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Tres horas con María es el monólogo mudo de una mujer que está a punto de morir. El monólogo de alguien que ya no tiene nada que perder, porque ya lo ha perdido todo.A través de los recuerdos de María conoceremos la vida de una mujer rural, ama de casa y madre, silenciada por un marido dominante e invisibilizada por una sociedad machista, sorda y ciega, la España de la dictadura y la transicion.Maria no es solo un nombre, no es solo una historia. Maria es toda una generacion de mujeres, de madres, de abuelas, que vivieron el machismo y el ostracismo cuando ni siquiera sabian de la existencia de ellos. Cuando vivir era hacer lo que te decian que tienes que hacer y creer lo que te habian dicho que tienes que creer.Tres horas con Maria, amoroso y humilde guiño a Cinco horas con Mario, es un canto a la libertad, a la alegria y a la memoria. Un canto de amor infinito de una madre hacia sus hijos, de una hija hacia su madre.

"Tres hermanas" es una obra de teatro en cuatro actos escrita en 1900. Junto a "Tío Vania" y "El jardín de los cerezos" es uno de los textos más significativos de Antón Chéjov, autor considerado como una de las figuras mas destacadas de la literatura rusa y un representante fundamental del denominado naturalismo moderno.Como en toda su obra, en "Tres hermanas" Chejov hace un retrato de la vida rusa del momento. La accion se centra en tres hermanas que viven en un pueblo de provincias. Su unico deseo es volver a Moscu, simbolo para ellas del amor y de la mundanidad, en suma, de la vida digna de ser vivida. Un drama impregnado de sutileza y lirismo en que se hace un retrato de las angustias, penas, esperanzas e ilusiones frustradas de la vida cotidiana de provincias de la Rusia de finales del siglo XIX.Esta obra se lleva a cavo durante un periodo de varios años en un pueblo provincial en donde las hermanas Prozorov viven junto a su hermano Andrei. Olga, quien es la mayor, es maestra en una escuela; Masha esta casada infelizmente con un maestro de la misma escuela e Irina y Andrei sueñan con volver a Rusia. Vershinin, el nuevo teniente de la armada se une al grupo al que tambien pertenece el doctor Chebutykin que se encarga de decir a todo el que lo escucha que se ha olvidado de toda la medicina que aprendio. Esta obra muestra maravillosamente personalidades, relaciones y las motivaciones. Explora la distancia entre la esperanza y la plenitud en las vidas de los Prozorovs y sus amigos.Chejov describio esta pieza como una obra de comedia, donde no hay heroes ni sucesiones de actos tragicos. Los personajes tienen muchas fallas asi como virtudes, pero todas en escalas humanas.En este marco se desarrolla esta obra, sin heroes ni grandes sucesos, pero con un gran reflejo de la personalidad humana.

Três dias em SetembroUma história acerca de amizade florescente, amor e aventura, mas também acerca de infidelidade, violência e morte, que tem lugar durante três dias em Setembro.Não sentimos já tod

Eschyle est linventeur de la tragédie attique telle que nous la connaissons : en introduisant un deuxième acteur sur scène, Eschyle bouleverse la scène tragique jusqu’ici réservée à un dialogue entre

Sofocle scrisse, secondo la tradizione, ben centoventitré tragedie, di cui ne restano solo sette. I suoi eroi sono immersi in un mondo di contraddizioni insanabili, di conflitti con forze inevitabilmente destinate a travolgerli. Il suo contributo originale allo sviluppo della tragedia greca fu rappresentato dallaccentuazione dellumanita dei personaggi, che hanno tutti in se qualcosa di guasto, una tabe fisica e psichica. I personaggi sofoclei sono anche generosi e buoni, ma smisuratamente soli e portati alla tragedia dal male che hanno in se. Cio nonostante, non appaiono mai schiacciati del tutto dal fato, ma proprio nella vana lotta contro di esso, ricevono una piena dimensione umana, portatrice di un destino di dannazione e, contemporaneamente, di gloria.

“Se me permitirá que antes de referir el gran suceso de que fui testigo,diga algunas palabras sobre mi infancia, explicando por qué extrañamanera me llevaron los azares de la vida a presenciar la ter

Trace of the fireby Claudio CalzoniThere is a trace of the fire behind the death of so many people, the destruction of monuments that guard the memory of Humanity and a relic, the most important that Christianity has preserved for millennia. The chess game between Good and Evil has begun. The players move their pieces. Whoever puts the King in check will win. It is not easy to find but the trace of Fire is in the air...

Stella vive in un piccolo paese, SantAlba, e coltiva il sogno di diventare infermiera.Dopo la perdita prematura dei genitori, quando era solo una bambina, gli unici affetti dei quali e contornata sono i nonni Erina ed Elia, e i bambini delloratorio, un luogo al quale e particolarmente legata.La sua vita scorre tranquilla, fino al momento in cui incontra Loris, un uomo salvato in extremis, da un incidente in mare.Luomo ha perduto la memoria, ma la vicinanza di Stella riesce a colmare il suo dolore e far rifiorire in lui di nuovo la voglia di amare.Anche Stella ricambia lamore per Loris, ma subentrera la moglie, tornata a riprendere il marito di cui aveva denunciato la scomparsa qualche settimana prima, a rompere lidillio.I mesi passano e la ragazza torna alla sua routine quotidiana, ignara che vi sia un evento pronto a cambiare la sua vita, unaltra volta.Vicino alla sua abitazione, infatti, e in atto il rinnovo della villa adiacente alla spiaggia, che vedra larrivo di un nuovo ospite.Il dott. Giuliani le comunica che dovra occuparsi di un nuovo paziente che ha bisogno di unassistente per la fisioterapia.Stella scoprira che si tratta proprio del suo vicino di casa, condannato allinfermita a seguito di un grave incidente.

Cest à une des plus intéressantes nouvelles de Boccace que nous devons cette pièce. En voici les principaux événements que Shakspeare a transportés sur la scène en leur donnant une nouvelle vie, par

WILLIE HOUGHTON: Whats the matter with you folks, as Ive told you before, and as I shall keep on telling you every now and again, though it doesnt make a bit of difference, is that youve got no idea of freedom whatsoever. Ive lived in this blessed place for fifty years, and Ive never seen the spark of an idea, nor of any response to an idea, come out of a single one of you, all the time. I dont know what it is with colliers--whether its spending so much time in the bowels of the earth--but they never seem to be able to get their thoughts above their bellies. If youve got plenty to eat and drink, and a bit over to keep the missis quiet, youre satisfied. I never saw such a satisfied bloomin lot in my life as you Barlow and Walsalls men are, really. Of course you can growse as well as anybody, and you do growse. But you dont do anything else. Youre stuck in a sort of mud of contentment, and you feel yourselves sinking, but you make no efforts to get out. You bleat a bit, like sheep in a bog--but you like it, you know. You like sinking in--you dont have to stand on your own feet then.

El dramaturgo Albert Camus, en la cumbre de su madurez creativa y de su fama, se encuentra sumido en una profunda crisis vital que ha de llevarle, incluso a su pesar, a tomar una trascendente decisión. A la par que vive en este dilema, se encuentra dirigiendo el montaje de una de sus obras teatrales de mas exito "Caligula". Falta poco para el reestreno y Camus, mientras dirige esta puesta en escena, en un descanso y a requerimiento de los actores, va a entablar un intenso debate con ellos, haciendo un repaso de toda su trayectoria como escritor, ensayista, periodista, combatiente de la resistencia y, en general, de toda su vida, desde su infancia miserable en Argelia, hasta la concesion del premio Nobel de Literatura.

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark of high modernism, the novel centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical introspection. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships. Among the books many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, and the problem of perception.In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.In 2005, the novel was chosen byTIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present.

"Tis Pity Shes a Whore" is perhaps the most popular and frequently performed play by John Ford, whom many scholars consider the last major dramatist of the English renaissance. The play was first published in 1633 and is a family drama with a plot line of incest. The plays title has often been changed in new productions, sometimes being referred to as simply "Giovanni and Annabella"."Tis Pity Shes a Whore" tells the tale of an incestuous love between Giovanni and his sister Annabella that ends in disaster and death. Set in Parma, Italy, the story takes place against a background of lust, vengeance, and greed that serves as a critique of contemporary culture and morality. The play exhibits an eloquent and glowing sympathy for the lovers, despite the unlawful nature of their union.

"Tío Vania" es un drama del escritor y dramaturgo ruso Antón Chéjov publicada en 1899 y considerada por muchos su obra cumbre. Su primera gran presentación fue en 1900 bajo la dirección de Konstantín Stanislavski."Tio Vania" es unica entre las obras capitales de Chejov porque es esencialmente una extensa reconstruccion de una obra publicada una decada antes: "Demonio del bosque". Dilucidando sobre las revisiones especificas redujo a los personajes de dos docenas a nueve, cambiando el climatico suicidio del demonio del bosque en un famoso y frustrado homicidio del Tio Vania, y alterando el original final feliz en uno mas problematico.La obra fue publicada en 1899, pero es dificil determinar cuando la obra estuvo originalmente terminada, o cuando tuvo lugar el proceso de revision. En "Tio Vania" Chejov refleja el apocalipsis interior de un puñado de destinos humanos, la manera peculiar en que el tiempo se instala en nuestro interior y como el tedioso transcurrir de los dias derrumba esperanzas y hasta justificaciones de vida. La obra muestra la decadencia de la sociedad de la epoca. La accion se desarrolla en la antigua casa de campo de una familia aristocratica venida a menos. Todos los personajes se replantean su lugar en el mundo ante la llegada del profesor Serebriakov y su hermosa esposa, Elena.

"Timon of Athens" is the story of Shakespeares sharp satire on wealth, greed and betrayal, which was probably written around 16051606.Timon of Athens is a man who enjoys to please his friends and he does this by lavishing gifts on them. His friends rush to gain his favour. They buy him small gifts and he repays them with big gifts. He ignores the warnings about false friends from the philosopher Apemantus and his extravagance catches up with him in the end and he is faced with unpaid bills. His friends ignore his requests for help. He sends invitations to the Athenians to a banquet and uses the occasion to berate them for being false and he then leaves Athens. Timon then discovers gold and becomes rich once again and befriends General Alcibiades who has also been treated badly by the Athenians. He provides the money for the General to wage war against the Athenians and seek revenge for their falseness.

"Three Sisters", as all of Chekhovs most popular plays, was written near the end of his life, in 1900. "Three Sisters" was the first play that Chekhov wrote specifically for the Moscow Art Theatre, having experienced commercial success in his previous collaborations with the company, "The Seagull" and "Uncle Vanya".The play is set in a small, remote town dominated by an army base. The action takes place in the Prozorov family home over a span of several years. Born and bred in a thriving metropolis, the Prozorovs came to this small town when their father was made commander of the local army brigade. Now, the Prozorov family consists of four siblings: Olga, Masha, Andrei and Irina, the youngest. Three sisters and one brother.Both of the Prozorovs parents have died. The mother many years ago; the father precisely one year earlier, on Irinas 21st birthday. Irinas 22nd birthday is thus also the first anniversary of her fathers death. Old family friends and acquaintances drop in on the family to mark the occasion.Amongst the visitors is Colonel Vershinin, the new brigade commander, who has only recently arrived in town and becomes a spark of new potential, particularly for Masha. Each act of the play moves forward in time, charting five years in the life of the town, its soldiers, the Prozorov household and its three sisters.The characters of "Three Sisters" are outstanding examples of Chekhovian boredom, longing, and listlessness. The playwright portrays the sisters social aspirations with sensitivity and irony, using them as emblems of Russian middle-class pretensions and despair.

Sweet are the whispers of yon pine that makesLow music oer the spring, and, Goatherd, sweetThy piping; second thou to Pan alone.Is his the horned ram? then thine the goat.Is his the goat? to thee shall fall the kid;And toothsome is the flesh of unmilked kids.

Theft is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.Theft is a political piece set in Washington, DC. A Congressman, Howard Knox, is ready to reveal the corrupt practices of Anthony Starkweather, a wealthy industrialist. To complicate matters, Starkweathers daughter is helping Knox. The plays underlying anti-capitalist theme is also found in some of Londons other works. The plot revolves around recovering documents that support Knoxs revelations.

"The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward womens health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Foregoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment she is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression a slight hysterical tendency", a diagnosis common to women in that period. She hides her journal from her husband and his sister the housekeeper, fearful of being reproached for overworking herself. Because its a nursery the rooms windows are barred, to prevent children from climbing through them, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, though she and her husband have access to the rest of the house and its adjoining estate. The story depicts the effect of understimulation on the narrators mental health and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper. "It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. But there is something else about that paper the smell! ... The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell."In the end, she imagines there are women creeping around behind the patterns of the wallpaper and comes to believe she is one of them. She locks herself in the room, now the only place she feels safe, refusing to leave when the summer rental is up. "For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead of yellow. But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way." (font: Wikipedia)

Herbert George"H. G."Wells (21 September 1866 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.Wellss earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist. Novels like Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion, when they were published, that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens,[10] but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. A diabetic, in 1934, Wells co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK