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The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
George Bernard Shaw
“The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Shaw claimed that "this little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form", the plot being less important than the debate about morality and divinity that occurs between the characters. He was using the folksy language and quirky insights of his principal character to explore his version of the Nietzschean concept that modern morality must move "beyond good and evil". Shaw took the view that God is a process of continual self-overcoming: "if I could conceive a god as deliberately creating something less than himself, I should class him as a cad. If he were simply satisfied with himself, I should class him as a lazy coxcomb. My god must continually strive to surpass himself." When he heard that Leo Tolstoy had shown an interest in the ideas expressed in the play, he wrote a letter to him explaining his views further.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The story of a boy Egor, who goes from his home to a gymnasium located in another city. This trip is the last event before the start of a new life away from mother and familiar places. Nothing unexpected happens on the way, but at the same time, there is a constant change of landscapes and moons of Egor, meetings with new people, both ordinary and of noble origin. The boy is a witness to the life of people whose path also lies through the steppe.
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare showed us the plays in the play. In the introduction, we see that the Lord decided to play a cruel joke on a drunken brazier. They brought him to the lords house, dressed him beautifully, and assured him that past life was only a dream. And at this moment there is a troupe of actors who show the main part of the play. Unfortunately, the author did not finish the whole thing.
William Shakespeare
One of Shakespeares later plays. The plot focuses on the confrontation between the Duke of Milan, the Wizard of Prospero, and his brother Antonio. The latter, with the help of the Neapolitan king, takes power from his brother. Prospero, with his little daughter Miranda, was expelled from Milan. On a dilapidated ship they were sent to the open sea.
Aristophanes
This bold statement by Euripides is an absurd premise on which the whole game depends. Women are outraged by the image of the female as crazy, murderous and sexually depraved, and they use the Thesmophoria festival as an opportunity to discuss a suitable choice of revenge, Fearing their abilities, Euripides seeks out his tragic friend Agathon in the hope of convincing him to spy on him and become his protector at the festival a role that, of course, would require him to disguise himself as a woman.
The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
William Shakespeare
Nowhere else has Shakespeare demonstrated his gift to turn the chronicle into a drama so vividly and visibly as in the third part of Henry VI. In the previous two plays, battle scenes are also reproduced: in the first part, the battle in France is displayed especially vividly and vividly, but only in the last play of the trilogy the playwright managed to show almost the entire course of the Rose War in two hours of presentation: from the consequences of the first battle in St. Albans in 1455 before the defeat of Queen Margarita at Tewkesbury, which happened sixteen years later.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
In the center of attention, as you can already guess from the very name, three sisters who dream, love and of course talk a lot about life. All of them are waiting for happiness and hope for a happy future. Chekhov was able to very well reveal the images of the sisters. Before us are three heroines with different characters, different habits, but at the same time, they received one upbringing and were very educated. The action takes place in a provincial town. With all her thoughts, the heroines rush to Moscow. It is there that they think to find their happiness and fulfill all their dreams.
The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
With a strong spirit and body, people who are ready to endure all sorts of hardships and difficulties for the sake of the cause of their whole life, their blood, their feats inscribing their names in the history of mankind, also end up being tested, which turn out to be stronger than them. And for the sake of this, a person is able to erase his entire former life overnight. This happens with Anthony, an honorary Roman who fell in love with the proud queen of Egypt. For his sake he forgot Rome and the family, and Caesar.
William Shakespeare
The focus of the great tragedy of William Shakespeare Macbeth is unreasonable ambition that turns a brave warrior and a recognized hero into an ominous killer who seized power in his hands at the cost of bloody atrocity. The play Macbeth is worth reading if only to enjoy the beautiful poetic language of the great playwright here evil, intrigue, deceit and the most base vices of humanity are served under the sauce of beautiful poetry.
The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice
William Shakespeare
It is amazing, beautiful, and the lines flow like a song. Very characteristic images, living, breathing. You empathize with all the heroes and fiercely despise Iago. This is certainly the highest skill, so clearly convey the characters in the play, without going into the descriptions, but only with randomly dropped phrases. Othello turned out to be an extremely tragic character.
William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Coriolan the tragedy of Shakespeare, based on the ancient biographies of the semi-legendary Roman leader of the times of the Republic of Gnay Marcia Coriolanus. Heroes are alive and you can not even read who said what: everyones speech is easily distinguished. The images of the tragedy are complex and multifaceted, the problems raised in the play are deep and serious. Reading and re-reading Shakespeare you always find something new that you missed during the previous reading.
William Shakespeare
Is it about the fact that people are a flock of sheep? No, rather, how difficult it is to make the right choice without having enough information. And this topic is relevant in the current policy after two thousand years. She raises a lot of questions: Is Caesars murder a deliverance from a tyrant or a betrayal?
William Shakespeare
Finally, I met with one of the most famous plays of Shakespeare. In this work, important and interesting topics are touched: the hypocrisy of people in pursuit of wealth and power, blinding deceitful speeches and disregard for the true virtues of the soul, cruelty and hot temper, deceived hopes and disappointment in loved ones. As for the king himself, Lear appears to be a rather absurd, selfish and domineering old man, who is too used to universal worship and has lost touch with reality.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
A love story that everyone knows from infancy. We encounter two children at the beginning of the play, who do not yet represent what love, passion, desire are, but as soon as they get to know each other and understand that they cannot live without each other, they both change, become adults, independent. They are ready to act for their love, boldly step over obstacles and strive for each other. But so much divides them throughout the play that only death can reunite.
The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus an early and very harsh play of Shakespeare. There is no subtle treatment of the characters in it, but it is saturated with bloody events. Based on the traditions of the ancient theater, it represents fictional characters, driven by an inexhaustible thirst for revenge. But, most importantly: the time is now different, and the passions and vices are the same.
Aristophanes
Old Philokleon was so addicted to attending court hearings that his son Bdelikleon locked him in the house and stretched a net around the house. He wants to ensure a quiet life for his father, but Philokleon does not at all want peace. Hes a cocky, like a choir made up of his old friends, judges, and he likes to convict. The choir appears on the stage in wasp costumes and tries to help Philokleon slip away, but Bdelikleon prevents this.
William Shakespeare
This play is not just a fairy tale by its name, everything in it is amazing and unbelievable, and it would be ridiculous to look for likelihood here! But, as you know, a fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it, because among the wonderful fairy-tale accidents of the play we learn about what actually happens. That there are jealous husbands, rejected wives, abandoned children, as well as good nurses, loyal servants, honest counselors. That evil can take possession of the human soul, as it possessed Leont, who broke his own happiness and the happiness of those he loved. And that only time can put everything in its place.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A short story about an unhappy involuntary marriage. Family quarrels, like bad weather in the Russian wilderness: there is nothing worse than becoming an involuntary captive of a blizzard of someone elses spousal abuse. The main character of the story is an ordinary woman with an unfortunate fate. All its features consist only in youth and attractive appearance, and in the still alive soul, which writhes under the weight of the cargo that has landed on it and stubbornly does not want to die, does not want to give up, and everything continues to wait for someone or something. Her husband, a miserable man, considers his wife a witch.
Maxim Gorky
The stories, united under the name Through Russia, were originally printed by M. Gorky in various periodicals and collections. In the series of short stories In Russia. M. Gorky refers to the image of the past in order to illuminate the paths to the future. The writer reflected the harsh truth of the life of little great people, life-giving and decorating the earth with their labor.
Tort Marcello. Kultury fanowskie w teatrze XIX wieku
Agata Łuksza
Opis książki: Mocno czekoladowy tort Marcello, który na specjalne okazje pojawia się na polskich stołach, powstał jako hołd dla warszawskiej aktorki, Heleny Marcello, związanej z Teatrami Warszawskimi przez ponad czterdzieści lat - od 1879 do 1923 roku. Choć nie sposób dziś ustalić oryginalnej receptury tego odświętnego ciasta, w jego nazwie zachowało się uwielbienie, którym obdarzano artystkę, przetrwała fascynacja i entuzjazm, jakie budziła - ona sama i jej gra sceniczna. Tort Marcello to zatem jeden z historycznych śladów po teatralnych kulturach fanowskich, które wyłaniały się na ziemiach polskich w XIX i na początku XX wieku. Książka Tort Marcello odzyskuje wczesne doświadczenia i praktyki fanowskie - pomimo że stanowiły one ważny element polskiego życia teatralnego, zostały uznane za zbyt błahe, by o nich pamiętać. Jest opowieścią o dziewiętnastowiecznych teatromanach i teatromankach, miłośnikach i miłośniczkach gwiazd scenicznych i przedstawień teatralnych, ujawniającą sploty między historią teatru i historią fanostwa. Kim byli dziewiętnastowieczni fani i fanki? Jak przedstawiały ich ówczesne media? Jak okazywali swoją pasję? To podstawowe pytania, które padają w Torcie Marcello. Agata Łuksza Agata Łuksza - kulturoznawczyni z zacięciem historycznym. Pracuje w Instytucie Kultury Polskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Autorka Glamour, kobiecość, widowisko. Aktorka jako obiekt pożądania (Warszawa 2016) i artykułów publikowanych m.in. w "Didaskaliach", "Pamiętniku Teatralnym" oraz "Theatre Journal".
Sofokles
Trachinki to dramat Sofoklesa, największego obok Ajschylosa i Eurypidesa tragika starożytnej Grecji. Historia zaczyna się od Deianeiry, żony Heraklesa, opowiadającej historię swojego wczesnego życia i jej trudnej sytuacji przystosowania się do życia małżeńskiego. Jest teraz zrozpaczona zaniedbaniem rodziny przez męża. Herakles często zaangażowany w jakąś przygodę, rzadko ją odwiedza. Deianeira wysyła ich syna Hyllusa, aby go znalazł, ponieważ jest zaniepokojona proroctwami dotyczącymi Heraklesa i ziemi, w której obecnie się znajduje.
Transakty. Między sztuką, nauką i technologią. Nowe strategie performowania wiedzy
Jacek Wachowski
Jacek Wachowski – teoretyk performansu i widowisk; profesor zwyczajny w Katedrze Teatru i Sztuki Mediów na Wydziale Antropologii i Kulturoznawstwa UAM. Zajmuje się badaniem performansów posttechnologicznych, a także nowych strategii komunikacyjnych w środowiskach transhumanistycznych i posthumanistycznych. W kręgu jego zainteresowań pozostaje również filozofia nauki i metodologia badań transdyscyplinarnych. Transakty – ekscentryczne prace artystów, tworzone wspólnie z inżynierami i naukowcami – prowokują do pytań podstawowych: Jak są skontruowane? Jakie pełnią funkcje? W jakich relacjach pozostają do sztuki, nauki i technologii? Jak zmieniają nasze przyzwyczajenia poznawcze? Odpowiedzi na te pytania prowadzą do wniosku, że w transaktach nie chodzi wyłącznie o prowokacje. Tworzą one nowy paradygmat, który umożliwia powstawanie praktyk społecznych opierających się na modelu partycypacyjnym, i podważają instytucjonalno-hierarchiczny sposób wytwarzania wiedzy, podtrzymywany przez uniwersytety i korporacyjne laboratoria. [Z recenzji prof. SWPS dr hab. Mirosława Filiciaka] Transakty można czytać na wiele sposobów. To błyskotliwy i zwięzły – choć równocześnie gęsty i nasycony – przewodnik teoretyczny, zachęcający do dyskusji i podsuwający nowe koncepcje pozwalające okiełznać zjawiska współczesnej kultury nadmiaru oraz sproblematyzować ograniczoną społeczną refleksyjność związaną z wieloma obszarami uprawiania nauki (…) Równocześnie można tę książkę traktować jako katalog przykładów działań z ostatniego półwiecza, które problematyzowały przemiany kultury i – zgodnie z przekonaniem o performatywnym charakterze nowej wiedzy – wskazywały rozwiązania, czerpiąc z rozwoju paradygmatu art and science. (…) Nawet jeśli tytułowe transakty z perspektywy kulturowego mainstreamu są zjawiskiem marginalnym, a powstające za ich sprawą depozyty są – jak ujmuje to Autor – „bazami wiedzy niepraktycznej, ekscentrycznej, osobliwej”, to jednak kumulują w sobie zmiany i otwarcie na przyszłość. Są laboratoriami, w których wydarza się to, co dla przyszłości kultury być może najważniejsze. Za sprawą Transaktów zyskujemy okazję, by do nich zajrzeć w towarzystwie kompetentnego przewodnika. Nie mam wątpliwości, że ta książka w obecnych i przyszłych dyskusjach o relacjach nauki, kultury i technologii stanowić będzie istotny punkt odniesienia.
William Shakespeare
Tragedia autorstwa Williama Szekspira, która powstała tuż po napisaniu słynnego Hamleta. Akcja rozgrywa się podczas siedmioletniej wojny trojańskiej i skupia się na dwóch wątkach. Jeden z nich to historia księcia trojańskiego Troilusa, który uwodzi Kresydę, jednak ta zostaje oddana Grekom podczas wymiany jeńców. Drugi wątek rozgrywa się między Prometeuszem i Nestorem, którzy próbują namówić Achillesa, aby kontynuował walkę.
Eurypides
Trojanki to dramat Eurypidesa, największego obok Ajschylosa i Sofoklesa tragika starożytnej Grecji. Nowatorstwo tego dramatu Eurypidesa polega na zestawieniu ciągu scen, obrazujących w skrócie zagładę Troi. Tragedia przedstawia trojańskie kobiety przebywające w greckiej niewoli.