Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Drama & Plays

The prophet Al Mustafa has lived in the city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship that will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.

At the core of the drama is Brick, an alcoholic son mourning the death of his friend, Skipper, and his strained marriage to Maggie. Maggie, resilient yet desperate for love, grapples with Brick's emotional withdrawal. The family is entrenched in mendacity, with each member harboring secrets, particularly about Big Daddy's terminal cancer.

Antigone, daughter of Jocasta and Oedipus, faces great challenges when she must arrange a formal burial for her brother, Polynices. This rendition of Antigone by Sophocles is of the highest-caliber audio. It's completely unabridged. Enjoy the classic story of Antigone narrated to perfection.

The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister, Laura.

Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, is a tragedy that has been enjoyed for centuries. This drama is an absolute must for any scholar, student, drama lover, or classical literature fan. Here, you will find the unabridged and complete version of the work.

Edipo Rey es una obra de Sófocles. Es una tragédia clásica que todos se necesitan oir. Esta narración de la obra es distinguida por la calidad excelente del audio y profesionalismo del actor talentoso. Editado laboriosamente para proveer una calidad de audio que no se puede encontrar en ninguna parte fuera de aquí. Somos dedicados a su placer. Aquí se puede encontrar la obra completa.

Fuenteovejuna is a play by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. First published in Madrid in 1619 as part of Docena Parte de las Comedias de Lope de Vega Carpio, the play is believed to have been written between 1612 and 1614. The play is based upon an actual historical incident that took place in the village of Fuenteovejuna (now called Fuente Obejuna) in Castile in 1476.

Don Juan Tenorio, el drama romantico por excelencia, es una de las pocas obras que han tenido y siguen teniendo una vida autentica mente popular. Dificil seria encontrar un espanol que no sepa recitar de memoria alguno de sus versos. El drama, que repite el viejo tema de Don Juan, ha adquirido una eficacia literaria inusitada en la mezcla de temas de capa y espada con los religiosos y morales.

The gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder. The inspiration for countless imitations and film adaptations, The Invisible Man is as remarkable and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago.

El Alcalde de Zalamea is a play written during the Golden Age of Spanish drama. It was probably written in 1636. It pays homage to a play by the same name by Lope de Vega, which it surpassed in fame through its superior character development, becoming one of the most well-known plays of its time. This play has three acts that explore the power of the self-made man against the political authorities of 17th century Spanish society, and the continuous struggle between corporate and individual honor.

Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles, is a classical sequel to Oedipus Rex that has been been enjoyed for centuries. This drama is an absolute must for any scholar, student, drama lover, or classical literature fan. Here, you will find the unabridged and complete version of the work. We hope you will thoroughly enjoy each and every act.

A Vérone, Roméo Montaigu et Juliette Capulet tombent éperdument amoureux malgré la haine ancestrale qui oppose leurs deux familles. Dans cette tragédie puisant dans des traditions antiques, les jeunes amants aux « étoiles contraires » avancent inéluctablement vers un destin funeste. Attestant du génie poétique précoce du dramaturge élisabéthain, l’œuvre de jeunesse qu’est Roméo et Juliette est encore l’une des pièces les plus jouées de Shakespeare et continue d’émouvoir les publics contemporains par son traitement magistral de thèmes intemporels.

This is a depiction of the life of a married woman that decides to engage in an extramarital affair with a man that becomes infatuated with lust for this beautiful woman, unaware of her military husband stationed overseas, returning home to a twisted love triangle.

This audiobook is the sequel for Behind The Smile, Joshua's first audiobook. After the completion of Behind The Smile and talking with people he realized that it was time to continue telling his journey throughout life. Buy the audiobook Broken ? today.

Un clásico de las letras hispanas de finales del siglo XIX que ahora podeis disfrutar en audiolibro, Doña Berta, una de las novelas más destacadas de Leopoldo Alas "Clarin".

Don Juan in Hell is an excerpt (Act 3, Scene 2) from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. It is often performed as a standalone play. In it, three characters from Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Don Juan, Dona Ana, and the statue of the Commendatore, Dona Ana’s father) meet in Hell and, joined by the Devil, have a philosophical debate on a variety of subjects, including Heaven and Hell, men, women and marriage. In the end, they all decide where they will spend eternity.

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to the gallant Sergius Saranoff, hero of the recent Bulgarian victory over the Serbs. But she is distracted by the abrupt arrival of Captain Bluntschli, a Swiss mercenary who fought for the Serbian army. He takes refuge in her bedroom after the battle and although he is initially threatening, reveals that he carries chocolate creams instead of bullets. Will Raina marry the posturing Sergius or the chocolate cream soldier?

In a time when earthquakes, tsunamis, and other strange occurrences are wreaking havoc across Sicily, word spreads of a young boy from Messina named Cola - a fisherman’s son who spends so much of his time diving beneath the waves that many call “Colapesce” or “Cola the Fish". Rumors of Cola’s incredible diving abilities eventually reach Sicily’s Princess. Defying the wishes of her father, the arrogant King, the Princess appeals to Cola to investigate what lies beneath the sea’s surface and find the cause of the destruction.

El Caballero de Olmedo es una obra de Lope de Vega escrita seguramente en 1620 y basada, como otras del mismo autor, en una canción popular: "Que de noche le mataron al Caballero, la gala de Medina, la flor de Olmedo". La obra suele clasificarse como una tragedia (o tragicomedia), ya que introduce elementos propios de este género en su tradición clásica, como la presencia de un coro, el desenlace fatal de su protagonista o la temática del destino como fuerza inexorable que se impone a los personajes.

Ein klassisches Schauspiel von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe nach der Vorlage von Euripides’ "Iphigenie bei den Taurern." Es gilt als ein Meisterwerk der Weimarer Klassik, ebenso kunstreich wie sinnvoll. Goethe bringt einen alten Mythos zurück, und veranschaulicht sowohl die künstlerischen Bewegungen dieser Zeit als auch die Ideale von Humanität, Gerechtigkeit und Unschuld.