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A Short Organum for the Theatre" ("Kleines Organon für das Theater") is a theoretical work by the twentieth-century German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht. [1] It was written while in Switzerland in 1948 and published in 1949. [ 2 ]
The "Constitution of the Athenians" (Ancient Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία, Athenaion Politeia), also known as "On the Athenian State", is a short treatise on the government and society of classical Athens. Its date and authorship have been the subject of much dispute.
Elizabeth Foster attributes England's interest to the book's "sharp satire on the American scene." [16] The Athenaeum called the novel a "moral miracle-play" for its focus on how various characters interact in dialogue with the confidence man, either as credulous dupes or would-be followers. They acknowledged that Melville's style is "one, from ...
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The latter occurs in act 2, scene 6, where Kovalyov returns home to find Ivan singing. The song is Shostakovich's setting of the words of part 2, book 5, chapter 2 of Karamazov, where the lackey, Smerdiakov, sings to his neighbour Mariia Kondratevna. An invisible force ties to my beloved. Bless us, O Lord, her and me! Her and me!
Scene 6 Irene, with the Christians 52. Recitative (Irene) "Tis night, but night's sweet blessing is denied" 53. Chorus of Christians "He saw the lovely youth" Act 3
The text consists of 36 chapters with a cumulative total of 6,000 poetic verses describing performance arts. [6] The subjects covered by the treatise include dramatic composition, structure of a play and the construction of a stage to host it, genres of acting, body movements, make up and costumes, role and goals of an art director, the musical ...
The Minotaur is an opera in two acts, with 13 scenes by English composer Harrison Birtwistle to a libretto by poet David Harsent, commissioned by the Royal Opera House in London. The work, a retelling of the Greek myth of the Minotaur , premiered at the Royal Opera House on 15 April 2008 under the stage direction of Stephen Langridge . [ 1 ]