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Moliere Five Plays by Moliere
SciFier: £26.99This volume brings together five of Moliere's finest and best-known plays. The three verse plays, The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and The School for Wives, have been skilfully turned into sparkling English... -
Tartuffe Moliere 9781786826237
SciFier: £12.49When the seemingly perfect Tartuffe ingratiates himself with the wealthy Orgon and his mother Madame Pernelle, he is soon welcomed into their home and into their lives. His combination of charm,... -
Le Misanthrope Moliere 9781015463486
SciFier: £11.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015463486Author MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint -
Le Misanthrope Moliere 9781016478724
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £22.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781016478724Author MoliereFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint -
Le Misanthrope Moliere 9781016484152
RRP: £13.95SciFier: £13.74Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781016484152Author MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint -
Le Misanthrope Moliere 9781015454316
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015454316Author MoliereFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint -
The Mother and The Father Christopher Hampton 9780571327256
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50The MotherAnne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children. Years later, spending hours alone, Anne convinces herself that her husband is having an... -
Gift of the Curupira Serge De Moliere 9781642615630
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642615630Author Serge De MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint -
The Influence of Moliere on Restoration Comedy by Dudley Howe Miles
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £30.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498011983Author Dudley Howe MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint -
The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Bejart Richard Goodkin 9798887198446
RRP: £26.54SciFier: £24.49The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Bejart transports readers to 17th-century France, a time when the stage was as full of intrigue as the lives of those who performed on it.At the heart of this richly... -
Women and Irony in Moliere's Comedies of Marriage Prof John D. Lyons (Commonwealth Professor of French (emeritus), Commonwealth Professor of French (emeritus), University of Virginia) 9780198887379
SciFier: £92.67This is a book about how Moliere, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his... -
The True Friend Carlo Goldoni 9781907230011
SciFier: £12.61True to Goldoni's mixture of comic wit and farce, the plot is a breathtakingly fast succession of twists and turns which only unravel in the very final lines with a surprise ending. Two friends are... -
Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition: Antonio Fava in Conversation with John Rudlin John Rudlin (University of Exeter, UK) 9780367648572
SciFier: £22.89Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition chronicles a series of discussions between two renowned experts in commedia dell'arte - master practitioners Antonio Fava and John Rudlin. These... -
25 Years of Soviet Russian Literature (1918-1943) Gleb Struve 9780367723934
SciFier: £34.19This book, first published in 1944, is a comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Russian literature up to the early 1940s. A huge range of writers are examined, and the analysis is made in the... -
The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture Tom Brown 9780415899413
SciFier: £50.66The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored... -
Carlo Boso Peter Jordan 9781032314952
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26Carlo Boso is one of the foremost exponents of Commedia dell'Arte in the contemporary performance world, having trained generations of young actors in its history, techniques and performance. Staying... -
Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov 9780571300518
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya in a new version by Christopher Hampton. This version will be first staged at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, on 25 October 2012 and run until 16 February 2013.'It's... -
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.61Mikhail Bulgakov's devilish salute to artistic freedom, now in a beautiful clothbound edition'Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers, perhaps the greatest' IndependentWritten in secret... -
Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.96Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attempts to destroy her? Or attempts to destroy herself? Is Anne the object of violence? Or its terrifying... -
Comedy Tonight! by Jay Malarcher
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £22.56For centuries scholars, philosophers, and practitioners have attempted to explain just what constitutes comedy, and though no one has come close to a definitive explanation, each attempt highlights... -
House of Games David Mamet 9781849430081
SciFier: £12.49"True but different, gripping but transparent, and full of genuine stage thrills. It's a great show, very funny. . . . It works, in fact, as a sort of black farce, and is given a new tone of... -
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 9780241198773
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.24New to Penguin Classics, the great underwater adventure story in a stunning clothbound edition with original images.In this thrilling adventure tale by the 'Father of Science Fiction', three men... -
May the Farce Be With You by Roger Foss
SciFier: £20.77It seems a long way from Moliere to Ray Cooney. There are immense distances between the worlds of Aristophanes, Plautus, Georges Feydeau, Ben Travers, Joe Orton and Basil Fawlty. But as one of the... -
Defining Comedy: Reflections on the Usual Suspects David Ellis 9780718898601
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £23.99Treats the attempts at general theories of comedy by philosophers, psychologists and authors and why they have failed. From the time of Plato and Aristotle, philosophers and psychologists, along... -
Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism Magda Romanska (Author) 9781474247887
SciFier: £38.99This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged...