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Discovering Great Plays

By: Leonard Peikoff, Marlene Trollope
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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Based on a series of lectures by Leonard Peikoff and edited by Marlene Trollope, Discovering Great Plays provides the ability to understand, judge, and savor the values offered by great drama. Listeners will discover plot-theme as the key to a play; see Antigone as a great heroine and Iago as the darkest villain in literature; learn about the Cornelian hero; see how Schiller's "Grand Inquisitor" scene is the most dramatic and philosophic in all of theater; and discover Shaw's brilliance in presenting the genius against society.

Plays discussed include: Antigone by Sophocles; Othello by Shakespeare; Le Cid by Corneille; Don Carlos by Schiller; An Enemy of the People by Ibsen; Saint Joan by Shaw; Monna Vanna by Maeterlinck; and Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand.

©2017 Leonard Peikoff, Marlene Trollope (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature Drama Shakespeare Great Plays
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The objective analysis with this group of plays is a great approach to using practical application to apply this analytical methodology to other plays, films, etc. I am better for having read it - and will be better yet for reading it and studying it a time or two more.

Great intro to classics and method for analysis

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