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The Boys from Syracuse: The Shuberts' Theatrical Empire

ePub The Boys from Syracuse: The Shuberts' Theatrical Empire by Foster Hirsch in Arts-Photography

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Due famiglie agli antipodi; la prima egrave; benestante e sovrana della Contea di Faborot; la seconda egrave; caduta in miseria ma vanta un desiderabile e antico titolo nobiliare. Marcorante; figlio del Conte; e Navilia; figlia di Sir Ludovic; sono gli attori di un matrimonio concordato dai rispettivi padri. I due; dopo aver timidamente desistito alla sacra unione; si abbandoneranno al piacere del destino; ma non senza difficoltagrave;. Dietro ad ogni evento si nasconde; come acqua cheta che logora i ponti; la malasorte stimolata dalle menzogne e dallrsquo;affarismo che avvelena le persone. I vecchi scheletri nellrsquo;armadio cosigrave; entreranno di colpo in scena; in una vicenda dove lrsquo;egoismo demoliragrave; lequilibrio originale. Amore e odio; fedeltagrave; e tradimento; anima celestiale e peccato carnale; saranno solo alcune delle biforcazioni che si presenteranno sul tragitto dei personaggi; percheacute; lrsquo;intera vita egrave; una decisione: vivere o morire.


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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. The Game Of DeathBy R. W. RasbandNuttalls short; 100 page book can get pretty densely academic in its prose for a general reader like me. But its rewarding when he boils down his argument in the last 50 or so pages. He says that tragedy in literature is a "game of death" that we play in order to rehearse for the worst that can happen. So far; so good. But then Nuttall deftly demonstrates how in King Lear (Norton Critical Editions) Shakespeare deliberately breaks all the rules of the game of classical tragedy in order to write the most horrific story he could imagine. And we love the play anyway. So it turns out that tragedy is not just a game after all; but a gate to knowledge we could never otherwise get; except by actually experiencing tragedy ourselves in real life. So the problem of "tragedy giving pleasure" remains. Because there is a mystery at the center of life that is inexplicable--except through the feelings we have at the end of a great book; or play like "Lear." This is a stimulating little essay.

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