Best Italian Dramas & Plays Books
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1. Romeo and Juliet: The Tragical History Deluxe Club Edition (Shakespeare's Original)
Author: by William Shakespeare
Published at: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 15, 2021)
ISBN: 978-1505259568
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare’s most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays.
Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. Its plot is based on an Italian tale, translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567.
Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but, to expand the plot, developed supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris. Believed to have been written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597. This text was of poor quality, and later editions corrected it, bringing it more in line with Shakespeare’s original.
2. Six Characters in Search of an Author (Signet Classics)
Author: by Luigi Pirandello
Published at: Signet; 2nd Printing edition (May 1, 1998)
ISBN: 978-0451526885
Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello was one of the most original and powerful dramatists of his timethe playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His plays dramatize with force and eloquence the loneliness and isolation of the individual both from society and from himself.
In Six Characters in Search of an Author, his greatest work, these themes are played out with characteristic brilliance. First performed in 1921, the play concerns six living charactersfamily members embroiled in their own human dramawho come to a theater and demand that the manager and his actors stage their life story.
Filled with both humor and despair, Six Characters in Search of an Author is Pirandello’s most extraordinary achievementas it explores the fundamentally absurd and tragic nature of the human condition. This Signet Classic edition includes an introduction by Eric Bentley, the widely acclaimed writer, translator, and international theater authority.
3. Much Ado About Nothing (Signet Classics)
Author: by William Shakespeare
Published at: Signet; Revised ed. edition (July 1, 1998)
ISBN: 978-0451526816
The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare’s timeless story of star-crossed lovers. One of the Bard’s most popular plays, this is both the quintessential story of young love and a cautionary tale of the tragedy that can occur when the forces of passion and familial pride are at odds.
This title in the Signet Classics Shakespeare series includes: An overview of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater A special introduction to the play by the editor, J.A. Bryant, Jr. The source from which Shakespeare derived Romeo and Juliet, Arthur Brooke’s The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet Dramatic criticism from Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Goldman, and others A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of Romeo and Juliet Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable format Recommended readings
5. The Merchant of Venice (Signet Classics)
Author: by William Shakespeare
Published at: Signet; Revised edition (April 1, 1998)
ISBN: 978-0451526809
The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare’s black comedy. A complex play that combines pathos and humor, The Merchant of Venice also introduces one of Shakespeare’s most memorable villains, the Jewish moneylender Shylock, who famously demans a “pound of flesh” for what he is owed.
This revised Signet Classics edition includes unique features such as: An overview of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater A special introduction to the play by the editor, Kenneth Myrick Notes on the sources of The Merchant of Venice Dramatic criticism from Nicholas Rowe, William Hazlitt, Elmer Edgar Stoll, and others A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable text And more…
6. Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, Signet Classic)
Author: by William Shakespeare
Published at: Signet; 2nd Rev ed. edition (August 1, 1998)
ISBN: 978-0451526892
The Signet Classics edition of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy of conspiracy and betrayal. In the first of his Roman history plays, the Bard tells the story of the murder of emperor Julius Caesar and the gruesome aftermath as ancient Rome descends into a violent mob.
This title in the Signet Classics Shakespeare series includes: An overview of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater A special introduction to the play by the editors, William and Barbara Rosen Selections from Plutarch’s Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans, the source from which Shakespeare derived Julius Caesar Dramatic criticism from Roy Walker, Maynard Mack, Richard David, and others A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of Julius Caesar Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable format Recommended readings
7. The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso
Author: by Dante Alighieri
Published at: Pretorian Books (November 15, 2019)
ISBN: 978-3903352001
Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; ParadisoIn Dante Alighieris world famous classic The Divine Comedy the roman poet Vergil guides through Inferno and Purgatorio and ultimately it’s his childhood friend Beatrice who guides through Paradise. The journey describes the symbolic path to God on a deeper level, while the reader is meeting the soules of countless decedents like Horaz, Barbarossa and Ovid.
Dante Alighieri and his epic drama The Divine Comedy helped the italian to it’s breakthrough as literary language.
8. The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra (Signet Classics)
Author: by William Shakespeare
Published at: Signet; Revised ed. edition (October 1, 1998)
ISBN: 978-0451527134
The Signet Classics edition of the tragedy that features one of Shakespeare’s greatest female characters. A magnificent drama of passion and war, this riveting play presents the complicated relationship between the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra and the Roman leader Mark Antony, a man torn between an empire and love.
This revised Signet Classics edition includes unique features such as: An overview of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater A special introduction to the play by the editor, Sylvan Barnet A selection from Plutarch’s Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans, the source from which Shakespeare derived Antony and Cleopatra Dramatic criticism from Samuel Johnson, A.C.Bradley, John F.
Danby, and others A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable text And more…
9. One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
Author: by Luigi Pirandello
Published at: Quick Time Press (February 3, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1946774774
After all, the “Moscarda” he believed himself to be was different when he was alone, or with his wife, his tenant, or his friends. And there were hundreds-no, thousands-of additional Moscardas in the minds of everyone who had met or heard of him.
Moscarda grappled with this new knowledge: that he was not who he thought he was, nor who anyone else thought he was. And the people around him? They were not who he thought they were either. So he decided, in his own words, to “…
Nd out who I was, at least to those closest to me, acquaintances so-called, and to amuse myself by maliciously decomposing the I that I was to them.” What follows is a series of experiments, meant to befuddle and confuse those around him and prove that he was not, in fact, who they believed him to be.
Written by Nobel Laureate Luigi Pirandello over the course of 15 years, One, None, and One Hundred Thousand was a groundbreaking look at the nature of identity and the self. Pirandello was no stranger to reinvention and loss of identity. Born into a well-to-do Sicilian family, he seemed destined to follow his father into business as a sulfur merchant.
10. Othello
Author: by William Shakespeare
Published at: Signet; 1st edition (April 1, 1998)
ISBN: 978-0451526854
The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare’s Othello, a disturbing exploration of jealousy and wrath. Tragedy takes hold as the cunning and hateful Iago drives the titular heroic Moor of Venice first to suspicion, then to homicidal rage against his love Desdemona, in one of the Bard’s darkest plays.
This title in the Signet Classics Shakespeare series includes: An overview of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater A special introduction to the play by the editor, Alvin Kernan Selections from Giraldi Cinthio’s Hecatommithi, the source from which Shakespeare derived Othello Dramatic criticism from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Maynard Mack, and others A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of Othello Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable format Recommended readings
11. The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare, Signet Classic)
Author: by William Shakespeare
Published at: Signet; Revised ed. edition (April 1, 1998)
ISBN: 978-0451526793
The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare’s controversial comedy. Featuring the tumultuous relationship of Petruchio and the headstrong Katherina, this popular comedy goes beyond courtship to explore what happens after a determined man marries a woman who refuses to be tamed.
This revised Signet Classics edition includes unique features such as: An overview of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater A special introduction to the play by the editor, Robert B. Heilman Sources from which Shakespeare derived The Taming of the Shrew Dramatic criticism from Richard Hosley, Maynard Mack, Germaine Greer, and others A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable text And more…
12. Positive Psychology: Learning positive thinking in everyday life & control your mind – Understanding & overcoming fears – Analyze people & recognize … book for beginners (Psychology books)
Author: by Max Krone
Published at: Independently published (April 14, 2020)
ISBN: 979-8637196821
Positive PsychologyLearning positive thinking in everyday life & control your mindUnderstanding & overcoming fearsAnalyze people & recognize manipulationPsychology book for beginnersPositive psychology, what is it? It is exactly the right lever to release blockages that restrict you in your development. It is just as effective in overcoming fears and finally breaking new ground.
With this positive psychology you will learn to understand yourself much more and gain an understanding of the way other people think and behave. Manipulation, fear and blockagesIt creates a very good basis for you to recognize manipulation by other people.
Manipulation, fear and blockages are major obstacles that slow you down in your personality development and prevent you from gaining self-confidence, self-esteem and acceptance. With positive psychology, you get the best tools to finally break new ground and enjoy life.
You free yourself from old burdens and look positively into the future. You look forward to the challenges that life offers you and gain a great deal of self-knowledge. You learn to appreciate yourself with all your mistakes and weaknesses.
13. The Servant of Two Masters
Author: by Carlo Goldoni
Published at: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated (October 16, 2006)
ISBN: 978-0881453232
Madcap farce, heroic romance, operetta and dramatic dueling with a feminist slash. Goldoni’s simple but convoluted story turns on two sets of lovers, two impossible fathers and manipulative servants As adapted by Constance Congdon, this SERVANT jumps from formal language and fractured Latin gags to familiar phrases (sweet bird of youth’ and a palpable hit’) to American slang a silly, stylish tour of comedy’s infinite variety.
Malcolm Johnson, The Hartford Courant freshly funny wickedly goofy, sometimes bawdy delight.Hartford Advocate
14. Italian Composition Notebook College Ruled: Writer's Notebook for Schools, Teachers, Offices, Students (8"x10") Italian Flag, Perfect Bound, 110 Pages (Language Learning Composition Book) (Volume 4)
Author: by Composition Notebookers
Published at: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Ntb edition (September 15, 2016)
ISBN: 978-1537654492
Inspire your language learning and journaling by this themed notebook. “Italian Composition Notebook College Ruled: Writer’s Notebook for Schools, Teachers, Offices, Students (8″x10″) Italian Flag, Perfect Bound, 110 Pages” is giving you its cool features more than any common notebooks could give: Writers’ & Readers’ companion: All lines in this book are in dark grey, instead of pure black, so the lines are less distracting when you take notes and when you re-read them later.
Also, with the word “Italian” printed at the front cover, you can have this book be your notes in any Italian related writings. Inspiring design: Color theme of the language and the composition notebook design style are the perfect combination that would sure to inspire you to write what you have learnt about the language or compose stories you would love to write in Italian and re-read to improve your language.
It could also serve as a great journal of your learning of Italian, or a diary of your upcoming trip to Italy! Functional size: With dimension of 8 x 10 (20.3 x 25. 4 cm), the book size is close to an A4 paper, with a little shorter in height.
