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Odnoobraznuju zhizn' provincial'nogo gorodka Verhopol'e narushaet priezd stroitelej zheleznoj dorogi - inzhenerov Cherkuna i Cyganova. Na smenu patriarhal'nomu varvarstvu gorodskogo golovy Redozubova jeti "poborniki civilizacii" nesut novoe varvarstvo: moral'nuju degradaciju i zhestokoe ravnodushie k cheloveku. Potrebovalos' nemnogo vremeni, chtoby obnaruzhilis' plody ih razrushitel'noj dejatel'nosti.

V dome pojeta i kritika Iespersena idet podgotovka k torzhestvu po sluchaju prem'ery ego p'esy. Sam Iespersen v jeto vremja gotovit hvalebnuju recenziju, kotoruju nazavtra opublikujut v gazete. Vernuvshis' domoj, on zastaet tam svoego starinnogo druga, propavshego mnogo let tomu nazad, doktora Vendelja.

The Broadway Rapture: A Drama of the Gouldium. Against uncomfortable competition in national telegraphy, the Western Union Company, led by Jay Gould, with a number of new telegraphic firms warred to maintain her primacy. When the murderer of Jim Fisk becomes a partner in one of his competitors, revengeful competition is pursued by Gould. The Broadway Rapture is of historical fights for capital superiority. This play is one of the Gouldium, a series of dramas on the life and times of Jay Gould. As in most of these plays there are seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral episodes.

Glavnye geroini, miss Emilija Sedli i miss Rebekka (Bekki) Sharp, uchatsja vmeste v chastnom pansione miss Pinkerton. Bekki - sirota, doch' spivshegosja hudozhnika i francuzskoj tancovshhicy. Ona energichna, polna ambicij i uverena v svoem uspehe. Emili - doch' uspeshnogo kommersanta, krotka, mila i dobrodetel'na. Sud'by dvuh sovershenno raznyh devushek otrazhajut nravy togo vremeni. Pokazana zhizn' razlichnyh sloev obshhestva.

In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. Portia is most remembered for her disguise as a lawyer, Balthazar, especially the speech in which she urges Shylock to show mercy that "[D]roppeth as the gentle rain from heaven". Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Spektakl' po romanu Dombi i synom velikogo anglijskogo pisatelja Charl'za Dikkensa, odin iz luchshih romanov mirovoj literatury, blistatel'nyj, ostroumnyj, veselyj i grustnyj odnovremenno. Beskonechnaja verenica figur i zhiznennyh polozhenij v jetom proizvedenii izumljaet. Ne mnogo romanov v mirovoj literature, kotorye po bogatstvu krasok i raznoobraziju tona mogut byt' postavleny v odin rjad s Dombi i Synom, ne schitaja nekotoryh pozdnejshih proizvedenij samogo Dikkensa.

The play is set in a small town, located on the banks of the Volga. Romantic beauty Larisa Ogudalova, daughter of an impoverished widow noblewoman and, of course, dowry, is madly in love with Sergei Sergeyevich Paratov, owner and elegant gentleman, unprincipled and calculating man who is ready for his own whim to gamble not only his, but also someone else's life.

The play begins on a summer evening at Covent Garden in London. Suddenly, pouring torrential rain, takes pedestrians by surprise, forcing them to take refuge under the portal of the Cathedral of St. Paul. Among them are phonetics professor Henry Higgins and a researcher of Indian dialects, Colonel Pickering, who came specially from India to see the professor. The encounter delights them both.

The dramatic story of "Ivan the Terrible" was created by Alexey Tolstoy, in the thirties of the XX century, during the mass repression in the USSR. In this period, Stalin, wanting to get a historical confirmation of the necessity of lawlessness, cruelty and tyranny that prevailed in the country, gave the command to unbridled glorification of Ivan IV and his entourage in the first place Malyuta Skuratov. And in this work the author was forced to retreat from historical truth, trying to exalt and to rehabilitate the image of the brutal autocrat.

Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Nekhludoff, performing his public duty as a jurist on the district court, recognizes a defendant, a prostitute accused of murder and robbery, as Katyusha Maslova, who many years ago was a maid, and a pupil of his aunt's. It was Katyusha, with whom he was not even in love, that he seduced and abandoned....

Set in late-19th-century Russian high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. This classic novel is the basis for the current film.

Fra mille dubbi, Amleto prepara la vendetta. Mercuzio fantastica sulla fata dei sogni. Falstaff canta le lodi del buon vino. Jago ordisce il suo velenoso disegno. Prospero evoca gli spiriti dell’isola. 18 folgoranti monologhi, dalla tenebra di un efferato delitto alla levità di un universo fatato. 18 grandi prove di Sandro Lombardi, nella traduzione classica di Carlo Rusconi. Il recital shakespeariano alla massima potenza.

In London England, an exact replica of the 17th century William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre opened in 1995. Audio journalist, Lee Daley is exploring the Globe Theatre with actress and docent, Kitty Grimes. Ms Grimes tells us how the new Globe Theatre began while we walk through the scrim and into a Shakespeare past.

The story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood and trying to be a gentleman along the way is without doubt one of Dicken's greatest works.

Ödipus ist eine antike Tragödie. Das Orakel von Delphi sagt Laios, dem König von Theben voraus, dass sein Sohn ihn töten und mit seiner Mutter Iokaste Kinder zeugen werde. Um dies zu vermeiden, gibt er seinen neugeborenen Sohn an einen Hirten, um ihn auszusetzen. Dieser gibt ihn aber stattdessen einem befreundeten Hirten in Korinth. Schließlich wird er aber von dem König und der Königin von Korinth aufgenommen und erhält den Namen Ödipus. Als er jedoch erfährt, dass das Orakel vorausgesagt hat, dass er seinen Vater tötet, verlässt er Korinth.

Prometheus gehört dem Göttergeschlecht der Titanen und ist er der Herrschaft des Göttervaters Zeus unterworfen. Bei einem Tieropfer greift er zu einer List, um Zeus zu täuschen: er überlässt ihm nur die wertlosen Teile des Opfertiers und behält das genießbare Fleisch für die Menschen, da sie seine Schützlinge sind. Zur Strafe dafür verweigert der erzürnte Zeus den Sterblichen den Besitz des Feuers. Darauf entwendet Prometheus den Göttern das Feuer und bringt es den Menschen. Deswegen wird er auf Befehl des Göttervaters gefesselt und im Kaukasusgebirge festgeschmiedet.

Gravado em outra ocasião, relembra e complementa, muito, de maneira importante a Parte 1. Eros tinha na antigüidade dois significados: um, mais profundo e metafísico.

This book is a study of the decline and fall of a powerful man and his family. The TV series Empire embodies themes similar to those in King Lear, with some extra creative material, which makes it a hip-hop version of King Lear. When you hear King Lear and watch the show Empire, you will be impressed with its Shakespearean connection.

An abridged version of John Galsworthy's play Justice, starring Nigel Bruce. Galsworthy made use of the theatre in Justice to lend his support to reform of the penal system.