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Author: Dario Fo
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780413640505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo plays written by the Italian farceur, Dario Fo, in conjunction with his wife and fellow-performer. Both plays start with the breakdown of a relationship and deal with the fate of women in a society in which both the social system in which they live and its dominant ideology are shaped by men.
Author: Dario Fo
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780573627743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDario Fo, one of Italy's foremost playwrights, is a rarity- a Marxist with a sense of humor. This hilarious farce, a success Off Broadway and across the U.S., is set in motion when a housewife comes home with groceries she has swiped as part of a spontaneous community action where 300 women did the same. In her effort to keep her secret from her husband, she hides some of the groceries under her best friend's raincoat. Her husband and his friend the accomplice's husband notice the bulge, of course; but they believe the explanation that the accomplice is pregnant! Hilarity is piled upon hilarity as the characters try to extricate themselves from the mess they have gotten into. Eventually, they all unite to support the spontaneous resistance to eviction in their housing project.
Author: Ottar G. Draugsvold
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2020-07-17
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1476642990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its inception, the Nobel Prize for literature has given a very public voice to some of the world's greatest writers, and their responses to the honor--their acceptance speeches--have often been epochal. From the famed call to arms by William Faulkner to the multicultural song of Derek Walcott, from 1903's Bjornstjerne Bjornson to 1999's Gunter Grass, this collection of 28 speeches traces the ideals of the artists and the selection committee itself throughout the 20th century. Included are an introduction to each of the writers chosen, an abridged copy of the speech or lecture and a bibliography of works in English.
Author: Tony Mitchell
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-08
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1408148633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first and only full-length critical study of Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner This book, now extensively rewritten and updated, remains the only full-length critical study to cover various phases of Dario Fo's theatrical career. It looks at Fo's political influences and also the influence on his work of various theatrical motifs, including the great clown traditions which stretch back to the middle ages. The political work of Dario Fo and his wife/collaborator Franca Rame is charted from the 1960s up to the present to give the reader clear insight into this playwright/performer's unique literary and theatrical strengths. Each of Fo's plays and productions is discussed at length and the author has included an extensive and updated bibliography which includes full production details, quotes and writings about Fo. Always a popular performer in his native Italy, Fo has been one of the world's most performed dramatists. In the author's words: he is the "people's court jester".
Author: Dario Fo
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary performer/playwright, renowned throughout the world for his radical satires. This volume contains two major plays together with two more intimate one-act plays which he wrote with Franca Rame.
Author: Michael Vena
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-10-03
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1483633527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKItalian theater brings early on stage some of the most signifi cant productions of the 20th century, with major playwrights holding a pivotal role in the renewal of the European stage: Gabriele DAnnunzio, Eduardo De Filippo, Dario Fo, Luigi Chiarelli, Luigi Antonelli, Rosso di San Secondo, Enrico Cavacchioli, Massimo Bontempelli, Dacia Maraini, Ugo Betti, Diego Fabbri, thanks to such innovative movements from the early century called grotteschi and futuristi. If the early Pirandellian plays are added, we will have a comprehensive view of twentieth century theater, and the weight it will carry upon the coming generations.
Author: Robin Healey
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780802008008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
Author: O. Classe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 930
ISBN-13: 9781884964367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Hutchison
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-07-31
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1527557464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection introduces the reader to the life and times of Stuart Hood (1915-2011). Highlighting Hood’s year spent fighting with the Italian Resistance during the Second World War, the essays consider how his experiences as a partisan influenced his peacetime trajectory. Written by distinguished scholars from several disciplines, each chapter examines different aspects of Hood’s life and work, including his Scottish boyhood and university education in Edinburgh; his distinguished career as a broadcaster presiding over an era of unprecedented creativity at BBC television; his role in the establishment of the discipline of media studies; and his contribution to radical European culture as the translator of 40 literary works from Italian, German, French and Russian, and as the author of eight acclaimed novels. Stuart Hood’s reticence made him an enigma to many who knew him. This collection assesses his many-faceted achievements, demonstrating how his life provides fresh insights into twentieth-century European history. This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of British and European socialism, media studies and literature.
Author: Jim Cartwright
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in a pub somewhere in the North of England, owned by a savagely bickering married couple bound together by the necessity of keeping the business afloat.
