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Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.A depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.

This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown and the extraordinary. Arguing that the maritime art of fathoming--that is, dropping a lead and line into water to measure its depth--operates as a master-image for these plays, it illustrates how they create sublime horror through intuitions of mysterious more-than-human agencies and of worlds beyond the visible. Though tightly focused on a specific body of imagery, the book strikes up dialogue with a number of critical fields, including theories and histories of tragedy; ecocriticism and the environmental humanities; oceanic studies; and work on early modern ideas about the body, madness, and language. Countering a tendency within tragic theory to value the textual over the dramatic, it also demonstrates how the tragic effects to which it points are created through specific theatrical strategies, including the use of offstage space, intertheatricality, and the violation of dramatic conventions. Situating its arguments within recent criticism on these plays and on tragedy more generally, and pushing back against scholarship that regards the genre in Shakespeare's time as concerned more with pity than with fear, the book offers fresh and detailed readings of some of the most frequently studied plays in the English canon, including Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Changeling.

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"Une page d'amour" d'Émile Zola est un roman qui s'inscrit dans la série des Rougon-Macquart, explorant les changements familiaux et sociaux sous le Second Empire. L'histoire se concentre sur Hélène Grandjean, une veuve vivant à Paris avec sa fille Jeanne. Après une crise de convulsions de Jeanne, Hélène fait la connaissance du docteur Deberle, qui devient un personnage central dans sa vie. Le roman dépeint la vie quotidienne d'Hélène, ses relations avec ses amis, comme l'abbé Jouve et M. Rambaud, et sa lutte pour protéger sa fille fragile. Hélène est une femme d'une grande beauté et d'une force tranquille, mais elle est aussi confrontée à des dilemmes émotionnels et moraux. Le récit explore les thèmes de l'amour maternel, de la solitude, et des conventions sociales. À travers des descriptions détaillées et une narration introspective, Zola illustre les tensions entre les désirs personnels et les obligations sociales, tout en peignant un tableau vivant de la société parisienne de l'époque.

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All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centred, gender-challenging managements and styles at the centre, it redraws the map of performance history in the Victorian capital of the world. Bratton argues for the importance in Victorian culture of venues like the little Strand Theatre and the Gallery of Illustration in Regent Street in the experience of mid-century London, and of plays drawn from the work of Charles Dickens as well as burlesques by the early writers of Punch. Discovering a much more dynamic and often woman-led entertainment industry at the heart of the British Empire, this book seeks a new understanding of the work of women including Eliza Vestris, Mary Ann Keeley and Marie Wilton in creating the template for a magical new theatre of music, feeling and spectacle.

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'Shall I compare thee <BR>to a summer's day?<BR>Thou art more lovely<BR>and more temperate . . .'<BR><BR>Shakespeare's 154 sonnets contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, dealing with eternal themes such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by time. This new edition collects them in a pocket-sized volume, perfect for gifting. <BR><BR>William Shakespeare was born some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and died in 1616. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

Die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines international agierenden Unternehmens hängt nicht allein von traditionellen Faktoren wie zum Beispiel der Produktivität ab, sondern auch von der Organisation der grenzüberschreitenden Wertschöpfungskette. Bei der optimalen Gestaltung internationaler Wertschöpfungsketten stehen die geographisch vorteilhafte Verteilung der Aktivitäten (Konfiguration) und deren bestmögliche Abstimmung aufeinander (Koordination) im Mittelpunkt. Philipp M. Grosche führt eine quantitative Fragebogenstudie in der Automobilindustrie durch und entwickelt Handlungsempfehlungen für eine effektive und effiziente Konfiguration und Koordination internationaler Aktivitäten bei Herstellern und Zulieferern, die aufgrund des intensiven globalen Wettbewerbs in der Automobilindustrie besonders stark mit dieser Herausforderung konfrontiert sind.

Am 15. März 1938 verkündete Adolf Hitler unter den Jubelrufen der anwesenden Wiener auf dem Heldenplatz den 'Anschluß' Österreichs an Deutschland. 50 Jahre später versammeln sich in einer Wohnung in der Nähe des Heldenplatzes die Familie Schuster und deren engste Freunde. Der Anlaß: das Begräbnis von Professor Josef Schuster. Für diesen philosophischen Kopf, von den Nazis verjagt, in den fünfziger Jahren auf Bitten des Wiener Bürgermeisters aus Oxford auf seinen Lehrstuhl zurückgekehrt, gab es keinen anderen Ausweg als den Selbstmord. Denn die Situation im gegenwärtigen Österreich sei 'noch viel schlimmer als vor fünfzig Jahren'.Diese Ausgabe der 'Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek - Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium' enthält nicht nur Thomas Bernhards Heldenplatz, sondern auch einen Kommentar, der alle für das Verständnis des Stücks erforderlichen Informationen enthält: eine Zeittafel, die Entstehungs- und Textgeschichte, einen Überblick über den historischen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Hintergrund, Hinweise zu den Motiven und dem Erzählverfahren, die Rezeptionsgeschichte, Literaturhinweise sowie Wort- und Sacherläuterungen.

Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York. 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, Marco and Rodolpho, straight off the boat from Italy. But, as his niece Catherine 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.This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by the author and a new foreword by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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