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  • The Mother
    Grazia Deledda / Mary Ann Frese Witt / Martha Witt
    During the course of one day, in the midst of a ghostly apparition, a miraculous healing, and an angry death, a young priest and his mother confront the contradictions of their lives and the conflicts of maternal, erotic, and divine love. Set in the small Sardinian village of Aar, The Mother powerfully reveals a very contemporary crisis of moral certitude and a spiritual unrav...
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    44,24 €

  • The Mother
    Grazia Deledda / Mary Ann Frese Witt / Martha Witt
    During the course of one day, in the midst of a ghostly apparition, a miraculous healing, and an angry death, a young priest and his mother confront the contradictions of their lives and the conflicts of maternal, erotic, and divine love. Set in the small Sardinian village of Aar, The Mother powerfully reveals a very contemporary crisis of moral certitude and a spiritual unrav...
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    22,55 €

  • The Dance of the Necklace
    Grazia Deledda / Martha Witt / Mary Ann Frese Witt
    In The Dance of the Necklace, Grazia Deledda moves away from the countryside of her native Sardinia to create a classically modern, urban narrative. Writing in a more spare, experimental style, she uncovers the 'vain anguish of our strongest passions: love, ambition, and the instinct to appear more than what we are.' A pearl necklace symbolizes the 'dance' of jealousy, greed, a...
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    16,83 €

  • Ivy
    Grazia Deledda / Martha Witt / Mary Ann Frese Witt
    Annesa, one of Grazia Deledda’s most enigmatic and dramatic characters, battles with a guilt she suffers when her own strength tempts her to a crime that will save others who won’t save themselves. Annesa has tragically attached herself to the tree of the Decherchi family, once noble but now dry-rotting on hard times. Her lover, Paulu Decherchi, compares her to a suffocating iv...
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    22,29 €

  • Ivy
    Grazia Deledda / Martha Witt / Mary Ann Frese Witt
    Annesa, one of Grazia Deledda’s most enigmatic and dramatic characters, battles with a guilt she suffers when her own strength tempts her to a crime that will save others who won’t save themselves. Annesa has tragically attached herself to the tree of the Decherchi family, once noble but now dry-rotting on hard times. Her lover, Paulu Decherchi, compares her to a suffocating iv...
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    35,85 €

  • Henry IV
    Luigi Pirandello / Martha Witt / Mary Ann Frese Witt
    Luigi Pirandello’s 'Henry IV' opened to general acclaim at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan on February 24, 1922, less than a year after his revolutionary theatrical achievement, 'Six Characters in Search of an Author.' The title of the later play suggests a historical drama, recalling Shakespeare’s great history plays. Yet 'Henry IV' is instead anti-historical in that it 'plays wit...
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    36,17 €

  • Henry IV
    Luigi Pirandello / Martha Witt / Mary Ann Frese Witt
    Luigi Pirandello’s 'Henry IV' opened to general acclaim at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan on February 24, 1922, less than a year after his revolutionary theatrical achievement, 'Six Characters in Search of an Author.' The title of the later play suggests a historical drama, recalling Shakespeare’s great history plays. Yet 'Henry IV' is instead anti-historical in that it 'plays wit...
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    22,62 €

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author
    Luigi Pirandello / Martha Witt / Mary Ann Frese Witt
    Presented here for the first time together, and many for the first time in English, are the writings that formed the genesis of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author,' along with a new translation of the theater masterpiece itself by Martha Witt and Mary Ann Frese Witt.Although Pirandello’s best-known play is now considered a revolutionary modernist work, it did not begin as a...
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    30,41 €

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author
    Luigi Pirandello / Martha Witt / Mary Ann Frese Witt
    Presented here for the first time together, and many for the first time in English, are the writings that formed the genesis of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author,' along with a new translation of the theater masterpiece itself by Martha Witt and Mary Ann Frese Witt.Although Pirandello’s best-known play is now considered a revolutionary modernist work, it did not begin as a...
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    16,86 €

  • Metatheater and Modernity
    Mary Ann Frese Witt
    Metatheater and Modernity is the first book to link the concept of metatheater with those of baroque and neobaroque. It refines and probes these concepts through close analyses and comparisons of seventeenth- with twentieth-century plays. Authors discussed include Rotrou, Sartre, Kushner, Bernini, Shakespeare, Pirandello, Molière, Giraudoux. ...
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    111,30 €