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Schimmelpfennig Roland |
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Titolo |
Plays one / / Roland Schimmelpfennig ; translated by David Tushingham |
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London : , : Oberon Books, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (458 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oberon modern playwrights |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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German drama - 21st century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""�The Theatre Needs Challenges�""; ""The Animal Kingdom""; ""Idomeneus""; ""Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God""; ""The Four Points of the Compass"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Roland Schimmelpfennig is the most performed contemporary German playwright. This collection demonstrates the breadth and formal innovation of his writing. The Animal Kingdom depicts the unremitting battle for human survival in a merciless environment: the theatre. Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God has been likened to a post-colonial Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Here two doctors who have returned from Africa reveal the true cost of their failure to combat a terrible and frightening disease. Idomeneus is a narrative play written for a large chorus which re-tells the classical Idomeneus m |
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