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11 opere 1,155 membri 7 recensioni

Opere di William Burto

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
20th century
Sesso
male
Istruzione
Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Attività lavorative
professor
Relazioni
Barnet, Sylvan (life partner)
Organizzazioni
University of Lowell

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Recensioni

Genius might be a bit...strong...for a number of these plays. They are standard issue morality plays from the early English theatre, and many of them are rather tedious. There are some truly great works in here, such as MacBeth and Marlowe's Faust. Jonson's Volpone completes the trifecta of worthy plays. I'm afraid Milton's Samson Agonistes left me cold. It probably reads better as poetry than as a play, but even then, it was too repetitive, and way too much logorrhea.
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Devil_llama | 1 altra recensione | Jan 28, 2019 |
Many of the plays in this collection seem dated, but they are still interesting reading. There are several I would enjoy seeing performed, though they tend a bit toward talky and at times pretentious. In places they are rendered slightly difficult to read by the extreme dialect, and the use of Irish words for ordinary things, though the editors do take pity on the non-Irish reader and explain Irish phrases in footnotes. Particularly good works include Synge's Dierdre of the Sorrows (though it is extremely difficult to suspend disbelief in this piece) and O'Connor's In the Train, a short piece that presents a fascinating character study. The English are gleefully lampooned as oblivious aristocrats; the Irish are poor, but plucky and with a worldly wisdom. The collection includes a great deal of nationalism and pride of lineage, and in places poverty is a bit romanticized. Still, an enjoyable collection.… (altro)
 
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Devil_llama | 1 altra recensione | Mar 2, 2015 |
Couldn't stand Aristophanes.
Macchievelli is predictably amoral.
At this point, I am beginning to think that perhaps, comedy does not stand the test of time the way tregedy does.
Bad things are pretty universal.
But things that society finds funny change so wildly. "The Mandragora" is a play basically about a guy who wants to rape someone. I wasn't amused.
 
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funfunyay | 1 altra recensione | Aug 6, 2009 |

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Statistiche

Opere
11
Utenti
1,155
Popolarità
#22,250
Voto
½ 3.5
Recensioni
7
ISBN
55

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