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I am my mothers daughter. I am like you. But my work is not your work, and my way is not your way.Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Estranged from her wealthy mother, she delights in a glass of whisky and a good detective story, and is determined to carve herself a sparkling legal career in an age ruled by men.Her mother, however, is a part of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune and paid for her daughters expensive education but at what cost?Bernard Shaws incendiary moral classic was written in 1893, but, after being banned by the Lord Chamberlain, didnt receive a full public production in London until 1925. This version of the play, edited and introduced by director Dominic Cooke, was produced at the Garrick Theatre in Londons West End in 2025, starring real-life mother and daughter Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter.

Frantic Assemblys electrifying take on Shakespeares tragedy of paranoia, sex and murder, firmly rooted in a volatile twenty-first century.In a world of broken glass and shattered promises, of poisonous manipulation and explosive violence, Othellos passionate affair with Desdemona becomes the catalyst for jealousy, betrayal, revenge and the darkest intents.As relevant today as it ever was, Othello exposes the tension, fear and paranoia buried beneath the veneer of our relationships and how easily that can be maliciously exploited.Frantic Assemblys touring production was first performed in 2008, with revivals in 2014 and 2022. This edition of Scott Graham and Steven Hoggetts muscular, radically adapted text also features articles and interviews about the production and Frantic Assemblys revolutionary work.

Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.A woman is seduced, a bride is forced to the altar, and a man runs mad among the mountains of the Sierra Morena.The history of the play is every bit as thrilling, and this text is the result of a masterful act of literary archaeology by the Royal Shakespeare Companys Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, to re-imagine a previously lost play by Shakespeare. Based on an episode in Cervantes Don Quixote, the play known as Cardenio by Shakespeare and John Fletcher was performed at court in 1612. A copy of their collaboration has never been found; however, it is claimed that Double Falshood by Lewis Theobald is an eighteenth-century adaptation of it.Since Theobalds play misses out some crucial scenes in the plot, Doran has turned to the Cervantes original to supply the missing episodes, using the original English translation by Thomas Shelton (1612) that Fletcher and Shakespeare must themselves have read.Cardenio re-opened the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Companys fiftieth birthday season in 2011.

Biblioteca Clásica de la Real Academia EspañolaLa verdad sospechosa, obra capital de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, que, por su métrica, personajes, argumentos y estilo, se encuadra dentro del lopesco Arte nuevo de hacer comedias, entrelaza moral y politica de forma entretenida, con enredos habilmente construidos. El dominio de los recursos teatrales y tematicos renovo toda la dramaturgia de su tiempo, a la vez que reestructuro el lopesco Arte nuevo de hacer comedias que le han dado a la obra dimension de mayor alcance trascendiendo a su tiempo. El tema de la mentira, como vicio universal, se trata con gracia, personajes atractivos y un enredo bien desarrollado.

Edición de María Isabel De Páiz Hernández y Pedro Martín Baños, con Gonzalo Pontón GijónEl volumen 14 de la BCRAE reúne los dos títulos más señalados de Fernando del Pulgar: Claros varones de Castilla, galeria de veintiuna semblanzas literarias de destacados personajes de la corte de Enrique IV, y las Letras, coleccion de muy variadas cartas dirigidas a diferentes corresponsales en las que el autor discurre sobre toda clase de asuntos y que, consideradas como Claros varones un modelo de estilo, tuvieron al igual que aquellos un sostenido exito editorial en el Quinientos.En su dedicatoria a la reina Isabel, Pulgar define con claridad el proposito de su galeria de retratos, dejando clara la raigambre clasica de su inspiracion: Yo, muy excelente reina y señora, criado desde mi menor edad en la corte del rey, vuestro padre, y del rey don Enrique, vuestro hermano, movido con aquel amor de mi tierra que los otros hobieron de la suya, me dispuse a escribir de algunos claros varones, perlados y caballeros, naturales de vuestros reinos, que yo conoci y comunique, cuyas hazañas y notables hechos, si particularmente se hobiesen de contar, requeria hacerse de cada uno una gran historia. Y por ende, brevemente, con el ayuda de Dios, escribire los linajes y condiciones de cada uno y algunos notables hechos que hicieron, de los cuales se puede bien creer que en autoridad de personas y en ornamento de virtudes y en las habilidades que tovieron, asi en la ciencia como en las armas, no fueron menos excelentes que aquellos griegos y romanos y franceses que tanto son loados en sus escrituras

Edición de Guillermo SerésEl volumen 5 de la BCRAE presenta la obra más conocida de Don Juan Manuel, El conde Lucanor (1335), colección de cincuenta ejemplos, tres colecciones de proverbios progresivamente mas complejos y un tratado de doctrina cristiana.La unidad de esta obra se debe, por un lado, a su proposito didactico, de educacion de los nobles de su tiempo, y por otro a la constante presencia de dos interlocutores, el conde Lucanor y su ayo Patronio, quien aconseja, a traves de los distintos procedimientos didacticos a su disposicion, el saber teorico y practico que necesitaba reunir un aristocrata de su tiempo, y con el cualquier lector u oyente del libro.La perduracion de esta obra como clasico de la literatura medieval se empezo a forjar ya en el siglo XVI y le ha valido, por la frescura de los enxienplos (tomados de repertorios latinos y arabes en boga en su tiempo), por la habilidad argumentativa, que coloca la anecdota en un plano superior, de orden moral, asi como por ciertos juegos de logica y de perspectiva, un elogio sostenido que llega hasta Jorge Luis Borges.

Vengeance will be taken on the killer, then the land will be clean. The contamination will be washed away. The rains will come and the people will be healed.According to the Oracle, if the murderer of old King Laius is found and punished then all will be well. The people turn to their new ruler, Oedipus, the man who solved the riddle of the Sphinx, to hunt down the perpetrator and bring salvation.He vows to succeed whatever the cost and so begins an unstoppable pursuit of the truth through a harrowing labyrinth of fear and love.Intimate and revelatory, Ella Hicksons version of Sophocles transcendent tragedy premiered at The Old Vic, London, in 2025, produced by The Old Vic in association with Hofesh Shechter Company. It was co-directed by Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Shechter, and starred Rami Malek and Indira Varma.

Shakespeares heartbreaking tale of forbidden love, brought to life in a new production co-directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh.This version of Romeo and Juliet was performed as part of the Plays at the Garrick Season in 2016, starring Derek Jacobi as Mercutio, Meera Syal as the Nurse, and Lily James and Richard Madden as the star-crossed lovers.This official tie-in edition features the version of Shakespeares text as edited by Kenneth Branagh, as well as an introduction to the play, interviews with Jacobi, Syal, Madden and James, and original design sketches by Christopher Oram.

A jealous king, an abandoned daughter, a prince hopelessly in love.Shakespeares timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption is reimagined in a new production co-directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh.It was performed as part of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Companys Plays at the Garrick Season in 2015, starring Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh. This official tie-in edition features the version of Shakespeares text performed in the production, plus exclusive additional content including an introduction to the play, interviews with Kenneth Branagh, Rob Ashford, Judi Dench, Michael Pennington and composer Patrick Doyle, and extracts from the original score.

Entre 1579 y 1581 se representaron en Sevilla cuatro tragedias del poeta Juan de la Cueva, junto a sus diez comedias. El hombre de letras, recurriendo a temas clásicos, a antiguas leyendas medievales españolas y a la pura fantasia, se esforzo en llevar al publico mas amplio la cultura en la que se habia formado. Fue el primero en introducir las innovaciones estructurales de la tragedia senequista y de los modelos italianos, siempre cercano al publico, al que quiso entretener y educar segun el lema horaciano. Se publican aqui, por primera vez en un unico volumen, sus tragedias en edicion critica, precedidas por el estudio postumo de uno de sus lectores mas atentos, Rinaldo Froldi. Este libro, gracias tambien al cariñoso prologo de Joan Oleza, quiere recordar al maestro por su gran aportacion a los estudios del teatro clasico español.

A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian. Cyranos generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious love-triangle, in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words. Martin Crimps adaptation of Edmond Rostands Cyrano de Bergerac premiered at the Playhouse Theatre, London, in November 2019.

The Nick Hern Books RSC Classics - a series of rarely performed plays from the 16th and 17th centuries, published alongside their resurrection by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and the West Officially attributed to Shakespeare only in 1998, Edward III is set in the age of chivalry and chronicles the beginning of the 100 Years War. Following the exploits of Edward, the Black Prince, it also acts as a prequel to Richard II.This edition of the play is edited with an introduction by Roger Warren and preface by Gregory Doran.The plays in the RSC Classics series reflect the diversity of styles, themes and subjects of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and include a new addition to the Shakespeare canon.

Halvard Solness has arrived at the pinnacle of his career. He has just been awarded the prestigious Master Builder award, his beautiful wife still loves him, his beautiful secretary still flirts with him and Prince Charles is coming to open his new building tomorrow. Then a knock at the door propels Solness past into everyones future. The only way is down. Zinnie Harriss contemporary take on Henrik Ibsens classic, The Master Builder, premiered at West Yorkshire Playhouse in September 2017.

If we help, we invite trouble. If we dont, we bring shame. Fifty women board a boat in North Africa. They flee across the Mediterranean, leaving everything behind. They are escaping forced marriage in their home and seeking asylum in Greece. Written 2,500 years ago, The Suppliant Women is one of the worlds oldest plays. Its about the plight of refugees, about moral and human rights, civil war, democracy and ultimately the triumph of love. It tells a story that echoes down the ages to find striking and poignant resonance today. Featuring in performance a chorus of local women, this is part play, part ritual, part theatrical archaeology. It explores fundamental questions of humanity: who are we, where do we belong and, if all goes wrong, who will take us in? AeschylusThe Suppliant Women, in a version by David Greig, premiered at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in October 2016, in a production by ATC.

Youd laugh if I treated you with the respect I feel. An eligible suitor has been found for Sylvia but, determined to judge him for herself, she swaps roles with her maid. Meanwhile the suitor and his manservant have the same idea. Before long each believes they are fatally attracted to their social opposite. Sylvias well-intentioned father looks on as the two couples attempt to make sense of their desires and ultimately lose themselves to love. From eighteenth-century France, John Fowles transports us to Regency England in this elegant adaptation of Le Jeu de lamour et du hasard, Marivauxs greatest comedy. The Lottery of Love premiered at the Orange Tree, Richmond, in March 2017. This book contains an introduction by John Fowles.

Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free. This vital new version by Patrick Marber (Closer, Three Days in the Country) opened at The National Theatre, London, in December 2016.

The change will come. And its not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming Get out of the way. And not far behind others will follow... The young are waiting. In all their power. Knocking on the door. The master builder Halvard Solness has a fear of falling. A self-made man, without professional qualifications, he has achieved domination in the town but hes increasingly frightened of being displaced by the young. A woman, Hilde Wangel, appears from the mountains, claiming to have known Solness ten years previously, and telling him of a promise he made to her when she thirteen. David Hare has written a new adaptation of one of Henrik Ibsens most complex autobiographical masterpieces - a mesmeric exploration of control, power, lust and death, which builds to a vertiginous climax.The Master Builder premiered in this English version at The Old Vic, London, in January 2016.

Teas cold, lunch is late and the great Professor has turned out to be a fraud - for Uncle Vanya, life has gone wonky, its gone to hell. Only one thing can save him - a glamorous womans love. But shes not interested either. And whats worse, shes married to the Professor. Samuel Adamson new version of Anton Chekhovs Uncle Vanya - a dark and funny exploration of cross-purposed love, bitter jealousy and a dysfunctional family - opened at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in February 2015.

Con esta edición crítica se rescata un valioso ejemplo de drama hagiográfico barroco, dedicado a Juan de Dios (hacia 1495-1550), carismático fundador de la Orden Hospitalaria. El estudio introductorio, tras abordar la cuestion de la problematica y, en ultimo termino, rechazable atribucion a Pedro Calderon de la Barca, examina las modalidades de adaptacion del hipotexto devoto (la difundida biografia de Antonio de Govea) a una dimension dramatico-espectacular que tambien debe tener en cuenta el celebre precedente lopesco de Juan de Dios y Anton Martin. Asi, el analisis muestra como el retrato heroico y milagrero del santo se ajusta perfectamente a los patrones de la comedia calderoniana. El texto critico de la pieza se fija a traves del cotejo de errores y variantes adiaforas de los testimonios conocidos.

A Gil Vicente sólo lo conocemos por sus textos dramáticos, que son los más innovadores de la Cristiandad entre 1502 y 1536. Los escribió y representó en las fastuosas cortes de Manuel I y João III de