,00 kr
Комедии Александра Сергеевича Грибоедова «Горе от ума» еще Пушкин предрекал долгую литературную жизнь, утверждая, что она непременно будет «растащена на цитаты». Время показало, что его предсказание сбылось. Новаторское для своей эпохи, это произведение ныне составляет ...
Releasedatum: 2012-11-16 9,00 kr
A massive anthology of Shakespeare is collected here; included is an analysis of each major work and a biography about the life and times of Shakespeare. The following works are included in this collection: Comedies: All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare Love’s Labour’s Lost Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles Prince of Tyre The T...
Releasedatum: 2011-06-07 25,00 kr
EVERY SINGLE PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (INCLUDING ALL THE TRAGEDIES, COMEDIES AND HISTORIES) ESPECIALLY CREATED FOR APPLE iBOOK: ANNOTATED AND FULLY ILLUSTRATED! - Over 12 full color (color enabled device required) illustrations and photographs including Shakespeare's birthplace, portraits of Shakespeare, Shakespeare's First Folio, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Scenes from Shakespeare's plays, and Shakespeare's grave. - Over 300 pages of additional biographical and historical materials - Over 1...
Releasedatum: 2012-12-12 5,00 kr
The complete works of Oscar Wilde are collected here with an active table of contents to help you easily navigate to each work. Includes all of Wilde’s published works with critical examinations of his each of his major works. A biography of the life and times of Oscar Wilde is also included. The following works are included in this massive anthology: Non-fiction: A Critic in Pall Mall De Profundis Essays & Lectures Intentions Miscellaneous Aphorisms The Soul of Man Under Socialism Novels:...
Releasedatum: 2011-02-25 5,00 kr
Det har gått nitton år sedan Harry Potter, Ron Weasley och Hermione Granger räddade trollkarlsvärlden, och nu är de tillbaka i ett extraordinärt äventyr, tillsammans med en modig ny generation som precis har anlänt till Hogwarts skola för häxkonst och trolldom. Medan Harry brottas med ett förflutet som vägrar att stanna kvar där det hör hemma, kämpar hans yngste son, Albus, med tyngden av ett familjearv han aldrig bett om. När det förflutna och nutiden kraschar tvingas både far...
Releasedatum: 2018-06-14 85,00 kr
Medea is a play written by Euripides. Medea is the wife of Jason with whom she has two children. The play centers around how Jason left her for King Creon’s daughter and how Medea avenges her husband’s betrayal.
Releasedatum: 2012-01-01 5,00 kr
Denne ebokutgaven av Et dukkehjem er basert på “Folkeutgaven” av Henrik Ibsens samlede verker, utgitt av Gyldendal i årene 1898-1902 og er gjengitt i det felles dansk-norske skriftspråk, slik de originalt ble utgitt i Ibsens tid. This edition of Et dukkehjem (English title: A Doll House ) is based on the complete Copenhagen edition of Ibsen's collected works, published by Gyldendal in 1898-1902, and is presented in the common Danish-Norwegian written language, as they were originally publ...
Releasedatum: 2012-12-24 5,00 kr
Content : Unhappiness The Judgment Before the Law The Metamorphosis A Report to an Academy Jackals and Arabs A Country Doctor In the Penal Colony A Hunger Artist The Trial The Castle Amerika A Little Fable The Great Wall of China The Hunter Gracchus The Burrow
Releasedatum: 2018-09-01 15,00 kr
Antigone is a tragedy written by Sophocles. In the story, Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. She attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices, even though he was a traitor to Thebes and the law forbids even mourning for him.
Releasedatum: 2012-01-01 5,00 kr
En klassiker för dig som är i ett sammanhang där ljuset påverkar ditt resultat. Inom musik, teater, revy, museum, utställning och underhållning. Till dig som är eller vill bli scentekniker, scenograf, arkitekt, kameraman, regissör, skådespelare. I skolans aula. I offentlig miljö. För utställningar och museum. I skyltfönster. För inredning. Till dig som arbetat många år med ljus och vill ha tillgång till en sammanfattning. Till dig som arbetar med foto, video eller film. Till dig...
Releasedatum: 2013-02-22 249,00 kr
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is play about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families.
Releasedatum: 2012-09-09 5,00 kr
Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.
Releasedatum: 2011-10-06 99,00 kr
Sista gången Tom såg sin mamma var han tre år gammal. Under fem ödesdigra sekunder försvann allt det han tills dess tagit för givet. Mamma som försvann i en massa av människor. Karnevalen i Rio de Janeiro. I ett främmande land kampar Tom sig fram och slåss för överlevnad. Medan hans mor vägrar ge upp sökandet efter honom.
Releasedatum: 2010-05-25 49,00 kr
Denne norske ebokutgaven av Peer Gynt er basert på “Folkeutgaven” av Henrik Ibsens samlede verker, utgitt av Gyldendal i årene 1898-1902 og er gjengitt i det felles dansk-norske skriftspråk, slik de originalt ble utgitt i Ibsens tid. (This Norwegian edition of Peer Gynt is based on the complete Copenhagen edition of Ibsen's collected works, published by Gyldendal in 1898-1902, and is presented in the common Danish-Norwegian written language, as they were originally published during Ibsen'...
Releasedatum: 2012-05-17 5,00 kr
Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King is tragedy written by Sophocles. In the story, Oedipus unknowingly marries his mother and accidentally murders his father.
Releasedatum: 2012-01-01 5,00 kr
Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows! Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books out there, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay. Examining a play from the inside out, Egri starts with the heart of any drama: its characters. All good dramatic writing hinges on people and thei...
Releasedatum: 1972-02-15 169,00 kr
In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being 'to set fort...
Releasedatum: 2013-05-03 99,00 kr
«La casa de Bernarda Alba» escrita en 1936, poco antes de su fusilamiento, aunque no sería estrenada hasta 1945 en Buenos Aires, con una gran acogida. Una tragedia enmarcada dentro del carácter rural y popular que, junto a «Bodas de sangre» y «Yerma» conforman una trilogía lorquiana que desemboca en el drama ya que pretende aislar al individuo de su contexto moral y politico. «La casa de Bernarda Alba» representa el dolor cotidiano y la represión de una España atrasada y rural hasta...
Releasedatum: 2018-10-20 19,00 kr
I can't take care of you anymore. I can't take it. It's like an endless boxing match. Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their lives. Martha is their mother. That Face premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in April 2007, and won the TMA Award 2007 for Best New Play. Polly Stenham received both the Charles Wintour Award 2007 and the Critics' Circle Award 2008 for ...
Releasedatum: 2014-06-12 125,00 kr
Allt går fel i Douglas liv. Samhällets oskrivna lagar pressar honom framåt, längs en utstakad väg han ogillar. Han kommer över en självhjälpsbok som tänder en gnista. Den berättar om den mystiska lagen om attraktion och dess närapå gudomliga möjligheter. Douglas är beredd att göra vad som helst för att ändra på sin tillvaro och i sitt bittra och lättpåverkade tillstånd bestämmer han sig för att följa instruktionerna. Allt är inte guld som glimmar och problemen kommer for...
Releasedatum: 2012-08-05 55,00 kr
'This powerful and subtle play . . . follows the experience of eight men who volunteer to serve in the 36th (Ulster) Division at the beginning of the First World War. It reaches a climax at the start of the terrible battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, the actual anniversary of the battle of the Boyne in 1690. The Somme, where the Ulster Division suffered heavy casualties, has, like the Boyne, come to have a sacred place in the Loyalist Protestant mind. It marks the Union sealed with blood. It s...
Releasedatum: 2013-04-04 125,00 kr
In Anton Chekhov's classic play, the three sisters Olga, Masha and Irina have only one desire in the world: to go to Moscow and live there.
Releasedatum: 2012-10-01 5,00 kr
Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him. This was in 1956. A few years later he was himself Associate Artistic Director, working as a play-reader and director, in particular helping to run the Writers' Group. The improvisatory techniques and exercises evolved there to foster spontaneity and narrative skills were developed further in the actors' studio then in demonstra...
Releasedatum: 2012-11-12 369,00 kr
Denne norske ebokutgaven av En folkefiende er basert på “Folkeutgaven” av Henrik Ibsens samlede verker, utgitt av Gyldendal i årene 1898-1902 og er gjengitt i det felles dansk-norske skriftspråk, slik de originalt ble utgitt i Ibsens tid. (This Norwegian edition of En folkefiende (An Enemy of the People) is based on the complete Copenhagen edition of Ibsen's collected works, published by Gyldendal in 1898-1902, and is presented in the common Danish-Norwegian written language, as they were...
Releasedatum: 2012-06-22 5,00 kr
Classic novel, first published in 1879. According to Wikipedia: "Johan August Strindberg (22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, painter, and essayist. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range o...
Releasedatum: 1969-12-31 9,00 kr
A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. First staged by Joint Stock and premiered in London at the Royal Court Theatre in 1979, it has since been staged all over the world. Set in both colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, Cloud Nine is about relationships - between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers,...
Releasedatum: 2013-09-30 85,00 kr
Denne norske ebokutgaven av Brand er basert på “Folkeutgaven” av Henrik Ibsens samlede verker, utgitt av Gyldendal i årene 1898-1902, og er gjengitt i det felles dansknorske skriftspråk, slik de originalt ble utgitt i Ibsens tid. (This Norwegian edition of Brand is based on the complete Copenhagen edition of Ibsen's collected works, published by Gyldendal in 1898-1902, and is presented in the common Danish-Norwegian written language, as they were originally published during Ibsen'...
Releasedatum: 2012-05-17 5,00 kr
Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt to understand himself and his family.
Releasedatum: 2011-08-31 115,00 kr
Tennesse Williams, one of the 20th century's most superb writers, was also one of its most successful and prolifts. His classic works include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, Camino Real, Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguanna, Orpheus Descending, and The Rose Tattoo.
Releasedatum: 2019-11-05 29,00 kr
From the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, now a major Sky Atlantic television series starring Benedict Cumberbatch Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. But relations quickly soured, leaving him to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, ...
Releasedatum: 2017-10-05 115,00 kr
Finally, the world’s greatest writer receives the scholarly Delphi treatment. Of course, there are many Shakespeare collections available on the eReader, which is why we have made this edition, like all our other titles, the most comprehensive and scholarly works available. This incredible eBook offers every Shakespearean play (with line numbers), poem, apocryphal work and much, much more! Now you can truly own all of Shakespeare’s works and a wealth of BONUS material on your eReader. (Versi...
Releasedatum: 2013-07-15 19,00 kr
Denne norske ebokutgaven av Vildanden er basert på “Folkeutgaven” av Henrik Ibsens samlede verker, utgitt av Gyldendal i årene 1898-1902 og er gjengitt i det felles dansk-norske skriftspråk, slik de originalt ble utgitt i Ibsens tid. (This Norwegian edition of Vildanden (The Wild Duck) is based on the complete Copenhagen edition of Ibsen's collected works, published by Gyldendal in 1898-1902, and is presented in the common Danish-Norwegian written language, as they were originally publish...
Releasedatum: 2012-09-01 5,00 kr
A Bold, Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia , the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions—Aischylos' Agamemnon , Sophokles' Elektra , and Euripides' Orestes —giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. After the murder of her daughter Iphegenia by her husband Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother's revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mist...
Releasedatum: 2009-03-31 105,00 kr
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for the character of Shylock. The title character is the merchant Antonio, not the Jewish moneylender Shylock, who is the play's most prominent and more famous villain. Though Shy...
Releasedatum: 2010-12-29 5,00 kr
The best known works of Henrik Ibsen in one collection with an active table of contents. Works include: A Doll's House Early Plays An Enemy of the People The Feast at Solhoug Ghosts Hedda Gabler John Gabriel Borkman The Lady From The Sea Little Eyolf Love's Comedy The Master Builder Pillars of Society Rosmersholm When We Dead Awaken
Releasedatum: 2010-06-18 9,00 kr
'A supreme theatrical poem that has a language that eats into the soul' Michael Billington, Guardian Shakeapeare's blood-soaked drama of murder, madness and the uncanny begins as Macbeth is promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by supernatural forces. Spurred on by his wife, he murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, while the dead return to haunt him. Macbeth is an anatomy of fear and a bl...
Releasedatum: 2005-04-07 85,00 kr
La più famosa delle commedie di Natalia Ginzburg è da tempo diventata un classico. La sua felicità linguistica e la sua energia teatrale hanno una forza di contagio che si ripete a ogni nuova messa in scena, anche a distanza di ormai quarantacinque anni. Il dialogo è tanto vivace quanto più tra le battute c'è come una distanza, una microfrattura. Perché, come scrive Ferdinando Taviani nella prefazione scritta per questa nuova edizione: «Il dialogo scenico di Natalia Ginzburg assume la ma...
Releasedatum: 2014-02-25 59,00 kr
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare. The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world.
Releasedatum: 2013-07-18 125,00 kr
For the first time in digital publishing, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Henrik Ibsen, the ‘Father of Modernism’, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ibsen’s life and works * Detailed introductions to the plays and other texts * 24 plays with individual contents tables, many appearing for the first time in digital print * Images of how the books wer...
Releasedatum: 2012-02-24 19,00 kr
Do you ever find yourself reading Shakespeare and are completely lost because of words like Obeisance and Quiddity? This dictionary contains over 4500 Shakespearean words and their definition.
Releasedatum: 2011-08-31 39,00 kr
Othello was written by William Shakespeare and first published in 1603. Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and his trusted advisor Iago. Attesting to its enduring popularity, the play appeared in 7 editions between 1622 and 1705. Because of its varied themes —...
Releasedatum: 2010-12-29 5,00 kr
A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? W...
Releasedatum: 2019-05-02 115,00 kr
The Sea-Gull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.
Releasedatum: 2017-08-31 9,00 kr
'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That's dreadful too.' The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego ...
Releasedatum: 2015-03-19 19,00 kr
After living many years in Paris, Russian aristocrat Lubov Ranevsky returns to her beloved St. Petersburg estate. But the grandeur of the once magnificent estate has faded, and the property, along with its wonderful cherry orchard, will be sold at auction - unless Ranevsky and her family can find a way to save it. First published in 1904, the same year Chekhov died, this dark comedy remains one of his most celebrated plays.
Releasedatum: 2012-10-01 5,00 kr
Denne norske ebokutgaven av Gengangere er basert på “Folkeutgaven” av Henrik Ibsens samlede verker, utgitt av Gyldendal i årene 1898-1902 og er gjengitt i det felles dansk-norske skriftspråk, slik de originalt ble utgitt i Ibsens tid. (This Norwegian edition of Gengangere (Ghosts) is based on the complete Copenhagen edition of Ibsen's collected works, published by Gyldendal in 1898-1902, and is presented in the common Danish-Norwegian written language, as they were originally published du...
Releasedatum: 2012-09-01 5,00 kr
William Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest writer in the history of the English language, so renowned and respected that the time period in which he lived is often known as the Age of Shakespeare. Indeed, his genius is questioned only by those who doubt the authenticity of his authorship of timeless classics like Romeo and Juliet . As Ben Jonson once put it, "He was not of an age, but for all time.” No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shak...
Releasedatum: 2012-04-12 5,00 kr