6/30/2023 0 Comments Greek play antigone![]() ![]() ![]() 7-9 M, 3-5 F as some parts may be played by either sex. Other classic tales by Keith (The last time I saw Paris – teen comedy on the whole horse of Troy thing)Ĭast: Total cast of 11. Ultimately, her and her uncle’s actions have tragic outcomes. Their sister, Antigone, defies her uncle, a leader out of touch with the people who has decreed that her traitorous brother should go unburied and therefore find no rest in the afterlife. Eteocles with the aid of the brothers’ uncle Creon resisted the attack, which resulted in the brothers meeting in combat in this Greek Tragedy play.Ī Greek tragedy play about two sons of Oedipus both seeking to succeed their father. Eventually Eteocles ruled Thebes alone and Polynices raised an army and attacked the city. Polynices sought help and support for his claim to the throne and requested Oedipus’s blessing, but Oedipus was appalled at the behaviour of his sons and cursed them both, a curse that each would kill each other. Shortly before Oedipus’s death, his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices quarrelled over who was to rule Thebes. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Absurdistan book![]() ![]() ![]() The multifaceted artistic climate that existed before the war was now forced to work around new forms of socialist oppression. The book further details Czechoslovakia’s retaliatory wave of anti-German hatred following World War II and the country’s later Soviet domination. Milena Jesenská, a renowned journalist, activist, and one of Kafka’s lovers, died in 1944 during her Ravensbrück camp internment. Dissenters and Jews were arrested, executed, or sent to concentration camps. His armies clamped down on personal, artistic, and political freedoms. Sayer notes that Hitler was obsessed with reclaiming the region. Though Kafka died before the 1939 Nazi occupation of Prague, the invasion of the Third Reich exceeded any nightmare he envisioned. One of the best-known denizens of Prague, Franz Kafka, seemed to predict the city’s future: his fiction was set in an often surreal world with twisted laws and little hope for escape. It is meticulous in recounting the regimes they have endured. Princeton University Press ( Nov 1, 2022)ĭerek Sayer’s Postcards from Absurdistan is an encompassing review of cultural and sociopolitical Prague from tumultuous 1938 onward, detailed with compassion for the Czech people. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The duke is mine by eloisa james![]() ![]() Needless to say, this hardly bodes well for siring progeny. An accident years before has left Quill plagued by headaches-the kind that grows more excruciating with strenuous exercise. But Quill comes to the rescue, to the peril of his heart. When Gabby’s shocking décolletage plunges to her waist at her first ball, Peter is humiliated. ![]() And how can she possibly transform her voluptuous, outspoken self into the poised gentlewoman Peter requires? ![]() But it is Peter to whom she has been promised. Gabrielle Jerningham cherishes the portrait of her betrothed, the perfect Peter Dewland.until she meets his commanding older brother Quill. People magazine named Eloisa James' novel Midnight Pleasures “Page Turner of the Week” and raved “Romance writing does not get much better than this.” Now the acclaimed author returns with another sumptuous tale of passion and misadventure in Regency England. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Shortest way home pete buttigieg![]() Now featuring a new introduction and a "Back Home" afterword, in which Buttigieg movingly returns with the reader to his roots in his hometown city of South Bend, Indiana, as well as a transcript of the eulogy for his father, Joseph Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home, already considered a classic of the political memoir form, provides us with a beacon of hope at a time of social despair and political crisis. Readers everywhere, old and young, came to appreciate the "stirring, honest, and often beautiful" (Jill Lepore, New Yorker) personal stories and gripping mayoral tales, which provided, in lyrical prose, the political and philosophical foundations of his historic campaign. ![]() The fact that his New York Times best-selling memoir, Shortest Way Home, didn't read like your typical campaign book only added to "Mayor Pete's" transcendent appeal. The meteoric rise of the mayor of a small Midwest city, who defied every pundit's odds with his electrifying run for the presidency, created one of the most surprising candidacies in recent American history. Featuring a new introduction and a 'Back Home' afterword, Shortest Way Home is Pete Buttigiegs inspirational story that challenges our perception of the typical American politician. ![]() Featuring a new introduction and a "Back Home" afterword, Shortest Way Home is Pete Buttigieg's inspirational story that challenges our perception of the typical American politician. ![]() |