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William Shakespeare is a name that every English speaking person has heard. He is considered to be the most famous English man, the greatest playwright in history and a literary genius. However, how much do you really know about Shakespeare other than the fact that he wrote Romeo and Juliet? Do you know what he really looked like? That he invented a lot of the words that you use when you write your next social media post?

En folkefjende er et af Ibsens mest læste og opførte dramaer. Dramaet udspiller sig i en lille norsk kystby, hvor lægen ved det netop opførte kurbad, Dr. Tomas Stockmann, får mistanke om, at badevandet er forurenet. Hans mistanke bliver bekræftet, da analysen af en vandprøve kommer med posten. Badevandet er sygdomsfremkaldende. Dr. Stockmann forventer, på baggrund af sin opdagelse, at blive mødt af hele byens taknemmelighed, men ikke alle er lige begejstrede for lægens afsløring.

Radiospektakl' "Utro pomeshhika" po odnoimennomu rasskazu L'va Nikolaevicha Tolstogo. Molodoj knjaz' Nehljudov ostavljaet universitet i perebiraetsja zhit' v derevnju s namereniem oblegchit' zhizn' svoim krepostnym. Odnako vse ego iniciativy natalkivajutsja na neponimanie i molchalivoe protivodejstvie prostyh muzhikov.

"Belyj pudel'" - radiospektakl' po motivam odnoimennogo rasskaza Aleksandra Kuprina o starom sharmanshhike, dvenadcatiletnem mal'chike Serezhe i ih vernom druge pudele Arto. Vpervye izdan v 1904 godu. Dejstvie rasskaza proishodit na beregu Kryma. Malen'kaja truppa, dvigaetsja po gorodu i vystupaet pered ljud'mi. Jetot den' byl ne osobo udachnym dlja brodjachih cirkachej - dedushki Martyna Lodyzhkina, mal'chika Sergeja i pudelja Arto.

The earls of Essex and Southampton are tried together for high treason before a jury of the noblest peers. Pleading not guilty, they strive in angry and arrant disputation with Attorney General Edward Coke and Francis Bacon. This drama is the third part of an Aeschylean trilogy and maintains the classical form of tragedy in English, with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral performances.

Bertram's indifference to Helena forces her to use subterfuge in order to comply with the seemingly impossible demands that he places on their engagement. Keep an ear out for the clown - he has the honor of delivering some of the play's best lines!

Tales From Shakespeare was originally written in 1807 by Charles Lamb and his sister, Mary, as more comprehensible (and enjoyable) versions of the original Shakespearian texts, specifically but not exclusively for children.

A compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction that draws on the author's celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition.

The day before the rebellion of the Earl of Essex in London, the Lord Chamberlain's Men performed upon commission Richard II, a play wherein Bolingbroke might be taken for Essex and King Richard for Queen Elizabeth. Amazing Insecurity presents two scenes from that performance, as revised by F. L. Light in Sophoclean English classicized. This historical drama maintains the classical form of tragedy in English with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral performances.

Edward Stokes, from one the wealthiest families of Philadelphia, often impoverished himself in the illicit casinos of New York City. Associated with James Fisk in a business and cohabiting with Fisk’s former mistress, he contrived with her to bring various suits for monetary awards against the Prince of Erie. When Stokes was indicted for blackmail on a charge by Fisk, he declared, "This is the end!" This drama is part of the Gouldium, a series of plays on the life and times of Jay Gould.

Radiospektakl' "Burmistr" po motivam odnoimennogo rasskaza russkogo pisatelja Ivana Sergeevicha Turgeneva iz cikla "Zapiski ohotnika". Glavnyj geroj rasskaza, Arkadij Pavlovich Penochkin - obrazovannyj pomeshhik s evropejskim loskom, u nego mjagkij golos, izyskannye manery, no pod jetoj licemernoj maskoj skryvaetsja zhestokij krepostnik. On ne pozvolit udarit' lakeja, a tol'ko dast rasporjazhenie vysech' provinivshegosja.

Radiospektakl' "Zavtrak u predvoditelja" po odnoimennoj p'ese russkogo pisatelja Ivana Sergeevicha Turgeneva. Predvoditel' dvorjanstva priglashaet na zavtrak rodstvennikov - brata i sestru - kotorye uzhe mnogo let ne mogu podelit' dostavsheesja im po nasledstvu imenie. Cel' vstrechi - primirit' vrazhdujushhie storon i postarat'sja reshit' vopros poljubovno i mirno.

The year is 1870. The elderly Colonel Jouve has suffered a medical collapse and is confined to his bed. It is uncertain whether or not he will pull through. His granddaughter takes over his care. Then one day, news reaches Paris of military successes in the war against Prussia. Colonel Jouve senses the optimism in the air and his health begins to improve. Almost immediately further news reaches Paris. The previous news was wrong - in fact the French are being beaten back.

This drama follows the myth of Iphigenia at Aulis, where she is subject to human sacrifice by her father Agamemnon. He draws her and Clytemnestra, her mother, thither with a promise of marriage to Achilles. The necessities of sacrifice are both in dialogue and in choral poetry weighed and judged. This play concludes either in an epiphany of wisdom or of violence. A form for tragedy in English, distinguished by seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral performances, is established in this play.

Bednost' ne porok (pervonachal'noe nazvanie "Gordym Bog protivitsja") - komedija v trjoh dejstvijah Aleksandra Nikolaevicha Ostrovskogo. Napisana v 1853 godu. Napechatana otdel'nym izdaniem v nachale 1854 g. Dejstvie proishodit v * gorode, v dome kupca Torcova, vo vremja Svjatok. Istorija ljubvi prikazchika Miti i Ljuby Torcovoj razvorachivaetsja na fone zhizni kupecheskogo doma. Ostrovskij v ocherednoj raz voshitil svoih poklonnikov zamechatel'nym znaniem mira i udivitel'no jarkim jazykom.

Les - komedija v pjati dejstvijah russkogo dramaturga Aleksandra Ostrovskogo 1870 goda. Dejstvie proishodit v pomest'e pomeshhicy Gurmyzhskoj, kotoraja po svoej vole vershit sud'by zavisjashhih ot nee ljudej. Ona prodaet prinadlezhashhij ej les potomu, chto ej nuzhny den'gi - dlja bednyh - po ee sobstvennym slovam. Odnako dovol'no bystro stanovitsja jasno, chto den'gi dlja Gurmyzhskoj - prezhde vsego vozmozhnost' kupit' sebe molodogo vozljublennogo.

Bez viny vinovatye - p'esa A. N. Ostrovskogo (1881 - 1883), klassicheskij obrazec melodramy. V centre vnimanija Ostrovskogo - harakter sil'noj i volevoj zhenshhiny, sposobnoj duhovno voskresnut' posle tjazhjolyh udarov sud'by. Vse jeti gody (a posle 1 akta proshlo 17 let) ona zhila s postojannoj vnutrennej bol'ju. No ona smogla vystojat', nesmotrja na vse napasti, i realizovat' sebja v tvorchestve. Ona stala izvestnoj talantlivoj aktrisoj.

Beshenye den'gi (rannie nazvanija "Kosa - na kamen'", "Ne vsjo to zoloto, chto blestit") - komedija v pjati dejstvijah Aleksandra Ostrovskogo. V jetoj p'ese, kak i v bol'shinstve svoih rabot, Ostrovskij razrabatyvaet temu krizisa dvorjanstva. Ostrovskij otmetil v dvorjanstve ego novoe otnoshenie k burzhuazii. Ono prisposablivaetsja k novomu porjadku veshhej, nekotorye ego predstaviteli stanovjatsja prizhival'shhikami burzhuazii, uchatsja u nejo novym metodam vorovstva i grabezha.

Talanty i poklonniki - komedija v chetyrjoh dejstvijah Aleksandra Nikolaevicha Ostrovskogo. Negina - populjarnaja, no bednaja molodaja aktrisa. Ejo zhenih Meluzov uchit ejo naukam i chestnoj zhizni. Knjaz' Dulebov, nadejas' ispol'zovat' ejo stesnjonnoe polozhenie, predlagaet ej stat' soderzhankoj. Aktrisa rezko otkazyvaet i vyzyvaet u Dulebova jarost' i zhelanie mesti.

Imja izvestnogo serbskogo pisatelja i dramaturga Bronislava Nushicha - jeto garantija original'nosti sjuzheta, neozhidannosti intrigi, glubiny izobrazhenija chelovecheskih harakterov. Ego p'esa "Doktor filosofii", ch'ja sostojatel'nost' proverena vremenem, polna ozornogo i mjagkogo jumora. Glavny geroj Zhivota Cvijovich, nedavno razbogatevshij kommersant. On ubezhden, chto v mire, a uzh tem bolee v jugoslavskom korolevstve, vse prodaetsja i pokupaetsja. I on reshaet sdelat' svoego oboltusa-syna Milorada doktorom filosofii.