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Zapolska Gabriela <1857-1921.> |
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The morality of Mrs. Dulska : a petty-bourgeois tragic-farce / / Gabriela Zapolska ; translated and introduced by Teresa Murjas |
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Bristol ; ; Chicago : , : Intellect Books, , 2007 |
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1-281-18735-6 |
9786611187354 |
1-84150-983-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (194 pages) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Polish fiction |
Polish literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Act I; Act II; Act III; Back Cover |
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Gabriela Zapolska (1857-1921) was an actor, journalist and playwright. She was born during the 123 year partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia and wrote over thirty plays. The Morality of Mrs. Dulska (1906), a 'petty-bourgeois tragic-farce', is probably her best known. Mrs Dulska is a cross between Patricia Routledge1s Hyacinth Bucket and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage. She is the tyrannical and hilarious landlady of a fine stone tenement building - proud, shrewd and highly preoccupied with appearances. Dulska keeps her purse strings tightly drawn and exploits her tenants in a mos |
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