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Avec la collaboration de : Francis Noel Lees, François Maguin Traduction (Anglais) : Jean-Louis Supervielle, Jules Supervielle Édition : Pascale Drouet Hermia et Lysandre s'aiment. Mais Thésée, tyran d'Athènes, impose à la jeune fille d'épouser Démétrius. Si elle refuse, elle risque la mort ou le cloître. Un soir, avec Lysandre, Hermia décide de fuir la cité, poursuivie par Démétrius et Héléna, elle-même amoureuse de ce dernier. Ensemble, ils plongent au coeur d'une forêt obscure et enchantée. Ils y croisent Obéron, roi des elfes, qui demande au malicieux Puck d'user de ses philtres pour nouer et dénouer les amours des voyageurs...
Entre burlesque et féerie, mise en abyme et désordre des sentiments, Le Songe d'une nuit d'été est plus qu'un songe, c'est un «somme avec des rêves partagés».
Dossier spécial : l'amour 1. À l'origine était l'amour contrarié 2. Réflexions sur le coup de foudre (love at first sight) 3. Réciprocité, non-réciprocité, réversibilité 4. Amour et violence, ou le motif de la discordia concors 5. La langue de l'amour : pétrarquisme, parodie et autres excès.
This play tells the story of Willy Loman, an ageing salesman, who is a failure in both his business and private life. Fired by his firm, ignored by his children, his humiliation ends in suicide.
Shakespeare Beaucoup de bruit pour rien (Much Ado About Nothing) Entre une cérémonie de noces brutalement interrompue et un mariage unissant deux êtres connus pour se haïr, Beaucoup de bruit pour rien nous rappelle que l'amour ne suit jamais un cours régulier. Étincelante et jubilatoire, cette comédie romantique n'en repose pas moins sur un constat amer : tout n'est que vanité... et aimer, c'est d'abord s'éprendre de soi-même, pour le meilleur et pour le pire.
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley.
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth , The Autograph Man , On Beauty , NW and Swing Time , as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia , and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind , and editor of The Book of Other People . Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Le professeur Higgins et le colonel Pickering prennent pour cobaye une jeune vendeuse de fleurs qu'ils tentent de transformer en une vraie dame de la bonne société. Ils lui apprennent comment prononcer un mot, un phrase, correctement et enrichissent son vocabulaire, croyant que l'appartenance à la classe supérieure est une question de prononciation. Eliza fait des progrès surprenants et évolue de mieux en mieux dans le milieu de la grande bourgeoisie. Mais elle reste consciente de ses origines et s'émancipe de son « maître ». Une expérimentation sociétale dans l'air du temps, où Bernard Shaw détourne le mythe antique avec humour.
Shaw défendait avec virulence un théâtre engagé et livra avec ses plus de cinquante pièces une cinglante critique de la morale dominante. Son arme fut la comédie, sa poudre son esprit. Dans l'art de descendre les puissants par l'ironie de leur piédestal il était un maître.
Set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, a community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recriminations that develops, men denounce their neighbours and truth is perverted by superstition.
'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. This is a portrayal of family tensions.
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Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins, straight off the boat from Italy. But, as his niece begins to fall for one of them, it's clear that it's not just, as Eddie claims, that he's too strange, too sissy, too careless for her, but that something bigger, deeper is wrong, and wrong inside Eddie, in a way he can't face. Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family.
"An inspector calls", the title play in this collection, was written inside a week in 1944. Inspector Goole, investigating a girl's death, calls on the Birlings, an outwardly virtuous household.
An ageing king makes a capricious decision to divide his realm among his three daughters according to the love they express for him. When the youngest daughter refuses to take part in this charade, she is banished, leaving the king dependent on her manipulative and untrustworthy sisters.
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of "Waiting For Godot" at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. Anybody acquinted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would not question the recognition of this twentieth-century literature classic.
Two brand-new monologues in the Talking Heads series, as seen on BBC1 and iPlayer ''Given the opportunity to revisit the characters from Talking Heads I''ve added a couple more, both of them ordinary women whom life takes by surprise. They just about end up on top and go on, but without quite knowing how. Still, they''re in good company, and at least they''ve made it into print.'' Alan Bennett''s twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the original six , Bennett has written Two Besides, a pair of monologues. Each, in its way, is a devastating portrait of grief. In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers the inevitable consequences when she makes life intolerable for herself and her family by falling for her own flesh and blood; while The Shrine tells the story behind a makeshift roadside shrine, introducing us to Lorna, bearing witness in her high-vis jacket, the bereft partner of a dedicated biker with a surprising private life. The two new Talking Heads were recorded for the BBC during the exceptional circumstances of coronavirus lockdown in the spring of 2020, directed by Nicholas Hytner and performed by Sarah Lancashire and Monica Dolan. The book contains a substantial preface by Nicholas Hytner and an introduction to each, by Alan Bennett.
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories.
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined for a social evening by another faculty couple at a New England college. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.
A Streetcar Named Desire shows a turbulent confrontation between traditional values in the American South - an old-world graciousness and beauty running decoratively to seed - set against the rough-edged, aggressive materialism of the new world. Through the vividly characterised figures of Southern belle Blanche Dubois, seeking refuge from physical ugliness in decayed gentility, and her brutal brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, Tennessee Williams dramatises his sense of the South's past as still active and often destructive in modern America.
This revised edition features a new production history of the play that considers both stage and screen presentations, an updated bibliography and extensive notes on the language of the play.
Commentary and notes by Patricia Hern and Michael Hooper.
