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NICHOLAS DROMGOOLE |
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Plays by Nicholas Dromgoole |
Marriage In Disguise | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10098 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Parts other: | 4-11 actors | |||||
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Synopsis: | Molière's plays transformed the writing of seventeenth-century comedy, savagely satirising the Establishment of his day, and surviving only because he had the unwavering support of Louis XIV. His private life was even more controversial than his plays. Did he really tumble in and out of bed with so many beautiful people of both sexes? Did he marry his own daughter? Why did the Church refuse to bury him? Nicholas Dromgoole's play gives us fresh insight into this astonishing artist. | |||||
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Playwright As A Rebel, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
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Synopsis: | What was it about ancient Greece, Elizabethan England and Racine's seventeenth-century France that made them particularly able to respond to and create the high points in tragic drama? Where do Molière's comedies spring from? Why was the Romantic Movement such a watershed in our cultural history, and why was Schiller so handicapped when he attempted to write tragedies? Why was the theatre so despised in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? In The Playwright as Rebel, critic, academic and arts advisor Nicholas Dromgoole's collected essays in theatre history examine particular plays as key moments in drama history. In addition, by setting them in their cultural and historical context, he attempts to answer these wider questions, and to demonstrate that theatre plays a key part in disseminating ideas, attitudes and assumptions at crucial moments of social and ideological change. | |||||
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