Novedades

These three contemporary plays by the father of ethnographic burlesque address human relations in the context of changing American social mores and political realities. Tattoos witnesses a father hitting on his son's wife while the son if off at bootcamp. School Play tells of an oppositional yet strangely connective relationship between a young black African male and his middle-aged, unsuccessful white college instructor. Tyrannos weaves elements of Oedipus Rex into a darkly comic tale of modern authoritarianism. Of William Young's Blue and Other Stories, Kirkus Reviews writes, "A richly ...

In seinem kurzen Leben (1777 - 1811) schuf Heinrich von Kleist ein großes Werk. Vier seiner bekanntesten Dramen, die noch heute auf den Bühnen zum Standard-Repertoire gehören, sind in dieser großen Box versammelt, ungekürzt gelesen und sortiert nach ihrer Entstehung.